North Park has served five generations of students and continues to grow in diversity, academic relevance, and Christian commitment. Our Chicago location is a great asset that reflects the School’s global reach and outlook.
After 125 years, we’ve learned how to streamline the process of helping qualified applicants seek admission to North Park and find affordable ways to attend. If you don’t see what you’re looking for on our website, please contact us directly!
North Park offers more than 40 graduate and undergraduate programs in liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies. Classes average 17 students. 84% of our faculty have terminal degrees. Academics here are rigorous and results-oriented.
North Park Theological Seminary prepares you to answer the call to service through theological study, spiritual development, and the formative experiences of living in a community with others on a similar life path.
The Office of Alumni Engagement fosters lifelong connections by engaging alumni with the university and one another in activities, programs, and services that support the university’s mission and alumni needs.
A new major, offered exclusively online, will instruct students in the latest geospatial technologies and their application in a variety of careers.
Beginning spring semester of 2018, North Park will offer a bachelor’s degree in Location Intelligence (LI), a field with wide-ranging applications in today’s high-tech job market. The emerging field, which combines aspects of natural and technical sciences, along with business principles and the latest in spatial technology, prepares students for many careers including cybersecurity, urban planning, and financial services.
“Location Intelligence has applications to almost any discipline and is one of the most cutting-edge fields today,” said Richard Schultz, associate dean of Online Education. Schultz says that paid LI internships, as well as full-time jobs, are plentiful, but often go unclaimed because there are not enough qualified candidates for the jobs.
North Park has built this program based on model courses created by international experts in the discipline. The online aspect of the major makes it accessible to a vast audience with various interests, Schultz says. The curriculum also incorporates a strong foundation of liberal arts coursework, including business and communication skills. Courses include The Art and Science of Map Design, Development of Web Apps, and a Geospatial Practicum which involves an internship related to the student’s specific career interests.
Learn about North Park’s new Snap Spectacles and where you might see them next!
Snapchat: North Park’s New Spectacle
North Park University is expanding its social media presence and capabilities with the use of Snapchat Spectacles. Since the launch of North Park’s Snapchat a little over a year ago, the platform has consistently gathered the University’s fastest-growing social media following. Excited to connect with current students and the students of tomorrow, North Park has recently added Snapchat Spectacles to its arsenal. These “snap specs” are sunglasses with cameras and sensors built directly into the frame.
How it works
An LED light indicator prominently displays when the wearer is taking the 10-second videos which are recorded at the touch of a button. The Spectacles are connected via a smartphone, and the videos recorded are then uploaded to North Park’s Snapchat Story. Snapchat has over 173 million active global daily users, and the Spectacles will help North Park utilize Snapchat on the go. This wearable technology gives us an innovative way to reach hundreds of prospective and current students already using Snapchat on a daily basis.
What to Expect
The Spectacles have already been in use over Homecoming weekend where we captured footage of alumni and current students participating in the day’s events and on the field at North Park’s Holmgren Athletic Complex. Student ambassadors will also wear the Spectacles during select campus tours, an excellent way for prospective students to engage in tours that they might not be able to attend. The opportunities are endless, and soon you may see “spec snaps” showcasing students, University events, or new programs like Catalyst 606__.
Coming Soon . . .
Make sure to look for the first Snapchat tour, this Friday, September 22nd!
Plus . . . new filters will soon be available on campus featuring more graphics and Ragnar, our Mascot.
Palgrave Macmillan to publish The Hermeneutics of Hell: Visions and Representations of the Devil in World Literature, edited by Gregor Thuswaldner, Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Humanities at North Park University.
“This collection of essays analyzes global depictions of the devil from theological, Biblical, and literary perspectives, spanning the late Middle Ages to the 21st century. The chapters explore demonic representations in the literary works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Dante Alighieri, Charles Baudelaire, John Milton, H.P. Lovecraft, and Cormac McCarthy, among others. The text examines other media such as the operas Orfeo and Erminia sul Giordano and the television shows Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, and Mad Men.
The Hermeneutics of Hell, featuring an international set of established and up-and-coming authors, masterfully examines the evolution of the devil from the Biblical accounts of the Middle Ages to the individualized presence of the modern world.”
We’re excited to welcome new students to North Park!
Threshold is one of our favorite traditions at North Park University, and we can’t wait to welcome you to our community. We’re proud you’re now a North Park Viking.
Threshold is much more than just a weekend—it’s your whole experience of making the transition to North Park. We’re here to answer your questions and help you in any way we can.
Newly released from Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Newly released from Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Reading Paul with the Reformers by Stephen Chester, Professor of New Testament at North Park Theological Seminary.
“In debates surrounding the New Perspective on Paul, the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformers are often characterized as the apostle’s misinterpreters in chief. In this book, Stephen Chester challenges that conception with a careful and nuanced reading of the Reformers’ Pauline exegesis.
Examining the overall contours of early Reformation exegesis of Paul, Chester contrasts the Reformers with their Roman opponents and explores particular contributions made by such key figures as Luther, Melanchthon, and Calvin. He relates their insights to contemporary debates in Pauline theology about justification, union with Christ, and other central themes, arguing that their work remains a significant resource today.
Being published in the five-hundredth anniversary year of the Protestant Reformation, Reading Paul with the Reformers reclaims a robust, contemporary understanding of how the Reformers really read Paul.”
Ellucian Go, a mobile version of WebAdvisor/Self Service, now makes it easy for students to take care of important administrative business on the go.
Ellucian Go, a mobile version of WebAdvisor/Self Service, makes it easy and convenient to register, pay, review financial aid documents and more. Now students can use their mobile device to take care of important administrative business.
Aaron Schoof, Senior Director of Data and Administrative Services remarks, “The Ellucian Go app allows students incredible convenience and flexibility in interacting with North Park for all of their student administrative needs. At their fingertips will be the ability to check their schedule, grades, or billing statement, and make transactions that will help students continue to move toward their goal of earning their degree.”
The streamlined menu’s user-friendly navigation makes registering, paying, and reviewing documents all that more accessible. Schoof hopes that the students find Ellucian Go beneficial and convenient as they start the new school year.
Download the app for free:
1. For iOS (Apple) devices, go to the App Store/For Android devices, go to the Google Play Store.
On Friday July 28, 12 North Park research summer students presented their findings to close out 2017’s summer NPRESS Program (North Park Research Experience for Summer Students).
On Friday, July 28, 12 North Park summer research students presented their findings to close out 2017’s summer NPRESS Program (North Park Research Experience for Summer Students). Dr. Boaz Johnson began his opening remarks in the Helwig Boardroom in the Johnson Center: “These students have had the opportunity to work alongside the best professors in the world, and I have been all over the world, so I can say that.”
In this highly competitive program, only 12 students were chosen to participate in summer research. These students are provided with on-campus housing and a $3,500 stipend to accompany their 40-hour work weeks of PhD-level research. “As in the past, students have said that this has been their most intense and yet most enjoyable experience at North Park. They get a professor to work with them, all by themselves,” says Dr. Johnson.
The NPRESS (North Park Research Experience for Summer Students) program provides opportunities for North Park students to conduct research with a North Park faculty mentor for eight weeks over the summer. It was the brainchild of a core group of faculty and funded by a small group of donors, allowing students to dive into a topic in a way that the constraints of an academic year do not always allow. Students received a $3,500 stipend and were given the opportunity to live on campus, making it possible for them to focus solely on research.
Baylor University Press to release on October 15, 2017.
Baylor University Press to publish Just Debt: Theology, Ethics, and Neoliberalism by Ilsup Ahn, Carl I. Lindberg Professor of Philosophy at North Park University and Carnegie Council Global Ethics Fellow.
“Debt—personal, corporate, governmental—is so pervasive in contemporary economies, with its moralistic logic nearly unquestioned. Debt’s necessity renders it morally neutral, absolving it of the dehumanizing effect it brings in unbridled financialization.
In Just Debt Ilsup Ahn explores ethical implications of the practice of debt. By placing debt in the context of anthropology, philosophy, economics, and the ethical traditions provided by the Abrahamic religions, Ahn holds that debt was originally a form of gift, a gift which was intended as a means to serve humanity. Debt, as gift, had moral ends. Since the late eighteenth century, however, debt has been reduced to an amoral economic tool, one separated from its social and political context. Ahn recovers an ethics of debt and its moral economy by rediscovering debt’s forgotten aspect—that all debts entail unique human stories. Ahn argues that it is only in and by these stories that the justice of debt can be determined. In order for debt to be justly established, its story should be free from elements of exploitation, abuse, and manipulation and should conform to the principles of serviceability, payability, and shareability.
Although the contemporary global economy disconnects debt from its context, Ahn argues that debt must be firmly grounded in the world of moral values, social solidarity, and political resolution. By re-embedding debt within its moral world, Just Debt offers a holistic ethics of debt for a neoliberal age.”
The committee that is conducting the search for the 10th president of North Park University has created an online survey where interested members of the North Park constituency can share their opinions and reflections on the search.
CHICAGO (June 30, 2017) – The committee that is conducting the search for the 10th president of North Park University has created an online survey where interested members of the North Park constituency can share their opinions and reflections on the search and on the University’s strengths and challenges. It will be available through July 31, 2017 at
“The committee hopes that North Park alumni, faculty, students, and staff – and, in fact, anyone interested in the future of the University – will take 15 minutes to complete this survey,” said Owen R. Youngman, chair of the committee and a member of the North Park Board of Trustees. “The results will help us to set priorities for the search and to evaluate potential candidates.”
As previously announced, the 15-person committee has been instructed to present a candidate to the full Board of Trustees by early 2018. Approval by the Board of the Trustees, the Executive Board of the Evangelical Covenant Church, and the Annual Meeting of the ECC will be required to call a successor to David L. Parkyn, who retired at the end of June.
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“In debates surrounding the New Perspective on Paul, the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformers are often characterized as the apostle’s misinterpreters in chief. In this book, Stephen Chester challenges that conception with a careful and nuanced reading of the Reformers’ Pauline exegesis.
