Linfield Magazine

The magazine for Linfield University

Voices of Linfield

  • Reflections of a servant leader

    I wasn’t always a nurse. Among other things, I spent eight years as a manager in a fast-food restaurant before I went back to school to move into a health care profession. But the lessons I learned throughout my career — in hospitality and as an intensive care unit nurse, nurse manager and nurse educator

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  • The changing landscape of college athletics

    Student-athletes at Linfield experience travel and academic disruptions. While NIL opportunities offer financial relief, the future may bring more NCAA lobbying, athlete contracts and a growing economic divide.

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  • AI in education

    Members of the College of Arts and Sciences, including Dean Gennie VanBeek, were asked to share their thoughts on AI, its impact and its current and future applications in higher education.

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  • Remembering 9/11

    From time to time, a moment sneaks up on you that you didn’t see coming. For me, September 11, 2021, was one of those times. 

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  • This IS my Linfield

    It was that sense of community that drew me back to Linfield for my education and has inspired me to stay as an employee for 28 years. This past year might have been the most difficult of them all.

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  • Growing community through camas

    As Linfield continues to evolve, we must also reflect upon what is meant by “community.”

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  • Linfield bound

    From generation to generation, Wildcat values link us. The most natural things in the world sometimes take us completely by surprise. I was floored this spring when my youngest announced he planned to enroll at Linfield. A purple “Linfield Bound” mailer had arrived in our mailbox only a week earlier, sent by the Office of

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  • It’s all about relationships

    Linfield students and their families come from all walks of life. In the fall of 2019, a record 42 percent of first-year Linfield students arrived on campus with the desire to become members of the first generation in their families to earn a college degree from a four-year institution. As a former first-generation student, I

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  • Modern-day monsters

    When Godzilla: King of the Monsters! opens in theaters May 31 it will be the 35th Godzilla film produced since 1954. Why do the films continue to resonate across generations? Leonard Finkelman, assistant professor of philosophy and a paleontologist, weighs in on what monsters tell us about ourselves – and our world. Godzilla: King of

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  • Faculty essay: On civility

    The life of our republic depends upon our ability to speak honestly and our willingness to listen empathetically. As that idea traveled from my head down to my pen, it felt embarrassingly grandiose. But I think it’s true. These habits of mind are two crucial ingredients in the moral glue that holds a healthy political

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  • Thinking beyond the sticker price

    To gauge affordability, we must think beyond the sticker price by properly measuring the cost students actually pay and compare that to the benefits of a college education.

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