Join us tomorrow (Thursday) for a Winter Symphonic Band Concert beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. Admission is free.
The program includes Alfred Reed’s The Hounds of Spring, John Barnes Chance’s Elegy, Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to Candide, J.B. Arban’s Fantasie and Variations on The Carnival of Venice, Philip Sparke’s The Year of the Dragon and John Philip Sousa’s The Stars and Stripes Forever.
Spring break service and immersion trip applications are open! Five trips are offered this spring break. The details of each trip, as well as the online application, can be found at this link.
Trip leader applications are due by Wednesday, March 4. Participant applications are due by Friday, March 6.
Any questions? Email Lene Ferrari at lferrari11@georgefox.edu.
The time for this week’s Chinese Lab has changed to 7 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 27, in the International House. We’ll have excellent Chinese teachers joining us for an hour. We’ll also have snacks!
Looking forward to seeing you all on Friday. Questions? Contact Sihui Zhu at szhu13@georgefox.edu.
Our Liberal Arts and Critical Issues group is doing a general survey on school shootings in America. The responses to this survey will help us during the research process.
Thank you for participating.
Rebekah Riggins (rriggins11@georgefox.edu)
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.
Make plans to attend an all-employee meeting scheduled for this Thursday, Feb. 26, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. A live stream of the meeting will be shown in Portland Center’s Room 160.
Now you can purchase one of the “Perfect Season” T-shirts for $12 that was worn by members of our women’s basketball team to commemorate their 25-0 season. Orders must be placed by 4 p.m. today (Tuesday) and can be picked up on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the gym before the tournament semifinals kick off.
Order your shirts with this order form.
World Vision recently contacted the IDEA Center about wanting to connect more George Fox students with internship and career possibilities within their organization. They are looking for students from a variety of majors who are interested in global development, child advocacy and relief work to serve as interns this summer in one of their four stateside offices.
More than 50 percent of their interns are hired full time by the organization. The IDEA Center will be hosting an information session on Thursday, Feb. 26, at 2 p.m. in Stevens 207. If you know of students who would be well suited for this type of job opportunity, please encourage them to attend.
Questions? Contact Joe Thouvenel at jthouvenel@georgefox.edu.
Thank you!
Listed below are labs and help sessions available during spring 2015.
If you need help with a course not listed above, contact:
As always, the ARC is available for writing feedback and for academic coaching (weekly support and accountability meetings). Faculty, please let your students know about these resources.
On Thursday, Feb. 26, our 25Live system will be upgraded to Version 24. The system will be down from 5 to 7:30 a.m.
This upgrade will greatly increase the speed of entering requests and doing searches. The other thing you will notice is a completely new layout in the Event Wizard.
Training sessions will be provided for those users new to 25Live and separate sessions for those who just want to explore what’s new. We encourage anyone who uses 25Live on a regular basis to come to one of these sessions. Not only will we show you what’s new, but we’ll provide tips and tricks to using 25Live.
Sessions will be held on Feb. 26 and 27. To sign up for training, please complete our Registration Form by Wednesday, Feb. 25. You must be logged into your George Fox Google account to access the form.
Do you want to receive announcements, including updates, upgrades and tips on using 25Live? Then join the 25Live User group.
Questions? Email the IT Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu.
Interested in the sports and/or entertainment industry? Consider attending the Sports Career and Internship Fair from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25, at the Moda Center.
Meet recruiters from the sports and entertainment industry who are seeking summer interns and full-time hires from these Northwest teams and organizations: Trail Blazers, Winterhawks, Thunder, Timbers and Thorns, Seattle Mariners, Seattle Storm, Tacoma Rainers, Hillsboro Hops, Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, Alpha Broadcasting, Rip City Management, Levy Restaurants, the International Basketball League and reps from the NBA and WNBA.
Register at the IDEA Center for $17 to attend the fair. Price includes a ticket to the Trail Blazers vs. San Antonio Spurs game Wednesday night. Only a limited number of tickets are still available.
Faculty, please let students know about this opportunity.
Questions? Contact Deb Mumm-Hill at dmummhill@georgefox.edu.
Join us in Bauman Auditorium for chapel today (Tuesday) at 10:50 a.m. to hear from guest speaker Jason Fileta. He will also be sharing at Shalom tonight at 9 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. Chapel elective credit is available for both events.
Fileta is the director of Micah Challenge USA and has been with the organization since 2005. He grew up in Wheaton, Ill., the son of Egyptian immigrants. The plight of the persecuted church in Egypt compelled him to become an advocate for justice. You can read more about him on this page.
For more information about chapel, visit spirituallife.georgefox.edu or email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.
Come see Mike “Biggs” Wirta speak on the history of athletics at George Fox University. As many of you know, Mike has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to George Fox athletics. It should be a fun evening of entertainment and education.
“Biggs” will speak tonight (Tuesday) at 7 p.m. at the Chehalem Cultural Center, 415 E. Sheridan St. There is no charge to attend.
Questions? Contact Patty Findley at pfindley@georgefox.edu.
Calling all ladies of tech! The IDEA Center will provide transportation for you to attend The REAL Women of Tech event hosted by the Technology Association of Oregon. It is scheduled from 5 to 9 p.m. this Thursday, Feb. 26, at OMSI in Portland. The panel will discuss success stories of women in the tech world, followed by a screening of the film Big Dream.
To attend you must register at this link and with the IDEA Center. Questions? Contact Deb Mumm-Hill at dmummhill@georgefox.edu.
Join us tonight (Tuesday) for a showing of the movie Son of God and panel discussion in Hoover 105.
The movie will be shown from 6 to 8:20 p.m. Afterwards, we’ll host a panel discussion (8:30-9:30 p.m.), as well as time for questions/engagement with the panelists. Panelists will include Melanie Springer Mock, Sarah Gibson, Paul Anderson, Josh Sweeden and Jesse Richards.
This event, hosted by the BIBL 102B, 102C, 260A and 260B classes, qualifies for elective chapel credit. We’ll also have snacks.
Questions? Contact Mary Schmitt at mschmitt@georgefox.edu.
Please mark your calendar to attend the all-employee lunch tomorrow (Tuesday) in the Cap and Gown Room. Lunch is available for $3 between 11:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m., and this week Jason Fileta, guest speaker for the Woolman Peacemaking Forum, will share on the topic of his new book, Live Justly.
We hope you can join us!
Eight staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:
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.
Don’t forget to join us today (Monday) for a “Let’s Get Together” staff lunch featuring members of our human resources team. Come get to know the HR team, their roles and “The Top Ten Reasons You Should Call HR” from noon to 1 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room.
Join in group Q & A while you enjoy a $3 lunch with friends from across campus. Members of the HR team will be available afterwards for individual questions, too. The event is hosted by the Staff Development Committee.
Questions? Contact Christee Wise at cwise@georgefox.edu.
Do you know students who have strong writing and tutoring skills? Please encourage them to apply to work as a peer consultant in the Academic Resource Center (ARC). Students can learn the duties of a peer consultant and find information about how to apply for a position here.
The university’s French and cinema programs have joined forces to present the fourth Fox French Film Festival on concurrent Fridays, Feb. 27 and March 6, in Hoover 105.
Opening the festival will be La Première Etoile (Meet the Elizabethz), a lighthearted comedy about a family of French Caribbean descent living in a French suburb who decide to go skiing for the first time during spring break. It shows at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27.
Also that night, at 9 p.m., the comedy Les Saveurs du Palais (Haute Cuisine) will be featured. It is based on the extraordinary true story of President François Mitterand’s private cook. Hortense Laborie, a renowned chef from the Périgord, is astonished when the President of the Republic appoints her his personal cook, responsible for creating all his meals at the Elysée Palace.
Filmgoers will also have the chance to indulge in crêpes and other French fare during the intermission for free between the shows.
Questions? Contact Isabelle Corneaux at icorneaux@georgefox.edu.
The university’s 2015 Woolman Peacemaking Forum is set for tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb. 24).
The theme of this year’s forum, “Past, Present & Future: Promoting Peace and Justice at George Fox University and Beyond,” will include a number of free events throughout the day. Our guest speaker will be Jason Fileta, director of Micah Challenge USA.
Schedule of Events:
Questions? Contact Jennifer Kepler at jkepler@georgefox.edu or visit this page.
