News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
Join us for our final Brown Bag education session of the year, which will focus on updated policies and progress of the Staff Employee Handbook.
Tuesday, November 19 from 12-1 p.m. | Franz Hall 120
Please register at the link below:
Register today to learn essential strategies for inclusive communication in our diverse campus community. This presentation will equip you with practical tools to navigate cross-cultural interactions, mitigate biases, and leverage diverse perspectives. Enhance your ability to foster a respectful, creative, and collaborative university environment.
The workshop will be held on October 31, from 12-1 p.m. in Franz 120.
For questions, contact pfeifer@up.edu
The Mission Committee, the Office of the Provost, and Human Resources invite all faculty and staff to attend a day-long spiritual retreat on Friday, November 8, 2024. The retreat will be held on campus from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. and will highlight themes of Catholic Social Teaching. Retreat leaders are Dr. Jordan Skornik, Executive Director of the Borland Free Clinic & Adjunct Faculty in Theology and Fr. Peter Walsh, CSC, Co-Director of the Garaventa Center.
The goal of the retreat is to provide a time for individual and communal spiritual reflection and renewal, to deepen faculty and staff connections to one another and to the University’s Catholic, Holy Cross mission and identity, and to invite staff and faculty to reflect on and embrace their vital contributions to our shared mission.
For more information and the retreat schedule, visit the link below.
Please note that participation in the day-retreat will be considered a regular workday for staff, per supervisory approval.
To sign up for the retreat, please send an RSVP to Shannon Mayer, Co-Director of the Garaventa Center, at mayers@up.edu. You can also contact Shannon with any questions about schedule, participation, accommodations, etc.
As a reminder from the Fall 2024 Human Resources Newsletter ALL employees (part-time or full-time, staff or faculty) must complete the 3 annual training courses listed below (found in Moodle, accessed through PilotsUP).
As an incentive to kick off the yearly training campaign, employees who complete all three annual trainings by the deadline October 18, 2024, will be entered into a raffle to win one of ten $50 Amazon gift cards. Employees not actively working this Fall semester or who are taking an approved leave of absence are not eligible for the raffle and should complete trainings when they return to work. Employees do NOT need to email when the trainings are completed but are strongly encouraged to keep their own records of training completion dates. Gift card winners will be notified via UP email.
Human Resources will host a series of Brown Bag education sessions for information on hiring, benefits, and employment policies.
All sessions will be held in Franz Hall 120 from 12-1 p.m.
Registration is required, please RSVP.
The Committee on Mission, Campus Ministry, the Office of the Provost, and Human Resources invite you to attend a day-long spiritual retreat for Faculty and Staff on Friday, October 6, 2023. The retreat will be held on campus. The goal of the retreat is to provide a time for spiritual reflection and renewal, to deepen faculty and staff connections to one another and to the University’s Catholic, Holy Cross mission and identity, and to invite staff and faculty to reflect on and embrace their vital contributions to our shared mission.
Sign-up information can be found here: https://pilotsprevent.qualtrics.com
Please note that participation in the day-retreat will be considered a regular workday for staff, per supervisory approval.
Please contact Mission Committee chair Shannon Mayer at mayers@up.edu with any questions about schedule, participation, accommodations, etc.
The Office of Human Resources would like to share the ways in which you can obtain FREE COVID-19 testing kits. As the University will no longer be providing free kits once the remaining supply has been distributed, the following are resources available to you:
Kaiser members can go here to order tests from Kaiser Permanente. Members may also call 800-413-2000 to schedule a time to pick up free testing kits from a Kaiser Pharmacy (based on availability of supply).
Employees who are not covered under the University’s health care should contact their insurance company for information about how to obtain home test kits from their insurance.
If you are symptomatic or feeling ill, HR reminds you to please stay home, rest, wear a mask, test, and quarantine and/or isolate as appropriate. If you do test positive for COVID-19, please report here for contact tracing purposes.
Both sick time and COVID time remain available to you, along with other resources and guidance found here.
Please direct any questions you may have about COVID time, COVID protocols, or other related concerns to Human Resources at hr@up.edu.
All members of the UP community are invited to join the Title IX Advisory Committee and attend our meetings on Mondays at 11 a.m. this spring. Title IX Advisory Committee Meetings for Spring will take place at the following times on Zoom (https://uportland.zoom.us/j/97562343235). Our remaining meeting takes place on Monday, April 26, at 11 a.m.
If you aren’t able to make the Monday morning meetings you can stay in the loop about meeting discussion topics by checking out the meeting minutes available on the Title IX website, https://www.up.edu/titleix/titleixupdates.html.
Regardless of your ability to attend the Monday morning meetings, you’re invited to join a subcommittee to work toward positive change. Subcommittees focus on a particular need identified for our community and work towards their goals and meet outside of the main Title IX Advisory Committee meeting.
Please email titleix@up.edu if you are interested in joining a subcommittee. Contact Sarah Meiser, human resources, at 8484 or meiser@up.edu for more information.
University of Portland is happy to announce some unique opportunities for Flexible Spending Accounts benefits this year per the Consolidated Appropriations Act which allows temporary changes to Section 125 cafeteria plans due to the COVID-19 pandemic:
If you have any questions please reach out to the HR benefits team at benefits@up.edu.
All members of the UP community are invited to join the Title IX Advisory Committee and attend our meetings on Mondays at 11 a.m. this Spring.
Title IX Advisory Committee Meetings for Spring will take place at the following times on Zoom (https://uportland.zoom.us/j/97562343235). Our remaining meetings are on:
If you aren’t able to make the Monday morning meetings you can stay up in the loop about meeting discussion topics by checking out the meeting minutes available on the Title IX website.
Regardless of your ability to attend the Monday morning meetings, you’re invited to join a subcommittee to work toward positive change. Subcommittees focus on a particular need identified for our community and work towards their goals and meet outside of the main Title IX Advisory Committee meeting.
Please email titleix@up.edu if you are interested in joining a subcommittee.