News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
The Academic Senate Committee on Committees wants to hear from you. We are asking faculty to please complete the Academic Senate Committee on Committees Service Survey linked below to help us determine committee appointments for the 26/27 academic year.
Please note that this survey will close on December 4, 2024.
If you have any questions, please contact September Nelson (nelson@up.edu).
Help us celebrate our first-generation students! With the upcoming National First-Generation week, we would like to create a database of First-Generation faculty and staff we can point to as resources for this population as well as a resource for each other. If you are a faculty or staff member that identifies as a first-generation college student/graduate and would like to assist with this effort, you can complete a brief online form to be included in the database.
Your input will help us better support our community!
*UP uses the national definition that defines a first-generation students as someone for whom neither parent completed a four-year degree*
For information on Zoom updates and how Zoom is addressing AI, check out our October Techtalk Post!
Amanda Hanincik, from Grand River Solutions, has joined UP to serve as Title IX Coordinator. Amanda previously worked as the Director of Educational Equity and Title IX Coordinator at Lafayette College where she played an integral role in preparing for and implementing policies and procedures to comply with the 2020 and 2024 Title IX regulations. Before serving in this role, Amanda held the position as Dean of Students and Title IX Coordinator at Albright College.
Amanda has a strong background in student conduct, compliance, drafting policies and procedures, and delivering training. She has spent almost 14 years overseeing Title IX and other civil rights complaints involving students and employees. Amanda has extensive experience facilitating resolution processes that include informal and other restorative practices, as well as formal investigations and live hearings.
Welcome Amanda!
Join us for a screening and discussion of OPB’s documentary “Road to Sunrise: A Journey to Reconcile Oregon’s Racist History,” featuring the racial justice work of UP alum Taylor Stewart ’18. Taylor will be joining us for the discussion.
Taylor first got involved in racial justice work in Oregon after attending a Civil Rights Immersion through the Moreau Center for Service and Justice. He took part in the Equal Justice Initiative’s work to name, honor, and recognize those whose lives were taken through lynching. He founded the nonprofit Oregon Remembrance Project, with a stated goal of truth-telling as a necessary step in the process of repair and healing. He began his work in Coos Bay, Oregon, and is now working with other communities to heal historic wounds and change the narrative of racial justice for Oregon’s future.
The documentary is 16 minutes long, and there will be a discussion with Taylor after the viewing.
For more information on Taylor’s work, please see Portland magazine’s Fall 2020 story “The Truth About Alonzo,” by Walidah Imarisha. Or find his TEDxTalk here.
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We want everyone to fully access this event. For ADA accommodations, contact oiedi@up.edu or 503-943-8112.
The English Department Reading & Lecture Series will be hosting UP alumnus Mark Pomeroy for a reading from his second novel, The Tigers of Lents. The event will take place on Wednesday Oct. 30, 5-6 p.m. in Brian Doyle Auditorium. The Tigers of Lents takes place in Southeast Portland and on The Bluff, as it details a family of sisters moving beyond their poverty-strained years of high school.
Mark Pomeroy has led creative writing workshops in Portland schools for 28 years. His previous novel is The Brightwood Stillness from 2014.
This event is free and open to the public.
For details contact larson@up.edu.
The Mission Committee, the Office of the Provost, and Human Resources invite all faculty and staff to attend a day-long spiritual retreat on Friday, November 8, 2024. The retreat will be held on campus from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. and will highlight themes of Catholic Social Teaching. Retreat leaders are Dr. Jordan Skornik, Executive Director of the Borland Free Clinic & Adjunct Faculty in Theology and Fr. Peter Walsh, CSC, Co-Director of the Garaventa Center.
The goal of the retreat is to provide a time for individual and communal spiritual reflection and renewal, to deepen faculty and staff connections to one another and to the University’s Catholic, Holy Cross mission and identity, and to invite staff and faculty to reflect on and embrace their vital contributions to our shared mission.
For more information and the retreat schedule, visit the link below.
Please note that participation in the day-retreat will be considered a regular workday for staff, per supervisory approval.
To sign up for the retreat, please send an RSVP to Shannon Mayer, Co-Director of the Garaventa Center, at mayers@up.edu. You can also contact Shannon with any questions about schedule, participation, accommodations, etc.