02-21-2022

UPBeat will continue on an “every-other-week” schedule during Spring 2022. Please remember to send any submissions the Thursday prior to publication.  

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.