There will be no delivery of student mail after 2 p.m. on Friday, April 27. This allows time for Mail Services to convert mailboxes from spring semester to summer time use.
Mail delivery to campus boxes that have been requested to remain open will begin on Monday. Forwarding of mail for all other students will also begin next week.
Questions? Contact Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.
Returning students: Class papers being returned to you after finals week will be in your campus mailbox when you come back.
Non-returning students: Your class papers will be held at Mail Services for six months. You can stop at Mail Services and ask for them the second week of May or later.
Questions? Contact Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.
Good News Associates will again sponsor its annual Leadership Institute for Group Discernment in Newberg. Designed to help Christian leaders come to consensus and unity around a common sense of Christ’s leading, the event is scheduled May 21-24 at the Tilikum Retreat Center.
A limited number of George Fox student scholarships are available (reducing the cost from $325 to $50), and it can be taken for credit as a special study with Paul Anderson for 1-4 hours (CHMN 485 or PSTD 585).
Contact Paul Anderson (panderso@georgefox.edu) if you have questions or would like more information.
Beginning next week, the courier will be delivering to the Salem campus on Tuesdays only for the summer months. We will deliver this Thursday, April 26, as our final trip for the academic year.
Questions or concerns? Contact Sherrie Frost at ext. 2556.
The university will host two commencement ceremonies this Saturday, April 28. This year, the ceremony for graduate, seminary and adult degree programs is scheduled for 10 a.m., while the undergraduate ceremony is set for 3 p.m. Both will take place in Miller Gymnasium in the Wheeler Sports Center. A live streaming of the undergraduate ceremony will be shown in Bauman Auditorium.
Angela Bymaster, a 2000 alumna of George Fox who become an MD and now works for the Santa Clara County Homeless Healthcare Program, will speak to the undergraduates. Jeanette Eggert, an associate professor of math and physics at Concordia University in Portland, Ore., will address the graduate, seminary and adult degree program students. Audience seating begins an hour before each ceremony.
Commencement can be viewed live at this link 15 minutes prior to the start of the ceremony.
Also on Saturday, undergraduate department receptions are scheduled at 1 p.m. For a complete guide to commencement events, visit this page.
Mark your calendars for a treat!
On Wednesday, May 9, your Staff Development Committee will be serving up ice cream. The university’s annual ice cream social will take place between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. in the Ron Gregory (EHS) Atrium.
Security services is striving to provide you with the opportunity to get involved by joining our Campus Community Emergency Response Team (C-CERT). We will be hosting training daily from 8 a.m. to noon the week of May 7-12 in EHS 125.
Volunteers will be the first on-the-scene emergency responders to an event that happens on campus, especially when firefighters, police and public safety are overwhelmed with requests for help and could be slowed down by impassable streets and other damage.
In a large-scale disaster, George Fox needs to be prepared to be self-sufficient, too. This is why we are providing this training. Become part of the team and be prepared.
More information is available at this link, and you can also sign up for the upcoming training in May via the link.
Questions? Contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.
The university community is invited to the music department’s spring concert, featuring the Symphonic Band, Concert Choir and Women’s Chorale, tonight (Friday) at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.
Students and employees are entitled to one complimentary ticket that can be picked up at the box office on the first floor of the Stevens Center. Additional tickets are available for purchase at music.georgefox.edu. Tickets will also be available at the door from 6:45 to 7:30 p.m.
Questions? Contact Debbie Hawblitzel at ext. 2620 or dhawblit@georgefox.edu.
Saturday, April 21, noon – Baseball vs. Linfield, DH (at University of Portland)
Sunday, April 22, 1 p.m. – Baseball vs. Linfield (at University of Portland)
Several George Fox teams are involved in Northwest Conference tournaments this weekend. On Friday-Saturday, the track and field teams are in the NWC Championships at Pacific Lutheran in Parkland, Wash. On Saturday-Sunday, the softball team is in the NWC Tournament at Linfield in McMinnville, Ore.; the men’s tennis team is in the NWC Tournament at Whitman in Walla Walla, Wash.; the men’s golf team is in the NWC Championship Tournament in Kennewick, Wash.; and the women’s golf team is in the NWC Championship Tournament in Richland, Wash.
For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the sports website at gfubruins.com.
Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Thursday) from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link†located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.†It is the bottom link in that section. The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings and include a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link.
Videos from previously recorded meetings will be added to this page in the days following. Please bookmark the page for quick access each month.
Come join the fun as the engineering freshmen battle it out with their robots on the robot course in our annual Engineering Robotics Competition! The competition will begin at 2:45 p.m. this afternoon (Thursday) in the EHS Atrium. All are welcome to attend!
Questions? Contact Kristin Bontrager at kbontrager@georgefox.edu.
Need an on-campus job? Seeking an internship or even a full-time career? Use BruinCareers for all your job-search needs! We’ve even incorporated a new design.
The new design makes looking for on-campus jobs, internships and careers much easier and makes finding other useful materials, like interview tips and resources, simple as well. BruinCareers also allows you to save a search and receive e-mail alerts when new jobs are posted.
There is also a mobile version of the website available for the iPhone and Android systems. You can access it from your phone at this link. BruinCareers is accessible through MyGFU.
Questions? Contact Career Services at 503-554-2330 or careers@georgefox.edu.
Faculty, please let your students know about the benefits of BruinCareers.
Kforce, a finance and accounting staffing firm, will be on the Newberg campus to speak with interested students this Friday, April 20. Talent Associate Chrissy Blundon is seeking to fill the following entry-level and experienced positions for local employers:
No appointment is necessary. Drop by Career Services on the first floor of Stevens between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. to visit with Chrissy on a first-come, first-served basis. Graduating seniors and alumni are both welcome.
Questions? Contact Angela Doty at 503-554-2331 or adoty@georgefox.edu.
Faculty, please let your students know about this opportunity!
The International Club is hosting the last Chinese language class of the semester tonight (Thursday) from 7:20 to 8:30 p.m. in the International House/Cultural Center, where we had the class last time. We will spend the first 10 minutes getting to know each other and review what we learned before. The main learning time is from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., so join us when you can.
If you came previously, please bring your handout from last time. Free food will again be served!
I hope to see you there, and I enjoyed the company of each of you last time.
Thank you,
Yali He (yhe11@georgefox.edu)
The university’s engineering department will present its annual Engineering Expo this Friday, April 20, between 3 and 6 p.m. in the EHS Atrium on the Newberg campus.
The expo will include project displays, a robotics competition and lab demonstrations. Also featured will be projects from the program’s Senior Design and Servant Engineering teams. In addition, high school design projects will be featured. Refreshments will be provided. All are welcome!
For more information, please contact Kristin Bontrager at kbontrager@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2780.
Don’t forget to stop by the retirement receptions for Irv Brendlinger (Religious Studies) and Margi Macy (Education) this afternoon (Thursday).
Irv will be honored from 4:15 to 6 p.m. in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium, and Margi’s farewell event is from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Room 117 of the Villa Academic Complex.
On Thursday, April 19, just before Earth Day on April 22, students and members of our lunch club will enjoy menus items that will delight their taste buds but won’t raise the temperature of the planet.
Our low-carbon diet is a program created to acknowledge the significant connection between food and climate change and make scientifically based changes as a business.
On our annual “Low Carbon Diet Day,” we make a point of showing guests how they too can make smart decisions about their food choices. On April 19, we’ll modify our café’s menus to teach guests the five principles of going on a low-carbon diet:
Our guests will still have many menu choices but will be encouraged to taste new items that are more climate-friendly than some regular features.
Please join us on Thursday to learn how you can easily lower your carbon impact. For more information, visit this link.
– Denny Lawrence,
Bon Appetit
The faculty courier service will be running during the May term and this summer. If you are interested in this service, please sign up at this link.
If you currently have this service and would like to confirm you are signed up for May and summer, please contact Gina Braden at 503-554-2425 or rbraden@georgefox.edu.
Just a friendly reminder: All employees, including faculty, staff, and administrators, are responsible for fines on overdue Summit materials per consortia agreement and for replacement costs on books that are lost or damaged.
Thanks for your cooperation; we appreciate you clearing out your fines before the end of the school year.
– Merrill Johnson,
University Librarian
Today (Wednesday) is our Campus Celebration Chapel from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium. All faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.
As part of this event, the Undergraduate Teacher & Researcher/Scholar of the Year awards will be announced. As well, there will be a time for our professional community to gather around our seniors to pray for them. This is a very special time for all of us, so we hope to have you join us!
