Faculty members are reminded to load their scholarly activity on the portal in PilotsUP. Data obtained through the portal will be used to populate A Community of Scholars, published by the provost’s office. That data will also be used for the Clark Library’s annual celebration of UP authors. Faculty members will send the data to their respective deans as a part of annual self-evaluation, and they can also use it to develop their personal curriculum vitae.
For any questions about uses of the portal, please contact John Orr (orr@up.edu); for questions about how to use the tool, please contact Michele Leasor (leasor@up.edu).
The 19th Annual UP Day at Joe Etzel Field is scheduled for a doubleheader on Friday, May 20, when the Pilots take on Saint Mary’s. The first game is set for 2 p.m. All employees and family members are welcome to attend the game at no charge and also enjoy complimentary hot dogs (vegetarian alternatives will be available as well), chips, and soda courtesy of Bon Appetit. There will also be prizes raffled off every half-inning, so come out and cheer the Pilots on to victory. Department heads and office directors are encouraged to allow as many employees to attend the game as possible.
Six students and one alumnus have been awarded prestigious 2016 Fulbright grants to work and study abroad. Caroline Harpster ’16 (Germany), Kristen Jakstis ’16 (Germany), Erin Nishijima ’16 (South Korea), Jonathan Squires ’13 (South Korea), Katherine Lord ’16 (Malaysia), Josefina Duran-Martinez ’16 (Mexico), and Emily Dovel ’16 (Turkey) have been awarded English Teaching Assistantships to countries in Europe, Asia and Mexico.
Lauretta Frederking, political science, will join the Office of the Provost as an associate provost on July 1, according to Thom Greene, provost. This past fall semester, Frederking served as interim assistant provost and she currently serves as the chair of the Department of Political Science, the director of the Social Justice Program, and is the University’s Title IX Coordinator. She has been at the University for 14 years and was promoted to professor in 2015.
The 2016 Faculty Awards Dinner will take place on Tuesday, May 3, beginning with a reception at 6 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons Board Room. Dinner with faculty awards will begin at 7 p.m. The dinner is by invitation only and RSVPs are requested to university events at 7523 as soon as possible.
The 2016 Faculty Development Day will take place on Tuesday, May 3, according to Aaron Wootton, Teaching and Scholarship Committee chair. The day’s schedule can be downloaded at 
As the Beauchamp Center completes its first academic year of operation, the facility has successfully become an essential part of campus life for the student population and the greater UP community, according to Scott Leykam, athletics. The facility has logged 200,000 total visits from over 4,100 unique visitors.
The University and the performing and fine arts department will host the 42nd annual Best in the Northwest Choir Festival, Friday May 6, all day, in Buckley Center Auditorium. Choir members will also use first floor Buckley Center classrooms for robing and rehearsal. Top honors go to the finest middle and junior high school choirs from across the Northwest. Attendance is free but seating is limited at times.
As the semester draws to a close, faculty are asked to take a moment to reflect on freshmen and sophomores who might be strong candidates for University-endorsed awards, such as Fulbright grants. The Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement’s Talent Identification Program (T.I.P.) uses faculty to help identify high achieving students early in their careers, marking them as potential candidates for various fellowships, grants, and scholarships.
The University has maintained its elite status in the NCAA’s annual Academic Progress Rates (APR) report, released in April. Among the four Division I universities in the state of Oregon, UP posted the highest APR in nine out of 15 sports programs. Portland had an overall rating of 989; men’s basketball, men’s cross country, women’s track, and volleyball each received a perfect APR score of 1,000. Each Division I team calculates its APR based on eligibility and retention of scholarship student-athletes.