The Buckley Center Gallery is exhibiting the final presentation photographs of students who completed the Introduction to Black and White Photography course offered during the first summer session, according to Pat Bognar, performing and fine arts. The students, Josie Benedetti, John Carleton (his photo at left), and Victoria Kerssen-Griep, all did wonderful work and we encourage you to visit the gallery! The students enrolled in the second summer session photo course will be showing their images in Buckley Gallery from August 1-18. For more information contact Bognar at 7792 or bognar@up.edu. Enjoy!
Academics
Student Photo Show
The Buckley Center Gallery is exhibiting the final presentation photographs of students who completed the Introduction to Black and White Photography course offered during the first summer session, according to Pat Bognar, performing and fine arts. The students, Josie Benedetti, John Carleton (his photo at left), and Victoria Kerssen-Griep, all did wonderful work and we encourage you to visit the gallery! The students enrolled in the second summer session photo course will be showing their images in Buckley Gallery from August 1-18. For more information contact Bognar at 7792 or bognar@up.edu. Enjoy!
New Grant, FirstUP Planning
The University of Portland has received a grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service and Oregon Campus Compact to host an AmeriCorps VISTA member who will help the University develop resources and build capacity to better serve first-generation college students, according to Michele Leasor, honors program. Holly Sweeney, pictured, will be joining the UP community for this one-year AmeriCorps VISTA appointment beginning August 31.
In fall 2012, the University of Portland hosted FirstUP, a welcome event for first-generation college students. FirstUP was a cooperative effort between the academic and student affairs divisions. One aspect that made FirstUP 2012 a great success was the support of faculty and staff who were themselves first-generation college students. All first-generation college students who would be willing to have the planning group contact them with opportunities to be involved with this year’s efforts are asked to contact Leasor at 8264 or leasor@up.edu.
The FirstUP Planning Committee would like to thank the Division of Student Affairs, Office of the Provost, and Office of the Executive Vice President, who collaborated to provide the matching funds required for the AmeriCorps VISTA grant.
Denise Breyley Speaking July 18
Denise Breyley of Whole Foods Markets will be speaking to Howard Feldman’s BUS 513 (Social Issues in Business) class at 6:10 p.m. on Thursday, July 18, in Franz Hall 206. Any interested faculty, staff, or students are welcome to attend. Breyley serves as Local Forager for Whole Foods, working with and providing support to local farms and vendors to get their products into local Whole Foods stores. Breyley will speak about Whole Foods’ perspectives on organic and genetically modified foods and their connection to the company’s philosophy of “conscious capitalism.” For more information contact Feldman at 7270 or feldman@up.edu.
UP ROTC Cadet Takes Top Honor
Colin Root, a cadet in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at the University of Portland, was honored as the top overall cadet in his regiment during graduation ceremonies for the 2013 Leader Development and Assessment Course at Watkins Field on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington on July 11. He was among approximately 885 ROTC Training Corps cadets from the 1st and 2nd Regiments.
Root was among a group of eight cadets honored for individual accomplishments that set them apart from their peers. From each regiment, awards were handed out for distinguished honor graduate, honor graduate, top male and female scores on the Army physical fitness test, and the cadet who best represented the Warrior Ethos, a term coined to reflect the embodiment of a soldier. Root, a junior Global Business major at the University, was recognized as 1st Regiment Distinguished Honor Graduate, Bravo Company.
The ceremony capped off 29 days of leadership-infused training designed to develop each cadet’s leadership abilities through a sequentially organized training schedule that incorporated the basic necessary skills to become an effective military leader. The leadership course is one of the final steps for cadets prior to completing the ROTC program and entering the Army as commissioned officers.
For more information contact the Army ROTC office at 7353 or armyrotc@up.edu.
Faculty Deferred Pay Option
All nine-month faculty members can opt in to be paid over a 12 month span, according to Debbie Schwartzkopf, payroll. This process begins with September paychecks and holds a portion aside for nine months, then pays out over June, July, and August of the following summer. To sign up for this option please contact payroll at 8338 or payroll@up.edu. Faculty who sign up for this program remain enrolled until they give written notice that they do not want to participate in the program. There is no need to renew paperwork each year. All forms must be submitted to the payroll office no later than Friday, September 13, 2013 to be eligible for the 2013-2014 academic year.
From Our Past
Patricia Lillian Chadwick, professor of nursing at the University of Portland for nearly forty years, dean of the University’s School of Nursing from 1974 to 1996, dean of the Graduate School from 2001 until 2006, and a tireless and much-respected colleague to many on The Bluff, passed away at her Portland home on Thursday, July 27, 2006. She had been battling cancer for a number of years.
Pat joined the University in 1968 as an assistant professor. In 1974 she was named dean of the School of Nursing, a job she held for a record 23 years. In 1996 she was promoted to a position created for her, a sort of administrative ombudsman, responsible for all sorts of academic, faculty, and campus programs, from creating an Early Alert student assistance program to the development of advisory councils that greatly strengthened the University’s board of regents.
For all her administrative accomplishments, Chadwick’s legacy on The Bluff and in Oregon is perhaps most felt by the many men and women she taught and mentored as a professor; she was also an adjunct at Oregon State University, helped create Turk House in Baltimore (for treatment of alcoholism), and delivered uncountable lectures, talks, speeches, and seminars all over North America. Among her many honors were awards from the Oregon Nurses Association (for leadership) and from the University of Portland (for creative service).
Pat will long be remembered at the University for her meticulous attention to detail, her endless patience in training and teaching new students and new administrators, her calm and consistent professionalism in dealing with problems big and small, her astounding accessibility far beyond the confines of the work week, her courteous candor, her unflagging dignity and consideration, and her unwavering commitment to the mission of the University. The way in which Pat Chadwick taught about attentiveness and grace in every aspect of her life and career is part of our story on The Bluff forever. Shortly before her death, Pat was honored with the establishment of the annual Pat Chadwick Award in the School of Nursing; gifts in celebration of her life may be made to the University in any capacity.
For more information on University history see the University Almanac at www.up.edu/almanac.
$960,000 RISE Nursing Grant
The School of Nursing has been awarded $960,000 by the Helene Fuld Health Trust to establish scholarships for bachelor of science in nursing (B.S.N.) students who have a prior bachelor’s degree in another field. The University of Portland is one of six schools nationwide to receive funding for second degree baccalaureate students in nursing from The Helene Fuld Health Trust Scholarship Fund. The grant will be paid in three installments over a four-year period, with half of the funds for annual scholarships, the first to be awarded fall 2013. The other half will create an endowment, with the first scholarships awarded in the 2016-17 academic year.
The award and the partnership with the Helene Fuld Health Trust encourages students with a prior degree, and often more life experience than the traditional student out of high school, to enter nursing. Financial issues are often the biggest barrier for students transferring to the University of Portland to complete an additional bachelor’s degree, according to UP nursing dean Joanne Warner. “This partnership supports the School of Nursing’s priority on increasing the diversity of the nursing work force, including gender, ethnicity and non-traditional students” says Warner.
The Helene Fuld Health Trust’s mission is to support and promote the health, welfare, and education of student nurses and is the nation’s largest private funder devoted exclusively to nursing students and nursing education. The School of Nursing received a previous grant from the Helene Fuld Health Trust in 2006, a $550,000 grant to establish scholarships for undergraduate nursing students.
The $960,000 grant is part of the University’s RISE Campaign, which was announced in December 2010 and seeks to raise $175 million by 2014. The RISE Campaign, which has raised more than $161 million to date, is one of the largest development campaigns ever for a Pacific Northwest private college or university. For more information contact the School of Nursing at 7211 or development at 7395.
New AACN Post For Pate
Mary Frances Pate, nursing, has been elected to a one-year term as chair of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) Certification Corporation national board. Pate was named when the AACN announced its new board of directors for fiscal year 2014. Her term became effective on July 1, 2013.
AACN Certification Corporation, the credentialing arm of the AACN, promotes and enhances consumer health and safety through certification and certification renewal. It has certified more than 72,000 nurses and provides comprehensive credentialing for establishing and maintaining standards of excellence in acute and critical care nursing.
Founded in 1969 and based in Aliso Viejo, Calif., the AACN is the largest specialty nursing organization in the world. AACN joins together the interests of more than 500,000 acute and critical care nurses and claims more than 235 chapters worldwide. For more information contact the School of Nursing at 7211 or nursing@up.edu, or see http://www.aacn.org.
A Big Thank You To All
The Department of Biology would like to thank everyone who took time out of their schedules this summer to write letters of recommendation for students applying for graduate programs in medicine, dentistry, optometry, physical therapy, occupational therapy, physician assistant programs, pharmacy, and more. The biology program had a record application year with over 50 applications to schools throughout the country, according to Jacquie VanHoomissen, biology. The application cycle opened on June 1 and files are continually being updated and processed through the science office in Swindells Hall. If you or your students have questions about careers in medicine or other health professions, please contact the new health professions advisor, Kyle Flann, at healthprofesions@up.edu.