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The Office of Spiritual and Intercultural Life welcomes Kearsten McCoy as an administrative assistant and Serve Day coordinator this fall. She recently moved to Oregon from Michigan, where she worked as the director of college ministries for Central Wesleyan Church of Holland, Mich., for the past two years. Before that, Kearsten was a graduate resident advisor at Wheaton College in Illinois from 2011 to 2013 and worked as an office assistant to the residence life coordinator at Wheaton in 2012. Kearsten earned a bachelor’s degree in biblical studies from Indiana Wesleyan in 2010 and a master’s degree in Christian formation from Wheaton College in 2013. She lives in Newberg with her husband Justin, who is working on a graduate degree in marriage, couple and family counseling at George Fox.

George Fox alumnus Rick McNeal joined the marketing communications department last month as digital marketing administrator. Rick graduated from the university in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in music performance (saxophone) and worked in the university’s marketing communications office as a student from 2003 to 2006. Most recently, he has spent the last two years as a communications manager for Holiday Retirement, a national retirement living company headquartered in Lake Oswego. He has been a writer for Mad Fish SEO and a content manager for MyBinding.com. In addition to his degree from George Fox, Rick holds a master of worship arts degree from West Coast Bible College and Seminary (2012) and recently completed the MBA program at Marylhurst University. He lives in Newberg with his wife, Christine, a former admissions counselor at George Fox. They have two children, Ariy and Ava, and attend Sherwood Community Friends Church, where Rick is the director of worship arts.

Lawrence Metzger has moved from Oman to work at George Fox as a visiting assistant professor in the English Language Institute. For the past two years, he was a lecturer at Sultan Qaboos University’s Language Centre in Oman, specializing in educational grant writing on critical thinking research, content-based course material design, and teaching of law, engineering and commerce students. Previously, he worked for three years teaching business ethics and commercial law at Abu-Dhabi Women’s College in the United Arab Emirates. Lawrence has also developed conflict resolution course materials and taught English as a Second Language at Qatar University’s International Affairs Program (2009-10). Lawrence taught at the Kwansei Gakuin University School of Policy Studies in Japan (2005-07), where he served as academic writing course coordinator and interactive materials designer for advanced students after having taught fundamental English integrated skills courses in Kobe, Japan (2000-04). Lawrence was a former coordinator of the Fulbright Scholarship Program in Ukraine (1993-95) while teaching American Sociology of Education at Kharkov State University. He is a former Fulbright Scholar in Polish Church-State relations at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (1987), holds a master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from Columbia University Teachers College in New York (2007), a master’s degree in Soviet and East European studies from Kansas University (1983) and a bachelor’s degree in Russian language and literature from Kansas (1982). He has been happily married for the past 15 years and lives in Newberg with his wife, Natsuyo, and two teenage sons, Kentaro and Shinjiro.

The university welcomes Colleen Sump as a Career and Academic Planning (CAP) coach in the school’s IDEA Center. For the past year and a half she has worked as the director for alumni and parent engagement at Willamette University. Previously, she spent five years as the assistant director of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program at Pacific University, and five years as the education coordinator for Friends of Historic Champoeg. Colleen earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and lived in Newberg for 23 years before recently moving to St. Paul with her husband, Damon. Her children include twin adventurer sons – one who recently graduated from Alaska Pacific University and the other from Azusa Pacific University – and a daughter who currently attends Azusa. Colleen attends Newberg Friends Church.

Steve Gilday (Security) retired from the university on Sept. 1.

Terry Huffman (Education) participated in the Oxford Education Research Symposium at Pembroke College of Oxford University in August. A review panel evaluated 169 proposals, and ultimately 24 scholars were invited to participate in an intensive three-day symposium divided into three board topical areas. Terry’s paper, titled “Tribal Strengths of Native Americans as Indigenous Educational Leaders,” was selected as outstanding paper in the session organized around the theme “Social Change and Education.” The 24 participants included scholars from Australia, China, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Ed Higgins (English) published his poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbeard (with thanks to Wallace Stevens)” in the April 2015 edition of Parody Poetry, a literary magazine. The piece is a parody of Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.”

Sept. 8              Mark Pothoff
Sept. 9              Josiah Philipsen, Tim Timmerman
Sept. 11            Jeff Duerr
Sept. 12            Kelly Chang
Sept. 15            Jared Roth, Lauri Smith
Sept. 16            Erin Johnson, Josh Sweeden
Sept. 17            MaryKate Morse, Christee Wise
Sept. 18            Darryl Brown, Jennie Harrop, Leah Payne
Sept. 21            Heidi Thomason

Men’s and women’s fall and winter apparel is now available in the Bruin Store!

• Stylish George Fox beanies starting at $12
• Text-smart touch gloves
• Warm George Fox blankets
• George Fox earbands

Also, remember the Bruin Store will be set up outside Stoffer Family Stadium for this Saturday’s first home football game. So come check out our newest gifts and apparel and cheer on our Bruins!

The Bruin Den, Bruin Bites and Villa Road Café will all be closed tomorrow (Wednesday) due to Serve Day. All three cafes will reopen Thursday with regular hours of operation.

Policy and Procedures for Driving Personal Vehicles on University Business (i.e., for Serve Day) …

Students and employees will be allowed to drive on university business if they have had a current valid U.S. state driver’s license for at least one year and are at least 18 years of age.

When driving a personal vehicle on university business, the driver’s personal insurance serves as the primary insurance and is the extent of the driver’s protection. Students and employees need to be comfortable with their own auto insurance coverage and limits and assume all risks and responsibility for transporting other individuals in their vehicle.

When an employee or student uses a personal vehicle on university business or if the university arranges the transportation for an activity or event and a student or employee is asked to transport others in their personal vehicle, that person/driver must be on the approved driver’s list maintained by Plant Services indicating the following:

• An acceptable motor vehicle driving record as defined in this policy
• Driver’s license number and expiration date (recorded as a part of the approval process)
• Completion of the online training provided by Plant Services
• Current personal automobile insurance including the insurance company name, policy number, and adequate limits (recorded as a part of the approval process) in the quiz
• When the university is not providing or arranging for transportation to an event or activity (i.e., the event begins at the designated location), the driver understands that she or he is assuming all risk and liability. Of course, it is still important to only drive and transport others when there is a good driving record, current valid driver’s license, and personal automobile insurance with sufficient limits.

In all cases, the driver/owner of the vehicle must follow all traffic laws and regulations and ensure that the personal vehicle is in good operating condition and safe to drive.

Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.

Just a couple days left until Serve Day! On Wednesday, Sept. 9, we’ll spread throughout the community to serve those around us. Just a couple reminders:

We encourage students and faculty to bring their own water bottles on Serve Day in order to reduce the plastic waste at the end of the day.

Schedule of Events:

• 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. – Breakfast on the quad (free to employees and students)
• 8:30 a.m. – Kickoff celebration on quad
• 9 a.m. – Gather at your assignment, find your site number and depart
• Noon – Lunch
• 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. – Dinner and evening celebration (free for employees and students; family members and guests may purchase meal tickets

Questions? Email serveday@georgefox.edu.

Items from the following room assignments last spring were turned in to the lost and found in May. We would love to return your things to you! If you lived in these rooms or on these floors, please come immediately to the security office to claim your left-behind items! These are the locations where items were left behind last April:

• Sutton 314
• Weesner Village 3408
• Le Shana 310
• Le Shana 360
• Le Shana 370
• Weesner Village closest to Beebe

Items not claimed by end of day on Wednesday, Sept. 9, will be donated to charitable causes on Thursday. Also, if we have e-mailed you about your items left in the lost and found, please come at your earliest convenience to the security office to retrieve your items.

Use your new, empty Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another course site. See the instructions for importing here.

Your Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 sites are hidden to students. When you are ready to make a site available, go to Administration> Course administration > Edit settings on the course home page. Scroll down to the “Visible” section and change “Hide” to “Show” from the drop-down menu. “Save changes” at the bottom.

Remember that all students enrolled in your class in MyGFU will automatically be enrolled in your FoxTALE course site. As students add and drop your course in MyGFU, they will be added or removed automatically from your FoxTALE site.

If your course site is set to Weekly format, your course might show incorrect dates. To change the dates, go to Administration> Edit settings on the course home page. Scroll down to the Course start date and change it to the first day of your 2015 fall course. Scroll to the bottom of the page and “Save changes.”

Visit the FoxTALE for Faculty webpage for guides and resources.

Your Educational Technology Team – servicedesk@georgefox.edu

Just a couple days left until Serve Day! On Wednesday, Sept. 9, we’ll spread throughout the community to serve those around us. Just a few reminders:

Breakfast and dinner are provided free for all employees participating in Serve Day, though there is a charge for family members and guests who join us for dinner ($8.75 for adults, $6.75 for children 10 and under). Employees can bring their own lunch or purchase a lunch through Bon Appetit on Serve Day. Please pay for your lunch at the Information table.

Employees are encouraged to park on the gravel lot (down Meridian Street near Fulton Street) on Serve Day unless they were specifically assigned to drive to a serve site. If so, a parking lot/departure site is assigned, which can be found on their email about Serve Day.

We encourage students and faculty to bring their own water bottles on Serve Day in order to reduce the plastic waste at the end of the day.

Questions? Email serveday@georgefox.edu.

Join the fun and learn to sing. Register for the voice class offered in Ross Mondays and Wednesdays at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Learn more by contacting Maggie Daane in the music department at mdaane@georgefox.edu.

Attention staff: Please join us on Monday, Sept. 14, from noon to 1 p.m. for our first “Something Old, Something New” fall staff lunch of the new academic year! We will have a boxed lunch in the amphitheater on the Newberg campus, and then be treated to a special presentation on the new bridge. Cost will be $3.

RSVPs will be required. Please RSVP by noon on Sept. 10 at this link. Questions? Contact Rebecca Williams at rwilliams@georgefox.edu.

– Brought to you by the Staff Development Committee

The campus community is invited to the first Liberal Arts and Critical Issues presentation of the fall tonight (Monday) in Hoover 105. Gina Miller, the university’s new assistant professor of politics and international studies, will speak on the topic “Balancing Western Values and Global Citizenship.” The same presentation will take place at 5 to 6 p.m. and again from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Guests are asked to attend the later session.

Questions? Contact Ron Mock at ext. 2680 or rmock@georgefox.edu.

Following are the dates for all-employee meetings for the 2015-16 academic year. All meetings will take place on the Newberg campus from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105 and will be live-streamed at the Portland Center.

• Thursday, Sept. 24
• Thursday, Oct. 29
• Thursday, Nov. 19
• Thursday, Dec. 10
• Thursday, Jan. 21
• Thursday, Feb. 25
• Thursday, March 31
• Thursday, April 21
• Thursday, May 26
• Thursday, June 23

Monday, Sept. 7 – Men’s Soccer vs. Warner Pacific, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 8 – Men’s Soccer vs. Corban, 6 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 10 – Women’s Volleyball vs. Warner Pacific, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 12 – Football vs. Redlands, noon

For more information on athletics, visit athletics.georgefox.edu.

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 alternative 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.

Come join the Swing Club in our first swing dance session of the year! There will be great company, awesome music, and you don’t even have to know how to dance. We’ll teach you all the moves from basic to advanced.

Please come join in the fun with us today (Saturday), at 7 p.m. in the Foxhole.

Questions? Please contact Victoria Guiher at vguiher13@georgefox.edu.

Are you cheering on the Bruin football team from home while they play the University of La Verne in California today (Saturday)? Catch the game live at 12:30 p.m. by clicking this link.

Please read this message carefully as we have changed a fews things in the way students change their meal plans through MYGFU.

MEAL PLAN CHANGES FOR FALL 2015
Students who are eligible to do so may change their own meal plan in their MYGFU account through Sunday, September 6th, 2015.

After this date, students who wish to change their meal plan and are eligible to do so must email studentlife@georgefox.edu by Friday, September 11, 2015 at 5:00 pm.

In the email you must include your NAME and STUDENT ID NUMBER, along with your request.

Your eligibility will be confirmed prior to any changes being made.

Please contact the Student Life Office if you have any questions at studentlife@georgefox.edu.

CHANGES TAKE 24 HOURS TO BE ACTIVATED ON YOUR ID CARD

Once a change is made in MYGFU it takes 24 hours to be uploaded and activated on your ID card.

Changes made over the weekend are processed on Monday, with the change taking affect on Tuesday.

Information about meal plans can be found on the Meal Plan Options page on the Student Life Website:

http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/student-life/residence-life/mealplanOptions.html

Please contact Student Life if you have any questions.

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

• Portland Center Facilities Coordinator
• Administrative Assistant, Department of Professional Studies, Portland Center
• Director of Human Resources

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.