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01-18-2016

TLC From The TLC: Mental Health Services for Students

As faculty and students return for the winter months of our “Spring” semester, the Teaching and Learning Collaborative hopes some might find it useful to get a primer (or, more optimistically, a reminder) about mental health services for students on campus. See the TLC blog for an overview of the who, what, where, when, and why of what faculty and academic staff might find relevant about counseling services for students at the UP Health and Counseling Center. Contact Andrew Guest for more information at guesta@up.edu.

 

Tickets Still Available For David Brooks Lecture, March 16

brooks copyDiscounted tickets are still available to faculty and staff for the March 16 lecture by New York Times columnist David Brooks. Faculty and staff can purchase two tickets at half price — the cost per ticket is $10 through the Chiles Center Box Office only (x7525). Additional tickets are available at the full rate of $20 or $25 per ticket, depending on the section. A total of 650 free tickets are also available for UP students.

Brooks hosts National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, is a frequent contributor on Meet the Press, and is author of The Road to Character. His lecture, which is open to the public, will be sponsored by UP’s Dundon-Berchtold Institute for Moral Formation and Applied Ethics, Providence Health and Services, AAA Oregon/Idaho, and Nossa Familia Coffee.

Brooks has a gift for bringing audiences face to face with the spirit of our times with humor, insight, and quiet passion. His current book, The Road to Character, explores the road to a deeper inner life and explains why selflessness leads to greater success. His previous books include The Social Animal, On Paradise Drive, and Bobos in Paradise.

UP established the Dundon-Berchtold Institute for Moral Formation and Applied Ethics in 2012. The Institute is designed to ensure that the University meets its aspirations both to form the moral character of its students and to encourage sustained ethical reflection in business, science, engineering, education, health care, and the arts.

Shamrock Run Time: Support Doernbecher’s!

shamrock2 copyAll faculty and staff members are invited to show their UP pride and help support Doernbecher Children’s Hospital by joining the University’s Shamrock Run team. The race is on Sunday, March 13, 2016, at Waterfront Park in downtown Portland. Last year the UP race team was the 14th largest in the event, with 108 runners and walkers. The team also raised $540 for programs within the UP community.

This year’s goal is to make the UP Shamrock Run team 250 people strong. As an added bonus, if at least 75 people join the team, the Shamrock Run will donate $5 per person back to support UP programs. Students, employees, alumni, Holy Cross and friends of the UP community are all welcome to join. Sign up soon; registration closes Sunday, January 31.

To join the UP team, register online at this link (choose the “team” option; the UP code is 1070). Team members receive a $4 registration discount. Packet pick-up (race t-shirts, pins, and bibs) will be at the Beauchamp Recreation and Wellness Center the week before the race.

For more information, contact Liz Winters, recreational services, at evanse@up.edu.

Retirement Party for John Furey, Jan. 27

furey the legendA collective gasp spread through the campus at the news of John Furey, marketing and communications, retiring at the end of this month. Furey, “the man, the myth, the legend,” has seen the University grow and change over his 19 years on The Bluff. Renowned around campus and beyond as “Everyone’s best friend,” Furey has long been an essential part of the marketing and communications team. His boisterous laugh, his endless amount of yarns and tall tales, and his unwavering love of both the Pilots and the Beavers will be missed.

Marketing and communications will host a Farewell Furey party in the Terrace Room on Wednesday, January 27, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. All are welcome to come and wish Furey the very best as he begins this next phase of his epic journey of life.

For more information, contact marketing and communications at 7202 or mktg@up.edu.

Blessed Basil Moreau Feast Day, Spirit of Holy Cross Award, Jan. 20

eiflerAll University of Portland community members are invited to celebrate the feast day of Blessed Basil Moreau, C.S.C., founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross, on Wednesday, January 20, at 5 p.m., in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher. Karen Eifler, co-director of the Garaventa Center, will be honored as a recipient of the 2015 Spirit of Holy Cross Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Congregation upon its lay collaborators.

The award is given annually to lay collaborators of the Congregation of Holy Cross, United States Province of Priests and Brothers, and recognizes lay collaborators who devotedly work to make Blessed Basil Moreau’s vision and mission to “make God known, loved, and served” a reality at the Congregation’s education, parish and mission apostolates. Honorees receive a proclamation of gratitude signed by Provincial Superior Fr. Tom O’Hara on behalf of the entire U.S. Province.

For more information, contact Campus Ministry at 7131 or ministry@up.edu.

Amber Vermeesch Selected For National Faculty Policy Intensive Program

amber vermeesch copyNursing professor Amber Vermeesch has been selected as one of eight participants from around the nation for the 2016 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Faculty Policy Intensive program, to be held March 21-24, in Washington, D.C. She will also be recognized as an AACN Faculty Policy Fellow.

The FPI program is designed for faculty of AACN member schools who are interested in pursuing a role in healthcare policy. Participants can enhance their knowledge of policy and advocacy through sessions that focus on the legislative process and the dynamic relationships between federal departments, agencies, collaborative partnerships, and individual advocates.

Vermeesch joined the UP nursing faculty in August 2014. She earned her Ph.D. in nursing science at the University of Miami, Coral Gables in 2011 and her MSN from Vanderbilt University, Nashville in 2006. She received a 2015-2016 Dundon-Berchtold Institute Fellowship for “Investigating Current Issues Prohibiting Doctor of Nursing Practice Graduate Students from Voicing Their Values During Ethical Dilemmas in the Clinical Environment.”

For more information contact the School of Nursing at 503.943.7211 or nursing@up.edu.

Buster Keaton’s “The General” With Live Soundtrack, Jan. 23

buster keatonThe performing and fine arts department will present a screening of Buster Keaton’s classic silent film, “The General,” accompanied by a live soundtrack by the University Orchestra, on Saturday, January 23, in Buckley Center Auditorium. The soundtrack was written by student composer Dana Coppernoll-Houston. A pre-concert talk on film music will be presented by Edmund Stone, host of the nationally-syndicated film music radio show, “The Score,” at 6 p.m., followed by the screening and concert at 7 p.m.

This event is co-sponsored by the dean’s office of the College of Arts and Sciences and the McNerney-Hanson Endowed Chair in Ethics as an “Ethics and the Arts” initiative.

Admission is free, but tickets are required. Please call the PFA office at 7228 for tickets.

Pacific Northwest Book Award Winner The Estimable Brian Doyle Reading, Jan. 19

University of Portland - new faculty & staff photosBrian Doyle, award-winning essayist, novelist and editor of Portland magazine, will read from several of his new books at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, January 19, in the Pilot House bookstore. Doyle is the author of many books of essays, poems, and fiction, among them the sprawling Oregon novel Mink River and the sea novel The Plover. Doyle’s most recently published books include So Very Much the Best of Us (essays), How the Light Gets In (poems), Reading in Bed (essays), Martin Marten (novel), and A Book of Uncommon Prayer (prayers). The reading is sponsored by the Garaventa Center.

For more information or ADA accommodations, contact the Garaventa Center at 7702 or garaventa@up.edu.

Campus Community Emergency Response Team Training

emergencyThe public safety office is offering its Campus Community Emergency Response Team (CCERT) training to faculty, staff, and students starting Wednesday, January 20. The 8-week course teaches basic emergency response and preparedness steps to make yourself, your family, and your neighborhood a safer place after a disaster. Volunteers are trained by the University’s CCERT trainers and Portland Fire and Rescue to provide emergency disaster assistance on campus and in the immediate surrounding neighborhood. Public Safety offers CCERT classes at no cost to people who live or work at the University of Portland. UP CCERT program participants attend a total of 24 hours of hands-on training.

Register online at this link. Classes take place on Wednesday evenings 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Chiles Center Hall of Fame Room.

For more information contact Jeff Rook at 7161 or rook@up.edu.

Strategic Plan Survey: Your Ideas, Please

WaldschmidtHall150Vision 2020, a new strategic plan, will propel the University of Portland toward being its best: a dynamic, mission-centered, comprehensive Catholic university with a liberal arts focus known for its academic strength and preparation of world citizens through teaching and learning, faith and formation, and service and leadership. University president Rev. Mark. L. Poorman, C.S.C., has charged a committee with gathering the best and most strategic ideas to continue UP’s trajectory toward excellence, and that is where all University community members can help. He has asked for ideas to:

  • Sustain superb undergraduate education while advancing relevant new programming;
  • Expand rigorous, meaningful, self-sustaining graduate programs; *develop first-rate infrastructure, services, and facilities;
  • Infuse our entire community with a sense of multi-cultural opportunities and instruction;
  • Enhance our Catholic character and to enrich the expression of our faith.

Please assist the committee by responding to this survey with your thoughts. The survey will be open through January 31.

For more information contact Tom Greene, provost, at 7105 or staten@up.edu.