News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
Mass will be celebrated in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and Monday through Friday at 12:05 p.m. during the summer months. Reconciliation will be available on Fridays from 12:30 to 1 p.m.
Please call campus ministry at x7131 or ministry@up.edu if you have any questions.
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 use their school’s report on the home tab of the Scholarly Activity Portal to send the data to their respective deans as a part of annual self-evaluation.
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).
All faculty and instructors must turn in their course pack materials for summer classes to the printing services office as soon as possible, according to Kassie Hansen, printing services. In addition, course packs for fall 2017 are due before leaving campus at the conclusion of spring semester. The lead time is needed so printing services staff can obtain copyright permissions and organize the packs for production before the start of summer and fall semesters. Submit requests to printjobs@up.edu.
For more information contact printing services at 7200 or hansenk@up.edu.
Faculty and staff are invited to apply to be an immersion accompanier with the Moreau Center for the 2017-18 academic year. The opportunity is open to UP faculty or staff members in full-time, exempt positions who have a commitment to service and community engagement, a desire to encourage student formation, and a willingness to live simply while immersed in an extended experience with students. Immersion experiences offered next year include: Rural Immersion (fall break), Urban Policy Immersion (winter break), Border Immersion (spring break), Habitat for Humanity Collegiate Challenge Immersion (spring reak), Civil Rights Immersion (summer), and Nicaragua Immersion (summer).
More information can be found here. If you are interested in applying, please contact Laurie Laird at laird@up.edu.
The University of Portland has been ranked the top Oregon school for best return on investment among 300 private and public institutions in Forbes Magazine‘s second annual ranking of America’s Best Value Colleges for 2017.
The University of Portland was ranked 146th among all universities nationwide. Among other Oregon private colleges and universities, Willamette University was ranked next at 159th nationally; Reed College ranked 187th; Linfield College ranked 218th; and Lewis & Clark College ranked 272nd. Among public universities, the University of Oregon was ranked 256th and Oregon State University was ranked 290th.
In light of increasing college costs, Forbes sought to explore which American universities will return an individual’s financial investment with the best quality of education. Forbes‘ methodology in assessing the Spring 2017 rankings, just in time for College Decision Day, was based on a hierarchy of criteria. First, Quality (25%) explores not what is getting students into college, such as standardized test scores, but what is helping them graduate. Quality is also determined by student satisfaction reported on RateMyProfessor and retention rates. Alumni earnings (20%) is determined by a mixture of self-reported data and statistics of federal income tax returns after at least a decade of working. A new and significantly important factor is student debt (20%), followed by on-time graduation success (15%), drop-out risk (10%), Pell Grant recipients (10%), and gross tuition and fees.
In addition to the Forbes rankings, the University of Portland has been the top Oregon school in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance annual ranking of best values in private universities for seven consecutive years. For three consecutive years, Bloomberg Businessweek has named University of Portland the top school in Oregon for “return on investment” in a state-by-state ranking of schools providing graduates with the most return for the price of their education.
For more information and to see the entire national ranking of 300 colleges and universities, visit Forbes’ Best Value Colleges 2017.
The program for Faculty Development Day, scheduled for Tuesday, May 9, is now available through the Committee on Teaching and Scholarship Moodle website or here. 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 Aaron Wootton, mathematics, at tas@up.edu.
The Provost’s office would like to remind all faculty members conducting collaborative research with undergraduates this summer that the Deans Council approved a uniform, University-wide protocol for all undergraduate research projects. A list of the items required each semester as part of the protocol can always be found in the Undergraduate Research section of the PilotsUP Forms page. The same information is listed below. Any student receiving a stipend or credit for an undergraduate research project at UP is expected to complete the protocol and faculty members are responsible for informing students of this expectation.
Undergraduate Research Protocol
Learning Agreement – This form is completed by both the faculty member and student. The faculty member must complete their portion of this online form first.
Responsible Conduct in Research Training – New users will need to create a CITI account and affiliate with University of Portland during the registration process to access the course. After creating an account the user must select the appropriate Responsible Conduct in Research (RCR) course from the UP course selection menu. Both faculty members and students must complete CITI’s RCR course, if they have not done so at a previous time.
Pre-Experience Survey – To be completed by the student during the first week of the semester.
Post-Experience Survey – To be completed by the student during the last week of the semester.
If you have any questions about this process, please contact John Orr (orr@up.edu) in the Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement.
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 19-23, June 26-30, and August 7-11. 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.
The snowstorm this past January made it necessary to cancel a scheduled discussion of The Slow Professor, for which the provost’s office and SOPHIA provided books. Karen Eifler would like to remind faculty that one of the sessions on Faculty Development Day will be devoted to that discussion, if any one would like to go over their notes or the book.
The Portland Sports Network (PSN), University of Portland’s in-house athletics video team, has been nominated for a Northwest Emmy Award as announced by the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. PSN’s feature, “UP Women’s Soccer’s Sarah Jones’ Summer Internship,” was nominated in the News: General Assignment Light category as part of the 2017 College Award Nominations. The feature originally aired on June 15, 2016, on PSN’s monthly television show “Portside With The Pilots” on CSN. The story was edited by senior computer science major and PSN intern Jenna Phillips. See more at this link.