The Daily Bruin

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.

Additional information Online application

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:  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:

• 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.