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Moodle Downtime, Fall Course Availability
The academic technology services and innovation office has scheduled a brief downtime for Moodle upgrades on Friday, May 8, from 9 to 10 a.m. We’ll be getting the latest Moodle fixes in place and getting Moodle ready for an online summer semester!
Also, the course creation process for fall semester is underway and should be completed by the time you are reading this. If you’d like to have course sections combined please see our Request a Course Merge Moodle Guide.
Would you like to consult with an instructional designer or get additional training on Moodle to plan for fall 2020? Please contact atsi@up.edu.
Student Leadership Awards For 2019-2020
The third annual Leadership Awards were celebrated online and announced via the Student Activities Instagram account between April 20 and 24 as well as the University of Portland website. Fifteen student leaders and 2 staff members who exemplified leadership and significantly contributed towards the University’s mission during the 2019 -2020 academic year received awards.
Division of Student Affairs Award Recipients include:
- The Rev. John Van Wolvlear C.S.C. Award For Outstanding Involvement in Student Affairs- Diana Salgado Huicochea
- The Outstanding Ambassador Award– Taylor Rayray
- The Residence Life Award for Meritorious Service– Darsh Patel
- The Pilot Award – Isa Siamundo
- The Holy Cross Award – Rev. Fr. Charlie McCoy, C.S.C.
- The Brian Doyle Student Media Award– Dora Totoian
- The Kate Johnson Outstanding Service Award– Leah Carr
- Shiley School of Engineering Intern of the Year Award – Dan Moldovan
- Pamplin School of Business Intern of the Year Award – Natalie Nygren
- College of Arts & Sciences Intern of the Year Award – Georgia Paulk
- The Rev. Fred Barr C.S.C. Campus Ministry Leadership Award– Ryan Helbling
- The Community Care Award– Elizabeth Tripp
- The Rev. John B. Delaunay, C.S.C. Peer Health Advocacy Award– Aubrey Labonte-Clark) and Ellie Jacobs
- The Student Affairs Award for Outstanding Contributions to Diversity and Inclusion– Carolina Cortes
- The Newcomer in Student Affairs Award– Tshombé Brown
- The Outstanding Contributor to Core Themes Award– Michael Kranyak
For more information, please contact Christina Laird at lairdc@up.edu.
National Scar Tissue, November 22, 1963
More Patron Saints For The Current Condition: Did You Know?
Did you know that there are patron saints for most anything, even the internet? “Patron saints” in Catholicism are venerable women and men from throughout history who are heavenly advocates for places, professions and people. It is good to know that in the oddest of times there are saints who we can turn to as an aid on our way. In this time when we are leaning heavily on the internet, it is good to know who to turn to for continued support.
As the internet was gaining sway in everyday life, Pope St. John Paul II named St. Isidore of Seville the patron on the internet, which is interesting because St. Isidor was bishop of Seville in 600 AD – a few years before the internet came to be. As bishop he created a school that became a model for early universities. He also sought to establish for the community good norms for social justice and representative government as well as firm foundations in the faith. Yet the main thing that helped get him connected to the copious content of the internet is his twenty-book opus where he sought to set out the origins of as many things as he could, from language to law, from biology to agriculture, from Church history to road building. He tried to share as much knowledge as there was to be shared, and is therefore seen as someone who had in mind the great potential of sharing that comes through the internet.
Also noted as a possible patron of the internet is St Maximillian Kolbe, who built a large media service to bring news, information, and religious education to rural areas of Poland in the 1920s. In a similar vein for how we hope to gain much of what we find on the internet, he would give away all of his material for free. While often best-known for offering his life in the place of another in a German concentration camp, it is well worth looking up his many other contributions for the good of others.
All you holy women and men, pray for us.
“Did You Know” is a regular feature in UPBeat that reveals the wondrous and occasionally peculiar world of Catholicism. We will close out this academic year with info on patron saints for the current condition. Direct questions or ideas to Fr. Jim Gallagher C.S.C., or Karen Eifler.
Virtual Thesis Defense: Carly Volkmer on May 1
The Department of Communication Studies invites all faculty and staff to attend Carly M. Volkmer’s virtual thesis defense on May 1 from 12:30-2 p.m. via Zoom. Carly her thesis, An Empirical (Re)Exploration of Leadership in a Nonprofit: Understanding Leadership as a Perspective and a Practice. Her qualitative study of a nonprofit argues that leadership can be a mechanism for creating an inclusive and diverse culture. She illustrates how organizational participants engage in everyday routine organizing processes that create inclusive cultural assumptions that then lend to constituting leadership as collective agency or a collective ability to act, act for, and act with others toward a purpose.
If you would like to attend this thesis defense, please contact Natalie Nelson-Marsh at nelsonma@up.edu for a zoom invite.
Changing Times, Remembered Days: September 11, 2001
Online Campus Masses, Resources for Prayer & Spirituality
Starting Sunday, March 22, Campus Ministry will be streaming and posting Sunday and Daily Mass online. Sunday Mass will be streamed at the regular time of 10:30 a.m. and Daily Masses at the regular time of 12:05 p.m. Check the Campus Ministry website for more details using this link.
Campus Ministry has also gathered many of the online resources for prayer and spirituality that are produced on campus and linked to them through this page. Feel free to let us know if there are other resources that we should know about by emailing ministry@up.edu.