Be sure to check out President Robin Baker’s latest blog piece, “Appreciating the Significance of Divine Moments,” in which he reflects on Francis S. Collins’ book The Language of God.
The piece can be read here.
Don’t forget to join us as we celebrate Carrie Bohl’s service to the university at a reception tomorrow (Friday) from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the advancement office at Coyote Place (700 Deborah Road). Refreshments will be served.
Carrie has served at George Fox for 16 years. She is leaving to focus full time on her home-based business. We appreciate her work in both student services and university advancement. She will be greatly missed!
The admissions office is currently seeking students who will be around this summer and interested in helping out with our events. Genesis kicks off the process for our incoming students, and we need volunteers to help us on the following dates:
Volunteers will assist us from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will be given a shirt and free lunch!
If you are interested, please email Keisha Gordon at kgordon@georgefox.edu.
Thanks!
As the academic year comes to a close and as many of you pack up to leave for the summer, please be sure any monetary donations intended for university advancement are turned in for processing.
Please forward all donations to Advancement, Campus Box 6256 (Attn: Kristi Hagen) before the fiscal year ends on June 30. If you have any questions, contact Kristi at khagen@georgefox.edu or ext. 2111.
Thank you in advance for your help as we wrap up the fiscal year.
Use your new, empty 2014 Summer sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another course site. See the instructions here for importing. Here are some end-of-semester reminders:
– IT Educational Technology Team
Questions? Write servicedesk@georgefox.edu
Please bring your student mail to Mail Services by 9 a.m. on Friday, May 2, to have the mail delivered to student mailboxes on that day. There will be no deliveries made to student mailboxes after 1 p.m. on Friday.
Normal student mail delivery will begin on Monday to student mailboxes that are remaining open after finals week.
Employee mail will continue throughout the day as normal.
If you have questions, please email Linda Sartwell lsartwel@georgefox.edu.
George Fox’s libraries have recently partnered with bepress to provide the services of Digital Commons, the leading hosted institutional repository (IR) software platform. A Digital Commons repository showcases the breadth of scholarship produced at an institution – everything from faculty papers, student scholarship and annual reports to open-access journals, conference proceedings, monographs, dissertations, and more.
Scholarly material and special collections in Digital Commons repositories are highly discoverable in Google, Google Scholar, and other search engines. The content is all the institution’s. As one example of success, Pacific University’s Digital Commons has experienced nearly 260,000 downloads of full-text documents in the last year.
Our library is just now in the process of establishing the IR, but we do have a small amount of content that can be accessed at digitalcommons.georgefox.edu. Please feel free to take a look. Additional work on this project will continue over the summer, and next fall we look forward to sharing and discussing more with faculty as well as recruiting content.
Seniors! I still need four tickets for the 2:30 p.m. ceremony this weekend! These are for friends and family coming in from out of town, so it is really important for me to get them in. Any extra tickets you may have, even one, I would love to take off your hands.
Please let me, Alyssa Asdell, know ASAP by e-mail: aasdell11@georgefox.edu.
In a new format this year, the university will host two undergraduate commencement ceremonies this Saturday, May 3. This year, a ceremony for students in the school’s College of Business, College of Christian Studies, College of Education and College of Engineering will will take place at 10 a.m.
In the afternoon, a second undergraduate ceremony for those graduating with degrees from the College of Arts and Sciences and College of Behavioral and Health Sciences is set for 2:30 p.m. Both ceremonies will take place in Miller Gymnasium in the Wheeler Sports Center. Commencement can be viewed live at this link 15 minutes prior to the start of the ceremony.
Students graduating from George Fox’s graduate programs and George Fox Evangelical Seminary will attend commencement ceremonies on Thursday and Friday, May 1-2, at various locations. Details on when and where they will take place are available at this link.
Richard Foster, a 1964 graduate of George Fox and the author of Celebration of Discipline, will serve as commencement speaker at the two undergraduate ceremonies.
To read more about Foster and for a complete guide to commencement events, visit this page.
The last day to place orders using the purchase order system is May 31, 2014, for the current fiscal year. This includes all requisitions which must be budget checked, approved and converted to purchase orders and products or services ordered. Please be sure orders are placed by May 31 to ensure items are received by June 30, 2014.
Fiscal year 2015 purchase orders will need to wait until June 15, when we expect the new chart of accounts to be available for use in the purchase order system. Please work directly with Kathi Becker before creating any FY15 purchase orders to ensure that this transition to the new system goes smoothly.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact Kathi by email (kbecker@georgefox.edu) or at ext. 2166.
With the end of our fiscal year quickly approaching, and to ensure a clean cut-off between FY14 and FY15 spending, the last day to use your Visa card for fiscal year 2014 purchases is Friday, June 20. Please refrain from using your card for any purchases after this date.
If you will be traveling for business during this time, please contact Kathi Becker to discuss arrangements on how to handle purchases after June 20. Credit card purchases for the 2014-15 fiscal year can begin on or after July 1.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact Kathi by email (kbecker@georgefox.edu) or at ext. 2166.
How hard is it to build and publish a native app? All those technical decisions – which language, which framework, how many developers, what skill sets are needed – can be mind-boggling, especially for a non-technical entrepreneur.
If you know of students who have an interest in this area, encourage them to join us for a visit to Puppet Labs on Tuesday, May 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. The business is located at 926 N.W. 13th Ave., in Portland.
Students can register for the event by emailing Deb Mumm-Hill at dmummhill@georgefox.edu. More information is available by calling the IDEA Center at 503-554-2330.
How hard is it to build and publish a native app? All those technical decisions – which language, which framework, how many developers, what skill sets are needed – can be mind-boggling, especially for a non-technical entrepreneur.
If this is an area of interest to you, join us for a visit to Puppet Labs on Tuesday, May 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. The business is located at 926 N.W. 13th Ave., in Portland.
To register for this event, please email Deb Mumm-Hill at dmummhill@georgefox.edu. Questions? Contact the IDEA Center at 503-554-2330.
Know of students who might be interested in the potential of design to improve the human condition? Encourage them to join us for a visit to Liquid Agency on Thursday, May 1, from 6 to 8 p.m. The business is located at 910 S.W. Holt in Portland.
Liquid Agency will showcase innovations that offer new and better ways to interact with the world and with each other. This exhibition features a collection of diverse products that challenge the status quo by pushing boundaries in the worlds of furniture, art, apparel, medical devices, toys, typography, photography, jewelry and more.
Students can register for the event by emailing Deb Mumm-Hill at dmummhill@georgefox.edu. If they have questions, they can contact the IDEA Center at 503-554-2330.
Interested in the potential of design to improve the human condition? Join us for a visit to Liquid Agency on Thursday, May 1, from 6 to 8 p.m. The business is located at 910 S.W. Holt in Portland.
Liquid Agency will showcase innovations that offer new and better ways to interact with the world and with each other. This exhibition features a collection of diverse products that challenge the status quo by pushing boundaries in the worlds of furniture, art, apparel, medical devices, toys, typography, photography, jewelry and more.
To register for the event, please email Deb Mumm-Hill at dmummhill@georgefox.edu. Questions? Contact the IDEA Center at 503-554-2330.
All university employees are invited to celebrate with us as we honor retiring Gary Kilburg with a reception on Monday, May 5, in the Villa Academic Complex’s Room 117. The event will run from 4 to 6 p.m.
Throughout Gary’s career, he has modeled professionalism, kindness, and the love of Christ to his colleagues and students. He has served the university family for 22 years, taking on leadership roles and forming foundational work in the area of mentoring for the College of Education.
Please join us in celebrating Gary’s work with us and wishing him well in retirement.
Come join the spiritual life and student life departments in commissioning Sarah Baldwin and Clint Baldwin in their future endeavors! We will host a farewell reception for them from 1 to 3 p.m. today (Wednesday) in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium.
Sarah served George Fox as the dean of spiritual life and university pastor, and Clint has served as the director of the Center for Peace and Justice. Sarah has accepted the position of vice president of student development at Asbury University.
Let’s celebrate this new step in their journey as well as thank them for the time they have spent in developing our campus community!
Staff, faculty and students: Please be sure to bring in any found items to the security office before leaving campus. If you have lost an item, please stop by the security office to check for it, as all items not reunited with their owners will be donated to charitable causes next week.
Thank you!
– Security Services
Faculty and staff: If you have a pile of “lost” items in your offices, please take them to the security office immediately so that students can check the lost and found before leaving for summer break.
Thank you!
– Security Services
This is the week to get cash for your books. Textbook Buyback is this week only, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Friday. Bring your books to the Textbook Annex.
Portland/distance-learning students may sell their books through our website and ship them to Neebo, instead of bringing them to Newberg (go to gfubookstore.com, click “Sell Textbooks,” select “Ship Textbooks by Mail” and follow the steps).
Also remember to return your rentals to the Annex or main store. Portland students may package their rentals addressed to BlueZone Store, #6229, and have the front office at the Portland Center send them via campus courier.
Questions? Contact Sandy Gidding at sgidding@georgefox.edu.
