All remaining faculty business meetings this semester except the meeting on “dead day” (April 21) will be held in Wood-Mar Auditorium. This will better facilitate the equipment needed for teleconferencing with the other campuses. Faculty business meetings will take place from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. on Feb. 29, March 14, and April 11. The April 21 meeting is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon in Hoover 105.
Spring Serve trips are fast approaching and we need employees or alumni leaders to help facilitate the leadership of a trip with two student leaders. The approximate dates are March 21-29. For more information about these trips and responsibilities, contact Andrea Crenshaw (Campus Ministries) at 503-554-2323 or acrensha@georgefox.edu.
Sheri Philips and Robby Larson (University Relations) will speak at a luncheon sponsored by the George Fox University Auxiliary at noon on Friday, Feb. 1. The event is $7 and will be held in the Cap and Gown Room. Reservations are required and can be made by calling Nancy Lamm (503-537-2321) or Louise Clarkson (503-538-2850).
The university will host two home track and field meets this spring and volunteers are needed to help run the events. Prior experience is not required, and there are many positions available that don’t require a knowledge of the sport. We simply need people to perform some easy tasks so our student-athletes have a great experience on their home facility. The schedule is as follows:
March 15: Frank Haskins Invite. Frank Haskins has been a longtime friend of the program, and this meet will honor his contributions over the years. The meet will be about four hours in length, but each event only will take about one hour. Volunteer time would be about an hour to an hour and a half, unless you can help with more than one event.
April 18-19: Northwest Conference Championships. This is the championship meet of the season. Volunteer slots are approximately one and a half to two hours total, and you can sign up for as many or as few as you would like. The meet goes from about 2-7 p.m. Friday and from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
If you are available for either of these meets (or both), simply e-mail coach John Smith. Please provide a phone number and shirt size. Also, if you have an event preference, we can try to fit you in there. Thank you to all who support our athletic programs; meets like these cannot be done without you.
– John Smith, ext. 2915
Space is still available for the seminary’s Ministry in Contemporary Culture Seminar, featuring author, theologian, and futurist Len Sweet on Tuesday, Feb. 5.
Sweet will speak on “The Influence of Islam on the 21st Century Church” from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Portland Center. Online registration is available through Feb. 1. Click here for more information on the seminar or Sweet.
Questions? Contact Jean Borgman (Seminary) via e-mail or at ext. 6150.
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.
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.
Career Services will be hosting a Christian Camp Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, in the EHS Atrium. All those interested in learning more about summer camp employment opportunities are welcome to attend. More than 20 camps will be represented at the event.
For more information, call ext. 2330 or e-mail careers@georgefox.edu.
A Sept. 11-14 national conference sponsored by the Peace and Justice Studies Association and Oregon’s Peace and Conflict Studies Consortium is inviting proposals from faculty and students. The conference theme will explore historical, contemporary, and future aspects of struggles toward peace and justice by peaceable means. Presentations may be in the form of research papers, workshops, roundtable discussions, film screenings, and poster presentations.
Proposals may be submitted by April 1 on this website: peacejusticestudies.org/conference/submitprop.php.
Faculty are encouraged to let students know about this opportunity.
George Fox students and employees can get $3 off any size pizza at the Newberg Papa Murphy’s through April 25. Simply show your university ID card to get the discount. The store is located at 200 N. Main St., in Newberg.
This “Deal of the Week” is being organized by Inside Promotions, a senior capstone project.
You are invited to an MBA informational meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, at the Portland Center. You’ll learn the distinctive features of the program and specifics about curriculum, have the opportunity to speak candidly with current students, get a look at scenes from international business study, and hear alumni successes. Join us and/or tell someone you know who is interested in pursuing an MBA. Questions? Contact Robin Halverson (School of Management) via e-mail or at 503-554-6123.
If you did not get a chance to see Dale Seipp’s (Enrollment Services) presentation to campus on vision for the Enrollment Services division, you are invited to view it via a podcast. Go to this link:Â http://media.georgefox.edu/cgi-bin/itunesustaff.pl.
Please email your comments to rclarke@georgefox.edu.
The university will host its annual Spring Theological Conference the week of Jan. 28-30. This year’s event will feature author and speaker Frederica Mathewes-Green, who has written eight books and published more than 600 articles in publications that include the Washington Post, Christianity Today, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
The theme of the week is “The Heart of Christian Faith and Praxis.” Mathewes-Green will speak in chapel on Monday and Wednesday and also host a public media event from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29. That night, she will speak on “Media, Pop Culture, and the Roots of the Sexual Revolution.” The session is free for George Fox students, employees, and families. A box for free-will offerings will be available for those who wish to make a donation.
Also Tuesday, an “intellectual feast” is scheduled from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. The topic will be “Orthodox Spirituality and Post-Christian Hunger for God.”
For more specifics on the week, contact Margaret Fuller (Religious Studies) via e-mail or at ext. 2650.
Master of Arts in Teaching admissions continues to accept applications for admission. Please be in touch with admissions counselor Beth Molzahn for further information about becoming a teacher in the state of Oregon and the MAT admission process. She can be reached via e-mail or at ext. 2264.
The Student Support Network (SSN) is a program designed to identify and support students who are struggling academically, socially, or personally. If you become aware of a student who needs additional assistance in one or more of these areas, please let the SSN know by submitting the form available on the Office of Student Life website:
http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/student_life/SSN.shtml
Please note: Referral to the SSN or use of the intervention alert form is not intended to replace direct referral to a university service or office. It also is not intended to be used when a student misses one or two classes or fails to turn in an assignment.
The SSN program is intended for referral when there are several issues of concern that may involve different offices or when extra support and attention would be helpful to encourage student success.
The university is pleased that this year’s visiting faculty member, Liu Shengmin from Wuhan University in China, was finally able to get his visa and is expected to arrive in Newberg on Friday, Jan. 25.
Shengmin is married and teaches English in the School of Foreign Languages at Wuhan. Along with teaching, he is the supervisor of postgraduate students in linguistics. He previously was a visiting scholar at Australian Maritime College and Middle Tennessee State University.
Professor Shengmin will be teaching a course in Chinese language and culture. In addition, he is available for guest speaking in other classes. Faculty members will be informed if he has topics he would prefer to address. He also may want to sit in on some other classes.
We are grateful to Dennis and Janet Hagen for hosting him. Please help make him welcome.
– Center for Global Studies
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:
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.
