Financial Affairs

Payroll Tax Deferment Program: UP Opting Out

September 11, 2020

The University of Portland will not be implementing the payroll tax deferment program announced three weeks ago by Presidential Memorandum, according to Eric Barger, interim VP of financial affairs. According to Barger, “The executive action gave employers the option to postpone for the remainder of the year the collection of payroll taxes such as an […]

Alan Timmins Announces Retirement: Thank You For Stellar Service

May 22, 2020

The University’s vice president for financial affairs, Alan P. Timmins, has announced his plan to retire from his position as of June 30, 2020, according to a message by University president Rev. Mark L. Poorman, C.S.C. He graduated from the University maxima cum laude with degrees in accounting and management before earning his MBA from Stanford […]

Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC, published From Glory to Glory: A Pilgrim’s Notes From the Badlands of Grace. Occasioned by the author’s walking, with siblings, the famous Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2024, the book traces all manner of other pilgrimages—to and from home, family, love, self, and God. One Subject Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. November, 2025.

Jessica Murphy Moo, editor of Portland Magazine and director of storytelling, wrote the lyrics to two songs in “We Go On, Oswego,” a song cycle honoring female refugees who lived at Camp Ontario in upstate New York. From 1944-1946, Camp Ontario provided emergency shelter to refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. “We Go On, Oswego” was performed at Nazareth College, in collaboration with Finger Lakes Opera, on December 4, 2025. It was commissioned by Katie Hannigan, PhD. The song “There Is No Underground,” was written in collaboration with composer Maria Thompson Corley, and the song “My Table,” was written in collaboration with composer Kurt Erickson.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published “A Spirituality of Desert Discipleship for Our Times. Reflections on the Readings of the Third Sunday of Advent.” VoiceAfrique.org. December 13, 2025.

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