If you are looking for a George Fox student to rent a room in your home you might consider one of our new international students. Â Some of our new international students, who will be enrolling in the full-time MBA program or American Culture and Language Courses, will need to find housing off-campus.. Please email Alex Pia or Dianna McIntyre if you would like one these new students to contact you.
Please join us Monday (Aug. 8 ) at 11 a.m. in Hoover 105 for an informational meeting about Welcome Weekend (formally called Orientation). Â We will go over changes to the schedule this year and answer any questions you may have. Â Hope to see you there.
Wood-Mar Hall and EHS will have limited access during the week of August 8-12 due to extensive work on the fire alarm system. Card access only will be available through the west (parking lot) doors of Wood-Mar Hall between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.. If you need to enter these buildings, you must sign in and out at the Academic Affairs Office and indicate the room(s) where you will be working.
Please call ext. 2140 if you need to access the building and do not have card access.
Please join us for an informational meeting about Welcome Weekend (formally called New Student Orientation) on Monday, Aug. 8 at 11 a.m. in Hoover 105. Â The purpose of the meeting is to update everyone on changes to the schedule this year and to answer any questions you may have. Â Hope to see you there!
Contact Stephanie St. Cyr for more infomation.
We are already a few days into August, so please think about a colleague that would be deserving of this month’s Employee of the Month award.  Please submit your nomination by Monday, August 15, via email to Peggy Kilburg. It should be a summary of this person’s recent contributions (past 30 days or so) — what was done, who was impacted, etc. — and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.
The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient from the nominations submitted, and the winner, along with July’s recipient, will be honored and presented with a $100 gift card to The Allison at our all employee/community meeting on Friday morning, August 19.
FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, Aug. 16, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.
The West Coast Christian Conference will bring more than 1,200 guests to the Newberg campus this week. Â Conference guests will represent several west coast Chinese-American Churches and international locations. Â They will use a majority of the campus for meetings.
A rare Ethiopian manuscript of the four Gospels belonging to Queen/Empress Zewditu (1916-1930) is on special display at the Murdock Learning Resource Center from Aug. 1-18. Â The hours for the library are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Â After this display, the manuscript will be returned to Ethiopia.
The Wheeler/Le Shana Parking lots will be closed for resurfacing the week of Aug. 8-12. The Wheeler service road will also be closed for part of this time for patching.
Plant Services thanks you for your patience in advance as we complete these projects.
In the coming weeks IT will be making changes to security settings on Windows workstations. These changes are designed to provide better protection from malicious attacks. These changes should be transparent for Windows XP users. With Windows 7, users may now see notifications when important system resources are accessed.
Please contact the IT Service Desk if you have questions.
IT will begin pushing out an update to Windows 7 on Wednesday, August 3. You will be prompted to reboot your computer when the update has installed successfully. If you are not running Windows 7 this update will have no impact on you.
Please contact the IT Service Desk if you have any questions about this.
Villa Cafe will be closing on Aug. 1 and will reopen on Aug. 29.
Thanks for a great summer. We will see you fall semester.
The Bruin Den will be closed for two weeks starting Monday, Aug. 1, and will reopen on Monday, Aug. 15 with summer hours (8 a.m.-2 p.m.)
The Staff Development Committee invites you to join us for our kickoff event of “Let’s Learn Together” on Tuesday, Aug. 2 from 12-1 p.m. on the Newberg campus in Stevens 307 and at the Portland Center in room 155. We have an IT specialist teaching Excel tips, tricks, and shortcuts.
Space is limited so please click here (https://spreadsheets.google.
The 2011-12 parking brochure is now available on the George Fox University website. Check it out here:
http://www.georgefox.edu/
A copy will also be included with your parking permit.
Security Services now has a Facebook page, so “like” the page to stay apprised of important information about parking, personal safety, timely notices, articles, videos, and some fun contests.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/George-Fox-University-Security-Services/211123705601566
In October of 2010 the Provost’s Council approved a set of assumptions by which semester start and end dates will be consistently set, effective fall 2011. Â These calendar assumptions are as follows:
Semester Start and End Dates
Mid-Year Commencement – on the Saturday on or between December 15-21
End of Fall Semester – Friday preceding Mid-Year Commencement
Start of Fall Semester – Monday 16 weeks prior to the End of Fall Semester (may be Labor Day)
Start of Spring Semester – Second Monday in January
End of Spring Semester – Friday 16 weeks following Start of Spring Semester
Start of Summer Semester/May Term – Monday following End of Spring Semester
End of May Term – Friday three weeks after start of May Term
End of Summer Semester – Friday 16 weeks following Start of Summer Semester
Spring Break Dates are scheduled as follows:
Oregon – Week that ends with the last Friday in March
Idaho – Week that begins with the last Monday in March
5 Year Semester Dates Based on the Above Assumptions:
2011-12
Fall Semester: 8/29/2011 – 12/16/2011
Spring Semester: 1/9/2012 – 4/27/2012
Summer Semester: 4/30/2012 – 8/17/2012
2012-13
Fall Semester: 8/27/2012 – 12/14/2012
Spring Semester: 1/14/2013 – 5/3/2013
Summer Semester: 5/6/2013 – 8/23/2013
2013-14
Fall Semester: 9/2/2013 – 12/20/2013
Spring Semester: 1/13/2014 – 5/2/2014
Summer Semester: 5/5/2014 – 8/22/2014
2014-15
Fall Semester: 9/1/2014 – 12/19/2014
Spring Semester: 1/12/2015 – 5/1/2015
Summer Semester: 5/4/2015 – 8/21/2015
2015-16
Fall Semester: 8/31/2015 – 12/18/2015
Spring Semester: 1/11/2016 – 4/29/2016
Summer Semester: 5/2/2016 – 8/19/2016
Provided by Melissa Thomas, Registrar
Plant Services will be having a sale on surplus items from campus. Items for sale will include furniture, binders, office supplies, etc. The sale will be held at Plant Services on Friday, Aug. 5 from 8 a.m. to noon.  More details coming soon.
Contact: Debby O’Kelley, dokelley@georgefox.edu
Starting Aug. 1, women faculty and staff will have the opportunity to apply for participation in the 2011-12 Women’s Leadership Development Institute cohort that will commence at a retreat planned for Sept. 29-30. Applications will be available at this link. Please return all applications to Campus Box #6255 by Sept. 1. Sheri Philips will continue to give leadership to the program.
The university’s first Women’s Leadership Development cohort concluded at a celebration for the program mentors and mentees in May. After attending the kick-off retreat in October, each cohort mentee met monthly with her mentor from October to May and attended five required leadership skills sessions.
Cohort mentees read several texts during the program and shared their learning on a WLDI Foxtale site. Mentees last year included Melissa Terry, Kathy Weiss, Audrey Williamson, Shelley Yonemura, Sondra Creason, Angela Wilson Henry and Brenda Burg.
Even though only a limited number can be accepted, please feel encouraged to apply.
The university is expecting approximately 30 to 40 new international students this fall. They will be arriving on Aug. 19 to begin the international student orientation.
Rather than house these students in empty dorm rooms during their orientation, we are looking for about 15 to 20 families who would be willing to have up to two international students stay in their home the nights of Aug. 19-25 (students would be free to be with the families the entire weekend of Aug. 19-21).
Families are asked to provide breakfast and dinner. Lunch will be provided on campus during orientation. We also ask families to provide transportation to George Fox between 8 and 8:30 a.m. and pick students up at approximately 5 p.m. Host families will receive a stipend to help defray some of the costs of meals and transportation.
If you are interested in serving as a host family, please contact Dianna McIntyre (dmcintyre@georgefox.edu) or Alex Pia (apia@georgefox.edu). If you know of others who might be interested, please let us know so we may contact them.
Thank you for your willingness to consider this opportunity.
All “Art Advantage” brand art supplies are marked down 40 to 70 percent off retail pricing in the Bruin Bookstore. Lots of selection!
The store is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Questions? Contact John Stewart at jstewart@georgefox.edu.
