Our 3rd Annual Powwow will be held May 2, 2026 and we need your help to host this amazing event.

We’re launching a one month reusable coffee cup pilot program at Boxer Brew and the Hillsboro Market in partnership with GoSili. Enter for a chance to be one of 30 participants and help shape a more sustainable campus.

Join staff from the Student Counseling Center and be trained in Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR), a nationally recognized suicide prevention training. This empirically-validated training will equip you to recognize the warning signs, clues, and suicidal communication of people at risk as well as gain the skills to act and help save a life.

Planning a campus event? Please remember that all catering orders must be submitted through CaterTrax and meet the required advance notice timelines to ensure availability and quality service.

Please join us in congratulating our colleagues on these recognitions of their excellence in teaching, scholarship and service!

Under Oregon law, if a non-exempt employee works six (6) hours or more in a work period, the employer is required to provide a meal period of at least 30 continuous minutes during which the employee is completely relieved of all duties. What happens when an employee can’t get an uninterrupted 30-minute break? If a non-exempt employee is not relieved of all duties for a full, continuous 30-minute meal period, the employer must pay the employee for the entire 30-minute meal period.

Over 40 staff have signed up to work at the May 16 Commencement Ceremonies, but 10 more are needed. Consider joining the event staff team to celebrate our graduates by greeting guests, assisting with student line-up, driving golf carts, and performing countless other tasks at both the morning (approx. 7-11 a.m.) and afternoon (approx. 11:30-3:30 p.m.) ceremonies on Saturday, May 16. Learn more and sign up today.

On May 1st at 7:30 pm on the stage of McCready Hall at the Taylor-Meade Performing Arts Center at Pacific University, the Pacific University Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Dijana Ihas, will present an exciting program of works by Béla Bartók, Maurice Ravel, Joseph Haydn, and Franz Schubert.

The Staff Senate is sponsoring a hot breakfast along with donuts at the All-Staff Meeting on Wed, April 15. Join your colleagues and arrive any time after 8:30 a.m. for breakfast, coffee, and donuts. The meeting starts at 9 a.m. and ends at 10:30 a.m. The meeting will be held in person on the Hillsboro and Forest Grove campuses and on Zoom. Registration for breakfast is required.

We recognize that our staff community is navigating a time of significant transition at the university. We want every employee interested in joining the Staff Senate to be able to run for office while knowing that some of our colleagues need time and space right now to focus on next steps.. For that reason, we are extending our timeline for Staff Senate elections until Friday, April 17. If you are interested in serving on the Staff Senate, please nominate yourself or a peer.