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Alone and Together is a single parent support program that is being designed by several students as a business communications project. We are conducing this survey intended for single parents; please share it with single parents in your communities.

Thank you for your feedback! Contact Karena Stephens at kstephens21@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Disclaimer: These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.

This week we are exploring what we really need in our homes and in our lives. Read today’s wellness poster and find wellness in reducing the clutter and making space for well-being in your life.

Questions? Contact HR at hr@georgefox.edu.

What emotion often disrupts your life, negatively impacts those closest to you, or keeps you from experiencing intimacy in relationships? Is it paralyzing fear, red-hot anger, or deep sadness? Our emotions offer vitality for life, but we must learn to listen, feel, and befriend them.

This Friday, Feb. 18, join Michael Simmons for an online course, “Companioning Our Shadow: Emotions & Relationships.” Michael will explore practices and tools for encountering Christ in our shadow, and bring wholeness to our emotional life.

Michael is a spiritual director and retreat facilitator, and serves on the Companioning Center leadership team. He is a doctoral student at Portland Seminary, and an ordained elder in the Free Methodist Church.

The course is offered virtually via Zoom from 9 to 11 a.m. The cost is $39, and the Zoom link will be provided. You can register here.

Questions? Contact Simmons at msimmons@georgefox.edu.

Tomorrow (Wednesday), at 7 p.m. in Hoover 105, the School of Theology has the distinct pleasure of hosting what promises to be a lively and engaging conversation between George Fox professor Phil Smith and Frederick Bauerschmidt, a professor of theology at Loyola University, on the virtue of faith.

Smith and Bauerschmidt will discuss the virtue of faith – what it is and why it matters – from not just their own distinct disciplines, but also by drawing explicitly from their Quaker and Catholic perspectives, respectively.

The night will be informal and geared toward the questions and concerns of those present. We hope to see you there! Chapel credit is available for students.

Contact Sarah Taylor at taylors@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Have a February birthday? The Office of the Provost would like to wish you a very Happy Birthday!

If you have a birthday in February, please stop by the academic affairs office on the second floor of Hoover (HVR 230) on Thursday, Feb. 17, or Friday, Feb. 18, to pick up your birthday treat.

Portland Center employees may pick up their treat at the front desk.

The Portland Writing Center is seeking a new writing consultant who is enthusiastic about helping fellow graduate and degree-completion students understand the components of effective writing.

PWC consultants are current adult degree-completion and graduate students who work five to eight hours per week meeting with students in Zoom or email sessions through the Portland Writing Center. Writing consultant duties include helping students with the following:

• Thinking through ideas for a writing assignment
• Considering writing choices with regard to audience, focus, purpose, cohesion and organization
• Developing ideas with specific evidence
• Improving research strategies
• Applying proper documentation and formatting
• Understanding basic grammar and mechanics
• Academic coaching, which is helping students with school/life balance

Click here for a consultant job description, and click here for a consultant application. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

For more information, contact Hannah Jackson, Portland Writing Center director, at hjackson@georgefox.edu.

Are you an avid (or not-so-avid) gamer of board games, RPGs, etc.? Do you use games in your classroom?

If so, Paul Otto, professor of history, would like to hear from you! Paul, who can answer “yes” to both of these questions, hopes to develop a network of George Fox folks with pedagogical, hobby, professional, and/or career interests in gaming.

If you’d like to be known in this way, please contact him at potto@georgefox.edu.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently made recommendations to improve primary care, two of which were to build interprofessional care teams and community-based training programs. We at the university’s Interprofessional Primary Care Institute have decided to do both.

Join us on Zoom on Saturday, Feb. 26, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to explore interprofessionality in pediatric practice. Go to our event page to register or find more information. It is free for George Fox students and employees.

Questions? Contact Tammy O’Doherty at todohert@georgefox.edu.

Please join the College of Physical Therapy for our eighth annual research symposium from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 17, in the Medical Sciences Building (448 Werth Blvd.).

In this symposium, physical therapy doctoral faculty and third-year students will showcase various rehabilitation research topics.

Questions? Please contact Samantha Skaggs at sskaggs@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2451.

This Wednesday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m. in Hoover 105, the School of Theology has the distinct pleasure of hosting what promises to be a lively and engaging conversation between George Fox professor Phil Smith and Frederick Bauerschmidt, a professor of theology at Loyola University, on the virtue of faith.

Smith and Bauerschmidt will discuss the virtue of faith – what it is and why it matters – from not just their own distinct disciplines, but also by drawing explicitly from their Quaker and Catholic perspectives, respectively.

The night will be informal and geared toward the questions and concerns of those present. We hope to see you there! Chapel credit is available for students.

Contact Sarah Taylor at taylors@georgefox.edu with any questions.

The Portland Writing Center is seeking a new writing consultant who is enthusiastic about helping fellow graduate and degree-completion students understand the components of effective writing.

PWC consultants are current adult degree-completion and graduate students who work five to eight hours per week meeting with students in Zoom or email sessions through the Portland Writing Center. Writing consultant duties include helping students with the following:

• Thinking through ideas for a writing assignment
• Considering writing choices with regard to audience, focus, purpose, cohesion and organization
• Developing ideas with specific evidence
• Improving research strategies
• Applying proper documentation and formatting
• Understanding basic grammar and mechanics
• Academic coaching, which is helping students with school/life balance

Click here for a consultant job description, and click here for a consultant application. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

For more information, contact Hannah Jackson, Portland Writing Center director, at hjackson@georgefox.edu.

The Newberg and Portland campuses will be closed this Friday, Feb. 11, for the mid-semester holiday. All offices and libraries will be closed. Although the Murdock Library will be closed, the 24-hour space will remain open.

The Bruin Store on the Newberg campus also will remain open for its regular business hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Recently, the offices of The Contingent, the organization George Fox partners with for Foster Parents Night Out, Every Child Oregon, Act Six, and MyNeighbOR, was broken into and ransacked, resulting in a significant loss of possessions and damaged property.

Among the stolen items were thousands of dollars of gift cards and items that were intended for crisis response for the children and families they serve.

The Office for Spiritual Life would like to invite our campus to serve and encourage this longtime partner by collecting gift cards ($10-$50 to Amazon, Target, Fred Meyer, etc.) so they might continue their important work even while they recover from this major setback.

If you are able, please bring gift cards to the SpiL (Barclay) House or send them through campus mail anytime between now and tomorrow (Thursday).

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Thank you!

Are you an avid (or not-so-avid) gamer of board games, RPGs, etc.? Do you use games in your classroom?

If so, Paul Otto, professor of history, would like to hear from you! Paul, who can answer “yes” to both of these questions, hopes to develop a network of George Fox folks with pedagogical, hobby, professional, and/or career interests in gaming.

If you’d like to be known in this way, please contact him at potto@georgefox.edu.

We are continuing our theme of intentional living for this year, and this week we have some good ideas on how to declutter and organize your phone, social media and computer files. We spend a lot of time in those spaces daily, so let’s make sure they are helpful and stress-free areas of our life.

Be well.

Questions? contact HR at hr@georgefox.edu.

Did you know that you can add an animated George Fox logo to your email signature?

To learn how, visit the marketing communications office’s email guidelines page. Please be sure to download the logo file and then upload it to Gmail.

Want to improve your writing? Uncertain of how to make an appointment with an academic coach? The Portland Writing Center has a weekly newsletter!

Check out our latest tips and tricks here.

Your Concur report(s) for the month of January are due on Thursday, Feb. 10. It’s important for the university to have current expense information, so please take the time to submit your report(s).

If you need any assistance or have questions regarding Concur or your Visa account, please call Kathi Becker at 503-554-2166.

Thank you!

Join the Stewards of Sustainability Club today (Monday) for our regular bi-weekly meeting in Lemmons 15 at 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. We will be planning and putting together resources for the rest of our events this semester.

Questions? Contact Sydney Schroeder at sschroeder18@georgefox.edu.