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If you received federal loans while attending George Fox, it is a federal requirement that you complete exit loan counseling. The financial aid office is offering workshops to all graduating students on loan repayment starting in November. The workshops will cover topics such as how to afford your loan payments, what to do if you can’t afford them, and loan forgiveness.

To view dates/times and sign up, visit this link.

Questions? Please contact Johanna Schweitzer at jschweitzer@georgefox.edu

Fall Escape is coming up (Nov. 7-9). Registration will be available this week, through Friday, Oct. 31, in the Bruin Den from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Escape the Newberg bubble with your friends for a weekend! The cost is $20. You will be provided a cabin on the Pacific Coast, workshops with Doreen Dodgen-Magee, and all the amenities that Twin Rocks Friends Camp has to offer for a weekend!

For more information, email Josh Garcia at garciaj11@georgefox.edu.

The College of Engineering will host its third “Earth, Wind, Fire and Water” lecture event tomorrow (Thursday) from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Hoover 103 (please note the location change). The event is titled “Hydro-Power and Fish Passage in Oregon” and features Greg Apke of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

This is the third of five presentations in the series, dedicated to renewable energy, sustainability, climate change and the environment. Future presentations include:

• Thursday, Nov. 6: “Wind Farms and Wind Energy Systems,” featuring Bruce Hamilton of Navigant, Lemmons 13
• Thursday, Nov. 13: “Ocean Wave Energy Systems,” featuring Chad Stillinger of George Fox University, Hoover 105

Questions? Contact Bob Harder at bharder@georgefox.edu.

The Department of Art and Design invites the university community to an opening reception for the show “Redemption of Dirt,” featuring the ceramic work of Brian O’Neill and Ron Linn.

Join us tomorrow (Thursday) for an artists’ talk at 4:10 p.m. in Hoover 105, followed by an opening reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Minthorne Gallery. The show will remain up through Nov. 26.

Christian C. Sahner, author of Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present (Oxford University Press, 2014), will speak on campus at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday) in Hoover 105 (please note the location change). The campus community is invited to attend at no charge.

Sahner’s lecture, “The End of Christianity in Syria?,” will explore the roots of Christianity in Syria and seek to place the current predicament in historical perspective. The William Penn Honors Program is sponsoring the event, and a reception for prospective students interested in the honors program will follow. In addition, a special “Visit Day for the Honors Program” is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 31. Please email honors@georgefox.edu if you would like more information or have any questions.

A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, Sahner is currently completing his doctorate at Princeton, focusing on relations between Muslims and Christians in the formative period after the Arab conquests.

Students for Life is hosting its last three meetings of the year in Hoover 102 at 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays (Oct. 30, Nov. 13 and Nov. 20). If you’ve be thinking of checking us out, now’s the time. We look forward to seeing you there!

Our final meeting, on Nov. 20, is actually a film showing offered for elective chapel credit. If you need one last chapel credit, this is a great opportunity for you! We’ll be showing Rape and Other Exceptions to understand how we can better respond to our friends in difficult circumstances.

As a follow-up to our active shooter training sessions conducted before school started, security encourages you to consider attending a Code4-sponsored seminar, “Front Desk Safety and Security,” on Monday, Dec. 15.

The event is scheduled at the Airport Holiday Inn and will teach you how to deal with dangerous situations, difficult people and emergencies. The cost is $99 if you register via the Code4 website (code4.org) and $109 if you register via phone at 800-622-9391. The course instructor is Captain Joe Puckett, who has spent 21 years in law enforcement and who has worked as a hostage/crisis negotiator.

As a reminder for any staff members planning to attend, you can apply to the Staff Development Committee to be considered for partial reimbursement for the seminar costs on a first-come, first-served basis until the professional development fund is depleted. Check the Staff Development website for details.

“A Motion of Love” is the theme for the university’s annual Quaker Focus Week, Nov. 3-6, on the Newberg campus. Quaker Focus allows the campus community an opportunity to explore its Quaker roots and heritage. Events for students, faculty and the community this year include:

Monday, Nov. 3
9 a.m. – “Quakers in Business, Science and Industry”
An open invitation to visit Paul Anderson’s History & Doctrine of Friends Class (Hoover 210)

Tuesday, Nov. 4
10:50 a.m. – “Doors, Judgment, Love”
University Chapel with Gregg Koskela, lead pastor, Newberg Friends Church (Bauman Auditorium)
9 p.m. – “Listening Together Within the Motion of Love”
Shalom with Mark Almquist (Hoover 105)

Wednesday, Nov. 5
9 a.m. – “Quakers, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Underground Railroad,” a Skype interview with Max Carter of Guilford College in Paul Anderson’s History & Doctrine of Friends Class (Hoover 210)
7 p.m. – “Point Me Home”
University Chapel with a dramatic performance by the University Players (Bauman Auditorium)

Thursday, Nov. 6
10:40 a.m. – Contemplative worship (Prayer Chapel)

“I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the Goodness of God …”
– John Woolman

Are you support staff with van certification? We need two drivers to transport those who cannot or do not wish to drive to and from the Fall Staff Conference next Wednesday, Nov 5.

Vans will leave the Stevens parking lot at 6:45 a.m. and at 7 a.m. and return approximately at 12:30 p.m. The conference will be held at Mountain Park Church, located at 40 McNary Parkway in Lake Oswego.

Please contact Christee Wise (cwise@georgefox.edu) if you are qualified and would be willing to drive a university van.

For students interested in working with spiritual and intercultural life as the global outreach intern for the remainder of the school year, there is a position open.

The description of this position is as follows: SpIL intern for global outreach and service partnerships serve to build bridges between George Fox students and cross-cultural opportunities to serve and learn alongside partnering organizations that model compassionate excellence in cross-cultural ministry and Christian community development.

This particular intern will accomplish this primarily through coordinating weekly cross-cultural outreach and service experiences, events to build our global outreach partnerships, the annual “Global Ministries Fair,” conference participation, other global outreach endeavors of the “SpIL” ministry house, as well as entering into mentoring relationships with the SpIL pastoral staff.

This SpIL intern will serve primarily to build and support volunteer teams, coordinate weekly urban outreach (i.e. Bridgetown Ministries, Nightstrike and Salem partnership, etc.), build deeper collaboration with Word Made Flesh, Open Arms International and Northwest Yearly Meeting Global Ministries, and coordinate our participation in Urbana and/or other global ministry conferences, as well as administrative tasks of the Office of Spiritual Life.

If you are interested in this position, please fill out this application by Wednesday, Nov. 5.

Faculty, please encourage students that you think would be interested to apply.

Email Mikayla Greenwell (mgreenwell12@georgefox.edu) with any questions you may have.

This Wednesday, Oct. 29, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the IDEA center, will be a LinkedIn Networking event. Come learn how to build your LinkedIn profile during this one hour weekly workshop.

Questions? Please contact Jaclyn Simmons at jsimmons12@georgefox.edu.

The International Justice Mission club invites you to join us for a meeting tonight (Tuesday) from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the International Center-Cultural House. The club raises awareness for human trafficking issues and promotes justice for the oppressed. We welcome new members!

Questions? Please contact Annelise Koeth at akoeth11@georgefox.edu.

Do you need to visit the Academic Resource Center (ARC)? We currently have appointment times available, but don’t wait too long to schedule an appointment.

The ARC is in the Murdock Learning Resource Center and is open Monday through Thursday, from 1 to 10 p.m. and Friday, from 12 to 4 p.m.

For more information and to schedule appointments, see the ARC website at arc.georgefox.edu or contact us through email at the_arc@georgefox.edu or by phone at 503-554-2327.

Morning chapel will be on Tuesday (today), at 10:50 a.m. in the Bauman Auditorium.Come hear from Dr. Todd Hall in his talk, titled “The Connected Life”; he will share practical insights that will help you heal your disconnection and develop deep and meaningful connections with God and others. Dr. Todd Hall is a licensed psychologist, professor of psychology at Biola University and a certified MCORE coach. Learn more about his work at drtoddhall.com. Chapel Credit is available.

Shalom will be on Tuesday (today), at 9 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. Dr. Todd Hall will also be speaking at Shalom. Chapel elective credit is available.

Evening chapel will be on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. in the Bauman Auditorium. Jamie Johnson will continue our “Unfolding Life” series. He will preach from Matthew 8 on the cost of following Jesus. Chapel credit is available.

Greenroom will be this Thursday, Oct. 30, at 9:30 p.m. in the Foxhole.

For more information visit spirituallife.georgefox.edu or email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

The Fall Staff Conference is next Wednesday, Nov. 5, and we are looking forward to an exciting day with all support staff! Please complete this registration form and select your break-out session if you haven’t done so already. The theme of this year’s conference is  “Sowing, Watering, Reaping.”

The conference is from 8 to 11:30 a.m., with breakfast beginning at 7:30 a.m. for early risers. Our keynote speaker is Deb Mumm-Hill, director of the university’s IDEA Center. The conference will be at Mountain Park Church, 40 McNary Parkway, in Lake Oswego. Please note: Due to allergies, please do not wear perfume or cologne at this event.

Questions? Contact Christee Wise at cwise@georgefox.edu.

The following link is a survey to determine the average and total commuting distance for university employees. The data will be used in an emissions analysis of the George Fox campus using the Clean Air Cool Planet tool.

Here is the link to the survey: Employee Commuting Survey

Donna Barber joined the university as interim director of intercultural life last week. She has worked since May as the Act Six Academy community coach at Warner Pacific College, where she helped facilitate retreats, led weekly training sessions with the Portland Leadership Foundation program and mentored Act Six scholars. Prior to that, she worked for a year and a half as the Cleveland city coach with the DeVos Urban Leadership Initiative, coordinating weekend trainings and managing on-site logistics for the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based organization that specializes in urban leadership development and youth ministry. Donna has also worked, since 2005, as a self-employed trainer, coach and event planner for urban youth and urban youth program leaders, as executive director of Community Fellowship’s Youth Development Group through FCS Urban Ministries, and as worship leader for the Community Life Church in Atlanta. She holds a master’s degree in education from Georgia State University (2005) and a bachelor’s degree in communications from Temple University (1985). Donna lives in Portland with her husband Leroy, and together they have five children.

Alumnus Joel Bock joined George Fox this week as university photographer in the marketing communications department. Many in the community know Joel from his work at the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends, where he served as director of communications the past four years. He’s also run his own business, Joel Bock Photography, since 2007, and he’s done photo shoots for the George Fox Journal publication. Prior to his return to Oregon in 2009, he worked as staff photographer for Princeton Theological Seminary in 2008-09. Joel holds a bachelor’s degree in biblical studies from George Fox (2007). He lives in Newberg with his wife Cherice, who attended George Fox in the early 2000s, and children Espen (7) and Kylan (3). The Bocks attend North Valley Friends Church.

The university hired Elise Gibson last week to serve as a career coach in the IDEA Center. Most recently, she worked as a career counselor graduate assistant at Azusa Pacific University (2013-14) and before that served as a prevention education specialist and program director at California State University, Northridge (2012-13). She also gained higher education experience at Azusa Pacific as an event coordinator graduate assistant in 2013. Elise earned a master’s degree in college counseling and student development from Azusa Pacific in 2014 and also holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Cal State, Northridge (2012). She lives in McMinnville with her husband, Seth, and their three children: David, Grace and Fiona.

Emily Maynard (Portland Center Operations Manager) left the university on Oct. 24. She is relocating to Southern California and getting married in November. She says she enjoyed her time at George Fox and hopes to continue to work in higher education.

Marlee Zakrevsky (Print Services Coordinator) is leaving the university and plans to complete her student teaching and the MAT program.

Kevin T. Jones (Department of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts) was the keynote speaker Oct. 10-11 at a weekend retreat sponsored by Central United Protestant Church in Richland, Wash. Kevin addressed the biblical foundation for basic communication skills such as listening, the gift of language, male/female communication, conflict management and forgiveness. Kevin was also recently invited to serve as a member of the board of the Christianity and Communication Studies Network (CCSN). As a board member, Kevin will be responsible to peer review CCSN publications, including book reviews, short- and long-form essays, and short case studies and think pieces. The network is designed to serve CCCU schools and other scholars interested in questions and issues at the intersection between Christianity and communication studies.

Melanie Springer Mock (English) has coedited, with Martha Kalnin Diede and Jeremiah Webster, the book The Spirit of Adoption: Writers on Religion, Adoption, Faith, and More (Wipf and Stock: Cascade Books). According to the publisher, the book “explores many of the complexities inherent in adoption and its relationship to spirituality, challenging us to move beyond the common mythologies about adoption to consider the more difficult questions adoption raises about the nature of God, family, culture, loss, and joy. Rather than hearing from experts in adoption, this collection uses the narratives of birth parents, adoptive parents and adoptees themselves, bearing witness to the ways adoption shapes its participants’ spiritual lives.” Other contributors include Jere Witherspoon (Student Life), alumni Beth Woolsey and Kohleun Adamson, and Kimberly Felton, a regular George Fox Journal writer and wife of Rob Felton (Marketing Communications).

Ryan Halley and Josh Sauerwein (College of Business) won the best regional presentation award at the Accreditation Council for Business Schools & Programs’ Region 7 Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Oct. 22-24. They have been accepted to present at the national ACBSP conference in Philadelphia this summer. Their presentation was titled, “Building an educational bridge: Blurring the lines between higher education and business practice.”

Ed Higgins (English) published a slipstream flash fiction piece, “Strawberry Daiquiris,” in the Oct. 24 issue of Flash Fiction Magazine, an e-zine dedicated to publishing a flash fiction story daily.

Nate Peach (School of Business) published the paper “Using the Tragedy of the Anticommons to Illuminate the Value of Political Economy Perspectives” in the International Journal of Economics and Social Science (Vol. 4, 2014). The essay outlines a framework to incorporate political economy perspectives into economics courses in order to facilitate a more integrated classroom. It was written to help economists think beyond economics and is based on Nate’s lectures and a student research project in environmental economics. Nate says the motivation for the project came from his experiences rock climbing in Portland.

Oct. 29             Roger Nam, Rusty St. Cyr
Oct. 30             Katie Sol
Nov. 1              Dave Johnstone, Polly Peterson
Nov. 2              Tahlia Martin
Nov. 3              Karen Bowdoin, Nijay Gupta
Nov. 4              Jennifer Farland, Tom Head, Melissa Thomas
Nov. 5              Rob Bohall
Nov. 7              Doug Campbell, Natalie Harrington
Nov. 8              Rebecca Valdovinos
Nov. 9              Jack Lyda
Nov. 10            Glena Andrews
Nov. 11            Sean Patterson, Steve Wasson
Nov. 12            Kelly Borror
Nov. 13            Kristie Knows His Gun
Nov. 14            Colleen Huffman, Kelly Lafferty, Jan Lefebvre
Nov. 16            Carol Jaquith
Nov. 17            Sue O’Donnell, Abigail Rine
Nov. 18            Kathie Hummel-Berry, Kathleen Jones

TechTips Forum post: For people with Macintosh computers, our IT Mac-certified tech, Rich Bass, highly recommends that Mac users do not upgrade to Yosemite (OS 10.10) yet. There are reported issues of Wifi connectivity dropping for many users. The issue doesn’t affect everyone, but there are widespread reports across the web of Wifi issues. Apple will most likely release an update to fix this, but the update hasn’t come out yet.

If you have updated your Mac to Yosemite and are experiencing Wifi connectivity issues (or other problems) since upgrading, you can stop by IT and we can image your computer back to Mavericks (10.9).

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