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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.

Kenn Willson (Performing Arts) will perform “Viennese Connections,” a multimedia showcase of the university’s Bösendorfer Imperial Grand Piano, at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, in Bauman Auditorium. There is no admission charge.

The performance will be a tribute to Vienna-based composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Willson will perform Italian Hymn, arranged by Melody Bober and Willson, and an arrangement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony Fourth Movement theme, arranged by Victor Labenske and Willson. The concert also will feature Sonata Op. 27 #2 (Moonlight) and Sonata Op. 31 #3.

Three of the four songs are based on themes and music written by Beethoven during the time he lived and worked in Vienna. A photo presentation will feature pictures taken at Heiligenstadt, northwest of Vienna, where Beethoven wrote his last will and testament to his brothers in 1802. Willson will speak about this transitional time in Beethoven’s life.

For more information, call ext. 2620.

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.

The first Newberg Saturday Market is set to kick off Saturday, Feb. 2, on the Newberg campus. The market will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. the first Saturday of each month (Feb. 2, March 1 and April 5) in the Edwards Holman Science Center (EHS). The market is being run by a group of senior business majors, and a portion of the proceeds will go to the Patrick Kibler Fund.

Questions? E-mail nsmarket@gmail.com.

Inside Promotions, a business capstone class, has organized a “Deal of the Week” with local businesses, including Papa Murphy’s, Great Clips, Jem 100, Calamity Janes, Dutch Brothers, Doran Automotive, Campus Point, and others.

The “Deal of the Week” program runs through the semester, with proceeds going to support the business capstone project. Questions? Contact Tyler Lacoma at tlacoma04@georgefox.edu.

The search committee for the VP for Enrollment Services position invites all campus employees to visit with Dale Seipp (Enrollment Services) as he presents his vision and goals related to Enrollment Services. The session is scheduled from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, in Hoover 105. Dale will be meeting with Portland Center and Boise employees (via Polycom) the following day.

The search committee will issue a follow-up request for comments.

Mark Terry (Visual Arts) has planned the following events in connection with the current ceramics exhibit now up in the Minthorne Gallery:

• Wednesday, Jan. 30, 11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – Mark will tell stories and demonstrate connections between the pieces on display and the artists who made them.

• Friday, Feb. 1, 7-8 p.m. – Mark will lead a panel of guest artists in a discussion about the pieces on exhibit with additional stories and discussion of connections.

Both events are free and open to the public.

The theatre department is presenting the student-directed Winter One-Act Festival Thursday through Saturday, Jan. 31 to Feb. 2, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. each evening. Come and support these students as they act, direct, and design this event.

The cost is $6 for students, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $10 general admission. Buy tickets online, at the University Store, or by phone at ext. 3844. Students get in free on Thursday night (Jan. 31) if they get their ticket ahead of time from the bookstore.

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

Interested in coordinating Orientation for new students? Applications for Orientation co-coordinator are available in the Office of Student Life. Completed applications are due by Friday, Feb. 1.

Contact Joel Perez (Student Life) for more information.

Soul Food Buffet

Wednesday, Jan. 23, 4:30 p.m. – 7 .pm. in Klages Dining Room

Sponsored by Bon Appetit and Multicultural Services

Please join us for dinner Wednesday night for an authentic Soul Food Buffet as we celebrate with the Multicultural Club the birthay of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  Along with all your Mo-Town favorites, we’ll be serving Smoked Carlton Farms BBQ Ribs, Southern Style Fried Chicken, Yams, Black Eyed Peas, Collards, Cornbread, Peach Cobbler & Sweet Potato Pie. 

Staff/Faculty/Guests $10.

Denny Lawrence,  dlawrenc@georgefox.edu

Employees are invited to attend an all-campus meeting from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, in Hoover 105. The meeting will provide employees an opportunity to receive campus updates, be involved in planning processes, and dialogue with President Robin Baker. Your participation is strongly encouraged.

The university will close Monday, Jan. 21, to observe the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. There will be no day or evening classes or chapel services at the Newberg campus, Portland Center, or Salem Center. Also, the university’s offices, libraries, and bookstores will be closed.

A service trip to Portland is scheduled Monday, with transportation leaving from the Stevens Center lot in Newberg at 9 a.m. The trip will include visits to the Burnside Rescue Mission and the Next Step Transitional Facility. Call Burel Ford (Multicultural Services) at ext. 2318 or via e-mail (bford@georgefox.edu) for more details.

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 2007 Oregon income tax booklets have arrived and are available for students and employees in the hallway by Mail Services and the Print Room, located in the North Street Annex.

There are two kinds:

• Full-Year Residents
• Part-Year Residents and Nonresidents

Employees are welcome to a 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, concert marking the return of one of George Fox’s favorite Christian bands, Five O’clock People, to the Bauman Auditorium stage. This concert is a great chance for fans, new and old alike, to share in the music of this critically acclaimed group.

Admission is $10 per person. Tickets will go on sale Tuesday, Jan. 22. To purchase your tickets, stop by the University Relations office or visit http://www.georgefox.edu/alumni/focp.html. All tickets purchased online or over the phone will be at will call the day of the concert.

Questions? Contact Vickie Timmons (University Relations) at vtimmons@georgefox.edu or at ext. 2131.

Friday, Jan. 18, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Lewis & Clark, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

Friday, Jan. 18, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Lewis & Clark, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

Contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 for more details.

Employees and spouses have the opportunity to attend a workshop that provides self-discovery and financial planning instruction and tools as well as presentations on how to become engaged in rewarding volunteer and/or post-retirement paid activities.

This workshop is being offered for the first time to Oregon Independent Colleges Association members at a special discounted price of $150 (includes both the employee and spouse), which covers lunch and materials.  Sign up today while space is still available.

Employees have the choice between two dates: Saturday, Jan. 19, or Friday, Jan. 25. Both sessions will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Portland Center.

Register by e-mail at kshimada@lifebydesignnw.org or by contacting Life by Design Northwest at 503-731-6650. Participants will be sent a pre-work packet electronically (for those registering for Jan. 19) or via mail (for those registering for Jan. 25).

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

Tom Johnson (Religious Studies) is available to meet privately with members of the faculty who would like to work on some aspect of their teaching. He also is available to visit classes. The feedback is one-to-one and strictly confidential; no records are kept or shared with anyone else.

The service is a part of Tom’s regular contract with new faculty and is available to others as they have the time and the interest. Contact Tom at ext. 2663 or at tjohnson@georgefox.edu.