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 ask a general admission question or find out who your counselor is, please contact Tiffany.
Malerie Plaugher
Visit Coordinator
503-493-6585
visitcu@cu-portland.edu
If you would like to schedule a visit with your admission counselor and/or tour the campus with your family, a group, or individually, please contact our Visit Coordinator, Malerie Plaugher.
Freshman Counselors
Jennifer Hart
Freshman Admission Counselor and Director of Undergraduate Admission
503-493-6588
jehart@cu-portland.edu
Jennifer is an admission counselor for first year students in Hawaii and all other U.S Territories.
Kimberly Steele
Freshman Admission Counselor
503-493-6437
kimsteele@cu-portland.edu
Kimberly is an admission counselor for first year students in Portland, OR, California, all homeschool students, and the honors program.
Jenni Marquette
Freshman Admission Counselor
503-493-6465
jmarquette@cu-portland.edu
Jenni is an admission counselor for first year students in Oregon (except Portland) and Idaho.
Jordan Free
Freshman Admission Counselor
503-493-6218
jfree@cu-portland.edu
Jordan is an admission counselor for first-year students in Washington, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Montana and Nevada.
Check out when your admission counselor will be in your area.
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.
See a list of International Fairs.
Transfer Coordinators
Gloria Ngezaho
Transfer Coordinator
503-493-6582
gngezaho@cu-portland.edu
Gloria is our Transfer Coordinator who works with all nursing transfer students and other students as needed.
Erin Eidson
Transfer Coordinator
503-493-6569
eeidson@cu-portland.edu
Erin is our Transfer Coordinator who works with transfer and returning adult students with last names beginning with A-K. She also works with community colleges in the Portland metro area.
Charlotte May
Transfer Coordinator
503-493-6527
cmay@cu-portland.edu
Charlotte is our Transfer Coordinator who works with transfer and returning adult students with last names beginning with L-Z. She also works with community colleges as well as our distance education students in SW Washington.
Check out when your transfer admission counselor will be in your area.
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 students from the Medford MAT program and the Doctorate of Education program.
Robert Espenel
Graduate Education Recruiter
503-493-6536
respenel@cu-portland.edu
Robert (Bob) works with all students interested in obtaining a M.Ed. or adding an endorsement to their teaching license, and is a resource for the Ed.D. program at Concordia. He is also the Admission Counselor for all students interested in the part-time MAT program.
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
Assistant Director of Graduate Admission
503-493-6523
toverholser@cu-portland.edu
Tim works with MA in Teaching and MA TESL students with the last names of A - K. He also works with MBA applicants with the last names of A - K.
Jordon Zardinejad
Assistant Director of Admission
Graduate Admission Counselor
503-493-6525
jzardinejad@cu-portland.edu
Jordon works with MA in Teaching and MA TESL students with the last names of L - Z. He also works with MBA applicants with the last names of L - Z.
Online
Scott Besemann
Director of Online Admission
503-493-6552
scbesemann@cu-portland.edu
Scott provides training, admission audit, direction, and new program oversight to online programs – Masters in Education as well as Bachelor’s Degrees in Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness, Early Childhood (non-licensure), and Career & Technical Education.