Payment for spring semester is due on the first day of class, Jan. 9. Save time and hassle by paying online!
Visit this web page to find out how to maximize your online payment options including creating guest permissions for those who help pay your bill.
All traditional undergraduate students who are planning to return the next academic year (fall 2012-spring 2013) are invited to apply for donor-funded scholarships.
Students: To apply, sign-in to your MyGFU account by going to mygfu.georgefox.edu. On your portal front page in the “Student Resources” box, click on “2012 Newberg UG Scholarships.” This will take you to the Scholarship Manager sign-in page. Use your MyGFU username and password to sign in. On the welcome page, click on “Returning Student Donor Funded Scholarship Application” under the heading of Current George Fox Students. In the application, read the “Scholarship Manager Introduction” and “Application Instructions” carefully.
Scholarship Manager will automatically close on Friday, Feb. 17, at 5 p.m. (no exceptions).
Our first spring aid disbursement to accounts is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 2. Please take note of the following:
Three reasons your financial aid disbursement could be delayed:
All university offices will be closed on Friday, Dec. 23, as well as Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 26-27, to observe the Christmas holiday.
The Newberg and Portland campuses have adopted a new tobacco-free campus policy beginning Jan. 1, 2012. While tobacco use by traditional undergraduate students and employees has already not been allowed (on or off campus), guests have been permitted to smoke outside buildings on university property. The new policy prohibits smoking and all forms of tobacco use everywhere on-campus by any person.
For more information and FAQs, please see this Tobacco-Free web page or contact Mark Pothoff (Student Life) at ext. 2313 or mpothoff@georgefox.edu.
Looking for student employment? Want a fun, resume-building job? Are you an outgoing person who loves talking with others? Look no further! We have a job for you!
The Telephone Outreach Team is looking for three new team members to join us starting in February. Telephone Outreach Team Members serve as an ambassador of George Fox by establishing and maintaining a connection to the university with its constituents (alumni, parents and friends of George Fox).
We are located in Coyote Place, located one mile off campus, so reliable transportation rain or shine is required! Apply through Bruin Careers and look for position ID #457: Telephone Outreach Team member.
EXTENDED deadline to apply is Monday, Jan. 9.
If you have any questions, please contact Mandria Montplaisir, director of annual giving, at mmontplaisir@georgefox.edu.
Scholarship Manager-the 2012-13 George Fox donor-funded scholarship application site is now open! Start your application today to be considered for a 2012-13 donor-funded scholarship. The deadline is Feb. 17Â at 5 p.m.
Go to MyGFU > Under Student Resources, click on “2012 Newberg UG Scholarships” > on the welcome page under the “Current George Fox Students” heading, click on “Returning Student Donor Funded Scholarship Application” to get started.
Just a reminder that the Bruin Den and Villa Cafe will be closed starting Monday, Dec. 19, for Christmas break.
The Bruin Den will reopen Jan. 3-6 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will resume normal hours on Jan. 9. The Villa Cafe will also reopen on Monday, Jan. 9.
We want to thank the entire George Fox community for a wonderful year, and we wish you all a very special and blessed Christmas as you celebrate this season with family and friends.
– Bon Appetit staff
Please return your mailbox key by 5:00 today – Friday, Dec. 16, – to avoid a $15.00 fine for a non-returned mailbox key.
Also, be sure Mail Services has your forwarding address.
If you have questions, please email Linda at lsartwel@georgefox.edu
Thanks!
Please retrurn your mailbox key by 5:00 today – Friday Dec. 16– to avoid a $15.00 key fine for a non-returned key.
When you come back to GFU, you will be issued a new campus mailbox.
If you have questions, please email Linda at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.
Thanks!
Incoming packages, including textbooks, that come to Mail Services during the Christmas break will be kept for you at Mail Services. Â Your letter mail will be put into your campus mailbox. Â Thanks! Â Mail Services
More than 200 students will receive undergraduate and graduate diplomas at the university’s midyear commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 17, in the Wheeler Sports Center. Seating begins at 1 p.m., and the ceremony will start at 2 p.m.
Tickets are not required; however, seating is limited to 10 guests per graduate. At 1:45 p.m., a live broadcast of the ceremony will be available to watch at this link.
Chris Skaggs, who graduated from George Fox with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1999, will serve as commencement speaker. He is a 12-year veteran of the Web and mobile software industry and founder of Soma Games, a video gaming company with a Christian worldview.
On-campus students: If you are flying home for Christmas break, and not driving, you will need to leave your car keys with security so we can move your car in case of emergency, or for any work done on the parking lots. We will tell you where to park, and will keep your keys in our safe.
If it is after office hours, please call ext. 2090 to arrange a time with the officer on duty to leave your car keys.
Please remove ALL valuables from your vehicle, but also remember that GFU is NOT responsible for any items left in your vehicle, or for your vehicle.
Students: Please come to the security office to check for your missing items before you leave for Christmas break! Any items not reunited with their owners will be donated to charitable causes before the spring semester starts!
Looking for student employment? Want a fun resumé-building job? Are you an outgoing person who loves talking with others? Look no further! We have a job for you!
The Telephone Outreach Team is looking for three new team members to join us starting in February. Telephone Outreach Team members serve as ambassadors of George Fox by establishing and maintaining a connection to the university with its constituents (alumni, parents and friends of George Fox).
We are located in Coyote Place, which is one mile off campus, and reliable transportation rain or shine is required!
Apply through Bruin Careers and look for position ID #457: Telephone Outreach Team member. EXTENDED deadline to apply is Jan. 9.
If you have any questions, please contact Mandria Montplaisir, director of annual giving, at mmontplaisir@georgefox.edu.
Staff and students: Here is a list of helpful links to check road conditions before you start out on that trip home or to visit friends and relatives for Christmas:
Security Services wishes you a safe trip and a wonderful Christmas break!
Just a reminder … The Bruin Bookstore’s web address has changed. You can find us online at gfubookstore.com.
Still need a ride to the PDX airport, bus or train station?
Last call for students looking for a ride to/from GFU over Christmas break. Â The transportation connect will close at the end of the day today, Thursday December 15.
For info about getting a ride, please go here: Â For more info go here.
Friday is the last chance to submit your best photos for our contest. Enter our senior business capstone photo contest and help support a great cause!
Cards of Hope is being organized to create photo greeting cards to support The Garden of Hope, which works to protect vulnerable and at-risk children and teenage women from abuse and exploitation in Thailand. You can help Cards of Hope by sending in your best picture of places, nature and local landmarks.
The best submission will receive a grand prize of $30 cash!
How to Enter
Each entry consists of a single image and the required information: your name, telephone number, e-mail address and photo location. There is a limit of six entries per person. Photographs must be in digital JPEG or JPG format. E-mail your entry to cardsofhopegfu@gmail.com.
All rights to use of the photo are waived with submission for the contest and a chance at the prize. See terms and details in the information section of our Facebook page.
Questions? Contact Hilary Sarjent at cardsofhopegfu@gmail.com.
A group of students are collaborating with the university’s Center for Peace and Justice and Center for Global Studies to run a book drive in partnership with Better World Books to raise money for Invisible Children, an organization dedicated to bettering the lives of children in Central Africa through advocacy and education.
The book drive has begun and ends this Friday, Dec. 16. Books can be dropped in one of four donation bins on campus: in the Stevens Center lobby, Bruin Den, EHS Atrium and outside the bookstore.
The Rationale
Through this book drive, unwanted books become the means to rebuild
 schools and provide scholarships to students in northern Uganda.
On college campuses,
 many
 thousands of
 amazing
 books are
 thrown out every year at the end of the semester. Because books
 change edition
s so frequently, there are always many books that the bookstore buys
 back for pennies, or
 not at all. These are the books we want you to donate. Some
 of you will
 even
 donate books
 you can sell back because
 you want to support the
 cause.
Which Books to Donate
Textbooks are
 the
 best
, but
 any book
 coming from our campus will
 do, including everything from classical
 fiction to a
 book on microwave
 cooking.
Students, staff, faculty and administrators: Don’t hesitate to donate as many books as you can. If they can’t be sold by Better World Books, at least they will be recycled instead of filling landfills.
If you have specific questions about which books qualify, please e-mail Melanie Newell at mnewell@georgefox.edu or visit this link.
