The Daily Bruin

Staff: Don’t forget the upcoming conference

Staff Development Conference
Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007

Location
Tigard Community Friends Church

Schedule

8:30 a.m. Check-in and breakfast
9:15 a.m. Devotions, prayer, and worship
10 a.m. President Robin Baker
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Introductions, Jeopardy, Video
11:45 a.m. Lunch
1 p.m. Family Feud
1:30 p.m. Chuck Ferguson – author of Indomitable Spirit – Life-Changing Lessons in Leadership
2:30 p.m. Break
2:45 p.m. Chuck Ferguson
3:45 p.m. Evaluations

You are invited to attend the dedication ceremony and open house for George Fox University’s Villa Academic Complex on Monday, Oct. 29, in the VAC lobby. The ceremony is scheduled from 4:15 to 4:45 p.m. The building will be open for tours and refreshments from 5 to 6 p.m.

Parking is restricted to guests from the city and Providence Newberg Hospital. Employees are being encouraged to walk over.

George Fox University Theatre will present alumna Tricia Gates Brown’s Whatever Kindles, a play about the lives of individuals who volunteer for Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT). Details on the world-premiere production are as follows:

Title: Whatever Kindles
Dates: Oct. 25-27; Nov. 1-4
Times: 7:30 p.m. (Nov. 4 performance at 2 p.m.)
Location: Wood-Mar Auditorium
Tickets: $10 general admission; $8 seniors/alumni; $6 students/children under 12*
*Employees receive one complimentary ticket; students admitted free to Thursday performances
Synopsis: Whatever Kindles is a fictional play based on the stories of actual events in the life of CPT. CPT volunteers work to prevent violence and promote alternatives to war in Iraq, the West Bank, Columbia, and other regions in the world devastated by violence.
More information: theatre.georgefox.edu
Note: Mature content

Caitlin Corning (History) will present “Beyond the Pop Quiz: Evaluating Student Learning” at a faculty teaching forum scheduled from noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, in the Executive Dining Room on the Newberg campus.

Studies have shown that students learn best when continually assessed, not just tested with a midterm or final exam. This session will discuss different techniques and assignments to evaluate student comprehension and encourage learning.

Those who have not reserved a lunch through Student Life – email Jere Witherspoon by 4 pm on Monday, October 22 – should bring their own. 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 the sessions will be available at the “Events and Resources” link on the Center for Teaching and Learning website.

Our bookstore will be closed on Friday, October 26 all day while our staff attends training.

It will re-open again on Monday, October 29 for regular store hours.

Our bookstore will be closed on Friday, October 26 all day while our staff attends training.

It will re-open again on Monday, October 29 for regular store hours.

Come pick up free 2006 and 2007 Selah t-shirts from the Pennington House (corner of Sheridan and Center).

Contact Amy Lorenz (ext. 2134) for more info.

It’s that time of year to get your flu shot.

Health and Counseling Center representatives will be at the Portland Center on Monday, Oct. 29, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Please make an appointment by calling 503-554-2340. Walk-ins are also welcome and will be worked into the schedule. Cash or checks will be accepted.

Shots are free for those with Pioneer coverage, $1.50 for George Fox student insurance, and $15 for Kaiser and other insurances.

Career Services is hosting GRE Prep Mini-Course: Taming the GRE. The details:

Date: Saturday, Nov. 10
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Stevens Center Room 209 and CAI Lab
Cost: $85
Registration deadline: Thursday, Nov. 1
Instructor: Susan Dutcher, MS, MA, fourth-year PsyD student

Includes:

• Classroom instruction
• Online practice test
• GRE prep book (30 Days to the GRE)
• “Applying to Graduate School” information lunch

Contact Career Services at ext. 2330 or e-mail careers@georgefox.edu for more information.

Considering Grad School? It’s not as scary as you may think.

Don Asher, a nationally known author and speaker on the subject of grad school admissions, will visit George Fox at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, in EHS Room 102 to discuss how to get into grad school. To find out more, contact Career Services at ext. 2330.

The university’s board of trustees will meet on the Newberg campus on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 19-20. Friday’s plenary session will be in the Cap and Gown Room in Heacock Commons. Saturday’s plenary session is scheduled in the Villa Academic Complex’s Room 117.

The focus of the sessions will be strategic planning, as led by Ian Symmonds of Ian Symmonds and Associates Inc.

“Get Your Passport Day” will take place on the Newberg campus next week. The details:

Passport Day (new or renewal)
Date: Thursday, Oct 25
Location: Cap and Gown A
Time: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The U.S. Postal Service will be on site to take photos and help fill out paperwork. If you already have your photo, they will help with the paperwork.

You need to bring both of these items:

• Original birth certificate (not a copy)

• Government-issued ID (i.e. driver’s license)

Payment is by check only – no money or credit cards accepted. Two checks will be required (one to USPS and one to the State Department).

Questions? Call Ext. 2555

Support staff will spend Wednesday, Oct. 24, at an all-day conference at Tigard Community Friends Church. We will miss their contributions that day, but this annual event is endorsed by the President’s Executive Team with the expectation that all support staff attend. Your full support is needed as well. Some services may be reduced or not provided on that day, but operations should be back to normal on Oct. 25.

Requests to be excused from the conference should only be made due to extenuating circumstances and must be approved by the support staff member’s supervisor(s) and vice president or provost. These requests should not be directed to HR.

– Human Resources

Please join the Portland Center community for lunch at noon Wednesday, Oct. 17, in Room 285.

Lunch catered by Bon Appetit will be available for $3, or bring your own.

It’s that time of year: time to get a flu shot. All Portland Center students, faculty and staff are welcome to schedule an appointment with the university’s Health and Counseling Center at 503-554-2340.

The Office of Multicultural Services and the Center for Teaching and Learning are hosting a brown-bag lunch discussion on diversity in the classroom from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, in the Bruin Den Annex. The sessions will continue to meet every other week.

Multicultural Services staff will be available to answer questions relative to diversity in and out of the classroom. There is not a set agenda, but a relaxed atmosphere of discussion. Resources will be provided.

The Newberg campus will take its mid-semester holiday on Friday, Oct. 12. No classes will be held, and the university’s offices, bookstore, switchboard, and library will be closed. The Portland and Boise sites will remain open.

You are invited for seasonal coffee cake and beverages to celebrate Bon Appetit’s “20th birthday party” in the Bruin Den Annex from 9 to 10 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17. Similar events will take place at the Villa Academic Complex at 9 a.m. that morning and at 5 p.m. at the Portland Center.

Please join the university community in thanking Amy Karjala (Development) for a decade of faithful service to George Fox University. A farewell reception is scheduled from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, in the Stevens Center lobby. Amy has accepted a position with the Mission Increase Foundation in Lake Oswego.

Cards of appreciation are welcome.

Corey Beals (Religious Studies) will present the 2007 Fall Faculty Lecture, “Relational Metaphysics and the Art of Disappearing,” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, in Hoover 105.

Beals will discuss postmodern Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’ view of human nature – a view that suggests that the ethical relation with “the Other,” as he calls, is not derived from human nature but is what constitutes human nature. “In other words, what makes me human is that I am in relation with the ‘Other,’” Beals says. “This relation is not just a type of social contract where we agree not to kill each other, but it is a relation that requires me to be responsible for my neighbor.”

Beals suggests that those who harm others in the face of this relation do so by becoming “invisible to the ‘Other.’”

“The ways of becoming invisible are many, and this is the subject of this lecture,” Beals says.