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Join us for the First Avenue Career Expo! This is a great opportunity to network with over 100 companies and graduate schools. It will be Friday, April 5, at the University of Portland’s Chiles Center.
For more information, contact the Corina Burke at ext. 2330 or cburke@georgefox.edu.
Do you want free admission to attend the First Avenue Career Expo?
If so, stop by and attend one of our “How to Work a Job Fair†info sessions today (Friday) in the Career Services office from 12:30 to 1 p.m.
For more information and to register for the First Avenue Career Expo, visit olapcfirstavenue.org or visit your Career Services office!
We will be hosting Peace’d Together – An Intercultural Conference on the Newberg campus in April! The purpose of the event is to initiate dialogue that will assist us as we bridge gaps that culturally separate us, find truth where each of our roads cross, and celebrate the contribution each of us bring to the diversity of God’s kingdom and the George Fox community.
This is a free conference and promises to be amazing! It will be held in various buildings on campus Friday, April 12, from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, April 13, from 9 a.m to 6 p.m. The key speakers will be Pastor Tory Campbell, Dr. Caleb Rosado, Dr. Keith Dempsey partnering with graduate student Amber Nelson, Dr. Joel Perez, Dr. Melanie Hulbert and the Student Congress on Racial Reconciliation (SCORR) team.
Even though this is a free event be sure to register for the conference using your GFU e-mail address! You need to be registered in order to attend the conference.
To register, click this link. The conference is hosted by the Department of Inclusion & Student Leadership Programs of George Fox.
We hope to see you there!
Our “How to Work a Job Fair†info session is today (Wednesday) in the Career Services office from 12:30 to 1 p.m.
If you attend this session, your registration fee for the First Avenue Career Expo will be refunded!
For more information and to register for the First Avenue Career Expo, visit olapcfirstavenue.org or visit your Career Services office!
Faculty, please let your students know about this opportunity.
The textbook list for summer semester (including May Term) will go online Monday, April 1. Books will begin arriving the following week. If you are signed up for a course, please wait until the summer listing is posted before ordering to ensure you are getting the correct books.
Questions? Contact Sandy Gidding at sgidding@georgefox.edu.
Don’t forget, this is the last week to contribute to the Backpack Project Food Drive!
Through Friday, March 15, please bring your food donations to the bins provided in the lobby of the Portland Center. Suggested items include: cans of chili, soup, ravioli in meat sauce, boxes of mac & cheese, small juice boxes (100 percent juice only, no foil containers), individual serving fruit cups, healthy snacks, small packages of dried fruits, oatmeal cups, etc.
Monetary donations can be made at the Information Desk. A $100 donation sponsors a child for weekend meals for the entire school year. Donation checks made out to Fremont United Methodist Church will be tax deductible.
Questions? Contact Emily Maynard at emaynard@georgefox.edu.
The First Avenue Career Expo is Friday, April 5! This is a great opportunity to network with more than 100 different companies and graduate schools. It will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the University of Portland’s Chiles Center.
Registration cost is $10, but a fee waiver can be earned by having the student attend the “How to Work a Job Fair†info session in the Career Service’s office on either March 13, 15, 21, 22, or April 2 from 12:30 to 1 p.m.
Questions? Contact Corina Burke at ext. 2330 or cburke@georgefox.edu.
We will be hosting Peace’d Together – An Intercultural Conference on the Newberg campus in April! The purpose of the event is to initiate dialogue that will assist us as we bridge gaps that culturally separate us, find truth where each of our roads cross, and celebrate the contribution each of us bring to the diversity of God’s kingdom and the George Fox community.
It will be held in various buildings on campus Friday, April 12, from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, April 13, from 9 a.m to 6 p.m. The key speakers will be Pastor Tory Campbell, Dr. Caleb Rosado, Dr. Keith Dempsey partnering with graduate student Amber Nelson, Dr. Joel Perez, Dr. Melanie Hulbert and the SCORR Team.
To register, click this link. The conference is hosted by the Department of Inclusion & Student Leadership Programs of George Fox.
We hope to see you there. This is a free conference that will be amazing!
All are invited to the university’s annual Day of Prayer Saturday, March 9. Join us for a call to prayer and worship led by Sarah Baldwin, dean of spiritual life and university pastor, and Josh Tryan, a senior who serves as our worship band leader.
We’ll meet in the west end of the Klages Dining Room from 10 a.m. to noon. Following will be a prayer walk around campus led by members of our Parent Council and a “virtual” walk held in Klages.
Questions? Call the Alumni & Parent Relations Office at 503-554-2134.
At the end of next week Urban Outreach will be putting together care packages for our friends living on the streets of Portland and Salem. To those of you who helped in the coin drive, thank you! That will help a lot toward the cost. I don’t know that we can afford to put everything into them that I had hoped, though. So here’s the plan: I’ll let you all in on the creation of these packages.
Following is a list of items I hope to put in each package.
Travel size of the following: shampoo, soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, comb, floss, one large black trash bag (believe me, it comes in handy), one or two travel-size packs of wet wipes and a pair of socks
One mini care kit containing: Q-tips, Band-Aids, cotton balls, sterilizing swabs and medical tape
Please e-mail me if you would like to contribute any quantity of the items on this list, or if you have ideas about something else to include. I have thought of including small pocket New Testaments, or at least having them available.
Let’s see what God does!
God bless,
Mary Owen (mowen10@georgefox.edu)
A memorial service for Richard Twiss, an adjunct faculty member at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, will be at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, March 10. The service will be held at Living Hope Church, 2711 N.E. Andresen Road, in Vancouver, Wash.
Live online streaming will be made available. Please check the Wiconi website for more information.
Check out the BlueZone Store’s “Item of the Month” …
All full-priced crew neck sweatshirts and hoodies are 25 percent off during the month of March!
This is a reminder that the George Fox University Day of Prayer is Saturday, March 9. In preparation, the spiritual life office is gathering personal prayer requests from faculty, administrators, staff, students and their families.
Please send your prayer request to spirituallife@georgefox.edu by Tuesday, March 5. Write your prayer request in the way that you would like it to read for the Day of Prayer (please include your name in the request unless you would like it to be unnamed).
Send any questions to Kayin Griffith at kgriffith@georgefox.edu.
The George Fox University Day of Prayer is Saturday, March 9. In preparation, the spiritual life office is gathering personal prayer requests from faculty, administrators, staff, students and their families.
Please send your prayer request to spirituallife@georgefox.edu by Tuesday, March 5. Write your prayer request in the way that you would like it to read for the Day of Prayer (please include your name in the request unless you would like it to be unnamed).
Send any questions to Kayin Griffith at kgriffith@georgefox.edu.
The Portland Center food drive for the Northeast Portland Backpack Lunch Program begins Monday, March 4!
The program serves more than 170 students at four Northeast Portland schools. Oregon hunger statistics are higher than the national average. We can’t solve this problem completely, but our community can make a world of difference to this group of children!
From March 4 through March 15, please bring your food donations to the bins provided in the lobby of the Portland Center. Suggested items include: cans of chili, soup, ravioli in meat sauce, boxes of mac & cheese, small juice boxes (100 percent juice only, no foil containers), individual serving fruit cups, healthy snacks, small packages of dried fruits, oatmeal cups, etc.
Monetary donations can be made at the Information Desk. A $100 donation sponsors a child for weekend meals for the entire school year. Donation checks made out to Fremont United Methodist Church will be tax deductible.
Questions? Contact Emily Maynard at emaynard@georgefox.edu.
The university’s Master of Arts in Teaching full-time program that begins this June is still accepting applications for admission. Be in touch with Admissions Counselor Beth Molzahn (bmolzahn@georgefox.edu) for your next step!
Interested in strengthening your academic writing skills? Come to “Steps to Writing a Successful Research Paper,†a workshop presented by Writing Consultant Sierra Neiman and Reference Librarian Robin Ashford, on Saturday, March 2.
Please plan to come for one, two, or all three of the following segments:
This event is free to current George Fox students. Please R.S.V.P. by e-mailing ssneiman@georgefox.edu.
Interested in taking classes this summer at a discounted rate? The university is offering its largest summer class program ever, with more than two dozen course offerings online and another 30 on campus during May Term.
Traditional undergraduate, adult degree and non-George Fox students may take up to three online summer courses at a cost of $452.50 per credit. Courses range from “Principles of Accounting,” “Art History” and “Bible Survey” to “Film Studies,” “United States History from 1865” and “World of Math.” The majority of online courses run June 1 through July 26 and are limited to 20 students per class. To learn more or register, visit the online classes page on the university’s website. A list of courses is available here.
Also available are on-campus classes for traditional undergraduates, the majority of which meet during the month of May. The cost is also $452.50 per credit, and classes are limited to 20 students. Among the course offerings are “Drawing I,” “Beginning Ceramics,” “Bible Survey,” “Persuasive Communication,” “Human Anatomy and Physiology” and “Intro to Literature.” A full list of on-campus courses is here. Students may register for one class per term and can do so on MyGFU.
To learn more about the summer class program, visit this summer classes page or contact Gary Tandy at gtandy@georgefox.edu.
Faculty, please let students know about this opportunity.
Lisa Sharon Harper, director of mobilizing for Sojourners, will be on campus tomorrow (Wednesday) for the university’s 28th annual Woolman Peacemaking Forum. The theme of the event is “Shalom – Holistic Peace for a Fragmented World.” Her visit has been arranged by the university’s Center for Peace and Justice.
Harper has written extensively on tax reform, comprehensive immigration reform, health-care reform, poverty, racial justice, and transformational civic engagement for publications and blogs, including The National Civic Review, God’s Politics blog, The Huffington Post, Urban Faith, Prism and Slant33.
She is the author of two books: Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican … or Democrat and Left, Right & Christ: Evangelical Faith in Politics.
She will speak three times on campus Wednesday:
For more information on Harper’s visit or the forum itself, contact Clint Baldwin at cbaldwin@georgefox.edu. To learn more about Harper, click here.
