About Our People
Kevin T. Jones (Department of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts) was the keynote speaker Oct. 10-11 at a weekend retreat sponsored by Central United Protestant Church in Richland, Wash. Kevin addressed the biblical foundation for basic communication skills such as listening, the gift of language, male/female communication, conflict management and forgiveness. Kevin was also recently invited to serve as a member of the board of the Christianity and Communication Studies Network (CCSN). As a board member, Kevin will be responsible to peer review CCSN publications, including book reviews, short- and long-form essays, and short case studies and think pieces. The network is designed to serve CCCU schools and other scholars interested in questions and issues at the intersection between Christianity and communication studies.
Melanie Springer Mock (English) has coedited, with Martha Kalnin Diede and Jeremiah Webster, the book The Spirit of Adoption: Writers on Religion, Adoption, Faith, and More (Wipf and Stock: Cascade Books). According to the publisher, the book “explores many of the complexities inherent in adoption and its relationship to spirituality, challenging us to move beyond the common mythologies about adoption to consider the more difficult questions adoption raises about the nature of God, family, culture, loss, and joy. Rather than hearing from experts in adoption, this collection uses the narratives of birth parents, adoptive parents and adoptees themselves, bearing witness to the ways adoption shapes its participants’ spiritual lives.†Other contributors include Jere Witherspoon (Student Life), alumni Beth Woolsey and Kohleun Adamson, and Kimberly Felton, a regular George Fox Journal writer and wife of Rob Felton (Marketing Communications).
Ryan Halley and Josh Sauerwein (College of Business) won the best regional presentation award at the Accreditation Council for Business Schools & Programs’ Region 7 Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Oct. 22-24. They have been accepted to present at the national ACBSP conference in Philadelphia this summer. Their presentation was titled, “Building an educational bridge: Blurring the lines between higher education and business practice.â€
Ed Higgins (English) published a slipstream flash fiction piece, “Strawberry Daiquiris,†in the Oct. 24 issue of Flash Fiction Magazine, an e-zine dedicated to publishing a flash fiction story daily.
Nate Peach (School of Business) published the paper “Using the Tragedy of the Anticommons to Illuminate the Value of Political Economy Perspectives†in the International Journal of Economics and Social Science (Vol. 4, 2014). The essay outlines a framework to incorporate political economy perspectives into economics courses in order to facilitate a more integrated classroom. It was written to help economists think beyond economics and is based on Nate’s lectures and a student research project in environmental economics. Nate says the motivation for the project came from his experiences rock climbing in Portland.