This Wednesday, Feb. 17, marks the beginning of the season of Lent, the season in the Christian church when we remember the 40 days Jesus spent in the wilderness, fasting and praying, prior to the beginning of his ministry.
Many Christians choose to observe Lent by participating in an intentional spiritual practice, such as fasting, Scripture reading, prayer, generosity, or service. It is a season set aside for repentance and acknowledgment of human weakness, toward greater trust in the Savior.
The season of Lent begins on Wednesday, Feb. 17, and ends on Easter Sunday, April 4. The university pastors invite you to observe this time with us in one of the following ways:
Ash Wednesday
The university pastors will be available at two stations on campus for COVID-safe distribution of ashes. We will be at a table on the quad and outside of the SpiL House from noon to 1:30Â p.m.
Ash Wednesday Worship Service
Worship will be held from 4:30 to 5 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. Due to limited seating, please reserve your spot on the iAttended app (undergrads only).
Lenten Scripture Reading Guide
This daily Scripture reading guide will be available on the SpiL webpage from Feb. 16 to April 4.
Life Groups
These seven-week Life Groups are available for undergraduates and begin the week after Ash Wednesday and conclude the week after Easter. We are offering digital groups and hybrid groups. Click here to learn more.
Holy Week opportunities
Questions or want to meet with a university pastor? Contact the Office of Spiritual Life (spirituallife@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2320). May the Lord bless you!
The Intercultural Resource Center is excited to announce the Reconciliation and Education Program!
Following this month’s SCORR conference, the IRC will host three two-week programs discussing racial reconciliation, anti-racist action steps, and dismantling oppressive systems.
These programs are a great opportunity to commit to learning more about anti-racism while earning two chapel credits! Apply here by Monday, Feb. 22.
The Newberg and Portland campuses will be closed this Monday, Feb. 15,  for the mid-semester holiday. All offices, libraries and bookstores will be closed.
Although the Murdock Library will be closed, the 24-hour space will remain open.
Disability and Accessibility Services is gauging interest in a weekly or bi-weekly ADHD group where students can meet others with ADHD, trade tips and insight, and discuss how ADHD impacts their lives as students.
If this sounds like something that would benefit you, please complete this survey today (Friday).
Today (Friday), the IT Service Desk will be working from home and available during normal hours via phone and email. In-person service will be available from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Service Desk in the Stevens Center.
Join Research and Instruction Librarian Andrea Abernathy online for a workshop covering the SCOPUS database. She’ll show you how to discover scholarship, track citations, and explore relevant journals with confidence.
The workshop will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 2:30 p.m. Click here to register and for more information regarding future library workshops.
This semester, the library is offering a series of workshops to help the Fox community navigate our increasingly digital library environment. Each workshop will be taught by a different librarian, making them an excellent way to refresh your skills, learn something new, or hear an old concept in a new way.
If you visited the university homepage today, you probably noticed some changes!
Marketing Communications has updated the style and content of the homepage as well as some other top-level pages and pages in the About, Undergraduate Admissions, and Giving sections of the website.
This is part of an ongoing project to give similar treatment to all pages on the public university website.
Due to the large number of web pages on the university website (around 5,000) and the extent of these changes, web pages will be re-worked and published in sections rather than all at once. This means that for now there will be some inconsistencies between pages in the new design and pages that haven’t been updated yet.
As part of this update, links in the website footer (the section at the bottom of each web page) have been updated. Some resource links that were located in the footer have been moved onto resource pages for distinct George Fox groups. The links to these resource pages can be found under the heading “Information For” in the footer.
If you have any questions or feedback about any of this, please contact Rob Leslie at rleslie@georgefox.edu.
A group has been created to help female students heal from abusive relationships and be empowered from a faith-based, holistic curriculum created by ARMS (Abuse Recovery Ministry & Services), a local nonprofit.
A George Fox student will be leading the group throughout the semester weekly on Thursdays, starting tonight (Thursday).
To receive the Zoom link or ask any questions, please email or call ARMS at info@abuserecovery.org, 503-846-9284 or 866-262-9284.
George Fox Digital is releasing a series of public lectures on YouTube addressing the pandemic and Christian faith. How are we to understand suffering in light of God’s goodness? What do our academic disciplines have to say about theology and the pandemic?
Join the Academic Resource Center for an APA workshop with Sue O’Donnell. Learn the details of APA style, including formatting, citations, references, writing style, and more.
The workshop will take place Thursday, Feb. 18, from 10:50 to 11:50 a.m. in Hoover 105.
Because of COVID classroom capacity, registration for the workshop is required. Sign up here.Â
You may also sign up to receive the video and slides of the presentation in lieu of attending in person.
If severe winter weather makes travel to or from campus unsafe, George Fox will shift affected classes to online instruction. Classes will not be canceled for snow or ice in spring 2021. Because of COVID-19, faculty already have a reduced amount of class time to provide instruction, and losing additional days is not a feasible option. All classes this semester were created with the option to shift to remote learning for at least short periods of time.
If road conditions are unsafe, employees will be expected to work remotely if they have work that can be accomplished from home. If remote work is not possible, employees should contact their supervisor.
Following is our process for announcing when classes will shift to an online format. The provost will make the decision to shift classes online for the Newberg campus, Portland Center and Salem site for daytime classes by 6:30 a.m., or 2:15 p.m. for evening classes. This applies to all days of the week, including Saturday. Decisions at the Redmond site will be made by the professor.
Major considerations are road conditions, ice, utility service disruption, and how long the severe weather or emergency is likely to last. To find out if a decision has been made when severe weather occurs:
Check for an email to your George Fox email from Office of the Provost or Office of the CFO
Visit the George Fox flashalert.net page. This is the first site updated.
Next Wednesday, Feb. 17, marks the beginning of the season of Lent, the season in the Christian church when we remember the 40 days Jesus spent in the wilderness, fasting and praying, prior to the beginning of his ministry.
Many Christians choose to observe Lent by participating in an intentional spiritual practice, such as fasting, Scripture reading, prayer, generosity, or service. It is a season set aside for repentance and acknowledgment of human weakness, toward greater trust in the Savior.Â
The season of Lent begins on Wednesday, Feb. 17, and ends on Easter Sunday, April 4. The university pastors invite you to observe this time with us in one of the following ways:
Ash Wednesday
The university pastors will be available at two stations on campus for COVID-safe distribution of ashes. We will be at a table on the quad and outside of the SpiL House from noon to 1:30 p.m.
Ash Wednesday Worship Service
Worship will be held from 4:30 to 5 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. Due to limited seating, please reserve your spot on the iAttended app (undergrads only).
Lenten Scripture Reading Guide
This daily Scripture reading guide will be available on the SpiL webpage from Feb. 16 to April 4.
Life Groups
These seven-week Life Groups are available for undergraduates and begin the week after Ash Wednesday and conclude the week after Easter. We are offering digital groups and hybrid groups. Click here to learn more.
Holy Week opportunities
Questions or want to meet with a university pastor? Contact the Office of Spiritual Life (spirituallife@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2320). May the Lord bless you!
FoxTALE will be unavailable Tuesday, Feb. 16, from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes.
Disability and Accessibility Services is gauging interest in a weekly or bi-weekly ADHD group where students can meet others with ADHD, trade tips and insight, and discuss how ADHD impacts their lives as students.
If this sounds like something that would benefit you, please complete this survey by Friday, Feb. 12.
The Intercultural Resource Center is excited to announce the Reconciliation and Education Program!
Following this month’s SCORR conference, the IRC will host three two-week programs discussing racial reconciliation, anti-racist action steps, and dismantling oppressive systems.
These programs are a great opportunity to commit to learning more about anti-racism while earning two chapel credits! Apply here by Monday, Feb. 22.
The university is pleased to offer a confidential campus advocate in partnership with the Sexual Misconduct CARE team. Our confidential campus advocate is a George Fox MSW intern and is located in the Moore House/Intercultural Resource Center on the Newberg campus.
She is qualified to provide advocacy, accompaniment, and referral services to survivors of all forms of violence, including sexual assault, intimate partner violence, hate crimes, stalking, sexual harassment, and other crimes in order to facilitate and promote individual recovery and success.
Confidential campus advocates are required to keep all conversations fully confidential.
If you wish to seek any services, walk-ins are always welcome on Mondays and Thursdays between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. You can also make an appointment on Mondays and Thursdays.
Questions? Contact Jacklyn Gebhard (jgebhard20@georgefox.edu). If you have an emergency, please call 911 or Campus Public Safety at 503-554-2090.
Richter Scholars Program Proposals are due Monday, March 1.
The Richter Scholars program at George Fox distributes funds to support student research activities that are devised, initiated, and carried out by individual student researchers, with mentorship, guidance and expertise provided by a faculty mentor.
The purpose of these funds is to support educational research opportunities that encourage the practices of independent thought leading to independent achievement and personal responsibility.
For the purpose of this program, research is defined as a knowledge-generating activity that is designed to provide new information on a topic, tool, or process, and that proceeds according to established and accepted research methods
Before preparing a proposal, please read through the full proposal guidelines, eligibility requirements, and review criteria by clicking here.
The Wineskin is accepting submissions! The theme for this semester is “FORMATION,†so send us your best poems, stories, essays, and artwork in that stream of thought; we welcome thematic interpretation.
The editors are open to a wide range of styles and subject matter, but we are particularly looking for work that pushes boundaries and surprises us with its artistic approach and perspective of the world.
All are welcome to submit, including employees and those who are not members of the George Fox community!
Submission Guidelines:
Poetry and prose manuscripts must be submitted as a Word document, in Times New Roman, 12-point font. Please title your pieces and remove your name from the document.
Limit all prose to 1,000 words and send no more than five poems per submission.
For artwork: Files should be named as the title of your piece followed by your name. Please remove all watermarks from your work.
All work should be submitted through our website. Submissions close on Monday, March 1, at 5 p.m.
Are you a primary care nurse or in nursing leadership (or know someone who is)? Please join us for a two-day event via Zoom starting Friday, Feb. 19, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. to Saturday, Feb. 20, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. It is free to George Fox students and employees.
The event, titled “Essentials for Interprofessional Primary Care: Nursing & Care Management,â€Â will focus on:
Enhancing person-centered communication and interprofessional knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs)
Exploring strategies to ensure nurses are practicing at the top of their scope in primary care practice
Learning about commonly used screening tools, motivational interviewing concepts/techniques, and transitioning people in care within interprofessional teams and across the healthcare neighborhood
Exploring procedure codes that match nursing services to increase fiscal sustainability
