Newberg campus offices will be closed tomorrow (Friday) for the mid-semester holiday. The Murdock Library will be closed, but the 24-hour space will remain open. The library will resume regular hours of operation over the weekend.
The Bruin Store will be open for regular hours (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) on Friday.
Interested in applying for a George Fox University Grant? Simply use this Grant Registration Form to learn how many resources and people are available to assist in the process. The form is required for any university employee interaction funders and is necessary for letters of inquiry, fellowship grants, or grant proposals by faculty or staff at George Fox.
Start your form today! If you have questions or need assistance, please contact Sarah Tenney, director of development for government, corporate, and foundation relations in the advancement office, at stenney@georgefox.edu.
Providence members: Find out about the Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyle (HEAL) program provided by Providence Health Coaching.
As a Providence Health Plan member, you may be eligible to participate in this free lifestyle coaching program. It is an evidence-based weight management program designed to help you build healthy habits, improve your well-being, and lower your risk for developing Type 2 diabetes.
Our live and virtual group classes allow you to interact with your coaches and other program participants. You will also have opportunities to interact one-on-one with your coach.
Find out if you are eligible or ask our team questions by calling 503-574-6000, and click here to learn more.
Providence members: Enter to win the LifeBalance Fall Contest! Participation is easy. Your name will be entered into weekly prize drawings each time you log in to the LifeBalance site, so log in throughout the month for more chances to win!
Don’t have an account? Create your free account at Providence.LifeBalanceProgram.
Contact Aga Luptak at aluptak@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.
What is resilience? Psychologists define resilience as the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress, such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems, or workplace and financial stressors.
As much as resilience involves “bouncing back” from these difficult experiences, it can also involve profound personal growth. Find out here how to build your resilience, how to help others do the same, and why Denmark is believed to be the most resilient and happiest country in the world.
Contact Aga Luptak at aluptak@georgefox.edu for further information.
If you’ve ever had a concussion, please participate in this senior research study on gender disparities during concussion recovery. Participation in the study includes filling out a single survey that should take no more than 20 minutes to complete.
This research will be used to determine a correlation between gender and symptom severity and the recovery rates of concussions. We hope this research will be beneficial for developing better treatment plans and guidelines for concussions.
For more information, contact Kaitlyn Springer at kspringer19@georgefox.edu.
Disclaimer: These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.
Please attach the full itemized receipt(s) to all Concur transactions (the “Total” transaction receipt is not sufficient for audit purposes). Reports without the proper documentation will be returned.
Please contact Kathi Becker at 503-554-2166 or kbecker@georgefox.edu if you have questions.
The Behavioral Health Center (BHC) has availability for new therapy clients! We are staffed by well-trained students from the university’s doctor of psychology program.
The BHC exists to provide low-cost therapy and assessment services to the broader community in and around Newberg, which includes George Fox employees and their families.
Therapy is $30 per session. We are setting up a system to accept FSA/HSA; please let us know in advance if this is your preferred method for payment.
For more information, visit georgefox.edu/bhc or call 503-389-0565.
Did you know that 20.4 million people in the United States were diagnosed with a substance use disorder in the past year, yet only 10.3% received treatment (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2022).
Help is available. Contact Canopy (1-800-433-2320) to connect with a counselor, receive treatment information and start the journey to recovery, for you or your loved ones.
You’re also invited to join us for a webinar entitled “Drug and Alcohol Awareness: Supporting Ourselves & Others” from 11:30 a.m. to noon this Thursday, Oct. 6. Go here to register.
For more information, contact Aga Luptak at aluptak@georgefox.edu.
As the Purchasing & Accounts Payable teams prepare for the upcoming training session (date and venue TBD), would you please provide a list of questions that you would like them to answer?
Please click here to enter your questions. Contact Frank Charles at fcharles@georgefox.edu for more info.
The faculty and staff of the School of Communication and Design (SOC+D) cordially invite you to a Lemmons Center open house today (Friday) from 3 to 6 p.m. We’ll begin with opening remarks and the introduction of special guests from 3 to 3:30 p.m.
Join us to celebrate the remodeling of the campus arts center, thank those who worked on this project, and tour our new spaces filled with student work! Food and refreshments will be served. Everyone is invited!
Contact Penny Martin at pmartin@georgefox.edu with any questions.
Come see renowned Christian author, teacher and alumnus Richard J. Foster present an award in his name to pastor and fellow author Trevor Hudson this Monday, Oct. 3. The 7 p.m. presentation in Canyon Commons will be followed by Hudson’s keynote speech and a reception. Hudson will also speak at chapel the next morning, Oct. 4, at 10:50 a.m.
Can’t make Monday’s session? You can watch it at this link.
A selection committee selected Hudson as the first recipient of the Richard J. Foster Award in Spiritual Formation. The award recognizes those whose intellectual and practical work helps others come into an ongoing transformational relationship with Jesus Christ.
Hudson is the author of more than 20 books, the most recent of which, Seeking God: Finding Another Kind of Life with St Ignatius and Dallas Willard, was released in September.
Contact Carly Reumann at creumann@georgefox.edu for more information.
The Office of the Provost would like to wish you a very happy birthday! If you had a birthday in July, August, or September, we would like to celebrate you.
Please stop by the academic affairs office today (Thursday) or tomorrow between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. for a slice of cake! We’re located on the second floor of Hoover in HVR 230.
Portland Center employees may pick up their birthday treat at the front desk. Questions? Contact Laurie Fair at lfair@georgefox.edu.
We hope you and your family are enjoying the beginning of fall. The sneezing season is upon us. How do we determine what the symptoms mean and how do we get help? Find out on this infographic.
If you are unwell, please stay home and take good care of yourself.
– People and Culture
The Office of the Provost would like to wish you a very happy birthday! If you had a birthday in July, August, or September, we would like to celebrate you.
Please stop by the academic affairs office tomorrow (Thursday) or Friday, Sept. 30, between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. for a slice of cake! We’re located on the second floor of Hoover in HVR 230.
Portland Center employees may pick up their birthday treat at the front desk. Questions? Contact Laurie Fair at lfair@georgefox.edu.
Join us on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 3-4, for the Interprofessional Primary Care Institute’s Strengthening Team™ Ethics & Legal Considerations Suicide Prevention two-day event.
Day 1: We will explore safety, security, risk and common ethical and legal concerns in healthcare practice, followed by applying these concepts to emerging roles in primary care (behavioral health clinicians and culturally responsive community health workers). We will share experiences of power differentials in high-quality primary care early adopters.
Day 2: Kent Corso, PsyD, will present “Proactive Reduction of Suicide in Populations via Evidence-Based Research.” After that, we will discuss suicide in healthcare workers, as well as a system-wide approach to suicide prevention in primary care sustained since 2011.
If you would like to register for the event, sign up here. Contact Tammy O’Doherty at todohert@georgefox.edu with any questions.
In order to process an invoice, the Accounts Pay team needs all of the below-mentioned information:
AP receives a multitude of emailed payment requests, and there is a high probability of those getting buried, especially in cases wherein any of the above information is missing in the email.
To comply with audit requirements, AP does not have access to the purchasing module; thus they are unable to themselves obtain PO and receipt numbers from PeopleSoft.
In order to improve our current “Procure to Pay” process, and to help you to pay your invoices in a timely manner, we have released a Request for Payment form. This form replaces emailed and paper payment requests.
We are planning a formal training session in the coming months where we will share more information with you. In the meantime, feel free to email your questions to purchasing@georgefox.edu.
Thank you,
The Accounts Pay and Purchasing Teams
The faculty and staff of the School of Communication and Design (SOC+D) cordially invite you to a Lemmons Center open house this Friday, Sept. 30, from 3 to 6 p.m. We’ll begin with opening remarks and the introduction of special guests from 3 to 3:30 p.m.
Join us to celebrate the remodeling of the campus arts center, thank those who worked on this project, and tour our new spaces filled with student work! Food and refreshments will be served. Everyone is invited!
Contact Penny Martin at pmartin@georgefox.edu with any questions.
The women of the George Fox community (staff, faculty and administrators, as well as female spouses) are invited to the Fall Ladies’ Luncheon on Tuesday, Oct. 4 . Ruth Baker will be hosting this come-and-go event from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Canyon Commons 101-103.
A short devotional and prayer will be held at noon. Come and connect with other women in our community over a delicious meal. There is no cost to attend.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP using this link. We look forward to seeing you there!
Contact Faith McKee at fmckee@georgefox.edu or ext. 2103 with questions.
One of our graduates is on the brink of changing how doctors treat chronic cardiac disease. Joel Rurik, a 2016 graduate of George Fox’s biology program, will explain the details of his research in a lecture all are welcome to attend this Monday, Sept. 26, at 3 p.m. in Hoover 105.
Rurik is now a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, where he does cutting-edge gene therapy research. Most recently, his team’s work was featured on the front cover of Science, the top research journal in the United States.
Cardiac fibrosis, a scarring of the heart, underlies most cardiovascular diseases and remains challenging to target therapeutically. Chronic cardiac disease often results in fibrosis, which negatively affects heart health and function. Therapies targeting this cardiac fibrosis remain limited, but Rurik’s research offers a promising and tractable immunotherapy approach for tackling fibrosis.
Contact Carly Reumann at creumann@georgefox.edu for more information.
