[inside student affairs]a weekly insider’s guide for those helping students reach their goals toward optimal health and well-being, engagement with learning, and sense of belonging at PSU
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Helping Kids Cope with Big Emotions
Join SHAC Counselor, Jessie Weisstein, LCSW, for a workshop on preparing kids with solutions to help better manage big emotions. Learn interactive games and projects that help preschool and elementary age kids build emotional vocabulary and encourage them to use coping tools. This event will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, October 27th from 1:30-2:30 pm. Interested individuals can register here.
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Midterm Stress Relief Pajama Party
Students can take a study break and dance their hearts out at Portland State Programming Board’s pajama dance party and PJ contest from 4-6 p.m. on October 27 in the Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom. Participants can win a gift certificate for a llama experience and other prizes, then check out the spa and crafting corner to unwind and make DIY face masks or play spike ball, cornhole and jenga. Information about the event and how to RSVP can be found here.
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Turn out for Thursday's Viking Raid
Get ready to paint the town green! Faculty and staff are invited to the Peter W. Stott Center this Thursday, October 28 at 5:30 p.m. Join in jumbo-sized games like Jenga and Connect4, try the photo booth, and enjoy free pizza before Vikings Women’s Volleyball faces off with Idaho State at 7 p.m. PSU Athletics will be handing out t-shirts and raffling off Viking swag. Show your PSU pride by wearing green. Faculty and staff can buy game tickets here (students get in free). Learn about COVID-19 precautions, and don't forget to RSVP for the Viking Raid.
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Now Hiring: Director of Queer Student Services
Student Affairs is seeking applicants for the position of Director of Queer Student Services. This individual facilitates student success and retention by providing support services and outreach to students at Portland State who are Queer (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Questioning and/or Intersex), and helps promote a campus climate that includes queer community members fully in the intellectual and social lives of PSU. Interested individuals can learn more about the position on the HR website. Please share with your professional networks or any colleagues you know who might be interested.
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SNAP Training and Education program (STEP)
STEP is a retention-focused program with the goal of helping students reach graduation. Each student is assigned a case manager who they will meet with monthly to discuss career and educational goals. Participants have access to funding for interview/work clothes, transportation, utilities, rent, technology, and childcare, in addition to possible STEP tuition scholarships and textbook assistance. To be eligible, students must currently receive SNAP benefits and be enrolled as an undergraduate or enrolled in a future term. Interested students should complete the Interest Form on the STEP website. To make a direct referral, please email the student's name and ID number to snap50-50@pdx.edu.
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PSU to Resume Evacuation Drills
As part of the transition back to campus, Portland State is resuming code-required fire evacuation drills. On November 1 and 2, between 9 a.m.-1 p.m., drills will occur in the majority of our non-residential buildings. Since it’s been a while, visit the Fire Safety Evacuation webpage to brush up on the evacuation process and find your evacuation assembly location.
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Ten Ways to Cut Back on Caffeine (without Turning into a Zombie)"Most of us are well aware of the benefits that come with a strong cup of coffee, tea, or energy drink (depending on where you like to get your caffeine)... As with most things, however, moderation is key. It probably wouldn’t hurt for many of us to cut back on our caffeine consumption, especially if we find ourselves having a hard time falling asleep at night or feeling needy for that next cup."
To learn about the side effects of too much caffeine, as well as strategies to reduce your caffeine intake, visit the PDX CampusWell.
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[from the vpsa]
Ted Lasso, an Apple+ TV show that just concluded its second season, provides a powerful example of the impact of these social ties. Head coach Lasso's commitment to kindness and empathy is the heartbeat of the show, even when he is personally treated with antagonism, deceit and outright disdain. For me, the show has been the antidote to a society that has drifted toward dystopic polarization, a trend accelerated by the well documented decline of social capital caused by isolation during the pandemic. While Coach Lasso's ceaseless positivity proves to be his Achilles heel, I've gobbled up every delicious moment of positivity, warmth and kindness the show puts on display in episode after episode. Coach Lasso inspires a culture of care and consideration, deep listening and real altruism, even in the midst of testosterone fueled fist-pumping and head butting futbol matches. Before the pandemic, I rarely watched TV, let alone found real meaning in the medium. Ted Lasso has changed my mind.
Every morning, Coach Lasso brings home-baked biscuits in a pink box for breakfast with his boss, Rebecca. Rebecca eventually warms to Coach Lasso, but not until she has tried every imaginable scheme to cause him to fail. Even when she reveals this fact, he forgives her. In case you'd like to try them, here is the recipe for Coach Lasso's magical biscuits.
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