Sarah Meiser

Title IX Advisory Committee Meeting: Dec. 3

November 27, 2020

All members of the UP community are invited to join the Title IX Advisory Committee meeting to learn more about Title IX related policies, processes, and supports at UP and provide feedback and insight to help the Title IX office best serve our community.

The next Title IX Advisory Committee Meeting will be on Thursday, December 3, 9-10 a.m., on Zoom (https://uportland.zoom.us/j/97991828616). We hope you can join us.

The Title IX Advisory Committee has created three subcommittees to address needs in our community related to Title IX:

Cultural Change and Education Committee: designed for those interested in advocacy, getting information/resources out to campus, and being part of change change.
Student Advocacy Program Committee: designed to help build a student-driven advocacy program at UP.
Non-UP Confidential Resource Program Committee: designed to address student desire for an off-campus resource not affiliated with UP but likely located on campus.

Please let us know (titleix@up.edu) if you are interested in serving on a subcommittee or know someone who is. For more information contact Sarah Meiser, HR, at x8484 or meiser@up.edu.

Invitation To Join Work Of The Title IX Team

October 9, 2020

As you may have seen recently in The Beacon, all members of the UP community are invited to attend Title IX Advisory Committee meetings. The work of preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based harassment, misconduct, and violence and the barriers to education they create, requires our entire community and cannot be the lone work of a committee or office.

There will be one more Title IX Advisory Committee meeting (via Zoom) in October; we hope you can join us.

On October 22, 9 to 10 a.m., we will have a remote meeting on Zoom. At this meeting we will be discussing the relevance of “The Bystander Moment” in our UP community and other agenda items relevant to the work of the Title IX Office and our community.

Remote meetings can be accessed by using this link.

Please communicate your interest in attending meetings and topics you’d like the committee to address at future meetings at this link. Knowing ahead of time who is planning to attend meetings allows for efficient sharing of information in our remote format.

We look forward to hearing from you and discussing these important topics with our community.

If you have any questions or need any accommodations to fully participate, please contact Sarah Meiser, deputy Title IX coordinator for compliance, at meisers@up.edu.

Move-Out Donations Take a Bite Out of Waste

May 13, 2016

meiser sarah copy Residence life and the physical plant recently teamed up to collect unwanted clothing, household goods, and non-perishable food from students before they moved out of the dorms at the conclusion of the spring 2016 semester, according to Sarah Meiser, residence life. The items were then donated to local community organizations to assist others in the greater community and reduce waste.

243 pounds of food were donated to the St. Vincent de Paul Society (housed at Holy Cross parish) to help alleviate food insecurity for people and families in the local community.

Approximately 43 cubic feet of kitchen items and some lamps and pieces of furniture were donated to Community Warehouse to help their mission of assisting vulnerable populations improve the quality of their lives and become self-sufficient by providing them with basic household furnishings.

Over 4,000 pounds of shoes, clothing, and bedding were donated to The ARC of Multnomah County to assist their work promoting and protecting the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supporting their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.

For more information contact Sarah Meiser, residence life, at 7205 or meisers@up.edu.