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Vote UP National Vote Early Day (Oct. 29)

October 28, 2024

Calling all faculty, staff, and students to bring your ballot and join Vote UP for National Vote Early Day! Stop by the Diversity Center on Tuesday, October 29 from 9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m. for National Vote Early Day! Bring your ballot and celebrate the power of voting with the UP community. We’ll have nonpartisan voting resources, snacks, “I voted stickers,” and a great atmosphere.

Don’t miss out on the excitement. Let’s make our voices heard!

Prepare for Election Season!

August 30, 2024

VoteUP and DB Faculty Fellow for Constructive Dialogue Anne Santiago invite you to a series of events to prepare you for the election season.

Sept 11, 2024 @ 7 p.m. – Pilot House: Harris v. Trump Debate Watch Party
Sept 24, 2024 @ 6:30 p.m. – DB Aud Film & Discussion: Century of the Self, Part 1 Happiness Machines
Lunchtime Insights in DB Lounge
- Wednesdays @12:30 p.m. and Thursdays @11:30 a.m.
- Bring a lunch and your thoughts, concerns, and questions to digest what’s happening with guidance by UP faculty and staff

We hope you join us for one or all events and encourage you to become actively involved in supporting democratic engagement!

Questions? Contact Anne Santiago (santiago@up.edu) and Elizabeth Parkman (parkmane@up.edu).

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, presented “Rethinking the Human Person Beyond the Limits of Imago Dei: Insights from the Peripheral World.” A virtual lecture given to students at The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church. Tuesday, October 28, 2024. Aihiokhai also presented: “The Theologian as a Voice of Sacramental Disruption: Embracing a Curious Imagination”; “Theology as a Sacramental Discipline of Disruption: Towards a Pedagogy for a Secular World”; “Holy Disruption: Black Bodies as Sacraments of Transformation.” Sankofa Institute Scholars Meet and Greet Event, Sankofa Institute/Oblate School of Theology. San Antonio, Texas. November 8, 2024.

Anna Myers, Education, presented “Precise Feedback Instruction During Reading Intervention for Word Recognition, Fluency, and Comprehension.” Conference Session at the International Dyslexia Association. Dallas, TX. October, 2024.

Matthew Warshawsky, International Languages and Cultures, presented “‘A Woman So Perfect Keeping the Law’: The Crypto-Jewish Faith of Justa Méndez in Colonial Mexico.” The 34th Annual Conference of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies (presented virtually). October 27, 2024.

David Fuentes, Nursing and Health Innovations, presented “Bridging the Skills across Human and Artificial Intelligence Coaching Strategies to Boost Peer-Coaching & Self-Coaching Skills.” Co-presenter: Dave Houglum, PhD. Lightning Session of the Catholic Higher Education and AI Conference at University of Portland. The session briefly highlighted some of the innovations concerning the use of AI in leadership coaching, practice/training, and coaching ongoing developmental growth. October, 2024. Fuentes also presented: “Using Project Management Methodologies to Align General Education Assessment, Program Review, and Accreditation Simultaneously.”; “Systems-Thinking and Relationship Building to Address Accreditation and Institutional Efficiency.”; “Promoting Institutional Culture through Assessment Policy Development and Maximizing Stakeholder Engagement through Organizational Learning.” Co-presenters: S. Richards and JA Hughes. Assessment Institute in Indianapolis. October, 2024.

Dave Houglum, Director of Leadership Studies and Leadership Professor of Practice, Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, presented nine, one-hour invited leadership presentations for the European Leadership Programme in Brussels, Belgium. Houglum also provided individual leadership coaching sessions to many of the programme’s Fellows and to the staff of the Jesuit European Social Center (JESC). The European Leadership Programme draws emerging leaders from across Europe to participate in a five-month leadership development programme. October 12-16, 2024.

Andrew Eshelman, Philosophy, published “Reflection and Ideal Reasons-Responsiveness.” Special issue of Midwest Studies in Philosophy honoring the work of John Martin Fischer. October 8, 2024.

Jeffrey Gauthier, Philosophy, presented “Prostitution, Harm Reduction, and Male Entitlement” and “Comments on Virginia Moscetti, ‘Contracts and Sexual Promising: A Kantian Perspective.'” Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis and Clark College. November 2, 2024.

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