News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
Faculty and staff who need to rent regalia for the Orientation Opening Mass are asked to please place your order online by Monday, July 17. Faculty should visit this link. Orientation Mass is on Saturday, August 26, at 5 p.m., with the academic procession starting at 4:45 p.m. Rented regalia will be available on Saturday, August 26, from 3 to 4:45 p.m., in the Chiles Center.
For any questions contact the events office at x7523 or events@up.edu.
The Independence Day holiday will be observed for University employees on Tuesday, July 4, according to the 2017 University holiday schedule. All University offices will be closed and classes will not be held.
For more information, contact human resources at 8981 or hr@up.edu. Contact the provost’s office at 7105 or staten@up.edu for more information regarding classes.
Pilot Kids Day Camp registration for summer 2017 is now open. The camp is for children entering grades 1-6 in fall 2017 and is staffed by University of Portland students, who lead small groups of campers in active games and sports as well as arts and crafts and drama projects.
Cost is $155 per session through May 12, $170 per session after May 12. Children of University of Portland students, faculty, staff, or alumni receive a $10 discount per session.
The camps run Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., and Fridays 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Remaining camp dates for 2017:
“Pilots Kids Camp is not sponsored by the University of Portland. It is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by the University of Portland. Authorized use of University of Portland logos and trademarks does not imply an endorsement of the camp or program.”
Brochure and application forms are available at this link. For more information, contact Brian Dezzani, recreational services, at dezzani@up.edu or x7177.
Faculty and staff applications for tuition remission for Fall 2017 are due by Wednesday, July 1. Forms can be accessed through the human resources website at www.up.edu/hr/. Since deadlines need to match those in student accounts, employees are asked to please keep the following deadlines in mind:
Please note that there are separate tuition remission application forms for undergraduate and graduate course work, and that any graduate level tuition remission benefits 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 form of the tax year the remission was applied. A summary on tuition remission and links to the online forms are available at http://tinyurl.com/qcbxx3a.
For more information contact human resources at 8981 or hr@up.edu.
For the second straight year, the Portland Pilots had 12 rowers named Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) National Scholar Athletes, tied for the second most in the country among all NCAA DI schools; also that number is easily the most among West Coast Conference schools. The Pilots rowing team is coached by Pasha Spencer, athletics.
In order to garner national scholar athlete recognition, a student-athlete must be a sophomore, junior, or senior with a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or better.
Portland’s Megan Del Pozzi, Kiva Goodman, Maddie Goodwin, Lauren Jesse, Jess Mann, Melanie Martinell, Megan Medalia, Lauren Reid, Alyssa Soete, Acacia Welsford, Kaitlin Yap and Brianne Zbylicki were all honored by the CRCA. This is the second year in a row to garner CRCA Scholar Athlete accolades for Goodwin, Mann, Martinell and Reid.
Martinell, Reid and Welsford also landed on the 2016-17 WCC All-Academic Team. Del Pozzi, Goodman, Goodwin, Jesse, Mann, Medalia, Soete and Zbylicki each earned league all-academic honorable mention.
For more information contact the athletics office at 7117 or go to www.portlandpilots.com.
Denise Carder has been hired to work in the payroll office, according to Shiromani Narayan, payroll. She will be a payroll specialist, and worked most recently for Tri-Met. Please stop by the payroll office to welcome her to The Bluff.
Season tickets for staff and faculty are now available for 50% off. Men’s soccer is coming off a WCC Championship and has the 7th ranked recruiting class in the nation according to Top Drawer Soccer. Former Portland Trailblazer Terry Porter and the men’s basketball team continue to bring in top recruits (12th ranked recruiting class in the nation) that will immediately help our Pilots compete in the WCC.
For more information contact our ticket manager David Taylor at x8619 or taylord@up.edu.
The University museum will be open for special hours on Friday, June 23, from 1 – 4 p.m., and Saturday, June 24, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., during the 2017 Alumni Reunion. All University employees, alumni, and friends are welcome to visit the museum in the basement of Shipstad Hall, room 014. The museum contains photographs and memorabilia illustrating the University of Portland’s historical, religious, social, and educational history. In addition to the regular collection there are special exhibits and displays in the museum, Shipstad Hall, and the first floor of Buckley Center.
Mock’s Crest Productions will present Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance in Mago Hunt Center Theater on June 22-25. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday – Saturday and 2 p.m. Sundays. Dinner and brunch will be served on the lawn in front of the Hunt Center prior to show times. Tickets are available at Mago Hunt Box Office and can be ordered by phone at x7287 or online at magohuntboxoffice@up.edu.
The opera’s official premiere was in New York City in December 1879, and it has delighted audiences ever since. Young Frederic, having completed his 21st year, is released from apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates. He meets Mabel, and soon falls in love. Frederic learns that he was born on the 29th of February, and has a birthday only once each leap year; his contract says that he is to remain apprenticed to the pirates until his twenty-first birthday, meaning that he must serve for another 63 years.
Mock’s Crest is a semi-professional company devoted to a yearly summer production of comic light opera, primarily the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan. It combines professional singers and musicians with students, faculty, and staff in the Department of Performing and Fine Arts at the University of Portland. The production company was originally created under the guidance of the late Roger O. Doyle in 1990 with support of theater faculty as his production team.
For more information contact performing and fine arts at 7228 or pfa@up.edu.
Faculty and staff members are encouraged to join the hundreds of alumni who return to campus to participate in the annual Alumni Reunion Weekend, June 22-25.
This year, attendees will celebrate Shipstad Hall’s 50th birthday, the Hawai’i Club, the milestone class of 1967, and all classes ending in 2 and 7.
This year also marks the inclusion of a brand new weekend highlight: the President’s Welcome Reception and Alumni Awards on Friday, June 23. Other can’t-miss events include the GOLD Backyard Bash for young alumni on Thursday, June 22; the Welcome Home BBQ on Saturday, June 24; and the All Alumni Mass & Brunch on Sunday, June 25.
For more information, contact the alumni office at x7328 or alumni@up.edu.