Carol Dell’Oliver

Grief Support for UP Faculty & Staff

October 25, 2019

All faculty and staff are invited to join in a conversation on how to cope with the recent loss of UP student Owen Klinger on Monday, October 28, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., in the Brian Doyle Auditorium. Co-facilitators will be Jennifer Crow, a grief and trauma specialist, and Carol Dell’Oliver, Health and Counseling Center.

Facilitators will provide a safe place to discuss personal reactions and ways to cope with grief and loss in the workplace, information and resources for getting support and caring for yourself and others, and strategies for effectively responding to grieving students.

For more information contact human resources at hr@up.edu.

New Health and Counseling Center Director

July 14, 2017

Carol Dell’Oliver has accepted the University’s offer to be the new director of the Health and Counseling Center. Her first day on campus will be Wednesday, August 2.

Dell’Oliver is a licensed clinical psychologist and is currently director of the Caldwell Counseling Center at Warner Pacific University. She has extensive background in college counseling, supervision, and clinical leadership as well as she has experience providing outpatient mental health services to children, adolescents, and adults in her private practice.

Susan Chisum, assistant director for primary care, has served as interim director since May. For more information contact Fr. John Donato, C.S.C., vice president for student affairs, at x8532 or donato@up.edu.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, wrote a brain teaser in honor of the late Jim Lehrer for the Columbian on February 18, 2020. See the article using this link.

Anne Santiago, political science, presented “Teaching Research by Critical Analysis Using ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Research” at the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, Teaching Research, Writing, and Literacy Track, Albuquerque, NM, 6-9 February 2020.

Sally Hood, education, wrote “Student language use in a one-way Mandarin immersion classroom” (with J. Bucknam) in RELC Journal, 1-15, February 2020.

Andrew Guest, psychological sciences, in collaboration with Fr. Peter Siamoo, presented a paper on February 13 in Moshi Tanzania titled “Using Extracurricular Activities to Enhance Education Quality: Applying Positive Youth Development Theory in Kilimanjaro Region Secondary Schools” at the seventh annual Educational Research and Evaluation International Conference co-organized by the Society of Educational Research and Evaluation in Kenya and Mwenge Catholic University.

Bohn Lattin, communication studies, helped to adjudicate the Final Lincoln Douglas debate round for the National Christian Forensics & Communication Association Regional Qualifier on Saturday, February 15, 2020.

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