News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
Information Services will be retiring the LearningArchive Moodle site on June 30, 2022. The LearningArchive houses Moodle course pages from Fall of 2011 through Summer of 2015. If you have course materials on this site that you haven’t already saved, please download copies of any items you wish to keep. To visit the LearningArchive Moodle site please go to learningarchive.up.edu and log in using your UP network username and password.
Please contact atsi@up.edu with any questions.
The Congregation of Holy Cross has announced a change in assignment for Brother Thomas Giumenta, C.S.C., who has served UP for 12 years as learning assistance counselor, pastoral resident in Shipstad Hall and Chaplain to the men’s soccer program. Brother Thomas has been assigned to serve as assistant director of novices at Holy Cross Novitiate in Cascade, Colorado. The Holy Cross Novitiate is the spiritual training program which young men participate in as they discern their vocation to become Holy Cross Brothers and Priests. Brother Thomas’ duties will include providing a range of academic formation topics and activities which will support young men in their journey in Holy Cross. The Provincial Superior has requested that Brother Thomas begin his new work on February 3, 2022. Brother Thomas will continue to serve as the professor of record for ED 102 – The University Success Class, until the end of the spring semester, teaching the class remotely. Campus Ministry will say a special blessing for Brother Thomas on Sunday, January 30 during the 10:30 a.m. Mass at Christ the Teacher Chapel. A brief reception will follow at St. Mary’s Hall, and all are welcome to attend.
Campus Ministry is offering a time to gather in prayer for the healing of the student who was seriously injured in a fall, and for all of those affected by the incident. The prayer service will be offered in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 25.
For more information, please contact Fr. Jim Gallagher, C.S.C. (gallaghe@up.edu) or Fr. Tim Weed, C.S.C. (weed@up.edu)
Due to our virtual start to the semester, UP Theater is shifting the performance dates for The Moors. With this change, we are working around several events produced by our colleagues in music, which unfortunately means we have had to cancel our Sunday matinee.
The Moors will now be performed on:
We hope you will be able to join us at one of these performances. Tickets are available at: https://our.show/moors-up2022.
Please also know that we might need to make additional shifts, depending on how the COVID situation evolves. Thank you for your understanding and for your support of UP Theater.
With a new year comes new updates! For more information, please see ATSI’s blog post. Questions can be directed to ATSI via email.
The Presidential Advisory Committee on Information Technology is conducting research to learn more about how the UP community is experiencing teaching, learning, and technology. The survey is anonymous and no personal information will be tied to your answers (even if you choose to be considered for future focus groups). The survey is 17 questions long and should take no more than a few minutes. Thank you for sharing your honest feedback!
Faculty survey: https://uportland.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_byIjpaFFZ0G4CCa.
Student survey: https://uportland.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6Xa395KnbdW5zim.
The Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program is a great way for students to participate in “high-impact learning experiences” over the summer months. The program brings together research teams (faculty and students) from across CAS to work collaboratively on scholarly projects. In addition, the program provides weekly BrainFood events, which are community building and informational sessions for faculty and students. Students accepted into the SURE program receive a financial stipend ($450/week) and have the option for free on-campus housing for the duration of the project.
Student Applications for the SURE 2022 program are now available, for the first time, on UP’s Handshake platform. All students, not just CAS students, are eligible to apply.
Faculty from several areas of study are participating this year, including faculty from the humanities, the performing and fine arts, science, and social science. Applicant interviews will take place in February, with notifications of acceptance occurring by February 28. Projects generally start in May or June and run for 3-10 weeks.
Faculty members, please be sure to mention this opportunity to your students.
For questions, please contact Jacqueline Van Hoomissen, Director of the CAS’s SURE Program vanhoomi@up.edu
What do Chicken Nuggets™, MTV™, and smartphones have in common? A lot more than you think. Join us as UP’s Eric Anctil explains the paths humans travel as they invent and industrialize technologies to solve problems, but often create engagement gluttony in the process. Anctil fears a future in which technology is cancerous—starting with benign, healthy cells and becoming a metastasized tumor that consumes everything it touches. With a sense of humor and an unblinking examination of everyday technologies, Anctil will provoke and inspire with a series of action items designed to help us seize control of the future, work to be the processors of our own experiences, and retreat from the gluttony of constant engagement.
Tuesday, January 25 at 5:00 p.m.
Join the virtual livestream at: uportland.zoom.us/j/93735286315
Free to all. For more info: up.edu/garaventa or 503-943-7702. Co-sponsored by Beckman Humor Project and the Garaventa Center.
What did it mean to take part in the Jerusalem pilgrimage at the end of the Middle Ages? It was a journey that took place in the physical world, and also in the mind and on the page. Mary Boyle, a Leverhume Early Career Fellow and Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford, explores how four pilgrim authors navigated the collision between the multi-religious reality of fifteenth-century Jerusalem and the unchanging and idealized holy city that existed only in writing. Boyle is the author of Writing the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages (D.S. Brewer, 2021).
Join this livestream event on February 1, 3:00 p.m. PST at uportland.zoom.us/j/91256986926.
For more info: up.edu/garaventa or 503-943-7702. Hosted by the Garaventa Center.
Get up close and personal with six pilgrims walking the Camino de Santiago in the screening of this documentary on Tuesday, February 8, at 6:00 p.m. in the Brian Doyle Auditorium. Free and open to all. Masks required. For ADA accommodations or questions, contact the Garaventa Center at garaventa@up.edu or 503-943-7702.