The Daily Bruin

Foster Parents Night Out is here! This will be a monthly event (the second Saturday of the month from 4 to 8 p.m.) when students will get to interact, mentor and spend time with children in the foster care system while foster parents get a few hours off.

There will be games, food, crafts and much more. It will be held at McMinnville’s Church on the Hill (home of an awesome indoor playground called Scotty’s playhouse). We need your help! Whether you want to facilitate games, rock climbing, crafts, help with security, or help in the nursery, all skill sets are welcome and needed.

There are only 25 spots available, and you do need to be 18 years or older. Background checks will be required.

Important: Please fill out this short form to reserve your spot and let us know where you would most like to participate and to put on your calendars the mandatory DHS training on Sunday, Jan. 17, from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. If you cannot make this training, there is one the next Sunday in Portland that can be arranged.

University employees are welcome to participate!

Contact Mikayla Greenwell (mgreenwell12@georgefox.edu) with questions.

Changes are coming to the George Fox wireless networks. Bruin-Secure is the new secure wireless network that you should connect to using your George Fox credentials.

Bruin-Secure is replacing the older foxwifi network. Please connect soon, as the foxwifi wireless network will be turned off Feb. 1. A new wireless guest network will be announced in the coming weeks. Watch for it!

If you have trouble connecting, check out the IT WiFi webpage.

Bon Appetit at George Fox now has a Facebook page! “Like” us to receive updates on menus, special events, changes in hours and more!

Use your new, empty 2016 Spring sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another course site. See the instructions here for importing.

Your 2016 Spring sites are hidden to students. When you are ready to make a site visible, go to Administration> Course administration > Edit settings on the course home page. Scroll down to the “Visible” section and change “Hide” to “Show” from the drop-down menu. Then “Save changes” at the bottom.

Remember that all students enrolled in your class in MyGFU will automatically be enrolled in your FoxTALE course site. As students add and drop your course in MyGFU, they will be added or removed automatically from your FoxTALE site

If your course site is set to “Weekly” format, your course might show incorrect dates. To change the dates, go to Administration> Edit settings on the course home page. Scroll down to the course start date and change it to the first day of your 2016 Spring course. Scroll to the bottom of the page and “Save changes.”

Visit the FoxTALE for Faculty webpage for guides and resources.

Questions? Contact servicedesk@georgefox.edu.

With the first week of classes beginning next week, Mail Services will have special operating hours for the first week of the semester. We will be open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Richard Silver at 503-554-2551 or rsilver@georgefox.edu.

Thank you,
Mail Services

Nine staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:

• Graduate Admissions Counselor, Seminary
• Custodian
• Administrative Assistant, College of Arts and Sciences
• Carpenter
• Associate Vice President of Human Resources
• Head Women’s Volleyball Coach
• Director of Financial Aid
• Associate Registrar
• Accounting Specialist II – General Ledger

The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.

The faculty of the College of Christian Studies invites the campus community to join them for daily morning prayer weekdays this spring semester from 7:45 to 8 a.m. in Hoover 250 (note time change from fall semester).

Prayer format will alternative between liturgical and unprogrammed, with various members of the CCS faculty providing leadership. Come as often as your schedule allows. All are welcome.

Contact Paula Hampton (ext. 2650) with questions.

In the event of a campus- or city-wide emergency such as a severe winter storm, flood or major earthquake, employees, students and visitors to George Fox should be prepared to keep safe and possibly assist in recovery. Therefore, we are providing life-saving C-CERT training for any and all interested persons.

In an effort to make it easier for more people to participate, we are doing a hybrid course of online instruction combined with lunch-hour training once a week to build knowledge and skills as a CERT member. The weekly meetings will be every Tuesday starting Feb. 2 and last from noon to 1 p.m.

For more information and to sign up, go to the security services webpage.

Faculty, please submit requests for spring semester course reserves as soon as possible. Materials are processed in the order received and can take up to five days to complete.

Please fill out and submit the form located at this link. If you have any questions, please contact Patty Vanier at pvanier@georgefox.edu or ext. 2425.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued the 2016 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business.

Beginning on Jan. 1, 2016, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car will be 54 cents per mile for business miles driven, down from 57.5 cents for 2015.

Please make sure you use the correct/current Expense Reimbursement Request Forms. Turn in separate sheets for 2015 and 2016 mileage. These forms are found at this link.

Please contact Matt Hammar at ext. 2162 or Jen Klapp at ext. 2170 with questions.

The alumni relations office is looking for an original painting of the Centennial Tower done for a George Fox Christmas card in 1998 by alumnus Ken Gilmore (see photo). The painting was last seen in the Pennington House in the summer of 2014.

If you know of its whereabouts, please contact the alumni office at alumni.georgefox.edu or 503-554-2134.

Thank you

Happy New Year! As we finish up the calendar year, we have had much excitement in advancement, processing more year-end gifts than ever before! In order to finish well, we need your help.

Please check your mail today and bring any donations received to advancement immediately (corner of Sheridan and Meridian streets). It is critical we receive all donations as quickly as possible in order to receipt the donors in a timely fashion and process the gifts in the correct calendar year.

In order to care for our donors, check your mail, send an email notifying Kristi Hagen (khagen@georgefox.edu) of any donations received, and hand-deliver them to advancement today.

Thank you!

Questions? Contact Kristi at ext 2111.

Plant services has scheduled maintenance for the parking areas around the post office this morning (Wednesday). Please do not park in the staff spots facing Minthorn Hall or the staff/student areas directly facing the tennis courts opposite Minthorn, as well as the three 10-minute spots on North Street by the post office.

Maintenance is scheduled to take place in the morning, and the spots should be vacated until after noon.

The Bruin Den is open this week from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Stop by and beat the cold with some hot coffee or a warm lunch!

Regular hours of operation resume on Monday, Jan. 11.

The Office of Spiritual & Intercultural Life is looking for post-college leaders for our six-week spring Life Groups (the weeks of Feb. 14 to March 27).

Life Groups are small groups of undergraduate students who meet together for prayer, Bible study and fellowship. Groups meet weekly for 60 to 90 minutes at the time and location of your choosing. Participants will select the group they wish to participate in based on the details that leaders provide.

Groups are encouraged to use one of the curriculum options recommended by the Office of Spiritual & Intercultural Life that parallel other themes that are being explored in chapel. We welcome our alumni, family members of George Fox employees and students, and members of our wonderful local churches to consider leading a group.

Our spring leader meeting will take place on Thursday, Feb. 4, from noon to 1:30 p.m. (location TBA), and lunch will be provided. For more information and to sign up, visit this webpage.

If you have any further questions, contact Jamie Noling-Auth at jnolingauth@georgefox.edu.

The university community is invited to Lindgren Gallery this month and next to see to work of Kim Chai, a printmaker and textile designer who recently moved to Newberg from Hawaii. Her work will be on display Thursday, Jan. 14, through Friday, Feb. 26.

At the conclusion of the exhibit, a closing reception will take place from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 25.

Questions? Contact Gary Buhler at gbuhler@georgefox.edu.

Tuition remission applications for 2016-17 are being accepted through Jan. 5, 2016.

In order to better coordinate financial aid communications with tuition remission benefits, the due date for the 2016-17 tuition remission applications will be Tuesday, Jan. 5. See the tuition remission section (top of the page) of the Benefits, Forms & Resources for instructions and applications.

Questions? Contact Darby Thiessen at dthiessen@georgefox.edu or ext. 2188.

Join the community of Newberg as we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and celebrate his legacy with a free program featuring a talk by Johnny Lake of Northwest Christian University and performances by local musicians and artists, including two of our very own students.

This year’s commemoration will be held at the Chehalem Cultural Center (415 E. Sheridan St.) from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 18. An informal social hour with refreshments will also be held prior to the program, from 5 to 6 p.m.

Questions? Contact Tiona Cage at tcage@georgefox.edu.

Are you interested in leading a serve trip over spring break? We are looking for both student and faculty leaders. Here are the trip descriptions:

Haiti
In partnership with the French department, a team of students will be immersed in the Haitian culture as well as serve alongside local ministries and health care organizations. The trip will be led by Isabelle Corneaux and Jaques St. Gelus. Separate applications are required.

Camp Attitude
Students will partner and serve with Camp Attitude, a not-for-profit Christian organization dedicated to providing a unique faith-based camping experience for families in the disability community. Students will help complete projects for the camp and maintain facilities for the special needs community

Flying H Ranch, Yakima, Wash.
This trip is located at the Flying H Ranch, located 30 miles west of Yakima, Wash. The ranch ministers to at-risk youth. On this trip, students will do physical labor as well as spend some time with the boys in worship, devotions, meals, games and conversation.

Urban Impact, Seattle
A team of students will serve with Urban Impact in Seattle, focusing on building relationships and serving in the community through the local church. The team will do a variety of work projects, which may include tutoring, service projects, administrative work and cleaning.

Mending Wings, Washington
We will partner with Mending Wings, a nonprofit Native American youth organization located on the Yakama Reservation in Washington state. Students will come alongside the reservation community to build trust and friendship while serving alongside them painting homes, cleaning yards of garbage and debris, chopping wood for elders, mowing, weeding gardens, working at a homeless shelter, doing light construction projects, and perhaps working at one of their local powwows.

San Francisco
This trip will go to San Francisco to work with ReImagine, a center for integrating Christian practice. The week will consist of guided prayer tours, trash pick-up, serving meals to people living on the streets, learning about local issues such as human trafficking and poverty, as well as spending time in group and individual spiritual reflection.

If you are interested in participating, applications are due no later than Friday, Feb. 12. If you would like to serve as a student leader, applications are due Saturday, Jan. 30.

Applications can be found at the SpIL website under “Get Involved” and “Service + Ministry,” or follow this link.

Contact Mikayla Greenwell (mgreenwell12@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Foster Parents Night Out is here! This will be a monthly event (the second Saturday of the month from 4 to 8 p.m.) when students will get to interact, mentor and spend time with children in the foster care system while foster parents get a few hours off.

There will be games, food, crafts and much more. It will be held at McMinnville’s Church on the Hill (home of an awesome indoor playground called Scotty’s playhouse). We need your help! Whether you want to facilitate games, rock climbing, crafts, help with security, or help in the nursery, all skill sets are welcome and needed.

There are only 25 spots available, and you do need to be 18 years or older. Background checks will be required.

Important: Please fill out this short form to reserve your spot and let us know where you would most like to participate and to put on your calendars the mandatory DHS training on Sunday, Jan. 17, from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. If you cannot make this training, there is one the next Sunday in Portland that can be arranged.

University employees are welcome to participate!

Contact Mikayla Greenwell (mgreenwell12@georgefox.edu) with questions.