News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
Join us for the next offering of the Pamplin School of Business’ Learning Lab series! “Fundamentals of a Successful Grants Program” led by Brianna Richards (MBA Nonprofit ’24) of Contour Strategies.
This free, hands-on grant-writing workshop is open to all students, alumni and business partners.
When: September, 20 – 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Where: Franz Hall, Room 120
Click the registration link to learn more and reserve your spot:
The core team for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inclusive Excellence (HHMI-IE3) grant is seeking one more faculty member. The grant funds 134 participating institutions who work together in seven “learning community clusters” aimed at creating inclusive STEM learning environments. The University of Portland’s cluster specifically focuses on the challenge of meaningful evaluation of effective and inclusive teaching, which will inform faculty practices, including promotion and tenure decisions.
In addition to participating in participating in the governance of the University of Portland’s part of the grant, this member would serve as the team’s representative to the cluster’s Learning Team 1 (LT1), which is tasked with evaluating policies and examining how we might change academic policies at our institutions to shift towards inclusive excellence in teaching. This learning team meets virtually at 10:00 a.m. on the first Friday of each month, so the LT1 representative would need to be available at that time. Each learning team representative earns an annual stipend of $2500.00.
For more information or to apply for the open position, please contact Tamar More, team lead, at more@up.edu by September 20.
Building on several successful College of Arts and Sciences initiatives that bring together Artificial Intelligence and Ethics in conversation, CAS is hosting the AI and Ethics Working Group on September, 23 from 1-2:30 p.m. in BC 215. We will continue conversations that began this summer regarding faculty research, grant planning, and curricular innovation related to AI and Ethics.
All interested faculty are invited to join.
For more information or questions, please email Christi Hancock hancock@up.edu
Faculty and staff are invited to a lunch discussion on Constructive Dialogue. The CTL is partnering with Anne Santiago, Ph.D., the Dundon-Berchtold Faculty Fellow for Constructive Dialogue, to explore how we, as faculty, can support student learning in this area.
With a student body diversifying at a pace much faster than faculty demographics, along with students wanting to connect classroom experiences and content to present-day phenomena, we are likely to encounter socially challenging or politically charged topics in classroom discussions. How we manage those discussions can significantly move us forward in achieving our instructional goals.
Where: Teske Room
When: September 25, from 12:20 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Seats are limited and lunch will be provided, so please RSVP to the Center for Teaching and Learning (ctl@up.edu) by September 22 to reserve a space.
Does your area of expertise intersect with the city of Portland in interesting ways? Could it? If Portland is both a place we live and a set of stories we tell about that place, how could your disciplinary field or community experience offer new ways of representing the city, or questioning stereotypes about it? 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.
For the bulk of the semester, we’ll host guest faculty each week who will select readings, develop discussion questions, and craft a class plan (including a mini-lecture and an interactive, student-centered component) on a focused Portland topic, object, stereotype, or locale (consider: bridges, rain, “foodies,” the urban growth boundary, gentrification, bikes, etc.). Guest faculty earn a $500 stipend for their contributions.
If you’re interested, email the course conveners, Jen McDaneld (mcdaneld@up.edu) and Molly Hiro (hiro@up.edu), with a brief description of a proposed topic and how it’s relevant to telling a Portland story, by Monday, Sept. 30.
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. We’ll invite attendees to read a brief recent Washington Post article on how other campuses are encouraging spaces for open discussion prior to the event. Then we’ll talk over lunch about what conversation at UP looks like right now, our approaches to creating good conversation, and how we might import new ideas for fostering civil discourse on our campus from the article and elsewhere. We’ll also consider the limits of these approaches and the thorny question of how to determine the boundaries of what we talk about in our classrooms.
Event Details: Tuesday, October 1, 12:30-1:45 p.m. – Location TBA
This lunch is sponsored by UP’s 3-year NEH Humanities Connections Grant, by the Civic Humanities Working Group (CHWG—convening this year), and by UP’s College of Arts and Sciences. We’ll share more about the grant and what the working group is up to at the lunch as well.
Faculty from all disciplines are welcome to join, but limited seating is available. Please email Molly Hiro (hiro@up.edu) to reserve your spot by September 20. Location TBA and will be shared after you RSVP.
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.
Individually, Scholars will undertake or enhance an inclusive pedagogical project in areas that may include inclusive classroom strategies, assignments, activities, and assessments that support diverse student perspectives, and/or the development of or utilization of learning materials from underrepresented scholars. Collectively, they would help each other, our campus enterprise, and serve as the conduit between the CTL and each academic unit for all things under the inclusive teaching umbrella.
Scholars will be compensated $1000 for participation in the year-long program. This program is supported by the Howard Hughes Inclusive Excellence IE3 Grant.
Applications are due September 27.
The application form and information sheet can be downloaded at the link below:
Email ctl@up.edu with questions or call Terry Favero, at x7373.
Congratulations to our retiring faculty! The University Archives and Museum announces a new post on PortLog recognizing these eight members of the University faculty for their many years of service. Visit this site for a slideshow of the honored retirees and see how they’ve changed over the years: https://sites.up.edu/museum/2022-retiring-faculty/
For more information, contact Carolyn Connolly, museum coordinator, at piatz@up.edu.
Now is the time to start sending the Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement (OUSE) the names of current juniors who would be strong candidates to apply for Fulbright Grants. Fulbright offers grants to countries around the world, and in many cases, the applicant is not expected to have studied the language of the host country. Likewise, Fulbright has no minimum GPA requirement, but they are looking for people who will be good ambassadors for the United States. Fulbright is particularly interested in getting applications from underrepresented groups. Students from all disciplines and schools are encouraged to apply, but OUSE needs faculty to identify them.
The theme of Faculty Development Day this year was “Compassionate Listening.” As speakers Joanie Levine and Yehuda Winter mentioned, they will be holding a Compassionate Listening Basics Intensive Workshop on Friday, May 17 to Sunday, May 19 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Portland. This three-day workshop in Compassionate Listening will help attendees learn a powerful set of skills that enable them to help begin to heal the world from the inside out.
Any member of the University community—faculty, administrators, staff, students—is welcome to participate. Simply get a taste of the Art of Compassionate Listening on Friday, May 17, or to sign up for the complete three-day Basics Intensive. Fees are $175-275 (sliding scale; $75 deposit due at registration) or $10 for Friday only. You may register at this link.
For more information, please contact Matthew Lawrence at matthew@trinity-episcopal.org or Louisa Egan-Brad, psychological sciences, at brad@up.edu.
Dr. Louisa C. Egan Brad