This year, due to COVID-19 restrictions, the George Fox University theatre program has transformed five music practice rooms into five separate, individual, virtual theatre studios in order to bring live production to your living spaces.
The five separate rooms feature individual mics, cameras, lighting units, projectors, projection screens, costume racks, and props tables. Actors will interact with each other virtually from their separate studios to bring a seamless performance of Silent Sky to life. This is an event you won’t want to miss!
So cozy up with your laptops and various devices and join us for a delightful evening of live, virtual theatre this Nov. 12-14 and Nov. 19-21 at 7:30 p.m., or Nov. 22 at 2 p.m.!
To get more information and purchase tickets click here.
The Interprofessional Primary Care Institute will be hosting a virtual event via Zoom Saturday, Nov. 7, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. It is free to George Fox students and employees.
The event’s purpose is to cross-train primary care team members on metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and hypertension. We will also explore clinical tools, workflows, and interventions that can be used in a primary care setting.
We will dialogue with healthcare professionals about chronic conditions in Black communities, learn and practice behavioral change interventions, discuss tools to engage people in self-management, as well as explore how we can encourage people with chronic conditions to increase their physical activity.
If you missed last week’s Lunch ‘N Learn session on the Hadlock Student Center, you can still watch the presentation.
Check out our Resources for Staff page, where you’ll find the recordings for our past Lunch ‘N Learn sessions. Keep an eye out for next month’s session on library resources!
Spring 2021 textbook adoptions are due this Friday, Oct. 30, and the Bruin Store is looking forward to making this as smooth a textbook adoption process as possible!
All textbook adoptions will need to be submitted through Follett Discover Adopt, the new adoption system implemented in February of 2020.
If you are inputting adoptions on behalf of your department, you can access Discover by clicking here. Please use your university email and the password that you originally created.
If you are teaching (or are linked to) a course, you can access Discover by going to your FoxTALE account and clicking on the “Follett Textbooks†link. You will be automatically logged into the site.
If you are unable to view certain courses, have trouble logging in, or need a refresh on how to input textbook adoptions, please reach out to Paige Jacobs (pjacobs@georgefox.edu) or Katie Villanueva (1478txt@follett.com) at the Bruin Store.
The Bruin Store is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The university community is invited to attend a virtual lecture, “Complicity in Racism: The Path Forward,†put on by the George Fox Honors Program, this Friday, Oct. 30, at 10:30 a.m.
The event features Jemar Tisby, an author, speaker and president of The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, for which he writes about race, religion and culture.
Tisby will explore racial justice solutions and cultural conversations that compel action. For more information regarding Tisby and his presentation, click here.
Registration is required. Please register here for the virtual lecture.
The Wineskin is accepting submissions! The theme for this semester is “INTERRUPTION,†so send us your best poems, stories, essays and artwork in that stream of thought; we welcome thematic interpretation.
The editors are open to a wide range of styles and subject matter, but we are particularly looking for work that pushes boundaries and surprises us with its artistic approach and perspective of the world.
All are welcome to submit, including employees!
Submission Guidelines:
Poetry and prose manuscripts must be submitted as a Word document, in Times New Roman, 12-point font. Please title your pieces and remove your name from the document.
Limit all prose to 1,000 words and send no more than five poems per submission.
For artwork: Files should be named as the title of your piece followed by your name. Please remove all watermarks from your work.
Please join the social work department for our fall virtual Diversity Dialogue on children and families involved with child welfare. The speaker, George Fox social work alumna Rebekah Binderim, program director of The Family Room, will speak on “Reunification Service Partnering with Church Communities.”
The session is set from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 2, on this Zoom link (Meeting ID: 983 0441 4744). Questions? Contact Kim Rapp at rappk@georgefox.edu.
This summer, Kathy Heininge took early retirement after serving 16 years as a professor; she subsequently received faculty emeritus status.
We would like to celebrate her many years of dedication, hard work, and transformative teaching with a Zoom party on Thursday,Oct. 29, at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome to attend, and a Zoom link will be forthcoming.
Do you have photos or memories to share? We are planning to give Kathy a commemorative book as part of her retirement gift and would love to share your memories with her.
Please send Melanie Springer Mock (mmock@georgefox.edu) stories, poems, photos, and tributes by tonight (Sunday) at midnight. While Google Form is preferred, email is also available.
The Health and Counseling Center has three different COVID-19 testing options available, some of which are free. If you feel sick and have any of these symptoms …
Fever of 100.4 or greater
Difficulty breathing (unrelated to Asthma or physical exertion)
Loss of sense of taste or smell
And believe you may have COVID-19, please call the Health and Counseling Center to discuss your options or make an appointment at 503-554-2340.
The free test is a nose swab (not the deep nose probe), and is a rapid test with results in 15 minutes. This antigen test is most accurate at the onset of symptoms and up to seven days after onset.
This test does not meet the requirement for travel into the State of Hawaii and may not meet other travel clearance requirements; therefore, we will not be offering this test for travel purposes.
Questions? Contact the Health and Counseling Center at the number above.
It has come to our attention that there is an email being sent to our employees, requesting a login to an “Employee Portal.”
If you have received it, please delete it and do not click on the link/button. You should also report it to Google as spam, as it appears to be a phishing attempt. IT has been made aware of it. Contact IT if you are experiencing any issues related to this email.
As we are moving into the fall and holiday season, Wellness Wednesdays has some helpful tips for you on how to deal with emotional eating and how to plan for a stress-free holiday. Please read this piece.
This evening (Wednesday) from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. the Reedwood Forum will host Dr. Kent Thornburg, a George Fox alumnus and the M. Lowell Edwards Chair and Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, for a discussion on ‘The Quaker Vision of COVID-19: The Scientific Journey.”
They will be discussing the latest scientific research of COVID-19 and Christian responses from a Quaker perspective. Pastor Mark Condo will moderate the Zoom and live conversation.
Access to the Zoom link (passcode: RFCLive) is available on the Reedwood Friends Church website. All are welcome to join.
Changes are coming to the credit card policy (expected go-live date is Nov. 2, 2020), and you will receive more communication if there are any changes to your card and how it can be used.
In the interim, please continue to use your card. Please direct any questions to Kathi Becker in Finance at ext. 2166 or kbecker@georgefox.edu
The Faculty Development Committee invites the Fox community to the Fall 2020 Faculty Lecture tonight (Tuesday) at 6 p.m. in Hoover 105.
Our featured speaker, and recipient of the 2019-20 Faculty Achievement Award for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship, is Jillian Sokso, professor of art and design.Â
Join us as Jillian presents “Chaos Garden,†a visual examination of the impulse we humans have to control and beautify our immediate surrounding landscape, all the while contributing to and ignoring the impact of our daily lives on the larger planet. Professor Sokso will also share about her research project that involves turning native plants to paper!
Seating is limited to 34, so come early, or join via live stream here.
If you have automatic deposits (ACHs) coming into our bank for your department, please forward the company name and the general ledger (GL) accounting string information to Heather Groenlund in Finance.
You will see your income posted faster if she knows what to look for and has the expected accounting string when it arrives. It will minimize investigative work as well as wild goose chases!
Questions? Call Heather Groenlund at ext. 2173. Thanks!
Join the engineering department for the first George Fox Global Impact Seminar of the 2020-21 school year, to be held via Zoom tomorrow (Wednesday) from 4 to 5:15 p.m.
Dr. Juan Lucena, director of the humanitarian engineering program at the Colorado School of Mines, will speak on “From Project to Practice: How to Build Bridges Between Passion and Careers for Engineers in Community Development.â€
His talk will focus on ways for students to transition from their time at Fox to graduate school with the hope of aligning their engineering careers with their passion for humanitarian or community development work.
In particular, he will discuss how to assess competencies gained in community development projects in relation to those needed to launch a career pathway in development work along with how graduate training can help fill the necessary gaps.
He will also share lessons learned in the development of undergraduate projects in humanitarian engineering at Colorado School of Mines and the development of their new humanitarian engineering graduate program, to compare and contrast what can be gained at the undergraduate level and what remains to be done as a graduate student.
For students interested in global development and humanitarian work, you won’t want to miss this Global Impact Seminar!
