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Home › Township › Families › Briggs › The Briggs Family The Briggs family is Briarmont's great working family. Edgar Briggs did not build an empire — he built a home, a trade, and a life that endured, and the family has been respected ever since not for ambiti...

Home › Township › Families › Hale › The Hale Family The Hale family is the quietest of Briarmont's three founding bloodlines. Three lines — Ashton, Hale, and Briggs — settled Briarmont's earliest homesteads, and of the three the Hales left the thinnest record:...

Home › Township › Families › Hartwell › The Hartwell Family The Hartwell family stands at the very origin of Briarmont. Though few Hartwells remain as individual figures in the record, the family name is woven through the entire town: its founding industry, it...

Home › Township › Families › Ashton › The Ashton Family The Ashton family is one of Briarmont's founding families — the line of managers and stewards that made the town's timber enterprise function at scale. If Elias Hartwell represented appetite, the Ashtons ...

Home › Oakridge College › Greek Life › Alpha Chi Epsilon › AXE Founding Lore— First Winter Home › Historical Archive › College Origins › AXE Founding Lore— First Winter Part one: The land that was taken Alpha Chi Epsilon took first shape in the autumn of 1919,...

Home › Oakridge College › Greek Life › Alpha Chi Epsilon › The Season of Storms The winter of 1919 brought six weeks of sustained rain to the Briarmont coast, with two major flooding events in the harbor and widespread slope failure on the bare hillsides above...

Home › Township › Setting & Landmarks › Key Landmarks Briarmont’s landmarks are not merely notable places on a map, but visible traces of the town’s long and complicated history. Many of them stand at the intersection of memory, industry, restoration, and loca...

Home › Oakridge College › Oakridge College Faculty Handbook › Preface A Message from the President To new faculty, welcome to Oakridge College. To returning faculty, welcome back. It is my honor to greet you at the beginning of a new academic year and to thank...

Home › Oakridge College › Oakridge College Faculty Handbook › I. College Mission and Educational Purpose Mission Oakridge College prepares students for thoughtful work, responsible citizenship, and useful service within Briarmont and the wider world.  The coll...

Home › Oakridge College › Oakridge College Faculty Handbook › II. Organization of the College and Faculty Overview Oakridge College is organized through a clear academic structure. The President and Vice President provide senior college leadership. Deans overs...

Home › Oakridge College › Oakridge College Faculty Handbook › III. Academic Schools, Departments, and Programs Overview Oakridge College is organized into four Academic Schools: Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Professional Studies. ...

Home › Oakridge College › Oakridge College Faculty Handbook › IV. Faculty Appointments, Ranks, and Promotions Overview This section explains how faculty appointments, academic ranks, leadership roles, and promotions work at Oakridge College. Faculty rank defin...

Home › Oakridge College › Oakridge College Faculty Handbook › V. Teaching, Advising, and Student Support Overview Faculty are responsible for teaching students, supporting learning, and helping students understand their academic options. Faculty should be prep...

Home › Oakridge College › Oakridge College Faculty Handbook › VI. Faculty Conduct and Professional Standards Overview Faculty are expected to act with professionalism, fairness, care, and good judgment. Faculty must respect students, colleagues, college author...

Home › Oakridge College › Oakridge College Faculty Handbook › VII. Classroom Order, Safety, and Campus Security Overview Faculty are responsible for maintaining orderly, respectful, and safe academic spaces. Most classroom problems should be handled calmly by ...

Home › Oakridge College › Oakridge College Faculty Handbook › VIII. Faculty Services Overview Faculty service is the work faculty do outside of direct classroom teaching to support the academic life of Oakridge College. This includes department work, student a...

Home › Oakridge College › Oakridge College Faculty Handbook › IX. Course Planning and Academic Records Overview Faculty are responsible for making sure courses are planned clearly and entered accurately into the college registry. The registry is the Oakridge C...

Home › Oakridge College › Oakridge College Faculty Handbook › X. Events, Facilities, and Scheduling Overview Faculty may schedule academic events, lectures, workshops, ceremonies, department activities, and approved student-facing programs. Events should be pl...