The Daily Bruin

We will soon be conducting a test of FoxAlert, the Newberg campus emergency notification system.

In the unlikely event of an emergency, you would be potentially notified through three different methods:

• Cell phone
• E-mail
• Text message

However, for either of these methods to work you must enter your personal contact information in your MyGFU account.

Here’s how you do it:

• Login to your MyGFU account
• Click on SELF SERVICE
• Click on CAMPUS PERSONAL INFORMATION
• Click on PHONE NUMBERS
• On the PHONE TYPE pick list, choose the phone type you are registering
• Type in your contact information
• Click SAVE
• If you need to add a number, first click on ADD A PHONE NUMBER
• Make sure you click SAVE after each change

When contacted by phone, the number you will see is: “503-554-2007.”

Your safety is very important to us. Thank you for your participation!

If you have questions, please contact Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu) or Nadine Kincaid (nkincaid@georgefox.edu).

Thanks for your attention to this matter, and please enter the requested information into MyGFU today!

A national juried art exhibition, “Expressions of Faith,” opens in the university’s Minthorne Gallery with a reception and artist talk on Thursday, Nov. 10.

The exhibit will feature pieces by artists including Susan Black, David Blow, Martha Chetelain, Kerri Jones, Angela D. Lee and others. It opens with a talk at 4:10 p.m. in Hoover 105 and a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. in the gallery.  The show runs through Dec. 8.

To learn more, contact Cheri Hampton at ext. 2619 or champton@georgefox.edu.

The lost and found tables will be set up on Wednesday, Nov. 9, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Bruin Den. Please stop by to see if your lost item is there. All items not reunited with their owners will be donated to charitable causes after the tables are finished.

Join us in welcoming Laurel Bunker, campus pastor at Bethel University, as she shares in chapel this morning (Monday). See you in Bauman Auditorium at 10:40 a.m.

Tonight (Monday) Kristina Kays (Psychology) and Michael MacLeod (Political Science) will offer strategies from their fields about promoting real change in regards to countering compassion fatigue and consumer apathy as we interact with the majority world.

Join us from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105. The presentation, entitled “So You Want to Change the World,” is the latest installment of the university’s Liberal Arts and Critical Issues program.

All are welcome. For more information, contact Caitlin Corning at ext. 2673 or ccorning@georgefox.edu.

On Monday, Nov. 21, the 180 seniors in the Liberal Arts and Critical Issues program will present their research projects from noon to 4 p.m. in EHS and Hoover. For this event, we need approximately 23 judges to help evaluate their projects.

Faculty, staff and administrators are all welcome. Each judge will look at five projects and fill out an evaluation form. This should take no more than an hour. We offer a small gift and our appreciation for your help. Judges can come any time between noon and 4 p.m.

If you are interested in helping out, please contact Caitlin Corning at ext. 2673 or ccorning@georgefox.edu.

As calendar year-end approaches, we encourage support staff and administrators to check their vacation balances. Employees are allowed to carry up to one year of vacation accrual into the new calendar year.

To determine your accrual rates and how much you may need to use by Dec. 31, HR has prepared a chart and instructions for both support staff and administrators to be used along with the information on your Oct. 31 pay statement. Links to both can be found on the HR site.

They also provide useful information about the balances on your monthly pay statements. If you have any questions after you have reviewed your vacation balance, please contact HR for assistance.

Mail Services is an unofficial drop site for all Oregon ballots. Arrangements have been made with the Yamhill County Elections Office for us to offer this service. 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, Nov. 8. All out-of-state ballots must be mailed with postage.

Thanks!
– University Mail Services

The Staff Development Committee would like to thank all staff for attending the Fall Staff Conference. We enjoyed hearing from speakers Bill Buhrow, Anna Berardi and Ed Gierok. We would also like to thank NAPA Auto Parts, Ruth Bryant, LMT and Doran Automotive for graciously donating prizes for our prize drawing.

Please go to this page to see photos from the great day which was had by all!

Friday, Nov. 4, noon – Women’s soccer vs. Pacific Lutheran, Austin Sports Complex
Friday, Nov. 4, 7 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Puget Sound, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the sports web site at gfubruins.com.

The university community is invited to two concerts on campus Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4-5.

‘An Evening of Jazz’ Concert
On Friday, jazz trumpeter and vocalist Byron Stripling will perform with the university’s Jazz Ensemble and a faculty trio at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. All employees and students are entitled to one complimentary ticket, which covers admission for up to four people. Tickets are available for pick-up at the Information Center on the first floor of the Stevens Center.

Family Weekend Concert
On Saturday, the university’s Family Weekend fall concert is scheduled at 4 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. Admission is free. The event will feature performances by the university’s Women’s Chorale, String Ensemble, Men’s Ensemble, Concert Choir and Symphonic Band.

For more information about either concert, contact Debbie Hawblitzel in the Department of Performing Arts at ext. 2620.

We still have Entertainment® 2012 Books available. These make great gifts at the discounted employee price of $20. Enjoy $30 in bonus savings cards with each edition.

Choose your book – either Portland or Greater Oregon– and purchase it at the Information Desk in the Stevens Center (or contact Barbi Doran to send one to you).

A Muslim perspective on the role of faith in identity formation will be the topic of a George Fox Evangelical Seminary seminar next Friday, Nov. 11, at the  Portland Center. The session runs from 9 a.m. to noon in Room 155.

Maria Ebrahimji, executive editorial producer for CNN and the director of CNN’s booking department, will share her perspective as a Muslim woman working for a major news agency in the United States. Joining her are three Muslim women who live in Oregon: Fatemeh Fakhraie, Muna Idow and Manar Alattar. Together, they will present three sessions: “Personal Faith Journeys” (9 a.m.), “Perceptions of People of Faith” (10 a.m.) and “Faith and Conversion” (11 a.m.).

The event, titled “Who Am I? Who Are You? A Muslim Perspective on the Role of Faith in Identity Formation,” is the latest installment of the seminary’s Ministry in Contemporary Culture Seminar series and seeks to find shared experiences between the Christian and Muslim faiths. The cost is $20 for alumni, students and staff. An optional lunch will be made available for $10 per person.

To learn more about the event or to register, visit seminars.georgefox.edu.

All women employees – faculty, administrators and staff – are welcome to a brown-bag lunch with special guest Peggy Fowler from noon to 1:15 p.m. (PST) Thursday, Nov. 17, in the Cap and Gown Room on the Newberg campus. For those at other university sites, the event will be live-streamed at this site (http://stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp).

Fowler retired from Portland General Electric as CEO and president on March 1, 2009. She remains on the board of directors and is on the finance committee. Peggy has 35 years of experience in the utility business and, in that time, has managed almost every major area of the company. She earned bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and mathematics from George Fox.

Peggy resides in Tigard with her husband, Bob. Together, they have raised two sons. She enjoys outdoor activities, including golf and skiing, and currently serves on several boards, including the President’s Advisory Council at George Fox.

Please don’t miss this opportunity to hear from a significant woman leader as she shares her leadership journey with the women of George Fox.

The Women’s Leadership Development committee invites all women employees to join us for this event as we continue exploring leadership development. For those who attend in person, please bring your own lunch.

Don’t forget to drop by the George Fox Auxiliary’s annual holiday bazaar Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4-5. The event will feature more than 30 artisans selling jewelry, art, crafts, plants and food.

The main bazaar will be in the Ron Gregory Atrium between Wood-Mar Hall and the Edwards-Holman Science Center on Friday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Additional vendors will be in the Hoover Academic Building atrium during the same times. Admission is free.

For more information, contact Danya Ochsner at 503-537-8369 or Janet Lyda at 503-538-3032.

Have students who struggle with grammar, punctuation and/or spelling errors? Encourage them to attend an Academic Resource Center-sponsored workshop with Bill Jolliff (English) today (Friday) at 10:40 a.m. in EHS 125.

Bill will identify the 10 errors that professors are most likely to mark on student work, and he’ll demonstrate how to fix them.

If you would like to nominate a colleague for November Employee of the Month, please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by 10 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 7. As always, please provide a summary of this person’s contributions and/or outstanding performance in the past 30 days or so.

The winner will be announced and presented with a $100 gift card to The Allison at our community meeting on Thursday, Dec. 1.

The English Department is offering a technical writing course for the first time this spring. WRIT 240 will introduce students to the forms and styles of writing and reporting used in business, professional and research organizations.

The course will be taught by Gary Tandy, professor of English, who has 15 years of experience teaching similar courses and more than 10 years of experience as a technical writer. Contact Gary at gtandy@georgefox.edu if you have questions about the class.

Staff and faculty: Please bring all “found” items to the security office by Tuesday, Nov. 8, as we will be doing the lost and found tables in the Bruin Den on Wednesday, Nov. 9, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. All unclaimed items will be donated to charitable causes immediately following.

Thanks!

As part of our diversity education workshop series this year, we will be offering the following workshop on Thursday, Nov. 10, from 3 to 5 p.m. in Stevens 209: “The Biblical Basis for Diversity.”

If you are interested in attending, please e-mail Abby Burgess (aburgess@georgefox.edu) in student life. Space is limited, so please respond by 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 7.