The Daily Bruin

If you’ve walked by Klages and Pennington, you’ve probably noticed the marked-off area in the grass. Plant Services discovered broken underground lines on Friday, before commencement. Now that our guests have left the campus, Plant Services is resolving the issue.

Until the service is restored, the following buildings have disruption:

• Water off: Hoover and Pennington
• Gas off: Brougher, EHS, Hoover, Lemmons, Minthorn, North Street Annex, Ross/Bauman and Wood-Mar

Thank you for your patience as we work to restore service. Contact Dixie Downey (ddowney@georgefox.edu) with questions.

If your contract ends soon and/or you will not be on campus through the summer, please bring over any cash or checks before you leave.

Please look around your desks and file cabinets to see if there are any lingering items that need to be deposited. Checks dated prior to June 30, 2020, must be deposited in the current fiscal year.

Questions about deposits? Contact Heather Groenlund (503-554-2173). Thank you and have a great summer!

The end of the fiscal year is approaching, and with that we would like to inform you of a few requirements for year-end purchases.

Please remember that if you order goods and services, they need to be physically received/completed by June 30, 2021. Goods and services received after June 30 will be charged to the 2021-22 budget year. Therefore, all purchase requisitions/POs for this fiscal year need to be entered by May 31, 2021.

Contact purchasing@georgefox.edu with questions.

Visa info
Your George Fox Visa can be used until June 18, 2021. Concur expense reports and Visa reports for 2020-21 must be submitted by July 9, 2021. Any reports created and submitted after July 9 will be reflected in the 2021-22 budget.

Contact Kathi Becker (kbecker@georgefox.edu) with questions.

Thank you for participating in the Steps for Success events last month. We hope you benefited from the information we provided, and most importantly, from being more active and enjoying the sunny outdoors.

We would love to hear your feedback. Please complete this survey to be entered in a raffle to win prizes! We will also send the event summary next week, so please share your experience and photos with us.

Our final Steps for Success event will be a treasure hunt on our Newberg campus. We invite departments and individuals to stop by HR for your first treasure hunt clue at 10 a.m. today (Wednesday). The first group or individual employee to complete the hunt will win a fun prize!

Questions? Contact Aga Luptak at aluptak@georgefox.edu

Campus Recreation will offer its School of Rock class this month, free of charge for George Fox students and employees!

School of Rock covers the basics of rock-climbing techniques, movements and skills. Looking to take your climbing knowledge to the next level? This course is perfect for you! Join our skilled and professionally certified instructors to learn more about how to climb better and how to refine your skills.

New to climbing? No problem! Have you been climbing for awhile? This course is also perfect for you! We will cover footwork, basic and intermediate movement techniques, handhold positioning, climbing terminology, body positioning, and much more! Want personalized coaching? This is also a great opportunity to get some of that.

This course has four sessions, one hour each night. Please plan to come for all of them, if possible. Register by going here. Here are the dates (all classes meet from 6 to 7 p.m.):

• Tuesday, May 18
• Thursday, May 20
• Tuesday, May 25
• Thursday, May 27

Have any questions? Please reach out to Austin at ashirazi17@georgefox.edu.

The Hadlock Student Center is open to employees for the summer. Hours of operation are 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Hadlock will be closed Saturdays, Sundays and Memorial Day. Spouses and dependents are also able to use the Hadlock Student Center. Please see the details located here.

Questions? Contact AJ Heil at aheil@georgefox.edu.

Campus Public Safety will be conducting its annual bicycle roundup starting Monday, May 10. If you are staying on campus over the summer and plan to keep a bike here, please come to the Campus Public Safety office to get a sticker ID so that your bike will not be removed.

At the end of the spring semester, a university-wide bicycle cleanup is done. Bicycles that are illegally parked, unregistered or inoperable are impounded. Bicycle racks need to be cleared to do routine maintenance to the bicycle racks and surrounding areas.

Bicycles may not be stored on the campus during the summer semester. Bicycle claims can be made at the Campus Public Safety office.

Students using their bikes during the summer must move their bikes to the nearest rack of their summer housing.

Bicycles that are not picked up from the impound lot within 60 days will be forwarded to the local charities at the discretion of the Campus Public Safety office. Junk bicycles will be recycled.

Questions? Contact Elrike Shaw at eshaw@georgefox.edu.

To all students and employees: It has been requested by our neighbors at Friendsview that you do not park in their small gravel lot across from Duke. They barely have room for their own staff. That lot is for Friendsview employees only.

Please park in the university lots provided for your use. We thank you, and so does Friendsview.

Come support artists from the George Fox community at the First Friday pop-up art sale this Friday, May 7, from 5 to 8 p.m. on the porch at 700 E. Sheridan St.

The university’s own Jillian Sokso, Tim Timmerman and Jennifer Loop will be among those showcasing their work. There will be stickers, prints, works on paper, paintings, ceramics and more from several artists. Please stop by and shop some local art!

If you have any questions, please reach out to Jillian Sokso at jsokso@georgefox.edu.

Yamhill County Public Health is sponsoring two COVID-19 vaccination events. Please click on the link for registration instructions.

• Thursday, May 6: Evergreen IMAX Theater
• Thursday, May 13: Evergreen IMAX Theater

Nate McIntyre has transitioned to the position of director of undergraduate admissions.

Ryan Forbes has transitioned to the position of assistant director for undergraduate admissions.

Nathanael Ankeny and Dwayne Corbin (Music) premiered Dwayne’s five-movement composition Duettino for Alto and Vibes at the North American Saxophone Alliance Region 1 Conference in April. The piece, written for alto saxophone, crotales and vibraphone, was featured along with other new compositions for saxophone. NASA Region 1 encompasses the states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

Nathanael has also performed recently with Grammy-nominated pianist Randy Porter, joining Porter’s trio for an ongoing streaming concert series in March. On April 21, he was part of the Randy Porter Quartet that performed at the John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts in Eugene, Oregon. The concert featured the works of jazz composer Dave Brubeck, in celebration of his 100th birthday in 2020.

Young-IL Kim (Social Work) published a book chapter (with Sung Joon Jang and Brenda Oyer) in New Research on Parenting Programs for Low-Income Fathers, edited by Jay Fagan and Jessica Pearson. The chapter, entitled “Factors Associated with Fatherhood Program Effectiveness: A Randomized Controlled Trial of TYRO Dads,” describes results of a research study funded by the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network.

Eloise Hockett (Education), Stephanie Matthew (Nursing) and Elizabeth Roark Yarbrough (former nursing faculty member) recently published an article in the Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, entitled “Navigating Mismatched Expectations and Dissonance on International Nursing Service-Learning Trips.” The article draws from their experiences leading George Fox students on service-learning trips to Kenya.

Paige Parry (Biology) received a $2,000 Natural History Research Grant, to be paid over two years, from Western North American Naturalist for research on the contribution of natural enemies to forest recruitment limitation along a climate gradient. It will fund a field-based experiment at the long-term forest plot that her lab works at to quantify the extent to which seed predators and herbivores limit seed production and seedling recruitment, and how these effects vary with climate.

If you have not visited your George Fox email in the last two days, please do! Your George Fox paperless e-billing statement was delivered to you yesterday, May 3. Please forward it to anyone assisting you with payment.

As a reminder for grad and ADP students, you will no longer receive a paper-printed bill in addition to the electronic statement.

Questions? Contact Jenny Getsinger (jgetsing@georgefox.edu).

Interested in grant writing or grant management that supports George Fox University? The university’s advancement office invites you to join us for our annual George Fox grant training session on Wednesday, May 12.

Join either our novice or master grant training tracks. Learn more about new grant registration and approval processes, hear from funded grant leaders, and get answers to timely questions.

Please submit this quick survey by Monday, May 10, to RSVP for one of the limited seats. Unable to attend on May 12? Don’t worry: Complete the survey on the above link to indicate your preference for future grant training invitations.

We value your input, and thank you for your help!

– The Advancement Office

We invite you to join the Department of History and Politics in celebrating Mark Weinert as he retires after 39 years of service to the university.

Please feel free to drop by the Center Street House on Thursday, May 6, between 1 and 2 p.m. Questions? Contact Caitlin Corning (ccorning@georgefox.edu).

The financial aid office is looking to hire two student interns for the upcoming summer. Are you a highly organized individual with an attention to detail and accuracy, good interpersonal and communication skills, and have the ability to work well with a team? These internships may be great opportunities for you!

The applications for financial aid counselor intern and Scholarship Resource Center intern close today (Monday), so apply now on Handshake!

You need to be a traditional undergraduate student for the fall semester to be considered.

Questions? Contact Soren Sweet (ssweet@georgefox.edu).

The Office for Spiritual Life invites all members of our community to participate in our 2021 senior commissioning service (Baccalaureate) by following this link. 

You will hear music performed by the University Choir (directed by Danielle Warner), and words of encouragement spoken by ASC President Meredith Green and fellow graduates Vicky Fuentes Sotelo and Satoshi Seth.

Also included is a segment featuring graduates Daria Brandt, Julio Lopez-Hernandez, Meghan Donohue and Joshua Ishimwe. Please join us for one final worship service featuring our seniors!

Current students can watch the service for SpiL credit through the iAttended app.

Questions? Contact Jamie Johnson (jamiej@georgefox.edu).

The Office for Spiritual Life is excited to offer internships for the 2021-22 school year. We are hiring for campus ministry interns , Vespers band leaders, and a media and marketing intern.

These positions are now open on Handshake and will be open through May 31, 2021. If you have any questions, please contact us at spirituallife@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2320.

Yamhill County Public Health is sponsoring two COVID-19 vaccination events. Please click on the link for registration instructions.

• Thursday, May 6: Evergreen IMAX Theater
• Thursday, May 13: Evergreen IMAX Theater