Effective August 2017, the work week for staff and administrators will change; the first day affected by this change will be Aug. 4, 2017. The new work week will start on Saturday at 12:01 a.m. and will end the following Friday at 12 a.m. (midnight Friday night instead of Friday at 5:01 p.m.).
If you have any questions, contact Katie Sol at ksol@georgefox.edu.
Juniors and seniors: If you are living on campus this fall, you should have already registered for your residential parking permits, as quantities are limited. Please do so before Wednesday!
For all students needing a commuter permit, IT is close to resolving the communication glitch between the housing software and the vehicle registration database. Please keep watching your emails and Daily Bruin announcements for updates as to when the database will be open for ALL commuters to register.
Sophomores: The database will be open for you to register for residential parking permits tomorrow (Wednesday, July 19), beginning at 9 a.m.!
Freshmen: Your date to register for the remaining residential parking permits will be on Wednesday, July 26, beginning at 9 a.m.
Graduate students: The database is open now for you to register for a graduate parking permit.
Questions? Please contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu, Ed Gierok at egierok@georgefox.edu, or call 503-554-2090 during business hours.
Get your fall textbooks today at georgefoxshop.com. In-store pick-up is now available, so save on shipping and have your new, used and rental textbooks waiting for you when you get back to campus!
If you have any questions, call 503-554-2540 or email 1478mgr@follett.com.
The physical therapy department is looking for participants to join a 10-week research study on Achilles tendinopathy. The study aims to evaluate individuals with persistent pain in the mid-portion of the Achilles tendon. The tentative start date is the week of July 24; please email us if you are interested to set your time.
Participants will receive monetary incentive upon completion of the 10-week program. If interested, contact Jessica Dinielli (jdinielli15@georgefox.edu).
Today (Monday)Â is “Peach Ice Cream Day!” Stop by the Bruin Den between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. to cool off with a scoop of peach and blueberry sherbet, topped with whipped cream and fresh blueberry sauce for only $1.50!
Join us Wednesday, July 19, in the Bruin Den for our next exciting stops on Route 66. Treat yourself to Oklahoma-style pulled pork and Kansas-grilled andouille sausage, corn on the cob, fried okra, black-eyed peas salad, zwieback rolls, fried strawberry pie and cherry limeade, all for $6.95! Lunch will be served between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Don’t forget your punch card if you’ve been “traveling” with us, as the raffle is only a few weeks away!
Please contact the Conference and Event Office if you have questions: 503-554-2027.
The physical therapy department is looking for participants to join a 10-week research study on Achilles tendinopathy. The study aims to evaluate recreational runners with persistent pain in the mid-portion of the Achilles tendon. The tentative start date is the week of July 17; please email us if you are interested to set your time.
Participants will receive monetary incentive upon completion of the 10-week program. If interested, contact Jessica Dinielli (jdinielli15@georgefox.edu).
Hey George Fox students! We are currently working on the annual Welcome Weekend video in marketing communications, and we need people to be in it! It will be a recreation of the opening traffic scene from La La Land with rewritten lyrics specific to George Fox. Here is a link to the original scene, if you haven’t seen it.
We are putting this video together on Aug. 7 and 8. If you are available to come to campus on those days and would like to be a part of this project, send an email to Ethan Patterson at epatterson15@georgefox.edu. I’ll hit you up with some details, a demo version of the track in progress, as well as the lyrics.
Thank you!
Monday, July 17, is “Peach Ice Cream Day!” Stop by the Bruin Den between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. to cool off with a scoop of peach and blueberry sherbet, topped with whipped cream and fresh blueberry sauce for only $1.50!
The physical therapy department is looking for participants to join a 10-week research study on Achilles tendinopathy. The study aims to evaluate recreational runners with persistent pain in the mid-portion of the Achilles tendon. The tentative start date is the week of July 17; please email us if you are interested to set your time.
Participants will receive monetary incentive upon completion of the 10-week program. If interested, contact Jessica Dinielli (jdinielli15@georgefox.edu).
The physical therapy department is looking for participants to join a 10-week research study on Achilles tendinopathy. The study aims to evaluate recreational runners with persistent pain in the mid-portion of the Achilles tendon. The tentative start date is the week of July 17; please email us if you are interested to set your time.
Participants will receive monetary incentive upon completion of the 10-week program. If interested, contact Jessica Dinielli (jdinielli15@georgefox.edu).
Hey George Fox students! We are currently working on the annual Welcome Weekend video in marketing communications, and we need people to be in it! It will be a recreation of the opening traffic scene from La La Land with rewritten lyrics specific to George Fox. Here is a link to the original scene, if you haven’t seen it.
We are putting this video together on Aug. 7 and 8. If you are available to come to campus on those days and would like to be a part of this project, send an email to Ethan Patterson at epatterson15@georgefox.edu. I’ll hit you up with some details, a demo version of the track in progress, as well as the lyrics.
Thank you!
TIAA individual consulting appointments are coming to the Newberg campus July 20 and Aug. 24.
No matter where you are in life – just getting started or planning for retirement – a session with Braden Danielson can help you create a unique plan for your goals. And, it’s at no additional cost as a part of your retirement plan. You’ll get answers to these questions and more:
To schedule your one-hour appointment, click on this link. The on-site appointment slots fill quickly, so don’t delay! Take advantage of this excellent resource!
You can also visit Advice and Guidance to access online tools and resources that can help you stay on track and save even more for retirement.
If you would like to make a change to your retirement account contribution amount or have questions about your George Fox University benefits, please contact Darby Thiessen at 503-554-2188 or dthiessen@georgefox.edu.
Celebrate summer Texas style at our next stop on Bon Appetit’s Route 66 “culinary road trip.” Join us today (Wednesday) between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on the patio near the flag pole in the quad as we serve up smoked brisket, green chile mac and cheese, collard greens with bacon, jalapeño cheddar corn bread, and sweet tea! Enjoy it all for just $6.95.
Don’t forget your punch card, as there will be a prize raffle at the end of the road!
The George Fox community is invited to a special welcome reception for Vicki Piersall, the university’s new chief financial officer, today (Tuesday) beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the Stevens Center (Duke) Atrium.
Vicki brings more than 20 years of senior leadership experience at Xerox, Schnitzer Steel and Sims Metal Management. She begins work at the university on Aug. 4.
The university welcomes Jekabs Bikis as dean of the College of Business. He joins the university after working as chair of the Business Administration Department at LCC International University in Lithuania since 2014. Before that, he spent eight and a half years at Dallas Baptist University, serving as an assistant and associate professor of business, in addition to working in a number of administrative roles, including as faculty liaison for service learning (2007-09), director of hybrid education (2009-11), interim associate dean of the College of Business (2011-12), and dean of online education (2012-14). In all, he has 14 years of teaching and administrative experience. Jekabs earned a PhD in public policy and political economy from the University of Texas at Dallas (2011), an MDiv in theology from Baylor University (2005), an MBA in international business from Dallas Baptist University (2001) and a bachelor of business administration in finance from Dallas Baptist (1999). While in Dallas, he was also on the board of the Dallas-Fort Worth Association for Business Economics, serving as president in 2013. He currently lives in the countryside near Scholls as his family looks for a home in Newberg. Jekabs is married to April, and they have three children: Isaac, Christian and Liva.
Adam Puckett, a 2004 graduate of George Fox and a member of its board of trustees since 2011, joined the university in June as director of athletics, taking over for retiree Craig Taylor. Adam arrives from Delap, a Portland-based accounting and advisory firm where he was a partner and worked the last 13 years as a Certified Public Accountant. He was an athlete himself at George Fox in the early 2000s, and he remains No. 4 on the school’s all-time lists in the long jump and triple jump. He earned All-American status in the long jump his senior season, and in 2014 he was honored with the university’s Outstanding Recent Alumnus Award. Adam has remained active at the university since graduating with bachelor’s degrees in business administration and accounting. In addition to serving on the board of trustees, he has worked the past year and a half at George Fox as an adjunct professor teaching corporate tax classes. Adam lives in Newberg with his wife, Brook, and their two young children, Michaela and Josiah.
Ryan Ingersoll joins George Fox this summer as dean of libraries. He arrives from Seattle Pacific University, where he has been head of library technology since 2010. Before that, he spent two years as a teaching and learning spaces liaison at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. Ryan worked previously as a youth and family ministry coordinator for high schoolers and adults at Zion Lutheran Church in Kent, Washington (2007-08), and he gained higher education experience as an information technology systems administrator at Trinity Lutheran College in Everett, Washington (2003-07). More recently, he taught courses on digital readiness and faculty teaching strategies at Seattle Pacific in 2015-16. Ryan earned a master’s degree in digital education leadership from Seattle Pacific (2016) and a bachelor’s degree in youth and family ministry from Trinity Lutheran College (2007). He lives in Newberg with his wife Heather and young son Theodore.
After working on a part-time basis since January, Maddy Boylan is now a full-time administrative assistant in the Graduate School of Counseling. Prior to serving in her part-time role, she was a graduate assistant in the department from November of 2015 to December of 2016. Maddy worked previously in Seward, Nebraska, where she was a sales associate for Second Closet, a secondhand store that served the local community (2014-15), and an intern and volunteer with CASA for Children, for which she served as a court-appointed advocate for children involved in family court matters. Maddy earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and psychology from Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska, in 2015. She lives in Portland with her husband Matthew and their two rescue pets, a cat named Simba and a dog named Nala. Maddy and Matt are still looking for a church community to call home.
Jeff Wright (IT) left the university in late May.
Thomas Peng (Admissions) left George Fox in early June.
Lizz Schallert (Social Work) left the university at the end of June.
Elise Gibson (IDEA Center) has been accepted into the university’s PsyD program. Her last day working in the IDEA Center will be Aug. 4.
Megan Gifford (Adult Degree Program) left the university at the end of June.
Dexter Ballard (Custodial) left the university in June.
The following employees have assumed new positions at the university: Rob Felton (executive director of marketing communications), Emma Glennen (associate director of undergraduate admissions), Megan Janes (associate director of graduate admissions), Patrick Kelley (director of graduate, adult degree and international admissions), Lindsay Knox (executive director of undergraduate admissions and financial aid), Rob Leslie (director of digital strategy), Sarah Reid (director of affinity marketing) and Jane Wilson (director of admissions operations).
Cheri Hampton has moved from being department assistant in the Department of Art and Design to serving as the new executive assistant to Laura Hartley, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Also changing roles is Lynn Scott, who has assumed the full-time position of assistant director for the Center for Study Abroad.
Joe Thouvenel, formerly a career and academic planning (CAP) coach, is now assistant director/career and internship coach in the IDEA Center.
Kaitlyn Ragan, formerly the IDEA Center coordinator, has taken Joe Thouvenel’s place as a CAP coach.
Mark Pothoff (Student Life) was part of the leadership team that facilitated the New Professionals Retreat as part of the Association for Christians in Student Development’s (ACSD) annual conference, held at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. At the ACSD conference, held June 5-8, Mark teamed with Rick Muthiah (Learning Support Services) to present a workshop titled “Who Let the Dogs In? Service Animals and Emotional Support Animals in Campus Housing.â€
Marc Shelton (Education) presented “If We Just Knew What We Know Now: A Lesson Learned for Interagency Collaboration to Prepare Leaders for Effective Inclusive Schools: Oregon Example†at the CEEDAR Center’s Cross-State Convening event in Chicago in June. He presented on behalf of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration.
Brian R. Snider (Computer Science) published his recent work, “Estimation of Localized Ideal Oximetry Sensor Lag via Oxygen Desaturation–Disordered Breathing Event Cross-Correlation,” in SLEEP:  Journal of Sleep and Sleep Disorders Research. He also gave a presentation on the work in June at the SLEEP 2017 conference in Boston, Massachusetts. SLEEP is the premier world forum to present and discuss the latest developments in clinical sleep medicine and sleep and circadian science.
Cherice Bock (Seminary) recently served as the scholar in residence at Reedwood Friends Church. She offered a six-week series of 12 classes and a sermon on the topic “Quakers & Creation Care: Ecotheology & Action from a Quaker Perspective.â€
Ed Higgins’ (English) flash-fiction story, “Latté plus,†was published in the Spring/Summer issue of The Round Up, an online literary magazine, and the Australian online literary journal, Vending Machine Press, published his poems “Later now, but†and “Imago Dei: What God’s Good For†in its June 13 issue. In addition, Ed recently published three poems in online literary journals: “Under the Eaves†is in riverbabble (June 2017); “Oh, you are notâ€Â is in experiential-experimental-literature (June 2, 2017); and a reprint of “He drank†is in Degenerates: Domestic Violence Edition (June 2017).
July 11Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jillian Sokso
July 12Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Chris Pulver
July 13Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jordan Nelson
July 14Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Rebecca Yazzie
July 15Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jonathan Gemeroy
July 16Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Megan Fisher
July 17Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Kasondra Silva
July 21Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Gordon Aarness, Jeff Houck, Daniel Kang
July 22Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Carl Anderson, Luann Foster
July 23Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Randy Dalzell, Donna Kestek, Mark Stone, Clyde Thomas
July 25Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Muh Bi Lin
July 26Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Bob Dexter, Rand Michael
July 27Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Randy Woodley
July 29Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â David Hansen
July 30Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Dale Isaak, Ron Mock, Liz Simmons
July 31Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Lindsay Knox, Gary Spivey
Aug. 1Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jason Brumitt, Rob Westervelt
Aug. 3Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Nancy Thurston
Aug. 4Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jered McConaughey
Aug. 5Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Michelle Shelton, Linda Warberg
Aug. 6Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Elizabeth Anderson
Aug. 8Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jill Sikkema
Aug. 10Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Christine Saladino
Aug. 11Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Colleen Sump
Aug. 12Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Ken Ingram, Elizabeth Roark
Aug. 13Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Kathy Heininge, Jeff Marble, Jamie Noling-Auth, Nate Peach, Jocelyn Stein
Aug. 14Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jenny Zaganiacz
Aug. 16Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Casey Brooks, Lizz Schallert, Gary Sehorn, Seth Sikkema, Tyler Susmilch
Aug. 17Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Saiko Mair
Aug. 19Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jim Foster
Aug. 20Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Audrey Paice
Aug. 21 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Nicole Enzinger, Josh Sauerwein
