News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
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The English Department’s Reading and Lecture series notes a few changes to our spring lineup: Cooper Lee Bombardier’s February 24 appearance has been postponed to Fall 2022. And Karen Eifler’s March 22 reading from her latest collection of essays Near Occasions of Hope: Glimpses of a Church That Can Be has been postponed to Wednesday, April 6 (7:30 p.m., Bookstore) to ensure the arrival of her just-out book. Also, for your literary calendar, during ReadUP/Distinguished Schoenfeldt Speaker Yaa Gyasi’s visit to campus Wenesday, March 9, she will be holding an informal Q&A for UP students, staff, and faculty in Franz 214 from 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Bring questions about Transcendent Kingdom, her other works, and her life as a writer. Details can be found at this link. For questions email larson@up.edu.
The Holy Cross brothers and priests invite our faculty and staff colleagues to continue to join us once again in the Holy Cross Dining Room (HCDR) for Wednesday lunch.
With our friends at Bon Appétit we are pleased to have the opportunity to share a meal with you. Here are a few reminders to help us preserve a pleasant dining environment for everyone:
1. Lunch is available Wednesdays in the HCDR from 11:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. The HCDR is located in the back hallway of the Commons beyond the double doors near the dish return.
2. This invitation is for faculty and staff only. This preserves the privacy of the HCDR and allows us to gather with colleagues and friends without undergraduates present. If you would like to have lunch with an undergraduate, please use the Pilot House or the main Commons dining room.
3. Please refrain from the use of cell phones and other devices in the HCDR. To help us preserve the intimate and communal nature of our dining room, thank you for stepping into the hallway to take phone calls or to view media that requires sound.
4. Lunch costs $10 and includes unlimited buffet and beverages while you are in the HCDR. To help keep costs down, please do not take any leftovers or carryout items with you. This price is equitable to what Holy Cross pays for our own lunch in HCDR; Bon Appétit has worked hard to keep lunch affordable for us all.
5. Tables are not to be reserved for lunch meetings. This helps us preserve a more congenial atmosphere for dining with colleagues and friends. Please use the Pilot House or the main Commons dining room for lunch meetings.
6. COVID protocols are posted in the HCDR. These will be continuously updated to align with university policy. Thank you for your care to keep us all safe.
The Clark Library, in partnership with the Provost and each school/college, is excited to announce five stipends (one per school/college) of $200 each for faculty to review textbooks offered by the Open Education Network (OEN). The OEN hosts the Open Textbook Library, a repository of open textbooks available for classroom use. OEN relies on faculty reviews of textbooks to determine quality, and your review will help other faculty determine a book’s worth and relevance to their course, thus helping to encourage adoption of open textbooks. Applications to review OEN textbooks will be considered until March 18. If accepted, reviews must be completed by August 15. For questions, please contact Philip Vue.
Last week the library hosted an insightful panel discussion about the pros and cons of open educational resources based on the experiences of UP and PSU faculty members. The recording, along with more information, is available here: https://libguides.up.edu/openeducationalresources/oerup.
Are you interested in sharing your perspective about UP life in the midst of Covid-related disruptions? Interested in hearing perspectives of others whose experiences vary from yours? If so, the PRF working group “College after Covid: Archiving the Present to Imagine UP’s Futures” invites you to attend one of two upcoming Campus Conversations; we are seeking faculty, staff, and students to attend.
A goal of our project is to imagine how the practices of the humanities can help us understand this singular pandemic moment in the university’s history. To do this, we want to put people in conversation with each other, facilitating open-ended discussion and sharing and listening to voices different from our own. We plan to host two small group conversations of 18 participants each to explore this topic together. We’ll record the audio of these conversations so that they can be a part of our larger project archive.
Campus Conversations will be held Friday, March 18, 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.; and Thursday, March 24, 4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Food and drink will be provided, and no advanced preparation is necessary. If interested, please email Molly Hiro (hiro@up.edu).
All University of Portland faculty and staff are invited to access the Columbia Sportswear Employee Store from February 11 to March 6. UP community members can enjoy the same discount as Columbia Sportswear employees, 40 to 50 percent off regular retail pricing, on all of the latest product from the Columbia Sportswear Company family (SOREL, Mountain Hardwear, prAna, and of course Columbia Sportswear).
Please bring this special UP invitation (printed or shown on mobile phone), work ID (business card, badge, pay-stub, signature of work email, etc.), and a personal photo ID.
This offer is valid for UP employees plus 4 guests; UP employee must be present. It covers store access only, not online orders.
Find store location and hours on the invite.
It’s a new month, and with that comes Zoom updates. For more information, please check out ATSI’s February Blog Article. Happy Zooming!
Campus Ministry wants your voice! All faculty and staff are most welcome to share their musical and vocal talents for any of our special university masses (Orientation Mass, Family Weekends, Stations of the Cross, the Paschal Triduum, Easter Sunday, Baccalaureate Mass and more!). As we look to share these opportunities for communal prayer with you, we are hoping to update our list of faculty and staff who might have interest in helping out on occasion with music and singing. No formal training or experience is required. Just come ready to lend your talents in song! We invite you to contact Hector Mendoza, Campus Minister for Liturgical Music (mendoza@up.edu), so he can make sure to share upcoming opportunities and information with you.
Join Deborah Pembleton, PhD, of the College of Saint Benedict & Saint John’s University, as she examines how a humble Black nun from Canton, Mississippi, infused Catholicism with gospel music, influenced global leadership and cultural competence, and carried out the business of life through strength, the love of God, and energized laughter. 5:00 p.m. at the Brian Doyle Auditorium (Dundon-Berchtold 004) or virtual livestream at uportland.zoom.us/j/98023676186. Free and open to all. Masks required. Info: up.edu/garaventa or 503-943-7702. Hosted by the Garaventa Center.
We have opened a collection of classroom software requests for the Summer 2022 and Fall 2022 terms. To make your request, please complete our survey by the end of the day on Friday, March 18.
If you would like to request software for your office, please call the Help Desk at ext. 7000, or email help@up.edu.