Get some of your spring semester prep out of the way! Library staff are ready to tackle spring course reserves. This is a popular library service that faculty can use to provide students with access to course readings. Library staff handle copyright screening and scan materials to meet accessibility standards. Students then use our course […]
12-02-2019
Bells in the Ballroom Concert, Dec. 6
Come enjoy the festive sounds of the Chapel Handbell Choir, Chapel Choir, and ‘Bluff Boys’ Barbershop Quartet at the annual Bells in the Ballroom concert on Friday, December 6, at 7 p.m., in the Mehling Ballroom. The Hallelujah Chorus will also be sung, and if you’ve ever sung it, you will be invited to join […]
Undergraduate Research Awards: Nominate Now
The provost’s office and the Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement are requesting nominations for two awards to be given on Founders’ Day: the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor Award and Outstanding Graduating Senior in Undergraduate Research Award. Faculty members can be nominated by other faculty members, administrators, students, or by self-nomination. Students can be nominated […]
Did You Know? The Meaning of the Advent Season
Many people may know that the Advent season focuses on expectation and think that it serves as an anticipation of Christ’s birth in the season leading up to Christmas. This is part of the story, but there’s more to Advent. The word “Advent” is derived from the Latin word adventus, meaning “coming,” which is a translation […]
Advent Vespers Concert, Dec. 7
The annual Advent Vespers Concert, presented by the University Singers and Bel Canto, will be held on Saturday, December 7, at 7:30 p.m., in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher. Admission is free but you need to have a ticket. Please contact the performing and fine arts department to reserve your ticket at x7228 or […]
Barnes & Noble Faculty, Staff Appreciation Day: Dec. 4
The Barnes & Noble bookstore’s annual Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day will take place on Wednesday, December 4, according to bookstore manager Erin Cave. Faculty and staff will receive an extra 10 percent off their regular discount, bringing the total to 30 percent. There will also be an additional sale for an extra half off […]
TLC Teaching Tip of the Week: Feeling Any Finals Stress?
How much of the stress students (and faculty and staff) feel during finals is rational? How much might it help our collective mental health to identify the points where our stress is irrational? This encore essay on Cognitive Distortions and Irrational Beliefs: Students, Faculty and Finals offers some ideas from the types of cognitive-behavioral techniques used in […]
School of Nursing Offering Reiki/Healing Touch Clinic
Need a little relaxation? Try 15 minutes of Reiki/Healing Touch this next week before finals. Open to faculty, staff, and students. Reiki/Healing Touch clinics will be held in BC 375 on December 3 from 2:30-4 p.m. and December 4 from 12:45-1:45 p.m. Sign up outside the door. Clinics will continue monthly in 2020. Reiki and […]
2019 Flex Spending Account Information
Human resources would like to remind employees who elected a 2019 medical or childcare Flexible Spending Account offered by UP that services must be incurred in 2019 to be eligible for reimbursement. You will have until March 30, 2020 to submit reimbursement requests for elgible expenses incurred in 2019 to Allegiance. In April 2020, any […]
Athletics Faculty & Staff Appreciation Day, Dec. 2-3
Basketball season is in full swing, so join the Pilots at the Chiles Center for Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day! Get a free t-shirt on Tuesday, December 3, at the Pilot House from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and come cheer on the men’s basketball team on Wednesday, December 4, at 7 p.m. All faculty […]