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News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.

01-24-2022

Why Theology Needs Ted Lasso (Feb. 16)

Join us for a Beckman Humor Project event with Karen Eifler of UP’s Garaventa Center as Eifler pokes around the smash hit Ted Lasso and illuminates themes of grace and transcendence the show’s writers may not have anticipated. Or did they? Wednesday, February 16, at 5:30 p.m. in Franz Hall 120 or join the livestream here: uportland.zoom.us/j/92402865150. Free and open to all. Masks required. For ADA accommodations or more info: up.edu/garaventa or 503-943-7702. Hosted by the Beckman Human Project and the Garaventa Center.

We Want Your Ideas for UP’s Center for Teaching and Learning

UP is in the process of forming a campus Center for Teaching and Learning. 

Faculty and interested staff are invited to review the five-page proposal draft its task force generated last fall, and provide ideas and input to give the Center’s conception further shape.

You can do this via a quick survey and/or one of three online listening sessions, which take place Thursday, February 3 from 4:00 – 5:00p.m.; Wednesday, February 9 from 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.; and Monday February 14 from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. at this Zoom address. For questions contact CTL Task Force chair Lars Larson larson@up.edu

Digital Lab: Spring Workshops

Want to develop your multimedia skills in the new year? Try one of the Clark Library’s introductory workshops for Canva, Graphic Design, Illustrator, Photoshop, iMovie, Podcasting, or Tinkercad. Workshops start this week and run through February 4. They are free and open to current students, faculty, and staff. Visit the Digital Lab’s site to see the detailed schedule and to register online.

Call for Spring 2022 Butine Grant Applications (Due Feb. 18)

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) invites all full-time faculty, lecturers, and instructors to submit proposals for the Spring 2022 Arthur Butine Faculty Development Fund. Projects and Conference applications are limited to $2000 in the spring funding cycle. Please use the most current application forms which are now available for download from the Butine Moodle site. Also, a reminder that applicants must discuss their Butine proposals with their respective deans (and chairs for CAS applicants) before applying. Deadline to TAS and to Chair/Deans, Friday, February 18. Contact TAS chair Jen Lovejoy, tas@up.edu, with questions.

FILDG This Friday!

Celebrate the return to 3-D life at UP by joining in a discussion of Jonathan Haidt’s blog entry “Why Universities Must Choose One Telos: Truth or Social Justice,” Christian Alejandro Gonzalez’s response, “On Truth and Ideology in Academia,” and Howard Nemerov’s poem “To David, About His Education” this Friday afternoon, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. in the Murphy Room of Franz Hall. Refreshments will be served and all staff and faculty are welcome. Readings are available on the Garaventa Center website here. Questions? Contact Karen Eifler, eifler@up.edu.

UP HCC Counseling Services

The UP Health & Counseling Center has created a new video offering an overview of counseling services and instructions on how to find a mental health provider in the community. View the video here.

POSTPONED: Book Launch with Andrew Guest—Soccer in Mind (Apr. 7)

Join us for the launch of Soccer in Mind—rescheduled for April 7. In his book, Soccer in Mind, Andrew Guest, psychological sciences, uses social sciences to explore how soccer intersects with culture, society, and the self. Readers will gain new ways of understanding fanaticism, identity, peak performance, globalization, talent development, and more. Free and open to all. Masks required. For ADA accommodations or more info: up.edu/garaventa or 503-943-7702. Hosted by the Garaventa Center.