The Daily Bruin

Make plans to join us on Saturday, Aug. 14, for our fourth motorcycle rally, departing from the Newberg campus. If you are a street motorcycle rider, we want to hear from you so we can send you an invitation. Also, let us know if you are interested in the longer Tillamook Route (185-225 miles), or the short ride through Yamhill County Wine Country (100-125 miles).

Please contact us by May 15 to let us know of your interest at alumni@georgefox.edu. To find out more, visit the Motorcycle Rally page on the alumni website.

Career Services is offering a free job search workshop series in May. “Strategy Tools for the Job Seeker,” the first of  six sessions, kicks off the series on Tuesday, May 11, at 4 p.m. in Stevens 220. Sign-ups are available on the Career Services website. Attend one session or all six!

Faculty and staff are encouraged to pass this information along to graduated seniors and recent alumni.

While parking is a bit more relaxed during the summer, certain parking regulations still remain in effect. Please do not park in the visitor rows in the Hoover and Stevens lots so the campus is welcoming to our numerous visitors. Loading-only spaces and marked reserved spaces are still enforced, as are the 10-minute spaces by Mail Services.

Also, all yellow curbs are no-parking fire lanes, and handicapped spaces can only be utilized with a valid handicapped permit. We are also hosting some very large events in the following weeks and months and ask that you please be sensitive about where you park during these events.

Students can park close to their residences regardless of their 2009-10 parking permit designations. Both students and staff may be asked to park in non-staff lots when we host big groups such as Genesis.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation, and please call ext. 2090 if you have specific questions not answered here.

Mail Services reports missing a purple hand truck for the past week. If you have any information concerning its whereabouts, please contact Elizabeth Holme at ext. 2550.

The WLDI (Women’s Leadership Development Initiative Committee) hosted a panel session on the Newberg campus on Wednesday, April 14. Panelists Patrick Allen, Linda Samek, Dirk Barram and Clyde Thomas spoke with attendees about their experiences coaching and leading alongside leaders who are women.

The discussion is available online to all employees at georgefox.edu/womens-leadership. Topics include mixed gender leadership teams, leadership qualities, and steps women can take to advance into leadership opportunities.

This Web page is only available internally.

The School of Business’ Justine Haigh, associate professor of marketing, will present “Beyond corporate social responsibility: What about the consumer?” at a summer speaker series event Friday, June 11. Haigh will speak from 7 to 9 a.m. at The Grand Hotel at Bridgeport, located just off I-5 at the Durham Exit in Tualatin.

Presentation synopsis:
With all the hype these days about corporate social responsibility (CSR), we seem to enjoy finger pointing, blogging, and tweeting about unruly organizations and their failure to adhere to the law, ethical standards, and/or international norms. Caught up in these debates, however, we seldom think about how our own consumption patterns may actually harm the social good. So, how do we rationalize our conduct? What do we tell ourselves to justify recent purchases from organizations that we know do not practice socially responsible behavior?

Haigh will present a cross-cultural comparison of ethical consumer behavior. In exploring these issues, corporations’ ethical principles will be considered, but importantly the focus will be on each of us – the global consumer – and how we position ourselves as morally justifiable in our behaviors.

To read more and to register, go to the School of Business site. The cost to university students and employees is $10 (others pay $20), which includes a continental breakfast.

Phase II items will be open for viewing Wednesday through Friday, May 5-7, between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. in the Villa Academic Complex’s north entrance only. Please keep items sorted and neatly stacked for others who wish to participate.

Thank you,
Plant Services

Mail Services is an unofficial drop site for all Oregon ballots. Arrangements have been made with the Yamhill County elections office for us to offer this service. We accept any Oregon county ballot, and there is no postage necessary. The deadline for this drop-off site is 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 11. All out-of-state ballots must be mailed with postage.

Thank you,
Mail Services

Need a gift idea for Mother’s Day? Stop by the Pennington House to choose from a selection of beautiful multi-colored six-inch potted mums for $3 each. Questions? Contact Amy Lorenz at ext. 2134 or e-mail her at alorenz@georgefox.edu.

Avoid the August rush! Now is a great time to request new summer or fall course sites, archive and reset courses, and export grades to a spreadsheet for safekeeping. For new course sites, contact the IT Service Desk and include the course number and name and also whether you want content from your existing course site copied to the new site.

See the FoxTALE Quick Guides website for documentation on archiving and resetting courses to prepare for a new semester.

Remember to send all of your summer student employees to Orientation on Monday, May 3, in Hoover 105 from 9 to 10 a.m. It’s required, even if they’ve heard it before. Supervisors are welcome to join us.

Please join President Baker and your Newberg campus colleagues at 3 p.m. Monday, May 3, in Wood-Mar Auditorium for our annual employee recognition event.

The president will share year-end remarks, and the event will feature presentations for service awards and employee of the year awards, as well as a time to honor six retiring members of our community. Immediately following, refreshments will be served in the Ron Gregory (EHS) Atrium.

We will be doing a “sweep” of the men’s locker room during the month of May. If you want to keep your locker and its contents, please let us know. You may e-mail Patty Findley or call ext. 2910 with your locker number and we won’t remove the lock and dispense your gear to those less fortunate.

Tilikum Center for Retreats and Outdoor Ministries invites mothers and daughters to take time out and retreat together in a relaxing, country setting May 7-9.

Highlights include teaching and relationship-building sessions, singing and worship, campfire time, a hayride, crafts, and challenge course activities, along with plenty of time to simply be together, mother and daughter. It’s a wonderful opportunity to walk upon common ground while celebrating your differences and exploring God’s design for your lives.

Learn more at tilikum.georgefox.edu.

A continuing education opportunity for church leaders, the Leadership Institute for Group Discernment, will be hosted on the university’s Newberg campus May 17-20.

The institute is a three-and-a-half-day experience empowering church leaders in facilitating group discernment. It will integrate theological, spiritual and practical organizational processes, helping church leaders from different traditions understand and implement discernment-oriented leadership within their own settings, with the ultimate goal of leading to consensus and unity within the church.

For-credit options are available through George Fox University and George Fox Evangelical Seminary; all are welcome. For more information, contact Jan Wood, director of Good News Associates, via the Good News Associates website.

It’s time for the university’s annual ice cream social. Take a break, visit with your colleagues, and have some ice cream between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 5, in the Ron Gregory (EHS) Atrium. Student employees are invited to attend the event, sponsored by the Staff Development Committee.

Learn to make those gorgeous hanging baskets that grace the university’s quad area. You can learn how these beauties are assembled and help us in the process by joining us for a class on Wednesday, May 12, in the Plant Services Building at 1101 Villa Road. The session begins at 9 a.m. and will last approximately four hours.

You are welcome to join in the class at any time.

Thank you,
Plant Services

The Fitness Center hours for the summer are as follows: 6-8 a.m., 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and 4-8 p.m.

The university will host two commencement ceremonies on the Newberg campus Saturday, May 1. The traditional undergraduate ceremony will take place in Miller Gymnasium/Wheeler Sports Center at 2 p.m., with audience seating at 1 p.m. Tickets are required for the traditional undergraduate ceremony.

The graduate, seminary and School of Professional Studies ceremony will take place in the same Wheeler Sports Center location at 7 p.m., with audience seating at 6 p.m.

In addition, the baccalaureate service is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Saturday in Bauman Auditorium. Baccalaureate is an undergraduate worship service providing graduating seniors, their families, faculty, administrators, staff and other guests the opportunity to worship.

More information on this weekend’s events are available on the commencement website.

Please join the Office of Academic Affairs on Wednesday, April 28, as we say farewell and happy “second” retirement to Ken Armstrong (School of Business).

Delicious refreshments (and perhaps a “roast” or two) will be served from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Hoover lobby (just outside the School of Business offices). If you cannot attend Ken’s reception and want to add to the farewell wishes, please send a note to Karlyn Fleming (kfleming@georgefox.edu) by noon on Wednesday.