FoxTALE will be unavailable this morning (Tuesday)Â from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes.
Questions? Email servicedesk@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2569.
Please plan to attend the panel discussions for Antipas Harris’ book, Is Christianity the White Man’s Religion?: How the Bible is Good News for People of Color.
This is a continuation of our fall book reading and discussion groups. We are pleased to have a panel of our own seminary faculty, along with the founder of the Civility Project, to engage key questions that you’ve raised either in this survey or would like to ask during the event.
The discussions are set for tomorrow (Tuesday) and will take place in both Bauman Auditorium (limited capacity) and online via Zoom.
Questions? Contact Rebecca Hernandez (rhernandez@georgefox.edu).
Andrea Byerley, from Disability & Accessibility Services, will host a session for faculty about academic accommodations this Wednesday, Feb. 17, from 10 to 11 a.m. via this Zoom link.
Get a tour of the AIM faculty portal, where faculty can log in to see all their students’ academic accommodations in one place. Learn how to complete testing contracts, upload exams etc.
There will be plenty of time for questions about anything to do with academic accommodations. Questions ahead of time? Contact Andrea at abyerley@georgefox.edu.
Join Research and Instruction Librarian Andrea Abernathy online for a workshop covering the SCOPUS database. She’ll show you how to discover scholarship, track citations, and explore relevant journals with confidence.
The workshop will be held via Zoom on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. Click here to register and for more information regarding future library workshops.Â
This semester, the library is offering a series of workshops to help the Fox community navigate our increasingly digital library environment. Each workshop will be taught by a different librarian, making them an excellent way to refresh your skills, learn something new, or hear an old concept in a new way.
Questions? Contact Kate Wimer (kwimer@georgefox.edu).
This Wednesday, Feb. 17, marks the beginning of the season of Lent, the season in the Christian church when we remember the 40 days Jesus spent in the wilderness, fasting and praying, prior to the beginning of his ministry.
Many Christians choose to observe Lent by participating in an intentional spiritual practice, such as fasting, Scripture reading, prayer, generosity, or service. It is a season set aside for repentance and acknowledgment of human weakness, toward greater trust in the Savior.
The season of Lent begins on Wednesday, Feb. 17, and ends on Easter Sunday, April 4. The university pastors invite you to observe this time with us in one of the following ways:
Questions or want to meet with a university pastor? Contact the Office of Spiritual Life (spirituallife@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2320). May the Lord bless you!
Richter Scholars Program Proposals are due Monday, March 1.
The program distributes funds to support student research activities that are devised, initiated, and carried out by individual student researchers, with mentorship, guidance, and expertise provided by a faculty mentor.
The purpose of these funds is to support educational research opportunities that encourage the practices of independent thought leading to independent achievement and personal responsibility.
For the purpose of this program, research is defined as a knowledge-generating activity that is designed to provide new information on a topic, tool, or process, and that proceeds according to established and accepted research methods
Before preparing a proposal, please read through the full proposal guidelines, eligibility requirements, and review criteria by clicking here.
Faculty mentors: Please note that several important proposal elements and eligibility requirements have been recently updated. Please thoroughly read through all posted documentation as you work with your student mentee to prepare a proposal.
Questions? Contact Vetta Berokoff (vberokof@georgefox.edu).
The Intercultural Resource Center is excited to announce the Reconciliation and Education Program!
Following this month’s SCORR conference, the IRC will host three two-week programs discussing racial reconciliation, anti-racist action steps, and dismantling oppressive systems.
These programs are a great opportunity to commit to learning more about anti-racism while earning two chapel credits! Apply here by Monday, Feb. 22.
Questions? Contact Hannah Lee (hlee17@georgefox.edu).
An all-employee meeting will be made available for viewing on Wednesday, Feb. 17, after 3 p.m. The meeting will be posted at this link. Like previous meetings, the password to join is provided on the meeting site.
Questions? Contact Missy Terry (terrym@georgefox.edu).
The Newberg and Portland campuses will be closed this Monday, Feb. 15,  for the mid-semester holiday. All offices, libraries and bookstores will be closed.
Although the Murdock Library will be closed, the 24-hour space will remain open.
Today (Friday), the IT Service Desk will be working from home and available during normal hours via phone and email. In-person service will be available from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Service Desk in the Stevens Center.
Click here for hours and information, or contact IT (servicedesk@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2569).
Join Research and Instruction Librarian Andrea Abernathy online for a workshop covering the SCOPUS database. She’ll show you how to discover scholarship, track citations, and explore relevant journals with confidence.
The workshop will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 2:30 p.m. Click here to register and for more information regarding future library workshops.
This semester, the library is offering a series of workshops to help the Fox community navigate our increasingly digital library environment. Each workshop will be taught by a different librarian, making them an excellent way to refresh your skills, learn something new, or hear an old concept in a new way.
Questions? Contact Kate Wimer (kwimer@georgefox.edu).
If you visited the university homepage today, you probably noticed some changes!
Marketing Communications has updated the style and content of the homepage as well as some other top-level pages and pages in the About, Undergraduate Admissions, and Giving sections of the website.
This is part of an ongoing project to give similar treatment to all pages on the public university website.
Due to the large number of web pages on the university website (around 5,000) and the extent of these changes, web pages will be re-worked and published in sections rather than all at once. This means that for now there will be some inconsistencies between pages in the new design and pages that haven’t been updated yet.
In this section-by-section approach, MarCom will be in touch with the departments and offices affected by updates in advance of any changes.
As part of this update, links in the website footer (the section at the bottom of each web page) have been updated. Some resource links that were located in the footer have been moved onto resource pages for distinct George Fox groups. The links to these resource pages can be found under the heading “Information For” in the footer.
If you have any questions or feedback about any of this, please contact Rob Leslie at rleslie@georgefox.edu.
Join your colleagues in the College of Business at a farewell Zoom “open house†for Kelly Borror, who, after 16 years in the COB, has accepted a new position at Western Seminary in Portland.
Drop by our Zoom gathering to wish Kelly well today (Thursday) between 3 and 4 p.m. Kelly’s last day is tomorrow (Friday).
George Fox Digital is releasing a series of public lectures on YouTube addressing the pandemic and Christian faith. How are we to understand suffering in light of God’s goodness? What do our academic disciplines have to say about theology and the pandemic?
The first of these lectures is out now:
We’ll be releasing a new lecture in this series on our YouTube playlist every Tuesday throughout February and early March.
Questions? Contact Brian Doak (bdoak@georgefox.edu).
If severe winter weather makes travel to or from campus unsafe, George Fox will shift affected classes to online instruction. Classes will not be canceled for snow or ice in spring 2021. Because of COVID-19, faculty already have a reduced amount of class time to provide instruction, and losing additional days is not a feasible option. All classes this semester were created with the option to shift to remote learning for at least short periods of time.
If road conditions are unsafe, employees will be expected to work remotely if they have work that can be accomplished from home. If remote work is not possible, employees should contact their supervisor.
Following is our process for announcing when classes will shift to an online format. The provost will make the decision to shift classes online for the Newberg campus, Portland Center and Salem site for daytime classes by 6:30 a.m., or 2:15 p.m. for evening classes. This applies to all days of the week, including Saturday. Decisions at the Redmond site will be made by the professor.
Major considerations are road conditions, ice, utility service disruption, and how long the severe weather or emergency is likely to last. To find out if a decision has been made when severe weather occurs:
More information on campus closure policies can be found at georgefox.edu/closure.
Next Wednesday, Feb. 17, marks the beginning of the season of Lent, the season in the Christian church when we remember the 40 days Jesus spent in the wilderness, fasting and praying, prior to the beginning of his ministry.
Many Christians choose to observe Lent by participating in an intentional spiritual practice, such as fasting, Scripture reading, prayer, generosity, or service. It is a season set aside for repentance and acknowledgment of human weakness, toward greater trust in the Savior.Â
The season of Lent begins on Wednesday, Feb. 17, and ends on Easter Sunday, April 4. The university pastors invite you to observe this time with us in one of the following ways:
Questions or want to meet with a university pastor? Contact the Office of Spiritual Life (spirituallife@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2320). May the Lord bless you!
Want to learn how to promote equitable hiring practices in the workplace, and to further encourage the Be Known promise?
The next search advocate training is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 24, and Friday, Feb. 26, from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. both days. Rebecca Hernandez will teach the two-day session online via Zoom.
We are also offering a refresher course for those who have attended training in the past, but would like to update their skills and find out what’s new! Current search advocates are welcome to attend the Feb. 26 session!
If you are interested in becoming a search advocate, or would like a refresher course, please sign up here.
If you have questions, please contact Rebecca at rhernandez@georgefox.edu or Laurie Fair at lfair@georgefox.edu.
FoxTALE will be unavailable Tuesday, Feb. 16, from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes.
Questions? Email servicedesk@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2569.
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.
Here are five things that you can do to help improve your mental health:
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own (Matthew 6:34).
Questions? Contact Mary Imboden (mimboden@georgefox.edu).
Join your colleagues in the College of Business at a farewell Zoom “open house” for Kelly Borror, who, after 16 years in the COB, has accepted a new position at Western Seminary in Portland.
Drop by our Zoom gathering to wish Kelly well this Thursday, Feb. 11, between 3 and 4 p.m. Kelly’s last day is Friday, Feb. 12.
