Shane Roghaar, our TIAA-CREF representative, will be on the Newberg campus Feb. 9 and April 13. 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 866-928-4221.
Come support one of the senior business capstone groups this weekend! Join us this Saturday, Jan. 30, at the monthly Community Saturday Market. It will be held at the Newberg campus in EHS from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
There will be food, live music, including Chad Strutz from Just Lions, a wide array of different gifts from local vendors, and good company. Some of the local vendors include Honest Chocolate, Scarf it Up, and authors Dirk Barram, Jim Foster and Erin Macy. A percentage of sales are going toward the Patrick Kibler Fund and the Women’s and Children’s Shelter in Newberg.
Hope to see you there!
The university community is invited to a retirement reception in honor of Lon Fendall who, among other duties, has directed the Center for Global Studies and the Center for Peace and Justice, served as the dean of undergraduate programs, and served as an associate professor of history and political science.
Please join us for dessert and an opportunity to thank Lon personally for his good work at George Fox. The reception will take place at 3 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, in the Duke Atrium (Stevens Center).
Craig Taylor (Director of Athletics) will speak at a George Fox Auxiliary luncheon at noon Friday, Feb. 5, in the Cap and Gown Room. Reservations are required and tickets are $7.50 per person.
To make reservations, contact Margene Haworth at 503-538-0604. Reservations should be made by Tuesday, Feb. 2.
The George Fox Auxiliary – open to men and women – has financially supported and promoted the university for more than 90 years. It hosts an annual fundraising holiday bazaar and sponsors luncheons throughout the year.
The university community is invited to hear Paul Anderson’s (Religious Studies) presentation, “The John, Jesus, and History Project: The Story of a Scholarly Consensus Opinion and its Potential Demise,” from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26, in Hoover 250.
Now in its ninth year at the national Society of Biblical Literature meetings, the John, Jesus, and History Project has enlisted the contributions of leading biblical scholars around the world, seeking to test the viability of two critical platforms: the “dehistoricization of John” and the resultant “de-Johannification of Jesus.” As co-chair of the project and editor of its three volumes, Anderson will share the latest on the potential challenging of the “scholarly consensus” on the subject over the last two centuries.
All are welcome; refreshments provided!
The Health and Counseling Center on the Newberg campus currently has H1N1 vaccines available at no cost to all students and faculty. Please call ext. 2340 to schedule an appointment.
Register today for Kaleo 2010: “When Kids Hurt” with Dr. Chap Clark and Dr. Steve Sherwood. Musical guest will be JJ Heller. For more information and to register, visit kaleo.georgefox.edu.
If you are interested in volunteering your time for the Saturday, Feb. 20 event, please contact Amy Lorenz (University Relations) at alorenz@georgefox.edu or ext. 2134. Discounts and T-shirts are available for volunteers.
On Thursday, Jan. 21, Howard Kenyon from the Oregon Center for Christian Values (OCCV) will speak about what sex trafficking looks like in Portland and how OCCV is responding. The session runs from 8 to 9 p.m. in Hoover 208 on the Newberg campus.
Check out occv.org to learn more about the organization’s work of uniting Christians to seek God’s justice in Oregon.
An all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:40 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, in Hoover 105. The meeting was originally scheduled for Jan. 28 but had to be changed.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. For best results, use Mozilla Firefox for your web browser, and your computer must have QuickTime Player installed. Simply copy the link into the address bar of your browser. If you have any problems, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569.
In addition, a chat room has been set up to allow for interaction. A video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing the following day at itunesu.georgefox.edu.
Friday is last day to submit nominations for January Employee of the Month. Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (HR) if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for January Employee of the Month.
Your e-mail should include the person’s name, job title, a concise but specific summary of this person’s contribution(s) to the university, its students, and/or its employees in the past 30 days or so (what was done, who was impacted, etc.), and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.
Please submit your nomination by this Friday, Jan. 22. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the Employee(s) of the Month from the nominations submitted. The winner(s) will be announced at the all-employee meeting on Thursday, Feb. 4, and will receive a $100 gift certificate to The Allison.
The Thursday, Jan. 21 Faculty Teaching Forum has been canceled. Join us on Wednesday, Feb. 3, for the first Faculty Teaching Forum of the semester when Greg Smith, chief information officer, discusses forthcoming educational technologies. More details of the Feb. 3 teaching forum will be posted closer to the event.
Mark Terry (Visual Arts) will display his work in an exhibit titled “Alchemy: Born of Fire,†an MFA thesis exhibition of ceramic sculpture. The exhibit opens Tuesday, Jan. 19, and runs through Feb. 18 in the Minthorne Gallery.
An opening reception is scheduled Tuesday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. There will also be an artist talk before the reception at 4 p.m. and again at 6:30 p.m. The show includes figurative works featuring spontaneous and organic surfaces derived from primitive firing methodologies.
For more information, call ext. 2619 or e-mail Doug Campbell at dcampbell@georgefox.edu.
IMPORTANT: With the upcoming transition for the Portland Center Bookstore, we will need to finalize textbook purchases for Spring 2010. If you have not yet purchased your Spring books, please do so as soon as possible!
If your course begins later in the semester, you will need to purchase those books early as well! We will begin the process of vendor returns the week of January 25.
As a new semester begins, consider using IT’s WiFi enabled Classroom Responseware solution from TurningPoint Technologies: rwpoll.com. Contact IT for an account. And don’t forget all the uses that our George Fox-enabled Google accounts can provide you. Read about these accounts on the IT site.
George Fox University libraries now provide access to thousands of electronic books through Foxtrax, the library’s online catalog. Our most recent acquisition is a collection of 45,000 leased titles from e-brary, a company that has partnered with 350 publishers to provide access to published books in electronic format.
For additional information about ebrary and other available e-books, please go to the library’s ebook site.
Faculty and adjunct faculty, if your status has changed to adjunct faculty, or you are on contract for all or part of 2010 as an adjunct, you will need an updated parking permit.
Please bring your expired permit to the security office as soon as possible, and we can review your vehicle registration and issue a new permit on the spot. If it is more convenient to do it via campus mail, please send your expired permit to box 6095, and e-mail nkincaid@georgefox.edu with the make, model, color, year, and license plate number of the vehicle(s) you drive, and include a box number so we can mail your new permit.
Please call ext. 2090 if you have any questions.
Thanks!
– Security Services
Want to learn more about making healthy food choices?
Beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, the university invites the community to Food Meet 2010 in the Hoover Academic Building, where attendees can learn about sustainable food, meet local farmers and taste healthy, delicious food from community businesses committed to sustainable, local products. In addition, segments of the recent film Food, Inc. will be shown. The film takes a startling look at what’s happening to our food before it lands on our plate.
Great local food – everything from cupcakes and chocolate to fresh goat cheese – will be available to sample. There will also be many booths where guest vendors and organizations will be demonstrating ways to grow, buy and prepare healthy food.
A $2 admission will go to organizations seeking to promote local, ethical, healthy and delicious ways of eating. More information and the R.S.V.P. are available at georgefox.edu/green/food-meet-2010. Questions? Contact Corey Beals at ext. 2661 or cbeals@georgefox.edu.
THIS Thursday, Jan. 14 wear your BLUE ZONE shirt for the Portland Center’s support of the GFU basketball program. We will have shirts available for purchase ($5 for most folks & $4 for students) and wristbands for free.
Wear your BLUE ZONE t-shirt…and enter the drawing at the front desk for grand prizes.
Then bring your family on Saturday, Jan. 16 to the GFU basketball games at the Newberg campus. All Portland employees, students & families will be able to sit together in reserved seating and have pizza to eat between games. The boys’ game starts at 6 p.m and the girls’ game is at 8 p.m. Entrance is free with your GFU ID card.
GO BRUINS!
The Wireless access key has been changed for the Boise, Portland and Salem campuses. The new key can be found on the front page of mygfu.georgefox.edu or by asking at the front desk at the affected campuses.
Those at the Portland Campus are strongly encouraged to connect to the “foxwifi” network rather than the “foxguest” network. Foxwifi is more secure and will soon offer extra features (such as printing from your laptop computer). For help connecting to foxwifi please visit the IT office in the Information Commons.
C.S. Lewis Academy and George Fox are cosponsoring an “Internet Safety Seminar for Parents” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21, in Hoover 105 on the Newberg campus.
Led by Detective Todd Baltzell of the Newberg-Dundee Police Department, the event will cover:
For more information, contact C.S. Lewis Academy at 503-538-0114.
