Are you still interested in being a Peer2Peer mentor? If you are, we have extended the deadline to midnight Sunday, March 30.
Now is the chance to have your voice heard. Go to igfu.georgefox.edu to vote for the 2014-15 Central Committee team. Voting closes on Wednesday, March 19, at 5 p.m.
Here is how you vote: Go to igfu.georgefox.edu, click on “MyGFU” – “ASC voting” – and cast your vote!
Questions? Please contact Shanna Coulston at scoulston11@georgefox.edu.
The new class ARTD415, called Professional Design Collaboration, will be offered during spring 2015. Discover the principles and practices used by multiple design disciplines. You will gain collaborative experience with regard to branding, promotion and marketing as you design a complete package for a business event. Enrollment is limited, so sign up early!
Questions? Please contact  Lauri Smith at smithl@georgefox.edu.
Announcing a.m. chapel worship team auditions for the 2014-15 academic year. The morning chapel teams are under the oversight of the university’s performing arts department.
Applications for leaders, leader apprentices and team members are located on the second floor of the Ross building outside the music department office. Please fill out an application and sign up for an audition slot posted on the department office door.
Auditions are being held March 31-April 2. For more information, email Robert Gaither at rgaither@georgefox.edu.
All are invited to an all-employee lunch today (Tuesday) in the Newberg campus’ Cap and Gown Room between 11:30Â a.m. and 1:15 p.m.
The lunch schedule has been extended to accommodate those who work over the noon hour. If you are on the Newberg campus, please join your colleagues for just $3 per person.
Please complete the LibQUAL Lite Library Survey. If you have already filled out the survey, thank you! If not, we ask you to take five to seven minutes to click the link below and help us by taking the survey.
Only you can tell us how well we are serving your library needs, and you can enter to win one $50 or 10 $25 Amazon gift cards.
Jill Downing joins the university this month as director of university events. She brings more than 15 years of experience in leading the planning and implementation of domestic and international events, ranging from corporate executive programs to nonprofit conferences. Since November, she’s served as sponsorship fulfillment coordinator for the Portland-based Drupal Association. She also worked as a travel director for the ITA Group of Des Moines, Iowa, since October of last year. In other recent assignments, Jill was a program coordinator and conference manager for Willamette Valley Development Officers (2011-13), an events manager for Portland’s Essential Health Clinic (2012-13), and the BizGrowth Summit exhibit manager for the Portland Business Journal (2011-12). Previously, one of her most memorable assignments was coordinating with the Smithsonian Institution of Washington, D.C., the arrangement of the Festival of American Folklife exhibition on the National Mall in 1996. Jill earned a bachelor’s degree in art history in 1984 from the University of Iowa. She lives in Portland and enjoys cooking, attending the weekly PSU Farmer’s Market, visiting art museums and hiking in the beautiful Oregon outdoors.
The nursing department welcomes Paul R. L’Espérance this semester as a visiting assistant professor of nursing. Paul has been a registered nurse for the past 10 years with a broad clinical background. He has worked as a staff RN, a clinical training associate at Oregon Health and Science University, and as a nurse manager both at OHSU and at Southwest Washington Medical Center in Vancouver, Wash. As a nationally certified critical care nurse, he has medical, cardiac and end-of-life clinical nursing expertise. Paul will graduate with a Master of Nursing degree in nursing education from OHSU this year. Prior to becoming a nurse, he worked as a Licensed Professional Counselor working with abused children and families at Namaste, Inc., and with the State of New Mexico. He holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of New Mexico (2004), a master’s degree in mental health counseling from Webster University in St. Louis (2000), and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from New Mexico State University (1997). Paul lives in Tigard with his wife, Erica, son Lucas (13) and daughter Jordan (6). They attend St. Anthony Catholic Church in Tigard.
Holly Kirby (Physical Therapy) left the university in late February to spend more time with family while transitioning to a new opportunity.
Kelsey Bennett (Financial Affairs) left George Fox in late February when another opportunity arose for advancement in accounting.
Justin Hudec (Undergraduate Admissions) left the university last Friday. He is joining the Knights of Columbus as his next career opportunity. He wished to thank his friends at George Fox for “an incredible decade at the university.â€
The university’s board of trustees affirmed the following faculty promotions during the general board meeting March 8. New titles will take effect in the 2014-15 academic year.
For Tenure: Carol Brazo, associate professor of education; Amy Dee, associate professor of education; Roger Nam, associate professor of biblical studies; Susan O’Donnell, associate professor of psychology
Promotion from Associate Professor to Professor: Lorraine DeKruyf, professor of counseling; Ryan Halley, professor of finance; Mary Peterson, professor of clinical psychology; Winston Seegobin, professor of clinical psychology; Randy Woodley, distinguished professor of faith and culture
Promotion from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor: Sarah Gibson, associate professor of media communications; Seth Sikkema, associate professor of accounting
Jim Smart (Biology), currently on sabbatical as a visiting scientist for the Department of Pediatrics at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital at Oregon Health and Science University, collaborated on a research paper with scientists from OHSU, the Netherlands and Georgia Institute of Technology. The paper, titled “STRAD Pseudokinases Regulate Axogenesis and LKB1 Stability,†was published in the most recent edition of Neural Development, an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal.
Phil Smith (Philosophy) published the book Why Faith Is a Virtue, in which he builds on the work of Alasdair MacIntrye and Robert Adams to argue that faith contributes to human excellence. To make the argument, Phil sorts through conflicting possible “faiths†and shows how some of them are not virtues at all. Nevertheless, he argues that faith, properly understood, contributes to crucial human practices: scientific research, social reform and parenting. The book was published by Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers of Eugene, Ore.
Ed Higgins (English) published three poems – “Thessaloniki Summer Visit,†“Icarus†and “Dido†– in the current issue of Mediterranean Poetry, a Sweden-based online journal. Ed also published one of his haikus in the Winter 2013 issue of the British quarterly Poetry Haiku Journal.
Rodger Bufford (PsyD) chaired the American Psychological Association accreditation site visit at the Florida School of Professional Psychology in Tampa, Fla., March 2-4.
Mark David Hall (Politics) published a guest opinion piece, “Oregonians Should Support Business Owners’ Religious Freedom,” in the March 8 issue of The Oregonian. It can be read on the OregonLive site.
Sarita Gallagher (Christian Studies) published an article in the Spring 2014 International Journal of Pentecostal Missiology, a peer-reviewed online journal. The title of her piece was “In the Times of Elijah and Elisha: The Universal Mission of God in the Narratives of the Sidonian Widow and Naaman the Aramean.”
Corwynn Beals (Christian Studies) taught the course “God and Nature†as part of the Creation Care Study Program’s study-abroad program in Belize March 10-14. Hosted by the Center for Environmental Leadership, the Belize curriculum offers “academically rigorous courses to consider what it means to live in right relationship with God, creation, others and ourselves,†according to the program website.
March 19 Marty Hunter
March 20 Heidi Cuddeford
March 21 Larry Mennenga
March 22 Terry Peters
March 23 Dianna McIntyre
March 24 Loren Kerns, Mary Monahan
March 25 Brian Gardner
March 26 Kirstie Richmond, Nick Willis
March 27 Yune Tran
March 28 Kathy Harris, Alene Horney, Charlie Kamilos, Jeremy Lloyd, Steve Petzold
March 29 Lynn Andrews, Vetta Berokoff, Kathi Gatlin
March 30 Debora Herb-Sepich
March 31 Melodee Powers
Do you have an interest in criminal justice? Or, faculty members, do you know of students who are interested in this topic? The social work department is offering a special topics course, Introduction to Criminal Justice (SWRK 285), in the fall 2014 semester.
This course will provide students with an introduction and overview of the system of criminal justice operated in the United States today. The course will provide an overview of the philosophy of criminal law, theories of deviance, and of the nature and extent of crime in America.
The theory, structure and operation of each of the principle components of the Criminal Justice System (i.e., police, courts and corrections) will be examined in detail.
Questions? Contact Clifford Rosenbohm at crosenbo@georgefox.edu.
Come support Button Up, a George Fox senior capstone business group. We will have a table in the Bruin Den today (Monday) from noon to 2 p.m. to place orders for personalized custom-made buttons. We are always accepting orders at buttonup2013@gmail.com.
Don’t forget to join us for the Liberal Arts and Critical Issues lecture tonight (Monday), as Kent Thornburg, the M. Lowell Edwards Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, speaks from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105. Thornburg will speak on “Capitalism and Selling Sickness in the USA.”
Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.
On Friday, April 4, George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony in its 27th appearance in Newberg at 8 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The concert is free to George Fox employees – a gift from George Fox board member Ken Austin, who cofounded A-dec with his late wife Joan.
The university has been provided with a limited number of tickets for its employees. These tickets are separate from those to be issued by the Newberg Area Chamber of Commerce to the general public.
George Fox employees (halftime and over) may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – on a first-come, first-served basis starting tomorrow (Tuesday, March 18) at 9 a.m. at the Box Office in Pennington House. Phone reservations (503-554-3844) will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers.
On Monday, March 31, beginning at 9 a.m., any remaining tickets (again, a limit of two per person) will be available – also on a first-come, first-served basis – to those who sign up on a waiting list. If you find you will not be able to attend the concert, please return your tickets for another employee to use.
Questions? Contact Mary Monahan at mmonahan@georgefox.edu.
The Housing Selection Form will be open for groups to sign up by noon today (Monday, March 17). The form will be available through Friday, March 21.
In order to participate in Housing Selection each student needs to have paid a $150 Housing Deposit to Student Accounts. Students have until Thursday, March 20, to pay the deposit and participate in the selection process.
To sign up for housing with your group, simply login to the form here. Once logged into this form you will be given access to your housing code. You will then need to share this code with the rest of your housing group. Only one person from each group needs to complete the remainder of the form using each roommate’s code. There are step-by-step directions in the form that will walk you through the following:
If you do not have a group, you can still participate in housing selection as an individual. In this case, we will look at placing you with others who have an opening in their living area. Please note that placing individuals often takes longer, as we need to place groups in housing first. This means you may not know your housing assignment until later in April or May.
If you would like help filling out the Housing Form, please stop by the student life office. Someone with the housing staff will be able to walk you through this and answer questions as you go.
For additional information about housing selection, please refer to the Housing and Residence Life website. If you have questions, please stop by or call the student life office at ext. 2310 or housing@georgefox.edu.
A new option has just been approved that will allow current and entering students to meet part of the general education humanities requirement.
In place of a fine arts course, a student may satisfy the fine arts general education requirement through participation in a music ensemble. To meet the requirement, a student must earn at least 3 credits total across six different semesters (i.e. students participating in more than one ensemble cannot “double count†one semester as two for the purposes of this requirement).
A student may participate in different ensembles in different semesters. During or shortly after completion of the sixth semester, the student must arrange with the Music Department office to complete a milestone assignment in order to finish the requirement. Eligible ensembles are: Men’s or Women’s Chorale, Concert Choir, Symphonic Band, and Chehalem Symphony Orchestra. Please note that due to NASM accreditation rules, music majors are not eligible for this general education substitution.
Any current student (except those graduating this May) able to complete six semesters of ensemble participation before graduation can take advantage of this new option.
Questions? Please email Debbie Hawblitzel at dhawblit@georgefox.edu.
When does life begin? What is the meaning of life? How can we stand up for our beliefs while demonstrating kindness and respect? These questions challenge our society and our faith every day.
If you are searching for answers or want to know more about advocating for life, we encourage you to attend a special chapel event tonight (Monday), when the university’s Students for Life group will host a chapel from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. We have been blessed with the opportunity to hear from guest speaker Rebekah Barnes, who will share her knowledge on the biblical approach to life, as well as provide apologetics training on the topic of life. Elective chapel credit is available.
Questions? Email studentsforlifegfu@gmail.com
“Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.” (I Peter 3:15).
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” (Matthew 25:40)
Thank you to all who participated in the Advising Survey. The winners of the drawing were:
Rebekah Halstead
Trevor Rousseau
Peter Zinn
Jaynani Cababat
Victoria Nelson
Andrew Sickler
Questions or comments? Please contact Molly Hickok at mhickok@georgefox.edu.
Would you mind helping out a student? My classmates and I are in the Liberal Arts and Critical Issues class this semester and part of our project includes a brief survey. Please help us if you have a few minutes.
Sex Education and the Perception of Sex in the Church
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.
Who is this Jesus? Called a great teacher by some and by others crazy and demon-possessed, the person of Jesus Christ has intrigued and inspired people for centuries. Yet, who is Jesus really?
This May (May 5-23) we will offer Bible 260, Life of Christ, with Sarita Gallagher. The class will meet from 9 a.m. to noon daily in Hoover 208. She will be leading a hands-on exploration of the teaching and person of the most influential person in history, Jesus Christ. We will examine the teachings of Jesus Oregonian-style as we visit the beautiful vineyards, farms and monasteries of the Willamette Valley.
This course, Bible 260, will fulfill the 3 credit hours General Education Requirement elective.
Questions? Please contact Paula Hampton at phampton@georgefox.edu.
The financial aid office is offering a workshop to all graduating students on loan repayment. Join us on either April 2, 9, 16 or 23 at 5 p.m. in Stevens 209. The workshop will cover topics such as how to afford your loan payments and what do if you can’t, as well as loan forgiveness options.
Questions? Pleas contact Johanna Schweitzer at jschweitzer@georgefox.edu.
