The Daily Bruin

Caitlin Corning (History) will share pedagogical reasons she incorporates technology into her courses at a Faculty Teaching Forum from 12:40 to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23, in Cap and Gown A (note the different location than on the academic calendar). Caitlin will also demonstrate some of the educational technology she uses. Participants will have opportunity to discuss how and why they use (or don’t use) various technologies for their courses.

To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (jwithers@georgefox.edu) by 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 21. Everyone is welcome to attend the session, whether bringing a lunch or reserving a lunch. Please have your lunch ready so we can begin the conversation at noon.

All faculty — full time, part time, and adjunct — are invited to attend Faculty Teaching Forums (FTFs). Video podcasts of FTFs will be available on iTunesU.

This Friday’s Faculty Research Forum will feature Professors Eloise Hockett and Gary Kilburg (School of Education), who will discuss their work with The Mentoring Institute. The presentation will include how creating opportunities and a culture of collegiality allows professionals to share knowledge and support the success of one another, including how investing in others can supply important professional connections.

The session is scheduled from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. in Hoover 105.

Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (HR) if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for 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 Friday, Sept 18. 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, Sept 24, and will receive a $100 gift certificate to the Jory Restaurant at the new Allison Inn & Spa in Newberg.

The university’s Science Outreach Program has a new updated website. The new fall schedule for youth science classes can be found online. Check it out at georgefox.edu/science_outreach.

Starting immediately, the Newberg campus bookstore has officially changed its name from George Fox University Store to Bruin Bookstore. The new name allows the bookstore to represent the university with a more collegiate feel and gives us the opportunity to highlight our great mascot. Same great merchandise, same great service, great new name! Come check us out.

This is a reminder of the Tuesday, Sept. 15, Intellectual Feast, which will discuss the topic “Quaker Approaches to Higher Education” from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 250.

Outlining their essays in the most recent issue of Quaker Religious Thought, Jamie Johnson will present on “From Cutting Edge to Chopping Block: Reclaiming a Quaker Approach to Christian Higher Education,” and Paul Anderson will present on “The Mission of the Christ-Centered Quaker College.”

Free copies of the QRT issue will be available for the first 20 attenders. Refreshments provided!

There are still openings available for the three-day intensive course on how to apply foundational biblical principles to basic business concepts. The course, Biblical Entrepreneurship 1 (BE 1), will be hosted at the Portland Center Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 17-19. Sessions will be from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.

The course is being offered at a discounted rate of $250 for George Fox employees, students and alumni.

Online registration is available, and more information is posted on the course flier and website.

Also, you are invited to hear about biblical entrepreneurship directly from course founder Patrice Tsague on Wednesday, Sept. 16, when he speaks at the monthly Northwest Christian Chamber of Commerce lunch meeting from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Hayden’s Lakefront Grill, 8187 S.W. Tualatin-Sherwood Road, in Tualatin.

Religious Studies is hosting an Intellectual Feast, discussing the topic “Quaker Approaches to Higher Education” from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, in Hoover 250.

Outlining their essays in the most recent issue of Quaker Religious Thought, Jamie Johnson will present on “From Cutting Edge to Chopping Block: Reclaiming a Quaker Approach to Christian Higher Education,” and Paul Anderson will present on “The Mission of the Christ-Centered Quaker College.”

Come and learn about this important topic together, and share your own views as well. Free copies of the QRT issue to the first 20 attenders. Refreshments provided!

Do you teach anything about environmental science, ecology, creation care, sustainability in any of your courses? Or perhaps you teach an entire course dedicated to one of these topics?

The Creation Care Committee wants to know about it. Please let us know even if you just teach on such a topic one day out of the entire course. We are trying to get an inventory of where creation care and the environment are being taught in our curriculum. Also, let us know if you are hoping to teach on such matters or would like to in the future. Please respond to Corey Beals at cbeals@georgefox.edu with your response.

“How Great is Our God” is the theme for this year’s Staff Development Conference, scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at Family Life Church in Newberg. This will be a day of encouragement, as well as a fun-filled day of learning and serving together. All staff members are expected to attend. Watch your campus mailbox for more information.

Please join the Staff Development Committee give HUGS (hats, umbrellas, gloves and scarves) to Love INC from Sept. 9 through Oct. 19. Items not covered by food stamps are also gladly being accepted. Donations can be placed in the brightly decorated barrels located in lobbies throughout the Newberg and Portland campuses.

Due to a last-minute conflict, Provost Patrick Allen will not be leading Thursday’s regularly scheduled Faculty Teaching Forum. Instead, a panel of George Fox professors will take part in a roundtable discussion about teaching practices that have been effective at the university.

The session will still meet from noon to 1:20 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10, in Cap and Gown Room A (note different location than on academic calendar). All faculty – full time, part time, and adjunct – are invited to attend Faculty Teaching Forums (FTFs). Video podcasts of FTFs will be available on iTunesU.

Tilikum is offering an opportunity for women who are ready for a different kind of retreat experience Oct. 2-4. Planned activities include the challenge course, a vineyard hike, and lake canoeing. These will be directly tied to your life, woven together with times of goal-setting and reflection.

Cost is $199 per person. Current university students and employees receive 25 percent off ($149). For more information and to register, please see the link on the Tilikum website, camptilikum.org.

Kam’s Coffee House & Catering will be offering evening meals Monday through Thursday evenings on the south end of the second floor of the Portland Center. The first evening meal will be served Tuesday, Sept. 8.Full meal: $7.50 (Entree, salad, & drink)Entree only: $5Salad only: $3Meals will be available 5 to 7 p.m.

The library is pleased to announce that we now provide access to a suite of 32 periodical and reference database products from Gale/Cengage. Examples of our new databases are Gale’s Academic OneFile, covering a broad range of disciplines and subject-specific databases such as the Health & Wellness Resource Center and Business & Company Resource Center.

A complete list of these new databases is available. Databases can also be found at the Databases A-Z list on the library’s home page (library.georgefox.edu), and in some library subject guides.

The university’s History and Political Science Department is hosting the 17th Hoover Symposium from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, in Hoover 105.

Joshua Hawley, author of Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness, will speak on the origins of the conservationist movement. Kendrick A. Clements, author of Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism, will address the question of whether Hoover was a conservationist, an environmentalist, or something else. A panel of experts will consider whether or not history can offer practical lessons for modern environmentalists.

Registration and lunch are free for the first 100 people who register. Contact Mark Hall (Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Political Science) at 503-554-2674 or mhall@georgefox.edu to register or for further information.

With the academic year now underway, Employee of the Month Awards will resume. This year’s winners will be selected from nominations from coworkers and other colleagues. Support staff and administrators from all sites are eligible to receive this award once each year. Monthly winners will be announced at the all-employee meetings and each will receive a $100 gift certificate to the Jory Restaurant at the new Allison Inn & Spa in Newberg.

Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (Human Resources) if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for 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 Friday, Sept. 18. 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, Sept 24.

Selah 2009 is just around the corner! The annual women’s seminar is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26, in Bauman Auditorium. This year’s theme is “Reimagine: Embracing change, trusting God and moving forward.”

This year’s speakers are Sarah Thomas Baldwin, Linda Lucas and Bo Stern. For their bios and a complete list of the breakout session presenters, please visit selah.georgefox.edu. If you have any questions or if you are interested in volunteering for Selah, contact Amy Lorenz (University Relations) at alorenz@georgefox.edu or ext. 2134. All volunteers receive a $10 discount on their registration.

See you there!

The School of Management invites the university community to its Quarterly Speaker Series, which opens with the session “Negotiations 101: How to Drive an Effective Win-Win Deal,” from 7 to 9 a.m. Friday, Sept. 18, in Portland Center’s Room 155.

Guest Jim Cross, a George Fox MBA alumnus, is a contracts and negotiations manager for Intel Corporation’s Global Indirect Procurement organization. Jim’s global organization leads negotiation teams on strategic supply chain engagements. He has worked in global supply chain management for more than 14 years and has been at Intel Corporation for 10 years.

Cross will address pertinent aspects of negotiation and dispel the notion that negotiations have a “win-lose” outcome. Effective negotiators know that long-term success is measured by “win-win” outcomes. Grounded in communication, these outcomes occur when negotiations bridge the gap of false information and miscommunication — skills especially needed by managers and leaders of complex organizations today.

Attendees will learn about negotiating, and in so doing improve their personal communication in a positive way that fosters “win-win” outcomes in all aspects of life.

Please R.S.V.P. if you plan to attend: georgefox.edu/som/events.html.

Provost Patrick Allen will lead a Faculty Teaching Forum titled “Classroom Practices: Three Paths to Better Teaching” from noon to 1:20 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10, in Cap and Gown Room A (note different location than on academic calendar).

The session will review three “oldies, but goodies” in classroom practice: “Desirable Difficulties,” “Spacing” and “Metacognitive Monitoring,” and discuss how they can assist student learning. A recent Chronicle article suggests that they many not always be appropriate, so we will put our heads together and discuss when and where they work – and when they don’t. Inexperienced and experienced teachers invited!

To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (jwithers@georgefox.edu) by 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 8. Everyone is welcome to attend the session, whether bringing a lunch or reserving a lunch. Please have your lunch ready so we can begin the conversation at noon.

All faculty — full time, part time, and adjunct — are invited to attend Faculty Teaching Forums (FTFs). Video podcasts of FTFs will be available on iTunesU.