The Daily Bruin

I need a few more volunteers to help out with the Kaleo conference. I am looking for a few employees who would be willing to help out with various activities that day (Saturday, Feb. 20). If you are interested, please contact Amy Lorenz at alorenz@georgefox.edu or ext. 2134.

All Kaleo volunteers receive a $10 discount on their ticket price and a free Kaleo T-shirt. For more information about the conference, visit kaleo.georgefox.edu.

The university community is invited to hear Howard Kenyon, co-chair of the board of human trafficking for the Oregon Center for Christian Values, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, in Hoover 206. Kenyon will speak about sex trafficking in Oregon.

Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss and ask questions about the multitude of issues OCCV covers, what sex trafficking looks like in Portland, and recent legislation regarding human trafficking (look for info on HB 3623). The event is sponsored by the university’s International Justice Mission Chapter. It was originally scheduled for last week but was changed.

If there is any possibility that you will use tuition remission during the 2010-11 academic year, whether for yourself, a spouse, and/or dependent(s), be sure to complete a Tuition Remission Request Form for each person and submit it as soon as possible. These are due by Monday, March 1, but we would appreciate receiving them as early as possible.

Please visit this link to an HR Employee Benefits page that provides instructions for completing the forms and a link to the forms themselves. It is important to read this information before you begin completing a Tuition Remission Request Form. Incomplete forms will be returned without being processed. For information about the Tuition Exchange program, contact Karlyn Fleming (Academic Affairs).

Shane Roghaar, our TIAA-CREF representative will be at Portland Center February 10 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m in Room 296. You may make an appointment with him to discuss your investments–see the invitation posted on the HR / Benefits web page: http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/hr/EmployeeBenefits/beneforms.html

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