The Daily Bruin

If you did not get a chance to see Dale Seipp’s (Enrollment Services) presentation to campus on vision for the Enrollment Services division, you are invited to view it via a podcast. Go to this link:  http://media.georgefox.edu/cgi-bin/itunesustaff.pl.

Please email your comments to rclarke@georgefox.edu.

The university will host its annual Spring Theological Conference the week of Jan. 28-30. This year’s event will feature author and speaker Frederica Mathewes-Green, who has written eight books and published more than 600 articles in publications that include the Washington Post, Christianity Today, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

The theme of the week is “The Heart of Christian Faith and Praxis.” Mathewes-Green will speak in chapel on Monday and Wednesday and also host a public media event from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29. That night, she will speak on “Media, Pop Culture, and the Roots of the Sexual Revolution.” The session is free for George Fox students, employees, and families. A box for free-will offerings will be available for those who wish to make a donation.

Also Tuesday, an “intellectual feast” is scheduled from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. The topic will be “Orthodox Spirituality and Post-Christian Hunger for God.”

For more specifics on the week, contact Margaret Fuller (Religious Studies) via e-mail or at ext. 2650.

Master of Arts in Teaching admissions continues to accept applications for admission. Please be in touch with admissions counselor Beth Molzahn for further information about becoming a teacher in the state of Oregon and the MAT admission process. She can be reached via e-mail or at ext. 2264.

Dale Seipp, Jr., candidate for VP of Enrollment Services, will be at the Portland Center Friday to speak to the community in two meetings.

9:45 to 10:30 a.m.: All Enrollment Services staff in Room 155

10:45 to 11:30: All Academic departments (deans/directors) and staff in Room 155

Each year we extend an opportunity for one of our faculty members, undergraduate or graduate, to go to Wuhan University in China as a visiting lecturer. This typically happens in May or June for three to four weeks. The details:

• Wuhan provides an apartment and a small food allowance.
• Restaurants are inexpensive, and there is a kitchen in the apartment. Invitations to share meals are frequently extended by other faculty members.
• The faculty member is responsible for his or her own travel cost to Wuhan. This might be about $1,200.
• The faculty member will be asked to teach about 15 hours a week in his or her subject field, with other requests and expectations sometimes added to that.
• Wuhan sometimes provides an excursion to points of interest in the region, such as the Three Gorges Dam.
• There is space in the apartment for a spouse to go along. If this person is a professor, he or she may be asked to teach as well, but this is not mandatory.
• Wuhan is a large, interesting city and is quite hot at that time of year.

Interested? Contact Lon Fendall (Center for Global Studies/Center for Peace and Justice) via e-mail or at ext. 2685.

You also may want to talk with others who have been visiting faculty members before. Marley Brown (Management) was the 2007 visitor.

Kenn Willson (Performing Arts) will perform “Viennese Connections,” a multimedia showcase of the university’s Bösendorfer Imperial Grand Piano, at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, in Bauman Auditorium. There is no admission charge.

The performance will be a tribute to Vienna-based composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Willson will perform Italian Hymn, arranged by Melody Bober and Willson, and an arrangement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony Fourth Movement theme, arranged by Victor Labenske and Willson. The concert also will feature Sonata Op. 27 #2 (Moonlight) and Sonata Op. 31 #3.

Three of the four songs are based on themes and music written by Beethoven during the time he lived and worked in Vienna. A photo presentation will feature pictures taken at Heiligenstadt, northwest of Vienna, where Beethoven wrote his last will and testament to his brothers in 1802. Willson will speak about this transitional time in Beethoven’s life.

For more information, call ext. 2620.

A faculty teaching forum, “By My Students’ Consent: The Professor’s Authority,” will be presented by Ken Badley (Education) from noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, in the Executive Dining Room on the Newberg campus.

The session will examine several roots of professors’ authority. The session assumes that expertise and a contract at George Fox are necessary but not sufficient, and then focuses on how student goodwill and consent interact with teacher “chutzpah” (self-authorization), concluding that both these sources of authority also are necessary for sustained classroom work. Participants will consider briefly whether our students’ epistemology is shifting because of the Internet. It also considers some of the dangers present in the relational classroom.

To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (Student Life) by 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 28. 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 forums will be available at the “Events and Resources” link on the Center for Teaching and Learning website.

The first Newberg Saturday Market is set to kick off Saturday, Feb. 2, on the Newberg campus. The market will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. the first Saturday of each month (Feb. 2, March 1 and April 5) in the Edwards Holman Science Center (EHS). The market is being run by a group of senior business majors, and a portion of the proceeds will go to the Patrick Kibler Fund.

Questions? E-mail nsmarket@gmail.com.

A faculty business meeting is scheduled from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. (11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mountain time) on Friday, Jan. 25. The Newberg meeting will be in Hoover 105; Portland attendees will meet in PDS 281; and Boise employees will meet in the Boise Center conference room.

A thought from the Faculty Handbook on the values behind faculty business meeting: “Access and participation – All faculty members, regardless of official position, possess judgment and insight potentially useful in decision making.”

– Academic Affairs

Soul Food Buffet

Wednesday, Jan. 23, 4:30 p.m. – 7 .pm. in Klages Dining Room

Sponsored by Bon Appetit and Multicultural Services

Please join us for dinner Wednesday night for an authentic Soul Food Buffet as we celebrate with the Multicultural Club the birthay of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  Along with all your Mo-Town favorites, we’ll be serving Smoked Carlton Farms BBQ Ribs, Southern Style Fried Chicken, Yams, Black Eyed Peas, Collards, Cornbread, Peach Cobbler & Sweet Potato Pie. 

Staff/Faculty/Guests $10.

Denny Lawrence,  dlawrenc@georgefox.edu

The university will close Monday, Jan. 21, to observe the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. There will be no day or evening classes or chapel services at the Newberg campus, Portland Center, or Salem Center. Also, the university’s offices, libraries, and bookstores will be closed.

A service trip to Portland is scheduled Monday, with transportation leaving from the Stevens Center lot in Newberg at 9 a.m. The trip will include visits to the Burnside Rescue Mission and the Next Step Transitional Facility. Call Burel Ford (Multicultural Services) at ext. 2318 or via e-mail (bford@georgefox.edu) for more details.

FoxServe will be unavailable for access from 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, through 5 p.m. Monday., Jan. 21 (Pacific Time). This interruption to normal service is to take care of some planned maintenance on the server system. You may be more familiar with FoxServe as your “H” drive (personal drive space). Some other ways FoxServe might be utilized is as departmental drive space; you might see it as a “K” drive, “R” drive or similar “lettered” drive.

This planned outage is not expected to affect the Portland campus data storage locations and does not have any affect on FoxTALE or FoxFiles.

Please contact the IT Service Desk if you have concerns or questions about this planned maintenance outage.

– IT Service Desk

Please Note: To see if you will be affected by this outage, double-click on My Computer (Windows) or select Connect To Server from the Go menu (Mac). Look at the network drives listed. If any drive has “foxserve” in its name/address then it will not be available. A few of our H: drives and many of our shared drives actually reside on Foxserve in Newberg.

Employees are welcome to a 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, concert marking the return of one of George Fox’s favorite Christian bands, Five O’clock People, to the Bauman Auditorium stage. This concert is a great chance for fans, new and old alike, to share in the music of this critically acclaimed group.

Admission is $10 per person. Tickets will go on sale Tuesday, Jan. 22. 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) at vtimmons@georgefox.edu or at ext. 2131.

Employees and spouses have the opportunity to attend a workshop that provides self-discovery and financial planning instruction and tools as well as presentations on how to become engaged in rewarding volunteer and/or post-retirement paid activities.

This workshop is being offered for the first time to Oregon Independent Colleges Association members at a special discounted price of $150 (includes both the employee and spouse), which covers lunch and materials.  Sign up today while space is still available.

Employees have the choice between two dates: Saturday, Jan. 19, or Friday, Jan. 25. Both sessions will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Portland Center.

Register by e-mail at kshimada@lifebydesignnw.org or by contacting Life by Design Northwest at 503-731-6650. Participants will be sent a pre-work packet electronically (for those registering for Jan. 19) or via mail (for those registering for Jan. 25).

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.

Additional information    Online application

You are cordially invited to join in the celebration of MLK during the week of Jan. 21-25 in the following events:

Jan. 21: Service day, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Rescue Mission, Next Step Transitional Facility and the Wherehouse.
Jan. 22: “Beloved Community” with Steve Sherwood (Religious Studies) in Hoover 105, 7-8 p.m.
Jan. 23: Chapel with singer Julianne Johnson, accompanied by Michael Allen Harrison and a message from Matt Hennessee
Jan. 24: Film and discussion on MLK, EHS 102, 7-8:30 p.m.
Jan. 25: Serve with Urban Ministries, meet in Bruin Den at 6 p.m.

In the best interest of the university, all painting is to be evaluated and completed by Plant Services. Painting is done on a cyclical basis. Requests for painting will be placed on the schedule according to the discretion of the paint department. To have your painting need evaluated, a work request can be submitted with the approval of the building monitor. Each request is evaluated against the condition of the rest of the campus before painting commences to make sure that decent areas are not taking precedence over areas that are in poor condition. There is a palette of colors available for discussion.

Painting that is requested which falls outside the parameters of normal maintenance cycles will be evaluated by Plant Services and may be charged to the requesting department. Wall finishes other than paint also require review and approval by Plant Services. Outside contractors may be retained and will be supervised by Plant Services.

In student housing, when a transition of residents occurs, the campus painter in consultation with the superintendent of building repair and the director of housing will determine whether a location should be painted before the maintenance cycle requires that it be done.

Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley (Plant Services) at dokelley@georgefox.edu.

Volunteers are needed to help with Kaleo 2008, scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 23.  Volunteers will be needed at various times. Volunteers will receive a $10 discount off of their registration and a free Kaleo T-shirt. For more information, contact Amy Lorenz (Alumni Relations) at alorenz@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2134.

Join us in honoring MLK Day with a day of service on Monday, Jan. 21. Service opportunities include the Burnside Rescue Mission and the Next Step Transitional Facility. Transportation will be provided from the Stevens Center lot at 9 a.m., with arrival back at George Fox scheduled for approximately 4 p.m. Please call Burel Ford (Multicultural Services) at ext. 2318 or via e-mail (bford@georgefox.edu) for more details and to sign up.

David Sherwood (Social Work), editor of the journal Social Work & Christianity for a number of years, will be available this semester to consult with faculty regarding publication, particularly in journals, and to provide editorial assistance with writing projects. Some of the areas David may be able to help with include:

• Identifying and refining publishable writing projects
• Understanding what editors in general or specific journals are looking for
• Understanding the realities of the manuscript submission, review, and revision processes
• Individualized editorial consultation and feedback on writing projects

Faculty at any campus may contact David at dsherwood@georgefox.edu and consultation can be conducted via e-mail or face-to-face on the Newberg campus.