The Daily Bruin

The university’s Salem site will host an open house from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 29, at its new location in the Capitol City Business Center, 4600 25th Ave. N.E., Suite 150. The center is located in the former State Farm Insurance building in Salem. Refreshments will be served following a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a few words from administrators.

The site offers a Master of Arts in Teaching degree, an MAT Plus ESOL endorsement, and an MAT Plus Reading endorsement. Also offered are EDFL administrative licensure courses, doctorate of education courses, and master of education courses.

In addition, the site features the masters in counseling program, most courses for the masters in marriage and family therapy program, and some courses for the masters in school counseling degree.

Finally, School of Professional Studies programs offered in Salem are bachelor’s degrees in management and organizational leadership and social and behavioral studies.

The Portland Center Staff Development Committee invites all Portland Center employees to kick start summer at the annual ice cream social.

A complimentary make your own sundae bar will be provided on Tuesday, May 13 at 2 p.m. in PDS 160.

FoxTALE will undergo maintenance and therefore be unavailable from 6 to 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 13.

The university is hosting its Bruin Basketball Academy for girls and boys from the second through ninth grades in June. The girls meet in Miller Gymnasium June 16-19 and the boys June 23-26, with camps scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each day.

Call Scott Rueck (ext. 2920) or Mark Sundquist (ext. 2918) for a registration form, or visit the George Fox athletics page. The cost is $90 (family rate is $80 for multiple campers from same family). Fee includes a basketball, a T-shirt, and 16 hours of instruction.

President Robin Baker will present strategic planning information and present employee awards at the Portland Center from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, May 8, in Room 155A. Refreshments will follow.

With the postage rate set to increase on May 12, the United States Postal Service is offering a unique option: the opportunity to purchase Forever Stamps. According to the USPS website, “The Forever Stamp, as the name suggests, can be used to mail a one-ounce First-Class Mail letter at any time in the future without additional postage, regardless of when the stamps are purchased or used and no matter how prices may change. Customers who buy Forever Stamps now at the current First-Class Mail stamp price of 41 cents will save a penny when the price of stamps – including the Forever Stamp – increases to 42 cents on May 12.”

If you wish to take advantage of the Forever Stamps, University Mail Services has them for sale in books of 20 for $8.20 through Friday, May 9.  Starting Monday, May 12, the cost of the Forever Stamp will be $8.40 for a book of 20 stamps. Questions? Call ext. 2555.

All employees are invited to attend the Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast this Saturday, May 10 at 8 a.m. in Klages Dining Room.

If you are interested in attending please contact Lon Fendall at ext. 2685 or by email at lfendall@georgefox.edu

All are welcome to attend a TESOL Virtual Seminar in Key Issues on English Language Teaching entitled “Grammaring,” presented by Diane Larsen-Freeman this Wednesday, May 7 from 7 to 8:30 a.m. in Hoover 102 at the Newberg campus.

Teaching grammar often means giving students grammar rules and then having students practice the rules in drills and exercises. Students do learn about grammar this way, but they don’t necessarily learn to use it for their own communicative purposes. Grammaring is a dynamic process. It is what enables language students to use grammar structures accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately. In this Virtual Seminar, we will learn about grammaring, how it is learned, and how to teach it.

Presenter
Diane Larsen-Freeman is Professor of Education, Professor of Linguistics, and Research Scientist at the English Language Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. She is also a Distinguished Senior Faculty Fellow at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. She is a respected author in the field of English language teaching.

Contact: Martha Iancu

Employee e-mail will be down for maintenance from 6 to 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 6.

President Robin and Ruth Baker invite you to attend the annual presentation of employee awards:

Date: Wednesday, May 7
Place: Wood-Mar Auditorium
Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m.

An employee reception will follow from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Ron Gregory Atrium in EHS.

For employees at the Portland Center, Robin Baker will present the strategic planning and
employee awards on Thursday, May 8, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Room 155A. Refreshments will follow.

Want to learn how to make those gorgeous hanging baskets that grace the George Fox quad area? You will learn this skill and help Plant Services in the process by attending a Wednesday, May 21, session at the Plant Services building at 1101 Villa Road. The class begins at 9 a.m. and will last about four hours. You are welcome to join the class at any time.

To find out more, contact the Plant Services office at ext. 2010.

Lost and Found items at the Portland Center are available in the lobby April 25 to May 2.

Please come by and claim your lost item.

For more information, contact Janis Sanford, Office Manager/Asst. Director-Portland Center at jsanford@georgefox.edu

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If you will be in the area this summer, and would like to be part of the George Fox Community Garden, please e-mail Corey Beals (Religious Studies) at cbeals@georgefox.edu or simply talk to him. The garden is located on what used to be the helipad for Providence Newberg Hospital, near the Villa Academic Complex.

The university’s baseball program is hosting its annual Bruin Baseball Camp for ages 8 through high school seniors from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each day June 23-26. The cost is $150 (family rates are available).

To find out more, call head coach Marty Hunter at 503-554-2914 or e-mail him at mhunter@georgefox.edu and put “BSB Camp” in subject line.

The Center for Teaching and Learning is hosting a FoxTALE workday in the Newberg CAI Lab on Tuesday, May 6.

A session from 9 a.m. to noon will focus on using the FoxTALE grade book and quiz features. Participants will learn to set up online quizzes or tests and will discuss the pros and cons of using FoxTALE as one’s course grade book. Attendees also will learn to set up assignments and weighted categories in the grade book. This course assumes that participants have a basic knowledge of FoxTALE.

Any full-time, part-time, or adjunct faculty members are welcome. RSVP to Sheila Abercrombie (IT) by Friday, May 2, to reserve a space in the workshop. Also contact Sheila if you want an introduction to FoxTALE prior to this session.

There will be optional open lab time from 1-4 p.m. in the CAI Lab. All faculty members can come to work on FoxTALE at their own pace and to ask individual questions.

Additional FoxTALE sessions will be offered in August on the Newberg campus and at the Portland Center.

Richard Reiten, chairman of the board for Northwest Natural Gas and the company’s former CEO, will speak at both spring commencement ceremonies this Saturday, April 26. The university will confer 330 traditional undergraduate degrees and 362 graduate, seminary, and professional studies degrees. About 570 students are expected to participate in the ceremonies.

Undergraduate commencement begins at 2 p.m. in Miller Gymnasium in the Wheeler Sports Center, with audience seating at 1 p.m. The ceremony for graduate, seminary, and professional studies students starts at 7 p.m. in the same location, with seating for guests beginning at 6 p.m.

Also, on the morning of April 26, a baccalaureate service is scheduled at 9:30 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

Reiten’s commencement address is titled “A Mission Possible: Making a Difference.” For more scheduling information on commencement weekend, visit the commencement events page.

President Robin and Ruth Baker invite you to attend the annual presentation of employee awards:

Date: Wednesday, May 7
Place: Wood-Mar Auditorium
Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m.

An employee reception will follow from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Ron Gregory Atrium in EHS.

For employees at the Portland Center, Robin Baker will present the strategic planning and
employee awards on Thursday, May 8, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Room 155A. Refreshments will follow.

The university will host a meeting from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, May 8, in Room 155A at the Portland Center to discuss strategic planning and acknowledge service awards. Employees are encouraged to attend.

Engineering will host its second annual Engineering Expo on Friday, April 18, in EHS. From 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Ron Gregory Atrium, engineering class project presentations will be on exhibit.

Then, from 4:30 to 6 p.m., industry-sponsored senior design presentations will be showcased in EHS 102. Featured will be a dry food products automated seasoner for PPM Technologies and a ruggedized portable thermal printer for Tripod Data Systems. Refreshments will be provided.