The Office of Student Life is organizing an Easter egg hunt for our students. The hunt will be on Monday, April 6. We have 600 eggs to hide around campus, primarily inside buildings, Tiffany Loop, and Martin Square. We would love some assistance in hiding the eggs. They will need to be on walkways and in accessible locations to prevent injury to people, plants, and property. If you are willing to hide eggs on Monday, April 6, please send an email to StudentLife@spu.edu or Kimberly Frost, executive assistant for Student Life at FrostK1@spu.edu and we can make arrangements for you to get some filled plastic eggs on Thursday or Friday to hide on Monday. Eggs can be hidden anytime on Monday, so they are available throughout the day. Thank you for considering.

A message from University Advancement: It’s only two weeks until Giving Day on Wednesday, April 8! Faculty and staff are encouraged to come to the Student Union Building on April 8, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Bring or come with your class, colleagues, or department. Here's how you can participate.

• Join in live praise and worship.
• Leave a note of thanks or appreciation for a student, colleague, leader, and/or donors on the Gratitude Wall.
• Record a “Thank You” video for donors or take a fun department photo with Talon the school mascot and a cheerleader at the photo station.
• Grab a table at the Faceoff Stations where you can challenge another department to raise the most funds in 30 minutes, reaching out to personal and professional networks by text or social media.
• Thank SPU donors for their support at the ‘Thank You’ Phone Center.”
• Pray in small groups for donor, student, faculty/staff prayer requests and for the SPU community.
• Win prizes when you participate in all the above, including gift cards to Two Kicks Coffee and treats from Byen Bakeri.

And if that’s not enough, come for the light refreshments provided courtesy of Sodexo.

From Alumni, Parent, and Family Relations: Last week, more than 36,000 SPU alumni received the spring 2026 issue of Connections e-newsletter. This issue included news about Giving Day, more about the late John Perkins’ long history with Seattle Pacific, exciting news about an upcoming European tour for the 1977 SPU Singers, results from a recent alumni survey, and much more. View the e-newsletter here.

A message from InformationTechnology: To better steward SPU’s storage resources and prevent outages of key university services (such as the OneDrive and SharePoint outage last fall), IT has worked to right-size campus users’ storage quotas and remove unlicensed/inactive accounts.

Student accounts as well as alumni accounts have seen some quota changes as announced last month. For employees, the only change is to the initial OneDrive storage allotment. New employees now receive 100GB of storage in their individual OneDrive, and may request additional storage as needed. Existing employees’ OneDrive storage quotas have been reduced to 100GB where their usage was already well below this amount. Accounts already using this amount (or near to it) have automatically had their quota increased beyond their current usage with headroom for ongoing growth. 

OneDrive is an essential service for the secure storage, creation, and modification of files needed for individual work, and IT is committed to providing the resources and capacity needed for SPU operations. For any files that are not individual in nature (e.g.: shared with a department, committee, other colleagues), Teams and SharePoint sites exist for these collaborative works and sharing of digital resources.

The Faculty/Staff Bulletin is published every Monday during the academic year. The next deadline is Thursday, March 26, and the next Bulletin will be published on Monday, March 30. 

If you have information or event news, send it as soon as possible with an image or graphic to Bulletin editor Tracy Norlen at fsb-editor@spu.edu. Submissions may be edited for clarity and will be published for two consecutive issues; they can be resubmitted for an additional two weeks.

An essay by Rob Wall, The Paul T. Walls Professor Emeritus of Scripture, titled.“The Canonical Paul and the Emergence of the Pauline Corpus: A Theological and Historical Assessment,” was published in a new collection edited by Stanley Porter and Benjamin Laird, The New Testament Canon in Contemporary Research (Leiden: Brill, 2026) 397-422. The research question that Wall seeks to answer in his essay regards the when, what, why, and by whom was the final edition of the New Testament’s Pauline epistles collection recognized as canonical by the early church. What sets his essay apart from other critical studies on this topic is his provision of a theological argument (in addition to his historical reconstruction of the church's formation of Scripture’s Pauline canon) that helps secure the enduring authority of Paul’s 13-letters collection (Romans-Philemon) in forming one holy catholic and apostolic church.

In a photo essay, SPU Stories looks back at the long legacy of John Perkins at Seattle Pacific. Perkins, a civil rights leader, author, community developer, and co-founder of SPU's John Perkins Center, died on March 13, 2026, at the age of 95.

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