UPbeat

News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.

04-01-2019

Columbia Sportswear Employee Store: You’re Invited!

University of Portland faculty and staff are invited to shop at the Columbia Sportswear Company Employee Store from April 5 to 28. The Columbia employee store has discounted items marked at 40-50 percent off regular retail pricing, with all of the latest product from the Columbia Sportswear family (SOREL, Mountain Hardwear, prAna, and, of course, Columbia Sportswear).

To access the store, please bring the official invitation, printed or digital versions. Also bring your UP ID or business card, paystub, signature of work email, as well as a personal ID. This invitation is valid for each employee plus four guests (you must be present for guests).

Find store location and hours here or on the invitation. To find out more contact Columbia Sportswear at portlandemployeestore@columbia.com or Hannah Pick, university relations, at pick@up.edu.

Complimentary Tickets to Reunion 2019, June 27-30

Faculty and staff are encouraged to join the hundreds of alumni who return to campus to participate in our annual Alumni Reunion Weekend, June 27-30. This year we’ll be celebrating Salzburg, Entrepreneur Scholars, and the Classes of 1969 and 1999. Enter promo code FACSTAFF at up.edu/reunion.

For more information, go to up.edu/reunion or contact the alumni office at x7328 or alumni@up.edu.

Summer Course Pack Submissions Due April 8

Summer course pack submissions are due by Monday, April 8, according to Mary Scroggins, mailing and printing services. Copyrighted materials require six weeks turnaround prior to sale date, and non-copyrighted require four weeks. Please submit all jobs to printjobs@up.edu. All course materials can be purchased in the Barnes and Noble bookstore.

For more information, please call x7200 or email scroggin@up.edu.

 

 

Have You Considered Becoming a Leadership Fellow with the Franz Center?

The Franz Center is providing free leadership education and development during the 2019-2020 academic year for faculty and staff who want to learn more about becoming a Leadership Fellow, according to Dave Houglum, Franz Center. There have been over 130 faculty and staff from across the University who have participated in the Leadership Fellows program and the Franz Center is seeking to include 30 additional faculty and staff who will begin their leadership education and development next fall.

Once faculty and staff members complete the Leadership Fellows curriculum, they are certified as Leadership Fellows and receive the opportunity to serve as leadership instructors and coaches in the Leader Certificate Program and earn a stipend of up to $2,500 for their teaching or coaching. Only exempt (salaried) employees can take part in the program at this time. Please contact Dave Houglum at houglum@up.edu if you would like to participate, want to nominate a colleague, or need more information, by Friday, May 3.

“Pippin” Pre-Play Panel & Reception, April 13

The Garaventa Center warmly invites all ticket holders to the April 13 performance of Pippin to a complimentary wine, cheese & dessert reception and panel before the show, as campus experts highlight what to look and listen for. Co-sponsored by the Garaventa Center and the Beckman Humor Project. For play tickets: x7287. For ADA accommodations or more information: x7702 or garaventa@up.edu.

Did You Know? Catholic Social Teaching

How does one live in relationship with the world today and do so in the light of the teachings of Jesus?  Catholic Social Teaching seeks to answer this question.  This teaching does not come from one particular document but is drawn from a range of sources that have been developed over the years.  From these sources seven principle themes have emerged: Life and Dignity of the Human Person; Call to Family, Community and Participation; Rights and Responsibilities; Option for the Poor and Vulnerable; The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers; Solidarity; and Care for God’s Creation.  Learn more here or watch this series of videos.

“Did You Know?” is a sort of regular feature in upbeat to help staff and faculty understand dimensions of this Catholic, Holy Cross university. You can send questions to Fr. Jim Gallagher, C.S.C. (Campus Ministry) or Karen Eifler (Garaventa Center).

2019 Butine Faculty Development Funds Awarded

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) has determined award recipients for the 2019 Butine Faculty Development Fund Spring cycle, according to committee chair Hannah Highlander, Mathematics.

Butine award recipients are:

  • Christina Astorga: Catholic Theological Society of America, Pittsburg, $2,000
  • Barbara Braband: Sigma Theta Tau, International Congress 2019 Calgary, Canada, $1,282.49
  • David DeLyser: 2019 Chorus America National Conference Philadelphia, $2,000
  • Carol Dempsey: College Theology Society National Conference Holy Cross College, South Bend, Indiana, $1,363
  • Caery Evangelist: Liber International Summer School, Trends in Manuscript Studies, Italy, $2,000
  • Alice Gates: National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education, Portland, $895
  • Eli Goldwyn: American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting University of Hawai’i, $740
  • Hannah Highlander: International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Spain, $2,000
  • Gregory Hill: Systems Mapping for Transformational Governance, $1,637
  • Samuel Holloway: Beeronomics,org, Czech Republic, $2,000
  • Sally Hood: Seventh International Conference on Immersion & Dual Language Education, Charlotte, $1,275
  • Kevin Jones: 2019 National Association for Poetry Therapy 39th Annual Conference, Baltimore, $1,935
  • Jakob Kotas: MAA MathFest, Cincinnati, $2,000
  • Bohn Lattin: Northwest Communication Association Conference Coeur’d’Alene, $730
  • Lora Looney: Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide First International Conference Center of Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies University of North Carolina, $701.14
  • Kala Mayer: Sigma Theta Tau 30th International Nursing Research Congress, Calgary, Canada, $1,450.23
  • John Orr: The Seventeenth International Conference on Books, Publishing & Libraries Granada, Spain, $2,000
  • Gregory Pulver: Corrib Theatre Irish Theatre Tour 2019, $2,000
  • Anjanette Raber: Sigma Theta Tau 30th International Nursing Research Congress, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, $1,589
  • Nicole Ralston: American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada and US Conference on Teaching Statistics
    State College, Pennsylvania, $2,000
  • Buck Taylor: National Organic Chemistry Symposium University of Indiana, Bloomington, $1,790
  • Amber Vermeesch: Third International Integrative Nursing Symposium, Galway, Ireland, $2,000
  • Blair Woodard: 2019 Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Arlington, Virginia, $1,944.35

For more information, contact Highlander at x7162 or tas@up.edu.

New Women’s Basketball Coach: Michael Meek

Michael Meek has been hired as the new head coach for the Pilots women’s basketball team. Meek comes to Portland from George Fox University where we he was head coach for nine seasons.

Meek led the Bruins to remarkable results including NCAA Division III championship game appearances in 2012 and 2015. He guided George Fox to eight NCAA Tournament appearances – including the last six seasons – six Northwest Conference (NWC) championships, and his teams were ranked at the end of the year seven times.

With a career collegiate coaching record of 230-35 (.868), Meek ranks fourth in career winning percentage among active coaches with five-plus years of experience at all divisions of women’s college basketball. He was named the D3hoops.com NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year in 2012 and was three times named the NWC Coach of the Year, including in 2019. He coached four players to All-America recognition, while Hannah Munger also earned Academic All-America honors in 2012.

For more information contact athletics at x7117 or portlandpilots.com.

TLC from The TLC: Cultivating World Citizenship

UP aims to cultivate world-citizenship in its students; are faculty up to the task?  In this week’s Teaching & Learning submission, Lars Larson reviews the book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things are Better Than you Think that can help orient our global imaginations more accurately.

For more information contact Larson at larson@up.edu.