The registrar’s office and IT are offering an information session on using PeopleSoft for fall 2009 and spring 2010 traditional undergraduate student advising. Advisors for traditional undergraduate students are invited to attend the meeting, scheduled from 2 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, in the Hoover 211 Computer Lab.
Tickets are available in the Sports Information Office (Wheeler 205) for the NCAA Women’s Basketball Division III Final Four at Hope College in Holland, Mich., this Friday and Saturday. The George Fox women will play The College of New Jersey Friday, with the winner advancing to Saturday’s final.
For tickets, come by the office or e-mail Blair Cash (bcash@georgefox.edu). General admission is $20; reserved seats are $25. Tickets are good for all four games (two semifinal games, finals and consolation).
An American Red Cross blood drive is scheduled from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 9, in the Villa Academic Complex. You can sign up to donate blood ahead of time at givelife.org (sponsor code is GeorgeFox).
Support May Serve by making purchases at the University Store on Wednesday, March 18. All sales in the bookstore that day will go toward May Serve 2009. Please come buy something from the store and support a worthy cause (offer excludes textbooks).
Following are student-retention talking points for the week of March 16-20:
Mark your calendars for this week’s events presented by the Department of Performing Arts …
The annual Honors Recital will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 16, in Bauman Auditorium. This recital features select students chosen from the top performers in our Honors Recital competition, including Matt Hill (trumpet), Bethany Taft and Becca Couch (piano duet), Joseph Forster (piano), Kamila Kuhn (flute), Nick Luchterhand (alto saxophone), Cameron DeWhitt (piano), James Pick (piano), Jennie Fryer (mezzo-soprano), Emily Yarnold (soprano), Becca Couch (mezzo-soprano), Qingquan “Tara” Li (piano), Julianne Kilmer (soprano), and Ben Tissell (baritone). Please join us for an evening of fabulous music and support the hard work of our students.
On Wednesday, March 18, Julianne Kilmer (soprano) will present her senior recital at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.
The Winter Band Concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19, in Bauman Auditorium.
Finally, on Friday, March 20, a Vocal Masterclass will be held in Ross 208 at 12:40 p.m.
All events are free.
It is a recurring complaint among faculty that students do not complete their assigned readings or that they read them superficially.
Rick Muthiah (Center for Teaching and Learning) will lead a discussion about effective methods for using readings in your classes. Participants can get a head start on the conversation by reading a recent “Tomorrow’s Professor†posting and a chapter from Tools for Teaching (the section on motivating students to do the reading).
The session will be held from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, March 19, in Hoover 104 (Hoover Hatfield Library). To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (jwithers@georgefox.edu) by 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17. Everyone is welcome to attend the session, whether bringing a lunch or reserving a lunch. Please have your lunch ready so we can begin the conversation at noon.
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.
Monday, March 16, is the deadline for turning in your Benefit Enrollment forms, and there are many still out. Please bring your forms to HR by 5 p.m. Or, you may fax them to 503-554-2186 or scan and e-mail them to lburton@georgefox.edu.
All forms that you may need are on the university’s benefits Web page.
Staff and students, please stop by the lost and found tables in the Bruin Den on Tuesday, March 17, and Wednesday, March 18, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to see if your lost items have been found. Any items not reunited with their owners will be donated to charitable causes on Wednesday afternoon.
Beginning at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, March 18, any remaining Oregon Symphony tickets will be available on a first-come first-served basis to George Fox employees (half time and above) who signed up on a waiting list. If you are not able to attend the concert, please return your tickets for another employee to use. Tickets may be picked up at the Information Center in the Stevens Center.
The concert is scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday, March 20, in Bauman Auditorium.
Join in for extra savings at the Bruin Den as we help celebrate our women’s “Sweet 16” basketball playoff game against Oglethorpe.
Starting at 2 p.m. Friday, March 13, we’ll be selling party platters of jalapeno poppers, breaded zucchini sticks, and mozzarella sticks with warm marinara dipping sauce for only $2. To wash it all down, get an Italian Soda for just $1.75 and we’ll throw in the whipped cream for free.
Come to the University Store on Wednesday, March 18, to support May Serve and get spring break gifts at the same time. All proceeds from what you buy on this day will be going to the May Serve program. Come support us!
Faculty, encourage your students to come to a session to learn the basics of APA style for citations and references. The session will be from 5 to 6 p.m. Monday, March 16, in EHS 102. Students simply need to bring themselves and a willing mind.
This Sunday, March 15, at 3 p.m., a memorial service will be held in Hoover 105 for Ryan Bartlett, who died tragically in a car accident in Malawi in December, where he and his family were serving as missionaries with Free Methodist World Missions.
Ryan graduated from George Fox in 1994 as a business management major with a call to ministry. After graduation, he married Katie Bertagna and pursued his Master of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary. After completing his education, he served as senior pastor of Prescott Free Methodist Church in Arizona for five years and was ordained as a minister in 2005.
In 2007, with Free Methodist World Missions, Ryan began his service as principal of the Great Commission Bible School in Malawi, Africa. He is survived by his wife, Katie, and three children. A memorial service was held in December in Roseburg, but this memorial service allows the George Fox community and other supporters of his ministry to gather and to celebrate his life. The service will be led by Paul Anderson, Ryan’s college mentor and friend. Childcare will be provided.
Saturday, March 14
11 a.m. – Women’s Tennis vs. Pacific Lutheran, George Fox campus courts
Sunday, March 15
Noon – Softball vs. Willamette (2), Morse Field
2 p.m. – Men’s Tennis vs. Pacific, George Fox campus courts
The women’s basketball team plays Friday, March 13, in the NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament Sectional at Thomas More College in Crestview Hlls, Ky., near Cincinnati. The No. 2-ranked (WBCA) and 28-0 Bruins will meet Oglethorpe University (27-3) at 5 p.m. Eastern time (2 p.m. Pacific).
The winner will play Saturday, March 14, at 7 p.m. Eastern time (4 p.m. Pacific) against the winner of the Thomas More (28-2) vs. Hope College (27-1) game Friday, with that winner advancing to the Final Four in Holland, Mich., March 20-21.
KFOX radio will provide live internet audio of all Bruin games in the sectional. Host Thomas More will provide LiveStats and a live video feed of all games on the Internet through a local cable company. Links are provided for all multimedia coverage on the George Fox athletics Web site home page and women’s basketball home page in the schedule section.
The Department of Performing Arts will present the university’s Jazz Band in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 13, in Bauman Auditorium. Admission is free.
Everyone is welcome to join in on a “Sweet 16” party as the George Fox women take on Oglethorpe in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Division III basketball playoffs at 2 p.m. this Friday, March 13, in the Klages Dining Hall.
We will listen to live audio and watch live stats. We also are working on a live video feed as well, hopefully synchronized with Justin Sweeney’s KFOX broadcast. The game begins promptly at 2 p.m.; come early if you can. There will be free popcorn, chips and salsa!
Based on feedback from a number of faculty and staff, we are going to take the retention project that was announced at the last community meeting in a slightly different tack.
Instead of assigning students to individuals for follow-up, we are going to post the retention conversation point of the week in the e-nnouncments and encourage all faculty and staff to use these messages with any undergraduate student who is in your regular network (advisees, student employees, etc.). While we won’t be able to assess the impact of these interactions, we think it will be easier for everyone to weave this information into your regular conversations with students.
Watch for the first “talking point” in Monday’s e-nnouncements.
Did the dog eat your benefit enrollment form? All employees must return it, even if you’re making no changes. Print a new one from the benefit Web page and return it to HR (Box 6108) by Monday, March 16. All other necessary forms are also on the benefit pages. New medical and dental deductions start March 31.
Questions? E-mail Lisa Burton (Human Resources) at lburton@georgefox.edu.
The culmination of FoxSecret will be a prayer/reflection night from 8 to 9 p.m. Monday, March 16, in the Cap and Gown Room. All of the postcards collected will be put on display for the George Fox community to reflect on and pray over. Please join us at any point during this time.
FoxSecret is a mimic of the nationwide PostSecret, in which people write anonymous secrets on postcards and send them in. Through it we we hope to recognize, celebrate, and prayerfully lift up the people in our community.
