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Jan 24, 2025 | 
pacificu.edu | Graham Turner
Hello Pacific Community and Welcome Back!The Student Counseling Center is excited to share about our upcoming workshops this Spring and you'll find the workshop listings below. The workshops below require registration and you can do that HERE. Please let us know if you have any question! [email protected] for drop-in opportunities? Join Student Counseling Center staff for pop-up crafting events and regular tabling in both Forest Grove and Hillsboro this semester.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
pacificu.edu | Jerry Rice
On October 14, 2024 Campus Public Safety witnessed a male loitering at the covered bicycle rack west of the UC/Washburn Hall on the Forest Grove Campus. This unknown male was carrying a partial BMX style bicycle as well as several inner tubes and tools. The unknown male left campus, refusing to identify himself and verbally ensuring that the officer understood this unknown male did not like the officer.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
pacificu.edu | Graham Turner
Pacific University is required by law to provide an annual alcohol & other drug notification to all students and employees. This information can be found at any time via the Alcohol and Other Drugs website.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
pacificu.edu | Graham Turner
September marks two important recognition and awareness months as both Suicide Prevention and Substance Use Recovery are recognized.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
pacificu.edu | Brian D. King
Pacific has published a new policy about appropriate digital storage of administrative work files. Following our long-held best practices, the policy formally reinforces the expectation that digital documents created for work purposes be stored in department-owned folders in Box — not in individually owned Box folders or other cloud storage systems.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
pacificu.edu | Scott Korb
The Pacific University MFA is thrilled to celebrate the news that faculty poet Kwame Dawes has been named the Poet Laureate of Jamaica, serving a term lasting from 2024-2027. Dawes has long been a member of the MFA poetry faculty, a guiding hand working steadfastly to build a more diverse and equitable program and lending his name to the Kwame Dawes Mapmakers Scholarship.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
pacificu.edu | Reza Karimi
Fasting is a regular practice that has been highly regarded by most religions for centuries. In addition, people fast for non-religious reasons to achieve their well-being and health-related goals. The season of Ramadan is a month in which Muslims around the world fast from dawn to dusk. Ramadan is a wonderful time to promote cultural awareness about fasting, celebrate the practice of fasting, and also to learn about the science behind fasting.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
pacificu.edu | Scott Korb
Through the Fall 2023 and into the winter 2024, the Pacific MFA in Writing program once again hosted two sessions of the Mapmakers Alumni Institute, both hosted by Mapmakers Scholar Angela Wang MFA '23 (Nonfiction). Videos of both events are now available!In October, Angela presented "The Human in Humor,"featuring Sanjiv Bhattacharya and Bernard Cooper.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
pacificu.edu | Scott Korb
Shella Parcarey MFA '24 has been awarded the Spring 2024 Mapmakers Teaching Assistantship, a competitive opportunity co-sponsored by the Master of Fine Arts and English programs. The assistantship is open to all MFA students entering their 3rd or 4th semesters who have been awarded the Kwame Dawes Mapmakers Scholarship. The Mapmakers scholarship currently offers partial tuition awards to exceptional students of color, and this teaching fellowship offers an additional stipend.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
pacificu.edu | Scott Korb
The Pacific MFA in Writing will welcome fiction writer Kimberly King Parsons to its winter residency to present a craft talk and to meet with graduating students to discuss the journey to publication. Parsons is the author of the debut novel We Were the Universe. She won the 2020 National Magazine Award for Fiction, and her short story collection, Black Light, was longlisted for the National Book Award and the Story Prize. Her fiction has been published in The Paris Review.