News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
Join us for our final Brown Bag education session of the year, which will focus on updated policies and progress of the Staff Employee Handbook.
Tuesday, November 19 from 12-1 p.m. | Franz Hall 120
Please register at the link below:
The Mission Committee, the Office of the Provost, and Human Resources invite all faculty and staff to attend a day-long spiritual retreat on Friday, November 8, 2024. The retreat will be held on campus from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. and will highlight themes of Catholic Social Teaching. Retreat leaders are Dr. Jordan Skornik, Executive Director of the Borland Free Clinic & Adjunct Faculty in Theology and Fr. Peter Walsh, CSC, Co-Director of the Garaventa Center.
The goal of the retreat is to provide a time for individual and communal spiritual reflection and renewal, to deepen faculty and staff connections to one another and to the University’s Catholic, Holy Cross mission and identity, and to invite staff and faculty to reflect on and embrace their vital contributions to our shared mission.
For more information and the retreat schedule, visit the link below.
Please note that participation in the day-retreat will be considered a regular workday for staff, per supervisory approval.
To sign up for the retreat, please send an RSVP to Shannon Mayer, Co-Director of the Garaventa Center, at mayers@up.edu. You can also contact Shannon with any questions about schedule, participation, accommodations, etc.
As a reminder from the Fall 2024 Human Resources Newsletter ALL employees (part-time or full-time, staff or faculty) must complete the 3 annual training courses listed below (found in Moodle, accessed through PilotsUP).
As an incentive to kick off the yearly training campaign, employees who complete all three annual trainings by the deadline October 18, 2024, will be entered into a raffle to win one of ten $50 Amazon gift cards. Employees not actively working this Fall semester or who are taking an approved leave of absence are not eligible for the raffle and should complete trainings when they return to work. Employees do NOT need to email when the trainings are completed but are strongly encouraged to keep their own records of training completion dates. Gift card winners will be notified via UP email.
The Wellness Education & Prevention team has created a new online form for UP staff, faculty, and students to request Wellness training. Available trainings:
This form will be open year-round for submissions. Follow the link to request to schedule a future training for yourself, your classroom, team, office, or student group!
For more information or questions, please contact the Wellness Center at wellness@up.edu.
The UP Care Team created a “Getting the Right Help for Students” guide of different ways to support our community based on the type of concern. This is an excellent resource for faculty, staff, and parents. It can be accessed on the Moodle page by clicking on Mental Health Resources, and also available on the Care Team website. If you have any questions, contact x7709.
Now is the time to submit requests for Tuition Remission for qualified employees or dependents for the Spring 2022 semester.
This is a benefit that employees need to apply for each semester in which courses will be taken. To complete the request for Tuition Remission visit the Tuition Remission page in PilotsUP and click on the link at the bottom of the page.
If you have questions about remission, or the application, please contact benefits@up.edu.
Due to COVID budget restrictions, the University suspended its’ Home Loan Benefit Program. We are happy to report the benefit will resume with some changes on July 1, 2021. The two most significant changes to the Home Loan Benefit Program are an increase in the home purchase price to $500,000 and increases in the loan amounts based upon the zone in which the purchased home is located. For complete information on the benefit please see the Employee Home Loan Benefit Program plan document on the HR benefits page in Pilots UP. For employees that have purchased a home in any of the three designated zones during the suspension period, please reach out to benefits@up.edu to see if your home purchase qualifies for the loan program. Homes eligible for home loans must be located in sections I, II, or III on the Employee Home Loan Map.
Employees are reminded that Fall 2021 tuition remission requests are due June 21. If you have not already done so, please submit remission requests by completing and submitting the Tuition Remission Application found on the HR webpages in Pilots. A tuition remission summary is also available on the HR website at this link.
All members of the UP community are invited to join the Title IX Advisory Committee and attend our meetings on Mondays at 11 a.m. this spring. Title IX Advisory Committee Meetings for Spring will take place at the following times on Zoom (https://uportland.zoom.us/j/97562343235). Our remaining meeting takes place on Monday, April 26, at 11 a.m.
If you aren’t able to make the Monday morning meetings you can stay in the loop about meeting discussion topics by checking out the meeting minutes available on the Title IX website, https://www.up.edu/titleix/titleixupdates.html.
Regardless of your ability to attend the Monday morning meetings, you’re invited to join a subcommittee to work toward positive change. Subcommittees focus on a particular need identified for our community and work towards their goals and meet outside of the main Title IX Advisory Committee meeting.
Please email titleix@up.edu if you are interested in joining a subcommittee. Contact Sarah Meiser, human resources, at 8484 or meiser@up.edu for more information.
University of Portland is happy to announce some unique opportunities for Flexible Spending Accounts benefits this year per the Consolidated Appropriations Act which allows temporary changes to Section 125 cafeteria plans due to the COVID-19 pandemic:
If you have any questions please reach out to the HR benefits team at benefits@up.edu.