UPbeat

News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.

2024-09-30

UPBeat Schedule

UPBeat will continue on an “every-other-week” schedule during Fall 2024.

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Fall 2024 Dates

  • October 28
  • November 11
  • November 25
  • December 9
  • December 23

Spring 2025 Dates

  • January 6
  • January 20
  • February 3
  • February 17
  • March 3
  • March 17
  • March 31
  • April 14
  • April 28
  • May 12
  • May 26

2024 Past Issues

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Don’t Miss a Core Samples Lunch this Semester! (Nov. 13)

All staff and faculty are invited to attend one or both of this fall’s Core Samples Lunches, as guests of the Garaventa Center and Core Program. These have proven a terrific way for all of us to build our knowledge of what happens in UP’s Core Curriculum.

  • Wednesday, November 13, 11:30-12:30: Dr. Brad Franco from the Department of History will provide a glimpse of his foundation level course HST 220: The Search for Justice in the Western Tradition. Learn about how an evolved version of the classic ‘Western Civ’ model can help us think about what it means to define a just world.

Learning from gifted teachers over free food and without exams: could it be any better? Lunches will convene in the Teske Room in the Commons (seating is limited).

Please RSVP to Shannon Mayer, mayers@up.edu.

The Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series Welcomes Viet Thanh Nguyen (Oct. 23)

The Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers series is delighted to welcome novelist and memoirist Viet Thanh Nguyen to our campus for a talk on Wednesday October 23 at 7:30 p.m. in BC. Auditorium.

Nguyen is the author of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, The Sympathizer, which was adapted into an HBO miniseries, the short-story collection, The Refugees, and the memoir, A Man of Two Faces. The MacArthur-award winning author is a professor at the University of Southern California. As with all Schoenfeldt events, this lecture/reading will be free and open to the public.

Nguyen will be available for an open Q&A with our campus community prior to the event from 4:30-5:30 in Dundon-Berchtold 134—Be sure to bring your questions!

Visit the Schoenfeldt Series schedule page for more information or contact larson@up.edu.

All Schoenfeldt events are free and open to the public.

Call for Exploration Level Course Proposals for the UP Core (Oct. 1)

The Undergraduate Core Curriculum Committee is readying for its annual October 1 priority review deadline to consider new exploration level (X) courses for the UP Core. These courses are upper division offerings that emphasize interdisciplinary thinking with some grounding in the liberal arts–but they can come from any UP discipline. They should have no pre-requisites outside of UP Core foundation level courses, and can be cross-listed with regular sections for majors / minors.

The proposal submission form is linked on the pilots.up.edu page for the UP Core (along with further information about X courses). The UCCC will review courses at other times in the year, but October 1 is our only annual priority deadline.

Questions can be directed to UP Core Director Andrew Guest (guesta@up.edu).

Pre-Play Reception & Panel: “You Can See All The Stars” (Oct. 5)

Ticket show holders for You Can See All The Stars, a story by local playwright E.M. Lewis, are invited to join us for a complimentary small bites reception and expert led pre-show panel discussion.

Saturday, October 5, Brian Doyle Auditorium (DB004).

Reception at 6:15 p.m. – Panel Discussion from 6:45-7:15 p.m – Show at 7:30 p.m.

Co-sponsored by the Garaventa Center.

Performing & Fine Arts Presents: “If Music Be the Food of Love” (Oct. 5)

You are cordially invited to a Fall choral concert featuring the UP Chamber Choir, Bel Canto and Singers. This literary inspired event features musical settings of Shakespeare by Verdi and others, as well as additional music by Clara Schumann, Morten Lauridsen, Sarah Quartel and Portland’s own Judy A. Rose

Saturday, October 5, 2:00 p.m. – Buckley Center Auditorium

Admission is FREE and we hope to see you there!

Poetry Reading with Joan Naviyuk Kane (Oct. 7)

Join award-winning Inupiaq poet and Reed College Professor Joan Naviyuk Kane for a reading of her latest work on Monday, October 7 at 5:15 p.m. in the UP Bookstore. A graduate of Harvard and Columbia for her M.F.A., Kane has taught at numerous campuses, including Santa Fe’s Institute of American Indian Arts. Her poems explore the intersection between language, the environment, and indigineity.

The event is free and open to the public, and details can be found at the link below:

Poetry Reading with Joan Naviyuk Kane

Interested poet-aspirants may join a workshop prior to the reading (4:10-5 p.m.), to try out a few of her techniques. Email Lars Larson (larson@up.edu) to sign up.    

WIFI SYSTEM MAINTENANCE (Oct. 14)

Information Services will be performing WiFi system maintenance from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. on Monday, October 14.  During this window users may experience intermittent authentication issues with campus WiFi networks (UPStaff, UPStudent, UPGuest, UPIoT) and wired network connections in campus dorms.

For devices connecting to UPStaff or UPStudent after the maintenance window, the user will be prompted to ‘Trust’ the new SSL certificate for “ise3.campus.up.edu” or “ise4.campus.up.edu.”  This step is necessary to allow devices to begin using this new certificate for secure, encrypted WiFi communication.

If you experience any issues connecting to the network after 8 a.m., please contact the Help Desk at help@up.edu or call extension 7000.

Annual Required Training Courses For All Employees (Due Oct. 18)

As a reminder from the Fall 2024 Human Resources Newsletter ALL employees (part-time or full-time, staff or faculty) must complete the 3 annual training courses listed below (found in Moodle, accessed through PilotsUP).  

  1. Annual 2024-2025 Cybersecurity Training (Information Services) Required by the Federal Trade Commission via the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Employees are the University’s best defense or “shield” when it comes to cybersecurity, so employee completion of this training is critical. (Course completion time varies based on pre-test completion.)
  2. Annual Protection from Heat and Wildfire Smoke Safety Training 2024 (Environmental Health & Safety) This training is required by OSHA and will help teach how to recognize heat-related illness and dangers to keep each other safe during extreme weather events. (Estimated course time 15 minutes.)
  3. Annual Title IX Training – Fall 2024 (Office of Title IX) State law requires annual training in the area of Title IX and the University continues the important work to address concerns of sexual misconduct and violence and provide support as outlined in our existing Title IX policy. For more information about Title IX, please visit: https://up.edu/titleix (Estimated course time 45-50 minutes.)

As an incentive to kick off the yearly training campaign, employees who complete all three annual trainings by the deadline October 18, 2024, will be entered into a raffle to win one of ten $50 Amazon gift cards. Employees not actively working this Fall semester or who are taking an approved leave of absence are not eligible for the raffle and should complete trainings when they return to work. Employees do NOT need to email when the trainings are completed but are strongly encouraged to keep their own records of training completion dates. Gift card winners will be notified via UP email.