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A message from Educational Technology Media: In collaboration with the SPU IT department, we are offering this workshop to support the transition from Zoom to MS Teams for Teaching. This session will introduce you to the essential features of Teams meetings, with a focus on instructional use.

We will cover how to:  

• Schedule Teams meetings within Canvas
• Manage sessions in Teams
• Share screens and files during meetings
• Use chat and manage participant interactions
• Record sessions and share recordings in Canvas
• Track and manage meeting attendance

Workshop options:

In-Person: Thursday, April 24, 1–2 p.m. at ETM, Library

Online: Thursday, April 24, 3–4 p.m. via Teams (Link will be emailed after registration.)

Registration link:

Please note that registration is encouraged to help us prepare, but it’s not required. Walk-ins are always welcome. If you are not available during these workshops, you can request the recordings through this registration or contact ETM at etmhelp@spu.edu.

Mark your calendar! Our upcoming workshop is on Thursday, May 8: Interactive Teaching with Teams Meetings – Breakout rooms, whiteboard, polling & more

Thursday, May 8, 1:10–2:10 p.m. (in-person at ETM – Right after the Celebration of Service event) and 3–4 p.m. (online via Teams)

An event for Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom HaShoah) will be held Wednesday, April 23, 6–7:15 p.m. in Art Center Room 4. Come remember the past, feel in the present, and shape the future.This event is sponsored by Art, History, and Theology and open to all. Questions can be directed to Professor of Biblical Studies Sara Koenig at skoenig@spu.edu.

Following a recent audit, SPU’s IT department has identified numerous devices running outdated and unsupported systems, including Windows XP, Windows 95, and older Linux versions. These systems pose severe cybersecurity risks and jeopardize the university’s compliance with federal regulations such as FERPA, HIPAA, and GLBA. To protect the network, IT staff will take necessary steps to block affected devices from internet and network access. While we understand this may cause inconvenience, these steps are necessary to safeguard university data and infrastructure, and we appreciate your cooperation when staff reach out. For questions, please contact the IT department at itsupport@spu.edu.

A message from Information Technology: As we approach the end of the fiscal year, we’re in the process of upgrading all devices to Windows 11 in preparation for Microsoft’s upcoming end of support for Windows 10 in October. For security and compliance reasons, departments with devices that are not compatible with Windows 11 will be contacted directly to coordinate the return or, where appropriate, the upgrade of the device to hardware that will support Windows 11. Our goal is to retrieve or upgrade all incompatible devices by the end of August to ensure we stay on track. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns at itsupport@spu.edu.

University Communications needs help identifying outstanding students from this year’s graduating class. This request is for undergraduate and graduate students. Please send the name(s) of the students and a short description about why you are recommending them. Examples would be students who overcame obstacles to graduate, were involved in community service projects, participated in innovative research, started a new venture, took a class that changed their career direction, or did something really interesting. Basically, anything that would make a good story! We will follow up with the student and get permission to use their profile. Send information by email to Director of Public Information Tracy Norlen at tcnorlen@spu.edu.

The Center for Student Success and the Center for Career and Calling are co-sponsoring the First-Generation Career Panel on Wednesday, April 23, 3–4 p.m. in the Emerson Hall lounge. This inspiring event is designed to empower and connect all students with first-generation professionals as they share how they landed their first jobs and how they navigate the professional world.

SPU Theatre presents "The Voice of the Prairie" with special guest director Scott Nolte, SPU alumnus and co-founder of Taproot Theatre. This nostaligic comedy is about the new invention of radio as it spreads across America at the turn of the 20th century. A radio salesman searches for a voice to captivate his audience and the stories he discovers begin to connect characters across time and space.

April 25−26; May 2−3, 2025
7:30 p.m. (Saturday matinee on May 3, at 2 p.m.)
E.E. Bach Theatre in McKinley Hall
: $20 general admission (plus service fee); $12 for seniors (age 60 and over) and those serving in the military; $10 for students (age 25 and under) with a valid student I.D.

A message from Janette Plunkett, engery and sustainability manager: Please let students know about the Faith & Science Club's Earth Day celebration on Tuesday, April 22, 3:10–4:30 p.m. in Arnett Lobby. There will be games (including a new Catan Energy Transition game), food, and some good news as we celebrate God’s good creation.

The Faculty/Staff Bulletin is published every Monday during the academic year or Tuesday if Monday is a holiday. The next deadline is Thursday, April 24, and the next issue will be published Monday, April 28.

If you have information or event news, send it as soon as possible with an image or graphic to Bulletin editor Tracy Norlen at fsb-editor@spu.edu. Submissions may be edited for clarity.

Peg Achterman, associate professor and chair of Communications and Journalism, was elected to the board of governors for the northwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Her term runs through 2027. Congratulations!

Alberto Ferreiro, professor emeritus of history, attended a conference in Rome titled, "Nicaea 325, Context, Event & Reception," April 2-5, 2025. The conference was on the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, held at the Patristics Institute Augustinianum and the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum). His paper is titled: “Reception of the Council of Nicaea (325) in Suevic Gallaecia through St. Martin of Braga’s Capitula Martini.”

Abstract: The Suevic Kingdom of Hispania flourished in the province of Gallaecia from 411 to 585. For most of that time they were Catholic in faith which put them at odds with the larger Arian Visigoths, who ruled most of the rest of Hispania until the Muslim invasion of 711. The creed and the double procession of the Holy Spirit was already circulating in Hispania before the two councils of Braga met in 561 and 572. The Second Braga council is the most important in disseminating select canons of Nicaea (325) in Gallaecia. Credit goes to Bishop Martin of Braga (c. 520–c. 579) who brought them from the East; he was from the Roman province of Pannonia. The Second Council of Braga (572), met in the second year of King Miro, June 1 [Era 610], with 12 bishops attending; by then Martin of Braga had risen to Metropolitan Bishop of Braga. What sets this council apart are the 84 canons known as the "Capitula Martini" of which the majority are from Eastern councils. This study focuses on 11 canons from Nicaea that Martin selected and adapted for dissemination in the Gallaecian Church. The full title given to them is "Capitula ex Orientalium Patrum Synodis a Martino Episcopo Ordinata Atque Collecta." This study contextualizes the canons in the wider context of the rival kingdoms of the Sueves and Visigoths, proliferation of the creed in Hispania, and emergence of the Filioque formula in Hispania.

Nate Hoover, assistant director of the MFA program, explains his monthly cartoon: Whale, whale, whale. Another pun that takes an idiom literally. To see more of my cartoons, follow me on Instagram @.

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