Impact of Catholic Education in America Conference

Impact Of Catholic Education

April 29, 2013

All faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend “The Impact of Catholic Education in America,” a conference to be held June 20-22, 2013 on the University of Portland campus, according to Jamie Powell, Garaventa Center. The conference, coordinated and cosponsored with the School of Education and the PACE program, brings together teachers, school administrators, pastors, and scholars to deepen the conversation around the serious issues facing Catholic schools today, as well as the impact these schools have had on the flourishing of the Catholic faith throughout the nation.

Members of the UP community—including undergraduate students—may attend any or all sessions free of charge but are asked to register at http://www.up.edu/garaventa/. Faculty who have local archdiocesan teachers, administrators, or pastors as students are asked to let them know that registration is $100 for the Friday sessions, which include topics of particular interest to them. There are also a limited number of $50 scholarships available. For more information contact Powell at 7702 or powell@up.edu.

Impact Of Catholic Education

April 15, 2013

All faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend “The Impact of Catholic Education in America,” a conference to be held June 20-22, 2013 on the University of Portland campus, according to Jamie Powell, Garaventa Center. The purpose of the conference is to bring together teachers, school administrators, pastors, and scholars to deepen the conversation around issues facing Catholic schools today and the impact these schools have had on the flourishing of the Catholic faith throughout the nation.

Members of the UP community—including undergraduate students—may attend any or all sessions free of charge but are asked to register at http://www.up.edu/garaventa/. Faculty who have local archdiocesan teachers, administrators, or pastors as students are asked to let them know that registration is $100 for the Friday sessions, which include topics of particular interest to them (technology in the classroom, school standards and benchmarks, legal topics, effective school boards, transferring the mission to lay leadership, etc). There are also a limited number of $50 scholarships available to this group.

For more information contact Powell at 7702 or powell@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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