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Portland Magazine, Publications Win CASE Gold

gold copyThe University’s quarterly Portland Magazine earned the following recognition in the 2014 CASE District VIII Communication Awards competition:

  • Gold Award: Portland Magazine: The Education Issue, in the category “Magazine Special Issues.”
  • Gold Award: “The Best Professor in the State of Oregon,” in the category “Writing: Editorial Shorts (published-print or web-editorial pieces, 1,000 words or less)
  • Silver Award:”The Best Soccer Player in the World,” in the category “Writing: Editorial Shorts (published-print or web-editorial pieces, 1,000 words or less)

In addition, the following awards were announced for other publications by the marketing and communications office:

  • Gold Award: “Faculty Report: University of Portland,” in the category “Visual Design: Design Improvement (Print or Identity)”
  • Silver Award: “University of Portland: Campus Experience,” in the category “Visual Design: Multi-Page Print Design”
  • Bronze Award: “UP: Campus & Academic Experience,” in the category “Alumni and Student Communications: Viewbooks and Prospective Student Publications”

The awards will be presented at the CASE District VIII Conference in Vancouver, B.C., February 12-14. For more information contact editor Brian Doyle, marketing and communications, at 7202 or bdoyle@up.edu, or Rachel Barry-Arquit, marketing and communications, at 7202 or rbarry@up.edu.

Personal Mail Window Hours

packagesMailing services in Buckley Center is a service for University departments and students and it is a very busy operation throughout the year. It is not a commercial mailing center or a post office, and it does not receive extra staffing for the holiday season. In order to keep University-related mail operations running smoothly during the holidays, mailing services will be open for employees’ personal mail needs from 12 noon to 1 p.m., Monday-Friday from now through Monday, December 23, according to Mary Scroggins, mailing services. The window will be open for letters, packages, and stamp purchases. All packages must be boxed, taped, and addressed, and envelopes must be addressed and sealed. The mail center is unable to provide boxes or shipping supplies.

Personal packages for faculty and staff should also not be mailed to the University. Process­ing personal packages places a great deal of strain on mailing services staff, to the detriment of providing service for University offices and students. If you will not be home and are worried about theft, please send items to a friend or family member that will be home to accept the package in your absence. For more information contact Scroggins at 7179 or scroggin@up.edu.

Pilot Navigator Information Needed

pilotnavigatorAs in past years, the marketing office is reaching out to a variety of constituents to help advertise upcoming University events. If your department is hosting an event that occurs between February through June/Summer and meets the parameters listed below, we would like to include it for publication in the Pilot Navigator brochure. If you are not familiar with this publication, please refer to this link for a past issue from Spring 2013.

To help her gather details, please e-mail a short description of the event (approximately 75 words), and a high resolution photo, if applicable, to Melissa Thongtan, marketing and communications, at thongtan@up.edu or Roya Ghorbani-Elizah at ghorbani@up.edu. Please do not provide images taken from websites, as the resolution is not high enough for printed materials (generally photos should be between 250K-1mb). To help ensure that all information can be included, please send event details no later than Thursday, January 2, 2014. Please note that marketing and communications will do their best to accommodate all requests, but occasionally due to event dates and other extenuating circumstances, they are not able to publish every listing.

Suggested parameters for inclusion in Pilot Navigator:

  • Events must be open to the public as well as university community members.
  • Space must be able to hold more than 50 people.
  • Start time must be 5 p.m. or later on weekdays. On weekends there are no time restrictions.
  • Copy points need title of the event, speaker, lecture name, etc., date, time, location, brief description of the event (no more than 50 words), photo or image if possible (usage will depend on number of photos received and design), contact person at the University (name, phone, e-mail), cost or note that the event is free.

The Pilot Navigator brochure will be produced twice per year, in late September and late January. For more information contact Thongtan at 8504 or thongtan@up.edu.

Stationery Reprint Changes

printerTo help streamline the ordering and printing process, the marketing and communications office is transferring the coordination of stationery reprint orders to printing services. This will allow printing services to manage the stationery requests from start to finish. This new process applies to all general stationery needs, such as office letterhead and envelopes. Please use the stationery reprint order form to place orders. The form is available at this link. If you are ordering materials as part of a mailing or as a part of an invitation packet, electronic letterhead, or specialized letterhead, these items will still be handled through marketing and communications.

If you have any questions, contact Linda Gill at cady@up.edu, or call 8100.

Thanksgiving Mail Service

U of P, employee photosMailing services will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday along with the rest of the campus on Thursday, November 28 and Friday, November 29, and will be open on Wednesday, November 27, from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Metered mail needs to be at the mail center no later than 2 p.m. in order for it to be taken to the Post Office at 3 p.m. Please do not drop FedEx/UPS items in the mail box slots; be sure to hand them to a real live smiling mail center employee. For more information contact Mary Scroggins, supervisor, at scroggin@up.edu.

Fall 2013 Schoenfeldt Lecture

_1aDuncan150The Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series will welcome acclaimed novelist and essayist David James Duncan on Thursday, October 24, at 7 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

Duncan is the author The River Why and The Brothers K, a New York Times Notable Book in 1992. He is also the author of three collections of essays; River Teeth, My Story As Told By Water, and God Laughs and Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right. He received an honorary doctorate from the University in 2004 for the “power, passion, and poetry of his work.” This event also marks the second time Duncan has been a Schoenfeldt speaker at the University.

The Schoenfeldt Writers Series was founded in 1988 by the late Rev. Art Schoenfeldt, C.S.C., and his late sister, University regent Sue Fields, with the assistance of retired UP English professor Louis Masson. Among its guests have been Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Ian Frazier, William Stafford, Ursula K. Le Guin. For more information contact Brian Doyle, marketing and communications, at 8225 or bdoyle@up.edu.

Employee Kickball Extravaganza!

_1aKickball150.jpgAll UP employees, both faculty and staff, are welcome to take part in the second Employee Kickball Extravaganza on Thursday, October 17, at 4:30 p.m., on the Shipstad Quad, according to Mary Beebe and Joe Kuffner, marketing and communications. What better way to celebrate the fall break but with some muddy kickball? Come rain or shine! If you want to participate but don’t want to play, we also need referees…and cheerleaders. Please RSVP to Kuffner at kuffnerj@up.edu or Beebe at beebe@up.edu.

Mail Center, Printing Services Closure, Oct. 25

_1aMailPrinting and mailing services will be closed from 9 to 11 a.m. on Friday, October 25 so staff can attend the university relations divisional meeting at that time, according to Mary Scroggins, supervisor. The morning mail run will only be done once that day. For more information contact Scroggins at scroggin@up.edu.

Jim Lyons Farewell Party

1aLyons150Please join the University Relations Division as we wish our friend and colleague Jim Lyons a fond farewell as he leaves his University of Portland family after an amazingly successful 16 years on the Bluff. His party will take place on Monday, October 7, from 3 to 4 p.m., in the Terrace Room. For more information contact marketing and communications at 7202 or mktg@up.edu.