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News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.

03-07-2022

Seeking UP Community Members for Campus Conversations

We have just a few more spots open for these conversations! Please sign up by Friday, March 11, if interested.

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).

Applications for NCORE Conference Grants Now Open (due Mar. 15)

The National Conference on Race and Ethnicity is in Portland this year from May 31 to June 4. Provost and Acting President, Herbert Medina, has approved up to $10,000 in funding for UP staff and faculty to attend. Grants up to $695 are available to participate in the conference. These funds are for registration for the conference only. Lodging, food, travel, pre-conference workshops and/or additional workshops/materials will not be covered.

Grant applications will be due by March 15, 2022. 

For application and more information please visit: https://www.up.edu/cisgo/up-grants.html

Or contact the Office of International Education, Diversity and Inclusion for questions at oiedi@up.edu.

Sister Thea Bowman: What a Humble Black Franciscan Can Teach Us About Global Business (Mar. 15)

Join us for this Beckman Humor Project event, as Deborah Pembleton of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University, 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. Tuesday, March 15, 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.

Clark Library Survey (due Mar. 20)

The Clark Library wants your feedback! We survey the University community every three years to better understand everyone’s needs and to assess satisfaction with our current services and resources. We invite staff and faculty to take the survey by visiting https://library.up.edu/survey. Responses are anonymous, but you can provide an email to be included in the drawings for $25 gift cards. We appreciate your time!

The Dundon-Berchtold Institute (DBI) Invites You to Enjoy Glimpses of Care in 2021

Each year, DBI adds to its mosaic-style “Glimpses Project.” Through this platform, graduates and invited members of the broader UP community share with us little time capsules that capture thoughts about one moment from the year that is still lingering with them. For the “Glimpses Project” in 2021, the overarching theme was care and how one received or contributed to care during yet another year of difficulties and unknowns. Whether self-care, care for another person, or care writ large on the community, regional, national, or global levels, many found this central thread woven throughout their experiences and practices in 2021. We invite you to step into these vulnerable, holy moments offered graciously by members of our community.

Holy Cross Dining Room Now Open Monday through Friday

The Holy Cross brothers and priests invite our faculty and staff colleagues to continue to join us in the Holy Cross Dining Room (HCDR) Monday through Friday for 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 Monday through Friday 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.

Benchmarks: Spanish Flu 1918

During the current COVID-19 pandemic many have asked how UP weathered a similar historical watershed—the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. Using the contemporaneous student resources from our historical archives collection, we attempted to find an answer; shared here in this post on PortLog from the University Archives & Museum: https://sites.up.edu/museum/benchmarks-spanish-flu-1918/

For more information, contact Carolyn Connolly, museum coordinator, piatz@up.edu or 8038.

New to The Bluff: Darlene Schniewind, Programs Assistant for Garaventa Center and Collegium

Darlene comes to UP/Collegium from a myriad of life and work experiences that include professional acting, facilitating improvisation workshops for personal and professional development, to administrative roles in a variety of school settings and lots of parent classroom volunteer time. She is excited to work to support the missions of the Garaventa Center and Collegium and the support and enrichment they offer educators. Darlene knows first-hand the powerful effect that a teacher can make on a student’s life when anchored in a deeper vocational purpose. 

Darlene loves learning, improvisation, reading, dancing, health and fitness, stimulating conversation, board games, her family, her cat, and potatoes. Finding humor and playfulness wherever possible is golden to her.