Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Wednesday, March 7. Please create a new “Individual Account†on the form.
Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.
Attention all GFU women employees: You are cordially invited to attend the Women’s Leadership Development Institute’s fourth brown bag lunch on Friday, March 16, from noon to 1:15 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room on the Newberg campus. This is for all women faculty, administrators and staff!
Elisa Morgan, president of Mission: Momentum and publisher of FullFill, and a former CEO and current president emerita of MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) International, will be our speaker.
About Elisa Morgan
For 20 years, Elisa served as CEO of MOPS. Under her leadership, MOPS grew from 350 to more than 4,000 groups throughout the U.S. and in 30 other countries, impacting more than 100,000 moms every year. Currently, Elisa is an activist with ONEMom.org, lending her voice and leadership to encourage women to advocate for women throughout the world who are victims of poverty and oppression.
Elisa’s mission is to mobilize women to invest their influence in God’s purposes. During the luncheon, Elisa will unpack what it means for women to “lead real.†Please don’t miss this opportunity to hear from a significant woman leader as she shares her leadership journey with the women of George Fox.
All Women Are Invited
The Women’s Leadership Development committee invites all women employees on the Newberg campus to join us for this event as we continue exploring leadership development. Please bring your own lunch to this event. The event will be live-streamed for all other university sites at noon (PST) at this stream site.
Questions? Contact Sheri Philips at sphilips@georgefox.edu.
Its time again to collect non-perishable food or make a financial donation toward bulk-food purchases for kids in need.
From March 5 to March 19, two collection sites will be provided; the first-floor lobby and upstairs atrium of the Portland Center. Donations can also be make by checks written to: Take Action, Inc.
All students, employees, and friends are encouraged to participate.
Take Action, Inc. works with 450 + students from 16 elementary schools in the Portland Metro area to ensure children from economically challenged homes have food to eat when they go home on the weekend. For more information on this organization, check-out their website at: takeactioninc.org
Below is a sample list of items that you can donate:
University Engagement has a very limited number of tickets left to see Broadway Across America’s performance of Wicked.
Thursday, March 22
7:30 p.m.
Keller Auditorium
Seats are in the middle three sections of the first balcony and tickets cost $69 a piece. Call Mary Monahan at 503-554-2134 to purchase tickets. Limited availability. Call soon.
Faculty: Just a friendly reminder that textbook requests for all May and summer courses are due Thursday, March 1 (fall semester orders are due April 1). Thanks to all who have already submitted their orders. Please use this link to access the forms.
Student supervisors: Pay day for student employees is Thursday, March 15. For us to meet this deadline we need your students’ January time sheets by Friday, March 2, by 5 p.m. If you are on the Newberg campus, please hand-deliver the time sheets. If you send them with a student, make sure you place them in a sealed envelope. Any time sheets received after this deadline may not get paid on the 15th.Â
Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Also, don’t forget to sign them and be sure the students did as well. Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets.
Thanks so much for helping us get our students paid in a timely manner!
– HR
We in the Bruin Bookstore invite you to “like” us on Facebook. You’ll be the first to know about special sales, markdowns, and special offers!
Go to our page today and give us a click!
All diploma frames are on a clearance sale in the Bruin Bookstore. Frames are marked at 50 percent off retail pricing. They will sell quickly, so don’t hesitate. You may order them from our website at gfubookstore.com, or you may purchase them directly in the bookstore.
Faculty, please let your students know about this sale.
What does it mean to be a true neighbor – one who embraces Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to join a “beloved community,†a community of welcoming hospitality that confronts poverty, homelessness and racism? This question will be addressed at the university’s 27th annual John Woolman Peacemaking Forum next week.
Leroy Barber, president of Mission Year, a national urban initiative that introduces 18- to 29-year-olds to missional and communal living in city centers for one year of their lives, will speak twice on Monday, Feb. 27: On “Beloved Community” in chapel at 10:40 a.m., and on “Community Transformation†that night at 7:30 p.m. in EHS 102.
Joining Barber will be Chris Lahr, a recruiter and academic director for Mission Year. He will speak on issues related to racial awareness and reconciliation in the Perspectives on Christian Education class from 3:40 to 4:30 p.m. Monday afternoon in Lemmons 15.
In addition, George Fox will participate in a panel discussion, “Where will the leadership come from to end the Korean War and solve the Israeli Palestinian Conflict,†from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 29, at the Buckley Center on the University of Portland campus. Headlining the panel is F.W. de Klerk, the former president of South Africa who, in 1993, was named co-winner (with Nelson Mandela) of the Nobel Peace Prize. He’ll be joined on the panel by university presidents, including George Fox’s Robin Baker, and others. The event will include a Q&A time afterwards.
All university students and personnel are invited to attend the panel for free.
For more information on any of the events, visit the Woolman Forum site or call the Center for Peace at Justice at ext. 2686.
The deadline for ordering faculty rental regalia is rapidly approaching. Please place your requests at this link.
Friday, March 2, is the deadline for ordering. Contact John Stewart in the Bruin Bookstore at jstewart@georgefox.edu if you have questions.
FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 6:30 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, Feb. 28, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.
In preparation for the University Day of Prayer on March 10, Sarah Baldwin would like any prayer request that you have for yourself, your family or the Fox community. Please send them directly to her at sbaldwin@georgefox.edu. Indicate if you would prefer for this request to be kept anonymous.
We anticipate having about 200 people praying for these requests on campus and around the Northwest on the Day of Prayer. The Fox pastoral team will also continue to pray for your requests throughout spring semester.
Plan to attend the Selah women’s conference on campus Saturday, March 17, from 9 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.
The topic is: “It’s time to Get UnStuck!” Come discover how to unpack what the Word of God says about seasons of feeling stuck physically, emotionally, spiritually, professionally . . . even relationally.
Join us as we talk about the traps that paralyze us in helplessness – and the spiritual renewal and freedom that is waiting for us on the other side of “stuck!†The keynote speaker is Elisa Morgan, president of Mission: Momentum and FullFill, and president emerita of MOPS International.
George Fox faculty, staff and wives receive a $5 discount! For complete details and to register, visit selah.georgefox.edu.
We are still in need of volunteers for this event. Those who volunteer get a free Selah T-shirt and an additional $10 discount. Please contact Jan Lefebvre at jlefebvre@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2115 if you are interested.
Come enjoy a day working alongside a fun and enthusiastic group of women!
Steve Delamarter, professor of Old Testament at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, will speak at a George Fox Auxiliary luncheon at noon Friday, March 2, in the Cap and Gown Room on the Newberg campus. Reservations are required and tickets are $8 per person.
To make reservations, contact Judy Woolsey at 503-538-7314. Reservations should be made by Tuesday, Feb. 28.
Delamarter specializes in the digitization and cataloguing of Ethiopian manuscripts, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the scribal practices of sacred texts. He has made several trips to Ethiopia for his research. You can learn more about Steve here.
Following are the dates by which departments need to let us know what books are being used for each course. In addition, if your department requires students to have certain special supplies or art product, these requests need to be made by these dates as well. We want to be prepared and be able to provide students with all the necessary tools for learning.
Use this form online to order your textbooks. Questions? Contact John Stewart at jstewart@georgefox.edu.
Thank you for your cooperation!
Shane Roghaar, our TIAA-CREF representative, will be on the Newberg campus between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb 28-29 in Hoover 104. You may make an appointment with him to discuss your investments by visiting this link on the HR/Benefits web page.
Employees in other locations may contact Shane to arrange a telephone consultation at 800-732-8353.
Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Thursday) from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105.Â
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link” located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.” It is the bottom link in that section.
In addition, a chat room has been set up, and a video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.
How do the U.S. and Chinese stock markets interact – and how has their relationship been strengthened since China began to allow Qualified Institutional Investors to invest in the Chinese stock market?
Chengping Zhang, assistant professor of finance, will address these questions at a Faculty Research Forum this Friday, Feb. 17, at 10:40 a.m. in Hoover 105. Join us as research is presented on the information flow between the Chinese and U.S. markets.
The university’s Department of Biology and Chemistry invites you to join us for our second annual Dalton Lecture Series event, “God of Antimatter,” featuring Dr. Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard’s Leverett Professor of Physics, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20.
Dr. Gabrielse has won Harvard’s Levenson Prize for exceptional teaching and the Ledlie Prize for exceptional research. He is currently the chair of the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society.
Dr. Gabrielse will address questions such as “What role does faith have in a scientist’s life?†and “Is there more to our world than science can say?â€
The presentation will be held in Wood-Mar Auditorium and will be free of charge. A reception and George Fox student research poster session will follow. Please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgegox.edu if you have any questions.
Mark your calendar and plan to join us for the University Day of Prayer, scheduled for Saturday, March 10, from 9 a.m. to noon. Let’s join together – parents, students, alumni, employees and friends of the university – in a unified voice as we pray together for George Fox University. In addition to prayer time scheduled on the Newberg campus, we will have regional prayer sites in Oregon, Washington, California and Idaho.
For more information, contact Nancy Almquist, director of Parent Relations, at nalmquist@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2114.
