What are the “Public Humanities”? How have UP faculty and students participated in Public Humanities work? And how might the Public Humanities enable or inspire your own thinking, learning, and teaching—and be mutually enriching for you and for the public? The organizers of the Public Research Fellows program invite you to join a discussion of these questions and more on Thursday, April 8 from 4-5:15 p.m. at this […]
03-29-2021
New Director for Office of Alumni and Parent Relations: Gina Amato Yazzolino
Gina Amato Yazzolino ’96 has been named director of alumni and parent relations effective April 12. Yazzolino succeeds Craig Swinyard, Ph.D. ’98, who stepped away from the position last December to resume teaching as an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics. “Our University of Portland community will benefit from Gina’s strong non-profit experience and […]
Reminder: Proctorio Available for Campus Wide Use
As we approach finals, the ATSI team would like to remind you that Proctorio, an online proctoring solution, is available for use with exams given via Moodle. This solution will allow you to flag certain behaviors for observation by the plugin, which will submit reports to you following your exam to review any questionable activity which it observes based […]
Visio Divina With The Saint John’s Bible: The Crucifixion
As the Church enters its Holy Week, you’re invited to take some time—about 15 minutes—wherever you are, to enter imaginatively into the illumination of The Crucifixion from The Saint John’s Bible and hear the story of Jesus’s path to the death that would set the world free. This is Visio Divina—sacred seeing—an ancient form of contemplative prayer that requires […]
Clark Library: UP Student Newspapers Digital Archive
The Clark Library is pleased to announce the launch of an online UP Student Newspapers Collection. In October 2019, the library received an Oregon Heritage Grant to digitize and preserve UP’s student newspapers: The Columbiad and The Beacon. It took a year and a half to digitize the print newspapers which are housed in the University Archives. Now, eleven decades (1902-2016) consisting of […]
So You Want an Internship? Workshop, March 30
Do you know students who are looking for an internship? This workshop will help them create an Internship Search Action Plan, and orient them to the resources that will help them along the process! If your students are thinking about gaining professional experience over the summer, but don’t know where to start or feel stuck: […]
New Men’s Basketball Coach: Shantay Legans
The University of Portland has hired Shantay Legans as men’s basketball head coach, Vice President for Athletics Scott Leykam announced last Monday. Legans comes to The Bluff after 12 years at Eastern Washington University where he helped lead the Eagles to five of its seven all-time postseason appearances. In his four years as head coach […]
Apply For Sabbaticals by June 15
Applications for sabbaticals for the 2022-2023 academic year are due along with faculty development plans to faculty members’ respective deans by June 15, 2021. All materials including letter from the Dean to the Provost are due to the Provost by September 1, 2021. Faculty eligible to apply for a sabbatical must have completed seven years […]
Easter Sunday Mass on the Quad, April 4
Join us for our Easter Sunday Mass happening outside on the main academic quad. We are limited in the number of people who can gather safely in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher for liturgy in person, yet larger religious gatherings outdoors are permissible and attend to the safety of all present. In an effort […]
Title IX Advisory Meeting, March 29
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 meetings are on: Monday, March 29 at 11 a.m. Monday, […]