The Daily Bruin

Join us tonight (Thursday) at our first event as we launch the George Fox Business Leadership Society. We are pleased to welcome special guest Jessica Williams, founder of the Superwoman Project, TEDx Talk speaker, and life coach.

The evening includes heavy hors d’oeuvres, door prizes, networking and much more! We’ll meet at the Portland Center beginning at 6:30 p.m.

This event is free to all George Fox employees with valid employee ID, but please send an RSVP email to Ashley Walker (awalker@georgefox.edu) in order to help determine our catering needs.

The university’s theatre department invites you to our final show of the season, Deus Ex Millennia! Come join us as we explore ways in which millennials encounter God and seek grace in the midst of untidy endings.

The show runs tonight and tomorrow (Thursday and Friday) in Wood-Mar Auditorium beginning at 7:30 p.m.

Employees are entitled to one complimentary ticket. You may pick up that ticket (select “GFU Employee” in drop-down menu), purchase additional tickets, and read a synopsis of the play here.

Contact Kathy Harris (kharris@georgefox.edu) if you have any questions.

It’s not too late to register for those of you who couldn’t make it to our bone marrow registry drive, but still want to be involved in transplanting hope!

Follow this link to get your easy-to-complete registration packet in the mail.

Interested in volunteering to fill your spare time, but not sure where to find a list with local opportunities? George Fox’s Social Work Club has compiled a list of opportunities between Newberg and Portland for anyone in the George Fox community to utilize. There are a variety of options to consider, and they are all for good causes, so you can’t go wrong.

Happy volunteering!

To access the list, click this link.

Are you interested in gardening, and helping provide healthy, local food for Newberg families? Come out to the university’s Community Garden this Saturday, April 15, from 1 to 3 p.m. to learn more. The garden is north of campus by the soccer field, on the corner of Villa and Crestview.

We will be preparing the garden for the growing season. Even if you won’t be here all summer, you can come help get the space ready.

If you are around all summer and would like to join the garden for the season, we would love to have you! Individual/family plots are available, and we also garden a portion of the space together if you don’t know how to garden yet ($10/student, $15/staff, faculty, or community member).

Extra produce goes to local social service agencies to help feed families in need, after garden members get as much as they can use.

Questions? Contact Cherice Bock at cbock@georgefox.edu.

The university’s offices, libraries and Bruin Store will be closed this Friday, April 14, to observe Good Friday.

The Wheeler Fitness Center will be closed Sunday, April 16, for Easter Sunday.

Enjoy your Easter weekend!

Here is the policy for leaving cars on campus during Juniors Abroad and summer serve trips:

1. If you can leave your car with a friend off campus that will look after and drive your vehicle, that is preferable, as the university is NOT responsible for any theft or damage to your vehicle while left unattended on campus.
2. Your car must be left in the Le Shana parking lot and parked close to the building.
3. All personal belongings must be taken out of the vehicle to avoid tempting a potential thief.
4. Key MUST be left with Security Services before departure.
5. Security has a form to be signed, and name and number of emergency contact is needed on the form in addition to your license plate number, make and model of vehicle.
6. Upon return from the trip, call security at 503-554-2090 to arrange a time with the officer on duty to pick up your key if it is after office hours. Bring photo ID to claim your key.
7. Any vehicle left on campus without the key being left with security is subject to tow due to Plant Services activity all around campus during the summer.
8. Do not abandon your car on city streets, as the city of Newberg will tow it as an “abandoned vehicle” after 72 hours!
9. Enjoy your time abroad!

Do you want to grow and develop as a leader? Is growing your leadership presence part of your performance goals or faculty growth plan for 2017-18?

If you answered yes to either of these questions, then you may want to consider applying for the Leadership Development Initiative (LDI). The program welcomes both women and men who are current George Fox employees who desire to grow in their current role or seek to prepare themselves for future leadership roles.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2017-18 cohort and are due by May 1, 2017. For more information and to access the application, please fill out the Leadership Development Initiative Application.

If you have questions, please contact a member of the LDI planning team: Emily Call, Rebecca Hernandez, Susanna Steeg or Missy Terry.

This week is Holy Week! The Office for Spiritual and Intercultural Life would like to invite you to join us for worship as we remember Jesus’ journey to the cross. We will offer the following Holy Week celebrations:

• Tuesday, April 11, at 10:50 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium: Holy Week Chapel with President Robin Baker
• Tuesday, April 11, at 8:30 p.m. in Canyon Commons 102: Holy Week Shalom service with speaker Kearsten McCoy
• Wednesday, April 12, at 7 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium: Stations of the Cross
• Thursday, April 13, at 4 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium: Maundy Thursday Communion Service (no chapel credit offered)

We encourage you to celebrate Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday with one of our wonderful local churches (for a list of churches, please visit this webpage).

The Department of Physical Therapy is excited to host Dr. Jason Wilken, associate professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Iowa, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight (Tuesday) in Canyon Commons 103.

Dr. Wilken will present the topic “Experience and Evidence – Evolution of a Custom Fiber Device to Restore Limb Function.” His presentation will provide a succinct overview of the problems facing individuals who have experienced catastrophic limb injuries, which include a life of reduced function and pain due to the limitations of commonly available devices.

Improvements in rehabilitative techniques and custom-carbon fiber ankle foot orthoses over the last 10 years now enable the return to high-level athletic activities, and even a full return to active duty. Dr. Wilken will present key aspects of device design, evidence to support their use, and considerations for training individuals seeking to return to high-level function.

Everyone is encouraged to attend this free event, ask questions and welcome Dr. Wilken to the university. Light refreshments will be served.

Questions? Contact Linda Dallof at ldallof@georgefox.edu.

Join us for the final brown-bag sessions for the spring of 2017 …

Digital Fluency Institute Faculty Show-and-Tell
Come help us celebrate with DFI Cohort 2016-17 faculty as they give a show-and-tell on instructional strategies they have explored this year.

• Tuesday, April 11, 11 a.m. to noon, Portland Center South Room 160
• Thursday, April 13, 4-5 p.m., Newberg’s Roberts Center Room 168
  RSVP at this link

Recording and Editing Media
Want to dig a little deeper into producing media for instruction? Colleagues will share tools and strategies.

• Friday, April 21, noon to 1 p.m., Newberg’s Lemmons Center Room 4
  RSVP at this link

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

Jingping Ge, our visiting scholar from China, sponsored by the Chinese Scholarship Council, will present “Crossing Borders: Exploring cultural differences between the U.S. and China” from noon to 12:50 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday) in Canyon Commons 101.

Bring your lunch and take in an informative, interactive time of learning more about how Chinese and Americans can more effectively navigate between these two cultures.

Jingping Ge is a senior lecturer at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. She’s taught for more than 20 years in China and teaches a variety of courses, including English literature, comprehensive English, and Western society and culture. She was also a visiting scholar at the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom. She brings a wealth of cross-cultural communication experience.

All are invited to join us!

The Office of International Admissions and Services is seeking donations for our garage sale. Money earned from the sale goes toward an emergency fund for international students.

If you have items you no longer need, please consider donating them to us. You can drop them off at the International Center Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

If you have any questions, please contact Jennifer Farland (jfarland@georgefox.edu).

Thanks!

All are invited to a special Holy Week presentation featuring The Saint John’s Bible this Thursday, April 13, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Paul Anderson and Carmen Imes will turn the pages of the Bible and highlight key ways that the new and innovative artwork in this historic seven-volume masterpiece illumines the biblical text in ways prophetic and inspirational.

Join us for this free presentation. Chapel elective credit is available for students.

Questions? Contact Paul at panderso@georgefox.edu.

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Security Services Survey

Thank you for your help.

– Ed Gierok (egierok@georgefox.edu)

Help cancer patients with a simple mouth swab! Sign up for the bone marrow registry today (Tuesday) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Canyon Commons 103. Young patients battling cancer will also be there to remind us of how you can change someone’s life by simply signing up.

Questions? Contact David Degnan (ddegnan14@georgefox.edu).

Jingping Ge, our visiting scholar from China, sponsored by the Chinese Scholarship Council, will present “Crossing Borders: Exploring cultural differences between the U.S. and China” from noon to 12:50 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12, in Canyon Commons 101.

Bring your lunch and take in an informative, interactive time of learning more about how Chinese and Americans can more effectively navigate between these two cultures.

Jingping Ge is a senior lecturer at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. She’s taught for more than 20 years in China and teaches a variety of courses, including English literature, comprehensive English, and Western society and culture. She was also a visiting scholar at the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom. She brings a wealth of cross-cultural communication experience.

All are invited to join us!

Help cancer patients with a simple mouth swab! Sign up for the bone marrow registry tomorrow (Tuesday) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Canyon Commons 103. Young patients battling cancer will also be there to remind us of how you can change someone’s life by simply signing up.

Questions? Contact David Degnan (ddegnan14@georgefox.edu).

Are you interested in gardening, and helping provide healthy, local food for Newberg families? Come out to the university’s Community Garden on Saturday, April 15, from 1 to 3 p.m. to learn more. The garden is north of campus by the soccer field, on the corner of Villa and Crestview.

We will be preparing the garden for the growing season. Even if you won’t be here all summer, you can come help get the space ready.

If you are around all summer and would like to join the garden for the season, we would love to have you! Individual/family plots are available, and we also garden a portion of the space together if you don’t know how to garden yet ($10/student, $15/staff, faculty, or community member).

Extra produce goes to local social service agencies to help feed families in need, after garden members get as much as they can use.

Questions? Contact Cherice Bock at cbock@georgefox.edu.