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Eligible employees may now apply for tuition remission for themselves or spouse as a part-time or special (non-degree seeking) student for the 2019-20 academic year. Click here to apply.

If you have already applied for and received approval for the 2019-20 academic year during our annual enrollment for tuition remission, please do not apply again.

The time to request tuition remission for full-time dependent students has passed. This process is available each year in October during an open enrollment period. However, if you missed this opportunity you may file an exception request, which the university will review and approve on a resource-available basis.

Questions about the tuition remission benefit? Visit the tuition remission webpage, email ee@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2180.

Campus Public Safety will be conducting its annual bicycle roundup starting Monday, May 6. If you are staying on campus over the summer and plan to keep a bike here, please come to Campus Public Safety to get a sticker ID so your bike will not be removed.

• At the end of the spring semester, a university-wide bicycle cleanup is done. Bicycles that are illegally parked, unregistered or inoperable are impounded. Bicycle racks need to be cleared to do routine maintenance to the bicycles racks and surrounding areas.
• Bicycles may not be stored on the campus during the summer semester. Bicycle claims can be made at the Campus Public Safety office.
• Students using their bikes during the summer must move their bikes to the nearest rack of their summer housing.
• Bicycles not picked up from the impound lot within 60 days will be forwarded to local charities at the discretion of the Campus Public Safety office. Junk bicycles will be recycled.

Questions? Contact Ed Gierok at egierok@georgefox.edu.

Faculty: As we approach the end of the term, The Libraries Digital Learning would like to share a few reminders.

You will want to keep an archive of your gradebooks that includes all courses taught for the last five years. See the guide “Downloading the Gradebook” for a demonstration on how to download this term’s gradebooks as spreadsheets for your storage.

Your 2019 summer and 2019-20 academic year course sites are now accessible to you in FoxTALE. They will remain hidden from students until you are ready to make your courses visible. See the guides at “FoxTALE Course Life Cycle” for information on how to locate courses, adjust course start and end dates, import content from previous courses, and make your courses visible to the students.

You will find additional guides at “Digital Learning” and “FoxTALE for Faculty.” We welcome your inquiries at digitallearning@georgefox.edu.

We are currently transitioning our printing to Allegra Printing. You will need to plan ahead, as their turnaround time is not as quick as Print Services.

We will continue to give you information as we move further along with this new process. In the meantime, please note the following instructions for submitting jobs to Allegra Printing:

• Email PDF files (only) to Shoshannah Smith at smiths@allegranewberg.com
• Include your full department chart of account string
• Include full contact information
• Allow two to three days for your job to be ready
• All projects will be delivered to Mail Services and written up as a package

If you have any questions, please contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

Starting today (Monday), the Bruin Community food bank will be on summer hours.

The food bank in the Roberts Center will be open Mondays through Thursdays, 9 a.m. to noon. Appointments can be made by contacting the student life office at 503-554-2310.

If you have questions, please contact Jere Witherspoon at 503-554-2316 or jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu.

The university has hired a new women’s basketball coach! Michael Coppolino joins us from Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, New York, where he coached the women’s program the last six seasons. Over the last two years, his teams went 35-1 in conference play. You can read more details about his background here.

This Friday, May 3, we will host an introduction event for coach Coppolino at the Chehalem Cultural Center (415 E. Sheridan). It begins with a press conference from 2:30 to 3 p.m., followed by a community meet-and-greet time from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the gallery (refreshments provided).

Come join us and extend a welcome to our new coach! Questions? Contact Elise Trask at etrask@georgefox.edu.

The library has three faculty study rooms which may be reserved for one semester at a time for those needing a quiet area for study and research. If you are interested in requesting a room for next year, please fill out this form.

Requests will be prioritized on a first come, first served basis. Please note the form requires a George Fox email address.

Questions? Contact Mary Cameron at mcameron@georgefox.edu.

Do you enjoy the beautiful trees on campus? Would you like to learn how to successfully plant a tree?

Today (Monday) we are having a volunteer tree-planting day in the Hess Creek Canyon area from 9 to 11 a.m. Volunteers are welcome to come and go, but be sure to dress appropriately.

Meet below the Crisman Crossing bridge at 9 a.m. If we have a large number of volunteers, we may also do some invasive removal.

Any questions can be directed to the Plant Services office at ext. 2010.

If you have lost something, be sure to come to the Campus Public Safety office as soon as possible, because all remaining unclaimed items will be donated to Phase II at the end of the semester.

Anything found in the student residences when they are deep-cleaned will be kept until Friday, May 31, before it is all donated to charitable causes, so be sure to double-check your residence before moving out!

If you work out in Wheeler, Duke or Hadlock, check for your lost items in those buildings before leaving school as well.

Questions? Contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

Mark your calendars to make gorgeous hanging baskets to grace our quad! You can learn this valuable lesson on how these beauties are assembled and help us in the process.

Join us Wednesday, May 8, starting at 9 a.m. The session will last approximately four hours, and you are welcome to join at any time. We will meet in the Thomas Center’s lower patio area at 1101 Villa Road.

Please contact the Plant Services office at 503-554-2010 for more information.

The Murdock Library faculty office courier will be suspended during summer break. The service will end on Friday, May 3, and resume on Monday, August 26.

Questions? Contact Patty Vanier at pvanier@georgefox.edu.

The Newberg community prayer team is hosting a prayer gathering on the National Day of Prayer this Thursday, May 2, at 6:15 p.m. at River Street Church of God, 715 S. River Street. Join with Newberg pastors, leaders and community members for this annual time of prayer.

Contact Di Endicott at endicottdiana@yahoo.com or the Office for Spiritual Life at spirituallife@georgefox.edu if you have questions.

You are invited to join our Accessibility Ambassadors for an accessibility workshop to be held next Monday, May 6, in Roberts Center 168, from 9 a.m. to noon.

This is a hands-on morning that will start with a breakfast buffet, hosted by The Libraries Digital Learning. We will open our laptops to work on making digital content accessible for our students.

Would you like to work on your Word, PowerPoint, or Excel files? Make images and tables accessible? Caption videos? Learn how to give an individual student extended time on a FoxTALE quiz? Join us for any amount of time during the morning.

The session satisfies up to three hours of faculty development.

Questions? Contact Gloria Doherty at gdoherty@georgefox.edu.

As we approach the end of the spring semester, we know it seems strange to be thinking about undergraduate student Welcome Weekend when it is still four months away! However, we want to let you know about some changes in the schedule that may affect your planning.

• Welcome Weekend is shifting from four days to three days and will be held Friday through Sunday, Aug. 23-25.
• Freshmen will move in on Friday (Aug. 23) morning.
• Programs for parents and families will begin Friday afternoon and conclude that night (not continuing into Saturday).
• The George Fox Late Night at Target event will be on Friday night.

There were a variety of reasons for these changes, but we believe this will serve our incoming students and families very well! Of course, our goal is always for us to show tremendous hospitality and welcome to these new members of our community. We will post the schedule on our Welcome Weekend website when it is finalized.

If you have questions about how this change will impact you or your department, please contact Stephanie St. Cyr (sstcyr@georgefox.edu) or Bill Buhrow (bbuhrow@georgefox.edu).

Hablas Español? Necesitamos tu ayuda! Spiritual Life would like to have one or two Spanish speakers at our baccalaureate to help Spanish-speaking guests receive interpretation headsets and Spanish-printed programs.

The time commitment is from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Friday, May 3, in Bauman Auditorium. It is voluntary, and we will provide a small thank-you gift.

If you are interested, please contact Stephanie Lopez at (503)554-2320 or slopez@georgefox.edu.

Ten years ago, nine George Fox cinema students and their beleaguered professor set out to make a feature film. At long last, it’s finished.

The cinematic arts program invites you to the premiere of Changing Time at 7 p.m. tonight (Sunday) in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Admission is free. The film would likely be rated R for violence.

Changing Time is about a NASA physicist whose life was derailed by the loss of his sister in a high school mass shooting, so he figures out a way to go back in time to try to change things.

Questions? Contact Matt Meyer at mmeyer@georgefox.edu.

We are currently transitioning our printing to Allegra Printing. You will need to plan ahead, as their turnaround time is not as quick as Print Services.

We will continue to give you information as we move further along with this new process. In the meantime, please note the following instructions for submitting jobs to Allegra Printing:

• Email PDF files (only) to Shoshannah Smith at smiths@allegranewberg.com
• Include your full department chart of account string
• Include full contact information
• Allow two to three days for your job to be ready
• All projects will be delivered to Mail Services and written up as a package

If you have any questions, please contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

Starting Monday, April 29, the Bruin Community food bank will be on summer hours.

The food bank in the Roberts Center will be open Mondays through Thursdays, 9 a.m. to noon. Appointments can be made by contacting the Student Life office at 503-554-2310.

If you have questions, please contact Jere Witherspoon at 503-554-2316 or jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu.

Tonight (Friday), the Spring Concert closes out the university’s 2018-19 concert season and features performances by the Concert Choir, Master Chorus, Symphonic Band, and Symphony Orchestra.

Join us at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium to see the first-place winners of the school’s concert/aria competition, including pianist Kyler Schubkegel and vocalist Cezanne Brunner.

Questions? Contact the music department at 503-554-2620.

Ten years ago, nine George Fox cinema students and their beleaguered professor set out to make a feature film. At long last, it’s finished.

The cinematic arts program invites you to the premiere of Changing Time at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 28, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Admission is free. The film would likely be rated R for violence.

Changing Time is about a NASA physicist whose life was derailed by the loss of his sister in a high school mass shooting, so he figures out a way to go back in time to try to change things.

Questions? Contact Matt Meyer at mmeyer@georgefox.edu.