The Daily Bruin

Now is the time to order university stationery. The collective order helps keep costs low – the higher the volume, the lower the cost. Consequently, it is most economical to overestimate needs and store a small surplus.

I will be accepting orders through Wednesday, Aug. 22. For order instructions, go to the marketing communications website. Continue to purchase all non-departmental stationery (including “second-sheet letterhead”) through the university’s Office of Print Services.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Thank you,
Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu)

Now is a great time to get trained in CPR/AED/First Aid! There are seven spots remaining in next week’s class, scheduled to take place from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on both Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 13-14.

You can sign up online on the Campus Public Safety website. Our hope is that every department would have a minimum of one person trained in CPR/AED/First Aid. The classes are also open for community members, so spread the word and sign up today to secure your spot!

Do you know of any sophomores, juniors, seniors and grad students who have yet to register for their residential and commuter permits? If so, please encourage them to register now so they receive them before school starts!

Commuters and grad students should input the address they are commuting from as the “mailing address.” Students registering for a residential permit should use their George Fox address and PO box for the “mailing address” so it will be waiting for them to sign for at Mail Services. They will not be in students’ PO boxes.

Students should print out their temporary permit from the link sent to them after successfully registering and place it on their dashboard until their permit has arrived.

Questions? Contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2090 during business hours.

Sophomores, juniors, seniors and grad students: Please register for your residential and commuter permits now in order to receive them before school starts!

Commuters and grad students should input the address they are commuting from as the “mailing address.” Students registering for a residential permit should use their George Fox address and PO box for the “mailing address” so it will be waiting for you to sign for at Mail Services. They will not be in your PO box.

Be sure to print out your temporary permit from the link sent to you after successfully registering and place it on your dashboard until your permit has arrived. Affix your permit to the exterior of your car’s back window, check your parking brochure to see where you can park after moving in, and you will be ready to go by the time school starts!

Questions? Contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2090 during business hours.

The university community is invited to a farewell reception for Shannon Johnson, formerly the interim director of advancement, at 2 p.m. today (Thursday) in the Bridges Cafe in Canyon Commons.

Come wish Shannon well! Contact Karlyn Fleming (kfleming@georgefox.edu) with questions.

The university community is invited to a farewell reception for Shannon Johnson, formerly the interim director of advancement, at 2 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday) in the Bridges Cafe in Canyon Commons.

Come wish Shannon well! Contact Karlyn Fleming (kfleming@georgefox.edu) with questions.

All employees, half time and above, are required to attend the all-community meeting​ (absences must be approved by your vice president)​, scheduled from 8 to 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 15, in the Canyon Commons dining hall on the Newberg campus. Coffee and danishes will be served beginning at 8 a.m., with the program to follow, and the event concludes with lunch served at 11:30 a.m.

The meeting will include a time of worship and devotions, an update from President Robin Baker and the VP team, and employee service awards. This year, service award recipients will be honored with the gift of your words. Please take a few moments to scroll through the list and create a card to say thank you or share a favorite memory by adding a comment under their name. We’ll print the comments on cards and present them at the meeting.

Contact Missy Terry at terrym@georgefox.edu with any questions.

See you there!

Michael Reza has been hired as vice president of the university’s advancement office. He arrives with more than 12 years of higher education leadership experience – the last eight of which were spent in development and alumni positions at Oregon State University. Since 2015, he’s worked as associate director of development for the school’s Honors College and scholarship initiatives. Previously, Michael served for two years as assistant director of development for Oregon State’s regional programs, for which he traveled regularly to California and Arizona to visit with major gift prospects and major gift donors. Prior to his employment in OSU’s development office, he worked as the business development director for the Oregon State Alumni Association from 2010 to 2013. Michael also worked as Portland regional director for the OSU Alumni Association in 2011-12, managing all aspects of event programming, budgeting, supervision and planning of association events in the Portland metro area. His career in higher education began in 2006, when he worked as a graduate assistant for alumni clubs, college relations and multicultural programs in the University of Arizona Alumni Association. The following year, he began a three-year tenure as director of membership and marketing for the University of California, Irvine’s Alumni Association. Michael holds a master’s degree in public administration, with a concentration in local government and nonprofit management, from the University of Arizona Eller College of Management (2007) and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from California State University, Long Beach (2001). He lives in Portland with his wife Katie and daughter Simone and attends Westside: A Jesus Church.

The IDEA Center has hired Mitzi Martinez as a career and academic planning coach. An alumna of George Fox, she has worked the past year as a graduate assistant in the student programming and activities department at Biola University in La Mirada, California. Before that, she worked as a graduate assistant in the intercultural life department at George Fox in the summer of 2017. Mitzi also gained higher education work experience as an assistant residence director for residence life at Azusa Pacific University (2016-17), as a resident assistant for residence life at George Fox (2015-16) and as an administrative assistant in George Fox’s academic affairs department (2015-16). She earned a master’s degree in college counseling and student development from Azusa Pacific University in 2018 and holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from George Fox (2016). Mitzi recently moved to Newberg and is excited to join the community.

Keith Schneider, who worked at George Fox as director of housing from 2011 to 2015 and as an area coordinator the four years before that, has returned to the university to serve as the assistant director of campus recreation in the new Hadlock Student Center. For the past three years he managed operations at Nike’s Rock Gym in Beaverton, overseeing setting, maintenance, staff scheduling and classes. Also, since 2015, he’s run the rock climbing business he cofounded, Beyond the Wall Climbing. While at George Fox, Keith was a walkabout emergency response coordinator (2011-14), and between 2001 and 2010 he was a Walkabout wilderness guide at Warner Pacific College and George Fox. He also gained higher education experience as director of leadership development and student programs at Warner Pacific (2004-07). He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Oregon State University (2001) and a bachelor’s degree in applied science from George Fox (2000). Keith lives in Newberg with his wife Laura. They attend Newberg Emerging Friends.

Brett Meyers has joined the George Fox community as the coordinator of student programs, a new position that provides coordination, training, programming and vision for a variety of Office of Student Life programming initiatives, including oversight and advising of student clubs and organizations as well as training and support for student leaders and faculty/staff advisors. For the past six years, Brett has worked as director of marketing and admissions and school programs at Westside Christian High School in Portland. Concurrently, from 2011 to 2014, he was on the discipleship steering committee for The Master’s Plan, a group responsible for planning discipleship conferences at Washington Family Ranch in Central Oregon. Previously, from 2009 to 2011, he was director of operations at the Door of Hope Church in Portland. Brett earned a master’s degree in theology from Wheaton Graduate School in 2009 and a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from Westmont College in 2005. He lives in Tigard with his wife Kelsey, a George Fox alumna, and the couple is expecting their first child in November. They attend Colossae Church.

Brad Weldon (IT), Christopher Parks (Library), Tanya Erskine (Plant Services) and Charles Allen (Plant Services) have left the university.

Rob Westervelt is transitioning out of his role as vice president for innovation and empowerment to lead the Future State Project, a marketing and innovation initiative designed to build a brighter future for George Fox University by leveraging Rob’s talents in the areas of marketing, strategy and innovation. In this role, Rob will work directly with Robin Baker on university strategy and will assist Ryan Dougherty and the enrollment and marketing team in the areas of branding and admissions. Rob will also work on building relationships with key business and community leaders and provide marketing and innovation resources for the university and other organizations that seek a brighter future for themselves.

Jekabs Bikis (College of Business) presented a poster, “Perceived value of ACBSP accreditation among George Fox University graduate business students,” at the annual meeting of the Accreditation Council for Business Schools & Programs (ACBSP) in Kansas City, Missouri, June 8-10. Jekabs’ poster was awarded the “Best Poster in Conference.”

Paul Otto (History) and undergraduate student Paul Schroeder play-tested their game, “The Origins of Apartheid and the Birth of African Resistance, 1935-1936,” at the annual Reacting to the Past Game Development Conference at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, on July 12. Paul Otto also work-shopped another game, “Debating the Great Trek, 1835-1837,” at the same conference.

Nicole M. Enzinger (Education) published an article, “Grade 5 Children’s Drawings for Integer Addition and Subtraction Open Number Sentences,” in The Journal of Mathematical Behavior. The classifications of the drawings produced by children challenge traditional models for teaching integer addition and subtraction in school mathematics. She also recently returned from UmeÃ¥, Sweden, where she presented a paper, “Prospective Teachers’ Explanations for Integer Word Problems,” at the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference.

Brandon Waybright (Art and Design) took part in an exhibit, titled “Reading Wall,” at the Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Springs, California, in March and April and also exhibited a table of his original publications at the Otis Art Book Fair, an international juried event held at Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles on July 21-22. He was also an exhibitor at this year’s Crafty Wonderland, a juried event held at the Portland Convention Center in May. Looking ahead, he will present a paper, “History from the Ground Up: The Zine as Model for a More Inclusive Design History,” at SECAC’s (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference) meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, Oct. 17-20. SECAC is a national college art organization with a yearly peer-review and juried conference. He will also publish an abstract, “The Future is not Flat: Developing Pedagogical Tools that Prepare Design Students for a Multi-Sensory and Multi-Dimensional World,” at Decipher, the American Institute of Graphic Arts’ educator’s conference in Detroit Sept. 27-29. AIGA is the largest national organization for graphic design professionals.

Paul Anderson (Christian studies) presented a plenary session TED Talk, “The Spirituality of Jesus,” at Experiencing Life with God: An Academic Conference Celebrating the Pioneering Contributions of Richard Foster and Dallas Willard, at Westmont College in May. He also presented a workshop, “The Spirituality of Jesus,” at the Richard Foster conference he organized, “Celebrating 40 Years of The Celebration of Discipline – Empowering Spiritual Transformation in the Local Church,” on the George Fox campus in June. He also presented “The John, Jesus, and History Project and a Fourth Quest for Jesus” at the Society of New Testament Studies meetings in Athens, Greece, in August. In addition, he participated in an advanced seminar on “Economic Systems in Christian Perspectives,” sponsored by the Oikonomia Network, at Biola University in May. Finally, the book he coedited, The Literary Devices in John’s Gospel; Revised and Expanded Edition, by David Wead, was published as Volume #7 in the Johannine Monograph Series (which Paul co-edits) with Wipf & Stock.

Aug. 8               Jill Sikkema
Aug. 10             Christine Saladino
Aug. 11             Colleen Sump
Aug. 12             Ken Ingram, Elizabeth Roark
Aug. 13             Kathy Heininge, Jeff Marble, Jamie Noling-Auth, Nate Peach
Aug. 14             Pam Fifer, Jenny Zaganiacz
Aug. 16             Casey Brooks, Gary Sehorn, Seth Sikkema, Tyler Susmilch, Grace Tissell
Aug. 17             Saiko Mair, Bethany Ramse
Aug. 19             Jim Foster, Nancy Schifferdecker
Aug. 20             Audrey Paice

We trust you are excited about the new Hadlock Student Center (HSC)! Assuming everything continues on schedule, the fitness center portion of the facility will be open with limited hours (tentatively 4 to 9 p.m.) beginning Monday, Aug. 27 (anticipated grand opening and full hours will begin Monday, Sept. 3). This is subject to change if there are unexpected delays in construction.

If you use the fitness center in Wheeler, you’ll notice most of the space has been cleared in anticipation of remodeling it for athletics’ use since the HSC will be opening soon. Due to this upcoming remodeling of the Wheeler fitness center space, some equipment has been moved into the adjacent dance studio space (Wheeler 211) for general student and employee use until the HSC opens. The squat racks are also still available for use and are in their original spot.

There are more limited hours for this interim space in Wheeler, as it will now be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday (closed Saturday and Sunday). We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience during this transitional period and trust that the new space in the HSC will make it worth the wait!

Questions? Contact Rob Simpson (simpsonr@georgefox.edu) regarding the HSC or Adam Puckett (apuckett@georgefox.edu) regarding the Wheeler Sports Center space.

We are looking for volunteers for this year’s Welcome Weekend and would love any help you can offer! This event is a great chance to connect with new students and their families as they begin their journey with us on campus. Volunteers are needed on Thursday, Aug. 23.

If you are interested in serving please click this link.

We apologize for any frustration in accessing your vehicle registration information, as the database unfortunately is not granting you access to your previous registration information.

If you’ve had car changes since you first registered within the past three to four years when we switched to the new hangtags (or can’t remember which vehicles are registered), just email Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu with the changes and she can update it for you.

If you work at the Newberg campus and have yet to register any vehicles, you can access the vehicle registration link underneath “GFU Resources” on the home page of MyGFU. Have your DMV registration slip in front of you, as you will need to input information from that slip.

Every employee is given one gratis parking permit that can be switched between your vehicles. If you wish to purchase additional tags for each vehicle you drive to campus, they are only $5 cash each at the Campus Public Safety office.

The Bruin Den will be closed this week (Aug. 6-10) in preparation for the upcoming school year. We will reopen Monday, Aug. 13, with summer hours (Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.) until classes start on Monday, Aug. 27, when we start school year hours of 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Know any sophomores, juniors and/or seniors? If so, please encourage them to register their vehicles for residential or commuter parking permits! Permits will take one to three weeks to arrive, so now is the time to register.

Contact Nadine Kincaid (nkincaid@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Sophomores, juniors and seniors: Please don’t delay in registering your vehicles for residential or commuter parking permits! Please use your campus address and PO box number as your “mailing address,” as your permit will take one to three weeks to arrive and you will need it on your car before school begins.

Your permit will not be in your PO box; you will need to sign for it at Mail Services. The residential permits are limited and are going fast, so register today before they are gone!

You’ll also want to keep the parking brochure (that comes with your parking permit) in your car so you will know where to park when you arrive on campus, as there have been changes since last spring.

Contact Nadine Kincaid (nkincaid@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Fall classes are three weeks away, so now is the time to get your textbooks! Go to georgefoxshop.com to rent or purchase your books. Select in-store pick up, get free shipping and simply pick up your books between Welcome Weekend and the end of the first week of class.

Look for more information about in-store pick up closer to Welcome Weekend.

Questions? Contact Michael Simmons at msimmons@georgefox.edu.

Before undergraduate students start to arrive in a mere seven days, now would be a great time to log on to MyGFU and check your vehicle registration.

• If you have a new car that isn’t listed, please email Nadine Kincaid with all of the new vehicle’s pertinent information and which vehicle it replaces.
• Can’t find your parking permit or need to purchase an additional one for another car? Bring $5 cash to the Campus Public Safety office and we will issue one on the spot.
• Have yet to register anything? Please go on MyGFU and click on the vehicle registration link under “Staff Resources” and have your DMV registration slip handy to fill in the required information. Please put your campus PO box number in the “mailing address” line, as all permits will be sent via campus mail.
• Don’t work at the Newberg campus but go there frequently for meetings? Please go ahead and register as well.
• A gentle reminder: Your staff parking permit is for your use only and not for your child’s use. They must purchase their own parking permit and must park where their permit allows (not the staff lots).
• If you work solely at the Portland Center and only come infrequently to the Newberg campus, just check in at the Campus Public Safety office for a temporary permit when in Newberg.

Questions? An out-of-the-box vehicle situation? Please contact Nadine at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

Thanks!

National Watermelon Day is today (Friday)! To mark the occasion, join us in the quad between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. in front of Minthorn for some watermelon fun. Fresh watermelon, refreshments, lawn games and yummy takeaway treats will be provided.

A big thank you to Bon Appetit for helping us make this happen. See you there!