Saturday, Jan. 22, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Linfield
Saturday, Jan. 22, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Linfield
Tuesday, Jan. 25, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Willamette
Tuesday, Jan. 25, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Willamette
All games take place in Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym.
For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the sports website at gfubruins.com.
FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 7 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, Feb. 1, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Come see the university theatre department’s winter play, Doubt, by John Patrick Shanley. Performances are Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 3-5, and Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 10-12, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 6, at 2 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium.
All George Fox employees receive one complimentary ticket. Students will be admitted free on both Thursdays. Your complimentary ticket is only available at the Box Office in the Bruin Bookstore. Additional tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for alumni and seniors, and $6 for students and children under 12. To purchase tickets or read a synopsis of the play, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.
Tickets for this Friday’s Oregon Symphony concert are still being requested! If you have had a change of plans and will be unable to use your two tickets, please return them to Barbi Doran (ext. 2099) because several George Fox employees still hope to attend!
Faculty are invited to attend a Lunch and Learn session entitled “POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning); a Strategy for Teaching and Learning,” with Michael Everest (Chemistry) on Wednesday, Jan. 26. Join us from noon to 1 p.m. in Cap and Gown A.
POGIL is a learner-centered strategy that uses guided inquiry to lead students to construct new knowledge. It develops process skills such as critical thinking, problem solving and communication through collaborative learning.
Please R.S.V.P. to Karen Buchanan for this event.
Science Outreach Program classes will begin the week of Jan. 31 and end the week of March 14 (seven weeks). These are classes planned, primarily, for home school students and are taught by upper-class George Fox science students. Click this link for a list of classes being offered.
For additional information, please contact Jana Kaye at jkaye03@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2728.
If you are a benefits-eligible employee and there is any possibility that you will use tuition remission during the 2011-12 academic year (fall, spring and/or summer semesters), whether for yourself, a spouse, and/or dependent(s), a Tuition Remission Request Form for each person needs to be submitted no later than Tuesday, Feb. 1 – one month earlier than in previous years.
Please go to this document for instructions on completing the form(s). Links to the forms themselves are contained in the instructions document. It is important to read this information before completing a form.
Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by this Friday, Jan. 21, if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for January Employee of the Month. Your e-mail should include a concise but specific summary of this person’s contributions to the university, its students, and/or its employees in the past 30 days or so, and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.
The winner will be announced at the community meeting in Bauman Auditorium next Wednesday, Jan. 26, and will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.
The engineering department will host a research seminar presented by Dr. Karl Olsen, clinical assistant professor of engineering at Washington State University, from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20, in EHS 102. All are welcome.
Olsen’s presentation is entitled “Ultrasonic Detection of Simulated Corrosion in 1-Inch Diameter Steel Tieback Rods.” The research presented investigates the use of pulse-echo ultrasonic techniques to identify simulated corrosion in steel rods. The primary objective was to quantify loss of cross section due to corrosion of steel tieback rods in earth retention systems.
Contact Kristin Bontrager at kbontrager@georgefox.edu or ext. 2780 for more information.
An all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 26, in Bauman Auditorium (please note the location change).
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at this site. A chat room has also been set up, and a video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.
This month’s Multicultural Student Programs-sponsored Coffee & Culture event will highlight international students and other student voices. Come join us for coffee, treats and hearing students’ perspectives.
We’ll meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20, in the International Center/Cultural House, located across from the Pennington parking lot.
The university community is invited to an MLK chapel with Pastor Emmett Wheatfall, a poet, author and member of the external diversity committee. He will be doing a rendition of the “I Have a Dream” speech. In addition, come worship with us and hear student voices on what Martin Luther King Jr. stood for and how it plays out in their own lives.
Join us Wednesday, Jan. 19, from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium.
If you’re like most youth mentors, close to half of your graduating seniors pick up their diplomas and ditch their faith. Why is that? For those graduates who remain connected to Jesus, what is it that makes the difference? And how can we be made aware of the ways we may be subtly sabotaging our students’ faith, despite our best intentions?
Kaleo 2011, scheduled on the Newberg campus Saturday, Feb. 26, will take a deep look at ongoing research conducted by the Fuller Youth Institute on students just like yours. Kara Powell and Jon Furman will provide practical ways to keep students of all ages and grades engaged in your ministry, and more importantly their faith, so that they build faith that sticks.
To learn more about the speakers, schedule, cost or registration information, visit kaleo.georgefox.edu.
Volunteer to help throughout the day and receive a discount on your registration fee and a free Kaleo T-shirt! If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Amy Lorenz at alorenz@georgefox.edu or ext. 2134.
Peter Greer, president of the nonprofit relief agency HOPE International, will present a free public lecture from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20, in Hoover 105.
HOPE International focuses on alleviating physical and spiritual poverty in countries such as Haiti, Afghanistan and DR Congo. In addition to serving as president, Greer is the founder of the HOPE Global Investment Fund, a microfinance investment fund that targets underserved regions of the world.
Greer is the coauthor, with Phil Smith, of The Poor Will Be Glad. The book, one of the first of its kind, delineates a Christian approach to microfinance as a means of fighting global poverty.
Questions? Contact Melanie Newell at mnewell@georgefox.edu or ext. 2686.
Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian-American scholar and social entrepreneur, will present a free lecture, “Insisting on Life: Martyrdom and Fair Trade in Palestine,” on campus Wednesday, Jan. 19. A guest of the university’s Center for Peace and Justice, Abufarha will speak from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.
Abufarha is the founder of the Palestine Fair Trade Association and Canaan Fair Trade, which is bringing Palestinian olive oil and other traditional foods to mainstream American and European markets, while also improving economic conditions for more than 1,700 farmers in the West Bank.
He is also the author of The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance, a book that explains how geographic separation of Palestinians and mimetic actions to Israeli state repression will continue to be a source of violence until Palestinians can experience actual rootedness in their land and start to explore alternative exchanges between themselves and Israelis.
Questions? Contact Melanie Newell at mnewell@georgefox.edu or ext. 2686.
Are some of your students struggling with tests? Please encourage them to attend an Academic Resource Center workshop, “How to Get A’s on All Your Tests (or at Least Become a Better Test-Taker),” this Friday, Jan. 21, at 10:40 a.m. in Lemmons 8.
Rick Muthiah, dean of learning support services, will cover several strategies for improving performance on tests. Students will be asked to sign in so their attendance can be verified for any professors who are giving credit for participation. Videos and materials from selected ARC workshops are available on the ARC website (arc.georgefox.edu).
Questions? Contact Muthiah at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu or ext. 2314.
Business and marketing consultant Griff Lindell of Woodburn will speak on “Five Tips for Business Survival – A Biblical Perspective,” at the Tuesday, Jan. 25, Yamhill County Breakfast for the Christian Chamber of Commerce of the Northwest. The breakfast is from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Villa Academic Complex.
For more than 25 years, Lindell has served as a senior level marketing strategist and leader to established, reorganizing and emerging companies. He has also been an owner and/or founder of several small companies, including publishing, home improvement, computer retail sales, software development, and consulting services. He has developed a unique process to assist a business executive team in articulating their purpose, goals, core values and strategy. To learn more about Lindell, visit lindellassociates.net.
Cost for the full catered breakfast is free for newly renewed Chamber members who R.S.V.P. at ccnw.net, $8 for non-members and guests who R.S.V.P., $8 at the door for members who don’t R.S.V.P., and $10 at the door for guests who don’t R.S.V.P.
Based in Portland, the Christian Chamber of Commerce of the Northwest offers eight monthly networking opportunities throughout the region. For more information, go to the Chamber’s website, cccnw.net, or call 503-928-8354.
Due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday, Jan. 17, both the Villa Cafe and Bruin Den will be closed that day. They will resume their normal hours on Tuesday.
The hours of service in Klages for students on meal plans will also change slightly this weekend. Please note the following changes:
Saturday & Sunday
Breakfast: 8-10 a.m.
Brunch: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Dinner: 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Monday
Breakfast: 8-10 a.m.
Lunch: 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Dinner: 4:30-7 p.m.
A senior capstone class is offering students the option of ordering late-night snacks that can be delivered to dorm rooms. Banana Bob’s hosts its grand opening at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 18, in the Bruin Den.
The business offers:
Snacks can be ordered on Facebook (facebook.com/bananabobs). It’s open Monday through Thursday 8 p.m. to midnight.
Please tell your students about us!
No tickets remain for the Oregon Symphony Orchestra concert hosted by Austin Industries and George Fox University on Jan. 21. This means that additional tickets requested by employees who picked up their original two tickets will not be available. Employees who have not picked up their original two tickets will be put on a waiting list to receive returned tickets.
If you have tickets but find you will not be able to use them, please return them to Barbi Doran at the main switchboard through Jan. 20. If they become available at the last minute and are being held under your name, they can be collected from Sheri Philips in Bauman Auditorium after 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 21.
