Peter Pappas, education, was one of 50 presenters at “PressED: A WordPress and Education, Pedagogy and Research Conference on Twitter,” on Thursday, March 29. The conference is made up of sessions based on 10-15 tweets in a fifteen minute period of time (plus follow up twitter discussion). Presenters can add videos, gifs, slides, links or […]
Archives for March 2018
Pilots Give 24-Hour Day of Giving, April 4-5
Mark your calendars for April 4-5 for UP’s first Day of Giving. Join University relations as we launch a 24-hour, online campaign focused on building resources for UP. Throughout the 24-hour period, there will be several on-campus hosted events including the Franz Grilled Cheese Machine, happy hour in the Pilot House, Portside with Pilots, Thankful […]
Clark Library Gallery: Call for Proposals
The Clark Library is seeking exhibit proposals from University of Portland students, faculty, and staff to be displayed in the Library’s main level gallery during the 2018–19 academic year. The gallery exhibits work that features the diversity of scholarship and culture on campus, as well as UP’s history. Visit the gallery page for more details and the […]
Have You Considered Becoming a Franz Center Leadership Fellow?
The Franz Center is providing free leadership training and development during the 2018-19 academic year for faculty and staff who want to learn more about becoming a Leadership Fellow, according to Dave Houglum, Franz Center. There have been over 100 faculty and staff from across the university who have been trained as Leadership Fellows and the […]
TLC From The TLC: More on Interleaving in the Classroom
Last week, Lars Larson challenged us to integrate interleaving into our courses, basing his proposal on principles found in Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel’s Make it Stick (2014). On this week’s TLC blog, Jeffrey White, international languages and cultures, elaborates on how to interleave topics and use brief classroom assessment techniques to support student recall of material. For more information contact […]
Schlosshauer Scholarship Award Presentation, April 6: All Welcome
The Teaching and Scholarship Committee invites all faculty and staff to a presentation by the University’s 2017 Faculty Scholarship Award winner, Maximilian Schlosshauer, physics, on Friday, April 6, at 4 p.m., in the Hall of Fame Room of the Chiles Center. Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact the Teaching and Scholarship Committee at tas@up.edu.
Faculty and Staff: Time To Rock The Bluff, April 7
Campus Program Board (CPB) presents Rock the Bluff, featuring Louis the Child and Big Wild, on Saturday, April 7, at 8 p.m., in the Chiles Center. CPB has a limited number of faculty/staff tickets available from the Chiles Center Box Office (open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday). Faculty and staff must show their UP ID to get mezzanine tickets. Limit […]
Theology Thursday Lecture, April 5: “Preparing Students to Encounter Suffering of Grief & Loss”
University of Portland professors Rebecca Gaudino, Barb Braband, and Anissa Rogers will present the next Theology Thursday lecture, “Preparing Students to Encounter the Suffering of Grief and Loss,” on Thursday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m., in the Terrace Room. The lecture is free and all are welcome. Gaudino, Braband, and Rogers make up an interdisciplinary […]
Bulletin Updates for 2018-2019: Time to Review
All updates to the 2018-2019 University Bulletin should have been submitted to reviewers by Monday, March 19. Faculty and staff members who are tasked with reviewing their departmental and office information in the Bulletin now have until Monday, April 2 to go over the changes and decide to submit them for final approval or send them back for revisions. Course changes […]
Late Stay Requests Due to Residence Life by April 6
If your department will be sponsoring students to remain on campus after the standard move-out dates (May 4 for most students, May 7 for graduating seniors), please complete a Department Late Stay Request form for residence life. If your department did not receive a copy of the template for making this request (sent March 12), […]