The Daily Bruin

Dr. Andrea Cook visited with George Fox women today to share her leadership journey. She recommended three books to the women in attendance. For those who want to know the names of those books, they are:

• Life of The Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, by Henri Nouwen
• Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living, by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler
• The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything, by Stephen M.R. Covey

The Bruin Bookstore’s spring break hours next week will be 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, with the exception of Wednesday, March 23, when the bookstore and textbook annex will be closed for completion of its year-end inventory.

Ruth Baker and Lori Allen invite all women of the university community to join them for a free dinner and the movie Under the Same Moon at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, in EHS 102.

After the movie, Polly Peterson will facilitate a talk-back session. Come and connect with other women in the GFU community. The dinner and movie are free, but feel free to bring a sweet treat to share.

Contact Lori Allen if you have any questions: allen.redpants@gmail.com or 503-487-6648.

The university community is invited to hear R. Corban Harwood, from Washington State University, speak on “Semilinear Operator Splitting and Modeling Lead-Acid Batteries” on Thursday, March 17. Please stop by EHS 325 at 10:35 a.m.

Questions? Contact Lynn Scott at lscott@georgefox.edu.

Chapel on Wednesday (March 16) will be dispersed throughout campus for worship with your living area.

• Houses/commuters meet in EHS 102
• HMS meets in Bauman Auditorium
• PCWB meets in Hoover 102
• Apartments meet in Lemmons 8
• Co-ED meets in Hoover 105

We look forward to worshiping with you!

Students … Do you have some favorite photos from your time abroad? Would you like to share them with friends and the campus community?

The International Student Service Office is sponsoring a GFU International Photo Contest. You can share with others some of the special images that you’ve captured on film while abroad. We encourage you to submit photos of your most memorable moments!

Submit your international photos by Thursday, March 17. All submitted photos will be displayed in a virtual gallery, with selected photos displayed on campus and voted on by the campus community. Cash prizes will be awarded. This is a great opportunity to share with others the beauty of God’s creation and human endeavors (architecture, sculptures, etc.) from distant lands.

To enter your photos or get more information, please visit our web page at international.georgefox.edu or e-mail dzhuang09@georgefox.edu.

Faculty, please let your students know about this opportunity.

Notice the huge display in the Lobby? Its to collect food for 150+ kids at five schools in Portland who don’t have enough food to eat over the weekends. This time, however, we are donating food so they have food to eat over Spring Break.

In partnership with Take Action, Inc, we are trying to collect enough food to feed at least 30 children for their Spring Break. Please join us in this effort.

You can also donate by check: Make the check out to “Mt. Park Church,” indicating “Backpack Project” in the memo line and give it to one of the front office staff. We will make sure the donations make it to the church in time for food to be purchased. Examples of food items to donate are on the fliers at the display.

Questions? Contact Janis Sanford, Site Supervisor at 503.554.6164 or by email.

The Summer application for student employment is now available. Visit this website, http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/hr/Studentemployment.html to get to the application.  Print it, and complete all sections.   Check out Bruin Careers for available summer jobs and deliver your application to the hiring managers of your choice.  DO NOT send it to Human Resources.

Fall jobs are also being posted on Bruin Careers.  Use the Academic year application to apply for those.

Come and celebrate the coming of Spring with us! (or at least Spring Break!) The rain may fall, but we will be sharing good food and fellowship with our students and faculty. March 17th from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Religious Studies offices, Hoover 230.

Interested in our majors/minors? Come and get your questions answered.

And – a faculty book giveaway! Come check it out!

Application forms are now available for students interested in applying for summer jobs. You can check it out at this link. Please post your openings out on Bruin Careers as soon as possible so you can select from the best candidates.

Don’t forget to post your openings for fall while you’re at it!

Following board approval this past weekend, off-campus studies are now covered by tuition remission. Up until now, non-GFU off-campus studies have been excluded unless required for a major.

The employee handbook will be updated this week to reflect this change in policy.

The application process for off-campus studies for the 2011-12 academic year is now complete. The next opportunity to apply for this program will be January 2012 for the 2012-13 academic year – the same timeframe for requesting tuition remission. Tuition Remission requests for the 2012-13 academic year will be due Feb. 1, 2012.

If you have questions, contact Peggy Kilburg via e-mail at pkilburg@georgefox.edu.

Starting to think about what you are going to do after graduation?

Consider taking GEED 218-Find Suitable Employment: Effective Job Seeking

Take this one-credit course for juniors and seniors that focuses on honing skills needed to find employment, the latest in resume writing, interviewing, strategizing, using the Internet, networking and completing a portfolio.

Other online career courses offered this fall and next spring:
GEED 214: Claim Your Carer Calling: Selecting a Major (for freshmen and sophomores)
GEED 216: Becoming Workplace Familiar: Getting an Internship
You can find the courses in the course schedule under General Education.

Interested in launching a fair trade student group on campus? An objective of Fair Trade is to cultivate the consciousness that will help shape a global economy based on justice and integrity. Fair Trade promotes economic systems that empower producers so that they can reap fair benefits for their labors.

Meet us at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 15, in the River Street House (the back side of the Stevens Center) if this sounds like the kind of group you’d like to help launch. Write Melanie Newell in the Center for Peace and Justice if you have questions.

Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) and Brian Bews will be hosting discussions of four crises in the early church, providing a state-of-the-art analysis of the Gospel of John’s audience. From there, new insights into the narrative will be explored, including reflecting on how readers today are drawn into a transformative dialogue with Jesus from the Gospel of John. All are welcome!

Join us this Wednesday (March 16) from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m. at North Valley Friends Church, 4o2o N. College St.

Contact Paul if you have questions at panderso@georgefox.edu.

The university’s International Justice Mission chapter is hosting another meeting this Wednesday, March 16, at 7:50 p.m. in the Le Shana lobby. The chapter deals in large part with the issue of sex-trafficking on both a global and local scale, and what steps we can do to combat it.

Two major focuses of the chapter are prayer and how we can get involved in the community. Please come and see how you can get involved as well!

Contact Stephen Kenyon at skenyon09@georgefox.edu if you have questions.

Fall 2011 housing selection will be online today through Friday, March 18th. The form will close at 5:00 p.m. on Friday.

Your housing code can be found on the first page of the Housing Groups Sign-ups form. One person from each group will fill out the form with the housing codes of the whole group.

• Go to the https://webservices.georgefox.edu/forms and login.
• The housing sign-ups form should appear on the left.
• The forms will walk you through the process:
  • One person enters housing codes for the group
  • Confirm your roommate choices
  • Rank order your preferences

If you do not have a group to sign up with, you can go through the housing process as an individual. In this case, rather than placing you according to your credit ranking, we would work with you to identify a suitable spot to live.

If you would like help going through the process, there is a computer set up in the Student Life Office. You may use this computer to go through sign-ups with one of the housing staff to help answer questions.

If you have questions about the selection process, please stop by or call the Student Life Office, ext. 2310 or email housing@georgefox.edu.

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 go to this link 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.

An all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Monday, March 28, in Bauman Auditorium (please note the location change). The meeting was originally scheduled for March 31 but has been moved up three days.

The agenda will include an update from President Robin Baker, who will provide details on the recent board meeting. For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. A chat room has also been set up, and a video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.

The Academic Resource Center (ARC) is accepting applications for next year’s ARC consultants. Students from all disciplines are welcome to apply; having multiple disciplines represented strengthens the ARC’s ability to support a wide range of students.

If you know students who write well, are thoughtful learners, and desire to support peers in their academic success, please encourage them to apply. Applications and additional information are available at the ARC Application page.

All are welcome to the Professional Executive Seminar scheduled 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday (March 15) in Hoover 105! A group of experts will speak, including Jack Cuniff (CFO of Les Schwab), Bill Essig (Vice President of Medical Teams International) and Barbara Palmer (Senior VP of US Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management).

There will be a social session following the seminar with refreshments for all attendees.

All are welcome free of charge, and dress is casual. The event is being presented by Sunrise Consulting and Event Planning (the senior business capstone team of April Barkley, Jacob Cuniff, Jaime Wiebelhaus, Jenny Barram, Cliff Rhoten and Derek Aldrich).

Questions? Contact April Barkley at agbarkley@gmail.com or 509-499-6134.

Faculty members, please tell your students about this opportunity.