News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
All University of Portland employees are invited to send their kids to this summer’s Portland Pilots Basketball Day Camps and enjoy a special discount. Day camps run June 19-23, June 26-30, and August 7-11. While the normal fee is $350, UP employees can pay only $297.50 if they register online and enter the code “GOPILOTS.”
For more information contact Whitney Robison, athletics, at x7145 or robison@up.edu.
All faculty and staff and their families are invited to Anchors Away on Thursday, May 4, on the bluff behind Bauccio Commons, from 4:30 to 7:30 pm. Please join the Campus Program Board and the entire UP community as we gather together to celebrate the conclusion of the 2016-17 academic year with a barbecue, beer garden, live music, and lots of other fun activities. Please bring your families—there will be activities for kids. Ticket information will be available soon. If you have questions or ADA accommodation requests, please email Tyler Zimmerman at zimmerma@up.edu.
A representative from TIAA, which administers the University’s retirement accounts, will be on campus on April 11-13, according to Laura Barnard, human resources. Financial counseling appointments are available during work hours on those days in Oricco Hall, but appointments must be scheduled at www.tiaa-cref.org/schedulenow or by calling call TIAA at 877.842.2028 (press 5 to schedule an appointment).
For more information contact Barnard at barnardl@up.edu.
The next Theology Thursday lecture will feature Simon Aihiokhai, theology, as he presents “New Perspectives for Interfaith Dialogue in the 21st Century” on Thursday, April 6, at 7:15 p.m., in Franz Hall 120. The event is free and open to all.
Arguing for the place of religious truths in the era of globalization, this talk explores how African indigenous religions appropriate a pragmatic approach discerning the relevance of religious truths that inspire the flourishing of communal life.
Aihiokhai is a Nigerian-American theologian, currently a visiting assistant professor of systematic theology at the University of Portland. His research and publication engage religion and identity in Islam, Christianity, and African religions. His articles have appeared in Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Black Catholic Theological Symposium Journal, International Journal of African Catholicism, and in several edited books. Aihiokhai continues to be an active interlocutor in the ongoing Christian-Muslim dialogue in Nigeria and the Roman Catholic/African religions dialogue. He worked as a missionary among many cultures in Nigeria for ten years and continues to reflect on the rich experience he gained from his encounters with people of the Muslim and African religious faiths.
For ADA accommodations or event information contact Deborah MacKinnon, theology, at mackinno@up.edu or x7274.
Green Dot is hosting its next Bystander Intervention Training for students on Saturday, April 1, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Organizers are still collecting nominations for student leaders to attend the training and learn how to help decrease violence in the UP community. The nomination form takes about 30 seconds to fill out and there is an option to remain anonymous.
For more information, please contact greendot@up.edu.
Summer and fall book orders are due by Friday, March 31st, according to Eric Cave, bookstore. Orders can be placed via the web at www.uportland.bncollege.com and select “Faculty Resources.” They can also be emailed to cave@up.edu. To make the process even easier, just say “Same as Last Year!” Orders can also be phoned in at x7125. Questions? Please contact Cave at x7125.
SOPHIA is pleased to invite all faculty with any interest in pursuing administrative, short-term, or long-term Fulbright fellowships to an open house information session on Monday, April 10, 3:15-4:15 p.m., in the Murphy Room of Franz Hall. Representatives from Fulbright, administered by CIES, will be on hand to share a brief slideshow about the range of opportunities for research and teaching, and to answer individuals’ specific questions. This will be an informal session, so if you are only able to attend for part of the hour, please do so. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information, please contact Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, at eifler@up.edu.
The marketing and communications office is always looking for stories about the marvelously talented and dedicated students and alumni who make up our community. Faculty, staff, students, alumni, parents–anyone who wants to share information about what our students do to make the world a better place can now submit their stories to the marketing office at this link. The marketing office can then share information with colleagues in University relations and feature students in brochures, publications, and local and national media.
For more information contact marketing and communications at x7202 or mktg@up.edu.
The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be on Friday, March 31, 3:30-5 p.m., in the Murphy Room. The group will be reading three short articles: Andrew Reiner, “Teaching Men to Be Emotionally Honest;” Sarah Brown and Katherine Mangan, “What ‘Safe Spaces’ Really Look Like on College Campuses;” and Christine Emba, “Why Not Being ‘A Racist’ Isn’t Enough.” Links to the readings can be found on the Garaventa Center website. All faculty and staff are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
Faculty members are encouraged to send the names of academically and experientially exceptional, ambitious rising seniors who would benefit from attending graduate school at Cambridge, Oxford, or one of the other premier UK institutions, to the Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement, according to John Orr, assistant to the provost.
Students applying for these awards must have a University endorsement and formally express their intent to apply by early April. Students will be contacted and given assistance in starting the application process, will participate in campus interviews in late April, and will continue to receive support over the summer so their files can be finalized at the start of the fall semester.
For more information or to pass along names, send an e-mail to scholars@up.edu or call 7857.
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