The Daily Bruin

Be sure to join us in the Prayer Chapel today (Thursday) for two Tefillah events, Contemplative Worship and Lifted Hands!

Contemplative Worship, from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m., will be a time we look at the contemplative traditions of how our forebears met with God in the quiet. There is elective chapel credit available for this prayer opportunity!

Lifted Hands intercessory prayer will be from 2 to 2:30 p.m. We’ll be praying for specific issues on our campus and in our world. This will be a special time to appeal to the Lord our concerns, so don’t miss it!

Questions? Contact Amanda Kitz at akitz13@georgefox.edu.

Once again, the university is hosting a Be the Match Registry drive on campus, giving you the opportunity to possibly save someone’s life.

Join us anytime between 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. tomorrow (Friday) in the Cap and Gown Room. It’s easy to become a registered donor. It takes just a few minutes to fill out a little paperwork and provide a DNA sample with a quick swab of the cheek.

For thousands of patients with blood cancers like leukemia or lymphoma, the best hope of survival is finding a young, healthy marrow donor. Doctors are searching the Be The Match Registry every day in hopes of finding a donor to save their patients’ lives. Imagine being a patient and being told by your doctor that there is no matched donor available to save your life. You have the opportunity to help change that by joining the Be The Match Registry and becoming part of the cure.

If you are unable to join us for the event and would like to join the Be The Match national registry, please register at this link.

Questions? Contact Shawn Fisher at sfisher13@georgefox.edu. The Be the Match event is being cosponsored by Sigma Zeta Kappa, the Nursing Club and ASC.

All benefit-eligible employees can bring a guest for free to our final home football game of the year on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 1:30 p.m. against Willamette University by picking up a complimentary ticket in the Bruin Store. All university employees will continue to be admitted for free with their ID cards.

Questions? Contact Sarah Reid at sreid@georgefox.edu.

The College of Engineering is writing an accreditation report for ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) this year, and we need your help. This survey helps to assess our engineering program’s educational objectives.

Engineering Survey

Please complete this survey between now and Friday, Nov. 20. We appreciate your time. Thank you!

– Adina McConaughey (amcconaughey@georgefox.edu)

The College of Business invites the university community to a special public lecture featuring Bob Dethlefs, CEO and founder of Evanta, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, in Hoover 105. The title of the presentation is “You Matter.”

Evanta facilitates market-leading, executive-level conferences and social networks for the leaders of America’s most prominent organizations as well as sports teams, serving the needs of pro and collegiate team owners, CEOs, general managers, athletic directors and other leaders. The company’s network starts with face-to-face gatherings and leadership conferences and extends into professional development programs as well as its mobile social networking platform, Evanta365.

In his role as CEO and founder, Dethlefs is responsible for the strategic direction and transformative growth of Evanta and its 200-plus executive leadership conferences across North America. His commitment to executive communities has resulted in a global network of leadership conferences that support executives within 862 of the Fortune 1000 organizations – representing more than $12 trillion in combined annualized revenue.

Dethlefs is the latest guest of the College of Business’ Executive in Residence Day.

Be sure to join us in the Prayer Chapel tomorrow (Thursday) for two Tefillah events, Contemplative Worship and Lifted Hands!

Contemplative Worship, from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m., will be a time we look at the contemplative traditions of how our forebears met with God in the quiet. There is elective chapel credit available for this prayer opportunity!

Lifted Hands intercessory prayer will be from 2 to 2:30 p.m. We’ll be praying for specific issues on our campus and in our world. This will be a special time to appeal to the Lord our concerns, so don’t miss it!

Questions? Contact Amanda Kitz at akitz13@georgefox.edu.

Today (Wednesday, Nov. 11) is Veterans Day. There will be no outgoing U.S. Mail today. UPS will work as normal.

If you have questions, please email Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

Do you need direction in making a connection? Are you having trouble with your recollection?

In looking for a colleague and making your selection, would you rather not do a complete website inspection? Just click right here to make your selection. The link will take you to the “golden collection” (aka, the Employee Extension & Box List).

Updates are made every two weeks to this collection! So check in often for further direction.

Did you check it out and find an imperfection? Contact Barbi Doran (bdoran@georgefox.edu) to make a correction.

Are you interested in practicing your French skills? Nadine Kincaid, who lived in France and is fluent in French, is hosting a conversation table in the Bruin Den today (Wednesday) from noon to 1 p.m. It’s open to French-speakers of all levels. Come by and join us!

Questions? Contact Thao Anh Gailey at avu13@georgefox.edu.

Attention all who rent university vehicles: If you are not going to be using the van/vehicle you reserved, please notify the plant services office immediately. We keep a waiting list and there may be others who could be accommodated if you cancel.

Thank you,
Plant Services

Don’t forget to join us for a student life-sponsored symposium, “Leadership & Education: The Impact of Empathy,” tomorrow (Thursday) from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in EHS 125.

We’ll host a panel discussion featuring:

• Markayla Shattuck, junior psychology major
• Neal Ninteman, associate professor of civil engineering
• Kyle Webster, senior Christian ministries major
• Justine Haigh, associate professor of marketing & MBA director

Chapel credit is available. Questions? Contact Jere Witherspoon in the Office of Student Life at ext. 2316 or jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu.

The faculty of the College of Christian Studies invites the campus community to join them for daily morning prayer weekdays, from 8 to 8:20 a.m., in Hoover 250.

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

Questions? Contact Paula Hampton at phampton@georgefox.edu.

Midyear commencement is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 19, at 11 a.m.! The academic affairs office is looking for a few good volunteers to usher at the event. Those of you who choose to accept this assignment should arrive by 9:30 a.m. for a training session from 9:30 to 10 a.m.

Please contact Laurie Fair at ext. 2140 or via email at lfair@georgefox.edu. Thank you, in advance, for your help!

There are only a couple days left to sign up for a Winter Serve SpiLgrimage! These are one-week-long trips Jan. 2-9. This year we are going to Portland with HomePDX; Twin Rocks; Puyallup, Wash., with the One Another Foundation; and Portland with JOIN. Applications to be a student leader are also available. If you have been on a trip before, consider joining a team as a student leader.

Applications can be found at the SpIL website under “Get Involved” and “Service + Ministry,” or follow this link. Applications are due tomorrow (Thursday)! Grab your friends and be a part of these amazing ministries!

For more information or if you have any questions, email Mikayla Greenwell at mgreenwell12@georgefox.edu.

In support of our creation care values, human resources will issue 2015 year-end W-2 forms online in “Self Service” for all employees, including student employees. If you do not want HR to print and deliver your W-2, the law requires that you give your consent.

If you consented in the past, you do not need to do so again. You can verify your consent status or give consent for the first time by following the steps below. It only takes about 30 seconds, so I encourage you to take care of it as soon as possible – perhaps right now? Here’s how:

1. Log in to mygfu.georgefox.edu
2. From the menu at left, select “Self Service”
3. Select “Payroll and Compensation”
4. Select “W-2/W-2c Consent”
5. Check your current status. Does it say “Consent received?” If so, thank you! You’re done.

If not …

1. Read the statement and check the box to give consent
2. Enter your GFU password as a confirmation of your identity and click “Continue”
3. Click “OK”

You’ll receive a confirmation email of your decision shortly after completing this process. And just to be clear, you will only have to do this once – not every year.

Thanks very much. Let me know if you have any questions.

Katie Sol
Human Resources
ksol@georgefox.edu

Are you interested in graduate-level studies? Are you considering working in a helping profession? If so, a Master of Social Work degree might be an option for you! Please join us from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight (Tuesday) in Hoover 103 to learn more about this graduate degree program and all of the professional and educational opportunities that come with it.

Questions? Contact Tabatha Kogle at tkogle12@georgefox.edu.

Faculty, be sure to tell your students about this opportunity.

We at the Bruin Store have loved serving you this semester! Have you come to see us yet? If so, we would really appreciate it if you took a few minutes to complete a survey about your experience in our store.

Click on this link and let us know how we can better serve you and the George Fox community!

The time has come once again to begin the process of selecting our undergraduate “Who’s Who” nominees for the 2015-16 academic year.

For those of you who have contact with our undergraduate population you have the opportunity to make nominations by selecting up to 20 students who you feel are worthy of recognition from the students who qualify for selection. These students are eligible for nomination and expect to graduate either midyear or spring (December 2015 or April 2016).

Please take a few minutes to make your selections for this award! You do NOT need to choose 20 students … just up to 20! Please mark your selections no later than Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. Please choose up to 20 but no more than 20 students.

Click on this link to make your selections:

Who’s Who Nomination Form

In addition, these students all have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.50 and have turned in their application for degree. Other criteria for choosing a student include their demonstration of:

• Personal integrity
• Involvement in the George Fox community
• Service to the community at large

A total of 155 students are eligible for nomination based on GPA alone. We will record the top-20 selections and determine the top-25 choices university-wide. We will then invite the top 25 students to respond. All students who respond will be awarded the “Who’s Who” honor.

(Please note: There may be others who qualify to be on this list, but because they have not registered for commencement at the time of the selection process, they are not on this list.)

Please contact Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu) in the student life office if you have any questions.

Cultural Celebration Week continues with the Cultural Fair today (Tuesday) from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Bruin Den. Come check out the various tables and treats presented by our very own intercultural community.

Also, today in chapel at 10:50 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium, we will have a panel of international students who will share their stories of what the body of Christ looks like in their home community. All are welcome.

Questions? Contact Jenny Elsey at jelsey@georgefox.edu.

Spoken Word is this Thursday, Nov. 12. Come listen to a roster of talented performers speak on the topic of hopes and fears. Spread the word and bring a friend!

We’ll meet at 8:30 p.m. in Hoover 105. The event is sponsored by the Latino Heritage Club.

We hope to see you there!

Questions? Contact Jessica Rivera at jrivera12@georgefox.edu.