The Nicaragua serve team has tickets for our annual Summer Serve Banquet! Dinner will be served and there will be a silent auction. Tickets are $10, and all contributions will go toward supporting our team members. The banquet will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, April 13, in the Klages Dining Hall.
If interested in tickets, please contact Jennifer Shaheed at 714-363-7974 or Jshaheed11@georgefox.edu.
Join us at 7 p.m. Friday, April 5 and next Friday, April 12 in EHS 102 at for the French Film Festival put on by the French department.
This Friday we’ll be screening “Intouchables” and “The Artist”. Next Friday “Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis” and “Indigènes.” Admission is free and there will be plenty of French food. Come one, come all!
For more information, please contact Jeannot Djanga at jdjanga10@georgefox.edu
Juniors and seniors: Do you ever wonder what life will be like after Fox?
Come to Post Fox from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, April 5. The cost of this event is $5. There will also a drawing for a Kindle Fire.
Survey Number One:
Benefits of After-school Programs: Please take this SUPER short survey (only 6 questions!) for my LACI research project. It will be quick and really helpful to us in our data collection. Thank you! The link is below.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LJ3RX95
Need help? Have questions? Contact:
Angelyn Haughey, Marcus Gabriel, Stephanie Mount, Kelsey Adent
ahaughey09@georgefox.edu
Survey Number Two:
-What are your thoughts on welfare?
–George Fox Welfare Survey & Opinions on Welfare
Need help? Have questions? Contact:
Brian Goodwin (bgoodwin10@georgefox.edu), Jordan Enobakhare, Baylin Bennett, Da Sol Kim
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.
Today (Thursday) is the last day you can register to attend the First Avenue Career Expo on Friday, April 5.
To register, go to olapcfirstavenue.org. Registration is open until 4 p.m.
Questions? Contact Corina Burke at ext. 2330 or cburke@georgefox.edu.
Faculty, please be sure to remind your students of this opportunity.
Today (Thursday) is the last day to get free admission to the First Avenue Career Expo!
Career Services’ last “How to Work a Job Fair” info session is this afternoon in the Career Services office from 12:30 to 1 p.m.
Questions or have a class conflict? Contact Corina Burke at ext. 2330 or cburke@georgefox.edu.
Faculty, be sure to remind your students about this! Thanks
The Brewin’ Grounds is hosting a benefit concert at 8 p.m. tonight (Thursday) featuring Ben Cline from Of Confidence, Jay & the Gentiles, Tim Almquist, Shekinah Davis and various other artists.
The Brewin’ Grounds will be donating a percentage of the evening’s proceeds from drink purchases. So come enjoy amazing music and purchase a variety of drinks (coffee, milkshakes, smoothies, etc.), and support your fellow classmates. Invite your friends!
Faculty, thank you so much for the involvement and support for the Peace’d Together Intercultural Conference.
Some of you are requiring students to attend the conference. If this is the case, please make sure the students know that they can’t attend unless they register. Registration closes Wednesday, April 10. It would be great if you could send out an e-mail to your classes to make sure they know that in order to attend they must register at the following link: http://bit.ly/gfupeace.
Again, thank you so much! The conference is going to be awesome!
Shelley Yonemura (syonemura@georgefox.edu)
Did you know that Saturday, April 20, is Earth Day? Come join in the restoration of our canyon as we remove invasive plant species from 9 a.m. to noon. We will meet down by the Suites in the canyon; come for as long as you’d like. We have all the gloves and tools. We just need your hands!
You can contact Trevor Woods at twoods@georgefox.edu to R.S.V.P or to ask questions. We look forward to seeing you there!
Your dreams of seeing our award-winning, internationally ranked debate team in action are finally coming true!
This Monday, April 8, at 7 p.m., come to Hoover 105 and watch a public debate featuring the George Fox team on the following topic: “We regret social networks.”
Coffee and refreshments will be served, and there will also be opportunities for audience participation. Should be a raucous good time!
Questions? Contact Abigail Rine at arine@georgefox.edu.
Don’t forget tonight’s (Thursday’s) Spring Chamber Concert at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.
The event will include performances by our Keyboard Ensemble (“Venetian Boat Song,” “Rondo”), Women’s Chorale (“Tundra,” Cantate Domino”), String Ensemble (“Last Spring, Op. 34,” “Simple Symphony, Op. 4”), Chamber Singers (“Alleluia,” “Exultate Deo,” “Stand by Me”), String Quartet (“String Quartet No. 12, Op. 96 in F Major”) and Handbell Ringers (“The Bells of Notre Dame,” “Under the Sea”).
There is no admission charge.
Come support our music faculty at a pair of recitals this week. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 5, Brent Weaver will present “From Grief to Joy,” featuring some of his original compositions and performances by students. The event will include performances by Nathanael Ankeny (saxophone), James Pick (piano), Ken Beare (tenor), Maria Choban (piano) and the university’s Brass Ensemble.
On Sunday, April 7, a 3 p.m. recital featuring voice faculty is scheduled. Maggie Daane (soprano), Cynthia McGladrey (mezzo-soprano), Matthew Hayward (lyric baritone), Rebekah Hansen (viola), Barbara Stewart (piano) and James Pick (piano) will perform. Selections includes works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Bernstein, Ravel and Brahms.
Both recitals are scheduled in Bauman Auditorium, and admission is free.
The admissions office is accepting applications for summer internship. Summer interns are responsible for and/or involved with a wide range of admissions functions, including giving campus tours, communication with prospective students (in person, over the phone and via e-mail and Facebook), data entry, mail processing, stuffing and sorting bulk mailings, filing, database procedures, handling inventory and some front office reception.
A position announcement and application details are available on Bruin Careers. Applications are due on Monday, April 8.
Come take a break from homework from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 4 in Hoover 102, and join the Psychology Club and Sigma Zeta (Biology Club) as we compete to see who REALLY knows more about the brain in our fourth annual brain trivia competition! Pizza and soda will be provided.
For more information, please contact Rose Henry at rhenry07@georgefox.edu.
Are you ready to beat the odds in your professional job search? We have a way to spruce up those job-search skills through Optimal Resume on MyGFU/Career Services.
You can build a resume, cover letter, interviewing, eportfolio, website, and articulate skills one competency at a time, or you can join us in the 10-Step program to become an Optimal Job candidate. The program is set up for you in BruinCareers/MyGFU, but don’t hesitate to ask us about it.
Here’s a quote worth thinking about: “Your job skills will not get you a job … but your job-search skills will.”
– Job Search Strategies, Bud Clarkson
Thank you,
Bonnie Jerke (Career Services)
careers@georgefox.edu, careers.georgefox.edu, 503-554-2330
Are our students ready to beat the odds in their professional job searches? We have a way to spruce up those job-search skills through Optimal Resume on MyGFU/Career Services.
Students can build a resume, cover letter, interviewing, eportfolio, website, and articulate skills one competency at a time, or they can join us in the 10-Step program to become an Optimal Job candidate. The program is set up in BruinCareers/MyGFU; don’t hesitate to ask us about it.
Here’s a quote worth thinking about: “Your job skills will not get you a job … but your job-search skills will.”
– Job Search Strategies, Bud Clarkson
Thank you,
Bonnie Jerke (Career Services)
careers@georgefox.edu, careers.georgefox.edu, 503-554-2330
The Bruin Grounds is hosting a benefit concert featuring George Fox alumnus Benjamin Tissell on Saturday, April 6, at 8 p.m. Proceeds will support Ameena Bossier and Bri Phelps, who are going to serve in Swaziland for two months this summer as interns.
The Bruin Grounds will be donating a percentage of what it makes that night from drink purchases. So come enjoy some great music and purchase coffee, milkshakes, smoothies, etc., and support your fellow classmates. Invite your friends!
Hope to see you all there!
Come and support our very own Gospel Choir, The Voices of Praise, in their second annual “WORSHIP EXPERIENCE” Concert. This is going to be an awesome night of praise and worship. Come and be a part of it!
I’m house manager for the theatre department’s production of Enchanted April, and I’m looking for some ushers!
If you come help out with the show, you get to see the show for free in return! After duties are done, you just chill and watch the show, or if you’re posted on door duty I’ll give you a ticket for you to come back on another showtime.
Performances are:
Arrival times for ushers will be about one and a half hours before showtime (or less). So I would need you to arrive at 6 p.m. on evening shows and 12:30 p.m. for matinees.
Send me and e-mail letting me know which date(s) you would like to usher for!
Much obliged,
Michelle (mcroce12@georgefox.edu)
This Thursday we have a large group of prospective students here for our Bruin Preview event and we are still in need of some hosts for those students staying overnight.
If you are interested in helping a student in their college decision process by hosting them for the night, please get in touch with the Admissions Office asap! Â Hosts will be required to attend a 4 p.m. meeting in Hoover 105 on Thursday, April 4 in order to meet their students. Snacks will be provided!
Contact Emma Glennen at eglennen@georgefox.edu or 503.554.2249 if you are available!
