News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
If you identify as Latinx (Latino/Latina/Latine/Chicano/a/Hispanic, etc.) and you work for the University in any capacity (adjunct, faculty, staff, Bon App, Physical Plant, administration, etc.) and would like to join our informal Latinx Employee Group, please email your name (first and last), pronouns, job title, department, to Yuri Hernández Osorio at hernandy@up.edu.
VoiceThread’s new assignments experience launched for everyone on June 30. Visit ATSI’s TechTalk site to learn more about the changes and access training materials.
All faculty, staff and students must register online for a 2021/2022 parking permit if they plan to park a vehicle on campus during the academic year. Please navigate here and register your vehicle for the upcoming school year as soon as you are able. To streamline the process, registrations will only be accepted via this form, we no longer accept registrations over the counter at our office. Employee permits will be distributed via interoffice courier. Student permits will be distributed to the location they choose on the form. Freshmen are not allowed to park on campus without being granted an exception in cases of extreme hardship. Please contact Campus Safety if there are any questions, campussafety@up.edu 503.943.7161.
Summer parking – Our office is now asking students who are parking on campus during this summer 2021 to register their vehicles online. This is in case we need to contact you, if lights are on or if the vehicle is damaged while parked. There is no cost for the permit and the link can be found here by clicking on Vehicle Registration Application for Students – Summer Session. All vehicles parked on campus must display a current parking permit at all times. Once an application is submitted, a parking permit will be prepared and available for pick up at our office, Haggerty Hall Suite 100, within 72 hours.
Jennie Cambier has been hired as the Associate Vice President for Land Use and Planning. She previously served as a Project Manager at Hacker Architects in Portland.
The AVP for Land Use and Planning provides leadership in two primary areas. The first area involves developing, overseeing, and coordinating University land use and development along with integrated planning and resource conservation, with the purpose of achieving the University’s land use and development objectives in conformance with design standards, objectives, and local, state, and federal regulations. The second area is leading and overseeing the relationship between the University and local neighborhood associations and external regulatory or concerned agencies and their representatives.
Welcome to The Bluff, Jennie!
We invite you to catch up on library activities in the past year by visiting the Clark Library’s 2020 – 2021 Annual Report. Find out how we adjusted library services to meet our community’s needs during the pandemic, get updates on digitization projects and treasures in Special Collections, and learn about our ongoing work to further equity, diversity, and inclusion in library practices and services.
For more information contact Xan Arch, dean, at arch@up.edu.
The University remembers University Librarian Emeritus Richard (Rich) Hines for his years of service to the University community as University Librarian and Dean of Information Resources from 1997-2006. Our memorial post from the University Archives and Museum about Dean Hines’ work at the University is found at this link.
For more information, contact Carolyn Connolly, museum coordinator, at piatz@up.edu
After an international search, the University of Portland has named Maraina Montgomery, Director of Studies Abroad, effective July 1. Montgomery joins UP from Washington D.C. where she was Assistant Director of Study Abroad in the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center at Howard University. Her work at Howard University was instrumental in internationalizing one of the premier HBCU’s in the United States. Her writing has been included in numerous venues including the PIE News and International Educator Magazine. Furthermore, she has served on multiple academic advisory committees for national study abroad providers and professional organizations.
Maraina has a B.A. in Spanish Studies and Anthropology from Howard University and a Master’s in Education (Higher Education and Student Affairs) from Rutgers University. She has worked abroad in Japan, South Korea, & Ghana, and she studied abroad in Spain, Belize and the Dominican Republic.
Welcome to The Bluff, Maraina!
Whether you are faculty, Chair, or Dean, plan to sharpen your grant planning and writing skills by reading the latest UP GrantsGetter blog post which reviews a few grant-seeking events you can register to attend this summer.
For more information, contact Ösel Plante, development, at plante@up.edu.
Explore, build and create this summer at Saturday Academy’s camps and classes for students in grades 2-12! In-person day camps will run weekly from June 28 through August 6 at Open School East in SE Portland near Gresham, and online classes are offered weekly throughout the summer. Check out the website catalog for details. University of Portland Faculty and Staff receive a 20% rebate using the code UP20!
Tuition assistance is available for all classes and camps on a sliding scale based on annual household income and family size. There is no separate application. When you register for a class, use the online calculator to automatically reduce tuition from 10% up to 85%. If you need further tuition assistance, please reach out directly to Eric Polgar, director of operations, at eric@saturdayacademy.org Please note, tuition assistance cannot be used at the same time as a discount code.
Students at all in-person classes will be required to wear masks, stay in their cohort for the day and respect physical distance guidelines. Learn more about Saturday Academy’s COVID safety protocols.
A few upcoming summer classes & camps:
Visit the Saturday Academy website catalog for a full list, or contact them at 503.200.5858, info@saturdayacademy.org.
Elect Her, the program that trains college womxn to run for student government and future office, will come to the University of Portland for the first time during the Fall 2021 semester.
Running Start, a nonpartisan nonprofit, will run its one-day training, Elect Her. Womxn make up 50% of the population, but less than 1 in 4 elected leaders are womxn. When womxn run, they win at the same rates as men – the problem is that not enough womxn run. Research shows that engaging womxn early is key to increasing the number of womxn in public office.
Since 2009, 400+ Elect Her trainings have been held with 162 partners in 43 states & 9 countries for 15,000+ young women. Watch this testimonial from alum Meghan Pearce on CBS News, from the 2018 Women Leaders Global Forum in Reykjavik, Iceland.
If you would like to join the planning committee to shape this one day training at UP, please email Lyndsy Manz, student activities, at manz@up.edu.