Do you know any high school educators who would like help in their online classroom?
We are GFU EPIC (Engineering Project Innovation Commission), a Servant Engineering project team tasked with aiding high school teachers with frustrations regarding online learning. We desire to come alongside high school educators, listen to their ideas, and brainstorm how we might be able to help them in an online learning environment.
If you know an educator looking for help in the classroom, have them visit our website, where they can get more information and have the opportunity to fill out a brainstorming form.
The Student Congress on Racial Reconciliation (SCORR) will be open to all students and staff at George Fox this year! From Wednesday, Feb. 17, to Saturday, Feb. 20, we will be attending sessions on racial reconciliation, anti-racism in the church, and more.
After the day’s conference, we will be holding debrief sessions for George Fox students and staff. Please fill out our RSVP/Interest form ASAP.Â
As a key strategy for soul care of undergraduates during the pandemic, the Office of Spiritual and Intercultural Life is looking for multiple Life Group leaders for our Spring Life Groups series taking place the week of Feb. 22 through April 9.
Life Groups provide a space for students to gather for weekly prayer, Bible study, and fellowship. Groups typically meet for an hour to 90 minutes.
This spring, all of our groups will be meeting either by Zoom or hybrid.
Hybrid groups will meet primarily via Zoom, but may occasionally meet outdoors as the weather, state and university regulations, and participants’ comfort permit.
Throughout the pandemic, Life Groups run that through the Office of Spiritual and Intercultural Life will also be eligible for SpiL credit in order to encourage students to engage in high-quality spiritual formation experiences that are participatory and offer ongoing community.
We welcome our employees, alumni, family members of George Fox employees and students, as well as members of our wonderful local churches to consider leading a group. Groups may also be co-led with an upperclassman student if the leader desires.
Campus Recreation and the Hadlock Student Center are providing several upcoming outdoor activities that are open to George Fox students and employees!
All activities listed are free and open to everyone of all skill levels and abilities. This includes a Spikeball tournament, bike ride socials, intro to disc golf, and a twice-weekly boot camp fitness class!
For more details and registration info, please use the following links:
We all have important stories to share about isolation and belonging. Often, these stories involve overcoming hardship and adversity in order to reach a place of security.
Starting Wednesday, Feb. 3, the Sources of Strength team will be releasing a series of interviews with George Fox students, professors, and alumni regarding their experiences with this idea of belonging in their own lives.
What obstacles did they face and how did they surmount them? If they were to do it again, how might they approach belonging differently – and how can anyone hope to find belonging amidst a global pandemic?
Join us every Wednesday to hear about your community’s strengths and become encouraged and challenged to discover your own. Listen on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, or Spotify!
In light of current research findings, the university has updated its Covid-19 policies around music. One highlight of the new policy: Group vocal and instrumental music are welcome in outdoor locations on campus, with spacing 12 feet apart, with all participants masked, with capacity limit of 50 total people, and with an employee host present and responsible for Covid-19 policy adherence.  To view the policies, please visit this webpage.Â
Thank you so much to those of you who are using CampusClear. This is a state-required effort to keep our campus safe.
Our team works on making sure the George Fox community regularly checks in using the app, as well as following up with anyone who reports specific symptoms or testing results.
Student-athletes and athletic staff using SWAY should use both apps
If you NEVER come to any George Fox campus, you do not need to complete the form. However, if you come to any George Fox campus – even once every other week – you DO need to complete the form.
Starting Monday, Feb. 1, through the end of the spring semester,each CampusClear check-in will be recorded as an entry into a raffle for a $50 gift certificate to the Red Hills Market in Dundee.Â
Please help us keep our campus community safe by continuing to check in on CampusClear.
Campus Recreation and the Hadlock Student Center are providing several upcoming outdoor activities that are open to George Fox students and employees!
All activities listed are free and open to everyone of all skill levels and abilities. This includes a Spikeball tournament, bike ride socials, intro to disc golf, and a twice-weekly boot camp fitness class!
For more details and registrations, please use the following links:
The George Fox Civility Project invites you to hear from a Palestinian Christian who’s working on a significant civility project.
The two-part series with Jonathan Kuttab begins on Thursday, Feb. 4, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. via Zoom, speaking on the topic “Civility, Justice, and a Bill of Rights: A Vision of Israel/Palestine as One State.” Please register for the event here. SpiL credit is available for students.  Kuttab has an ambitious vision. For the first part of the series, he will discuss what politics in Israel and Palestine must look like in the long term for two traumatized groups to live safely, justly, and peaceably side by side in a small country.
On Wednesday, March 31, he will focus on civility-boosting transformations needed now for Palestinians and Israelis to negotiate a one-state solution.
According to George Fox Civility Project director Ron Mock, “Kuttab’s transformative project could teach us critically needed lessons about civility, justice, and political peacemaking. George Fox needs to be right in the middle of all that learning.â€
We all have important stories to share about isolation and belonging. Often, these stories involve overcoming hardship and adversity in order to reach a place of security.
Starting on Wednesday, Feb. 3, the Sources of Strength team will be releasing a series of interviews with George Fox students, professors, and alumni regarding their experiences with this idea of belonging in their own lives.
What obstacles did they face and how did they surmount them? If they were to do it again, how might they approach belonging differently – and how can anyone hope to find belonging amidst a global pandemic?
Join us every Wednesday to hear about your community’s strengths and become encouraged and challenged to discover your own. Listen on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, or Spotify!
The Wineskin is now accepting submissions! The theme for this semester is “FORMATION,†so send us your best poems, stories, essays, and artwork in that stream of thought; we welcome thematic interpretation.
The editors are open to a wide range of styles and subject matter, but we are particularly looking for work that pushes boundaries and surprises us with its artistic approach and perspective of the world.
All are welcome to submit, including faculty and staff and those who are not members of the George Fox community!
Submission Guidelines:
Poetry and prose manuscripts must be submitted as a Word document, in Times New Roman, 12-point font. Please title your pieces and remove your name from the document.
Limit all prose to 1,000 words and send no more than five poems per submission.
For artwork: Files should be named as the title of your piece followed by your name. Please remove all watermarks from your work.
All work should be submitted through our website. Submissions close on Monday, March 1, at 5 p.m.
Have you been feeling trapped inside recently? Then consider coming to our weekly run club meeting. This is a great chance to run together, meet new people, and connect with friends. Starting today (Friday), we will meet in front of Hadlock every Friday at 3:30 p.m.
We will run together at any pace! The goal for us is to have fun and encourage each other. If a decent number of people show, we could potentially have multiple pace groups.
To keep everyone safe, we will be running six feet apart and following COVID-19 guidelines. We hope to see you there!
George Fox University’s annual Campus Safety and Fire Report is now available. This report is required by federal law and contains policy statements and crime statistics for the school in 2020.
The policy statements address the school’s policies, procedures and programs concerning safety and security (for example, policies for responding to emergency situations and sexual offenses).
Three years’ worth of statistics are included for certain types of crimes that were reported to have occurred on campus, in off-campus buildings, or property owned or controlled by the school and on public property within or immediately adjacent to the campus.
Contact Elrike Shaw (eshaw@georgefox.edu) in the Campus Public Safety office with any questions.
The Hadlock Student Center is reopening for students in a limited capacity. Only six people are currently permitted to use the building at any given time under current restrictions from the Oregon Health Authority.
Due to this restriction, we are not able to allow staff and faculty to use the facility at this time.
As you know, university leadership has been examining our expenses in an effort to continue to address affordability for our students. One area of inconsistency we’ve identified includes how we have provided stipends and honoraria to university employees.
While most occurrences are nominal, we’ve found the university is spending more than $700,000 out of our general fund annually on stipends and honoraria for university employees. Much of this is for valuable work beyond the employee’s job description, but some of this expense goes to compensate employees for work that is already within their scope of duties. We’ve found that different departments use different criteria to award these funds.
In an effort to provide consistent guidelines for this type of spending and ensure the university as a whole is stewarding its resources well, the Executive Leadership Team has developed and implemented a new Special Stipend Compensation Policy. If you are involved in requesting stipends, please review the policy carefully.
The policy continues to allow stipends for employees performing university duties substantially outside the scope of the employee’s position. A stipend for an employee must be approved through George Fox Timekeeping prior to the employee engaging in the additional work.
If you are accepting additional assignments, please ensure you have received an offer through George Fox Timekeeping prior to beginning the work. Approval is required for payment, and work may not begin before approvals are received. This new policy also establishes guidelines for what types of activities will not be compensated that may have been compensated by some departments in the past.
Thank you for reviewing this policy and for all you do to serve our students. Working together, we are ensuring George Fox students receive an excellent and affordable education. It is our hope that as we become more efficient in serving students, we will be able to increase our overall employee compensation and benefits.
Please speak with your direct supervisor if you have any questions or concerns about this policy.
Richter Scholars Program Proposals are due Monday, March 1.
The Richter Scholars program at George Fox distributes funds to support student research activities that are devised, initiated, and carried out by individual student researchers, with mentorship, guidance and expertise provided by a faculty mentor.
The purpose of these funds is to support educational research opportunities that encourage the practices of independent thought leading to independent achievement and personal responsibility.
For the purpose of this program, research is defined as a knowledge-generating activity that is designed to provide new information on a topic, tool, or process, and that proceeds according to established and accepted research methods
Before preparing a proposal, please read through the full proposal guidelines, eligibility requirements, and review criteria by clicking here.
Faculty mentors:
Please note that several important proposal elements and eligibility requirements have been recently updated. Please thoroughly read through all posted documentation as you work with your student mentee to prepare a proposal.
Have you been feeling trapped inside recently? Then consider coming to our weekly run club meeting. This is a great chance to run together, meet new people, and connect with friends. We meet in front of Hadlock every Friday at 3:30 p.m.
We will run together at any pace! The goal for us is to have fun and encourage each other. If a decent number of people show, we could potentially have multiple pace groups.
To keep everyone safe, we will be running six feet apart and following COVID guidelines. We hope to see you there! This is for both employees and students.
