Admissions Staff – Contact Information
Bobi Swan
Dean of Admission
503-280-8501
bswan@cu-portland.edu
Tiffany Truckey
Office Manager
503-280-8501
admission@cu-portland.edu
If you would like to schedule a visit with your counselor, ask a general admission question or find out who your counselor is, please contact Tiffany.
Freshman Counselors
Jennifer Hart
Freshman Admission Counselor
503-493-6588
jehart@cu-portland.edu
Jennifer is an admission counselor for first-year students in Spokane, WA, Hawaii, and all Freshmen Nursing students.
Kimberly Steele
Freshman Admission Counselor
503-493-6437
kimsteele@cu-portland.edu
Kimberly is an admission counselor for first-year students in Washington (except Spokane), Portland OR, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Nevada, Wyoming, Southern California with last names beginning with A-K, and Honors Program students.
Rebecca Gimeno
Freshman Admission Counselor
503-493-6465
rgimeno@cu-portland.edu
Rebecca is an admission counselor for first-year students in Northern/Central California, Southern California with last names L-Z, Colorado, Texas, Arizona and Oregon (except Portland)
Lindsay Niemeyer
Assistant Director of International Admission
503-493-6548
lniemeyer@cu-portland.edu
International Students interested in admission or transfer to Concordia University should contact Lindsay for more information. Lindsey also works with incoming freshmen from all other US Territories.
Transfer Coordinators
Charlotte May
Transfer Coordinator
503-493-6527
cmay@cu-portland.edu
Charlotte is our Transfer Coordinator who works with transfer and returning adult students in both our BA and BS programs with last names beginning with L-Z. She also works with community colleges as well as our distance education students in SW Washington.
Scott Besemann
Transfer Coordinator
503-493-6582
scbesemann@cu-portland.edu
Scott is our Transfer Coordinator who works with transfer and returning adult students in both our BA and BS programs with last names beginning with A-K. He also works with community colleges as well as our distance education students in SW Washington.
Graduate Counselors
Amy Gehrke
Director of Graduate Admission
Graduate Admission Counselor
503-493-6416
agehrke@cu-portland.edu
Amy oversees all graduate programs and works specifically with applicants in the offsite M.Ed. programs and students from the Medford MAT program.
Robert Espenel
Director, Office of Admission
Offsite Education Programs
503-493-6536
respenel@cu-portland.edu
Robert works with school districts and students interested in our offsite education programs.
Greg Gulliford
Director of Business & Industry Recruiting
503-493-6293
ggulliford@cu-portland.edu
Greg works with students interested in pursuing the MBA or BS Health Care Administration Program.
He also shares information about our various programs with organizations and businesses and discusses how coursework from Concordia may be beneficial for their employees
Tim Overholser
Graduate Admission Counselor
503-493-6523
toverholser@cu-portland.edu
Tim works with all Portland Program MAT students.
Jordon Zardinejad
Assistant Director of Admission
Graduate Admission Counselor
503-493-6525
jzardinejad@cu-portland.edu
Jordon works with students in all Masters of Education programs for in-service teachers and administrators. He also works with students in the Masters of Education in TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) and Masters of Career & Technical Education.
Jordon also works with students who have applied to the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program.