E-Colleague

March 19              Joanne Gray, Marty Hunter
March 20              Heidi Cuddeford
March 21              Larry Mennenga
March 22              Terry Peters
March 23              Dianna McIntyre
March 24              Loren Kerns, Mary Monahan
March 25              Brian Gardner
March 26              Nick Willis
March 27              Yune Tran
March 28              Kathy Harris, Alene Horney, Charlie Kamilos, Jeremy Lloyd, Steve Petzold
March 29              Vetta Berokoff, Kathi Gatlin
March 30              Debora Herb-Sepich
March 31              Melodee Powers

What does it mean to be a woman? How does religion form our view of women?

On Tuesday, March 19, all are invited to hear from Melanie Mock, Shelley Yonemura, DeLisa Thomas and Suhila Jefery at a “Women, Religion and Work Panel.” We’ll meet at 7 p.m. in Lemmons 8. This event is sponsored by the Inclusion and Student Leadership Programs.

Are you looking for a valuable upper-division elective course for next year? Check out the following courses that the School of Business will be offering:

BUSN 303 – Personal Finance (Fall ’13 & Spring ’14)

This course is designed to prepare students to think critically about their relationship with money, develop their own personal financial philosophy and implement practical application of personal financial management. Topics include relationship with money, biblical financial foundations, budgets, loans, spending, housing, insurance, investments and taxes.

Prerequisites: none; taught by Ryan Halley, finance professor, George Fox

MKTG 485 — Consumer Engagement and Social Networking (Fall ’13)

Marketing is all about connecting … connecting with your customer, connecting with management, connecting with money (budget), and connecting with retail. What is our business? Who are our customers? What does the customer value? Consumer engagement is not a single source of contact but an ongoing “conversation” – developing brand positioning, leveraging user-generated content, and creating a word-of-mouth social audience, all resulting in customer loyalty and influencing behavior. The questions haven’t changed BUT how we tell the story has.

Prerequisites: MKTG 260 (Principles of Marketing); taught by Laurie Koehler, Consumer Campaigns Manager, Intel

ECON 485 — Environmental Economics (Spring ’14)

Students will explore the relationship between the economy and the environment. The efficient management of natural resources, impacts of pollution, and sustainability issues will all be considered. To account for economic growth concerns the scope of analysis includes both the developed and developing world. The primary objective of the course is to increase students’ understanding of policy-relevant, incentive-based solutions to environmental issues.

Prerequisites: Either Econ 201 Microeconomics Principles or ECON 202 Macroeconomics Principles, or permission of the instructor; taught by Nate Peach, economics professor, George Fox

Questions? Contact Ryan Halley at halleyr@georgefox.edu.

The Portland Center South building will be testing our emergency procedures with an emergency evacuation drill early Wednesday evening, March 20. This is a mandatory participation event.

When you hear the alarm sound, please proceed calmly to the nearest exit and proceed to the designated meeting spot directly in line with north, east and west building exits. A safety committee member will inform you when the drill is complete and you are allowed to re-enter the building.

Help the Romania/Moldova Summer Serve Team by donating to the coin drive. Our serve team will be going around to On-Campus dorms, houses, and apartments this Monday, March 18 at 7 p.m.. It would be great if you could help. Thank You.

The Housing Selection Form will be open for groups to sign up beginning Monday, March 18 at noon. The form will be available until 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 22.

In order to participate in Housing Selection each student needs to have paid a $150 Housing Deposit to Student Financial Services. Students have until Thursday, March 21 to pay the deposit and still be eligible to participate in the selection process.

To sign up for housing with your group simply login to the form here and then click on the “Housing Group Signup” link on the left side. Only one person from each group needs to complete the on-line Housing Form. There are step-by-step directions in the form that will walk you through the following:

• Entering housing codes for the group
• Confirming your roommate choices
• Ranking the order of your preferred housing

If you do not have a group to sign up with, you can go through the housing process as an individual. In this case we will work on placing you with other groups that have an opening in their housing.

If you would like help with filling out the Housing Form there is a computer set up in the Student Life Office. Please stop by and one of the housing staff will help answer your questions as you go.

For additional information about housing selection please refer to the Housing and Residence Life website. If you have questions please stop by or call the Student Life Office (ext. 2310) or email housing@georgefox.edu.

For the past year, we’ve been in conversation with our risk management/insurance company as well as completed a comprehensive review of best practices to reduce risk and liability related to the transportation of students, faculty and staff. You will find the new policy at this link. Please review this very carefully and feel free to contact Plant Services or Brad Lau if you have any questions.

We are not yet ready to implement the personal vehicle aspect of the policy, but are ready to implement the policies and procedures guiding the use of university vehicles.

In order to check out and drive University vehicles (as well as to rent and drive Enterprise vehicles on university business), a student and/or employee driver must be on the “approved driver’s list.” This means that the following has occurred (a minimum of five days before the student or employee plans to pick up and drive a university vehicle):

1. The student or employee has read and agreed to the policy.
2. The student or employee has viewed the 15-minute training video.
3. The student or employee has taken a quiz that requires approximately 10-15 minutes.
4. A background check of the student’s or employee’s driving record has been completed and meets the criteria described in the university policy.

Once all this has been completed and verified (and assuming all the criteria are met), the employee’s or student’s name will be added to the approved driver’s list and university vehicles can be checked out and driven. This process will need to be completed annually for students and once every three years for employees. Of course, there is much more information in the policy, so please review it carefully.

To begin the process of becoming an approved driver, please login to FoxTALE on this page and follow directions.

The new policy is effective immediately, so please take care of this as soon as possible if you plan to drive a university vehicle on university business. When you pick up the vehicle, you will need to show Plant Services your driver’s license and verbally verify that you have current personal automobile insurance (even though university insurance provides coverage for the use of university vehicles).

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, March 25, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

FoxTALE maintenance during spring break

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, March 25, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

During the scheduled maintenance on Monday, March 25:

1. Fall 2012 sites will be hidden to students. If you want to make your course site available to students, select “Edit settings” in the Course Administration block. Scroll down to the the “Availability” section and select “This course is available to students.” Scroll to bottom and “Save changes.”
2. Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 course sites will be generated. You will see your course sites listed when you log into FoxTALE after the maintenance is completed.

Old FoxTALE available until Aug. 31, 2013

Here’s a reminder that old FoxTALE (foxtale19.georgefox.edu) will be available until Aug. 31, 2013. If you have additional course sites that need to be copied from old FoxTALE to new (current) FoxTALE, please contact the IT Service Desk.

If you have any questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

Join us tonight (Monday) for “Speaking Our Mind,” a lecture presented by Kathryn Hickok, publications director for the Cascade Policy Institute. Her presentation is the latest in the university’s spring Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series on the “State of the Union.”

The session runs from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105. Hickok will discuss how, as citizens, we must explain the “why’s” behind our views to be persuasive in today’s political and public policy debates.

Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.

Know of any students who want to be published? The Crescent has an opportunity!

Encourage your students to submit their photos, stories, poetry, art, designs, compositions and creations to be published in a 40-page, full-color magazine called The Wineskin! They can submit their entries to Sarah Biernacki at sbiernacki12@georgefox.edu or Katherine Vanlandingham at kvanlandingham11@georgefox.edu by Friday, March 22.

Are you a student who wants to be published? Need something to add a little beef to your resume? Parents complaining that you’re not doing anything with your education? The Crescent has your solution!

Submit your photos, stories, poetry, art, designs, compositions, creations, and your passion to be published in a 40-page, full-color magazine called The Wineskin! Once part of George Fox’s history and now part of your future, be known in your craft and submit your entries to Sarah Biernacki at sbiernacki12@georgefox.edu or Katherine Vanlandingham at kvanlandingham11@georgefox.edu by Friday, March 22.

We look forward to seeing and sharing your art!

Through free, basic health-care and transformative surgeries, Mercy Ships becomes the face of love in action. The hospital ship Africa Mercy provides first-rate medical professionals, state of the art medical and surgical facilities, and health care training to communities in West Africa that lack those critical services.

A recruiter from Mercy Ships will be in the SUB from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, March 18.

Contact Career Services for more information.

Need to send out a student survey? The following guidelines have been established for the distribution of student surveys. Faculty members are encouraged to help facilitate this process.

Please follow these guidelines when submitting student surveys for mass distribution. Send your surveys to Jere Witherspoon in the student life office. Your approved survey request should include all of the following:

• Your name and e-mail address (may include the list of names from those in your group)
• Course name and professor
• Approval for distribution granted by: _______________________ (list department)
• Short, catchy blurb about the survey no more than 35 words in length
• A tested, workable link to the survey

An e-mail with all submitted surveys will be sent to all students once a week (on Wednesdays). An identical e-nnouncement will be submitted at the same time to student e-nnouncements. The following disclaimer will be attached to the e-mail and the e-nnouncement:

Disclaimer:
These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.

Please contact Jere Witherspoon if you have any questions about this process.

A memorial service for Lucy (Clark) Anderson will be held tomorrow (Saturday) at 2 p.m. at North Valley Friends Church, 4020 N. College St. Lucy (mother of Paul) taught English and theatre at George Fox from 1947 to 1951.

Starting on Monday, March 18, a contractor will begin installation of solar panels on top of Bauman Auditorium. They will not work during scheduled events. If you have questions, you can call Dan Schutter at ext. 2014.

Students:

If you are currently registered as NOCAR, but are planning to bring a car back for the last five weeks of school, there is a reduced registration fee of $15 to register it.

Please go on MyGFU and DELETE your NOCAR listing by using the “minus” button to the right of your listing, and once the boxes have cleared, go ahead and enter your vehicle’s information. A permit will then be sent to Mail Services and you can sign for it there.

Please remember that ALL cars on campus need to have a permit on them. If you bring a car to campus other than the one that is registered, you must come to the security office for a gratis temporary permit.

Questions? Please call Security during office hours at: 503-554-2090.

Encourage your students to attend the First Avenue Career Expo on Friday, April 5!

This is a great opportunity for your students to hear Joshua Waldman, author of Job Searching with Social Media, speak about “What your Parents Can’t Teach You About Finding A Job,” network face-to-face with real professionals at our “Link In Live” event, and connect with more than 100 different companies and graduate schools.

• For a list of attending companies, click here.
• For a list of attending graduate schools, click here.

Questions? Contact the Corina Burke at ext. 2330 or cburke@georgefox.edu.

Join us for the First Avenue Career Expo! This is a great opportunity to network with over 100 companies and graduate schools. It will be Friday, April 5, at the University of Portland’s Chiles Center.

• For a list of companies, click here.
• For a list of attending graduate schools, click here.
• To register online, click here.

For more information, contact the Corina Burke at ext. 2330 or cburke@georgefox.edu.

Do you want free admission to attend the First Avenue Career Expo?

If so, stop by and attend one of our “How to Work a Job Fair” info sessions today (Friday) in the Career Services office from 12:30 to 1 p.m.

For more information and to register for the First Avenue Career Expo, visit olapcfirstavenue.org or visit your Career Services office!