The Office of Academic Affairs is looking to hire an office assistant for the summer! Apply on Handshake here if you’re interested!
If you have questions, contact Charlene Maugeri at cmaugeri@georgefox.edu.
The School of Physical Therapy’s Health and Wellness Week returns this May. This year we will be offering these free events:
Note: All events begin at 6 p.m.
Info about each class can be found here. To sign up, email Jason Brumitt at jbrumitt@georgefox.edu.
The Plant Services office will be open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. this summer, starting Monday, May 1.
There’s still time to sign up for the Doctor of Physical Therapy program’s annual Run For Africa event on Saturday, May 6. The 5K or one-mile fun run/walk raises money to support PT’s medical mission to Uganda.
To learn a little about our medical mission, check out this video. To sign up for the event, visit this link.
Please join us at 3 p.m. in Roberts Center’s Room 203 on Monday, May 1, to honor the retirement of nursing professor Val Orton after 12 and a half years of service at George Fox. Light refreshments and beverages will be served.
Reach out to Heather Brammeier at hbrammeier@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.
Go get your yearbook! Whether or not you reserved one, there is one waiting for you!
If you didn’t reserve a copy, go to the student life office in Hadlock to pick one up. If you did reserve one, it will be in your mailbox or in the student life office waiting for you.
Have a great summer, students and employees!
University Recreation is hosting a Wilderness First Responder course this August on the Newberg campus.
The course is ideal for anyone who spends a significant amount of time recreating in outdoor settings. The curriculum also provides essential training in wilderness medicine, leadership, and critical thinking for professionals and leaders working and traveling in outdoor, low-resource, and remote environments.
We have four spots remaining in this course, and they may go quickly!
For more information and to register, go here. Current George Fox students can also apply for a scholarship for the course by going here.
If you have questions about the course, please contact AJ Heil at aheil@georgefox.edu.
Don’t forget to return your rental books to the bookstore! We’re open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. Go Bruins!
The Bridge Cafe will be open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. this summer. We will be trying out new menu items all summer long and have lunch specials available each week. Keep an eye out at georgefox.cafebonappetit.com for those specials.
Beginning this Saturday, April 29, the Murdock Library will be open this summer Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and closed on Saturdays and Sundays. The 24-hour space will remain open during the summer.
Contact Mary Cameron at mcameron@georgefox.edu with any questions.
The university community is invited to the Interprofessional Primary Care Institute’s “Focused Acceptance & Commitment Therapy” event May 9-11.
Both in-person and Zoom sessions will be hosted, with Tuesday’s event taking place from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and both Wednesday’s and Thursday’s meetings from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sessions will feature Dr. Patricia Robinson and Dr. Kirk Strosahl, founders of Focused Acceptance & Commitment Therapy and internationally renowned psychologists.
This CME is an excellent cross-training opportunity in behavioral theory and practice for the medical, dental, pharmacy and nursing professions.
For more information, please visit our event page. Questions? Write us at ipci@georgefox.edu.
We would love to see you and/or your colleagues in May at George Fox or on Zoom!
The Bruin Community Pantry food bank’s summer hours will start on Monday, May 1, and run through Friday, Aug. 25.
Here are our summer hours:
We will be closed May 29, June 19 and July 4.
If you need access to the food bank outside of these hours, please contact Jere Witherspoon at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu.
Mail Services will be adjusting the courier schedule for the summer season (May 1 to Aug. 25). Here is the schedule:
If special courier arrangements need to be made, please reach out to Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.
Looking for an exciting and impactful internship this summer? Apply to work in the admissions office! Summer student employees will work full time alongside the admissions office staff, supporting prospective students and their families as they pursue an education at George Fox.
We are looking for applicants with strong communication skills who are detail-oriented, quick learners, and excited about supporting students through the college decision process. Apply on Handshake today.
If you have questions, email Miranda Davidson at mdavidson@georgefox.edu.
We are still in need of several willing servants to serve as ushers at the 3 p.m. undergraduate commencement ceremony on Saturday, April 29! Take tickets, hand out programs, direct graduates’ family and friends to their seats, and help make graduation a special event for all involved.
Please email Laurie Fair at LFair@georgefox.edu ASAP, if you are available. Thank you in advance!
Hadlock’s summer hours and closures are as follows:
General Summer Hours
Closures
Note: All three gym courts will be closed for the month of May for repairs and renovations.
Parkinson’s disease affects nearly 1 million people in the U.S. That’s 1 million individuals – moms, dads, sisters, brothers, grandparents, best friends – who are living with this progressive neurological disease. So, this April, during Parkinson’s Awareness Month, Providence Health Plan is sharing resources, information, and hope with all people affected by this disease.
Learning more about this condition and visualizing a world without the disease can empower us all to create change. Find out more here.
Starting in the fall 2023, the Bruin Community Pantry Nutrition Matters Kitchen will be offering cooking classes on Sunday afternoons.
If you are interested in teaching a cooking class, plan to attend one of four orientation sessions offered this summer. Everyone who is interested in teaching cooking classes to our students must participate in an orientation prior to teaching the class.
During the orientation you will be given a tour of the kitchen as well as information about the requirements for teaching a class. The orientation will take place in the Bruin Community Pantry (Roberts Center, Room 109).
If you are not able to attend any of the scheduled sessions, but really want to teach a cooking class, please contact Jere Witherspoon at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu. She is happy to meet with people individually as well. All instructors will be required to obtain a valid food handlers card in order to teach a class.
The following days and times have been set aside for trainings:
If you are interested in participating in this program, please email Jere Witherspoon and indicate which day you would like to attend for the orientation.
Have you signed up for Summer Online? Don’t miss your chance to save money and time this summer!
Summer Online offers you the chance to take care of credits from the comfort of your home – or wherever you’ll be this summer – for less than half the cost of regular tuition. Consider this: You could get up to three courses out of the way this summer in just two months (half the length of a typical class!). Free up time in your fall or spring semester, or get on track to graduate early.
Summer Online runs from June 5 to July 30. Check out the full list of courses on class.georgefox.edu and register on MyGeorgeFox.
Mail Services has a lot of boxes available for packing and shipping. Come see what we have and take what you need!
Departments, if you have nice sturdy boxes that you want to get rid of, please bring them to Mail Services this week. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.
