The Daily Bruin

Due to limited staffing while attending a conference in Texas, the Portland Center Bookstore hours will be amended as follows:

Wednesday & Thursday, Feb. 27 & 28
9 a. m. to 4 p. m.

Friday, Feb. 29
CLOSED

Monday through Wednesday, March 3-5
9 a. m. to 4 p. m.

For questions about the closure, email John Stewart, Portland Center Bookstore Director

For bookstore needs during those days, email Candy Schlott at schlott@georgefox.edu.

TIAA-CREF consultants will visit the Newberg campus and the Portland Center in March to offer personal financial counseling sessions. Consultants will help you:

• Develop long-term strategies
• Find the right allocation mix for you
• Develop your own strategy
• Learn about TIAA-CREF retirement income flexibility

Employees may schedule an appointment during one of the following dates:

Monday, March 3: Portland Center, Room 296
Tuesday, March 4: Newberg campus, Hoover 104
Wednesday, March 5: Newberg campus, Hoover 104

Time: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Individual consultant: Shane Roghaar

To schedule an appointment, visit the TIAA-CREF website at tiaa-cref.org/moc.

If you have not already submitted a Tuition Remission Request and you anticipate using any tuition remission benefit during the 2008-09 academic year, please complete a Tuition Remission Request Form and submit it by Monday, March 3.

Go to georgefox.edu/offices/hr/EmployeeBenefits.index/beneforms.html and scroll about halfway down the page to find the link to important information for completing the Tuition Remission Request Forms and the forms themselves. It is important to read the one page of 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 Missy Terry (President’s Office). Again, completed TR request forms must be in Human Resources by March 3. If you miss the deadline, your tuition remission cannot be guaranteed for next year.

The LibQUAL+â„¢ Library Survey is now available. Please take a moment to fill out the survey about the quality of the George Fox library service. The survey is available any time of the day or night from Feb. 25 through March 19. Participants are eligible to win prizes.

Survey URL: http://survey.libqual.org/index.cfm?ID=629358

The Liberal Arts Critical Issues (G.E. Senior Capstone) program is looking for faculty and staff to volunteer to sit on an oversight committee for this fall’s course. The oversight committee would meet two to three times during spring semester to help identify books and speakers for the fall class on Islam. If you are interested in assisting, please contact Caitlin Corning (History) or D. Elizabeth Todd (Communication Arts).

A Faculty Teaching Forum on library databases is scheduled from noon to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, in the Executive Dining Room. Janis Tyhurst and Jane Scott (Library) will present information about Choice Reviews Online, CQ Researcher, and Facts on File World News Digest.

Tired of getting, reviewing, and keeping track of those little white review cards? Want to find out what is being published in your field without looking through those cards? Choice Reviews Online can focus your searches and help you lose those little white review cards.

Frustrated with the rhetoric of sound-bite news? Want to find out the rest of the story? CQ researcher is a useful tool for getting objective in-depth information on political and social issues.

Need to know what happened on this day in history – 50 years ago – or want to read the text from a historical document like the Mayflower Compact? Use Facts on File World News Digest.

To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (Student Life) by 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 26. Everyone is welcome to attend the session, whether bringing a lunch or reserving a lunch.

All faculty — full time, part-time, and adjunct — are invited to attend Faculty Teaching Forums (FTFs). Video podcasts of FTFs will be available at the “Events and Resources” link on the Center for Teaching and Learning website.

The link below will use to podcast Debbie Berho’s presentation on Fri., Feb. 22.

The podcast will run 10:45 to 11:30 a.m.

http://stream.georgefox.edu/live/FacResForum.sdp

“Protestant Hispanic Churches of Washington County, Oregon” presented by Dr. Deborah L. Berho

Faculty can watch this in their office or anywhere else they have web access.

As security has monitored the parking lots lately, we have seen many vehicles with items such as laptops, purses, wallets, cell phones, and other items that would be of interest to thieves. Please help deter them by securing these items in other areas out of plain view. Your cooperation is appreciated.

– Security Services

George Fox and Providence Newberg Medical Center will host a public health forum featuring Dr. David Barker – a physician and researcher who discovered the relationship between birth weight and the risk of coronary heart disease – from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

Barker, a physician and professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Southampton in England and a professor in the Department of Medicine and the Heart Research Center at Oregon Health and Science University, will speak on “Halting the Epidemic of Diabetes and Heart Disease.”

The forum is free and open to the public. In addition to seating in Wood-Mar Auditorium, a live feed of the presentation will be available in Hoover 105.

Barker, MD, PhD, is internationally renowned for what was named the “Barker Hypothesis” by the British Medical Journal in 1995. In 1989, with University of Southampton colleagues, he showed for the first time that people who had low birth weight are at greater risk of developing coronary heart disease. His theory is now widely accepted in the medical community.

ater studies he conducted showed that low birth weight also is associated with an increased risk of high blood pressure, stroke, and Type 2 diabetes. In all, Barker has published more than 200 papers and written or edited five books about the developmental origins of chronic disease.

His Oregon connection began in 2003, when he joined the faculty at the Heart Research Center at OHSU to study how nutrition and growth before birth and during early childhood alter the development of the heart. He is a research partner with Dr. Kent Thornburg, a member of the George Fox Board of Trustees and a 1967 George Fox graduate. Thornburg helped arrange the forum.

For more information, contact Sharon Pilon (Development) at 503-554-2115, or Mike Antrim, senior public affairs and marketing coordinator at Providence Newberg Medical Center, at 503-537-1699.

Professional publication is an increasingly important, but sometimes intimidating, responsibility of university faculty. David Sherwood (Social Work), editor of the journal Social Work & Christianity for 25 years, will lead a Faculty Teaching Forum workshop on writing for publication from noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20, in the Executive Dining Room.

Participants will review issues such as the types of articles that might be appropriate, selection of journals for submission, writing form and style, the peer review process, using editorial feedback, and appropriate ethics. Participants also will discuss their ideas and questions about writing and publication.

All faculty — full time, part time, and adjunct — are invited to attend Faculty Teaching Forums (FTFs). Video podcasts of FTFs will be available at the “Events and Resources” link on the Center for Teaching and Learning website.

During the inauguration of President Robin Baker scholarship will be showcased with a display of books recently published by faculty. The books will be on display during the reception hour of the Inaugural Banquet on Friday evening, March 7, at Rolling Hills Community Church. Guests at the banquet will receive a flier from our online bookstore with a promotional code for free shipping.

If you have written a book that was published after June 2006, please send an e-mail to Ronecca Dockter (Development) by this Friday, Feb. 22, with the title of the book in the body.

Wed., Feb. 20, the print and file server will be down for maintenance 6 to 7 a.m.

Space is still available for employees and students interested in attending this Saturday’s Kaleo conference, featuring Wes Davis, pastor of Newlife Church in Silverdale, Wash. The event, designed to provide training for those involved with youth ministry, will draw church groups and individuals from throughout the region. It is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

“Courageous Leadership” is this year’s theme. In addition to Davis, who will speak on “Dare to Lead” and “Dare to Redeem,” breakout sessions led by several guest speakers will cover 16 topics, including “Avoiding burnout,” “Building a team,” “Mentoring young women,” “Prolonged adolescence,” “Postmodern evangelism,” and “Discipling a godly student living in an ungodly home.” Leading worship will be Mike Hohnholz, who leads a Sunday night service at Beaverton Foursquare Church.

The conference is free for George Fox undergraduate students. Employees and George Fox graduate students pay $25 per person. The price includes a lunch.

For more information or to register, visit kaleo.georgefox.edu.

The Portland Center Bookstore is looking for ways to better serve the Portland Center community. Attached is a survey regarding the Portland Center Bookstore services and Coffee Cart/Food Services at the Portland Center.

The survey consists of 10 questions and will only take a few short minutes of your time. We would like to have the online surveys completed no later than 5 p.m. on Wed., Feb. 20.

We sincerely appreciate your participation. Your input is invaluable.

Click this link: Bookstore Survey

Please contact John Stewart at ext 6126 if you have any questions about the survey.

Career Services is teaming up with the religion and Christian ministries departments to host a seminary fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, in the Hoover Academic Building on the Newberg campus. Seminaries from across the country will have representatives present. Get information from Asbury, Ashland, Fuller, George Fox Evangelical, Trinity Western, Phillips, North Park, Western, and Truett

The Chehalem Symphony Orchestra will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, in Bauman Auditorium. The orchestra, consisting of George Fox students, faculty, and residents of the greater Portland area, will play Mendelssohn’s “Sinfonia #10,” Dvorak’s “Serenade Op. 44,” and the famous “Brahms Hungarian Dances Nos. 5, 6, and 7.”

Later this week, on Thursday, Feb. 21, the university will host a Chamber Concert featuring the Chamber Singers, Trumpet Ensemble, Flute Ensemble, Clarinet Quartet, String Quartet, String Ensemble, and Early Music Ensemble.  It begins at 7:30 p.m. and also takes place in Bauman Auditorium.

The below list includes employees who are slated to receive a service award for the anniversary year ending Sept. 1, 2008. Employees receive awards for service of half time or greater in five-year increments. Recipients will be honored on Wednesday, May 7.

Please take a moment to review this list. If your name is not on it but you believe you should receive an award, or if your name is on the list and you don’t think you should receive an award this year, contact Peggy Kilburg (Human Resources) by e-mail. (If you are a rehire, your previous benefits-eligible experience at George Fox counts toward your service award.) Your help is most appreciated.

To receive a five-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 2002 and Sept. 1, 2003
To receive a 10-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 1997 and Sept. 1, 1998
To receive a 15-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 1992 and Sept. 1, 1993
To receive a 20-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 1987 and Sept. 1, 1988
To receive a 25-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 1982 and Sept. 1, 1983
To receive a 30-year award, your hire date is between Sept. 2, 1977 and Sept. 1, 1978

Five-Year: Larry Shutts, Nadine Kincaid, Debbie Hawblitzel, Creagh Schoen, Sondra Creason, Melissa Thomas, Teresa Arnold, Corey Beals, Doreen Blackburn, Bob Hamilton, Terry Huffman, Melanie Hulbert, Kendra Irons, Rhett Luedtke, Steve Cathers, Gary Spivey, Tim Timmerman, Pat Vandehey, Jim Worthington, Rob Clarke, Danette Loeffler, Vern Choin, Laurie Lorenzen, Joyce Staats, Gary Adams, Nancy Almquist, Andrew Shriver, Glenn Anderson, Patti Odenweller, Tami Ankeny, Michelle Conrad, Kathy Dexter, Marla Sweningson, Barbara Braun, Kris Nelson, Dave Larson, Judy Keeney.

10-Year: John Newberry, Janet Herron, Charlie Kamilos, Patsy Engle, Donna Phillips, Mark Ocker, Kevin Carr, Chuck Conniry, Janis Tyhurst, Carolyn Stansell, Dale Seipp, Dan Schutter, Ron Shaw, Bruce Arnold, Carrie Bohl, Robin Ashford, Dale Journey, Sheri Philips, Bob Dexter.

15-Year: Sheila Bartlett, Steve Delamarter, Chris Koch, Kathleen Gathercoal, Irv Brendlinger, Mark Selid, Kerry Irish, Carol Namburi, Terri Crawford, Melva Lloyd, Debby O’Kelley, Kandie Comfort.

20-Year: Becky Ankeny, Bob Harder, Manfred Tschan, Tim Tsohantaridis, Craig Johnson, Jim Fleming, Zoie Clark.

25-Year: Janelle Baugh

30-Year: Richard Engnell, Hank Helsabeck, Clyde Thomas.

Graduate Department of Counseling students in COUN/MFT 582 Research and Evaluation are working with Michelle J. Cox (Counseling) to investigate baby boomers’ images of God, attachment styles, spiritual transcendence, and emotional well-being.

Student researchers are looking for volunteers born between 1946 and 1964 to complete a 45-minute survey. Anyone willing to participate is asked to contact Michelle via e-mail at mcox@georgefox.edu for more information about the study and when data collection will begin.

President Robin Baker’s Strategic Plan discussion, presented Friday, Feb. 15, is now available at iTunes U. To view it, click on the following link: media.georgefox.edu/cgi-bin/itunesustaff.pl.

A farewell reception for Jules Glanzer (Seminary) is scheduled from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in the main lobby of the Portland Center. Jules is leaving to serve as president of his alma mater, Tabor College in Kansas.