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Janet Bennett, executive director of the Intercultural Communication Institute and a leading expert in the area of intercultural relations, will be facilitating a lecture entitled “Tools for Improving Your Intercultural Communication Skill Set” on Monday, Nov. 9, from 7 to 8:15 p.m. in EHS 102. All are welcome to attend.

Bennett is a former Peace Corps volunteer, an educator, and an author who has devoted her career to helping others develop intercultural competency.

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

Wondering what you will do after graduation? Ever thought about becoming a teacher? Our graduates are in demand. Come to the College of Education’s open house and receive information about our programs and learn about high-need areas in education!

Join us today (Tuesday, Nov. 3) from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in Room 117 at the Roberts Center. The university’s MAT program is available to all George Fox undergraduates (BA/BS). Snacks provided!

Faculty, be sure to tell your students – or anyone you know who might be interested – about this event.

Questions? Contact Judy Deale at jdeale@georgefox.edu.

Shipping deadlines for international addresses and military addresses are posted in the lobby area of each of the post offices. You can also click here for the information.

Mail Services has a variety of Christmas stamps in book format – including the new “Charlie Brown Christmas.” We also have “Gingerbread Houses,” “Winter Fun,” “Poinsettias” and others. The “Holy Family” stamps come in a sheet of 20, rather than a book format.

Stop at Mail Services and get your stamps early!

Questions? Contact Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

Check out what’s new at the Bruin Store …

• George Fox license plate covers: $12.95
• Crew neck sweatshirts: $14.95
• Columbia waterproof rain jackets: $65

Also, check out our new faculty titles in our reading lounge!

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.

Save the date for the Fall Staff Development Conference! This year’s theme is “Building Bridges in Service and Leadership.” Our keynote speaker is Gary Sehorn, an assistant professor in the School of Education since 2010.

The half-day event will be tomorrow (Wednesday, Nov. 4) from 8 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Light snacks will be available in the morning, and we will provide a catered lunch. The conference will be held at Family Life Church, 502 S. St. Paul Hwy., in Newberg.

All support staff 0.5 FTE and above are required to attend. You will need VP approval in order to miss the conference.

Please note: Due to allergies, do not wear perfume or cologne at this event.

Questions? Contact us at staffdev@georgefox.edu.

Come hear a special speaker, Lutaaya Abdul, share about the work he is doing in Uganda through the African Hearts Orphanage. He will visit with us tonight (Tuesday) from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in EHS 102.

Lataaya grew up in the slums of Kampala. He was introduced to Christ at a school that taught the gospel through music. Since then, he has started African Hearts Orphanage, an orphanage for vulnerable young people to improve their safety and physical, spiritual and emotional health and future well-being.

The organization’s target population is children who are living on the streets, many of whom have been orphaned by HIV or abandoned or victimized by family violence. The organization currently operates two homes housing former street children in Senge. Children living in these homes are taught the Bible and are provided with shelter, food, love and education. Lataaya’s visit is being sponsored by the Center for Study Abroad.

Questions? Contact Lynn Scott at lscott@georgefox.edu.

Come join us tonight (Tuesday) in Shalom to hear the stories and struggles of a couple of our international students. If you are interested in joining this discussion, come to the Cap and Gown Room at 9 p.m. to hear about their experiences and to ask them questions as we look more closely at campus diversity and how we can promote justice here.

If you want to learn how to make the bread we share every week in Shalom, come to Lewis 1 at 6 p.m. tonight for a time to learn and fellowship. Both of these are great opportunities, and we hope to see you there!

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

Come join a student-led discussion regarding the reconciliation of science and religion. We’ll tackle questions such as “How do we become comfortable with opposing viewpoints? How do we bring back critical thinking? What is considered ‘political correctness’ and does that even matter?”

Everyone is invited, and snacks will be provided! We’ll meet from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. tonight (Tuesday) in Lemmons 14. The event is hosted by Sigma Zeta.

Questions? Contact Joel Rurik at jrurik12@georgefox.edu.

The university will host a pair of free concerts this week, with a Fall Symphonic Band Concert scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 5, and a Chehalem Symphony Orchestra performance set for Sunday, Nov. 8. Both take place in Bauman Auditorium.

Thursday’s symphonic band concert begins at 7:30 p.m. and features the university’s Handbell Ringers and Symphonic Band. The former will play the selections For All the Saints, You Raise Me Up and On This Day Earth Shall Ring, while the latter will perform Symphonic Fanfare, Stardust, Liberation, Florintiner Grande Marcia Italiana, Irish Tune from County Derry and Portrait of Freedom. Cynthia McGladrey serves as conductor of the Handbell Ringers, and Pat Vandehey and Dick Elliot serve as conductor and associate conductor of the Symphonic Band, respectively.

The Sunday, Nov. 8, Chehalem Symphony concert begins at 2:30 p.m. and will feature the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, Concerto in E Minor, and Serenade for Strings in E Major. Also performing will be a Keyboard Ensemble playing Get up and Go and Brightwood Barn. Vandehey serves as conductor of the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra.

Questions? Contact Debbie Hawblitzel at dhawblit@georgefox.edu.

The William Penn Honors Program invites you to join us tonight (Monday) as Melissa Lane, Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University, will give a talk titled, “The Politics of Unsustainability: Plato on the Logic of Constitutional Change.” Her presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. in Wood-Mar Hall.

Lane’s books include The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter (Princeton, 2015); Eco-Republic (Princeton, 2012); Plato’s Progeny (Duckworth, 2001); and Method and Politics in Plato’s Statesman (Cambridge, 1998).

More about Lane is available on this page.

Questions? Please contact Jane Sweet at honors@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2152.

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

• Enrollment Specialist III, Registrar
• Associate Director of Advancement Communication and Grants
• Costume Shop Manager
• Software Engineer, Analytics
• Data Scientist, Analytics

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.

Tonight (Monday) in the Chehalem Cultural Center ballroom, printmaker and professor Monika Meler will speak about her work as this week’s Art Talk presenter. She is originally from Poland and has completed many residencies around the world, from New York to Belgium.

Join us at 6 p.m. to engage with Meler’s printmaking work as well as to hear about her process and journey as an artist. The Chehalem Cultural Center is located at 415 E. Sheridan St.

Questions? Contact Annie Lunt at alunt13@georgefox.edu.

Join us tonight (Monday) for a Liberal Arts and Critical Issues presentation in Hoover 105 featuring Melanie Springer Mock, professor of English at George Fox. She will present “It’s Complicated: Orphan Care, International Adoption and the West.” The same presentation will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. and again from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Guests are asked to attend the later session.

Mock will discuss complexities associated with international adoption and address the question, “How can we acknowledge the good parts of international adoption while also recognizing its problematic elements and its reliance on Western privilege?” Her presentation is the ninth in the “Majority World and the West” series.

Questions? Contact Ron Mock at ext. 2680 or rmock@georgefox.edu.

The university’s dance team is hosting a gently used or new warm clothing drive! Please donate jackets, sweaters, gloves, new socks, scarves, hats, etc. There will be a bin in the Bruin Den right outside the ACS office for all donations. Donate between now and Friday, Nov. 6.

Questions? Contact Lauren Kleven at lkleven15@georgefox.edu.

Come join a student-led discussion regarding the reconciliation of science and religion. We’ll tackle questions such as “How do we become comfortable with opposing viewpoints? How do we bring back critical thinking? What is considered ‘political correctness’ and does that even matter?”

Everyone is invited, and snacks will be provided! We’ll meet from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. tomorrow night (Tuesday) in Lemmons 14. The event is hosted by Sigma Zeta.

Questions? Contact Joel Rurik at jrurik12@georgefox.edu.

Know students who struggle with their test-taking skills? Encourage them to attend a workshop, “How to Get A’s on All Your Tests (or at Least Become a Better Test Taker),” this Thursday, Nov. 5, from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in Hoover 105.

Rick Muthiah, associate director of Learning Support Services, will cover several strategies for improving performance on tests.

Questions? Contact Rick at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu.

Nike, HP, CMF International. Did you know many of our students have worked for these firms, plus others? They have held internships in industries such as nonprofit/policy, business, design/creative, human services and ministry.

If you know of students who are wondering how to land an internship in one of these industry clusters, encourage them to come to our peer panel event Thursday, Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the EHS Atrium, where they can hear from their peers about how they’ve been landing their own internships.

More information is available at this link, by contacting TJ Haimoto at thaimoto13@georgefox.edu, or by stopping by the IDEA Center.

Wondering what you will do after graduation? Ever thought about becoming a teacher? Our graduates are in demand. Come to the College of Education’s open house and receive information about our programs and learn about high-need areas in education!

Mark your calendar for our open house on Tuesday, Nov. 3, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in Room 117 at the Roberts Center. The university’s MAT program is available to all George Fox undergraduates (BA/BS). Snacks provided!

Faculty, be sure to tell your students – or anyone you know who might be interested – about this event.

Questions? Contact Judy Deale at jdeale@georgefox.edu.

Sign up to carry a flag representing a cultural heritage of personal meaning to you at the Tuesday, Nov. 10, chapel service, in honor of Cultural Celebration Week. Email Tiona Cage (tcage@georgefox.edu) by Wednesday, Nov. 4, with your phone number and the name of the country that you would like to represent. We have more than 50 flags available.

This opportunity is open to students, staff, faculty and administrators.