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Professional publication is an increasingly important, but sometimes intimidating, responsibility of university faculty. David Sherwood (Social Work), editor of the journal Social Work & Christianity for 25 years, will lead a Faculty Teaching Forum workshop on writing for publication from noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20, in the Executive Dining Room.

Participants will review issues such as the types of articles that might be appropriate, selection of journals for submission, writing form and style, the peer review process, using editorial feedback, and appropriate ethics. Participants also will discuss their ideas and questions about writing and publication.

To reserve a lunch e-mail Jere Witherspoon (jwithers@georgefox.edu) by 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 18. Everyone is welcome to attend the session, whether bringing a lunch or reserving a lunch.

All faculty — full time, part time, and adjunct — are invited to attend Faculty Teaching Forums (FTFs). Video podcasts of FTFs will be available at the “Events and Resources” link on the Center for Teaching and Learning website.

If you have not already done so, please submit your January time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) this week. Please be sure it is complete, accurate, and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. The link on the HR website for these documents is: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/forms.html.

If your supervisor is not available to sign it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed. And one last reminder for completing time sheets: Do not write any hours on the date marked holiday (Jan. 21) unless you worked the holiday.

– Human Resources

A faculty teaching forum scheduled from noon to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in the Executive Dining Room will focus on creating a tool for evaluating your own classes at midterm.

You will get to put together, using ideas from your colleagues, a tool that fits the course or courses you teach. We will share several examples of mid-course evaluations other faculty use. Bring your own and bring your ideas. Tom Johnson (Religious Studies) will lead the discussion.

To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (Student Life) by 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 5. Everyone is welcome to attend the session, whether bringing a lunch or reserving a lunch.

All faculty — full time, part time, and adjunct — are invited to attend faculty teaching forums. Video podcasts of FTFs will be available at the “Events and Resources” link on the Center for Teaching and Learning website.

If you anticipate using any tuition remission benefit during the 2008-09 academic year (fall, spring and/or summer semesters), whether for yourself, a spouse, and/or dependent(s) – and whether for undergraduate or graduate courses – you need to complete a Tuition Remission Request Form and submit it by Monday, March 3.

Please go to this link and scroll about halfway down the page to find the link to important information for completing the Tuition Remission Request Forms and the forms themselves. Please be sure to read the one page of information  before you begin completing a Tuition Remission Request Form. Incomplete forms will be returned without being processed.

For information about the Tuition Exchange program, contact Missy Terry (Academic Affairs). If you are applying for tuition exchange benefits for your child but are not sure he/she will be granted the scholarship, you should also apply for tuition remission at George Fox.

If you have a student who will likely be a freshman next academic year but who has not yet completed the undergraduate admissions process, please complete a Tuition Remission Request Form. Do not wait until he or she has been accepted.

Again, these completed forms must be in Human Resources by March 3. If you miss the deadline, your tuition remission cannot be guaranteed for next year.

What holiday is celebrated on Feb. 1? It’s National Freedom Day. The purpose of this holiday is to promote good feelings, harmony, and equal opportunity among all citizens and to remember that the United States is a nation dedicated to the ideal of freedom.

Major Richard Robert Wright Sr., a former slave, fought to have a day when freedom for all Americans is celebrated. When Wright got his freedom, he went on to become a successful businessman and community leader in Philadelphia. He chose Feb. 1 as National Freedom Day because it was the day in 1865 that President Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment – the amendment to outlaw slavery – to the Constitution.

Wright gathered national and local leaders together to write a bill declaring Feb. 1 “National Freedom Day,” and President Harry Truman signed the bill in 1948 to make it official.

Bruce Strom and Rae Casey, School of Professional Studies Boise campus, will present a session on Hybrid higher education best practices in February at the Midwest Scholar’s Conference in Indianapolis, IN.

Bruce Strom, Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership (School of Professional Studies) at the Boise campus, wrote the following articles:

• Knowledge management. Idaho Business Review (Guest Writer Series) (February18, 2008).

• Updating business plans (The Small Business Advisor), Small Business Success Center News (Greater Boise Area Chamber of Commerce) (February, 2008).

• Find out whether you’re cut out for entrepreneurship. Idaho Press-Tribune. Nampa, ID. (January 23, 2008).

• Strategic small business planning: Intentional planning can help turn small businesses into bigger businesses for the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce Small Business Success Center News for the January, 2008 issue.

For more information about these articles, contact Bruce Strom at bstrom@georgefox.edu.

All 2007 W-2 Forms were mailed last Friday, Jan. 25, to campus mail boxes for regular employees. (For employees whose pay is sent to their home address, their W-2’s were sent to the home address as well.)

In the unlikely event that you lose your W-2 and need a replacement, you will need to request it in writing, including e-mails, and allow 24 hours processing time. Human Resources/Payroll will not be able to accept requests for replacement W-2 Forms via phone.

All George Fox University students (undergraduate and graduate), as well as alumni from the class of 2007, are invited to apply for the honor of presenting a project during the reception prior to the March 7 inaugural dinner for the university’s 12th president, Robin E. Baker, PhD.

Selected applicants will be invited to attend the inaugural banquet and will give casual presentations to attendees during the reception hour, answering questions and explaining their projects when people approach them.

Additional information Online application

If you did not get a chance to see Dale Seipp’s (Enrollment Services) presentation to campus on vision for the Enrollment Services division, you are invited to view it via a podcast. Go to this link:  http://media.georgefox.edu/cgi-bin/itunesustaff.pl.

Please email your comments to rclarke@georgefox.edu.

Each year we extend an opportunity for one of our faculty members, undergraduate or graduate, to go to Wuhan University in China as a visiting lecturer. This typically happens in May or June for three to four weeks. The details:

• Wuhan provides an apartment and a small food allowance.
• Restaurants are inexpensive, and there is a kitchen in the apartment. Invitations to share meals are frequently extended by other faculty members.
• The faculty member is responsible for his or her own travel cost to Wuhan. This might be about $1,200.
• The faculty member will be asked to teach about 15 hours a week in his or her subject field, with other requests and expectations sometimes added to that.
• Wuhan sometimes provides an excursion to points of interest in the region, such as the Three Gorges Dam.
• There is space in the apartment for a spouse to go along. If this person is a professor, he or she may be asked to teach as well, but this is not mandatory.
• Wuhan is a large, interesting city and is quite hot at that time of year.

Interested? Contact Lon Fendall (Center for Global Studies/Center for Peace and Justice) via e-mail or at ext. 2685.

You also may want to talk with others who have been visiting faculty members before. Marley Brown (Management) was the 2007 visitor.

A faculty teaching forum, “By My Students’ Consent: The Professor’s Authority,” will be presented by Ken Badley (Education) from noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, in the Executive Dining Room on the Newberg campus.

The session will examine several roots of professors’ authority. The session assumes that expertise and a contract at George Fox are necessary but not sufficient, and then focuses on how student goodwill and consent interact with teacher “chutzpah” (self-authorization), concluding that both these sources of authority also are necessary for sustained classroom work. Participants will consider briefly whether our students’ epistemology is shifting because of the Internet. It also considers some of the dangers present in the relational classroom.

To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (Student Life) by 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 28. Everyone is welcome to attend the session, whether bringing a lunch or reserving a lunch.

All faculty — full time, part time, and adjunct — are invited to attend faculty teaching forums. Video podcasts of forums will be available at the “Events and Resources” link on the Center for Teaching and Learning website.

A faculty business meeting is scheduled from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. (11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mountain time) on Friday, Jan. 25. The Newberg meeting will be in Hoover 105; Portland attendees will meet in PDS 281; and Boise employees will meet in the Boise Center conference room.

A thought from the Faculty Handbook on the values behind faculty business meeting: “Access and participation – All faculty members, regardless of official position, possess judgment and insight potentially useful in decision making.”

– Academic Affairs

FoxServe will be unavailable for access from 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, through 5 p.m. Monday., Jan. 21 (Pacific Time). This interruption to normal service is to take care of some planned maintenance on the server system. You may be more familiar with FoxServe as your “H” drive (personal drive space). Some other ways FoxServe might be utilized is as departmental drive space; you might see it as a “K” drive, “R” drive or similar “lettered” drive.

This planned outage is not expected to affect the Portland campus data storage locations and does not have any affect on FoxTALE or FoxFiles.

Please contact the IT Service Desk if you have concerns or questions about this planned maintenance outage.

– IT Service Desk

Please Note: To see if you will be affected by this outage, double-click on My Computer (Windows) or select Connect To Server from the Go menu (Mac). Look at the network drives listed. If any drive has “foxserve” in its name/address then it will not be available. A few of our H: drives and many of our shared drives actually reside on Foxserve in Newberg.

The George Fox University Boise Center will close on Monday, Jan. 21, 2008, for MLK day.

On Friday, March 14, 2008, the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Small Business Success Center will host an unprecedented learning opportunity for women in business. The Global Athenaeum, to be presented from a pre-recorded live broadcast in New York, will be from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the George Fox University Boise Center.

Cost is $89 per individual ticket, or $80 per person for groups of five or more registering together.

This event is presented by George Fox University and sponsored by Washington Trust Bank.

For more information, click here.

All George Fox University students (undergraduate and graduate), as well as alumni from the class of 2007, are invited to apply for the honor of presenting a project during the reception prior to the March 7 inaugural dinner for the university’s 12th president, Robin E. Baker, PhD.

Selected applicants will be invited to attend the inaugural banquet and will give casual presentations to attendees during the reception hour, answering questions and explaining their projects when people approach them.

Additional information    Online application

David Sherwood (Social Work), editor of the journal Social Work & Christianity for a number of years, will be available this semester to consult with faculty regarding publication, particularly in journals, and to provide editorial assistance with writing projects. Some of the areas David may be able to help with include:

• Identifying and refining publishable writing projects
• Understanding what editors in general or specific journals are looking for
• Understanding the realities of the manuscript submission, review, and revision processes
• Individualized editorial consultation and feedback on writing projects

Faculty at any campus may contact David at dsherwood@georgefox.edu and consultation can be conducted via e-mail or face-to-face on the Newberg campus.

Do you use a portable electric heater in your office or workspace? Please don’t be a fire hazard to yourself or others in your building. Be sure to follow all the directions included with the heater. Keep all combustible material three feet away from the heater and always turn it off when you leave.

– Plant Services

Need contact information for university employees? An updated telephone extension and box number list is available. Click on the link and print for your convenience. Contact Sarah Marvin (Telephone Services) at ext. 2099 for updates and corrections.