coe-staff: The Weekly Vol. 3 #15

Wed May 18 17:16:45 PDT 2022

Dear Faculty and Staff,

We in the College of Education mourn the recent racist and tragic shootings in Buffalo, NY. My heart is hurting and we grieve both for the families and victims, but for our nation and community. I’m struggling in this moment to make a statement (i.e., “the right statement that says all the things”) but feel strongly that something needs to be said and acknowledged. We have heard nothing on campus or centrally, but I cannot remain silent.

As an ally, I stand up for and with our BIPOC colleagues, students, and community members – but also publicly reject all forms for racism, discrimination, and hate crimes against minoritized individuals, families, and communities. We know the harm that hatred, racism, violence, and racial trauma have on our mental health, wellness, sense of security, and sense of belonging. Please join me in checking in with yourself, with your students, colleagues, staff, and community members. Acknowledge the harm, hurt, and trauma. Send love and use your voice and actions to reject racism, racially driven hatred, and violence.

Thank you for being part of our community and for caring.
Warmly,

Laura Lee

Updates and Upcoming:

  *   Virtual Mental Health Training for Faculty/Staff: As we all know, students today face increasing pressures that can lead to emotional distress, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide. It is our strong hope that our students, faculty, and staff can all recognize signs of distress and know what to say if a student needs help. Please consider taking the Kognito online interactive training<https://counseling.uoregon.edu/kognito> that helps each of us learn to notice signs of distress, use techniques to discuss our concerns, and, if necessary, refer students to appropriate resources. This evidence-based training is approximately 45-minutes long with a module for faculty and staff along with a parallel module for students. As it’s May Mental Health Awareness Month, any UO student, faculty, or staff member who completes the training before the end of May will be entered into a drawing to win one of twenty $20 gift cards to the Duck Store with the first 100 receiving a free scoop of ice cream from Salt and Straw.

  *   World Athletics Championship 2022 and parking in the COE:  This summer the University of Oregon will have the honor of hosting of the World Championships. There have been several informational emails shared on this topic. In addition to exciting details about the event, we have been warned that there will be an impact on our parking over the course of summer with some peak impact in mid-July.  We encourage supervisors to work directly their supervisees / team members to identify the ideal work assignments that alleviate stress on parking while continuing to meet the needs of the college. This may include remote working options during this time as long as in-person student needs continue to be met and communication with students and guests is clear.

  *   Book Signing and Discussion: Virginia Beavert, Joana Jansen, Michelle Jacob and Shayleen EagleSpeaker will be discussing their new book Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories at the Many Nations Longhouse on May 31st from 2-3:30pm. Central to the Yakama oral tradition, storytelling enables Tribal Elders to share lessons, values, and customs with younger generations across the Columbia River plateau and the Pacific Northwest. Drawn from a time before the coming of human beings when animals were like people, the stories present characters and motifs that paint a bigger picture of the world as Yakama ancestors knew it. The original edition of Anakú Iwachá featured stories that Yakama Tribal Elders recorded in several dialects of the Ichishkíin language that were collected and translated into English by renowned linguist and scholar Virginia Beavert. This new edition adds a preface from the Yakama Nation and essays on the history of the project and on Ichishkíin-language education. It includes four additional legends in Ichishkíin and English, annotations, an updated glossary, and more artwork by Tribal artists, helping readers, teachers, and students engage with the legends as teaching and learning tools and as a precious gift to current and future Yakama generations. A book signing will follow the presentation. Zoom link for this hybrid event: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/97187994068.

Accolades:

  *   The Recognition and Honors Committee with nominations from the membership of the Society for Prevention Research has selected Leslie Leve to be a SPR Fellow. Fellowship is an honor that SPR bestows upon a small and select group of members who have a particularly distinguished record of contributions in the field of prevention research. A distinguished record reflects a substantial body of work that has had a broad and significant impact on prevention science. She will be presented with the award at the Annual Awards Presentation at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research.

  *   Last Thursday, we participated in the annual Day of Giving, DucksGive. While we’re still waiting for the official report, we can share that the COE raised over $270,000 from 152 gifts. Of that, $237,000 was from our generous challenge gift donors. The UO raised almost $2.3 million from 1,936 donors. The COE was in the top three for number of gifts and dollars raised! The Day of Giving supported multiple funds at the COE, including scholarships for students in Educational Foundations, UOTeach, EPoL, and Special Education, speech-language-hearing services and Autism Spectrum Disorder assessments at HEDCO Clinic, and practicum support funds for CDS students. In addition, donors could give to any funds they wished and we received donations for other scholarships and programs such as Sapsik’ʷałá. We owe our deepest gratitude to members of our faculty and staff who contributed their time, promoted Ducks Give on their channels, and who made gifts the day of. Your support helped make this campaign a resounding success!

  *   Two counseling psychology PhD graduates are making some news:

     *   Dr. Bryan Rojas-Arauz graduated in 2021 (he was the featured speaker at the COE graduation ceremony) and is completing a postdoc in Denver this year at an agency serving survivors of trauma. He was in town the weekend of April 30th to serve as the featured speaker at the UO Dreamer conference and was a guest lecturer in Ellen’s class April 29th.

     *   Dr. Alison Cerezo graduated in 2009. She is a faculty member in counseling psychology at the University of Santa Barbara, and has been invited to offer a keynote speech at the 2022 conference of the American Psychological Association (briefly noted here: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/04/resources-news-opportunities) and recently received the award described here: https://education.ucsb.edu/news/2020/team-led-alison-cerezo-wins-best-paper-award-2020-psychology-women-quarterly. Dr. Alison Cerezo’s primary line of research centers on addressing social and health disparities using an intersectionality framework. Her current projects focus on the associations between trauma, social stress, mental health and substance use for diverse LGBTQ+ communities. Most recently, her work has focused on the links between stigma, discrimination and alcohol misuse and alcohol risk behaviors in sexual minority women. She is also interested in reducing barriers to mental health treatment for this community. Dr. Cerezo uses qualitative, quantitative and mixed methodologies and has carried out research on sexual and gender diverse communities in the U.S. and Mexico.

  *   Greater Oregon Behavioral Health, Inc., hired Lourdes Reyna Alcala, current COE student, to be its regional community health development manager. She started the position April 11. Alcala holds a bachelor’s degree from Washington State University and is completing a master’s degree in special education from the University of Oregon College of Education.https://www.hermistonherald.com/news/local/hermiston-resident-hired-as-community-health-leadership-role/article_f7a16044-ca77-11ec-8d6d-cfecafaa4e06.html?fbclid=IwAR2WtCrISg3cXVy-AW9AdkLtW50aBguCPK34yU1cXb02Dx96FpP1MuNkmeg

Laura Lee McIntyre | Interim Dean & Castle-McIntosh-Knight Professor (she/her)
University of Oregon | College of Education
230 Hedco Education Building | Eugene, OR 97403-1215
llmcinty at uoregon.edu<mailto:email at uoregon.edu> |  https://education.uoregon.edu
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