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News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.

05-07-2018

Complimentary Tickets to Reunion 2018, June 21-24

Faculty and staff are encouraged to join the hundreds of alumni who return to campus to participate in the annual Alumni Reunion Weekend, June 21-24. The faculty/staff registration page is available at this link (link will pre-fill the discount code). All events are free for faculty and staff.

We’ll kick-off the weekend on Friday with the President’s Welcome and Alumni Awards Gala, where we will be honoring our alumni award winners: Kenny King ’12 & ’17, Katie Hughes ’02, and Bill Reed ’72. This year, we celebrate the Class of 1968, Class of 1998, Class of 2008, and all other classes ending in 3 and 8.

Saturday features a new community-wide Pilot Pride 5k, whose proceeds will benefit the XC program. Our signature Welcome Home BBQ will take place on The Bluff starting at 5:30 p.m. Saturday evening with live music, a beer garden, and kiddie funland.

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

UP Employee Discount: Pilots Summer Basketball Camps

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 18-22, June 25-29, August 6-10, and August 13-17. 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.

Thank You Bill Reed!!

We are proud of our graduates and enriched as a family with every commencement weekend, and would like to remind everyone that the bows and ribbons, programs and schedules,  the details both large and small for the big show, are expertly managed by the UP events staff, who work behind the scenes to insure a successful and memorable University of Portland commencement weekend.  This year marks Bill Reed’s 28th and final commencement (29th counting his own graduation 1972). Bill is retiring this summer as director of university events, hard as that is to believe. The University Museum and Archives gives thanks and appreciation to Bill in the latest post on the Museum and Archives blog.

As a complement to the blog entry, the Museum also has a photograph and article display about Bill in the display case on the first floor of Buckley Center near the studies abroad office. Contact Carolyn Connolly, museum coordinator, at x8038 or piatz@up.edu for more information.

Clark Library: Scheduling Summer Instruction

Are you teaching a course this summer? As you plan, remember that the librarians are here and available to provide library instruction. We will work with you to make sure key concepts are covered and can also create course guides to support your students in their academic research and projects. To schedule a class meeting, please email preferred dates and times to Heidi Senior at senior@up.edu. To arrange multimedia instruction through the Digital Lab, please email José Velazco at velazco@up.edu.

 

First Cohort Announced for Ignite Grants

The provost’s office is pleased to announce the first cohort of Ignite Grant awardees. This award program supports new ideas and approaches for course, curriculum, and program development that make an innovative contribution to UP’s teaching and learning future. The following faculty will receive a $5,000 grant to explore new ideas that have the potential to reshape the classroom experience:

  • Jeffrey White, international languages and cultures; Carolyn James, mathematics: “Peer Learning Capture”
  • Rebecca Smith, Nicole Ralston, and Ben Gallegos, education: “Going Beyond the Classroom: Using Virtual Reality to Enhance Classroom Learning”
  • Laurie Dizney, Tara Prestholdt, ad Christine Weilhoefer, biology: “Advancing the Biology Curriculum through the Franz Campus”
  • Alexa Dare, communication studies; Lauren Alfrey, sociology; Ali Na, communication studies: “Radical Praxis: Race and Gender Inequality In and Beyond the Classroom”
  • Lindsay Benes and Joanne Olsen, nursing: “Designing the Learning Ecosystem to Ignite Education”
  • Sam Holloway, Ian Parkman, and Itzel Megchun, business: “MakerSpace Curriculum”

Project abstracts will be posted in the coming weeks on the Teaching and Learning Hub under “Ignite Grants.” The Office of the Provost extends its thanks to all who have participated in this round of Ignite Grants and Tom Greene would like to acknowledge leadership of Erin Tochen and Sam Williams in facilitating this work. Stay tuned for the next round of Ignite Grants scheduled to launch in the fall.

Mass of Remembrance for Allen Lund, Joe Allegretti: May 10

On Thursday, May 10, faculty and staff are invited to join members of the Board of Regents and the Holy Cross community for a Mass held in honor of D. Allen Lund and Joseph B. Allegretti. The Mass will take place at 5 p.m. in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher. All are welcome to join in this celebration of the lives and legacies of these two individuals who have served, supported, and shaped this University in countless ways.

Any questions about the Mass can be directed to the Office of University Relations (pick@up.edu).

 

University Graduates Largest Class in its History

The University of Portland celebrated its Commencement on Sunday, May 6 with nearly 1,200 graduates projected to earn degrees, making the Class of 2018 the largest graduating class in the University’s history.  University President Rev. Mark L. Poorman, C.S.C. conferred an anticipated 860 bachelor’s degrees and 116 master’s degrees during two commencement programs.

To accommodate the increasing number of graduates and their family members, the University held two ceremonies this year: Commencement I included graduates of the College of Arts and Science and School of Education; Commencement II included graduates of the Pamplin School of Business, Shiley School of Engineering, and School of Nursing.

Jessica Jackley, an entrepreneur focused on financial inclusion, the sharing economy, and social justice who is best known as a cofounder of Kiva, was the speaker at the first Commencement ceremony. Hannah Storm, an award-winning journalist, producer, and director, and a pioneer in the field of sports broadcasting for women, addressed the graduates and their guests at the second ceremony. Both women were among the recipients of honorary doctorates from the University.

For more information see the full story at this link.

 

 

Faculty Development Day Program Available Now

The program for Faculty Development Day, scheduled for Tuesday, May 8, is now available through the Committee on Teaching and Scholarship. To save paper, the committee encourages faculty to download a copy of the program in advance so they can use it to orient themselves between sessions using their mobile devices. A limited number of paper copies of the program will be available on the day of the program.
For more information contact Matthew Kuhn, TAS chair, at kuhn@up.edu.

Clark Library Ethics Project

This year, the Clark Library undertook an ambitious initiative to examine our professional ethics as a team, funded by a grant from the Dundon-Berchtold Institute. Ethics is at the core what we do in providing information without bias, maintaining user privacy, and in helping students and faculty use information in ways that consider the source and author rights. The results of our efforts include an ethics statement for the Clark Library that captures the principles we uphold in our work and an optional statement for course syllabi addressing ethical use of information.

For more information contact the library at x7111 or library@up.edu.