Grab your friends and sign up for the 2020 Glow for Africa 5K and One-Mile Fun Run on Friday, April 3, at 8 p.m.!
The cost is $12 for students and $22 for community members; this includes the guarantee of a T-shirt if you sign up by Monday, March 16. Sign up here.
All proceeds support the School of Physical Therapy medical service trips to Ghana and Uganda this summer. Questions? Contact Kendall Woolf at kwoolf18@georgefox.edu.
Have questions, thoughts, feelings, frustrations, confusions or even conclusions about Orthodox Christianity?
Join the Kyrie Club and Matthew Tate from the Eastern Orthodox Church of the Annunciation for a question-and-answer session tomorrow (Wednesday) at 6 p.m. in Stevens 109. Individuals from all backgrounds are encouraged to come, eat some snacks, and learn together!
Questions? Contact Megan Cecil at mcecil17@georgefox.edu.
Join a workshop on creating videos to enhance your teaching! This workshop will focus on the (mainly free) technology available to teachers for video creation and the art behind making a professional-looking video without professional equipment.
We will focus on how to quickly and effectively put content in front of students that gets them thinking and learning. No prior experience with digital classrooms or video creation is required.
This class satisfies six hours of faculty professional development requirements. While directed toward faculty, George Fox staff members have taken this course previously and found it very helpful.
The course will begin on Monday, March 2, and continues through Sunday, March 15. It is designed to be asynchronous and will be offered online through Adobe Spark. There is a $65 fee. Please register and pay the fee here.
Interested in other faculty development opportunities? Sign up here. Questions? Contact Andrea Byerley at abyerley@georgefox.edu.
Make plans to join your colleagues at the all-employee meeting this Wednesday, Feb. 19. We’ll be meeting in Canyon Commons from 3:30 to 5 p.m. (with live streaming in PDS 155B).
Have a shout-out you’d like to give to a colleague for recent work they’ve done? Share it at this link!
Please join the engineers-craftsmen of Portland Guitar tomorrow (Tuesday) from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Maker Hub for a night of guitars, science and art.
Acoustic quirks abound as a guitar’s sound is deconstructed and rebuilt. The presentation will be led by Jay Dickinson, who holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering and has more than 25 years’ experience in corporate physics and engineering. Multiple examples of his work will be on display.
Questions? Contact Katherine Morland at kmorland@georgefox.edu.
FoxTALE will be unavailable on Wednesday, Feb. 19, from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m (Pacific Standard Time) for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes.
Questions? Contact servicedesk@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2569.
All are invited to see award-winning Hollywood producer Nancy de los Santos-Reza present and discuss her new HBO documentary, The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in Hollywood, at 6 p.m. tomorrow (Tuesday) in Hoover 105.
De los Santos-Reza’s film provides an overview of how Latinos have been portrayed in Hollywood in each decade of the twentieth century. The screening will be followed by a question-and-answer time with de los Santos-Reza.
To learn more, contact Debbie Berhó at 503-554-2644.
Check out this week’s home games:
Questions? Visit the athletics website.
The Office of Spiritual Life invites you to save the date for these special upcoming chapel services:
Questions? Contact Jamie Noling-Auth at jnolingauth@georgefox.edu.
As a faculty advisor, you can help students appreciate and harness their talents and strengths. The better you can help students apply their dominant talents, the greater will be their potential to consistently act with confidence, direction and hope.
Join us for a faculty advising workshop from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20, in Stevens 109. Sign up here.
In this workshop, you will explore your signature themes, discover how you use your strengths to manage the things you are responsible for each day, and embrace what motivates or energizes you.
You will learn coaching conversations to engage students in identifying and embracing their strengths and practice some strengths activities you can use in the classroom.
Wendy Flint is certified in strengths coaching and strengths-based teaching. Contact her for a Strengths Finder assessment code prior to the workshop at wflint@georgefox.edu.
Are you interested in taking your climbing to the next level by venturing outside? This is the class for you! We will cover a variety of topics, including knots, anchor building, and risks unique to outdoor climbing.
There are three class sessions on Tuesday, Feb. 25, March 3 and March 10, from 5 to 7 p.m. The course will conclude with an outdoor excursion on Saturday, March 14.
The course fee is $15 and needs to be paid prior to the first class session. Participants should be experienced climbers and have completed the Hadlock Student Center belay assessment or equivalent. Sign up at imleagues.com.
Contact Rob Simpson at simpsonr@georgefox.edu or Keith Schneider at kschneid@georgefox.edu with questions.
Please take note of the Hadlock Student Center’s hours for the holiday weekend:
Questions? Contact Rob Simpson at simpsonr@georgefox.edu.
The university community is invited to a special presentation, “King’s Speech: Preaching Reconciliation in a World of Violence and Chasm,” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20, in Hoover 105.
Presenting will be George Fox’s own Sunggu Yang, an assistant professor of Christian ministries. He is the author of two books, King’s Speech: Preaching Reconciliation in a World of Violence and Chasm (2019) and Evangelical Pilgrims from the East: Faith Fundamentals of Korean American Protestant Diasporas (2016), and two books that are in progress, Picasso and Preaching: An Aesthetic Homiletic for the 21st Century and Sacred Waters: Pastoral Essays for Aspiring Preachers.
To learn more about Yang, visit this page. For more information on the event, part of the President’s Speaker Series, contact Missy Terry at terrym@georgefox.edu.
The Newberg and Portland campuses will be closed tomorrow (Friday, Feb. 14) for the mid-semester holiday. All offices, libraries and bookstores will be closed.
Although the Murdock Library will be closed, the building’s 24/7 space will remain open.
Come buy a $2 rose with a sonnet or pick up some free candy and valentines for your sweethearts and friends! Swing by Canyon Commons between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. today (Thursday).
The proceeds will benefit the Theatre Honor Society. Venmo and cash will be accepted. Questions? Contact Maddie Matthews (mmatthews16@georgefox.edu).
The Bruin Den, Bruin Bites and Bridge Cafe will be closed tomorrow (Friday) for the mid-semester break. Regular hours of operation will resume on Monday, Feb. 17.
Questions? Contact Lisa Miles at lmiles@georgefox.edu.
FoxTALE will be unavailable on Wednesday, Feb. 19, from 6 to 8 a.m (Pacific Standard Time) for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes.
Questions? Contact servicedesk@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2569.
There is now a card reader on the Stoffer Family Stadium gate adjacent to the Duke Center. This gate will be unlocked from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day, which means the green light will appear on the card reader.
Campus Public Safety, some Plant Services personnel, and athletic staff will have 24-hour access during times when it is locked. All athletes will have access from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily.
Questions? Contact Alan Thurston at athursto@georgefox.edu.
Staff: Do you have a new vehicle? All vehicles brought to George Fox University or the surrounding neighborhoods must be registered with Campus Public Safety within one week of campus activity.
Staff and faculty parking permit fees are waived as a benefit of employment with the university. As staff, you are granted one gratis parking permit. Additional permits can be purchased for $5 cash at the Campus Public Safety office.
Please make sure that your permit is displayed from the inside rearview mirror of your vehicle. It must be visible to our security officers and the permit must match the vehicle information that we have on file for you. Changes to a vehicle or license plate will require an update of your vehicle registration information.
Contact Elrike Shaw at eshaw@georgefox.edu to make any changes to current vehicle registration, or call the Campus Public Safety office at 503-554-2090.
A student film production crew is looking for a male talent in his late fifties to act as a store clerk. We are looking for someone who is willing to drive to Maupin, Oregon. We will pay mileage.
Please send an email with an acting resume and headshot to David Pascual-Matias at dpascualmatias16@georgefox.edu.
