“That Thing at FPU” gets new and returning students together at the start of each semester. 

On August 30 each leadership group performed a skit to promote its work. The student activities board, for example, highlighted upcoming student activities. Between skits were drawings for gift cards for fun stuff like Starbucks and iTunes. The event concluded with a showing of the movie Thor on the University Green.  

Orientation weekend, August 26-28, went off with a bang as a flash mob of 100 students ended Sunday’s commissioning ceremony with dancing, back flips and a cannon.

Well…a small cannon. Shooting streamers.

Orientation weekend, August 26-28, went off with a bang as a flash mob of 100 students ended Sunday’s commissioning ceremony with dancing, back flips and a cannon.

Well…a small cannon. Shooting streamers.

President’s Scholars get more than a major academic scholarship at FPU—they are treated as leaders from day one. 

FPU has added a record number of faculty and staff to support this fall’s predicted record enrollment of 3,700 students. On August 22, 14 new faculty and 23 new staff got their fist official look at the university with a bus tour from the main campus to the Bakersfield and Visalia centers.

The focus on making strong academics affordable for all qualified students continues to pay off for FPU and its students.

The FPU Board of Trustees has selected the Dingman Company, a worldwide search firm based in California, and appointed a search committee including board members, alumni, faculty and staff to lead the process to select a new president.

Current President D. Merrill Ewert, Ph.D., announced June 1 he will retire effective July 31, 2012. He took office June 1, 2002.

 A desire to increase service and security has led to national recognition for the FPU Office of Continuing Education.

Karen Cianci wears more denim jackets than sweat suits, but when it comes to introducing students to the many phases of science, the dean of the FPU School of Natural Sciences talks like a coach. “I’m not going to expect them to run a marathon without helping them train,” she says.

Fresno, Calif. - The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced today that Fresno Pacific University has been accepted into the NCAA Division II membership process, beginning a new and exciting era of FPU Athletics. 

Director of Athletics Dennis Janzen received a phone call from the NCAA’s national office in Indianapolis this afternoon informing him of the decision.