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Fire Drills

Notice: Upcoming Fire Drills (Aug. 25-Sept. 5)

August 18, 2025

Fire drills will occur in all campus buildings at the beginning of the fall 2025 semester. Academic Building fire drills will be held the second week of school. Residence Hall drills will occur the first week of school, and non-academic buildings will have drills the first or second week of school. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-08-18, 2025-09-01, Issues Tagged With: Environmental Health and Safety, Fire Drills

Upcoming Fire Drills (Aug. 26-Sep. 6)

August 17, 2024

Fire drills will occur in all campus buildings at the beginning of the Fall 2024 semester. All fire drills will occur during the first two weeks of the academic year. Faculty and staff are required to exit the building in the event of a fire alarm. All fire alarms should be treated like a real emergency. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2024-08-19, 2024-09-02, Issues Tagged With: Fire Drills

Fall 2022 Fire Drills

September 5, 2022

Fire drills will occur in all campus buildings at the beginning of the fall 2022 semester. All fire drills in classroom buildings will occur on September 7 or September 8. Faculty and staff should be aware of the evacuation routes for the building that they work in. Faculty should review emergency planning information with students on the […]

Filed Under: 09-06-2022 Tagged With: Fire Drills

Fire Drills Scheduled for Campus Buildings Starting Monday, Jan. 16

January 13, 2017

Public safety will be conducting fire drills in academic and residence hall buildings over the next two weeks, starting Monday, January 16. During the fire drills, all personnel are asked to please exit the building safely and wait outside until given the all-clear by public safety officers or Portland Fire Bureau. This is a good time […]

Filed Under: 01-16-2017, Campus Services, Public Safety Tagged With: Fire Drills, Peter Rook, public safety

Fire Drills Coming In Campus Buildings

August 26, 2016

The public safety office will be conducting fire drills within the first two weeks of the 2016-2017 school year for all academic buildings, according to Jeff Rook, public safety. All are asked to be aware that when the fire alarm is activated in any building, all personnel must evacuate through the nearest and safest exit. […]

Filed Under: 08-29-2016, Campus Services, Public Safety Tagged With: Fire Drills, Jeff Rook, public safety

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Jeff Kerssen-Griep, Communication and Media, presented “Teaching with Transformative International Conflict Partners” on the panel, “Healing Divides and Elevating Connections within Conflict & Peacebuilding.” National Communication Association Convention. November, 2025.

Christi Richardson-Zboralski, Director of Marketing – Graduate Programs, published a short story under pen name, Christi R. Suzanne, entitled “Outlaw’s Dust.” In Lisa Diane Kastner (Ed.) 27 Stories: An LA Wildfire Anthology. Running Wild Press. January 7, 2026. All proceeds from this anthology go toward Habitat for Humanity LA. Find it on the Broadway Books website or on Bookshop.org.

Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC, published From Glory to Glory: A Pilgrim’s Notes From the Badlands of Grace. Occasioned by the author’s walking, with siblings, the famous Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2024, the book traces all manner of other pilgrimages—to and from home, family, love, self, and God. One Subject Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. November, 2025.

Jessica Murphy Moo, editor of Portland Magazine and director of storytelling, wrote the lyrics to two songs in “We Go On, Oswego,” a song cycle honoring female refugees who lived at Camp Ontario in upstate New York. From 1944-1946, Camp Ontario provided emergency shelter to refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. “We Go On, Oswego” was performed at Nazareth College, in collaboration with Finger Lakes Opera, on December 4, 2025. It was commissioned by Katie Hannigan, PhD. The song “There Is No Underground,” was written in collaboration with composer Maria Thompson Corley, and the song “My Table,” was written in collaboration with composer Kurt Erickson.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published “A Spirituality of Desert Discipleship for Our Times. Reflections on the Readings of the Third Sunday of Advent.” VoiceAfrique.org. December 13, 2025.

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