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We are a team in Marketing 260 class creating and promoting a product. If you could take three minutes to fill out this short survey, it would be beyond appreciated! We are also giving out a $10 Amazon gift card to one of the participants. Thank you!

Bath Products Survey

Questions? Contact Hongyang Yin at hyin13@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.

The faculty of the College of Christian Studies invites the campus community to join them for daily morning prayer weekdays, from 8 to 8:20 a.m., in Hoover 250.

Prayer format will alternate between liturgical and unprogrammed, with various members of the CCS faculty providing leadership. Come as often as your schedule allows. All are welcome.

Questions? Contact Paula Hampton at phampton@georgefox.edu.

All students are welcome to attend the ISI club meeting today (Tuesday) at 7 p.m. in the Center St. House. Snacks will be provided!

Questions? Please contact Chelsea McCombs at cmccombs13@georgefox.edu.

The advancement office welcomes Shannon Johnson as a gift officer. She arrives at George Fox from Warner Pacific College, where she served as assistant director for donor development and campaign activities since January of 2013. Previously she was a clinical care coordinator at Albertina Kerr Youth and Family Services in Portland from 2011 to 2013. Shannon also worked at Young Life for eight years both as field staff/direct ministry in Albany, Ore., (2004-2011) and as an assistant housekeeping supervisor at Washington Family Ranch (2003-2004). She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Seattle Pacific University (2000) and a master’s degree in counseling from George Fox (2011). She lives in Beaverton with husband Michael Johnson, stepson Kilohana, stepdaughter Maliyah and son Isaiah (9 months). They attend Imago Dei Community in Portland.

Meghan Gifford joins George Fox as an administrative assistant for the university’s adult degree programs. For the past year and a half she was a barista and shift supervisor at a Starbucks in Tualatin while also working, since October of last year, as a part-time customer service representative for Therapeutic Associates Inc. She gained higher education work experience as a resident advisor at Azusa Pacific University from 2012 to 2014. Meghan earned a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from Azusa in 2014. She lives in Tualatin and attends Westside: A Jesus Church in Portland.

Jan Lefebvre (Advancement) is leaving the university on Nov. 6 after serving at George Fox for 30 years. She worked for 22 years as a database/gift specialist and the last eight years as an administrative/executive assistant, all in advancement. She will be in Germany this December and January for the birth of her first grandchild, a girl, and plans to continue working in another occupation upon her return to the states, wherever God leads her. She also plans to continue to devote time to ministry and her sewing outreach for Haitians and locals in need.

Keith Dempsey, Beronica Salazar and Lori DeKruyf (Graduate School of Counseling) attended the American Association of Counselor Education and Supervision Conference in Philadelphia Oct. 7-11. Keith received the Western Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Outstanding Leadership Award and presented on “African American Men in Counselor Education.” Beronica presented on “Voices of Doctoral Students of Color in Counselor Education,” “Obstacles and Opportunities: Establishing a Dynamic Counselor Education Career in a Changing Higher Education Environment,” and “Culturally Responsive Supervision: Working with Latino Supervisees and Clients.”

Kevin Jones and Jeff Birdsell (Department of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts) published their essay, “Teaching at-risk high school students communication competence skills through facework and improved self-monitoring,” in the October 2015 edition of the International Journal of Education and Social Sciences. The article identifies the success of a year-long study conducted by Jones, in which at-risk students were tested for communication skill deficiencies, a specific curriculum was designed for those students and taught to them to address those deficiencies, and then post test results showed an improvement in the identified communication deficiencies.

Plum Tree Tavern, an online poetry journal dedicated to nature, environmental and ecology themes, published Ed Higgins’ (English) poem, “Anticipating Winter,” in its Oct. 25, 2015 issue.

Jane Wilson (Admissions) was recognized as the Employee of the Month for October.

Mark David Hall (Politics) published an essay, “Religious Accommodations and the Common Good,” on The Heritage Foundation’s website on Oct. 26.

Ginny Birky (Education) presented a paper, “Mennonite High Schools: A Dynamic Environment for Relationships, Learning, and Faith Development,” at the Mennonite Education Conference at Bluffton University in Ohio Oct. 14-16. The conference was made up of attendees from the seven Mennonite institutions of higher education.

Randy Woodley (Seminary) has published a number of pieces of late.

In books:

• “Beyond Homoiousios and Homoousios: Exploring North American Indigenous Concepts of the Shalom Community of God,” in Trinity in Global Perspective, Majority World Theology Series, Vol. 2
• Forward to Jesus and Pocahontas: Gospel, Mission and National Myth, by Howard Snyder
• Forward to Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys: A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way, by Richard Twiss

In journals and magazines:

• “An Indigenous Theological Perspective on Sabbath” in Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology, Spring 2015, Institute of Mennonite Studies Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
• “Where Post-colonial and Pre-colonial Thought Touch Jesus,” GEEZ magazine, October 2015
• “Mission and the Cultural Other: In Search of the Pre-colonial Jesus,” in Missiology: An International Review, Fall 2015 issue

Randy also spoke recently on “Native American History and Shalom Constructs in Common” in Klamath Falls, Ore., at Journey Towards Healing Community, an event for the public, Klamath Tribes and Klamath Evangelical Association.

Nov. 3              Karen Bowdoin, Nijay Gupta
Nov. 4              Karen Carskadon, Jennifer Farland, Tom Head, Melissa Thomas
Nov. 5              Rob Bohall
Nov. 6              Jon Schatz
Nov. 8              Rebecca Valdovinos
Nov. 9              Jack Lyda
Nov. 10            Glena Andrews
Nov. 11            Rhonda Andrews, Sean Patterson, Steve Wasson
Nov. 12            Kelly Borror, Ian Sanders
Nov. 13            Kristie Knows His Gun, Hannah Stevenson
Nov. 14            Kelly Lafferty, Jan Lefebvre
Nov. 16            Carol Jaquith

Janet Bennett, executive director of the Intercultural Communication Institute and a leading expert in the area of intercultural relations, will be facilitating a lecture entitled “Tools for Improving Your Intercultural Communication Skill Set” on Monday, Nov. 9, from 7 to 8:15 p.m. in EHS 102. All are welcome to attend.

Bennett is a former Peace Corps volunteer, an educator, and an author who has devoted her career to helping others develop intercultural competency.

Questions? Contact Tiona Cage at tcage@georgefox.edu.

Wondering what you will do after graduation? Ever thought about becoming a teacher? Our graduates are in demand. Come to the College of Education’s open house and receive information about our programs and learn about high-need areas in education!

Join us today (Tuesday, Nov. 3) from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in Room 117 at the Roberts Center. The university’s MAT program is available to all George Fox undergraduates (BA/BS). Snacks provided!

Faculty, be sure to tell your students – or anyone you know who might be interested – about this event.

Questions? Contact Judy Deale at jdeale@georgefox.edu.

Shipping deadlines for international addresses and military addresses are posted in the lobby area of each of the post offices. You can also click here for the information.

Mail Services has a variety of Christmas stamps in book format – including the new “Charlie Brown Christmas.” We also have “Gingerbread Houses,” “Winter Fun,” “Poinsettias” and others. The “Holy Family” stamps come in a sheet of 20, rather than a book format.

Stop at Mail Services and get your stamps early!

Questions? Contact Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

Check out what’s new at the Bruin Store …

• George Fox license plate covers: $12.95
• Crew neck sweatshirts: $14.95
• Columbia waterproof rain jackets: $65

Also, check out our new faculty titles in our reading lounge!

The time has come once again to begin the process of selecting our undergraduate “Who’s Who” nominees for the 2015-16 academic year.

For those of you who have contact with our undergraduate population you have the opportunity to make nominations by selecting up to 20 students who you feel are worthy of recognition from the students who qualify for selection. These students are eligible for nomination and expect to graduate either midyear or spring (December 2015 or April 2016).

Please take a few minutes to make your selections for this award! You do NOT need to choose 20 students … just up to 20! Please mark your selections no later than Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. Please choose up to 20 but no more than 20 students.

Click on this link to make your selections:

Who’s Who Nomination Form

In addition, these students all have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.50 and have turned in their application for degree. Other criteria for choosing a student include their demonstration of:

• Personal integrity
• Involvement in the George Fox community
• Service to the community at large

A total of 155 students are eligible for nomination based on GPA alone. We will record the top-20 selections and determine the top-25 choices university-wide. We will then invite the top 25 students to respond. All students who respond will be awarded the “Who’s Who” honor.

(Please note: There may be others who qualify to be on this list, but because they have not registered for commencement at the time of the selection process, they are not on this list.)

Please contact Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu) in the student life office if you have any questions.

Save the date for the Fall Staff Development Conference! This year’s theme is “Building Bridges in Service and Leadership.” Our keynote speaker is Gary Sehorn, an assistant professor in the School of Education since 2010.

The half-day event will be tomorrow (Wednesday, Nov. 4) from 8 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Light snacks will be available in the morning, and we will provide a catered lunch. The conference will be held at Family Life Church, 502 S. St. Paul Hwy., in Newberg.

All support staff 0.5 FTE and above are required to attend. You will need VP approval in order to miss the conference.

Please note: Due to allergies, do not wear perfume or cologne at this event.

Questions? Contact us at staffdev@georgefox.edu.

Come hear a special speaker, Lutaaya Abdul, share about the work he is doing in Uganda through the African Hearts Orphanage. He will visit with us tonight (Tuesday) from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in EHS 102.

Lataaya grew up in the slums of Kampala. He was introduced to Christ at a school that taught the gospel through music. Since then, he has started African Hearts Orphanage, an orphanage for vulnerable young people to improve their safety and physical, spiritual and emotional health and future well-being.

The organization’s target population is children who are living on the streets, many of whom have been orphaned by HIV or abandoned or victimized by family violence. The organization currently operates two homes housing former street children in Senge. Children living in these homes are taught the Bible and are provided with shelter, food, love and education. Lataaya’s visit is being sponsored by the Center for Study Abroad.

Questions? Contact Lynn Scott at lscott@georgefox.edu.

Come join us tonight (Tuesday) in Shalom to hear the stories and struggles of a couple of our international students. If you are interested in joining this discussion, come to the Cap and Gown Room at 9 p.m. to hear about their experiences and to ask them questions as we look more closely at campus diversity and how we can promote justice here.

If you want to learn how to make the bread we share every week in Shalom, come to Lewis 1 at 6 p.m. tonight for a time to learn and fellowship. Both of these are great opportunities, and we hope to see you there!

Questions? Contact Amanda Kitz at akitz13@georgefox.edu.

Come join a student-led discussion regarding the reconciliation of science and religion. We’ll tackle questions such as “How do we become comfortable with opposing viewpoints? How do we bring back critical thinking? What is considered ‘political correctness’ and does that even matter?”

Everyone is invited, and snacks will be provided! We’ll meet from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. tonight (Tuesday) in Lemmons 14. The event is hosted by Sigma Zeta.

Questions? Contact Joel Rurik at jrurik12@georgefox.edu.

The ‘Wineskin’, GFU’s student literary and art magazine, is still accepting submissions for the Fall 2015 issue. If you are a writer, photographer, or artist, this is a great chance to get your work published in a journal.

This issue’s theme is wilderness; if you need an inspiration (or a challenge!) for your submission, you are free to start there. We are asking for:

· Fiction & Non-Fiction Prose: must be a stand-alone piece (1500 word-limit)
· Poetry
· Photography: Include title and send as a 300 dpi image
· Art (Graphic, studio, etc.): Include 300 dpi image (The ‘Wineskin’ is happy to take a quality image for you—email for more information!)

Winners of each category will receive a $25 gift card of their choice.

Email any questions and/or submission(s) to gfuwineskin@gmail.com. Please email submissions as an attached document.

The university will host a pair of free concerts this week, with a Fall Symphonic Band Concert scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 5, and a Chehalem Symphony Orchestra performance set for Sunday, Nov. 8. Both take place in Bauman Auditorium.

Thursday’s symphonic band concert begins at 7:30 p.m. and features the university’s Handbell Ringers and Symphonic Band. The former will play the selections For All the Saints, You Raise Me Up and On This Day Earth Shall Ring, while the latter will perform Symphonic Fanfare, Stardust, Liberation, Florintiner Grande Marcia Italiana, Irish Tune from County Derry and Portrait of Freedom. Cynthia McGladrey serves as conductor of the Handbell Ringers, and Pat Vandehey and Dick Elliot serve as conductor and associate conductor of the Symphonic Band, respectively.

The Sunday, Nov. 8, Chehalem Symphony concert begins at 2:30 p.m. and will feature the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, Concerto in E Minor, and Serenade for Strings in E Major. Also performing will be a Keyboard Ensemble playing Get up and Go and Brightwood Barn. Vandehey serves as conductor of the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra.

Questions? Contact Debbie Hawblitzel at dhawblit@georgefox.edu.

The William Penn Honors Program invites you to join us tonight (Monday) as Melissa Lane, Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University, will give a talk titled, “The Politics of Unsustainability: Plato on the Logic of Constitutional Change.” Her presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. in Wood-Mar Hall.

Lane’s books include The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter (Princeton, 2015); Eco-Republic (Princeton, 2012); Plato’s Progeny (Duckworth, 2001); and Method and Politics in Plato’s Statesman (Cambridge, 1998).

More about Lane is available on this page.

Questions? Please contact Jane Sweet at honors@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2152.

Five staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency they are:

• Enrollment Specialist III, Registrar
• Associate Director of Advancement Communication and Grants
• Costume Shop Manager
• Software Engineer, Analytics
• Data Scientist, Analytics

The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.

Tonight (Monday) in the Chehalem Cultural Center ballroom, printmaker and professor Monika Meler will speak about her work as this week’s Art Talk presenter. She is originally from Poland and has completed many residencies around the world, from New York to Belgium.

Join us at 6 p.m. to engage with Meler’s printmaking work as well as to hear about her process and journey as an artist. The Chehalem Cultural Center is located at 415 E. Sheridan St.

Questions? Contact Annie Lunt at alunt13@georgefox.edu.