We are creating a new Core Exploration “Big Ideas” course for Spring 2025 titled “Portland and the Public Imagination” and are seeking faculty from across UP to contribute modules in their disciplines/areas of interest. If your expertise or experiences offer new ways of representing the city, or questioning stereotypes about it, we would welcome your input. (Read More).
Issues
Lunch Discussion: Civil Discourse in our Classrooms (Oct. 1)
Engaged Humanities @UP and the NEH-funded Civic Humanities Working Group invite all interested UP faculty to join a discussion (and lunch on us) on cultivating genuine conversation, and even disagreements, in our classrooms. Prior to the event, attendees will read a brief Washington Post article on how other campuses are encouraging spaces for open discussion, then we’ll talk over lunch about what conversation at UP looks like right now. (Read More).
Apply to Accompany a Social Justice Immersion (Due Oct. 13)
The Moreau Center would like to invite all staff and faculty in full-time, exempt positions to apply to accompany a Social Justice Immersion with the Moreau Center for Service and Justice! Accompaniers participate in the program much like the students while also providing a more mature perspective and expertise to group decisions and conversations. (Read More).
NOW OPEN: The UP Writing Center
The UP Writing Center is a terrific peer-tutoring resource that can support student writers from any discipline and is open for the Fall 2024 semester. Students can meet their Writing Assistant in person in the Learning Commons (BC 163) or online. We count on faculty to get the word out to students about this valuable resource, so please consider encouraging your students to seek us out. (Read More).
New to The Bluff—Shannon Farley—Administrative Assistant, Clark Library
Shannon came to UP from the Diocese of Fresno, California in the Office of Catholic Education where she worked for 13 years as the Director of Student Information Systems and Records. After working with younger students, she decided to explore working in higher ed when she moved to Portland to be closer to her daughter. (Read More).
OSHA Safety Committee
The University of Portland is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace for all. The UP OSHA Safety Committee brings workers and managers together in a collaborative atmosphere to achieve this goal. The committee is responsible for building inspections, reviewing accident, injury, and near miss reports, and working to address safety hazards. (Read More).
Seeking Applicants: Inclusive Teaching Scholar Program
All Full-time Faculty members are invited to apply for the Inclusive Teaching Scholars Program. This program seeks to identify and support at least one person from each academic unit for a total of 5 or 6 scholars who would function as a cohort. (Read More).
2024 Convocation Address “A Sign In an Alienated World.” (Sept. 3)
Please join us on Tuesday, September 3, at 4:00 p.m. in the Buckley Center Auditiorium for the Annual Convocation Address with President Robert Kelly, PhD. (Read More).
IS Network Maintenance (Sept. 3)
Information Services will be performing software upgrades on our security appliances that control authentication to campus WiFi networks, wired Dorm Ethernet, and VPN services from 4:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 3. During this window users may experience short term authentication issues that should resolve within 5-10 minutes. (Read More).
2nd Annual Mass of the Holy Spirit (Sept. 4)
Join us for our second annual Mass of the Holy Spirit on Wednesday, September 4, at 11:30 a.m. in the Chiles Center. Classes will be canceled and all offices will close to students and the general public during the 11:25 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. service. Our liturgy will reflect the diversity of backgrounds and perspectives present on The Bluff, and all community members are warmly invited to attend and join us for cookies afterwards. (Read More).