News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
The Academic Technology Services and Innovation team will be hosting a variety of Q&A sessions during the week of May 4. These sessions will address basics as well as lessons learned from the Spring 2020 term. To see the schedule of sessions, please visit the ATSI Training Calendar.
Additional questions about materials or resources? Contact ATSI at atsi@up.edu.
The University’s annual Founders’ Day celebration will take place on Tuesday, April 12. Student presentations will be held in place of regularly scheduled classes, and all students and faculty are encouraged take part in the day’s events, featuring senior presentations, undergraduate research, panel discussions, recitals, and more. Classes scheduled to begin after 4 p.m. will be held as usual.
Founders’ Day was first celebrated at the University in 1902, when University founder Most Rev. Alexander Christie visited the school he had established on The Bluff the summer before. Christie’s annual visits were eagerly anticipated by the University’s college and preparatory students until his death in 1925.
For more information, including a schedule of the day’s events, go to www.up.edu/foundersday.
University of Porltand mathematics students will explore personal axioms for living as they share their responses to the prompt, “This I Believe,” on Tuesday, April 12, at 7:15 p.m., in Franz Hall Room 120. The event is co-sponsored by the Garaventa Center and the Dundon-Berchtold Applied Ethics Initiative.
For more information contact the Garaventa Center at 7702 or garaventa@up.edu.
Fr. Charlie Gordon, C.S.C., and Karen Eifler will present “Love and Mercy in the Maelstrom: Images of Family in Modern Cinema” on Tuesday, April 12, at 3 p.m., in Franz Hall Room 120. It would seem that “family” should be a reliable place for finding comfort in tumultuous times, but you’d never suspect that by looking at many of the families in popular movies today. Is there anything positive to glean from the moms, dads, and grandparents on the big screen? Fr. Gordon and Eifler will tackle that question as well as present images and clips from several recent films.
The event includes an award ceremony for winners of the annual Garaventa Center High School Essay Contest.
For ADA accommodations or more information call x7702 or garaventa@up.edu.
The Garaventa Center has announced winners of its annual High School Essay Contest. The theme this year was “The Playlist of My Life.” Congratulations to the winners:
Congratulations as well to those receiving honorable mentions:
All are welcome to attend the awards ceremony and accompanying lecture “Love and Mercy in the Maelstrom: Images of Family in Modern Cinema,” on Tuesday, April 12, 2016, at 3 p.m., in Franz Hall Room 120. Podcasts of the two winning essays will be posted on the Garaventa Center website by April 20 at sites.up.edu/garaventa.
Come one, come all faculty and staff for good company and conversation, tasty treats and libations, and a generous helping of spirit. The last Thirst Friday of the year is on Friday, April 15, from 4-6 p.m., in the Garaventa Center, Franz Hall 330. Invite a friend and stop by for a few minutes or a couple hours.
For more information, contact Karen Eifler at eifler@up.edu or x8014.
The philosophy department will present a lecture, “Love, Scorn, and the Assertion of Black Humanity,” by Ryan Preston-Roedder, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on Friday, April 15, at 3 p.m., in Franz Hall Room 120. The talk is free and open to all.
Preston-Roedder specializes in moral and political philosophy, moral psychology, and philosophy of religion. In this talk, he will consider some of the vulnerabilities and ambiguities that are associated with loving your fellow citizens, and having faith in their capacity for moral reform, when you live in an oppressive society.
For ADA accommodations or event information, contact Andrew Eshleman, philosophy, at eshleman@up.edu or 7317.
Eligible employees who intend to use their tuition remission benefit during the summer semester are encouraged to apply using the online request tool no later than Friday, April 15, according to Sandy Chung, human resources.
It is required that remission requests be approved at least 2 weeks before the first class, or late charges may be applied to an employee’s account. There are separate application forms for undergraduate and graduate course work tuition remission. Any graduate level tuition remission benefit will be taxable to the employee on the value above $5,250 for attempted credits and subject to applicable withholdings and will be reflected on the W-2 of the tax year the remission was applied. Time away from an employee’s regular work day must be approved in advance by the supervisor. Tuition exchange at other universities is not available to employees.
See the Tuition Remission Policy Summary at this link for further details. If you have more questions and/or need more information contact Sandy Chung, human resources, at chung@up.edu.
The School of Education invites all education students, as well as faculty and staff, for an in-depth discussion on current issues that educators at all levels are facing and what expectations administrators have for new teacher graduates. “The Good, The New, and the Ever-Changing Dimensions in Education” takes place on Monday, April 18, at 6:30 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons Terrace Room. The event will feature a focused panel presentation and roundtable discussions led by current school administrators and teachers. Attendees will have an opportunity to network with both teacher and administrator alumni and fellow education students. Register at this link.
For more information contact the School of Education at 7135 or kwongkwa@up.edu.
The Moreau Center’s Civil Rights Immersion group is hosting a fundraiser in the form of spring cleaning during the month of April. Students and staff are willing to work hard and get grubby; jobs that have been completed in the past include washing/cleaning cars, scrubbing windows, gardening, pulling weeds, spreading bark, mowing lawns, and painting. Jobs are not limited to those listed here. Propose a job for consideration by filling out the form found at this link.
Tools and materials need to be provided for the completion of the job. There is a suggested minimum contribution of $50 for small jobs and $100 for large jobs.
The Moreau Center’s Civil Rights Immersion is set to take place in May of 2016, with students and staff traveling to the Deep South to learn about the Civil Rights movement as well as contemporary issues of racism and classism. Click here to learn more about the Civil Rights Immersion.
For more information contact Lindie Burgess, Moreau Center, at burgess@up.edu.