The University Store is hosting a homecoming sale this Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9. Save 20 percent on George Fox University imprinted items (except diploma frames). Open Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
A Cinema and Media Communication intermediate directing class was given the assignment of coming up with 30-second spots extolling the merits of the university, suitable for YouTube. The admissions department is offering a $50 prize for the team that produced the best one. Now it’s time to decide who walks away with the big money.
The five spots have been posted on YouTube for the George Fox community to vote on. To cast your vote, just give your favorite spot a five-star rating. The videos can be found by searching for “George Fox University Spot.” (Although we realize this process is fraught with opportunities for ballot-stuffing, we trust crew members will vote once, then get back to work on their midterms.)
– Matt Meyer (Cinema and Media Communication)
Safety is an important concern for the George Fox community. As a reminder, George Fox University does have an Emergency Response Plan that can be viewed at:
http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/security/responseplan.html
This plan provides general parameters regarding emergency response as well as guidelines for several potential emergency scenarios. The plan has been reviewed by Newberg emergency planning personnel and the local police and fire departments. Our campus Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) regularly reviews and updates our Emergency Response Plan and campus communications to ensure that it covers situations adequately.
In addition to the 60-plus page Emergency Response Plan, all building monitors and administrative units should have an abbreviated “Emergency Resource Booklet†that was provided by our campus security department. If you do not know where to access this booklet or have misplaced or lost your copy, you can obtain it by contacting Security Services at ext. 2090.
If you have questions or comments about our emergency preparedness in general, please feel free to contact Brad Lau, vice president for student life.
Quaere Verum, a group of students concerned about the ongoing violence and chaos currently happening in Kenya, invite you to join them in setting aside Ash Wednesday (Feb. 6) as a day of prayer and fasting for the situation there and the people affected by it.
You are invited to join with Quaere Verum members in the Foxhole at 8:30 a.m. and again at 5 p.m. to briefly pray together. If you choose not to fast, please be mindful and prayerful of Kenya throughout the day.
Multicultural Services invites you to a showing of Pride, a film about overcoming severe adversity with faith and persistence. It features Crash star Terrance Howard and tells the story of a determined Jim Ellis, who starts a swim team for troubled teens at the Philadelphia Department of Recreation.
Date/Time: Thursday, Feb. 7, 7-9:30 p.m.
Location: EHS 102
Each university student, staff, and faculty member is entitled to one complimentary ticket to Black Boy, the one-man play featuring Broadway actor Charles Holt. The production is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. this Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. The complimentary tickets are available at the University Store. To purchase additional tickets, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.
“Get in Step with George Fox University†is the theme of Homecoming 2008, scheduled this Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9, on the Newberg campus. Hosted by Alumni Relations, this annual celebration includes a diverse selection of events designed to help alumni reconnect with each other and with the university.
Festivities include a Five O’Clock People concert on Friday night, the Alumni Celebration Brunch Saturday morning, class reunions (for the classes of 1938, 1948, 1968, 1978, 1983, 1988, and 1998) Saturday afternoon, and a young alumni gathering at Abby’s Pizza on Saturday night. Additionally, this year’s schedule features two special affinity reunions: one for alumni of Pacific College (George Fox pre-1949), and one for alumni of Steve Grant’s (Health and Human Performance) ballroom dance classes.
To find out more about these events, as well as information about the homecoming basketball games and the theatre production Black Boy, visit homecoming.georgefox.edu.
You are invited to attend an opening reception and view chosen artworks from high schools in Oregon and Washington. The reception for “High School Art Northwest” is scheduled from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in the Lindgren Gallery.
The university community is invited to attend the opening reception of the Visual Arts department’s faculty exhibit, “Psalms,” from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in the Minthorne Gallery.
Please join us Tuesday, Feb. 5, at lunch, dinner, or both as we feature special Mardi Gras menus. Lunch includes chicken and andouille etouffee, fried oyster po boys with cajun remoulade, and grilled cheddar grit cakes with smoked pepper sauce. Lunch is served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Dinner features smoke-roasted pork loin with andouille milk gravy over buttermilk mashed potatoes; jambalaya with shrimp, sausage, and chicken; sweet corn and vegetable gumbo; and our version of the classic Bananas Foster. Dinner is served from 4:30 to 7 p.m.
– Denny Lawrence, Bon Appetit
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
The university’s annual Health and Benefits Fair is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, in the Cap and Gown Room. This is the kickoff event for Benefits Open Enrollment; watch for more information about that soon.
The fair is a great opportunity to talk to your benefit reps as well as health and wellness professionals without cost or commitment. Get your hearing tested, pick up some antioxidants, and check your body fat (and then stop for food samples). Event also includes door prizes.
Questions? Contact Lisa Burton (Human Resources) via e-mail or at ext. 2183.
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.
Mulitcultural Services and the university’s theatre department invite the George Fox community to the production Black Boy, a one-person play featuring Broadway actor Charles Holt, on Feb. 8-9. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. both nights in Wood-Mar Auditorium.
Synopsis: Holt plays Richard Wright and a host of additional characters in Wynn Handman’s adaption of Wright’s influential 1945 autobiography Black Boy.
What was life like in the Jim Crow South of the United States as an African American boy in 1908? What were the hardships one had to overcome? In what way was a person buoyed by hope, pride, and dignity? Those questions and others are addressed in the production.
The play is being presented in recognition of Black History Month. Holt has been performing Black Boy for the last seven years throughout the United States. To find out more on Holt and the play, go to charlesholtproductions.com.
Tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. Tickets may be purchased at the box office by calling 503-554-3844 or online at theatre.georgefox.edu.
Tickets are still available for the Five O’clock People concert scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, in Bauman Auditorium. The event marks the return of one of George Fox’s favorite Christian bands.
Admission is $10 per person. 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) via e-mail or at ext. 2131.
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.
The campus community is invited to attend an artist talk and closing reception for the ceramics exhibit now on display. The event will feature stories about significant pieces in the collections.
Date: Friday, Feb. 1
Location: Minthorne Gallery and Hoover 102
Time: 7-8 p.m.
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.
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.
When you bring or route a package to Mail Services for shipping, please attach one of our bright green “Package Shipping Instructions†which indicates how you want the package mailed and if you need insurance or tracking on the package.
If we receive a package without the green instruction form, Mail Services will send the package out via UPS so it can be tracked. Unfortunately, this can be an expensive method.
Green forms are available at Mail Services or by e-mailing Sherrie Frost at sfrost@georgefox.edu.
Questions? Call ext. 2555
– Sherrie Frost, Director, Mail Services
