News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
The Office of Alumni & Parent Relations is excited to welcome parents and families of our first-year and sophomore students to Family Weekend, February 17–19. Here is the tentative schedule. Contact Bryn Rose at roseb@up.edu by February 7 if your department wishes to host an open house on Friday starting at 3:30 or at any other time during the weekend.
Expand your skill set! The Clark Library Digital Lab is offering free, introductory workshops on Canva, Graphic Design 101, Photoshop, Illustrator, iMovie, and Podcasting from January 25 through February 3. These are open to current students, faculty, and staff. Please register online to reserve your spot and contact José Velazco with questions.
Are you a new faculty or staff member who has not yet had their professional photo taken for the UP directory? The Office of Marketing and Communications has scheduled a professional photographer for photos, Wednesday, January 25. Please email Suzanne Frey at freys@up.edu to schedule a five-minute headshot session.
The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be on Friday, January 27, 3:30–5:30 p.m. in the Murphy Room. We will discuss Montas, “Making Peace with the Unconscious: Freud” (excerpted from Rescuing Socrates) and Ziegler, “Practice Makes Reception.” All readings are available on the Garavena Center website. Refreshments will be served. All faculty and staff are welcome.
Curious about the UP employee Disability Affinity Group? Have ideas for making UP more inclusive? The Disability Affinity Group is excited to be part of this year’s Diversity Dialogues! Join group members and disability allies for a conversation about what we can do to boost inclusion and community for people experiencing disabilities at UP. This hybrid event will take place Monday, January 30, from 12:30–1:30 p.m., both in-person in the Buckley Diversity Center and online. Can’t make it for the whole hour? Feel free to drop by if you’re able. Also joining us: special guest Scott Hatley, 2001 UP alum! He is now Executive Director of Incight, a Portland nonprofit helping people with disabilities reach their unlimited potential.
We acknowledge that the word “disability” means many things to many people and can even be triggering. Here,we are reclaiming disability in a positive way, to build disability culture and disability pride. For us, disability can mean any kind of physical, mental or emotional challenge that we cope with—such as a mobility impairment, anxiety or depression, ADD or learning challenges, trauma or more. Questions about the event? Visit our affinity group website or contact Sarah Nuxoll at nuxolls@up.edu.
How the Catholic Church and the LGBTQ Community Can Live Out Gospel Inclusion
Join us for a livestream webinar with national figure Fr. James Martin, SJ, as he explores these and other crucial questions of our time:
Monday, January 30 at 4:30 p.m.
Livestream Zoom at uportland.zoom.us/j/91753287064
Free and open to all. If you would like to submit a question to Fr. Martin, please submit by 1/27.
Co-sponsored by Garaventa Center, Student Affairs, Campus Ministry, and OIEDI.
Contact garaventa@up.edu or 503-943-7702 for more info.
Application for Summer 2023 Provost’s Initiative for Undergraduate Research awards are available now in the Undergraduate Research section of PilotsUP. Applications for Summer 2023 are due February 15 at noon.
The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) invites all full-time faculty, lecturers, and instructors to submit proposals for the Spring 2023 Arthur Butine Faculty Development Fund. Projects and Conference applications are limited to $2,000 in the spring funding cycle. Please use the most current application forms which are now available for download from the Butine Moodle site. Also, a reminder that applicants should discuss their Butine proposals with their respective deans (and chairs for CAS applicants) before applying. Deadline to TAS and to Chair/Deans, Friday, February 17. Contact TAS chair Patrick Murphy, tas@up.edu, with questions.
We are bringing back this annual event for the first time since February 2020, and we are so happy to be able to be in person again.
On February 26, 10 a.m.–1 p.m., we’ll be turning the Chiles Center into a learning center for kids (ages 1–12). KDP is organizing tables for literacy learning, and I’m organizing tables for STEM. We welcome faculty tables and student tables. If you’d like to host, or have your students host as part of a class project, or advise a club that might like to volunteer, please forward this email and encourage them to do so. In the past, we’ve had skeletons, plants, gravity projects, origami, etc., and we think about STEM broadly and hope that we have a variety of table activities for kids of all ages. This has been used as a class assignment, extra credit, or club activity, and it’s also something that folks participate in because it’s fun.
To sign up to host a table, please fill out this form.
Faculty members interested in offering an Honors Program reading course during the 2023–2024 academic year are invited to send a course proposal to program director Cara Hersh by Monday, February 27. Honors students, in their junior and senior years, take two one-credit reading courses. Courses are limited to 15 students and are offered pass/no pass. Team-taught courses are particularly welcome. Proposals should include a course title and brief description.
For more information, or to submit a proposal, contact Cara Hersh at hersh@up.edu.