The Daily Bruin

Don’t forget to join us for the all-employee meeting from 3:30 to 5 p.m. today (Thursday) in Hoover 105. The event will be live-streamed at the Portland Center in Room 160.

The Sadie Hawkins Dance is tomorrow (Friday)! Tickets are still available for the Sternwheeler. Purchase your ticket in the Bruin Den for $5 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today or tomorrow.

Then grab a date or a friend and get ready to dance the night away on the water!

Questions? Contact Charlotte Gray (cgray12@georgefox.edu).

Looking to get another chapel credit, eat pizza, and learn about how the field of quantum physics relates to the Christian faith? Join the science and religion club today (Thursday) at 5 p.m. in Hoover 103 to listen to former Professor of Chemistry Paul Chamberlain share his experience and knowledge with this complex field and his own faith.

RSVP here or email McKenna Tornblad (mtornblad14@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

If you are naturally curious, creative, collaborative, and a critical thinker, then the new George Fox/BendPoly summer academy coming to our Newberg campus this summer may interest you. Find out more at an information session today (Thursday) from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in EHS 125.

The academy is an intensive eight-week program developed for George Fox students who will be entering their senior year in fall 2016. This year’s academy will provide intensive training and hands-on experience in collaborative digital marketing. The program builds on the foundation of your college career to prepare for your transition to a commercial career. It is for students across all majors:

• Liberal and fine arts—apply design, visual communication and storytelling to help companies engage, delight, inform and serve people
• Engineering and computer science—apply technical insight to a rapidly evolving technology landscape to help define, develop and deliver virtuoso digital marketing capability
• Marketing and business—enhance your business thinking and marketing savvy with digital marketing expertise and showcase web/social solutions to real client needs

Senior executive mentors will introduce participants to leading digital marketing software tools and analytics. Participant teams will then gain hands-on practical experience creating a digital marketing campaign for a real company with a real-world challenge. George Fox students who are selected to participate in the academy will receive a $1,000 fellowship upon completion.

Selection will be competitive and the deadline to apply is March 15. For more details about how to apply, project sponsors, instructors, companies involved and many other details, plan to attend the information session this week.

Questions? Contact Adina McConaughey (amcconaughey@georgefox.edu).

Annual Open Enrollment: Feb. 25 – March 11
Ted Allen will provide information about the changes to our benefit plans at the All-Employee Meeting today (Thursday). Please plan to attend!

During open enrollment, benefit-eligible employees can make changes to benefits without a change-in-status reason. Changes made during open enrollment will take effect April 1, 2016.

Whether or not you make any changes to your benefit elections, you need to complete the open enrollment election form. This is a new electronic form that will be delivered to your George Fox email address today after the all-employee meeting.

If you decide to add coverage or make any changes to your current coverage, you will need to complete the appropriate enrollment forms and return them to Human Resources at box #6108 by end-of-day Friday, March 11.

Attend the George Fox employee benefit fair on Friday
Visit our George Fox benefit vendors tomorrow (Friday) from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. Booths will be hosted by TIAA-CREF, Regence, Kaiser, Allegiance, LifeMap, Aflac, the Bruin Store and our alumni office. Human Resources will also be hosting a booth at the fair, so stop by with your benefit questions or to turn in your open enrollment forms.

Questions? Contact Darby Thiessen (dthiessen@georgefox.edu).

We have our regular Fox and Friendsview game night today (Thursday) at 6:30 p.m.

It’s a great time to relax, play board games, and put together puzzles while engaging in conversations that give senior citizens a chance to share their wonderful life experiences with us and form mutual friendships.

Come to the Terrace Room at Friendsview Retirement Community (the building right across the street from the track) or meet in the Bruin Den around 6:20 p.m. to walk over there together. Feel free to bring your favorite board or card game. Refreshments will be provided.

Questions? Email Nissi Undurthi at nundurthi14@georgefox.edu.

Afro-Zumba tonight (Thursday) from 8 to 9 p.m. in Wheeler Sports Center Room 221. It will be better than last time!

Questions? Contact Imani at fkamau14@georgefox.edu.

Hear travel stories of faith, adventure and fun at the Brown Bag Travels session today!

All are welcome to attend the first of our Brown Bag Travels today (Thursday) from noon to 12:50 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room.

This first session will focus on travel stories. Provost Linda Samek, professor Paul Chamberlain, and students Allison Killeen, Jeremy Qian, Sutton Mills and Tara Baker will share vignettes of the travel experiences they have found humorous or meaningful, and sometimes both! Bring your brown bag or lunch tray and join us for a great time.

Questions? Contact Alex Pia (apia@georgefox.edu).

Dr. Keith Dempsey, chair of the George Fox counseling program at the Portland campus, is coming to speak about how society views African American men. “Brothers, Can We Talk?” is an honest conversation which highlights how many institutions of higher education proclaim to embrace diversity but many black men continue to have challenging experiences on university and college campuses. Come to hear the trials and triumphs of black men who have navigated the waters of higher education.

Students are eligible to receive an elective chapel credit.

Dr. Dempsey will be speaking on the Newberg campus in the Cap and Gown Room from 7 to 8:30 p.m. tonight (Thursday).

Contact Danayit Tsegay (dtsegaye15@georgefox.edu) with questions.

Sigma Tau Delta will be showing “Dead Poet’s Society” in Hoover 105 today (Thursday) at 6 p.m. – be there at 5:30 p.m. if you want to build a fort out of your own blankets!

Questions? Contact Heather Harney (hharney12@georgefox.edu).

Have you ever wondered what it might be like for you to use your business degree in the exciting and fast-paced field of technology? Tomorrow (Friday), come hear our panel of experts share what they’ve learned from their many years of experience. Learn more about what a future in the tech industry could hold for you. The professionals who will be speaking include:

• Ian Aguilar, chief technology officer at Campbell Global
• Laurie Koehler, brand experience manager for the global marketing and communications group at Intel
• Jeremy Riley, product manager for Nike.com global digital commerce group
• Austin Smith, CEO at LA Drones

This @GFUbizcareers event is sponsored by the College of Business and the IDEA Center and will be held in Hoover 103 from noon to 12:50 p.m. tomorrow (Friday).

Free lunch is provided!

Questions? Contact Kelly Borror (kborror@goergefox.edu).

Want to win a cash prize up to $50? Submit photos taken abroad, whether photos of people, landscapes and architecture, or culture. The photo contest is open to all George Fox students and employees. The deadline for photo submissions is Friday, March 4.

For contest guidelines and submission details, please go to this document. The contest is sponsored by International Student & Scholar Services.

If you have any questions, contact Alex Pia (apia@georgefox.edu).

Applications are now being accepted for 2016-17 ARC consultants. If you know students who write well, are thoughtful learners, and desire to support peers in their academic success, encourage them to apply. Students from all disciplines are welcome to apply; representation from multiple disciplines strengthens the ARC’s ability to support a wide range of students. Completed materials are due by Friday, March 4.

If you send names of promising candidates to Melanie Mock (mmock@georgefox.edu), we will notify students that they were recommended as a candidate and will invite them to apply.

Application instructions are available at the ARC application page.

More than 1,200 high school guests will be using the Bauman Auditorium and Ross Center tomorrow (Friday) for a choir festival. There will be buses driving in and out of the Bauman parking lot all day (8 a.m. to 6 p.m.) and parking on Fulton Street. Please use caution in and around the parking lots and be considerate of our guests.

Contact Natalie Marquette (nmarquette12@georgefox.edu) with any questions or concerns.

Do you like showing others ways to be a more effective and efficient student? Do your friends always come to you to look over their papers before they turn them in? Do you have a GPA above 3.0?

If you answered yes to these questions, you might have a future as a consultant in the Academic Resource Center (ARC). We are interested in students from any major (not just English).

Applications for the 2016-17 academic year are due by Friday, March 4. Application instructions and additional information are available at the ARC application page.

Contact Rick Muthiah (rmuthiah@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

Many of you have brought to our attention that there have been errors in copier charges recently. Print Services is working to define and correct this error. Your budgets will be credited back for any overage accordingly. We apologize for this error and thank you for your patience while we make the correction.

Questions? Contact Richard Silver (rsilver@georgefox.edu).

Current students who would like to be considered for approval to live off-campus prior to housing selection will need to submit a residency exemption request before 5 p.m. on Monday, March 4. Requests submitted after that date will be reviewed at the end of each month beginning in April. The last day to submit an exemption request for fall 2016 is May 31. Requests submitted after that time may not be considered.

The deadline to submit an off-campus request for extreme financial hardship is also May 31. You can find the petition for financial hardship in the Student Life office or on the George Fox housing website.

Students who are placed in housing and eligible to live off-campus have until July 31 to notify the housing department of their intent to live off-campus.

Questions? Contact housing@georgefox.edu or refer to the housing and residence life site for additional information.

Apply to be a Peer Advisor for next fall! Do you like to meet new people? Are you passionate about making everyone feel included? Do you like to be helpful? We are looking for a diverse group of 80 students to welcome in the class of 2020!

You don’t need to be an extrovert, just someone who is willing to go out of your way to make new students feel welcome. The application can be found here, with submissions due today (Wednesday, Feb. 24) at 5 p.m. in the student life office.

Returning Peer Advisors only need to fill out the application and do not need to have references filled out again. Questions? Please email Stephanie St. Cyr at sstcyr@georgefox.edu.

If you’re interested in completing a George Fox course in half the time and paying only 50 percent tuition while doing it, then the summer online program is the way to go!

Registration for summer 2016 is now open. The summer online dates are June 6 – July 31. You can check out our newly updated class information site, class.georgefox.edu, for a list of the classes being offered, or visit the George Fox summer courses site. If you have questions about the applicability of a class to your degree requirements, contact your CAP coach for more information. In many cases, your financial aid package may be used to cover the cost (check with Financial Aid for details).

Questions? Email Brian Doak (bdoak@georgefox.edu), director of the summer online program.

Note: Reduced tuition rates apply to traditional undergraduate programs only.

The Office of Alumni and Parent Relations would like your feedback for planning Post Fox, an upcoming student and alumni networking event. Take this quick survey to let them know what you want to see at the event.

Questions? Contact Taylor Ellis (tellis12@georgefox.edu).