In the spring of 2012, the university conducted a campus-wide assessment on how our undergraduate students think the institution is doing in the area of ethnic and gender diversity. This link will take you to a summary of the undergraduate results.
If you have any questions, please contact Joel Pérez at ext. 2305.
FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, Jan. 29, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.
Many thanks to those of you who have already given your consent to receive your W-2s online. If you haven’t, please consider doing so to enable us to make it available to you sooner, and to make it accessible to you in MyGFU (self service) when you are ready to print it.
This will save the university the time and expense of purchasing and stuffing paper W-2 forms and envelopes (over 2,000 last January). And, of course, it is also friendlier to our environment. In the future, there will be a $5 charge for replacement W-2s issued and mailed in hard copy.
In order to receive a W-2 in online form only (instead of receiving a paper form), the law requires that you give your consent. This should take you only about 30 seconds to do, so I encourage you to take care of it as soon as possible — perhaps right now.
You’ll receive a confirmation e-mail of your decision shortly after completing this process. And just to be clear, you will only have to do this once — not every year.
Thank you,
Melodee Powers (HR)
Today (Wednesday) is the last day to register to serve on Monday, Jan. 21, to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, dream, and the change he sparked in our nation.
We will meet in the Stevens Center parking lot at 6:30 a.m. and bus to Concordia together for the rally and service. We’ll arrive back on campus around 4 p.m.
You can register at this link.
Contact Shelley Yonemura (syonemura@georgefox.edu) or Amber Nelson (nelsona@georgefox.edu) with questions.
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Traditional undergraduate students planning to graduate spring 2016 and have a minimum 3.25 GPA through fall 2012 are eligible to apply for the new Alumni Association Student Scholarship. This is a three-year scholarship for $2,500 per year, totaling $7,500.
Visit the alumni website to read more about the scholarship and download the application. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE NO LATER THAN 5 P.M. ON MONDAY, FEB. 11, 2013. Call the Office of Alumni & Parent Relations at 503-554-2134 with questions.
There will be a recruiter from Mt. Gilliad Bible camp in the Student Union Building from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16. Every year they hire around 45 college students to serve in various ministries. Available positions include camp counselors, kitchen staff, recreation staff and program staff.
Contact Career Services for more information.
Are you interested in seeing Oregon Ballet Theatre’s performance of Swan Lake (Feb. 16) or Broadway Across America’s performance of War Horse (Feb. 27)? It’s not too late to get discounted tickets for both of these shows!
Visit broadway.georgefox.edu or contact Mary Monahan at 503.554.2134. Swan Lake tickets are $62 each, which is 45 percent off the retail price of $114. War Horse tickets are $47 each. All seats are in the middle three sections of the first balcony.
Tonight (Tuesday) at Shalom we invite you to come watch and discuss a documentary called “In Search of Shalom: White People in Reconciliation.”
The documentary explores the experiences of both white and non-white students at Christian universities, but emphasizes how white people can better enter into racial reconciliation.
As usual, Shalom will meet in the Cap and Gown Room at 9 p.m.
This semester Paul Anderson’s Acts and Writings of Paul Class (BIBL 412) will be engaging Robert Jewett’s text (among others), St. Paul at the Movies, connecting biblical teaching with parallel issues in film. Inquiries are welcome, as are guests at evening film viewings.
For more information, please contact Paul Anderson at panderso@georgefox.edu.
Books? Who needs books? Well … you do. Be sure you have all your textbooks for all your courses. Sure, waiting to see how much a book will be used or sharing a book with a classmate can seem like a money-saving strategy, but performing poorly in a class because you don’t have a book wastes your tuition dollars.
Invest wisely. Buy the books! If you drop a class in the first week or two, you can return the books. Just don’t put yourself in a hole before the semester has gotten started.
For more tips, announcements, and thoughts on student success, like the ARC Facebook page at facebook.com/GFU.ARC.
The Oregon Student Access Commission (OSAC) oversees several hundred scholarships for students from Oregon who are attending Oregon colleges or universities. Go online to oregonstudentaid.gov and apply today for scholarships for next year. Deadline for applications is March 1, 2013.
Senior Onjalai Flake is in the running for an internship with the Ellen Degeneres show and is seeking the support of the George Fox community. Her fellow students created a video in support of her efforts. This YouTube video needs as many views as possible. The more views, the better her chances.
So, all you need to do is click the link above and watch. Please also feel free to share it with as many people as possible. Onjalai is a broadcast journalism and communication arts major, and this opportunity would open up many doors for her.
The time has come once again to begin the process of selecting our undergraduate “WHO’S WHO†nominees for the 2012-13 academic year.
For those of you who have contact with our undergraduate population, you have the opportunity to make nominations by selecting 20 students who you feel are worthy of recognition from the students who qualify for selection. These students are eligible for nomination and expect to graduate either mid-year or spring (December 2012 or May 2013).
Please follow this link for more instructions and nomination form.
Please feel free to contact Jere Witherspoon for more information.
The all-employee meeting set for next Thursday, Jan. 24, has been moved to Bauman Auditorium. The meeting is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. and will feature information about Stoffer Family Stadium and the track and field and football programs.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link†located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.â€
If you have tickets for the Oregon Symphony performance on Friday, Jan. 18, and find that you will not be able to use them, please return the tickets to the box office as soon as possible. We have a wait list of those who are hoping to receive any tickets turned in.
Thank you,
Mary Monahan (mmonahan@georgefox.edu)
Many thanks to those of you who have already given your consent to receive your W-2s online. If you haven’t, please consider doing so to enable us to make it available to you sooner, and to make it accessible to you in MyGFU (self service) when you are ready to print it.
This will save the university the time and expense of purchasing and stuffing paper W-2 forms and envelopes (over 2,000 last January). And of course, it is also friendlier to our environment. In the future, there will be a $5 charge for replacement W-2s issued and mailed in hard copy.
In order to receive a W-2 in online form only (instead of receiving a paper form), the law requires that you give your consent. This should take you only about 30 seconds to do, so I encourage you to take care of it as soon as possible — perhaps right now.
You’ll receive a confirmation e-mail of your decision shortly after completing this process. And just to be clear, you will only have to do this once — not every year.
For your convenience, GFU Mail Services will be opening its customer service window at 7:30 a.m. on Monday, Jan 14. Please expect some waiting at the window throughout the day due to the large number of packages we have to distribute (more than 1,400 on our shelves).
We thank you in advance for picking up your packages as soon as possible.
– Mail Services
A beginning guitar class and private guitar lessons are being offered this spring at George Fox. Get credit while learning to play the guitar!
Here are the details:
Lessons are taught by George Fox guitar professor Dave Iula (daveiula.com). E-mail Dave with questions or for more info: daveiula1@gmail.com.
Students,
Select from these two online courses designed to fit your career planning needs, as well as your busy schedule!  Learn important skills about finding your calling and preparing yourself for a career after college.  You can find and register for the courses in the course schedule under General Education.  Contact Career Services at 503-554-2330 for more information.
GEED 214 – Emerging Professional I: Major Selection
GEED 218 – Emerging Professional III: Employment
Many thanks to those of you who have already given your consent to receive your W-2s online. If you haven’t, please consider doing so to enable us to make it available to you sooner, and to make it accessible to you in MyGFU (self service) when you are ready to print it.
This will save the university the time and expense of purchasing and stuffing paper W-2 forms and envelopes (over 2,000 last January). And of course, it is also friendlier to our environment. In the future, there will be a $5 charge for replacement W-2s issued and mailed in hard copy.
In order to receive a W-2 in online form only (instead of receiving a paper form), the law requires that you give your consent. This should take you only about 30 seconds to do, so I encourage you to take care of it as soon as possible — perhaps right now.
You’ll receive a confirmation e-mail of your decision shortly after completing this process. And just to be clear, you will only have to do this once — not every year.
