The Daily Bruin

At 8 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 9, George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony for its 29th appearance in Bauman Auditorium. The concert is free to George Fox employees – a gift from George Fox honorary board member Ken Austin, who cofounded A-dec with his late wife Joan.

The university has been provided with a limited number of tickets for its employees. These tickets are separate from those to be issued by the Newberg Area Chamber of Commerce to the general public.

George Fox employees (halftime and over) may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – on a first-come, first-served basis starting Thursday, Dec. 17, at 9 a.m. in the advancement office, located at 215 N. Meridian St. (across the street from the SpiL House). Phone reservations (503-554-2134) will not be taken except for employees at the Portland Center.

On Monday, Jan. 4, beginning at 9 a.m., any remaining tickets (again, a limit of two per person) will be available – also on a first-come, first-served basis – to those who sign up on a waiting list. If you find you will not be able to attend the concert, please return your tickets for another employee to use.

Questions? Contact Mary Monahan at mmonahan@georgefox.edu.

Following are Christmas break hours for University Mail Services, located in the North Street Annex:

• Open: Dec. 21-23 (8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.); Dec. 29-30 (8 a.m. to 1 p.m.); Jan. 4-8 (8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.)
• Closed: Dec. 24-28; Dec. 29-30 (1 to 4:30 p.m.); Dec. 31 and Jan. 1

Christmas break hours for University Print Services:

• Open: Dec. 21-23 (8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.); Jan. 4-8 (8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.)
• Closed: Dec. 24 – Jan. 1

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

We will serve our annual Christmas buffet to all of our meal-plan students today (Wednesday) from 5 to 7:30 p.m., and we’d like to invite employees and commuter students to join in our celebration.

We will have a carving station, a variety of salads and side dishes, and some holiday desserts and beverages, all for just $10 per person ($8 children).

– Bon Appetit

If you used the FoxTALE grade book for any of your FoxTALE course sites, back up your 2015 fall grade book to a spreadsheet that is saved outside of FoxTALE. Here are instructions for backing up grades. You will want to keep an archive of your course grades that cover the last five years.

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 quick guide here: FoxTALE Import Course Content.

The 2016 spring sites are currently hidden from student view. When you are ready, you can share the sites with your students. Here is a quick guide on how to make the courses available: FoxTALE Making Courses Visible to Students.

If your course site is set to “Weekly” format, your course might show incorrect dates. To adjust 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 click “Save changes.”

Visit the Schedule of Events page to see webinars and open labs offered for December and spring semester starting the week of Jan. 4.

Your Educational Technology Team
servicedesk@georgefox.edu

With the holidays quickly approaching, the finance department would like to bring to your attention the schedule for processing check requests and expense reimbursements to accommodate the short holiday weeks.

Please click this link to view the holiday check run schedule posted on the “Forms” page of the finance department’s website. Please check this webpage periodically for any changes to the current schedule. If you have questions, contact Jen Klapp at jklapp@georgefox.edu.

Please note that the finance department will be closed from Thursday, Dec. 24, through Friday, Jan. 1, so no checks will be available from accounts payable during this time.

Thank you and Happy Holidays!

– The Finance Department

At 8 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 9, George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony for its 29th appearance in Bauman Auditorium. The concert is free to George Fox employees – a gift from George Fox honorary board member Ken Austin, who cofounded A-dec with his late wife Joan.

The university has been provided with a limited number of tickets for its employees. These tickets are separate from those to be issued by the Newberg Area Chamber of Commerce to the general public.

George Fox employees (halftime and over) may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – on a first-come, first-served basis starting Thursday, Dec. 17, at 9 a.m. in the advancement office. Phone reservations (503-554-2134) will not be taken except for employees at the Portland Center.

On Monday, Jan. 4, beginning at 9 a.m., any remaining tickets (again, a limit of two per person) will be available – also on a first-come, first-served basis – to those who sign up on a waiting list. If you find you will not be able to attend the concert, please return your tickets for another employee to use.

Questions? Contact Mary Monahan at mmonahan@georgefox.edu.

Advent is the beginning of the church year, beginning on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and ending on Christmas Eve. It is the season of remembering the long-awaited Messiah and anticipating the second coming of Jesus, culminating in the celebration of the birth of Jesus on Christmas Day.

This year’s Advent readings are available from the Office for Spiritual and Intercultural Life (SpIL). If you would like a copy of the Advent readings, please email the office with your school mailbox number at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Merry Christmas,
SpIL

Stop by the International House between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday (Dec. 16-18) to take your picture at our first holiday photo booth. We have a festive backdrop and lots of props!

Come alone and take a selfie or bring your friends or a whole department and take a funny photo! (Please bring your own camera.)

Questions? Contact Jennifer Farland at jfarland@georgefox.edu.

Join the Christmas celebration at the library’s annual Wassail Party today (Monday) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Please take a break on “Dead Day” and join us in the MLRC multi-purpose room for snacks, wassail and coffee.

It’s our treat to you!

Do you love to serve? Does volunteering for the larger vision of Martin Luther King Jr. inspire you? How about in Portland?

Your chance to get involved with our neighboring community is finally here, with the opportunity to be a part of MLK Day of Service in Portland!

MLK Day of Service is a day we are able to live into this vision Dr. King had for serving and justice. Though one day of service is never enough to fully celebrate him or what he stood for, we hope you are able to join us for this day of service and recognition of Dr. King.

MLK Day of Service takes place on Monday, Jan. 18. You can register and find more information about what the day will look like here.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Stop by the Bruin Den today (Monday) between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to buy gift bags of coffee to support the four George Fox nursing students going to Kenya over Christmas break. The coffee will also be available for sale in the nursing office (on the second floor of Hoover) during finals week.

These will make great Christmas gifts, and proceeds will support medical missions work and health education in Kenya!

Questions? Contact Stephanie Fisher at sfisher@georgefox.edu.

Monday, Dec. 14, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Southern Virginia, Wheeler Sports Center

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.

Attention Resident East students: Beginning Monday, Jan. 11, the Roberts Center lots on the east side of the building fronting Villa Street and on the south side of the building fronting Sherman Street will be for commuters, staff and visitors only.

If you currently park in either of those two lots, beginning next semester, you will need to park in the HMS lots and in the Le Shana lot should the HMS lots be full.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation with this parking change.

Questions? Contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

With the holidays quickly approaching, the finance department would like to bring to your attention the schedule for processing check requests and expense reimbursements to accommodate the short holiday weeks.

Please click this link to view the holiday check run schedule posted on the “Forms” page of the finance department’s website. Please check this webpage periodically for any changes to the current schedule. If you have questions, contact Jen Klapp at jklapp@georgefox.edu.

Please note that the finance department will be closed from Thursday, Dec. 24, through Friday, Jan. 1, so no checks will be available from accounts payable during this time.

Thank you and Happy Holidays!

– The Finance Department

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

• Carpenter, Temporary
• Associate Vice President of Human Resources
• Head Women’s Volleyball Coach
• Director of Financial Aid
• Associate Registrar
• Accounting Specialist II – General Ledger
• Enrollment Specialist

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.

Join the Christmas celebration at the library’s annual Wassail Party this Monday, Dec. 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Please take a break on “Dead Day” and join us in the MLRC multi-purpose room for snacks, wassail and coffee.

It’s our treat to you!

Do you love to serve? Does volunteering for the larger vision of Martin Luther King Jr. inspire you? How about in Portland?

Your chance to get involved with our neighboring community is finally here, with the opportunity to be a part of MLK Day of Service in Portland!

MLK Day of Service is a day we are able to live into this vision Dr. King had for serving and justice. Though one day of service is never enough to fully celebrate him or what he stood for, we hope you are able to join us for this day of service and recognition of Dr. King.

MLK Day of Service takes place on Monday, Jan. 18. You can register and find more information about what the day will look like here.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Bon Appetit hours will change next week as follows:

Monday, Dec. 14:

• Klages Dining Room – Breakfast, 8-10 a.m.; lunch and dinner regular hours
• Bruin Den – 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
• Villa Café and Bruin Bites – Closed

Tuesday-Thursday, Dec. 15-17:

• Regular hours of operation except Wednesday dinner (5-7:30 p.m.)

Friday, Dec. 18:

• Klages Dining Room – Breakfast, 7:15-10 a.m.; lunch, 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.; dinner, 5-6 p.m.
• Bruin Den – 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
• Villa Café – 8 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
• Bruin Bites – Closed

Saturday, Dec. 19:

• Klages – Breakfast, 8-9 a.m. This will be the last board meal before winter break.

Monday, Jan. 4, through Friday, Jan. 8: Bruin Den open 8:30 a.m. 2 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 10: Klages open for dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. (first board meal)
Monday, Jan. 11: All locations resume regular hours of operation.

Questions? Contact Lisa Miles at lmiles@georgefox.edu.

If you have tickets for this weekend’s Christmas Concert and will be unable to use them, please inform Debbie Hawblitzel (dhawblit@georgefox.edu) as soon as possible so those tickets can be released for others to attend. All three performances are nearly sold out.

Thank you

We are undergraduate students doing a group research project for our gender communication class, and we need information from professors/employees. Your answers are 100 percent anonymous, and the results from the survey will be for comparison with another survey that we have sent out.

Here is the survey link:
Ethnography Survey

Thank you and Merry Christmas,
Sydney Beadle (sbeadle13@georgefox.edu) and MaryAnn Ellis

Disclaimer:
These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.