FPU Students — Learning, growing, achieving

Fresno Pacific University's student body is made up of a diverse group of bright, talented and goal-oriented students. Some go on to be doctors, researchers, teachers, pastors, businessmen and women, social workers, politicians and lawyers. Whatever their future, they recognize FPU's part in laying the foundation for their success. The following profiles give a glimpse of their FPU experience.

Hannah Hernadez
Hannah received many recommendations to attend FPU, but none more important than her grandfather’s when he told her as a young girl, “Mija, you need to go to that Christian school.” Many years later and with the help of financial aid, Hannah is a student majoring in liberal studies with an English minor. She plans to be a 5th grade teacher and is receiving valuable experiences now as an after-school program coordinator.
John Klose
As a communication major with an emphasis in multimedia production, John particularly appreciates being able to attend a Christian university. At a public university, he feels he would be fighting a much more liberal perspective especially in his field. He is grateful for the freedom FPU gives him to be himself.
Megan Boogaard
Excelling both academically and musically, Megan values the strengths she finds at FPU in the music program and her academic classes. She is majoring in kinesiology and has a minor in music. In the future she would like to work with autistic children after attending graduate school.
Sarah Palmore
As a paragon scholar, Sarah benefitted from the leadership class taught by President Merrill Ewert which she took her freshman year and from the continued breakfast meetings with him. She appreciates FPU’s emphasis on servant leadership. Her major is math with a secondary teaching emphasis, but her career plans are up in the air as she contemplates being a math teacher, architect or engineer.
Spenser Chakerian
Since his own dad is a teacher and FPU alumnus, Spenser's college and career choice is close to following in his father's footsteps. He is majoring in biology with a secondary teaching emphasis and plans to be a high school science teacher. Confident he is being well-prepared academically, Spenser appreciates the aspect of integrating his beliefs and faith with what he is learning.