Be sure to check out President Robin Baker’s latest blog piece, “Appreciating the Significance of Divine Moments,” in which he reflects on Francis S. Collins’ book The Language of God.
The piece can be read here.
Don’t forget to join us as we celebrate Carrie Bohl’s service to the university at a reception tomorrow (Friday) from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the advancement office at Coyote Place (700 Deborah Road). Refreshments will be served.
Carrie has served at George Fox for 16 years. She is leaving to focus full time on her home-based business. We appreciate her work in both student services and university advancement. She will be greatly missed!
As the academic year comes to a close and as many of you pack up to leave for the summer, please be sure any monetary donations intended for university advancement are turned in for processing.
Please forward all donations to Advancement, Campus Box 6256 (Attn: Kristi Hagen) before the fiscal year ends on June 30. If you have any questions, contact Kristi at khagen@georgefox.edu or ext. 2111.
Thank you in advance for your help as we wrap up the fiscal year.
Use your new, empty 2014 Summer sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another course site. See the instructions here for importing. Here are some end-of-semester reminders:
– IT Educational Technology Team
Questions? Write servicedesk@georgefox.edu
George Fox’s libraries have recently partnered with bepress to provide the services of Digital Commons, the leading hosted institutional repository (IR) software platform. A Digital Commons repository showcases the breadth of scholarship produced at an institution – everything from faculty papers, student scholarship and annual reports to open-access journals, conference proceedings, monographs, dissertations, and more.
Scholarly material and special collections in Digital Commons repositories are highly discoverable in Google, Google Scholar, and other search engines. The content is all the institution’s. As one example of success, Pacific University’s Digital Commons has experienced nearly 260,000 downloads of full-text documents in the last year.
Our library is just now in the process of establishing the IR, but we do have a small amount of content that can be accessed at digitalcommons.georgefox.edu. Please feel free to take a look. Additional work on this project will continue over the summer, and next fall we look forward to sharing and discussing more with faculty as well as recruiting content.
The last day to place orders using the purchase order system is May 31, 2014, for the current fiscal year. This includes all requisitions which must be budget checked, approved and converted to purchase orders and products or services ordered. Please be sure orders are placed by May 31 to ensure items are received by June 30, 2014.
Fiscal year 2015 purchase orders will need to wait until June 15, when we expect the new chart of accounts to be available for use in the purchase order system. Please work directly with Kathi Becker before creating any FY15 purchase orders to ensure that this transition to the new system goes smoothly.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact Kathi by email (kbecker@georgefox.edu) or at ext. 2166.
With the end of our fiscal year quickly approaching, and to ensure a clean cut-off between FY14 and FY15 spending, the last day to use your Visa card for fiscal year 2014 purchases is Friday, June 20. Please refrain from using your card for any purchases after this date.
If you will be traveling for business during this time, please contact Kathi Becker to discuss arrangements on how to handle purchases after June 20. Credit card purchases for the 2014-15 fiscal year can begin on or after July 1.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact Kathi by email (kbecker@georgefox.edu) or at ext. 2166.
All university employees are invited to celebrate with us as we honor retiring Gary Kilburg with a reception on Monday, May 5, in the Villa Academic Complex’s Room 117. The event will run from 4 to 6 p.m.
Throughout Gary’s career, he has modeled professionalism, kindness, and the love of Christ to his colleagues and students. He has served the university family for 22 years, taking on leadership roles and forming foundational work in the area of mentoring for the College of Education.
Please join us in celebrating Gary’s work with us and wishing him well in retirement.
Come join the spiritual life and student life departments in commissioning Sarah Baldwin and Clint Baldwin in their future endeavors! We will host a farewell reception for them from 1 to 3 p.m. today (Wednesday) in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium.
Sarah served George Fox as the dean of spiritual life and university pastor, and Clint has served as the director of the Center for Peace and Justice. Sarah has accepted the position of vice president of student development at Asbury University.
Let’s celebrate this new step in their journey as well as thank them for the time they have spent in developing our campus community!
It’s commencement week at George Fox! Students graduating from George Fox’s graduate programs and George Fox Evangelical Seminary will attend commencement ceremonies on Thursday and Friday, May 1-2, at various locations. Details on when and where they will take place are available at this link.
In a new format this year, the university will host two undergraduate commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 3. This year, a ceremony for students in the school’s College of Business, College of Christian Studies, College of Education and College of Engineering will will take place at 10 a.m.
In the afternoon, a second undergraduate ceremony for those graduating with degrees from the College of Arts and Sciences and College of Behavioral and Health Sciences is set for 2:30 p.m. Both ceremonies will take place in Miller Gymnasium in the Wheeler Sports Center. Commencement can be viewed live at this link 15 minutes prior to the start of the ceremony.
Richard Foster, a 1964 graduate of George Fox and the author of Celebration of Discipline, will serve as commencement speaker at the two undergraduate ceremonies.
To read more about Foster and for a complete guide to commencement events, visit this page.
Come join the spiritual life and student life departments in commissioning Sarah Baldwin and Clint Baldwin in their future endeavors! We will host a farewell reception for them from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium.
Sarah served George Fox as the dean of spiritual life and university pastor, and Clint has served as the director of the Center for Peace and Justice. Sarah has accepted the position of vice president of student development at Asbury University.
Let’s celebrate this new step in their journey as well as thank them for the time they have spent in developing our campus community!
Please join us as we celebrate Carrie Bohl’s service to the university at a reception this Friday, May 2, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the advancement office at Coyote Place (700 Deborah Road).
Carrie has served at George Fox for 16 years. She is leaving to focus full time on her home-based business. We appreciate her work in both student services and university advancement. She will be greatly missed!
Plan to enjoy some refreshments as we honor Carrie.
Want to be a part of the spring 2014 undergraduate commencement ceremony in Miller Gymnasium? Come help out as an usher!
We are in need of people for both ceremonies on Saturday, May 3. The morning ceremony starts at 10 a.m., and the afternoon ceremony starts at 2:30 p.m. Duties include passing out programs, guiding people to their seats and assisting guests.
Please e-mail Jennifer Kepler (jkepler@georgefox.edu) if interested.
All are invited to Shary Wortman’s retirement celebration from 4 to 7 p.m. on Monday, April 28, at the Redmond Center located at Ridgeview High School in Redmond, Ore.
Shary has served the community of Central Oregon through teaching, administration, and most recently, through her work as a teacher educator at George Fox. She joined the MAT team in 2005 and worked to give us a strong foundation in the Redmond area. Her work is marked by warm, personal touches that allow each student and faculty member to be truly known.
Please join us in celebrating the work of Shary and wishing her well in her retirement.
Starting Monday, May 5, the parking lot for the Pennington residence hall and the east end of the Bauman lot, near the grandstands, are going to be barricaded off and will need to be free of all vehicles. There will be construction taking place over the summer, and vehicles may not be left there.
Please help us keep these areas free of vehicle parking so the workers and equipment can move freely and safely during the summer. We will notify you of when the lots will be available for use in the future. If your vehicle is left, it will be towed at your expense.
If you are leaving for the summer and need to leave a vehicle, contact security at 503-554-2090 and we will inform you of the options you have.
Thank you,
– Security Services
Want to be a part of the spring 2014 undergraduate commencement ceremony in Miller Gymnasium? Come help out as an usher!
We are in need of people for both ceremonies on Saturday, May 3. The morning ceremony starts at 10 a.m., and the afternoon ceremony starts at 2:30 p.m. Duties include passing out programs, guiding people to their seats and assisting guests.
Please e-mail Jennifer Kepler (jkepler@georgefox.edu) if interested.
The music department will be selling the beautiful spring flowers used to decorate the stage at tonight’s Spring Concert in Bauman Auditorium.
Flowers go on sale after the concert in the lobby and cost $2 per potted plant. Begonias and heliotrope are a few of the types of flowers up for sale.
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Employees and students are entitled to one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the Box Office in the Pennington House.
Six staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:
The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.
The Department of Music invites you to its annual Spring Concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 25, in Bauman Auditorium. The concert features the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra, George Fox Symphonic Band, as well as the university’s Concert Choir, Women’s Chorale and Master Chorus performing Mass of the Children with the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra.
Students and employees are entitled to one complimentary ticket to the performance. Additional tickets are available to purchase online, at music.georgefox.edu, or at the Box Office in the Pennington House.
Good news! Beginning with the graduating classes of spring 2014, George Fox student email addresses will continue indefinitely. If your department provides information to graduating students about their transition out of George Fox, please be sure any information that you provide regarding their email accounts is up-to-date with this new information.
Below is the information graduates are receiving:
Please contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2569 if you have questions about your account.
