The Daily Bruin

This is a reminder to come and join us as we gather for the annual Women’s Salad Supper (this includes all female administration, faculty and staff or the spouses of administration, faculty and staff) …

Tuesday, Sept. 24
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Hosted by Ruth Baker at the president’s home, the historic Edwards House (402 S. College St., Newberg)

Please bring a salad to share (if you are new this year, please just come as our guest). Enjoy this opportunity to meet the new women of our community and to reconnect with the women of George Fox.

No R.S.V.P. required. Questions? Contact Missy Terry at terrym@georgefox.edu.

Ralph Beebe, a professor of history emeritus at the university, will host a book reading and signing session to promote his new historical fiction book Cousins at War: A Civil War Novel at 3 p.m. this Friday, Sept. 20, in the second-floor lounge of the Hoover Academic Building. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

Cousins at War is the fictional tale of two cousins, Aaron and Joel Haskins, living in Maryland during the Civil War. They are best friends who share a birthday and just about everything else. As Maryland begins to prepare for the Civil War, they both must decide if they will fight. The cousins end up making different choices that forever alter their lives.

Weaving emotional decisions throughout, the book provides a poignant social commentary about the ramifications of our decisions, our roles in society and our responsibilities to one another. Beebe uses a tragic storyline to question the morality of war and educate readers by presenting an authentic view of the Civil War from both Union and Confederate perspectives.

Beebe has previously authored six books, including The Worker and Social Change: The Pullman Strike of 1894 and The Embargo. Published by iUniverse, Cousins at War is available online through Amazon.

Please join Student Life as we celebrate Joel Perez for his service to our university. Joel accepted a position this fall at Seattle Pacific University as the dean of student life.

He and his family will be back on campus so that we can send him off in style.

Join us …

Today (Friday)
3 to 5 p.m.
Stevens (Duke) Atrium

Marvin Olasky, editor-in-chief of World magazine and the author of more than 20 books and 3,000 magazine articles, will speak on the Newberg campus tonight (Friday) from 7 to 8 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis, and there is no charge to attend.

Olasky’s lecture, “Renewing the Christian Liberal Arts,” inaugurates the university’s new William Penn Honors Program, an alternative liberal arts general education program for undergraduate students set to launch in the fall of 2014.

More information about Olasky and his presentation is available on this page.

The BlueZone Store will be closed today (Wednesday) during Serve Day. We’ll be open regular hours (8 a.m. – 5 p.m.) on Thursday and Friday.

Faculty: Beginning next week we will be returning unsold textbooks to publishers. Please encourage your students to come purchase any books they will need later in the semester so they aren’t stuck without it when reading is assigned.

Thanks for your help as we try to serve our students in the best way possible.

We have leftover chapel calendars if you didn’t happen to get one and would like one! Email us at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Marvin Olasky, editor-in-chief of World magazine and the author of more than 20 books and 3,000 magazine articles, will speak on the university’s Newberg campus from 7 to 8 p.m. this Friday, Sept. 13, in Bauman Auditorium. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis, and there is no charge to attend.

Olasky’s lecture, “Renewing the Christian Liberal Arts,” inaugurates the university’s new William Penn Honors Program, an alternative liberal arts general education program for undergraduate students set to launch in the fall of 2014.

In addition to his position at World – one of the world’s leading Christian news publications with 100,000 subscribers – Olasky is the Distinguished Chair in Journalism and Public Policy at Patrick Henry College. He is the author of 22 books, including Compassionate Conservatism, Fighting for Liberty and Virtue and The Tragedy of American Compassion. He’s also written 3,000 articles for publications including World, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. American.com describes him as “one of the country’s foremost evangelical thinkers and writers.”

For more information on his visit, see this page.

Come and join us as we gather for the annual Women’s Salad Supper (this includes all female administration, faculty and staff or the spouses of administration, faculty and staff) …

Tuesday, Sept. 24
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Hosted by Ruth Baker at the president’s home, the historic Edwards House (402 S. College St., Newberg)

Please bring a salad to share (if you are new this year, please just come as our guest). Enjoy this opportunity to meet the new women of our community and to reconnect with the women of George Fox.

No R.S.V.P. required. Questions? Contact Missy Terry at terrym@georgefox.edu.

Security services is offering its annual C-CERT training course. We will meet every Wednesday between Sept. 18 and Oct. 6 from 2 to 5 p.m. in Lemmons 5.

In a large-scale disaster, the university needs to be prepared to be self-sufficient. This is why we are providing Campus Community Emergency Response Team training, or C-CERT.

Become part of the team and be prepared. Follow the link below for more information and get signed up now. The first class is in two weeks.

C-CERT Training

The College of Education will be hosting a group of Chinese educators from Chengdu from Sept. 22 through Oct. 12. While they will be staying most of the time in a motel, they have also specifically requested that we provide a home-stay experience. The dates of the home stays will be Saturday, Oct. 5, through Wednesday, Oct. 9 (four nights). This allows not only time for the family to enjoy their guests, but also an opportunity for the guests to be included in some of their host family’s weekend activities.

Two or more are to be placed per home, but individual placements are also possible, as space allows. Host families are asked to provide sleeping accommodations and meals (except lunch on Monday and Tuesday). They ideally will also provide transportation to and from the Newberg campus. Each host family will be given $100 per guest to help defray costs.

If you are interested in hosting one or more guests from Chengdu, or have questions, please contact Cindi Pratt at cpratt@georgefox.edu. Also feel free to forward this opportunity to others who may be interested.

Marvin Olasky, editor-in-chief of World magazine and the author of more than 20 books and 3,000 magazine articles, will speak on the university’s Newberg campus from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, in Bauman Auditorium. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis, and there is no charge to attend.

Olasky’s lecture, “Renewing the Christian Liberal Arts,” inaugurates the university’s new William Penn Honors Program, an alternative liberal arts general education program for undergraduate students set to launch in the fall of 2014.

In addition to his position at World – one of the world’s leading Christian news publications with 100,000 subscribers – Olasky is the Distinguished Chair in Journalism and Public Policy at Patrick Henry College. He is the author of 22 books, including Compassionate Conservatism, Fighting for Liberty and Virtue and The Tragedy of American Compassion. He’s also written 3,000 articles for publications including World, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. American.com describes him as “one of the country’s foremost evangelical thinkers and writers.”

Previously, Olasky was a professor at The University of Texas at Austin for two decades and provost of The King’s College in New York City, from 2007 to 2011.

For more information on his visit, see this page.

Back to school and back to Employee of the Month awards! September marks the fifth anniversary of this tradition that honors our outstanding colleagues.

With so many working so hard to ensure that the new academic year begins well for our students, there are probably many whose contributions will especially stand out between mid-August and mid-September. If you know someone you believe deserves special recognition for “above and beyond” kind of work, please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Monday, Sept. 16. Your e-mail should include a summary of this colleague’s recent contributions and any other information that makes him or her deserving of this award.

The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient from the nominations submitted, and the winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 Visa gift card at our community meeting on Thursday, Sept. 26.

Tickets are available to see Broadway Across America’s Chicago this Wednesday, Sept. 4, at 7:30 p.m. at the Keller Auditorium in Portland. Tickets are available at a group rate of $43 each.

Questions? Call 503-554-2134. You can register online at this link.

Please join Student Life as we celebrate Joel Perez for his service to our university. Joel accepted a position this fall at Seattle Pacific University as the dean of student life.

He and his family will be back on campus so that we can send him off in style.

Join us …

Friday, Sept. 13
3 to 5 p.m.
Stevens (Duke) Atrium

Security services is offering its annual C-CERT training course. We will meet every Wednesday between Sept. 18 and Oct. 6 from 2 to 5 p.m. in Lemmons 5.

In a large-scale disaster, the university needs to be prepared to be self-sufficient. This is why we are providing Campus Community Emergency Response Team training, or C-CERT.

Become part of the team and be prepared. Follow the link below for more information and get signed up now. The first class is in two weeks.

C-CERT Training

The university has just implemented a new pass-through process for Bruin Careers. Click here to go directly to the Bruin Careers site. Once there, log in with your Bruin Careers username and password. If you haven’t set up an account before, click where it says “click here to register.”

Make sure that your username and password are the same as your George Fox e-mail and password. Now, whenever you log onto MyGFU you will click directly into Bruin Careers without needing to log on.

Please e-mail careers@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2330 if you have any questions!

Please turn in all August …

• Check/ACH requests
• Expense reimbursements
• Petty cash requests
• IDC’s
• Error corrections
• Credit card receipts

to the financial affairs office no later than 5 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 9. If you have any questions, please call or e-mail Kathi Becker (Financial Affairs) at ext. 2166 or kbecker@georgefox.edu.

Thank you,
The Finance Team

Some FoxTALE reminders …

• Use your new, empty Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another or previous course site. See the instructions here for importing.
• Your Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 sites are unavailable (hidden) to students. When you are ready to make a site available, go to Settings > Course administration > Edit settings on the course home page. Scroll down to the “Availability” section and select “This course is available to students” from the drop-down menu. Scroll to the bottom of the page and “Save changes.”
• 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 to or removed automatically from your FoxTALE site.

Contact the IT Service Desk (servicedesk@georgefox.edu) for more information or visit the FoxTALE for Faculty resource page.

Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. Marketing communications will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Monday, Sept. 9.

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