Need to take a break from the craziness? Join us in Contemplative Worship today (Thursday) for an opportunity to meet with God in the quiet, exploring the traditions of silent worship and meditation. It will be held at 10:50 a.m. in the Prayer Chapel, and there is chapel credit available.
Do you have what it takes to score a great internship or job in the business world? In addition to a fabulous education, you’ve got to have the skills, strengths and personality to stand out in the crowd. Come hear from two corporate recruiters as they share tips on what employers are looking for, and learn how you can become a sought-after candidate. You’ll hear from these two George Fox alumni:
This @GFUbizcareers event is sponsored by the College of Business and the IDEA Center and will be held in Hoover 103 from noon to 12:50 p.m. tomorrow (Friday). Free lunch provided!
Questions? Contact Colleen Sump at csump@georgefox.edu.
Faculty, please tell your students about this event.
Feeling poetic? Come to Sigma Tau Delta’s Poetry Reading Night tonight (Thursday) starting at 6 p.m. in Hoover 105.
You can sign up to read or recite your original poetry or spoken-word pieces, or you can share your favorite works by other poets. Or you can just come and listen to your poetic peers. So many options!
If you want to read, please sign up on the sheet posted in the Minthorn mailroom. We hope to see you there!
Questions? Contact Heather Harney at hharney12@georgefox.edu.
Do you know students who want to pursue work that will make a difference in the lives of others? Are they interested in learning more about nonprofit jobs in Oregon?
At the Career Pathways to Doing Good in Oregon event on Thursday, Feb. 25, students will:
The IDEA Center is providing free transportation for students who would like to join us at this event in Portland! Tickets are only $6.24 and can be purchased here. Students should email Kaitlyn Ragan (kragan@georgefox.edu) by Tuesday, Feb. 16, if they would like to ride with us.
Evening Agenda:
Spanish Chapel is today (Thursday)! Come to the Foxhole at noon and worship with us in Spanish. This is one of many chapel electives, so chapel credit is available.
Want more info? Please email Jorge Arciga at jarcigaolvera12@georgefox.edu.
Please advise your student employees that the student payday for February will be Tuesday, Feb. 16, due to President’s Day (bank holiday) on the 15th.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Kasondra Silva at ksilva@georgefox.edu.
The College of Business is hosting its second annual Innovative Industry Idea Challenge (i3). This team competition will give you an outlet for challenge, competition, business innovation and a full day of collaborating with industry experts from Intel, Ivey Performance Marketing, Hewlett-Packard and more! The grand prize for the winning team will be $500 and your names commemorated on a trophy.
Teams must consist of six to eight George Fox students, with one member being from the College of Business. Each team will have an industry expert as a mentor and five hours to collaborate with each other to come up with an innovative business idea for a randomly assigned industry.
No outside prep is needed, but bring what you think you might need to succeed. Single members who do not have a team may sign up at the College of Business offices to be put on a random team.
Registration opens Thursday, Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. and closes Saturday, Feb. 20, at noon. Visit our website for more information.
Questions? Contact Laurie Koehler at lkoehler@georgefox.edu or Kiana Neisig at kneisig14@georgefox.edu.
The George Fox community is invited to celebrate the beginning of the season of Lent with an Ash Wednesday service hosted by the Office of Spiritual Life today (Wednesday) in Bauman Auditorium. We are providing two options for you:
We want to remind you to be discerning when you are seeking employment opportunities online. With the Internet connecting us to all corners of the world, scams are present.
We would like to remind you to never send money to any employment opportunity. A genuine organization would never ask for payment.
Also, do not complete a W-2 form sharing your Social Security number unless you have met your new employer face to face.
Bruin Careers is a service that George Fox provides to help employers connect to students, as one of our priorities is to assist students in finding employment that supports your career aspirations. The IDEA Center staff reads each posting carefully, but we recently had a scam slip through our system as Internet thieves are using new tactics posing as actual Newberg businesses.
We do not have access to your correspondence with employers, so we caution you to be discerning if you receive emails that do not have proper English or grammar.
If you ever have any questions or suspicions, please come to the IDEA Center and ask to talk with a Career Coach and we will help you vet the organization or company.
– Deb Mumm-Hill (dmummhill@georgefox.edu)
Feeling poetic? Come to Sigma Tau Delta’s Poetry Reading Night tomorrow (Thursday) starting at 6 p.m. in Hoover 105.
You can sign up to read or recite your original poetry or spoken-word pieces, or you can share your favorite works by other poets. Or you can just come and listen to your poetic peers. So many options!
If you want to read, please sign up on the sheet posted in the Minthorn mailroom. We hope to see you there!
Questions? Contact Heather Harney at hharney12@georgefox.edu.
Are you interested in going on a serve trip over spring break? This is the last week to sign up! The trips are only $50 to $100 for the whole week!
This year’s trips are going to Camp Attitude, Flying H Ranch, Urban Impact in Seattle, Mending Wings and Word Made Flesh. If you are interested in participating, applications are due no later than Friday, Feb. 12. Applications can be found at this link. Trip info is available here.
Contact Mikayla Greenwell (mgreenwell12@georgefox.edu) with any questions.
Knows students who need help with MLA style for citations? Encourage them to attend a workshop, “Using MLA Format Effectively,” today (Wednesday) from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. (note time change) in Hoover 105.
In this session, Kristie Richman, adjunct instructor of English, will cover the Modern Language Association citation and reference formatting, along with several guidelines for writing in MLA style. MLA is commonly used in humanities courses such as English, literature and modern languages.
The workshop is sponsored by the Academic Resource Center.
We look forward to hearing about someone who has made recent significant contributions to the work of the university, so please send an email to Lisa Burton (lburton@georgefox.edu) by Thursday, Feb. 18, with a summary of this colleague’s recent contributions and any other information that makes this person deserving of this award.
The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient from the nominations submitted, and the winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 Visa gift card at an all-community meeting later this month.
Join us as we welcome George Fox alumni Bill Jackson, Michael Livingston and Rose Livingston for a special Black History Month alumni panel. The three guests will share stories from their time here at George Fox and will provide insight into what it was like for students of color on campus during the late 1960s/early 1970s.
Join us from 11 a.m. to noon in the Cap and Gown Room this Thursday, Feb. 11. Questions? Contact Tiona Cage at tcage@georgefox.edu.
Marketing communications is collecting orders for name tags. For those who have regular face-to-face contact with the public and need to order a name tag, you may submit your request at this link.
Be sure to provide the name of the person for whom the name tag is needed; title or department (optional); and the chart of accounts budget to be charged. The next order will be placed on Monday, Feb. 15.
Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.
Planning is in full swing to honor graduates from traditional undergraduate, adult degree, and graduate programs at a variety of 2016 Spring Commencement events the final week of April.
Details on all events are available at commencement.georgefox.edu.
Feeling poetic? Come to Sigma Tau Delta’s Poetry Reading Night on Thursday, Feb. 11, starting at 6 p.m. in Hoover 105.
You can sign up to read or recite your original poetry or spoken-word pieces, or you can share your favorite works by other poets. Or you can just come and listen to your poetic peers. So many options!
If you want to read, please sign up on the sheet posted in the Minthorn mailroom. We hope to see you there!
Questions? Contact Heather Harney at hharney12@georgefox.edu.
Know students who struggle formatting their papers? Encourage them to attend a workshop, “Microsoft Word and Google Docs: Formatting Basics,” this Thursday, Feb. 11, from 10:50 to 11:35 a.m. in Lemmons 8.
This workshop can help answer basic questions about creating and formatting documents in Microsoft Word and Google Docs. The session will be presented by Kandie Comfort from IT Services and Hannah Adderley, Academic Resource Center coordinator.
The workshop is sponsored by the Academic Resource Center.
The efforts of George Fox to aid in restoring a favorable habitat for monarch butterflies will be featured in a television episode of Oregon Field Guide, to be aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB-TV) this Thursday, Feb. 11.
The Field Guide episode, entitled “Monarchs and Milkweeds,†will explore the planting by various groups and individuals of native milkweeds, which serve as an irreplaceable resource for the monarch butterfly’s reproduction during its migrations through western Oregon and the Willamette Valley. The program will air at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, with a repeat presentation scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 14, at 6:30 p.m.
With more than 99 percent of the original Willamette Valley habitat gone within historic times, the migration of the monarchs is jeopardized. George Fox has been collaborating its efforts with individuals and organizations to restore usable milkweed foraging habitat for these butterflies by planting milkweed both as landscape plantings and prairie restoration components on campus.
The goal is to not only create usable habitat on campus but also to be a community resource for education and for the propagation stock of these valuable native species.
FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Wednesday, Feb. 10, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.
During this maintenance update, Fall 2015 course sites will be hidden to students (current semester course sites will be unaffected and remain visible to students). If you want to make any of those course sites visible to students after this update, select “Edit settings” in the Course Administration block. In the “General” section, look for the “Visible” setting and change “Hide” back to “Show.” Scroll to bottom and “Save changes.”
Questions? Email servicedesk@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2569.
