Campus Events

Check the OWU Daily ahead of an event for the most up to date information!

Fall 2025 Upcoming Events

August Events:

  • Get To Know Your OWU Community | August 18 & 19 | Benes Rooms | This is your crash course in bystander intervention, OWU policies, campus resources, and how to help keep our community safe.This presentation is part of of Camp Oh-Wooo and is required for for all incoming students. For assigned session dates and times check your OWU email.  
  • Wellness Resource Fair | August 26 | 11am-1pm | JAYWalk | Stop by to learn about campus and community wellness resources!
  • Overdose Awareness Day | August 27 | 11am-1pm | JAYWalk | Come join Delaware Public Health's Project Dawn, Drug-Free Delaware, and the Bishop Way on the JAY for information on how to recognize and prevent overdoses!  Sponsored by Delaware Public Health District and The Bishop Way.
  • Student Involvement Fair | August 28 | 6pm-8pm | JAYWalk | Visit The Bishop Way table to learn about our programs, becoming a Wellness Peer Educator, and make a vision board.

September

  • Suicide Prevention Day | September 10 | Welch Patio | Join us for Whit's Custard and learn about mental health and support resources on campus and in the community. This program is done in collaboration with OWU Counseling Services and Helpline of Delaware County.
  • National Hazing Awareness Week | September 22-26 | Follow the Bishop Way on Instagram to see our social media campaign. We will be sharing information on hazing awareness and prevention. @owu_bishopway
  • International Recovery Day | September 30 | 12pm to 1pm | JAYWalk | Recovery is for everyone! International Recovery day acknowledges those with drug, alcohol, and behavioral addictions. Join the Bishop Way, Counseling Services, & local resources to celebrate! We will have give-a-ways, community & campus resource information, safe at-home drug disposal pouches, ally resources, fentanyl test strips, and more! Find us on the JAYwalk, or with bad weather inside the Hamilton-Williams Atrium.

October

  • Cold & Flu Prevention Tabling | October 3 | 12pm-1pm | HWCC Atrium | Do you know where to go when you feel sick? Wondering how to communcate with your faculty Stop by the Atrium to get resources and give away
  • Awareness Flags | October 1-31 | JAYwalk | October is Domesitc Violence Awareness Month. With the flags, we will be sharing resources and statisitcs to raise awareness about domestic and intimate partner violence. 
  • World Mental Health Day | October 13 | 11:30am-1pm | HWCC Atrium | Create your own coping cards with the Bishop Way and explore different coping strategies and mental health resources.
  • Take Back the Night | October 28 | 6pm-8:30pm | Check the OWU Daily for location details. Ohio Wesleyan particpaites in the national Take Back the Night march. Take back the Night is an event centered around the mission of ending sexual, romantic, and domestic violence. Sponsored by the Bishop Way, SAGE, Residential Life, and Women's Resource Center. Check the OWU Daily for event time and location details.
  • Wellness Week | October 22-October 26 | Check back soon for a full schedule of events!

November

  • Gourds and Gratitude | November 3 | HWCC Atrium | 11:30am-1pm | Join The Bishop Way to learn about the beneftis of practicing gratitute, explore Spiritual Wellness concepts, and decorate cookies!

Have an idea for an event? Want to collaborate? Email thebishopway@owu.edu.

Past Major Events & Guest Speakers:

  • Wanna Make Out? A Conversation About Consent | Fall 2024 | Dr. Lori Bednarchik takes a unique, positive, uninhibited and uncensored approach to talking about sexual consent and communication. The focus throughout the program is promoting safe, fun, positive, and consensual sexual activity, and providing participants with specific and practical skills to effectively communicate to, and with their partner about sex and consent.
  • I Love Female Orgasm | Spring 2023 | I ❤️ Female Orgasm coming to Ohio Wesleyan as part of Bishop Wellness Week! Join us to laugh and learn about the "big O," the most popular topic sex educators Lindsay Fram and Marshall Miller teach about! Orgasm aficionados and beginners of all genders are welcome to come learn about everything from multiple orgasms to that mysterious G-spot. Whether you want to learn how to have your first orgasm, how to have better ones, or how to help your partner, Lindsay and Marshall cover it all with lots of humor, plenty of honesty, and an underlying message of sexual health and women's empowerment. Are you coming?
  • Sex Discussed Here | Fall 2022 | This week's hottest "class" on campus, Sex Discussed Here! Marshall Miller and Lindsay Fram teach sex education unlike any you've had before -- this is definitely NOT your high school health class. Learn how to figure out what your partner really wants sexually, the real deal on lube, magic words for the bedroom, and answers to your secret sex questions (find out what everyone else has been wanting to know, too!). People of all genders and sexual orientations welcome, beginners and sexperts alike. Come prepared to laugh and learn!
  • Birdie Light | Spring 2022 & Spring 2023 | BirdieLight saves lives by educating young people about the danger of unintentional fentanyl ingestion, and by empowering them with tools to detect fentanyl before they ingest.

  • Sexual Violence Prevention Speaker, Kyle Richard | Spring 2022 | Kyle Richard will be speaking at OWU as a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, an annual university-wide collaboration to raise awareness about sexual violence and educate communities and individuals on the prevention of sexual violence. Kyle is a sports activist, advocate and speaker. His area of focus is preventing sexual, domestic, and gun violence. Formerly a collegiate football captain and athlete activist, Kyle works with athletic departments, sports teams, fraternities, sororities and other organizations that are focused on violence prevention. Kyle has been nationally recognized for being an active bystander and using his platform to cultivate healthy campus cultures.

  • Sex in the Dark | Fall 2021 | Stay anonymous in this lights-off in-person event while professional sexperts answer your deepest, darkest questions. No question too simple — or too outrageous. Pick up your free glow bracelet or necklaces at the event
  • Sex in the Pandemic | Spring 2021 | An interactive virtual event with all the focus on social distancing, navigating sex and relationships can feel more challenging than ever. Can Covid be transmitted through sex? Do we have to wear masks if we boomchikawowow? Should you ask your hookup their vaccination status? Is snuggling indoors with your boo too dangerous? How to make Facetime sex less awkward? In this interactive virtual program, tailored to the needs of those in attendance, we'll explore answers to these questions and more, and give you tips for what you can practice now that will make you a better partner later.