Just a friendly reminder: All employees, including faculty, staff, and administrators, are responsible for fines on overdue Summit materials per consortia agreement and for replacement costs on books that are lost or damaged.
Thanks for your cooperation.
Merrill Johnson
University Librarian
The Tilikum Center for Retreats and Outdoor Ministries is still seeking summer staff applications. If you or someone you know is interested in applying to work at Tilikum this summer, it’s not too late. The deadline to apply is Friday, Feb. 26. Apply on the Tilikum site.
Cara Peck, a federal government representative working for the EPA, will be on campus from noon to 1:15 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 25, in Stevens 209.
Peck will share the background on the Partnership for Public Service (George Fox’s Career Services is a partner), and speak on breaking down the four common myths about federal employment (low pay, only based in Washington D.C., must have political science background, and “too much bureaucracy”). She also will share her personal federal story, her career path, and resources for helping students find and pursue jobs in the federal government.
Faculty members, please encourage your students who might be interested in this presentation to attend.
Please R.S.V.P. to Career Services at ext. 2330 or careers@georgefox.edu, for this pizza chat.
A Faculty Teaching Forum, entitled “Helping all students be successful,” will be presented from noon to 1:20 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, in Cap and Gown Room A. Joel Perez (Dean of Transitions and Inclusion) will present information on helping faculty think through how they can design their classes and how they interact with their students to assist all students in being successful.
To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (jwithers@georgefox.edu) by 1:30 p.m. on the Tuesday before the event. 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). The schedule of upcoming sessions is available online. Video podcasts of FTFs will be available on iTunesU.
It’s tax season again! There are some tax code changes that may impact you or your family. This year, you may use the cost of textbooks and course materials as a tax credit. For complete information, please visit textbookaid.org.
The Staff Development Committee invites all Newberg staff employees to a special staff worship event from 9 to 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. The theme for the gathering is “Embrace: God Embraces Us; We Embrace God.” The featured speaker is Carol Brazo.
Come and be part of something special where the Newberg staff community can share together and pray together. Refreshments will follow in the EHS Atrium.
If you have students who would like to improve their test-taking skills, recommend that they attend a student workshop, “How to Get A’s on All Your Tests (or at Least Become a Better Test-Taker),” from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, in Stevens 207.
Rick Muthiah (Dean of the Center for Teaching and Learning) will discuss test-taking strategies for before, during, and after an exam. Encourage your students to join this interactive conversation.
Saturday, Feb. 13, 4 p.m. – Men’s Tennis vs. Willamette, at West Hills Racquet Club, Beaverton, Ore.
For more information on George Fox athletics, visit the Bruins’ website at gfubruins.com or call the sports information office at ext. 2926.
Come join a campus women’s ministry, State of Your Heart, for a time of prayer and worship at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17, in Hoover 105.
The Gathering, a campus men’s ministry, will host a time of prayer and worship at 10 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17, in the Prayer Chapel. Come join us!
The university community is invited to a Faculty Research Forum featuring Kelly Chang, assistant professor of psychology, from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 19, in Hoover 105 on the Newberg campus.
In May 2009, Chang and a team of George Fox students worked with at-risk young girls living on a landfill in Nicaragua. She will speak of this experience and her ongoing work with the in-country organization.
The Academic Resource Center is hosting an American Psychological Association (APA) style workshop at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17, in Stevens 208. The session will cover the basics of APA style for citations and references.
If departments have specific requests for the students attending this event, please e-mail us beforehand at the_arc@georgefox.edu.
There is still a need for people on the L’Ami (yearbook) staff. If you enjoy journalism, interviewing, writing, or just getting to know people, please come by the communications office and pick up an application. The yearbook is a great way to find out about the people and activities around you. If you want to get an idea of what opportunities there are at Fox, being on the yearbook staff gives you a great inside look.
Faculty and staff, please encourage students to explore this opportunity.
Contact Hannah Wilcox with questions, comments or concerns.
Thank you,
Hannah Wilcox
This coming Friday and Saturday, Feb. 12-13, more than 450 high school students and parents will join us for lunch due to the scholarship competitions taking place. They will all be eating lunch at 11:40 a.m. on Friday and noon on Saturday. So, we’d like to ask as many of our regular students not to come for lunch until after 12:30 p.m. on Friday if at all possible in order to avoid most of the crowds. On Saturday, if possible, please arrive and leave before noon or come after 1 p.m.
In order to accommodate these visitors as well as our regular students, we also will be serving meals on disposables and will be encouraging George Fox students to take their meals out of the dining room if possible so that we have room for our visitors. The Cap and Gown Room will be available for overflow dining on Saturday only (a health fair will be held there on Friday).
Thanks for your help, and let’s all work to make this a good experience for our visitors.
Denny Lawrence,
Bon Appetit
Attention all George Fox women: A dinner and movie night is scheduled for female staff, administrators and faculty, as well as female spouses of staff, administrators and faculty, for Tuesday, March 30, in Hoover 105. Dinner will be at 5:30 p.m., followed by a movie and discussion at 6:30 p.m.
This event is free. For more information, contact Lori Allen at allen.redpants@gmail.com.
Due to the President’s Day holiday Monday, Feb. 15, the U.S. Postal Service will be closed that day. No incoming or outgoing mail will be processed that day, and anything received for off-campus mailing will be postmarked and mailed on Tuesday.
Mail Services’ customer window will be open and campus mail will be distributed throughout the day. The courier to the Portland and Salem sites will be on schedule.
UPS (United Parcel Service) and other carriers will be open and operating as normal. Questions? Call ext. 2556.
Do you want to receive Christian News Northwest newspapers in your offices? For aesthetics purposes on campus, the newspapers will now be placed only in wire racks in the same locations as the university magazine (except for the library and mailrooms). The editor, John Fortmeyer, will continue bringing the papers to the administrative offices for those who indicate interest.
Please write Tamara Cissna at tcissna@georgefox.edu if your office would like to continue receiving them, and specify if you want enough copies to leave a stack for visitors or just enough for employees to help ensure surplus copies aren’t wasted.
There is still time to register for the seminary’s Ministry in Contemporary Culture Seminar, “Technomadic: Mapping our way in an unbounded world,” scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon (with optional roundtable lunch at noon) on Tuesday, Feb. 16, in Room 155 at the Portland Center.
Guest Joseph R. Myers, an entrepreneur, speaker and author, will speak on such topics as “Technomadic landscape: Locating ourselves in the human story,” “Preparing ourselves for the new relationship era,” and “Spiritual wisdom for the technomadic age.”
Myers is the owner of FrontPorch, a consulting firm that helps churches, businesses and other organizations promote and develop community. Author of The Search to Belong and Organic Community, Myers is also a founding partner of the communications arts group settingPace, based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The cost is $20 for employees, alumni or students. The optional lunch is $10 per person. Registrations are transferable, but not refundable.
Online registration is available until Feb. 15 at applyweb.com/public/contribute?s=gfoxch. Questions? E-mail Jean Oehm Borgman (Seminary) at jborgman@georgefox.edu.
George Fox Evangelical Seminary will host Rev. Joshua Kang for a speaking engagement and book-signing session from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at the Portland Center.
Rev. Kang, former pastor of the 7,000-member Oriental Mission Church in Los Angeles and the author or more than 30 books, will speak about his new book, Scripture by Heart, and be available to sign copies of his Scripture by Heart and Deep Rooted in Christ afterward. Both book titles will be available at a 50 percent discount courtesy of publisher IVP. The event is free, and an English translator will be provided for his presentation.
Rev. Kang’s combined Korean titles have sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide.
Come experience local artist and humanitarian Jennifer Predoehl’s art exhibition, entitled “Audubon & Africa,” hosted by the Portland Center Library’s art gallery.
The show opening, artist’s explanation and appetizers will be shared between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11. The Audubon Society and Horizon International Inc. will benefit from a portion of all sales. Raffle tickets will be available to enter a drawing to win an original painting by Jennifer Predoehl. “Audubon & Africa” will be available for viewing until the last week of March.
