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Are you looking for a valuable upper-division elective course for next year? Check out the following courses that the School of Business will be offering:

BUSN 303 – Personal Finance (Fall ’13 & Spring ’14)

This course is designed to prepare students to think critically about their relationship with money, develop their own personal financial philosophy and implement practical application of personal financial management. Topics include relationship with money, biblical financial foundations, budgets, loans, spending, housing, insurance, investments and taxes.

Prerequisites: none; taught by Ryan Halley, finance professor, George Fox

MKTG 485 — Consumer Engagement and Social Networking (Fall ’13)

Marketing is all about connecting … connecting with your customer, connecting with management, connecting with money (budget), and connecting with retail. What is our business? Who are our customers? What does the customer value? Consumer engagement is not a single source of contact but an ongoing “conversation” – developing brand positioning, leveraging user-generated content, and creating a word-of-mouth social audience, all resulting in customer loyalty and influencing behavior. The questions haven’t changed BUT how we tell the story has.

Prerequisites: MKTG 260 (Principles of Marketing); taught by Laurie Koehler, Consumer Campaigns Manager, Intel

ECON 485 — Environmental Economics (Spring ’14)

Students will explore the relationship between the economy and the environment. The efficient management of natural resources, impacts of pollution, and sustainability issues will all be considered. To account for economic growth concerns the scope of analysis includes both the developed and developing world. The primary objective of the course is to increase students’ understanding of policy-relevant, incentive-based solutions to environmental issues.

Prerequisites: Either Econ 201 Microeconomics Principles or ECON 202 Macroeconomics Principles, or permission of the instructor; taught by Nate Peach, economics professor, George Fox

Questions? Contact Ryan Halley at halleyr@georgefox.edu.

For the past year, we’ve been in conversation with our risk management/insurance company as well as completed a comprehensive review of best practices to reduce risk and liability related to the transportation of students, faculty and staff. You will find the new policy at this link. Please review this very carefully and feel free to contact Plant Services or Brad Lau if you have any questions.

We are not yet ready to implement the personal vehicle aspect of the policy, but are ready to implement the policies and procedures guiding the use of university vehicles.

In order to check out and drive University vehicles (as well as to rent and drive Enterprise vehicles on university business), a student and/or employee driver must be on the “approved driver’s list.” This means that the following has occurred (a minimum of five days before the student or employee plans to pick up and drive a university vehicle):

1. The student or employee has read and agreed to the policy.
2. The student or employee has viewed the 15-minute training video.
3. The student or employee has taken a quiz that requires approximately 10-15 minutes.
4. A background check of the student’s or employee’s driving record has been completed and meets the criteria described in the university policy.

Once all this has been completed and verified (and assuming all the criteria are met), the employee’s or student’s name will be added to the approved driver’s list and university vehicles can be checked out and driven. This process will need to be completed annually for students and once every three years for employees. Of course, there is much more information in the policy, so please review it carefully.

To begin the process of becoming an approved driver, please login to FoxTALE on this page and follow directions.

The new policy is effective immediately, so please take care of this as soon as possible if you plan to drive a university vehicle on university business. When you pick up the vehicle, you will need to show Plant Services your driver’s license and verbally verify that you have current personal automobile insurance (even though university insurance provides coverage for the use of university vehicles).

FoxTALE maintenance during spring break

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, March 25, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

During the scheduled maintenance on Monday, March 25:

1. Fall 2012 sites will be hidden to students. If you want to make your course site available to students, select “Edit settings” in the Course Administration block. Scroll down to the the “Availability” section and select “This course is available to students.” Scroll to bottom and “Save changes.”
2. Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 course sites will be generated. You will see your course sites listed when you log into FoxTALE after the maintenance is completed.

Old FoxTALE available until Aug. 31, 2013

Here’s a reminder that old FoxTALE (foxtale19.georgefox.edu) will be available until Aug. 31, 2013. If you have additional course sites that need to be copied from old FoxTALE to new (current) FoxTALE, please contact the IT Service Desk.

If you have any questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

Join us tonight (Monday) for “Speaking Our Mind,” a lecture presented by Kathryn Hickok, publications director for the Cascade Policy Institute. Her presentation is the latest in the university’s spring Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series on the “State of the Union.”

The session runs from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105. Hickok will discuss how, as citizens, we must explain the “why’s” behind our views to be persuasive in today’s political and public policy debates.

Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.

Know of any students who want to be published? The Crescent has an opportunity!

Encourage your students to submit their photos, stories, poetry, art, designs, compositions and creations to be published in a 40-page, full-color magazine called The Wineskin! They can submit their entries to Sarah Biernacki at sbiernacki12@georgefox.edu or Katherine Vanlandingham at kvanlandingham11@georgefox.edu by Friday, March 22.

A memorial service for Lucy (Clark) Anderson will be held tomorrow (Saturday) at 2 p.m. at North Valley Friends Church, 4020 N. College St. Lucy (mother of Paul) taught English and theatre at George Fox from 1947 to 1951.

Starting on Monday, March 18, a contractor will begin installation of solar panels on top of Bauman Auditorium. They will not work during scheduled events. If you have questions, you can call Dan Schutter at ext. 2014.

Encourage your students to attend the First Avenue Career Expo on Friday, April 5!

This is a great opportunity for your students to hear Joshua Waldman, author of Job Searching with Social Media, speak about “What your Parents Can’t Teach You About Finding A Job,” network face-to-face with real professionals at our “Link In Live” event, and connect with more than 100 different companies and graduate schools.

• For a list of attending companies, click here.
• For a list of attending graduate schools, click here.

Questions? Contact the Corina Burke at ext. 2330 or cburke@georgefox.edu.

UPS brought a call tag for items being returned to Office Depot (order #650276416001).

The call tag has no information on the name or department of the sender, and we do not have the items in Mail Services. If this was an order you are returning, please bring the items to Mail Services today. UPS will stop only one more time to pick up your items.

Thank you for your prompt action in getting this shipment to Mail Services.

Contact Mail Services (ext. 2555) if you have questions.

Saturday, March 16, noon – Baseball vs. Willamette, DH (Morse Field)
Sunday, March 17, noon – Baseball vs. Willamette (Morse Field)
Sunday, March 17, 3 p.m. – Women’s tennis vs. Bellevue, exhibition (GFU campus courts)
Tuesday., March 19, 3 p.m. – Women’s tennis vs. Linfield (GFU campus courts)
Tuesday, March 19, 3 p.m. – Baseball vs. Concordia-Portland (Morse Field)

While it is not local, the George Fox women’s golf team is the host for the Phoenix Invitational at the Westbrook Village Golf Course in Peoria, Ariz., Friday and Saturday, March 15-16. Joining the No. 6-ranked Bruins in the tournament are No. 2 Washington-St. Louis, No. 13 Gustavus Adolphus, and three teams receiving votes for the top 25: Redlands, Baldwin-Wallace and St. Mary’s of Indiana.

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

We will be hosting Peace’d Together – An Intercultural Conference on the Newberg campus in April! The purpose of the event is to initiate dialogue that will assist us as we bridge gaps that culturally separate us, find truth where each of our roads cross, and celebrate the contribution each of us bring to the diversity of God’s kingdom and the George Fox community.

This is a free conference and promises to be amazing! It will be held in various buildings on campus Friday, April 12, from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, April 13, from 9 a.m to 6 p.m. The key speakers will be Pastor Tory Campbell, Dr. Caleb Rosado, Dr. Keith Dempsey partnering with graduate student Amber Nelson, Dr. Joel Perez, Dr. Melanie Hulbert and the Student Congress on Racial Reconciliation (SCORR) team.

Even though this is a free event be sure to register for the conference using your GFU e-mail address! You need to be registered in order to attend the conference.

To register, click this link. The conference is hosted by the Department of Inclusion & Student Leadership Programs of George Fox.

We hope to see you there!

If you would like to nominate a colleague for March’s Employee of the Month, please e-mail Peggy Kilburg a summary of this person’s contributions/outstanding performance in the past 30 days or so.

The winner will be announced and presented with a $100 Visa gift card at our March community meeting.

All of the BlueZone Store’s Cutter & Buck polos are on clearance. Do you need polos for your department? Do you have an event requiring your team to dress alike? This is a great time to purchase!

Cutter & Buck polos are marked 40 percent off the original price of $39.95, so you can get a great polo for $23.95. And remember … if you charge it to your cost center, you get an additional 20 percent off the sale price!

Jenn Lippert will present her senior voice recital on Saturday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. Admission is free, and there will be a complimentary reception to follow.

Please come and hear a variety of musical styles, including, opera, oratorio, art song and musical theatre.

George Fox is hosting the Northwest Independent College Business Officer’s Association Conference Thursday afternoon and Friday morning (March 14-15). Due to the hosting of this event, the Office of Financial Affairs will be staffed only by work-study students during the conference. You may still drop off check requests, deposits, etc., but we ask that you be patient during this time.

We’ll all be back in our offices on Friday afternoon to take care of any questions or issues you may have.

Questions? Contact Andy Dunn at adunn@georgefox.edu.

The university’s spring Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series continues this Monday, March 18, with a lecture by Kathryn Hickok, publications director for the Cascade Policy Institute. The presentation is the latest on the theme “State of the Union.”

Monday’s session runs from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105. Hickok will discuss how, as citizens, we must explain the “why’s” behind our views to be persuasive in today’s political and public policy debates.

The same session is presented from 4:40 to 5:40 p.m.; however, it is recommended that the general public attend the evening session, if possible.

Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.

The Swaziland and Nicaragua Summer Serve teams will be selling fresh Filipino egg rolls and quesadillas during Tent City tonight (Thursday)! All proceeds will support our upcoming serve trips. We will be set up outside of the Stevens Center, so be sure to head on over for some warm, delicious food as you wait out the night with your tent buddies or after Mr. Bruin.

All students and faculty are welcome to have a tasty treat and help support Nicaragua and Swaziland team members. Costs will be $1-$3 depending on your order, so make sure you have cash on hand!

If you are interested in ordering a batch of egg rolls to cook yourself, e-mail Trisha Elizarde (telizarde10@georgefox.edu).

Join the 27-hour Stand for Freedom for the 27 million slaves in the world. The International Justice Mission club has organized a Stand for Freedom in the quad starting at 11 a.m. today (Wednesday) and going to 2 p.m. Thursday.

All are welcome to join the stand for half an hour, an hour, or more.

Questions? Contact Hope Kenyon at ekenyon11@georgefox.edu.

Our “How to Work a Job Fair” info session is today (Wednesday) in the Career Services office from 12:30 to 1 p.m.

If you attend this session, your registration fee for the First Avenue Career Expo will be refunded!

For more information and to register for the First Avenue Career Expo, visit olapcfirstavenue.org or visit your Career Services office!

Faculty, please let your students know about this opportunity.

Robin Baker has agreed to help support the Nicaragua summer serve team in its fundraising efforts by agreeing to do something drastic for April Fool’s Day. You get to decide what he does!

Watch for representatives from the Nicaragua team in the lobby before and after chapel until spring break, as well as in the Bruin Den during dinner. There will be three jars – one accepting donations for the dyeing of the mustache, one for the dyeing of the hair, and one for a pie in the face. Whichever jar has the most money in it by April 1, when President Baker speaks in chapel, will win.

More info to come soon!

Questions? Contact Kelly Chang (kchang@georgefox.edu)