Each university student, staff, and faculty member is entitled to one complimentary ticket to Black Boy, the one-man play featuring Broadway actor Charles Holt. The production is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. this Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. The complimentary tickets are available at the University Store. To purchase additional tickets, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.
“Get in Step with George Fox University†is the theme of Homecoming 2008, scheduled this Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9, on the Newberg campus. Hosted by Alumni Relations, this annual celebration includes a diverse selection of events designed to help alumni reconnect with each other and with the university.
Festivities include a Five O’Clock People concert on Friday night, the Alumni Celebration Brunch Saturday morning, class reunions (for the classes of 1938, 1948, 1968, 1978, 1983, 1988, and 1998) Saturday afternoon, and a young alumni gathering at Abby’s Pizza on Saturday night. Additionally, this year’s schedule features two special affinity reunions: one for alumni of Pacific College (George Fox pre-1949), and one for alumni of Steve Grant’s (Health and Human Performance) ballroom dance classes.
To find out more about these events, as well as information about the homecoming basketball games and the theatre production Black Boy, visit homecoming.georgefox.edu.
The university community is invited to attend the opening reception of the Visual Arts department’s faculty exhibit, “Psalms,” from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in the Minthorne Gallery.
If you have not already done so, please submit your January time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) this week. Please be sure it is complete, accurate, and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. The link on the HR website for these documents is: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/forms.html.
If your supervisor is not available to sign it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed. And one last reminder for completing time sheets: Do not write any hours on the date marked holiday (Jan. 21) unless you worked the holiday.
– Human Resources
A faculty teaching forum scheduled from noon to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in the Executive Dining Room will focus on creating a tool for evaluating your own classes at midterm.
You will get to put together, using ideas from your colleagues, a tool that fits the course or courses you teach. We will share several examples of mid-course evaluations other faculty use. Bring your own and bring your ideas. Tom Johnson (Religious Studies) will lead the discussion.
To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (Student Life) by 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 5. 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. Video podcasts of FTFs will be available at the “Events and Resources†link on the Center for Teaching and Learning website.
Mulitcultural Services and the university’s theatre department invite the George Fox community to the production Black Boy, a one-person play featuring Broadway actor Charles Holt, on Feb. 8-9. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. both nights in Wood-Mar Auditorium.
Synopsis: Holt plays Richard Wright and a host of additional characters in Wynn Handman’s adaption of Wright’s influential 1945 autobiography Black Boy.
What was life like in the Jim Crow South of the United States as an African American boy in 1908? What were the hardships one had to overcome? In what way was a person buoyed by hope, pride, and dignity? Those questions and others are addressed in the production.
The play is being presented in recognition of Black History Month. Holt has been performing Black Boy for the last seven years throughout the United States. To find out more on Holt and the play, go to charlesholtproductions.com.
Tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. Tickets may be purchased at the box office by calling 503-554-3844 or online at theatre.georgefox.edu.
Tickets are still available for the Five O’clock People concert scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, in Bauman Auditorium. The event marks the return of one of George Fox’s favorite Christian bands.
Admission is $10 per person. To purchase your tickets, stop by the University Relations office or visit http://www.georgefox.edu/alumni/focp.html. All tickets purchased online or over the phone will be at will call the day of the concert.
Questions? Contact Vickie Timmons (University Relations) via e-mail or at ext. 2131.
If you anticipate using any tuition remission benefit during the 2008-09 academic year (fall, spring and/or summer semesters), whether for yourself, a spouse, and/or dependent(s) – and whether for undergraduate or graduate courses – you need to complete a Tuition Remission Request Form and submit it by Monday, March 3.
Please go to this link 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. Please be sure 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 (Academic Affairs). If you are applying for tuition exchange benefits for your child but are not sure he/she will be granted the scholarship, you should also apply for tuition remission at George Fox.
If you have a student who will likely be a freshman next academic year but who has not yet completed the undergraduate admissions process, please complete a Tuition Remission Request Form. Do not wait until he or she has been accepted.
Again, these completed forms must be in Human Resources by March 3. If you miss the deadline, your tuition remission cannot be guaranteed for next year.
What holiday is celebrated on Feb. 1? It’s National Freedom Day. The purpose of this holiday is to promote good feelings, harmony, and equal opportunity among all citizens and to remember that the United States is a nation dedicated to the ideal of freedom.
Major Richard Robert Wright Sr., a former slave, fought to have a day when freedom for all Americans is celebrated. When Wright got his freedom, he went on to become a successful businessman and community leader in Philadelphia. He chose Feb. 1 as National Freedom Day because it was the day in 1865 that President Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment – the amendment to outlaw slavery – to the Constitution.
Wright gathered national and local leaders together to write a bill declaring Feb. 1 “National Freedom Day,” and President Harry Truman signed the bill in 1948 to make it official.
All 2007 W-2 Forms were mailed last Friday, Jan. 25, to campus mail boxes for regular employees. (For employees whose pay is sent to their home address, their W-2’s were sent to the home address as well.)
In the unlikely event that you lose your W-2 and need a replacement, you will need to request it in writing, including e-mails, and allow 24 hours processing time. Human Resources/Payroll will not be able to accept requests for replacement W-2 Forms via phone.
Next Wed., Feb. 6, 6 to 7 a.m. the file and print server at the Portland Center will be down for maintenance.
When you bring or route a package to Mail Services for shipping, please attach one of our bright green “Package Shipping Instructions†which indicates how you want the package mailed and if you need insurance or tracking on the package.
If we receive a package without the green instruction form, Mail Services will send the package out via UPS so it can be tracked. Unfortunately, this can be an expensive method.
Green forms are available at Mail Services or by e-mailing Sherrie Frost at sfrost@georgefox.edu.
Questions? Call ext. 2555
– Sherrie Frost, Director, Mail Services
When you route a package to Mail Services for shipping, please attach one of our bright green “Package Shipping Instructions†which indicates how you want the package mailed and if you need insurance or tracking on the package.
If we receive a package without the green instruction form, Mail Services will send the package out via UPS so that it can be tracked. Unfortunately, this can be an expensive method.
Green forms are available in the Portland Center workroom or at Mail Services in Newberg or you can e-mail sfrost@georgefox.edu
Questions? Call Ext. 2555
Sherrie Frost, Director Mail Services
Spring Serve trips are fast approaching and we need employees or alumni leaders to help facilitate the leadership of a trip with two student leaders. The approximate dates are March 21-29. For more information about these trips and responsibilities, contact Andrea Crenshaw (Campus Ministries) at 503-554-2323 or acrensha@georgefox.edu.
On Thursday, Feb. 7, from 10 to 11 a.m., President Robin Baker will present the strategic vision to the Portland Center community that he and the Strategic Planning Committee have been discussing for the past several weeks. The meeting will be held in Room 155.
Space is still available for the seminary’s Ministry in Contemporary Culture Seminar, featuring author, theologian, and futurist Len Sweet on Tuesday, Feb. 5.
Sweet will speak on “The Influence of Islam on the 21st Century Church” from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Portland Center. Online registration is available through Feb. 1. Click here for more information on the seminar or Sweet.
Questions? Contact Jean Borgman (Seminary) via e-mail or at ext. 6150.
The theatre department is presenting the student-directed Winter One-Act Festival Thursday through Saturday, Jan. 31 to Feb. 2, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. each evening. Come and support these students as they act, direct, and design this event.
The cost is $6 for students, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $10 general admission. Buy tickets online, at the University Store, or by phone at ext. 3844. Students get in free on Thursday night (Jan. 31) if they get their ticket ahead of time from the bookstore.
All George Fox University students (undergraduate and graduate), as well as alumni from the class of 2007, are invited to apply for the honor of presenting a project during the reception prior to the March 7 inaugural dinner for the university’s 12th president, Robin E. Baker, PhD.
Selected applicants will be invited to attend the inaugural banquet and will give casual presentations to attendees during the reception hour, answering questions and explaining their projects when people approach them.
A Sept. 11-14 national conference sponsored by the Peace and Justice Studies Association and Oregon’s Peace and Conflict Studies Consortium is inviting proposals from faculty and students. The conference theme will explore historical, contemporary, and future aspects of struggles toward peace and justice by peaceable means. Presentations may be in the form of research papers, workshops, roundtable discussions, film screenings, and poster presentations.
Proposals may be submitted by April 1 on this website: peacejusticestudies.org/conference/submitprop.php.
Faculty are encouraged to let students know about this opportunity.
You are invited to an MBA informational meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, at the Portland Center. You’ll learn the distinctive features of the program and specifics about curriculum, have the opportunity to speak candidly with current students, get a look at scenes from international business study, and hear alumni successes. Join us and/or tell someone you know who is interested in pursuing an MBA. Questions? Contact Robin Halverson (School of Management) via e-mail or at 503-554-6123.
