Librarians and the digital lab coordinator are available to meet with your classes online, or through asynchronous videos, to cover information literacy and multimedia topics. Now is a great time to schedule us for Summer semester. Please send instruction requests to reference@up.edu (information literacy) or velazco@up.edu (multimedia).
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Summer 2021: Scheduling Library Instruction
Librarians and the Digital Lab Coordinator are available to meet with your classes online, or through asynchronous videos, to cover information literacy and multimedia topics. Now is a great time to schedule us for Summer semester. Please send instruction requests to reference@up.edu (information literacy) or velazco@up.edu (multimedia).
2021 Public Research Fellows Showcase, April 29
The Public Research Fellows will host a showcase of the program’s 20-21 work, and all members of the UP community and the general public are invited to attend. The interactive showcase will happen at this Zoom link on Thursday, April 29 at 7 p.m. Student and faculty fellows will unveil their projects and be on hand to guide attendees through a variety of lenses for thinking about our theme, Displacement and Justice. From a podcast that explores displacement through the experience of first-generation students, to an interactive map that uses Portland African American literature to tell local stories of displacement, to a virtual performance that thinks through displacement with music—the PRF teams have created a range of exciting projects that use innovative, accessible forms to expand our ideas of what research can look like. Join us for this interactive event to get inspired about the possibilities in your own work and learn more about how displacement manifests in local contexts and beyond.
For more information, please go to the Public Research Fellows site.
2021 Retiring Faculty: Thank You for Decades of Service!
The following long-serving faculty members have announced their retirement at the conclusion of the spring 2021 semester, according to Kathleen Staten, provost’s office:
- Ellyn Arwood, Professor of Education
- Ronda Bard, Lecturer of Chemistry
- Elena Bernard, Associate Professor of Business
- Barbara Braband, Associate Professor of Nursing
- Todd Easton, Associate Professor of Business
- Gary Malecha, Interim Dean of Business, Professor of Political Science
- Dann Pierce, Associate Professor of Communication Studies
- Peter Osterberg, Associate Professor of Engineering
This year’s retirees will be formally celebrated in the online Faculty Gala Ceremony to take place the afternoon of Tuesday, May 11. A Zoom link and more information will be coming soon from the Provost’s Office.
For further information contact Staten, staten@up.edu.
Welcome Ryan Ingersoll, New Director of ATSI
Information services is pleased to welcome Ryan Ingersoll as director of academic technology and innovation. In this position he will oversee development of classroom and on-line academic technology, with an eye on innovation and digital literacy among our faculty. In addition, post COVID he will have the opportunity to re-imagine the student-run On The Bluff Studio.
Ryan comes to us from George Fox University where he led several Ed Tech projects. He holds a master in education from Seattle Pacific in digital education leadership. Please join the information services team in congratulating and welcoming Ryan to our community.
Please Load Scholarly Activity On The Portal
Faculty members are reminded to load their scholarly activity on the portal in PilotsUP by May 31, 2021. Data obtained through the portal will be used to populate A Community of Scholars, published by the provost’s office. Faculty members use their school’s report on the home tab of the Scholarly Activity Portal to send the data to their respective deans as a part of annual self-evaluation.
You can find the link to the Scholarly Activity Portal in the Academic menu of PilotsUP or you can go directly to this link.
For any questions about uses of the portal, please contact John Orr (orr@up.edu); for questions about how to use the tool, please contact Michele Leasor (leasor@up.edu).
Four Top Spots in Mark of Excellence Competition: “Beacon” Shines Again
The Beacon has won four First Place awards in the 2021 regional Mark of Excellence competition sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). The contest involved college media outlets from five states: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. The following now advance to the national SPJ Mark of Excellence competition.
- FIRST PLACE Breaking News Reporting* – Gabi DiPaulo for “Administrator goes public with concerns about racism and sexism within UP administration”
- FIRST PLACE Data Visualization- Austin De Dios for his portfolio of interactive data visualizations including this story on COVID-19 furloughs and salary cuts.
- FIRST PLACE Podcast- Molly Lowney, Jennifer Ng for “What on Earth: Food for Thought” (episode 5)
- FIRST PLACE Feature Writing*- Mia Werner “Chasing Ice with the U.S. Coast Guard”
Find about about all awards at this link.
Amazing Tech is Everywhere – Let’s Keep IT Secure! April 29 via Zoom
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For more information contact Lillia Grundy, Pamplin School, at grundy@up.edu.
TLC From The TLC: Future Teaching, Super Courses, and Core Exploration
For this week’s Teaching & Learning tip, Andrew Guest, psychology and core director, offers possible prompts for summer teaching dreams – with a specific invitation to start imagining courses for the new Exploration Level of the University Core.
With the end in sight of this most challenging and odd academic year, it can be fun to start thinking about a near future of (maybe) having just a bit of time to read, dream, and do the kind of imagining that makes good teachers life-long learners. I’m particularly excited to dive further into a new book on Super Courses: The Future of Teaching and Learning – thinking more about how we at UP can merge the current impetus for evolving our curriculum with best practices in creating great courses.
Dreaming of ‘super courses’ may also be worth some time for us at UP because of core revitalization opportunities to re-develop and create courses for the new Exploration Level – a set of course offerings to be phased in starting Fall of 2022 that aspires to interdisciplinarity, addressing timely issues, and broadening opportunities for students to learn and faculty to teach. For a brief overview of and invitation to Exploration Level opportunities and possibilities, see a new Teaching and Learning Community blog post on “The Once and Future Core Course: Imagining (and Designing) the Exploration Level.”
Finally, as one additional suggestion for the fast approaching summer possibility of having actual time to read, Heather McGhee’s recent book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together is excellent. While not specifically about teaching or higher education, it offers a robust and deeply evidenced take on what she calls the “solidarity dividend” – ways of working toward a better future by attending more carefully to the interests we almost all share (appropriate, perhaps, to the idea of the Core as UP’s shared academic experience).
Reminder: Please Complete “Cyber Security Core 2020” Course
Information services provides online cybersecurity awareness training for all current staff and faculty. Faculty and staff who completed the training last year do not need to complete the training again. Check your completion status in Moodle under the “Badges” menu and look for the issuance of the “Cyber Security Training 2020” badge.
In this course you will be introduced to the social engineering methods that attackers use to fool you into providing unauthorized access. By taking a few simple steps and avoiding certain actions you can help prevent cyber-attacks and data theft. In addition, users are provided instructions on multi-factor authentication registration.
The course, “Cyber Security Core 2020”, is accessible from the ‘Course Overview’ in Moodle (https://learning.up.edu). Current staff and faculty have been auto enrolled. Users will need to sort the overview to either “All” or “In Progress” in order to locate the course.
We also invite users to view a brief presentation that seeks to answer the question ‘Why is annual cybersecurity training required?’ The answers may surprise you!
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this training, please contact the Technology Help Desk (x7000, help@up.edu).