The Daily Bruin

Join us for our final Bruins LEAD event tonight (Thursday) to hear softball coach Jessica Hollen speak on “How to Manage Team Conflict.”

You don’t have to be an athlete or coach to be part of Bruins LEAD. It is simply an opportunity to develop your leadership skills. We will take basic leadership concepts and spend one hour diving into details of how to develop responsible and respected leaders. The session meets from 8:40 to 9:40 p.m. in Lemmons 8.

While some of the content may be specific to athletics and teams, we feel strongly that every person will end up working in a team at some point in their lives, and this information can be relevant for everyone on campus.

If you were unable to attend the first series of sessions, join us this week! Snacks will be provided!

Questions? Contact Kelsea Meyers at kmeyers13@georgefox.edu.

Housing Area West (HAW) will be hosting trick-or-treating Monday, Oct. 31, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Several houses and apartments in the area will be passing out candy. Trick or treat locations will be marked outside the door with a green glow-in-the-dark alien face balloon.

Questions? Contact LaQuae Aughtman at laughtman13@georgefox.edu.

Have a “Happy HAWaween!”

The university community is invited to an all-employee meeting from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 27, in Canyon Commons 101-102 (note different location).

The event will be live-streamed at the Portland Center in Room 160. It will include a board meeting update from Robin Baker.

As part of the university’s 125th anniversary celebration, Robin and Ruth Baker invite you to a celebration reception at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 13. An Organ Hymn Festival Concert in Bauman Auditorium follows at 6 p.m. featuring Dan Miller, an internationally renowned organist and product manager at Rodgers Instruments Corporation.

The reception will include heavy hors d’oeuvres and be held in Room 101 of Canyon Commons. Come learn more about George Fox history and its future. Please R.S.V.P. to Missy Terry at terrym@georgefox.edu.

The campus’ Catholic group is meeting tonight (Wednesday) at 6 p.m. in Hoover 250.

Discussion will be informal and will focus on common misconceptions regarding the Catholic faith, as well as challenges to being Catholic in an evangelical Protestant environment.

All are welcome. Contact Rob Bohall (rbohall@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Do you want to share a part of your cultural or ethnic heritage with the George Fox community? Then sign up for this year’s annual World’s Got Talent show!

We’re looking for students, employees and alumni who want to showcase their talents. The event will take place on Saturday, Nov. 19, so please sign up by this Monday, Oct. 31. Click here to sign up for a time slot!

If you have any questions or want more information, contact Mikaela Smith (smithm16@georgefox.edu).

Starting this fall, the Council on International Educational Exchange will begin accepting applications from U.S.-based faculty to teach as guest instructors at one of four Global Institutes (Berlin, London, Paris and Rome). These institutes allow academics from around the world to share and improve teaching practices.

CIEE invites interest from faculty from any of the following disciplines …

• Liberal arts
• Business
• Communications and new media
• Political science and international relations
• Foreign language and literature (French, German and Italian)
• Health sciences

Each course is 45 contact hours (60 for language instruction) taught in either a six-week block during a semester or a four-week session in the summer. Explore each of CIEE’s Open Campus programs and review courses by starting at the Global Institutes landing page.

Applications will be accepted for any of the Global Institutes’ three terms:

• Summer: three four-week sessions from late May to mid-August
• Fall: three six-week blocks from mid-August to mid-December
• Spring: three six-week blocks from mid-January to mid-May

Get more information on the visiting faculty program and apply here.

Encourage student to attend a workshop, “Charting Your Academic Path: MyGFU, Course Selection & Effective Planning,” tomorrow (Thursday).

In this session, CAP Coaches from the IDEA Center will give tips on how to use the degree audit, online catalog, class schedule and other resources. They will also discuss options if students are concerned about their midterm grades.

The workshop runs from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in Hoover 105.

Are you interested in attending a professional health program after George Fox? Are you pre-medicine, pre-dentistry, pre-veterinary, pre-physical therapy, pre-optometry or pre-pharmacy? Get informed on what it takes to get into a professional health program. The topics covered at a meeting this Thursday, Oct. 27, will include admission requirements, the application process and resources available to you at George Fox.

The meeting will take place in EHS 102 at 5 p.m. If you have any questions, please contact Vetta Berokoff at vberokof@georgefox.edu. If you are unable to attend but consider yourself a pre-professional health student, please contact Vetta so that you can be added to the pre-professional health student contact group.

Faculty, please tell your pre-professional health students about this meeting.

Looking for some good deals and discounts on cool stuff? You’re in luck: Students and employees on the Newberg campus are eligible to receive the Bruin Card, a discount card you can use at 15 local businesses.

If you’ve received your Bruin Card, be sure to use the card as many times as you’d like until it expires on Aug. 31, 2017! Not only will you be getting great savings on your purchases, you’ll be supporting local businesses. Just show your card when you make your purchases.

Don’t have a Bruin Card yet? Pick up a card at the Information Desk on the first floor of the Stevens Center.

We hope you’re looking forward to the opportunity to step away from daily tasks to refresh and renew yourself at our fall staff conference tomorrow (Wednesday), Oct. 26, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Canyon Commons (101-103).

Join us for worship and a workshop with our guest speaker, Doreen Dodgen-Magee, a psychologist from Portland who has 22 years of experience working with individuals and groups. She presents material that is fascinating and sobering in a way that is absolutely captivating.

Continental breakfast and lunch are included. Please contact Peg Hutton (phutton@georgefox.edu) if you have food allergies. Please remember to avoid wearing perfume or aftershave for those who have severe allergies and sensitivities.

All staff (non-administration, non-faculty) are required to attend unless you have VP approval; direct your absence approvals to Lisa Burton (lburton@georgefox.edu).

Program provided by your Staff Development Committee.

Please take a few moments to answer this short 10-question survey about last Thursday’s “Shake Out” test. Your participation will help us to improve our notification systems and planning for next year’s “Shake Out.”

Thank you for your help.

– Security Services

Today (Tuesday) is the day! Join your colleagues at all-employee lunch in Canyon Commons. Lunch is $3 per plate and will be served between 11:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. See you there!

There are only a few days left to see the current George Fox University history exhibit in the Stevens Center. There are artifacts and pictures from the founding of the college to more recent events. On Friday, we will be installing a new exhibit of objects from the George Fox museum collection.

If you have questions about the university’s archives, please contact Rachel Thomas (rthomas@georgefox.edu). If you have questions about the museum collection, please contact Caitlin Corning (ccorning@georgefox.edu).

Sign up to carry a flag representing a cultural heritage of personal meaning to you at the Tuesday, Nov. 15, chapel service, in honor of International Education Week. Click this link to sign up by Monday, Nov. 7.

A brief dress rehearsal will be held in advance of the Nov. 15 chapel in Bauman Auditorium (chapel begins at 10:50 a.m.). All carrying flags will be required to attend.

Questions? Contact Hongyang Yin (hyin13@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Join us for our final Bruins LEAD event on Thursday, Oct. 27, to hear softball coach Jessica Hollen speak on “How to Manage Team Conflict.”

You don’t have to be an athlete or coach to be part of Bruins LEAD. It is simply an opportunity to develop your leadership skills. We will take basic leadership concepts and spend one hour diving into details of how to develop responsible and respected leaders. The session meets from 8:40 to 9:40 p.m. in Lemmons 8.

While some of the content may be specific to athletics and teams, we feel strongly that every person will end up working in a team at some point in their lives, and this information can be relevant for everyone on campus.

If you were unable to attend the first series of sessions, join us this week! Snacks will be provided!

Questions? Contact Kelsea Meyers at kmeyers13@georgefox.edu.

Housing Area West (HAW) will be hosting trick-or-treating Monday, Oct. 31, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Several houses and apartments in the area will be passing out candy. Trick or treat locations will be marked outside the door with a green glow-in-the-dark alien face balloon.

Questions? Contact LaQuae Aughtman at laughtman13@georgefox.edu.

Have a “Happy HAWaween!”

It’s Quaker Focus Week! This morning (Tuesday) in chapel at 10:50 a.m. we welcome guest speaker Doreen Dodgen-Magee. She is a reluctant “geek,” spending inordinate amounts of time interacting with scholarly research, technology and pop culture around the topic of how the new digital landscape is shaping us. She is passionate about engaging people around this topic.

In Vespers Wednesday night at 7 p.m. we will be discussing Romans 9 in continuing our series “One.” Both Vespers and chapel will be in Bauman Auditorium.

Tuition Remission applications are now being accepted. You’ll notice a few changes to this year’s process, including:

• In order to better coordinate financial aid communications with tuition remission benefits, the due date for  2017-18 tuition remission requests will be Friday, Nov. 4.
• We are using a Google Doc form. Click here to access the Tuition Remission Google Doc. Paper forms are available upon request from HR. In order to utilize the electronic request form you must be logged into your George Fox email account.
• The employee submits one request form for each student (no longer three separate forms for undergraduate, ADP and graduate).
• Supervisor, VP/provost and/or admissions signatures are not required when you initially submit the request, but Human Resources will coordinate the electronic approval process with the employee where approvals are needed.
• You will receive a confirmation, including a copy of the submitted information, by email. Please review the information for accuracy and retain a copy for your records.

Our hope is that these process improvements make it easier and less time consuming for you to utilize this valuable benefit!

Information and Resources

• Please review the updated instructions prior to completing your Tuition Remission Google Doc request form.
• For updated tuition remission information, see the top section of the Benefits, Forms & Resources page.
• For the tuition remission policy, see the Employee Handbook (starting on page 48).
• The tuition exchange information sheet explains this separate benefit.
• For assistance with tuition remission, or other employee benefits, please contact Darby Thiessen in HR at ext. 2188 or dthiessen@georgefox.edu.

Join us for the next Liberal Arts and Critical Issues presentation of the semester tonight (Monday), when “Christian/Muslim Relations in Oregon” will be discussed in Hoover 105. The same presentation will be made from 5 to 6 p.m. and from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Guest Jan Elfers, executive director of Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, will describe what EMO is doing to improve Christian/Muslim relations in the state.

The theme for this semester’s LACI series is “Islam and the West.” For more information, contact Laurie Fair at lfair@georgefox.edu.