If you have rental books from the BlueZone Store or another Neebo store, you are welcome to return it to the Textbook Annex at any time before Friday, May 3. Skip the end-of-semester rush and bring it in now.
Portland students may send books through the campus courier by taking them to the front counter at the Portland Center (address to Box #6229).
Questions? Contact Sandy Gidding at sgidding@georgefox.edu.
Interested in joining our community garden? It is open to all (students, faculty, all employees, others). Participation is open even if you are around only in the spring, summer or fall.
To learn more, attend an informational meeting scheduled at 8:30 p.m. tonight (Wednesday), in the Hoover Lounge (second floor).
Contact Cherice Bock (cbock@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.
Bruin Heritage is getting ready for Survivor Van and want you to be a part!
Come and show your school spirit by participating or cheering for your class!
Note: Contestants will also need to have two friends that will sign up to complete challenges for the constant outside of the van.
If you are interested in signing up for this event, please contact Taylor Ellis at tellis12@georgefox.edu
Join us today (Wednesday) in chapel as Rev. Samuel Rodriguez joins us. CNN named Rodriguez “the leader of the Hispanic Evangelical movement,” and The Wall Street Journal identified him as one of America’s most influential Hispanic leaders – and the only religious leader on the list.
An Assemblies of God ordained minister since the age of 23, Rodriguez serves as senior pastor of New Season Christian Worship Center in Sacramento, Calif., where he resides with his wife of 23 years, Eva, and their three children.
Come join us at 10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium.
The Bruin Grounds is hosting a benefit concert featuring George Fox alumnus Benjamin Tissell on Saturday, April 6, at 8 p.m. Proceeds will support Ameena Bossier and Bri Phelps, who are going to serve in Swaziland for two months this summer as interns.
The Bruin Grounds will be donating a percentage of what it makes that night from drink purchases. So come enjoy some great music and purchase coffee, milkshakes, smoothies, etc., and support your fellow classmates. Invite your friends!
Hope to see you all there!
The George Fox Yearbook is now accepting applications for 2013-14 yearbook editor chief. Apply online on the ASC website under “get involved” and apply for the position.
The new plan year for benefit-eligible employees has arrived. Please verify your March pay statement (view in MyGFU Self Service) reflects changes you made in medical or dental coverage (if any).
Remember that premiums stayed the same except for Kaiser dental, which went up only 2 percent. Also remember that flexible spending changes will not show on your pay statement until April 30. Please contact Lisa Burton at lburton@georgefox.edu with questions.
Cris Banton, Carrie Bohl, Andrea Byerley, Debbie Cash, Nancy Fawver, Joyce Staats, Tim Goodfellow, Brian McLaughlin and James Oshiro attended the annual Higher Education User Group (HEUG) Alliance 2013 conference for Oracle (PeopleSoft) users held in Indianapolis, Ind., March 17-20. The international conference included 3,000-plus attendees and provided more than 400 specialty educational opportunities for each of the user tracks represented. Tim presented the session “Five Simple Tools for Building a Richer User Experience,†while Carrie presented the session “Bundle 25 – New Prospect and Resource Management Options†and a mini-session titled “What’s All This Talk about HEUG Online?â€
Brent Wilson (Computer Science) presented an evening workshop titled “Android App Development Made Easy†and a conference session titled “Android Apps: As Easy As 1-2-3†for the Northwest Council for Computer Education Conference held in Portland Feb. 27 through March 1.
Paul Otto (History) and Lynn Otto were featured speakers at New St. Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho, March 22. Paul spoke on Christianity and the liberal arts, and Lynn read a selection of her poetry.
Three of Ed Higgins’ (English) poems are in the recently published World Haiku Anthology on War, Violence and Human Rights Violation. The anthology contains poems from 435 poets from 48 different countries, written in 35 languages. The project, four years in the making, was initiated and edited by Dimitar Anakiev, a Slovenian and co-founder of the World Haiku Association. The anthology is illustrated by Kuniharu Shimizu, a Japanese artist of Haiga (illustrated haiku). Ed also had a poem, “Thank you SAFEWAY!,†appear in the March 2013 anthology Retail Woes.
Andrea Byerley (Registrar’s Office) was named Employee of the Month for March.
Sarah King has moved into Office of Financial Affairs to serve as a financial analyst. Also, Tamara Reams has taken on the role of assistant registrar.
April 3 Steve Delamarter, Dale Journey, Holly Kirby
April 5 Jared Kamimae-Lanning, John Newberry, Vicki Tschan
April 8 Joel Kelley
April 10 Cheri Hampton
April 11 Janelle Freitag
April 12 Vickie Eggert
April 13 Sarah King, Susan Newell
April 15 Terrie Boehr, Mike Campadore
The final faculty “Coffee & Conversation” of the spring is titled “Shifting to Online Teaching: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly†and will be held from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. on Monday, April 8, in Hoover 104.
Online teaching is an increasingly common format, but few professors feel fully at home in this environment. What are the opportunities and challenges? This “Coffee & Conversation” will feature the experiences of Melanie Hulbert, Brent Weaver, John Knox, Debora Herb-Sepich and Colleen Huffman. All of them are teaching summer online courses.
Questions? Contact Gary Sehorn at gsehorn@georgefox.edu.
IT is upgrading the equipment responsible for Newberg department shares (K: drive) over the next six to eight weeks. What you know as the server “foxserve†is being replaced by “fileserve.†There is nothing you need to do to make this happen; IT will migrate your files for you.
Some administrative offices will be migrated in the next two weeks. Academic offices and the remaining administrative offices will be migrated in May, following the completion of the spring semester.
If you are a Windows user, you will see a new drive letter (J: drive) in your Windows Explorer window in the next few days. If you are a Mac user, after the migration you will want to use this new connection string – “smb://fileserve.campus.georgefox.edu/â€Â – and open the Employee Shares folder.
We ask that you refrain from using Fileserve (J: drive) until we migrate your department. We will communicate with point people in each department when your migration gets closer.
If you have any questions, please e-mail servicedesk@georgefox.edu.
The International Justice Mission (IJM) club meets in the Cultural House tonight (Tuesday) at 8:15 p.m. to discuss issues of social injustice in our state and in our world. We’ll also talk about ways to bring awareness and advocacy, specifically about sex slavery.
Join the discussion and advocacy! There will be tea and hot chocolate as well. Questions? Contact Hope Kenyon at ekenyon11@georgefox.edu.
Do you want to learn how to build rain gardens to improve streams in your community? In a series of upcoming workshops, you will locate, design and construct a rain garden on the George Fox University campus at Newberg.
Plan & Design a Rain Garden: April 3, 5:30-9 p.m.
Design a rain garden based on native soil and the surrounding infrastructure. Breakout groups will visit the project site and work together for the design.
Build a Rain Garden: April 20, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Build a rain garden from a final design. We’ll finish construction, amend soil, plant the rain garden, and discuss maintenance. Shovels and gloves will be provided. Dress appropriately for the weather.
Info for both classes:
Questions?: Contact Maria Cahill at greengirl@greengirlpdx.com or 503-334-8634.
Brought to you by the City of Newberg, George Fox University, Oregon State University Sea Grant Extension and Green Girl Land Development Solutions.
Know of students interested in attending this Friday’s First Avenue Career Expo free of charge? Encourage them to attend our “How to Work a Job Fair” info session today (Tuesday) from 12:30 to 1 p.m. in the Career Services office!
If they cannot attend the session today, students should contact Corina Burke at ext. 2330 or cburke@georgefox.edu to discuss an alternate time and date to attend the info session.
Want free admission to the First Avenue Career Expo this Friday? Attend our “How to Work a Job Fair” info session today (Tuesday) from 12:30 to 1 p.m. in the Career Services office!
If you cannot attend the session today, contact Corina Burke at ext. 2330 or cburke@georgefox.edu to discuss an alternate time and date to attend the info session.
Come visit our Career Services cart out in the quad tomorrow, Wednesday, April 3, to learn more and register for our First Avenue Career Expo! We’ll be there throughout the day.
Encourage students to visit our Career Services cart out in the quad tomorrow, Wednesday, April 3, to learn more and register for our First Avenue Career Expo! We’ll be there throughout the day.
Come see how the fields of biology, computer science and math come together through exciting new technologies.
Dr. Joseph Gonzales, a senior field applications scientist with Illumina Inc., will give a talk on Wednesday, April 3, at 3:30 p.m. in EHS 102 about Illumnica technologies, and specifically, how they relate to the field of genomics.
The lecture title is “Microarray and Next-Gen Sequencing Technologies: The Genomics Era.” Joseph graduated from George Fox as a math major and biology minor. He went on to get his PhD at the University of Notre Dame.
Illumina develops and manufactures technology that allows researchers to gather, process, and analyze genetic information that can be used to study the cases of disease. If you have any questions, please contact Heather Ayala (hayala@georgefox.edu) in the Department of Biology and Chemistry.
Come kick off the weekend with a fun Friday night celebration filled with music, food and community. Several George Fox students will perform as Hillside Church in Newberg puts on a benefit fundraiser for an orphanage in Haiti that we hope to support with funds, supplies, and a team of people in the summer.
Bring friends and family to celebrate and be a part of something so much bigger than we can even comprehend. The concert is this Friday, April 5, at 8 p.m. at the church, located at 611 N. Main St.
Questions? E-mail Isabella (Izzy) Freeman at ifreeman11@georgefox.edu.
