The staff Christmas lunch is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 6, at noon in the Cap and Gown Room. Please join your co-workers for a traditional Christmas meal and carols sang by Bob Gilmore.
Cost is $3 and we will have a drawing for door prizes (must be present to win).
The Crescent is looking for talented comic artists to feature in our newspaper. If you have a creative comic and would like to share it, please send it to kkiser09@georgefox.edu or solson08@georgefox.edu.
We would love to showcase the artistic talent of George Fox community members.
Join us for textbook buyback Monday through Friday, Dec. 13-17, in the SUB outside the Bruin Bookstore. We’ll be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
Adjuncts: Your parking permits are due to expire on Dec. 31, so if you will be on contract for any/all of 2011, you will need a new permit. Please bring your current permit to Security Services during business hours so we can exchange it for a 2011 permit and update your vehicle information.
Thanks,
– Security Services
The university community is invited to a farewell reception in honor of Reid Kisling (Registrar) from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 17, in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium. Reid has accepted the position of senior pastor at Grace Baptist Church in Newberg and will be leaving the university Dec. 31 after five years of service.
Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Operation Christmas Child. Students, employees and volunteers from Newberg Friends Church packed 1,070 shoe boxes!
Following are campus competition winners:
Your RA has more info about your prize party. Thanks again, and please pray for the children who will receive the boxes!
– Jessi Fink
Come join us in chapel Wednesday, Dec. 1, to hear from Ed Higgins (English) in the Last Lecture Series. We look forward to worshiping with you!
Come find out about our International Justice Mission chapter and what we’re doing to combat sex-trafficking on both a global and local scale. Two major focuses of the chapter are prayer and getting involved in the community.
You’re invited to learn more at our next meeting, scheduled at 8:50 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 1, in the Le Shana Residence Hall lobby. Please come and see how you can get involved as well!
Questions? Contact Amy McDonald at amcdonald07@georgefox.edu.
Do you have a colleague deserving of the December Employee of the Month award? If so, please take a few minutes to submit a nomination that includes a specific summary of the person’s recent contributions (past 30 days or so) and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.
Please submit your nomination via e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Monday, Dec. 13. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient from the nominations submitted. This award and a $100 gift card to The Allison will be presented at our community meeting on Thursday, Dec. 16.
Students needing a one- or two-credit class this spring should consider enrolling in WRIT 103, Individualized English Skills. This flexible course allows students to spend one or two hours per week sharpening their writing, grammar, punctuation and editing skills.
Faculty members, please let your students know about this opportunity. Questions? Contact Gary Tandy at gtandy@georgefox.edu.
As part of the “Free the 43” advocacy week, petition letters to President Aquino and Senators Wyden and Merkley have been drawn up and are posted and ready to be signed at the Center for Peace and Justice.
These petitions will be circulating through campus this week, so if you’ve already signed once, you don’t need to sign again. There are three letters to sign. They will be mailed on Friday.
We hope you’ll participate in calling for the release of our 43 Filipino brothers and sisters who were illegally arrested in February. Questions? Contact Melanie Newell (Center for Peace and Justice) at mnewell@georgefox.edu.
The work of graduating art majors will be on display Thursday, Dec. 2, through Saturday, Dec. 18, in Minthorne Gallery.
The exhibit will open with a gallery reception at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. Fine art by Leah Banick will be displayed, and she will present an artist talk at 6 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
At 7 p.m., art majors Seth Terpstra and Kelsey Budeau will present portfolios of graphic design in Hoover 105.
Winter Serve is coming up fast! The Twin Rocks team is still in need of a leader. We have been trying to find an employee who would be willing to serve as the faculty leader for the trip. It is from Jan. 2-7. Please contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Thanks,
Shawnte Stoecker (sstoecker07@georgefox.edu)
If you’re thinking about teaching English abroad or in a community program, don’t miss this opportunity to learn the basics. Enroll in COMM 350, Introduction to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), to be offered in the spring of 2011. (The next time it will be offered is spring of 2013.)
The class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:45 to 4 p.m. It can be taken on its own or as part of the TESOL minor.
Advisors, please let interested students know about this opportunity. For further information, contact Martha Iancu at miancu@georgefox.edu.
Student supervisors: Pay day for student employees is Wednesday, Dec. 15. For us to meet this deadline, we need your students’ October time sheets by 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3.
Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Please total them. Also, don’t forget to sign them and be sure the students did as well. Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets.
Thanks so much for helping us get our students paid in a timely manner!
– HR
The Health and Counseling Center has free doses of Gardasil vaccine for women ages 18-26. This vaccine helps prevent HPV infection and cervical cancer. It is usually $145 per dose and is a series of three shots over six months.
Please call the Health and Counseling Center at 503-554-2340 if you would like to schedule an appointment. You can find out more information about this in the November issue of Student Health 101.
We are having our last flu shot clinic for the year on Thursday, Dec. 2. The cost is $15, but if you have the GFU student insurance it is only $1.50! It’s still free for employees with Regence.
There are only 50 doses left, so give us a call to schedule an appointment at 503-554-2340.
Join fellow George Fox employees (halftime and over) and their spouses (no children, please) for an evening of Christmas festivities on Saturday, Dec. 11.
The evening includes:
Questions? Contact Evangeline at ext. 2121 or epattison@georgefox.edu.
May 2012 course proposals for the Cross-cultural Study (Serve and Learning in Community) and Cross-cultural Experiences (Juniors Abroad) programs are due soon. These are undergraduate courses, thus this is primarily for full-time undergraduate faculty; however, exceptions have been made for graduate faculty if they team up with an undergraduate faculty member.
If you are interested in participating in either of these course offerings and have not yet done so, we would like to invite you to an information meeting from 11:40 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 1, in the Executive Dinning Room. Lunch will be provided. R.S.V.P. to Lynn Scott at lscott@georgefox.edu.
Interested in living or working overseas, but not sure how to do it? The Big Guide to Living and Working Overseas can help. Your Office of Career Services has a subscription to this great interactive website that allows you to access its abundant resources for free.
Visit careers.georgefox.edu and find the link under “News and Updates” to activate your free account. Once registered, you can network with others interested in living or working abroad, both inside and outside of George Fox, and can access numerous videos and text resources to help you prepare for your upcoming adventure.
If you have any questions, please contact Career Services at ext. 2330, via e-mail at careers@georgefox.edu, or in person at our new location on the first floor of the Stevens Center.
