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Are you in an ADP or graduate degree program and planning to finish this fall? Have you submitted your Application for Degree (Graduate Application for Degree or ADP Application for Degree)?
Please be sure to do so before next week to avoid a $50 late fee. If you are not certain whether your form is on record, please feel free to contact your enrollment manager.
FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, Sept. 22, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.
– Your Education Technology Team
IT Service Desk – servicedesk@georgefox.edu
George Fox will welcome visitors from Indonesia on Thursday, Sept. 24, through the International Visitor Leadership Program, a U.S. Department of State-sponsored professional development program that works to create mutual understanding between citizens of the U.S. and other nations. Faculty and students are invited to meet our visitors from 3 to 4 p.m. in Roberts 117.
The IVLP program is focused on tolerance and diversity in education, and the project is designed to further the U.S. foreign policy goal in education cooperation. The visiting group includes Indonesian educators, administrators and policymakers involved in Indonesia’s Islamic education system.
Participants will examine how religious education institutions are mainstreamed in the United States and explore how religious and secular schools, along with faith-based and other civil society organizations, work together as a force for social harmony.
Questions? Contact Janelle Freitag at jfreitag@georgefox.edu.
George Fox will welcome visitors from Indonesia on Thursday, Sept. 24, through the International Visitor Leadership Program, a U.S. Department of State-sponsored professional development program that works to create mutual understanding between citizens of the U.S. and other nations. Faculty and students are invited to meet our visitors from 3 to 4 p.m. in Roberts 117.
The IVLP program is focused on tolerance and diversity in education, and the project is designed to further the U.S. foreign policy goal in education cooperation. The visiting group includes Indonesian educators, administrators and policymakers involved in Indonesia’s Islamic education system.
Participants will examine how religious education institutions are mainstreamed in the United States and explore how religious and secular schools, along with faith-based and other civil society organizations, work together as a force for social harmony.
Questions? Contact Janelle Freitag at jfreitag@georgefox.edu.
The university’s security department will be testing the FoxAlert emergency notification system on Wednesday, Sept. 16. This is the university’s alert notification system for events that may pose a danger or threat to the George Fox community.
If you have not updated your contact information in MyGFU, you will not be in the system and you will not receive emergency alerts. Please verify this information to be included in the test.
Thank you.
Questions? Contact Ed Gierok at egierok@georgefox.edu.
Save the date! Matthew J. Milliner, an assistant professor of art history at Wheaton College and a member of the Curatorial Advisory Board of the United States Senate, will present a free lecture on the Newberg campus titled “Toward 2017: Visualizing Christian Unity” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, in Hoover 105.
Milliner teaches across the range of art history, and his scholarly specialization is Byzantine and medieval art, with a focus on how such images inform contemporary visual culture. He has a PhD in art history from Princeton University and an MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary.
Milliner’s talk is the first lecture in the annual William Penn Honors Program Lecture Series. A reception for those interested in learning more about the William Penn Honors Program will immediately follow. Please direct any questions to Jane Sweet at 503-554-2152 or jsweet@georgefox.edu.
This coming Monday, Sept 7, is Labor Day. Therefore, Mail Services will not its courier service to the Portland Center. Please note that next week’s courier delivery will be on Tuesday and Thursday.
In addition to Labor Day, none of the carriers will be making their rounds, so there will be no outgoing packages on Labor Day.
Finally, Mail Services will have special hours (2 to 4:30 p.m.) on Serve Day (Sept. 9).
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Richard Silver at 503-554-2551 or rsilver@georgefox.edu.
Follett Higher Education Group took over operation of the BlueZone Bookstore in June of 2015. The store has been renamed the Bruin Store (Georgefoxshop.com), and now offers textbooks and merchandise in one location. At the beginning of each semester, undergraduate and graduate textbooks will be offered for sale in the Bruin Store and no longer in the Textbook Annex. The remainder of the year the Bruin Store will be your source for Bruin apparel, accessories, gifts and general school supplies.
Part of our agreement with Follett is that they have the exclusive right to sell merchandise and services traditionally offered in college and university bookstores, including but not limited to, all required course materials (print and digital); class and alumni rings and jewelry; clothing (whether or not emblematic); school supplies; desk and dorm accessories; gifts; souvenirs; graduation regalia (sale and rental) and announcements; course-adopted software and paper and electronic custom anthologies; and textbook buybacks.
This agreement does not prohibit sales by student groups or student government organizations, but Follett should be consulted with prior to these sales.
If you have any questions, please email Matt Hammar at mhammar@georgefox.edu.
Need Microsoft Office on your computer? Want to get it for free?
Office 365 provides Microsoft Office for PC and Mac computers and selected mobile devices for as long as you are a George Fox student. Login into Office365 with your GFU email and password. You will be provided with the most recent version that will work with your operation system. You can install one or all of the following: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote.
Questions? Contact the IT Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2569.
For your convenience, textbooks are now located in the Bruin Store, near the cafeteria/Bruin Den, on the Newberg campus. (The Textbook Annex is no longer being staffed.)
Undergraduate students should bring a copy of their class schedule to purchase books. Graduate students are encouraged to order in advance using our online store and have books shipped to their home or campus box. All students are encouraged to order books in advance at georgefoxshop.com (click the “Books” tab, then select courses) to have their books ready when they arrive on campus.
Welcome to the new Bruin Store! We look forward to seeing you.
Questions? Contact Sandy Gidding at sgidding@georgefox.edu.
While most student concerns and complaints can and should be resolved informally, there is a formal general complaint procedure described in the “Support for Students†section of the Undergraduate Student Handbook as well as on the Graduate/DPS Policies page of the website.
Please note that these procedures cover complaints of a general nature and do not supersede specific policies involving special cases such as grade appeals, sexual harassment, etc., which are covered elsewhere in the Student Handbook, Catalog or Graduate/DPS Policies.
For more information, contact the student life department at studentlife@georgefox.edu.
Follett Higher Education Group took over operation of the BlueZone Bookstore in June of 2015. The store has been renamed the Bruin Store (Georgefoxshop.com), and now offers textbooks and merchandise in one location. At the beginning of each semester, undergraduate and graduate textbooks will be offered for sale in the Bruin Store and no longer in the Textbook Annex. The remainder of the year the Bruin Store will be your source for Bruin apparel, accessories, gifts and general school supplies.
Part of our agreement with Follett is that they have the exclusive right to sell merchandise and services traditionally offered in college and university bookstores, including but not limited to, all required course materials (print and digital); class and alumni rings and jewelry; clothing (whether or not emblematic); school supplies; desk and dorm accessories; gifts; souvenirs; graduation regalia (sale and rental) and announcements; course-adopted software and paper and electronic custom anthologies; and textbook buybacks.
This agreement does not prohibit sales by student groups or student government organizations, but Follett should be consulted with prior to these sales.
If you have any questions, please email Matt Hammar at mhammar@georgefox.edu.
For your convenience, textbooks are now located in the Bruin Store, near the cafeteria/Bruin Den, on the Newberg campus. (The Textbook Annex is no longer being staffed.)
Undergraduate students should bring a copy of their class schedule to purchase books. Graduate students are encouraged to order in advance using our online store and have books shipped to their home or campus box. All students are encouraged to order books in advance at georgefoxshop.com (click the “Books” tab, then select courses) to have their books ready when they arrive on campus.
Welcome to the new Bruin Store! We look forward to seeing you.
Questions? Contact Sandy Gidding at sgidding@georgefox.edu.
Need Microsoft Office on your computer? Want to get it for free?
Office 365 provides Microsoft Office for PC and Mac computers and selected mobile devices for as long as you are a George Fox student. Login into Office365 with your GFU email and password. You will be provided with the most recent version that will work with your operation system. You can install one or all of the following: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote.
Questions? Contact the IT Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2569.
For your convenience, textbooks are now located in the Bruin Store, near the cafeteria/Bruin Den, on the Newberg campus. (The Textbook Annex is no longer being staffed.)
Undergraduate students should bring a copy of their class schedule to purchase books. Graduate students are encouraged to order in advance using our online store and have books shipped to their home or campus box. All students are encouraged to order books in advance at georgefoxshop.com (click the “Books” tab, then select courses) to have their books ready when they arrive on campus.
Welcome to the new Bruin Store! We look forward to seeing you.
Questions? Contact Sandy Gidding at sgidding@georgefox.edu.
FoxTALE will be unavailable on Friday, Aug. 21, from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Pacific Time) for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Do you enjoy helping people? Have you considered a career as a school counselor, school psychologist, clinical mental health counselor, or couple and family systems counselor? Interested in trauma counseling or play therapy?
If so, then join an upcoming Graduate School of Counseling information meeting to learn about masters-level counseling programs offered at George Fox. Your bachelor’s degree does not need to be in psychology to apply.
An info meeting is scheduled from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 18, in Room 155A at the Portland Center. We will be joined by Dr. Rand Michael, associate professor and director of the marriage, couple and family counseling program at George Fox. Register online at this link or learn more about our programs at counseling.georgefox.edu.
Contact Joel Moore at jmoore@georgefox.edu or 503-554-6166 if you have questions or to schedule a one-on-one appointment.
Don’t forget to join us for Mark Ocker’s retirement reception at the Portland Center this Friday, Aug. 14, from 5 to 7 p.m. Mark has touched the lives of many people in the George Fox community over the years, and we look forward to an evening of celebration. There is no cost to attend, and all are invited.
For more information, contact Ashley O’Doherty at 503-554-6180 or aodoherty@georgefox.edu.
The IT department posts updates, how-tos and tips relevant to university supported software, including the Google Apps Suite, Microsoft Office, Windows 7, Apple OS, iOS and more.
To subscribe to the group TechTips: Hints, Tips and Updates from George Fox IT and receive posts by email, click on this link and then select “Join Group†(requires George Fox sign-in).
Questions? Contact Kandie Comfort at kcomfort@georgefox.edu.
