Faculty: Please remind your students to write their name clearly (readable) and include their box number on all class papers. If Mail Services cannot read the name and there is no box number, the paper will not be delivered.
A student-led group invites you to participate in wear-a-hijab day Thursday, Nov. 4, as a way to show support for Muslim women in America. Help challenge the negative stereotypes attributed to Islam and felt by Muslim women who choose to wear the hijab. The event is being hosted by the Islam and the West student research group.
Headscarves donated by the university’s Muslim Student Association can be picked up in the Bruin Den between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. A talkback session is scheduled in Hoover 103 at 6 p.m. that night. Hope to see you there!
The Center for Peace and Justice/Center for Global Studies invites all George Fox undergraduates to submit up to three poems in the spirit of William Stafford.
Three students will be selected to win $50 and guaranteed placement in a poetry anthology honoring Stafford. The submission deadline is Dec. 8.
E-mail submissions to: william.stafford.poetry@gmail.com. Questions? Contact peaceandjustice@georgefox.edu.
Please nominate a colleague that you believe is deserving of the November Employee of the Month award. Your nomination should include a concise but 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 next Friday, Nov. 12. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the recipient from the nominations submitted. Both the October and November awards will be presented at our community meeting on Monday afternoon, Nov. 15, and each will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.
Career Services’ annual BYOS/BYOP open house is this Saturday during Family Weekend. Students, this is a great opportunity to explore the resources that Career Services has to offer. Be sure to bring your parents, too!
The event will include refreshments, games, our new Career Services video, a career chat with Bonnie Jerke, director of Career Services, and demos of all of our software programs and resources. Join us from 2 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 6. Come for the whole event and enter to win prizes just for showing up!
If you have any questions or would like to find out more about Career Services, please contact us via e-mail (careers@georgefox.edu), phone (ext. 2330), our website (careers.georgefox.edu), or by dropping by our office on the first floor of the Stevens Center.
We look forward to seeing you!
If you would like help registering or selecting a professional for Professional Preview Day, a Career Services representative will be available in the Bruin Den on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 3-4, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to help you. You can also stop by the Office of Career Services on the first floor of Stevens for assistance during normal business hours. All are welcome!
If you would like to speak with a Professional Preview Day intern personally, you can set up a time with Jenny (jbruinier07@georgefox.edu) or Aimee (smitha06@georgefox.edu), stop by the table in the Bruin Den, or drop in to Career Services during our office hours (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 12:30-3:30 p.m. and Wednesday 12:30-2:30 p.m. and 3:30-5 p.m.).
Reminder: The deadline for Professional Preview Day registration is this Friday, Nov. 5. Sign up through BruinCareers to secure your spot.
They were once in your shoes, now take a step in theirs. Professional Preview Day matches you with an alumni professional in your field. These alumni were once in the place you are today and now they are successful in the professional world. Come take a look at where you can be after graduation!
Faculty, please encourage your students to sign up.
Do you know of a deserving senior who demonstrates outstanding service as a servant leader on campus or in the community? You can honor that person and the activity of voluntary service by nominating him or her for the C.W. Perry Servant Leadership Award.
Visit this link for the nomination form. Nominations are due Friday, Nov. 5.
The university community is invited to hear Rebecca Addleman, Carol Brazo and Tatiana Cevallos present their research on “Internationalizing Teacher Education.” This final Faculty Research Forum of the semester will take place this Friday, Nov. 5, at 10:40 a.m. in Hoover 105. Refreshments will be served.
All women employees – faculty, administrators and staff – are invited to a:
Brown Bag Lunch
Monday, Nov. 22
Cap and Gown Rooms, Newberg Campus
Noon – 1:15 p.m. (the event will be live-streamed for all other university sites at noon PST).
Guest speaker: Barbara Palmer
Barbara is senior vice president and market executive of U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, where she has been employed for 37 years. She has management responsibility for two offices in Portland and Vancouver. Barbara has served on the university board of trustees for 17 years and also participates on boards for Transitional Youth, United Way Campaign, Medical Teams International, and Employers for Excellence in Education.
From her wealth of experience, Barbara will share with us her leadership journey and thoughts about mentoring and being mentored.
The Women’s Leadership Development committee invites all women employees on the Newberg campus to join us for this event as we continue exploring leadership development. Please bring your own lunch to this event. Beverages and cookies will be served.
Tickets are still available for the university’s fall theatre production, Euripides’ Ion. The show is a world premiere of Paul D. Streufert’s translation of the Greek tragedy.
The show runs this Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 4-6, and the following Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 11-14, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Performances are scheduled at 7:30 p.m. each night with the exception of the Sunday, Nov. 14 show, scheduled as a 2 p.m. matinee.
All George Fox University 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.
The university’s Center for Global Studies and Center for Peace and Justice are hosting a panel Tuesday, Nov. 2, related to the panelists’ participation at the Lausanne Movement’s Third Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, South Africa, in October. Chapel credit is available for those students who attend.
Panel members include President Robin Baker, Sarita Gallagher (Religious Studies) and the university’s missional-practitioner-in-residence, David Chronic.
Join us at 7:30 p.m. in Hoover 105. A reception will follow.
For more information on the Lausanne Movement, visit lausanne.org. For more information on this event, please contact Melanie Newell at mnewell@georgefox.edu.
Plant Services will no longer deliver Christmas trees across campus. If campus departments would like trees, they need to purchase, install and decorate their own.
Offices need to file a permit with Plant Services if they use a live tree and will be expected to cooperate with Plant Services on the removal of the live trees prior to the holiday time-off. Tree decoration kits from the university’s prop house can be borrowed from and returned to the Office of University Relations (contact Evangeline Pattison ext. 2121). Permits will be available to download from the Plant Services website by Nov. 15, and must be submitted by Nov. 30.
This is a reminder that the Bruin Bookstore and textbook annex will be closed all day this Wednesday, Nov. 3, for a transitional inventory. The Box Office will continue to do ticket sales right outside the bookstore between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
The George Fox University Auxiliary will host its annual holiday bazaar and silent auction Friday and Saturday, Nov. 5-6, on campus. The bazaar will feature 20 artisans selling jewelry, art, crafts, plants and food. A silent auction is also planned.
The event is scheduled in the Ron Gregory Atrium in Wood-Mar Hall on Friday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.
Questions? Contact Janet Lyda at 503-538-3032 or Danya Ochsner at 503-537-8369.
The English department invites you to a reading by poet, novelist, and essayist Paul Willis at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, in Hoover 105.
Paul has served on the faculty at Westmont College for more than 20 years. During that time he has demonstrated a creative output nothing short of remarkable: his work ranges from fantasy novels on the lists of major New York publishers, to poetry volumes offered by literary and university presses. His poems and essays have also appeared in the most distinguished annual anthologies, including “Best Spiritual Writing” and “Best American Poetry.”
There is no charge to attend.
Questions? Contact Bill Jolliff (English) at wjolliff@georgefox.edu.
The Bruin Bookstore and textbook annex will be closed all day on Wednesday, Nov. 3, for a transitional inventory. The Box Office will continue to do ticket sales right outside the bookstore between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
I have recently lost a very special cotton-woven winter hat that I received from my uncle when he climbed Mt. Everest in Nepal. It is mainly gray with a white/blackish wave pattern in the middle and soft blue material on the inside. It has woven tails on the sides covering the ears and one on top as well. If any of you have seen or happen to have it, please return it to its rightful owner, as it is very dear and special to me.
Thank you,
Luke Giesecke (lgiesecke10@georgefox.edu)
The first Fox French Film Festival continues this Saturday with a double feature:
Both films will screen in EHS 102, with complimentary French snacks available between shows. Tickets are $3 per film, and are available at the door. The Fox French Film Festival is presented by the French and cinema programs, thanks to a grant from the French-American Cultural Exchange.
The university community is invited to the final Faculty Research Forum of the semester, to be held Friday, Nov. 5, from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. in Hoover 105. The forum will feature Rebecca Addleman, Carol Brazo and Tatiana Cevallos speaking on their research in leading MAT students through the transformative learning experience of intercultural immersion.
