The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) invites all full-time faculty, lecturers, and instructors to submit proposals for the Spring 2023 Arthur Butine Faculty Development Fund. Projects and Conference applications are limited to $2,000 in the spring funding cycle. Please use the most current application forms which are now available for download from the Butine Moodle site. Also, a reminder that applicants should discuss their Butine proposals with their respective deans (and chairs for CAS applicants) before applying. Deadline to TAS and to Chair/Deans, Friday, February 17. Contact TAS chair Patrick Murphy, tas@up.edu, with questions.
Teaching and Scholarship
Faculty Development Day: Keynote Video Available
The opening session of Faculty Development Day is now available as a video that anyone can view. After some introductory remarks, the highlight is the keynote by Loretta J. Ross, Smith College, and Simon Aihiokhai, University of Portland, titled “Building Trust and Finding Encounters: Frameworks for Respectful Engagement with Our Students and with Each Other.” It includes presentations from the speakers followed by an engaging Q&A.
Faculty Development Day (May 11) Program is Available
The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship is pleased to announce that the virtual Faculty Development Day program is ready! We hope this helps you plan your schedule so you can get the most out of it and support your colleagues who are presenting.
The day begins at 8:45 a.m. with a welcome and keynote, followed by an array of excellent sessions to choose from, and closes with the Faculty Awards and Retirement Ceremony at 5:30 p.m. These are all Zoom-based and the ones that will be recorded are noted in the program. Those recordings will be made available later through the Faculty Development Day Moodle page.
This annual event was cancelled last year, so we are excited to bring it back in 2021! It’s a great opportunity for faculty to learn, share, connect, and appreciate each other! Please contact Diane Sotak, sotak@up.edu, with questions or requests for accommodations.
Faculty Development Day, May 11: Call for Session Proposals
The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship is pleased to announce the return of Faculty Development Day which will be a virtual event on May 11, 2021. The schedule and number of programs are still to be determined. However, the committee is now accepting proposals for 45-minute sessions on topics related to the keynote theme or on a topic of interest to you and your peers. Please email a title, brief program description, whether you prefer to have it recorded, and any other requests to tas@up.edu by April 1.
The keynote theme is “Building Trust and Finding Encounters: Frameworks for Respectful Engagement with Our Students and with Each Other.” The presenters are Professor Loretta J. Ross, Smith College and Simon Aihiokhai, University of Portland.
Keynote Abstract:
As faculty members at the University of Portland prepare students to respond to the needs of an interconnected world, it is essential to navigate the terrain of increasingly globalized and diverse identities and to build trust. Our multiple identities: race, class, gender, religion, ability and other salient aspects influence how we view and react within our local, national and global spaces. Faculty members have the opportunity to learn about their students who come from diverse backgrounds and experiences, to de-colonize their curricula, and to teach in culturally responsive and relevant ways. We all need to learn to communicate with those whose identities are embedded within different political, cultural, and religious or secular worldviews by seeking encounters with humility and by building trust through these encounters. Engagement with multiple perspectives is the hallmark of an educated person, and understanding how our identities as well as belief systems, both religious and secular, influence our institutions, cultures, and policies, as well as our own disciplinary perspectives is a critical undertaking. Three pillars will form the basis of the keynote: Trust, Encounter, Knowledge.
More details are available on the Faculty Development Day moodle site.
Call for Spring Butine Proposals: Deadline is Feb. 5
The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) invites all eligible faculty to submit proposals for funding from the Arthur Butine Faculty Development Fund. Please use the most current application forms which are now available for download from the Butine Moodle site. Also, a reminder that applicants must discuss their Butine proposals with their respective deans (and chairs for CAS applicants) before submitting an application. Contact Diane Sotak, tas@up.edu, with questions.
Submit Butine Proposals and Reports through Moodle
The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship invites all regular faculty to submit proposals to receive funding from the Arthur Butine Faculty Development Fund. Faculty can download Butine application materials, review selection criteria, and consult the timeline for applications by visiting this link. Submissions of post-Butine reports, new Butine applications, and all supporting letters are now done through the Teaching and Scholarship Moodle site at this link. The deadline for submission through Moodle, and to the applicant’s dean and chair (if CAS), is no later than noon on Friday, October 4, 2019. Please note that applicants must discuss their Butine proposals with their respective deans (and chairs, for CAS applicants) prior to submitting applications for consideration.
The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship will host two workshops to provide more information on the application process: Wednesday, Sept. 4, 10 -11 a.m. and Friday, Sept. 6, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Both workshops will take place in BC 215.
A final reminder: All interim or completed project reports for previously funded proposals are due to the Teaching and Scholarship Committee through Moodle, as well as the appropriate Dean, no later than October 1. Report forms can be downloaded from the Moodle site listed above.
Please contact Hannah Highlander (TAS@up.edu) for further information.
Submit Butine Proposals and Reports through Moodle
The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship invites all regular faculty to submit proposals to receive funding from the Arthur Butine Faculty Development Fund. Faculty can download Butine application materials, review selection criteria, and consult the timeline for applications by visiting this link. Submissions of post-Butine reports, new Butine applications, and all supporting letters are now done through the Teaching and Scholarship Moodle site at this link. The deadline for submission through Moodle and to the applicant’s respective chair (if CAS) is no later than noon on Friday, October 5, 2018. Please note that applicants must discuss their Butine proposals with their respective deans prior to submitting applications for consideration.
The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship will host two workshops to provide more information on the application process: Tuesday, September 4, 10-11 a.m. in BC 215 and Thursday, September 6, 1-2 p.m., in BC 215.
A final reminder: All interim or completed project reports of previously funded proposals are due to the Teaching and Scholarship Committee through Moodle, as well as the appropriate dean, no later than October 1. Report forms can be downloaded from the Moodle site listed above.
Please contact Hannah Highlander (TAS@up.edu) for further information.
Faculty Development Day, May 8: Session Proposals Welcome
On the Tuesday following commencement, University faculty traditionally celebrate and reflect upon the joys and toils of our noble profession and of a year well spent on the Bluff. Faculty Development Day, taking place on May 8, 2018, is this very day. The theme of the day will be “Inclusive Excellence in the Student-Centered University,” which will be the subject of a morning keynote address and several mid-day sessions. Another University tradition is the offering of sessions by you and your peers on topics of interest to you and your peers. The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship is accepting proposals from faculty who would like to organize 45-minute sessions for Faculty Development Day. Please send your suggestions to committee chair Matthew Kuhn (tas@up.edu) by Friday, April 13, or, for the less sanguine, by Thursday, April 12.
Submit Spring Butine Proposals and Reports through Moodle
2017-2018 Butine Faculty Development Fund Recipients, Fall Cycle
- Ami Ahern-Rindell, biology: WORLD Symposium on Lysosomal Storage Disorders, Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, CA, February 5-8, 2018, $1,850
- Richard Askay, philosophy: “The transcendental function of nothingness in a synthesis of Eastern and Western world-views, $5,000
- Kathleen Bieryla, engineering: “Quantifying fitness of collegiate field hockey athletes during one season,” $3,000
- Alexa Dare, communication studies, “Meaningful work in the sharing economy,” $2,020
- Carol Dempsey, theology: “Isaiah and the Twelve; Jesaja und die Zwolf,” Catolic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt, Germany, May 31-June 3, 2018, ,$2000
- Maria Echinique, international languages and cultures, sabbatical leave research project, $1,520
- Ted Eckmann, environmental studies, “Modeling microclimate and air quality impacts of Sequoiadendron giganteum,” $3,285
- Eli Goldwyn, mathematics, “The North American Gypsy Moth and its two pathogens,” $3,000
- Christina Ivler, engineering: “System identification methods for flight simulation models of small unmanned aerial vehicles,” $4,300
- Lorretta Krautscheid, nursing: “Untethered lecture capture: a qualitative investigation of student experiences,” $1,432
- Nazanin Mansouri, engineering: “Exploring new trends in optimizing the power consumption of today’s digital systems and developing educational platforms to experiment and develop power optimization design techniques,” $1,900
- Laura Mood, nursing: “Enhancing educational capacity at Tipitaka Eye Hospital in rural Myanmar,” $,2741
- Susan Murray, biology, “Summer salary support for immunology research,” $3,000
- Katie O’Reilly, biology: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, January 3-7, 2017, $1,213
- Cara Poor, engineering: “Evaluation of plant species and residence time for nutrient removal in constructed wetlands,” $5,000
- Kristin Sweeney, environmental studies, “Installation and design of slope-stability monitoring station on the Bluff,” $5,000
- Sara Weiger, English: Archival research: Henry David Thoreau, $1,750
- Christine Weilhoefer, biology: “Predicting the effects of warming atmospheric temperatures on Oregon coastal wetland ecosystems,” $3,718
For more information contact Kuhn at tas@up.edu.