News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
All are invited to come together on Monday, November 11, at 2 p.m., at the International Peace Garden by Buckley Auditorium as students, faculty, staff, and religious from our UP community offer prayers for peace in multiple languages and faith traditions. The event is co-sponsored by the Garaventa Center and international student services. For ADA accommodations or more information: garaventa@up.edu or x7702.
Catholics believe in the Communion of Saints—the spiritual connection with those loved ones who have gone before us and the saints that lived as examples for us. Through the month of November we remember all of those who have gone before us in faith, especially our loved ones who have died.
Starting Monday, October 21, stations will be available in many offices around campus where anyone is welcome to inscribe the names of loved ones on a card and place it in the accompanying basket. The cards will be placed near the altar in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher during Mass for All Saints Day on Friday, November 1, and they will continue to be a focus of prayer throughout November, the month of remembrance. There is also an online form at this link.
We will also celebrate Mass on Sunday, November 17, at 10:30 a.m., with special intentions for the loved ones of our UP community who have died in the past year.
For more information contact Rev. Tim Weed, C.S.C., Campus Ministry, at x8919 or weed@up.edu.
The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be on Friday November 8, from 3:30-5 p.m., in the Murphy Room. The group will discuss Phillip Goff’s “Believers Without Belief,” Peter Atterton’s “A God Problem,” and the short film (9 minutes) Powers of Ten. Links to the readings and film can found on the Garaventa Center website’s FILDG page. All faculty and staff are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
Information services provides online cybersecurity training to meet the annual requirement for staff and faculty. This year’s course includes 20 minutes of video, covering 5 core topics. Even with the most advanced security technologies such as firewalls and anti-virus tools, what cyber attackers ultimately count on is human error. In this course you will be introduced to the social engineering methods that attackers use to fool you into providing unauthorized access. By taking a few simple steps and avoiding certain actions you can help prevent cyber attacks and data theft. The course, “Cybersecurity Core Training 2019”, is accessible from the ‘Custom Course Menu’ in Moodle (https://learning.up.edu). Current staff and faculty have been auto-enrolled. The target date for completion is Friday, November 1. We also invite users to view a brief presentation that seeks to answer the question ‘Why is annual cybersecurity training required?’ The answers may surprise you!For questions or concerns regarding this training, please contact the Technology Help Desk (x7000, help@up.edu).
If any departments or offices need to sponsor students to stay on campus after traditional halls close on Friday, December 13, or to arrive before the halls reopen on Saturday, January 11, please email Ezequiel Delgado-Cervantes, housing coordinator for the Office of Residence Life, at delgadoc@up.edu to receive more information. The rosters of sponsored students are due by Monday, December 2, at 5 p.m. The latest a student can stay after the fall semester ends is noon on Saturday, December 14. The earliest any student can arrive for spring semester is 9 a.m. on Thursday, January 9.
It’s not fiction! All are invited to be alternately horrified and entertained as UP biology student Ryan Kenton presents “The Biology of Zombies and Other Parasitic Tales,” a Beckman Humor event, on Wednesday, October 30, at 7:15 p.m., in Franz Hall room 120. Kenton will dive into the world of actual parasitic wasps, worms, and fungi that have been found to turn thousands of other species into assorted forms of “zombies”
Co-sponsored by the Beckman Humor Project and the Garaventa Center. For ADA accommodations or more information: x7702 or up.edu/garaventa.
The UP Chapel Choir will travel to New Orleans to spread the joy and mission of UP by singing at schools founded by the Marianite Sisters of Holy Cross during spring break, according to Maureen Briare, Campus Ministry. The Marianites were founded by Blessed Basil Moreau, C.S.C. Briare and her student choir look forward to meeting more of the Holy Cross family and sharing the beauty of music and faith.
If you feel inspired to contribute to their Pilot Funder Campaign, or help spread the word on social media, please visit this link.
This will be the second spring break tour for the Chapel Choir. We had so much fun at Notre Dame University last spring break, that we have now made a commitment to connect with the varied and wonderful ministry communities of Holy Cross across the U.S.
Any questions, or recommendations for visiting New Orleans are welcome at briare@up.edu or x7335.
Friday, November 8 is National First Generation Day, and the Shepard Academic Resource Center invites the entire UP community to join in recognizing all students and families, faculty, and staff that are the first in their family to pursue a 4-year college degree. First generation students currently make up 20 percent of the UP student body.The FGEN program will be hosting a variety of events throughout the day, and we welcome the entire UP community to opt in and to participate in our day-long celebration.
Students, both first generation and continuing generation, can take advantage of wisdom workshops throughout the day to offer personal insights and support. More info to come. We also will be hosting external guests in a forum. More information is set to come via engage.
Each month, the marketing office schedules a photographer to take a small number of head shots, available on a first-come, first-served basis, for our online directory. The next session is Tuesday, October 29, from 11 a.m. to noon. To schedule an appointment or for questions, please e-mail Suzanne Frey at freys@up.edu no later than 3 p.m. on Monday, September 28.
Photos will be taken in Clark Library’s Digital Lab, located on the second floor, Room 215. Only those with confirmed appointments may attend. Please note: These appointments are limited to faculty and staff who currently do not have a professional headshot in the online directory.
All spring 2020 book orders and course pack submissions are due to printing services no later than Friday, November 1. The lead time is needed to assure all copyrights are properly adhered to and to allow time for large large print orders.
Even if your class does not use a textbook, please let Barnes and Noble know.
For course pack submissions: Submit course pack materials to printing services no later than November 1, 2019 to ensure they are on the Barnes and Noble shelves prior to the start of classes.
For more information email printjobs@up.edu or call x8101; please ask for Kassie Hansen.