The Daily Bruin

The second round of diversity book discussion groups for faculty will begin soon, but there is still time to sign up! We will be reading and discussing Black Scholars in White Space: New Vistas in African American Studies from the Christian Academy, by Anthony B. Bradley.

Groups will meet …

• Tuesdays, Oct. 18 – Nov. 22, 4-5 p.m. in Stevens 207
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• Thursdays, Oct. 13 – Nov. 17, 10:40-11:40 a.m. in Stevens 109,
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• Wednesdays, Oct. 19 – Nov. 23, 3-4 p.m. in PDS 290 at the Portland Center

Please join us, and sign up at this link. Questions? Contact Rebecca Hernandez at ext. 2147 or Laurie Fair at ext. 2140.

If you’re staying on campus for the mid-semester holiday, we have plenty of fun to fill your schedule! Come join us at the weekend’s athletic events.

Saturday, Oct. 8, 2:30 p.m. – Men’s soccer vs. Pacific, Austin Sports Complex
Saturday, Oct. 8, 5 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Linfield, Wheeler Sports Center
Sunday, Oct. 9, noon – Women’s soccer vs. Willamette, Austin Sports Complex

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.

On Thursday, Oct. 20, at 10:20 a.m., the university will participate in The Great Oregon Shake Out, an exercise designed to test the school’s emergency notification systems as well as create dialogue among the George Fox community on how to be personally prepared should an earthquake occur.

While the potential earthquake hazards depend upon your location, you could be anywhere when an earthquake strikes – at home, at work, at school or even on vacation. What we do now will determine our quality of life after our next big earthquake. Are you prepared to survive and recover quickly?

The Great Oregon ShakeOut is an annual opportunity to practice how to be safer during big earthquakes: “Drop, Cover and Hold On.” The ShakeOut has also been organized to encourage us to review and update emergency preparedness plans and supplies and to secure our spaces in order to prevent damage and injuries.

Stay tuned each week, as we will provide a link to resources to help you get ready.

We are creating a proposal for the student project fund to put more lighting around campus. This is a two-minute survey to find out how important it is for students to have more lighting around campus.

Lighting on Campus

Please take time to fill this out. We appreciate your input.

Thank you.

Don’t forget to mark your calendars: On Thursday, Oct. 20, the university will participate in The Great Oregon Shake Out, an exercise designed to test the school’s emergency notification systems as well as create dialogue among the George Fox community on how to be personally prepared should an earthquake occur.

To help prepare you for an earthquake, just follow this link for “Seven Steps to Prepare for an Earthquake.”

If you are a global business major, an accounting major or anyone else interested in the opportunity to study business in international settings, come to an International Business Institute (IBI) info meeting from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. today (Wednesday) in Hoover 102.

IBI is designed with business in mind for a unique study abroad experience. The 10-week program incorporates the international dimensions of business and culture by integrating academic study with international field experience. It includes periods of residence in key locations as well as coordinated visits and presentations in the major political and economic centers of Russia, The European Union, India and China.

Though the meeting begins at 4:30 p.m., stop by anytime during the session to learn about these exciting opportunities that build skills and competency in global business and cultural awareness – a critical need for today’s business careers.

Questions? Contact Kelly Borror at kborror@georgefox.edu.

Enterprise Car Share is open and ready for business. You can pick up a coupon in the student life office for a special offer: $1 to join. The coupon expires Dec. 31, 2016.

For more information, go to EnterpriseCarShare.com/GeorgeFox.

Starting this fall, the Council on International Educational Exchange will begin accepting applications from U.S.-based faculty to teach as guest instructors at one of four Global Institutes (Berlin, London, Paris and Rome). These institutes allow academics from around the world to share and improve teaching practices.

CIEE invites interest from faculty from any of the following disciplines …

• Liberal arts
• Business
• Communications and new media
• Political science and international relations
• Foreign language and literature (French, German and Italian)
• Health sciences

Each course is 45 contact hours (60 for language instruction) taught in either a six-week block during a semester or a four-week session in the summer. Explore each of CIEE’s Open Campus programs and review courses by starting at the Global Institutes landing page.

Applications will be accepted for any of the Global Institutes’ three terms:

• Summer: three four-week sessions from late May to mid-August
• Fall: three six-week blocks from mid-August to mid-December
• Spring: three six-week blocks from mid-January to mid-May

Get more information on the visiting faculty program and apply here.

Have you ever thought about living and working overseas? Are you passionate about serving people and their communities? Come join Lisa Snell, a Peace Corps recruiter who served in the Peace Corps in Morocco for two years, at an info session today (Wednesday) from noon to 1 p.m. in Canyon Commons (Room 101).

Serving in the Peace Corps is a great way to immerse yourself in a new culture, learn a new language, and have the experience of a lifetime. Bring your lunch and join us to learn about Peace Corps experiences, ask questions about service, and gain tips to guide you through the application process. Register to attend at this link.

Faculty, please let your students know about this opportunity.

Contact the IDEA Center with questions.

Before traveling to Sam Houston University to present his “Encounters with Beethoven” program this Friday, music professor Kenn Willson will perform music from the concert for the George Fox community today (Wednesday) from 9 to 10 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

Feel free to swing by any time as your schedule allows for this “open house” play-through.

Know of students who struggle with test-taking skills? Encourage them to come to an ARC-sponsored workshop, “How to Get A’s on All Your Tests (or at Least Become a Better Test Taker),” tomorrow (Thursday) from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in Hoover 105.

Rick Muthiah, director of Learning Support Services, will cover several strategies for improving performance on tests. Questions? Contact Rick at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu.

Do tests drive you crazy? You read the book, did the assignments, studied the night before, and still didn’t do as well as you wanted on your test. What else can you do?

Tomorrow (Thursday), Rick Muthiah, director of Learning Support Services, will cover several strategies for improving performance on tests in an ARC-sponsored workshop, “How to Get A’s on All Your Tests (or at Least Become a Better Test Taker).” Join us from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in Hoover 105.

Questions? Contact Rick at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu.

Want to do something tangible for local foster parents? Embrace Ministries, an outreach ministry of George Fox that helps show hospitality to those in the foster care system, is hosting Foster Parents’ Night Out, a monthly event where we provide a fun and safe place for children in foster care to hang out so their parents can have a night out.

Dates planned are Nov. 5, Jan. 4 and Feb. 4. If you are interested in helping out or learning more, please email Jamie Kitchen at jkitchen15@georgefox.edu.

Join us in the Prayer Chapel tomorrow (Thursday) for Contemplative Worship! This week, we’ll be doing the Examen, which is a practice focused on gratitude and reflection.

Join us from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. Elective chapel credit is available.

Calling all student musicians, bands or solo artists: If you are interested in performing a set at this year’s Fall Carnival (Friday, Oct. 28), contact Ashley Meyer (ameyer14@georgefox.edu) with a recorded video/demo/mixtape. Multiple bands will be chosen to play at this year’s carnival, and we’d love it to be you!

Due to a family emergency, special guest John Foubert will be unable to speak at the Portland Center tomorrow (Wednesday) as originally scheduled. Foubert, a professor of higher education and student affairs administration at Oklahoma State University, was to speak on the important topic of ending sexual violence.

Foubert expressed his regrets for being unable to speak to the George Fox community at this time. The university plans to reschedule his visit on a future date to be determined.

Questions? Contact the student life office at studentlife@georgefox.edu.

Due to a family emergency, special guest John Foubert will be unable to speak on the Newberg campus today (Tuesday) and at the Portland Center tomorrow (Wednesday) as originally scheduled. Foubert, a professor of higher education and student affairs administration at Oklahoma State University, was to speak on the important topic of ending sexual violence.

Foubert expressed his regrets for being unable to speak to the George Fox community at this time. The university plans to reschedule his visit on a future date to be determined.

Questions? Contact the student life office at studentlife@georgefox.edu.

Due to a family emergency, special guest John Foubert will be unable to speak on the Newberg campus today (Tuesday) and tomorrow (Wednesday) as originally scheduled. Foubert, a professor of higher education and student affairs administration at Oklahoma State University, was to speak on the important topic of ending sexual violence.

Foubert expressed his regrets for being unable to speak to the George Fox community at this time. The university plans to reschedule his visit on a future date to be determined.

Questions? Contact the student life office at studentlife@georgefox.edu.

The IT department welcomes Jeremy Bascom as an applications analyst this month. He arrives from Marshall B. Ketchum University in Fullerton, Calif., where he worked for the past 20 years as an assistant director of information technology (2012-16), a network engineer (2008-12) and as a systems support employee (1996 to 2008). He attended Citrus College in Azusa, Calif. Jeremy lives in Sherwood with his wife, Lori, and their four children – Lelia, Olivia, Elliott and Timothy. They attend Colossae Church in Sherwood.

The College of Education has hired Donna Kestek to serve as co-director of clinical practices. She is transferring to the position after working as a teacher education associate at the university since January of this year. Prior to joining George Fox, Donna worked as a computer applications/office systems instructor at Portland Community College. She also taught keyboarding and software training as a business technology instructor at Mt. Hood Community College and at Clackamas Community College. She started her teaching career in the business department at Roseburg High School before teaching at Aloha High School for 10 years. Donna holds a master’s degree in teaching from Portland State University and a bachelor’s degree in education from Oregon State University. She lives in West Linn with her husband, Jeff. She has a daughter, Amy, who teaches kindergarten in Central Oregon and a son, Brett, who is an accountant working in Atlanta. Donna and her family attend Willamette Christian Church in West Linn.

Jocelyn Stein joins the university to serve as the events coordinator for the William Penn Honors Program. She worked the past five years as the director of women’s ministry at Countryside Community Church in Sherwood. Previously, she worked for the Sherwood School District as a teacher in the district’s Alternative Learning Center from 2006 to 2008. She also gained teaching experience as an English teacher at North Salem High School (2004-05) and as a language arts teacher at The Bear Creek School in Redmond, Wash., (2002-2004). Jocelyn is married to Matt and they have three children: Braden, Emma and Caleb.

The Murdock Learning Resource Center has hired alumnus Jacob Vahlenkamp to work as a library assistant on a half-time basis. It marks a return for Jacob, who was a work-study student for the library all four years as an undergraduate student from 2011 to 2015. He was also an RA during his senior year in 2014-15. After graduating, Jacob spent a year working as a teller at a bank in Longmont, Colo. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Christian ministries from George Fox (2015) and lives in Portland. He attends Imago Dei Community in Portland.

After 25 years of service to the university, Linda Sartwell (Mail Services) retired from George Fox last week.

Kyle Pfeiffer (Alumni Relations) left the university after accepting a position at a high-tech company that recruited him.

The university recognized Gina Braden (Physical Therapy) and Kristie DeHaven (IDEA Center) as its Support Staff Employee of the Year and Administrator of the Year for the 2015-16 academic year, respectively.

Jenny Elsey (Intercultural Life) made a presentation, “Addressing Campus Climate: Student Life Programming and Leveraging Institutional Assets,” at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities’ 2016 Diversity Conference in New York, N.Y., in September. The presentation was highlighted under the conference category of “Pedagogy and Practice.” The conference, hosted by the CCCU Diversity and Inclusion Commission, chaired by Rebecca Hernandez (Associate VP of Intercultural Engagement & Faculty Development), reached a record number of attendees and provided space to address difficult questions and issues that arise in creating an inclusive community.

Rebekah Hanson (Music) recorded and released a musical album, Unfolded, with her orchestral rock band, The Cabin Project (June, 2016). Rebekah wrote and recorded vocal and string parts with the band over the past two years. The Cabin Project has toured throughout the United States and played in many festivals, including SXSW, Seattle’s Folklife and The Denver Underground Music Showcase.

Ed Higgins (English) published the poem “Grunion Fishing” in the Sept. 28, 2016, edition of the Peacock Journal, an online literary magazine that celebrates beauty. The poem is accompanied by Ed’s short creative nonfiction piece “on Beauty.”

Paul Otto (History) led a webinar on wampum for the America in Class program sponsored by the National Humanities Center. The presentation was part of a series of live, interactive professional development webinars the center hosts for history and literature teachers, conducted by leading scholars.