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Green Dot for Staff and Faculty: Interpersonal Violence Bystander Intervention Training (Dec. 15 & 18)

December 8, 2025

Learn skills you can use to intervene if you notice concerning signs of gendered or sexual harassment or violence on campus or in your home community.

Filed Under: 2025-12-08, Issues Tagged With: Green Dot, Wellness Education & Prevention Training

Get Involved with Student Wellness!

December 9, 2024

Have you been wondering how you can get involved to make our world a better place for future generations? Or maybe you just want to make UP a safer place for students, faculty, and staff to live, learn and work. Student Wellness has a great selection of opportunities for engagement! (Read More)

Filed Under: 2024-12-09, 2024-12-23, Issues Tagged With: Green Dot, Student Wellness

Interpersonal Violence Prevention Committee Survey

April 1, 2024

The Interpersonal Violence Prevention Committee needs to plan our initiatives for next year as well as larger multi-year initiatives. This short survey will help us to know who our campus community partners are and what they think about possible future initiatives. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-04-01, Issues Tagged With: Green Dot, Interpersonal Violence Prevention Advisory Commitee

Green Dot Community Training Series (Mar. 20-Apr. 10)

March 18, 2024

In a fit of March Madness, we are offering Green Dot Community Training for students, staff, and faculty. We will offer (4) 75-minute training sessions that employ a modified bystander training approach, with an emphasis on learning activities for violence prevention skills, use, and collaboration. These are drop-in training courses, so it’s okay if you can’t make it to all of them. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-03-18, Issues Tagged With: Green Dot

Green Dot Faculty & Staff Overview (Jan. 26)

January 22, 2024

Please join us for a Professional Development opportunity focused on contributing to a safe and healthy campus for all. The Green Dot Faculty and Staff Overview (70-minute training) focuses on addressing issues related to gender and sexual violence on campus. (Read More)

Filed Under: 01-22-2024, Issues Tagged With: Green Dot

Green Dot Facilitator Training (Aug 8.–11)

March 3, 2023

The Wellness Center and Campus Ministry have secured funding to revitalize the Green Dot program here at UP! The Wellness Center is hosting a Green Dot facilitator training here at UP on August 8–11. We hope to have individuals from as many departments as possible attend the training and be Green Dot facilitators so we […]

Filed Under: 2023-03-06, 2023-03-20, 2023-04-03 Tagged With: Green Dot, Health & Wellness Center

Wellness Education & Prevention Training Available to the UP Community!

November 12, 2022

The Wellness Education & Prevention team has created a new online form for UP staff, faculty, and students to request Wellness training. Available trainings:   Jed Foundation’s “You Can Help a Student”  Jed Foundation’s “You Can Help a Friend”  Green Dot  General overview of wellness and counseling services on campus  This form will be open year-round […]

Filed Under: 11-14-2022, 11-28-2022, Human Resources Tagged With: Green Dot, Health & Wellness Center, Wellness Education & Prevention Training

Invitation to Join the Interpersonal Violence Prevention (IVP) Advisory Committee

November 12, 2022

Our first meeting of this academic year will be on Wednesday, November 30, from 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. in the lower level of Orrico Hall. One of the topics will be the plan to broaden the mission of the committee to include an advisory role to campus violence prevention efforts. To align with this expanded role, […]

Filed Under: 11-14-2022 Tagged With: Green Dot, Interpersonal Violence Prevention Advisory Commitee, Office of Student Affairs, Tammy Herdener

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month

September 30, 2022

We all want to help when we see someone in trouble, but how can we increase the likelihood that we actually do? REACTIVE GREEN DOTS: BEING AN ACTIVE BYSTANDER AND INTERVENING IN SITUATIONS OF VIOLENCE Don’t forget your 3 D’s: Direct. Distract. Watch this creative example of a Distract! Delegate.  PROACTIVE GREEN DOTS: ESTABLISHING NEW NORMS Wear […]

Filed Under: 10-03-2022 Tagged With: Green Dot

Faculty & Staff Green Dot Training: Wednesday, June 12

June 7, 2019

All faculty and staff members are invited to attend Green Dot Training on Wednesday, June 12. Training will be hosted from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Bauccio Commons Terrace Room. This training will introduce basic elements of Green Dot, focusing specifically on the vital role university employees play in establishing and reinforcing the culture that […]

Filed Under: 06-10-2019, Academics, Campus Services Tagged With: Green Dot, Megan Cohara

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Nick McRee, Sociology and Social Work, published “Academic debate and civic engagement in adolescence and young adulthood: evidence from a national longitudinal study.” Argumentation and Advocacy, 61(3–4), 323–338. He also published “When Chairs Shield Faculty from Service Opportunities: Protecting Colleagues or Hindering Community?” The Department Chair, 36(3), 11-13.

Katie Danielson, Education, was awarded a grant from The Spencer Foundation in the amount of $374,940.00 for the “Collaborating Towards Transformational Visions for Digital School Systems” project. Danielson also published “Learning to let go: Transformations in teachers’ pedagogical reasoning about classroom discussion.” Co-authors: Gotwalt, E., Kavanagh, S. Teaching and Teacher Education. January 2026

Daniel Bulek, Nursing & Health Innovations, published “From monoamine deficits to multiscale plasticity: Twenty-five years of ketamine and the neurophysiology of depression.” Journal of Neurophysiology, jn.00516.2025.

Dave Houglum, Director of Leadership Studies and Leadership Professor of Practice in the Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, facilitated a multi-day series of invited leadership development workshops for the staff team at Lutherhaven Ministries in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Houglum led six interactive sessions focused on DiSC-informed leadership, coaching-centered leadership, servant leadership and accompaniment, powerful feedback, and the co-creation of team commitments to support healthy culture and sustainable impact. In addition, Houglum provided multiple individual leadership coaching sessions for staff members throughout the engagement. January 2026.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published the following articles in VoiceAfrique.org: “The Saturated Wisdom of Saint Joseph: Relevant Virtues for Our Times.” (Reflections on the Readings of the Fourth Sunday of Advent, 2025). December 19, 2025. “The Gift of the Nativity is Grounded in an Ethics of Neighborliness.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Mass on Christmas Day, December 25, 2025). December 24, 2025. “The Spirituality of Ambition and the Grace of the Incarnation.” Reflections on the Readings for the Vigil Mass of Christmas, 2025. December 24, 2025. “The Theotokos: A Mirror in Which We Discover Ourselves as Bearers of God’s Life to Each Other.” (Reflection on the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God.) December 31, 2025. “Jesus Christ: The Revealer of the Grace of Encounters and an Embrace of Difference.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord. January 4, 2026.) January 3, 2026. “Christian Baptism as a Summon for Global Justice: What We Must Embrace for Our Times.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Sunday of the Baptism of the Lord. January 11, 2026.) January 10, 2026. Aihiokhai also published a review of The Cross and the Olive Tree: Cultivating Palestinian Theology Amid Gaza. Edited by John S. Munayer and Samuel S. Munayer. Orbis Books, 2025. Catholicbooksreview.org

Jeff Kerssen-Griep, Communication and Media, presented “Teaching with Transformative International Conflict Partners” on the panel, “Healing Divides and Elevating Connections within Conflict & Peacebuilding.” National Communication Association Convention. November, 2025.

Christi Richardson-Zboralski, Director of Marketing – Graduate Programs, published a short story under pen name, Christi R. Suzanne, entitled “Outlaw’s Dust.” In Lisa Diane Kastner (Ed.) 27 Stories: An LA Wildfire Anthology. Running Wild Press. January 7, 2026. All proceeds from this anthology go toward Habitat for Humanity LA. Find it on the Broadway Books website or on Bookshop.org.

Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC, published From Glory to Glory: A Pilgrim’s Notes From the Badlands of Grace. Occasioned by the author’s walking, with siblings, the famous Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2024, the book traces all manner of other pilgrimages—to and from home, family, love, self, and God. One Subject Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. November, 2025.

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