Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. Marketing communications will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Friday, May 16.
Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.
Organizers at Wild Canyon Games are again seeking the support of George Fox students and employees for the organization’s annual event at Washington Family Ranch May 30 through June 1.
The sixth annual Wild Canyon Games will bring together hundreds of individuals from all over the country for a weekend of friendly competition. The exclusive team-building event, affiliated with Young Life, is designed to promote camaraderie and business development through athletic competition.
Volunteers are needed to assist in the kitchens and dining halls. Room and board are covered; transportation to the camp is not provided. Visit wildcanyongames.org/volunteers or contact Anna Phou at anna.phou@gmail.com to learn more.
All are invited to a special farewell party for Clint, Sarah, Madi and Kai Baldwin. We are renting out Chapters after hours on Sunday, May 25, from 7 to 9 p.m. Drop in anytime to enjoy a special drink on us and to send the Baldwins out with much love.
If you have questions, contact Cary or Kayin Griffith at cgriffith@georgefox.edu.
Do you want to be a part of helping design and implement a day of service that can become lifelong service? The Serve Day Committee is seeking volunteers to be involved in the following committees:
Interested? Fill out the Serve Day 2014 Committee Interest Survey. Serve Day this year will be on Wednesday, Sept. 3.
A woman’s account of overcoming serious drug addiction and homelessness will be featured at the Tuesday, May 27, Newberg meeting of the Christian Chamber of Commerce of the Northwest. The gathering will take place from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Villa Academic Complex.
Jennifer “Jenni” Ferrell, development director for Helping Hands Re-entry Outreach Centers, a residential recovery program in Clatsop, Yamhill and Lincoln counties, will speak. Born in Newberg, Ferrell moved to Central Oregon during her high school years and eventually ended up in Portland, where she got into the drug scene and became homeless, spending several years on the street and occasionally in jail.
In 2007, she returned to Yamhill County and, at the urging of her uncle, moved to a Helping Hands women’s shelter, where she experienced a structured environment and kind support. Today she tells how she also felt support from another source – God – as a result of accepting Christ during one of her jail stints. Helping Hands Executive Director Alan Sears hired her, believing that Ferrell’s compelling personal story would help her promote the program effectively.
Helping Hands has been providing emergency housing to men, women and children in crisis situations in Yamhill County for more than nine years.
For more information, visit the Chamber’s website or call 503-928-8354.
Rebecca Hernandez has been hired to be George Fox University’s next chief diversity officer! She is currently associate dean of intercultural development and educational partnerships at Goshen College. Prior to that, she served at Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing, Center for Health Disparities Research.
Rebecca has a teacher’s heart and a love for students and learning. She is also an accomplished scholar and speaker. Rebecca has a PhD from Oregon State University in human development and family studies, a masters of public administration from Portland State University, and a bachelor of arts in secondary education, social studies, from Southeastern College in Lakeland, Fla.
We are very excited to have Rebecca join us at George Fox beginning July 1, 2014!
Please welcome Rebecca Hernandez to our community!
Linda Samek, provost
Mail & Print Services wishes to inform you that the courier schedule will be changing beginning the week of June 2. Courier service to the Portland Center will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays only.
Questions? Contact Sherrie Frost at sfrost@georgefox.edu.
Arrangements have been made with the Yamhill County Elections Office for Mail Services to serve as a drop site for Oregon ballots. We accept any Oregon ballot (any county), and there is no postage necessary.
The deadline for this drop-off site is 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 20. All out-of-state ballots must be mailed with postage.
Thanks,
University Mail Services
Seven 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.
The College of Engineering invites you to join us for a research seminar, “Robust Parafoil Terminal Guidance Using Massively Parallel Processing,” presented by engineering faculty candidate Dr. Nathan Slegers. The presentation is scheduled from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, in EHS 125.
Here is an abstract of the presentation:
Terminal guidance of autonomous parafoils is a difficult problem in which wind uncertainty and system underactuation are major challenges. Existing strategies almost exclusively use impact error as the criterion for optimality. Practical airdrop systems, however, must also include other criteria that may be even more important than impact error for some missions, such as ground speed at impact or constraints imposed by drop zones with restrictions on flight patterns. Furthermore, existing guidance schemes determine terminal trajectories using deterministic wind information and may result in a solution that works in ideal wind but may be sensitive to variations.
This seminar develops a guidance strategy that uses massively parallel Monte Carlo simulation performed on a graphics processing unit to rank candidate trajectories in terms of robustness to wind uncertainty. The result is robust guidance, as opposed to optimal guidance. Through simulation and experimental results, the proposed scheme proves more robust in realistic dynamic wind environments compared with previous optimal trajectory planners that assume perfect knowledge of a constant wind.
With the end of our fiscal year quickly approaching, and to ensure a clean cut-off between FY14 and FY15 spending, the last day to use your Visa card for fiscal year 2014 purchases is Friday, June 20. Please refrain from using your card for any purchases after this date.
If you will be traveling for business during this time, please contact Kathi Becker to discuss arrangements on how to handle purchases after June 20. Credit card purchases for the 2014-15 fiscal year can begin on or after July 1.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact Kathi by email (kbecker@georgefox.edu) or at ext. 2166.
This is a reminder that the last day to place orders using the purchase order system is May 31, 2014, for the current fiscal year. This includes all requisitions which must be budget checked, approved and converted to purchase orders and products or services ordered. Please be sure orders are placed by May 31 to ensure items are received by June 30, 2014.
Fiscal year 2015 purchase orders will need to wait until June 15, when we expect the new chart of accounts to be available for use in the purchase order system. Please work directly with Kathi Becker before creating any FY15 purchase orders to ensure that this transition to the new system goes smoothly.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact Kathi by email (kbecker@georgefox.edu) or at ext. 2166.
Jamie Noling-Auth has been hired to be George Fox University’s next university pastor/dean of spiritual life, inclusion and leadership!
She is currently associate campus pastor/director for discipleship ministries at Azusa Pacific University and has been in that role since 2005. Prior to that, she served as director of student ministries at Gordon College, coordinator of the institute for leadership studies at Vanguard University, and senior admissions counselor at Westmont College.
Jamie has a doctor of ministry degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, a master of arts in theology (MDiv equivalency) from Fuller Theological Seminary, and a bachelor of arts in communication from Pepperdine University.
We are very excited for Jamie to bring her many gifts to George Fox!
Blessings,
Brad Lau, vice president for student life
Both the men’s and women’s locker rooms in the Wheeler Sports Center are closed for the summer months (May through August). The women’s locker room is not under construction but is being used to store the lockers from the men’s locker room. The women’s coaches locker room will be left unlocked for temporary use during this time.
Questions? Contact Patty Findley at pfindley@georgefox.edu.
“What One Sees When One Looks,” an exhibition featuring artwork created by the faculty from the art and design department, will open Thursday, May 15, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Minthorne Gallery.
This exhibition will be up for the summer. Drop in and see what the faculty have been up to. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
New students and families will be on campus this Thursday, Friday and Saturday for Genesis. Please help welcome them by leaving the Stevens and Hoover parking lots open for them to use. If you park along Meridian, or in other lots, that would be appreciated.
Thank you!
George Fox Evangelical Seminary invites you to consider a continuing education opportunity! All faculty, staff, administrators and student leaders are invited to an Emotional Intelligence (EI) seminar, led by Rich Handley, DBA, on Wednesday, May 28. The event is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Portland Center. Registration will close this Friday, May 16, at 5 p.m.
Rich’s presentation will offer a compelling accompaniment to the information shared by Jared Roth, who was hosted by the university’s College of Business on Friday, April 25, as part of its spring events series. Rich is the founder of EQ University.
The May 28 event includes morning snacks and lunch, EI printed interpretations and a Leadership Presence Handbook.
Benefits:
The seminar is limited to 25 participants, and the cost is just $200 per person. RSVP to Mindy Holland at mholland@georgefox.edu.
For your further consideration, here is a link to a description of EI, as well as an example of some of the reports that participants will have.
Come join us today (Tuesday) for lunch! Bon Appetit is serving delicious authentic tacos with all the fixings out of our food cart outside the Student Union Building between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Just go to the counter in the Bruin Den and order the daily special, then pick it up outside!
The men’s locker room in the Wheeler Sports Center will be closed all summer due to construction. All items left in lockers after Tuesday, May 13, will be bagged and tagged by locker number and put into secure storage. Showers may or may not be available.
Questions? Contact Patty Findley at pfindley@georgefox.edu.
All faculty and staff are invited to celebrate the end of another successful academic year by enjoying ice cream and all the toppings at our annual ice cream social. We’ll gather beginning at 3 p.m. today (Tuesday) in the Bruin Den. This event is being sponsored by the Staff Development Committee.
Be sure to bring your summer student workers – they will be most welcome! Gluten-free, dairy-free and sugar-free options will be available.
As a complement to the Staff Development Committee mission this year to serve our students well, a number of bowls from our “Empty Bowls†fundraiser will be for sale for $5 each. All proceeds will go to the Student Emergency Fund.
Hope to see you all there for a time of refreshment and social time!
