The Daily Bruin

The Graduate School of Counseling’s Beronica Salazar will lead two diversity book discussion groups this semester. The groups will be reading Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (New York Times review). We have space for up to eight faculty or staff to participate in each session, and books will be provided.

Newberg campus meetings will be the first Wednesday of each month from 9 to 10 a.m. (Sept. 6, Oct. 4, Nov. 1 and Dec. 6) in the Lemmons conference room.

Portland Center meetings will be the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month (Sept. 5, Sept. 19, Oct. 3, Oct. 17, Oct. 31, Nov. 14, Nov. 28 and Dec. 12) from 10 to 11 am, in PDS 290.

Please sign up here and indicate if you want paper or digital copy.

The German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer is one of the most widely read and well-known Christians of the 20th century. Nevertheless, few people understand his theology or the circumstances that determined his dramatic involvement in the German resistance against the Nazis during World War II.

A class, RELI 485 Bonhoeffer, offers an in-depth look at the life and thought of Bonhoeffer, focusing specifically on his major texts, The Cost of Discipleship and Ethics. This is an ideal course for philosophy and Christian ministries majors who are interested in integrating theology and ministry. It will be taught by Javier Garcia of the William Penn Honors Program and meets Wednesdays from 4 to 6:30 p.m. in PHS 102 (Pennington House).

Contact Paula Hampton (phampton@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

The Office of Student Life would like to share that Kristi Welker has been hired as the director of commuter life. Her office is located on the third floor of the Stevens Center. She is excited to work with commuter students this year, and her role is to help them in their college journey at George Fox.

If you know commuter students who need help feeling connected here, feel free to email her at kwelker@georgefox.edu, stop by the student life office or call her at 503-554-2308.

Our mascot, Pennington Bear, is looking for new friends (12 and younger) to join his Penn Pals Kids Club. Do you know any kids who would like to join? Members get a T-shirt, six free tickets for parents to attend games, and much more! Plus, Pennington will be their pen pal; anytime kids write him a letter, he’ll send a handwritten personalized letter in return.

Join now and you’ll receive your Penn Pals package in time to use the free tickets at our first 2017 football game! Learn more about Penn Pals and join at this link.

For more information, contact Mckenna Martin at ext. 2134.

The university community is invited to a retirement reception for HVAC technician Mike Rader today (Wednesday) from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Canyon Commons 101-102. Mike has worked at George Fox for 22 years, and his duties have ranged from HVAC maintenance to Bon Appetit appliance repairs and fire safety maintenance.

Come wish Mike well as he retires after more than two decades of service to the university!

Use your new, empty Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another course site. See the instructions here for importing.

Your Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 sites are hidden to students. When you are ready to make a site available from the course home page …

• Go to Administration> Course administration > Edit settings
• Look for the “Visible” setting and change “Hide” to “Show” from the drop-down menu
• Just below the Visible setting is the “Course start date” where you can set the correct date if needed
• Save changes at the bottom

Remember that all students enrolled in your class in MyGFU will automatically be enrolled in your FoxTALE course site. As students add and drop your course in MyGFU, they will be added or removed automatically from your FoxTALE site.

Visit the FoxTALE for Faculty webpage for guides and resources. Metacourses may be used in special cases where you want to use one FoxTALE site for multiple sections of the same class. If you would like to use a metacourse, contact the Service Desk for assistance with setting them up.

Questions? Email servicedesk@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2569.

– Your Educational Technology Team

Would you consider taking an anonymous two-minute survey to help the College of Business? We want to learn how the George Fox campus community perceives our college.

Whether you represent faculty, staff, students or alumni, your response will be valuable to us! (Respond by Thursday, Aug. 31, and you will be entered to win one of two $20 Coffee Cottage gift cards!)

Take the survey at this link. Questions? Contact Jekabs Bikis (jbikis@gmail.com)

Thank you!

The university community is invited to a retirement reception for HVAC technician Mike Rader on Wednesday, Aug. 30, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Canyon Commons 101-102. Mike has worked at George Fox for 22 years, and his duties have ranged from HVAC maintenance to Bon Appetit appliance repairs and fire safety maintenance.

Come wish Mike well as he retires after more than two decades of service to the university!

All packages come to Mail Services and are processed here on campus. Therefore, when ordering packages online, please double check that your name and mailbox number are on the shipping address. Packages with no name and mailbox number will automatically become a mystery package and will be at risk of being sent back if it is not claimed in a timely manner.

If you have any questions, please contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. Marketing Communications will be processing the next business card order on Wednesday, Aug. 30. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source before Wednesday, Aug. 30.

Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.

Our mascot, Pennington Bear, is looking for new friends (12 and younger) to join his Penn Pals Kids Club. Do you know any kids who would like to join? Members get a T-shirt, six free tickets for parents to attend games, and much more! Plus, Pennington will be their pen pal; anytime kids write him a letter, he’ll send a handwritten personalized letter in return.

Join now and you’ll receive your Penn Pals package in time to use the free tickets at our first 2017 football game! Learn more about Penn Pals and join at this link.

For more information, contact Mckenna Martin at ext. 2134.

Did you, your department, or program go through changes with the university reorganization? Even if you didn’t, you probably work with others whose coding has changed. Please check out the new Department and Program Listing for Fiscal Year 2017-18 to find out where departments and programs are now!

All of the changes are effective as of July 1, 2017, so save yourself from getting returned forms from Finance with incorrect coding.

George Fox will be open Monday, Aug. 21 during the eclipse. Employees may take up to 30 minutes for eclipse viewing without taking personal time off. Please work out the details with your supervisor. Viewing the eclipse can cause eye damage. Take safety precautions and wear approved solar filters or glasses.

Traffic on state highways on the day of the eclipse is expected to be heavy. Employees who are concerned about their commute may request permission from their supervisors to work an alternate schedule or to work from home. Some students will be checking in on Monday morning. Some employees will be providing essential services and will not be eligible to work from home. For more information on travel on the day of the eclipse, see the ODOT website.

Senior administrative staff will monitor the traffic on the morning of the eclipse. If traffic in the region becomes gridlocked, an emergency closure notice would be sent out by 6:30 a.m. You may check the university’s FlashAlert webpage or sign up for alerts to be sent your mobile phone.

The Office of Student Life would like to share that Kristi Welker has been hired as the director of commuter life. Her office is located on the third floor of the Stevens Center. She is excited to work with commuter students this year, and her role is to help them in their college journey at George Fox.

If you know commuter students who need help feeling connected here, feel free to email her at kwelker@georgefox.edu, stop by the student life office or call her at 503-554-2308.

George Fox will be open Monday, Aug. 21 during the eclipse. Employees may take up to 30 minutes for eclipse viewing without taking personal time off. Please work out the details with your supervisor. Viewing the eclipse can cause eye damage. Take safety precautions and wear approved solar filters or glasses.

Traffic on state highways on the day of the eclipse is expected to be heavy. Employees who are concerned about their commute may request permission from their supervisors to work an alternate schedule or to work from home. Some students will be checking in on Monday morning. Some employees will be providing essential services and will not be eligible to work from home. For more information on travel on the day of the eclipse, see the ODOT website.

Senior administrative staff will monitor the traffic on the morning of the eclipse. If traffic in the region becomes gridlocked, an emergency closure notice would be sent out by 6:30 a.m. You may check the university’s FlashAlert webpage or sign up for alerts to be sent your mobile phone.

Faculty members: Here is some helpful information about how students are saving money by renting their textbooks through the Bruin Store.

• Cost Effective: Our rental program is better priced and more convenient for students than Amazon.
• Convenient: Students can highlight and write in rentals. As long as the book is still usable. they simply check in the book by the last day of finals.
• No Risk: Rentals can be converted to a purchase by simply paying the difference between the rental and retail price.

For more information, email Michael Simmons at msimmons@georgefox.edu.

Now is the time to order university stationery. The collective order helps keep costs low – the higher the volume, the lower the cost. Consequently, it is most economical to overestimate needs and store a small surplus.

I will be accepting orders through Wednesday, Aug. 23. For order instructions, go to the marketing communications website. Continue to purchase all non-departmental stationery (including “second-sheet letterhead”) through the university’s Print Services.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Thank you,
Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu)

Bonnie Jerke, longtime director of career services at George Fox, passed away over the summer after a lengthy battle with cancer. She loved the Lord deeply and served George Fox students, faculty and staff very well for many, many years before retiring six years ago. She was a wonderful colleague and friend to many and will be greatly missed.

Bonnie’s friends are organizing a celebration and remembrance of Bonnie on Saturday, Sept. 23, from noon to 5 p.m. at Jaquith Park in Newberg. There will be a potluck lunch at 1 p.m., and those attending are asked to bring a dish to share with others. It will be a “come-and-go” event with a time of sharing after the lunch. Those organizing this event wanted to invite Bonnie’s colleagues and friends from the university community as well. They are asking that people RSVP on Bonnie’s Facebook page under the invite post from Linda Byrd.

Please continue to pray for Bonnie’s family and friends during this time of grief and loss.

Fall semester is right around the corner! This is a reminder to not wait until the last minute, so plan ahead and get your syllabus turned into Print Services. Please submit your syllabus to Print Services by Tuesday, Aug. 22, and you can submit your syllabus to printservices@georgefox.edu.

If you have any questions, please contact Print Services at 503-554-2550.

Faculty members: Here is some helpful information about how students are saving money by renting their textbooks through the Bruin Store.

• Cost Effective: Our rental program is better priced and more convenient for students than Amazon.
• Convenient: Students can highlight and write in rentals. As long as the book is still usable. they simply check in the book by the last day of finals.
• No Risk: Rentals can be converted to a purchase by simply paying the difference between the rental and retail price.

For more information, email Michael Simmons at msimmons@georgefox.edu.