News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
The organizers of LoosenUP and the Public Research Fellows program invite you to a FREE event showcasing the visual and performing arts on Thursday, December 2, at 6:00 p.m. in the Brian Doyle Auditorium in Dundon Berchtold. We’ll share poetry, feature live music and peaceful images, highlight art from The St. John’s Bible, and offer an environment for reflection and relaxation. Join us and take some time to unwind!
All members of the UP community—faculty, staff, and, students—are welcome.
Join the University of Portland Singers, Bel Canto and Chamber Choir for the University’s signature choral event of the year, on Saturday, December 4, 7:30 p.m., at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church (25. N Rosa Parks Way). The program includes music to celebrate the Advent and Christmas season, including the West Coast premiere and just the 3rd performance ever of Elaine Hagenberg’s stunning Illuminare, with the composer in attendance. The concert is free, but tickets are required and can be reserved here: https://www.onthestage.tickets/show/university-of-portland1/advent-vespers-49828
Please note: Proof of COVID vaccination or negative PCR test result within 72 hours required for all guests over the age of 12. Current UP Staff ID cards accepted as proof. For more information, please contact the Performing and Fine Arts Department at 503.943.7228 or pfa@up.edu.
Join us for 30 minutes of contemplative prayer focusing on a sacred illumination from The Saint John’s Bible. Visio Divina is an ancient form of Christian prayer in which we allow our hearts and imaginations to enter into a sacred image to see what God might have to say to us. Tuesday, December 7, at 12:45 p.m., Chapel of Christ the Teacher, following noon Mass. Free and open to all. Masks required. For ADA accommodations or questions, contact the Garaventa Center at garaventa@up.edu or 503-943-7702. Co-sponsored by the Garaventa Center and Campus Ministry.
In a recent post to celebrate Archives month, Robert Butler, emeritus professor in environmental sciences, shared his experience of teaching science classes drawing on resources from the University Archives. Here are a few exhibits about erosion and The Bluff, with Butler’s expert commentary. Follow this link to read more from the University Museum and Archives at: https://sites.up.edu/museum/erosion-and-re-shaping-using-primary-sources-in-teaching/
For more information contact Carolyn Connolly, museum coordinator, piatz@up.edu or 8038.
Please do not forget to place your classroom software requests for Spring 2022 by November 30, 2021. Note: if the software you need was available during Fall 2021, it will remain available for Spring, so only new items need to be submitted at this time. To make your request, please complete our survey.
If you would like to request software for your office, please call the Help Desk at ext. 7000, or email help@up.edu.
You have two more chances this semester to jot a quick note of thanks to someone who has made a difference for you. On Nov. 23 and Nov. 30, stop by the Garaventa Center (330 Franz) between 11:45 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. and spend a few minutes making someone’s day in the form of a good old-fashioned handwritten card. All materials provided, and you are welcome to bring your lunch to enjoy while you write.
Now is the time to submit requests for Tuition Remission for qualified employees or dependents for the Spring 2022 semester.
This is a benefit that employees need to apply for each semester in which courses will be taken. To complete the request for Tuition Remission visit the Tuition Remission page in PilotsUP and click on the link at the bottom of the page.
If you have questions about remission, or the application, please contact benefits@up.edu.
The English Department offers our campus the following quartet of items: For those who missed writer Mitchell S. Jackson’s talk “From the Prison to the Pen,” a link to the 70-minute presentation can be found here (though it will expire after Nov. 24). The English Department has put out its first-ever Newsletter, which it will offer each semester. Our campus’s student-run creative writing magazine Writers has put out its first-ever fall edition, which you can read online here, with its theme Labor of Love. (It serves in part as an invitation for your students to submit their work (by Feb.) to the larger spring edition.) Lastly, you can learn about our campus’s new Writing minor here, an opportunity for UP students from outside our department to hone their writing skills in our campus’s workshops. For further information contact Lars Larson, larson@up.edu.
The first iteration of the new Anchor Seminar concludes with a charism that helps define UP’s Catholic, Holy Cross identity: Hope. In addition to pondering how the six Core Habits will fit together and ultimately inform future Exploration and Integration courses, students and faculty will consider Amanda Gorman’s poem The Hill We Climb and engage in activities designed to answer the Holy Cross call to be “people with hope to bring.”
We are quickly coming up on Thanksgiving break. You know what this means: time for another round of Zoom updates!
Please see ATSI’s most recent Techtalk Article for instructions on running Zoom updates and the newly released features available this month.
Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!