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Rebecca Seibert

Spring 2021 Community Conversations: You’re Invited

January 8, 2021

Staff and faculty are invited to come together across departments and discuss anti-racist texts in small groups. This spring our conversations will focus on the ReadUP selection, How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, and episodes of the University of Portland’s Black Student Union original podcast, Black on the Bluff. For further information and to register, visit the site.

For more information contact Rebecca Seibert, international education, diversity, and inclusion, at seibert@up.edu.

Filed Under: 01-11-2021, Campus Services Tagged With: Office of International Education Diversity & Inclusion, Rebecca Seibert

New Resources On Inclusion Page: International Education, Diversity, and Inclusion

November 27, 2020

The University’s inclusion page now has two new resource pages: a one-stop shop for prospective and current undocumented students, as well as a page serving our LGBTQ+ students, faculty, and staff.  A special thank you to the students and staff whose hard work made these pages possible. We look forward to your feedback and to working with all of our campus partners to build upon and highlight the resources available to our Pilots. Explore the pages using this link.

For more information contact Rebecca Seibert, international education, diversity, and inclusion, at x7838 or seibert@up.edu.

Filed Under: 11-30-2020, Academics, Campus Services, Diversity & Inclusion, International Education Tagged With: Office of International Education Diversity & Inclusion, Rebecca Seibert

International Education Week: Nov. 16-20

November 13, 2020

The U.S. State Department’s International Education Week (IEW) is November 16-20 and will be hosted by the University of Portland International Club, according to Rebecca Seibert, international education, diversity, and inclusion.

The slogan for this year’s International Education Week is “Alone Together.” We want to emphasize that even though we cannot be together in person, we are still all here for each other. Participants will be able to connect with others through these events and celebrate and learn about various cultures around the world, an essential step as we work to advocate for the BIPOC community and for diversity. We hope that you will enjoy our educational and recreational cultural events. 

Please use this link to view and join the week’s activities.

Filed Under: 11-16-2020, Academics, Campus Services, International Education Tagged With: and Inclusion, Diversity, International Club, International Education, International Education Week, Rebecca Seibert

A Reminder: Community Conversations on Oct. 29

October 23, 2020

The international education, diversity, and inclusion office would like to remind faculty and staff to RSVP as soon as possible for their upcoming Community Conversations on October 29. Attendees will again engage in meaningful peer-to-peer conversations about race. Read either How to be an antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi or Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper. Details are available here by using this link.

Questions? Contact Rebecca Seibert, international education, diversity, and inclusion, at seibert@up.edu.

Filed Under: 10-19-2020, 10-26-2020, Campus Services, International Education Tagged With: Community Conversations, Office of International Education Diversity & Inclusion, Rebecca Seibert

International Education, Diversity & Inclusion Workshops, Trainings

September 25, 2020

The Office of International Education, Diversity, and Inclusion (with diversity and inclusion programs) will offer free DEI workshops and trainings for students (Racial Healing, Identity/Bias, LGBTQIA+ inclusivity, etc.) this semester. To sign up and see what will be offered please use this link. While many of the workshops are currently open only to QTBIPOC student leaders and student workers, any QTBIPOC student is invited to attend Resiliency and Restoration: Collectively Healing from Our Racialized Experiences and can RSVP via Engage.

For more information contact Rebecca Seibert, International Education, Diversity, and Inclusion, at x7838 or seibert@up.edu.

Filed Under: 09-21-2020, 09-28-2020, Campus Services, Diversity & Inclusion Tagged With: Diversity & Inclusion Program, Rebecca Seibert

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Anita Gooding, social work, was selected as a 2020-2021 Field Research Scholar by the Transforming Field Education Landscape (TFEL) program at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Scholars attend regular seminars and present their own research related to strengthening field education in social work.

Ösel Plante, development, has a debut collection of poetry titled Waveland set for publication by Black Lawrence Press in April 2021. Please use this link to learn more.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering. recently shared some of his work on palindrome dates with the staff of Farmers’ Almanac which lead to an articled titled “2021: A Special Year For Palindrome Dates, Starting This Month!” See the article using this link.

Bob Butler, professor emeritus of environmental studies; Jenda Johnson, Earth Sciences Animated; and Nic Zentner, Central Washington University, published an animation titled “Ghost Forests: Evidence for a Giant Earthquake & Tsunami in the Pacific Northwest.” This animation explores how Native American oral history, geology of ghost forests in coastal Washington and Oregon, and written accounts of a tsunami that flooded Japanese Pacific Coast villages converge to document the most recent Cascadia subduction zone megathrust earthquake on January 26, 1700 at about 9 p.m. The Ghost Forest animation can be found on the IRIS website at: https://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/animation/740 or on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPbt8iiDRo&feature=youtu.be.

Steven Kolmes, environmental studies, wrote an editorial on “Sustainability and the Role of Higher Education” in Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, Vol. 62, , pp. 2-3. See the article at this link. He also contributed “On a ‘Just’ Transition, Environment” in Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 63:1, 29-31, DOI: 10.1080/00139157.2021.1842715.. See the article using this link.

Amber Vermeesch, nursing, received an Opus Prize Foundation Grant Sabbatical Support, Opus Prize Foundation, $5,000, on November 12, 2020.

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