The Daily Bruin

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, students cannot congregate in the IDEA Center waiting room for drop-in appointments. Your CAP Coaches are still here to serve you though! Make a virtual or phone appointment for a 15-minute mini-meeting through Handshake. After the add/drop deadline on Sunday, Sep. 6, CAP Coaches will go back to offering 30-minute in-person appointments, as well as phone and virtual appointments.

Questions? Email Colleen Sump at csump@georgefox.edu.

Do you want to get paid to help students stay connected and have a creative outlet for your writing, photography or art?

Applications are open to work on George Fox’s student newspaper, The Crescent, in the 2020-2021 school year. To apply, just send a short introduction and any samples of your work to asccrescent@georgefox.edu. Applications close Sunday, Sep. 6 at midnight.

Questions? Email asccrescent@georgefox.edu.

IDEA Center CAP coaches are here to help you finalize your fall schedule. There will be no in-person drop-ins for the first two weeks. Instead, you can make a virtual or phone mini appointment through Handshake. Go here to learn how.

You can also email your questions to your CAP Coach.

Please join us on Thursday, Sept. 3, as we celebrate Ryan Dougherty for his 20 years of service to the university. He and his family will join us at the Alumni Plaza (between Bauman Auditorium and the football field) for socially distanced snacks and well wishes. We’ll have a basket available if you’d like to drop off a card. Face coverings required!

Suggested visit times:

• Admissions: 10-10:30 a.m.
• Registrar & Marketing: 10:30-11 a.m.
• George Fox community and friends: 11 a.m. – noon

Please contact Lindsay Knox or Sarah Reid with questions.

Undergraduate and grad students who do not weight lift are wanted for an eight-week strength training study.

Your time commitment: pretest session, training program twice a week for eight weeks (approximately 20 minutes per session), and a post-test session. A small honorarium will be offered for completing the study.

Contact Jason Brumitt (jbrumitt@georgefox.edu) for details.

The Office for Spiritual Life is excited to announce the Monday Morning Devotional (MoMoDeVo), a short devotional from one of our pastoral staff shared every Monday morning at 9 a.m. this semester.

Please visit this link to join us every Monday morning as we study the book of James. Students, if you want SpiL credit for watching, please watch it in the iAttended app.

Questions? Contact us at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Students, we’re so excited to have you on campus! A number of academic departments and offices are hosting open houses from 3 to 4 p.m. for the first two weeks of classes so students can meet professors and staff and enjoy some awesome snacks.

The George Fox community is full of incredible people, and we can’t wait for you to get to know them! Check out the open house map here.

Class.georgefox.edu is a great resource for anyone needing to look up details on a class, including teaching modality, meeting times and location, enrollment limit and wait-list numbers, course description, instructor info and often textbook listings, too (click the book icon after clicking on a course to expand its info).

Have questions? Write registrar@georgefox.edu.

Are you interested in leadership on campus? We have open student government positions this year!

We need four freshman representatives, as well as a senior representative and a marketing director to fill our 2020-21 Associated Student Community team.

We would love to see you and answer all of your questions about joining student government. Join us on the quad at 7 p.m. tomorrow (Tuesday) to learn more!

If you have questions, contact Meredith Green (mgreen17@georgefox.edu).

Following is info on employee dining on campus this semester …

• Due to the state’s restriction of no more than 100 people in restaurants at one time, you may have noticed that we’ve set up a variety of spaces around Canyon Commons for students to sit and eat. Until further notice, we ask that employees do not eat in Canyon Commons to be sure there is space for both residential and commuter students to eat at meal times.
• Employees may still order food to go through Bon Appetit using their app (more info on this soon). Lunch Club cards are not being sold to employees this year, but you may use any remaining punches you have to visit the servery. If you do, please take the food to go.
• The Bruin Den and Bruin Bites will both be closed, but Bridge Cafe remains open for grab-and-go food. 
• When in Canyon Commons, please follow all instructions posted and keep your face covering on.
• There is a dining area set up on the tennis courts that employees are welcome to use if desired.

Thank you for your understanding. Questions? Contact COT@georgefox.edu.

This year we are excited to partner with the app iAttended to track all spiritual life attendance requirements.

Please download the app ASAP, create your account using your George Fox email account, and then press the “Enter Code” button. In the pop-up box, enter the code C358.

If you encounter problems, or have any questions, please email spirtuallife@georgefox.edu. 

A George Fox student and faculty member are looking for students to participate in a study of academic stress. Students will report throughout the fall semester via monthly five-minute surveys.

If surveys are completed on time, students will be eligible to win an Amazon gift card and will earn an entry to win for each survey completed.

To see if you are eligible to participate, please fill out the initial questionnaire by 5 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 27. If eligible, students will be contacted by email.

Questions? Email Karis Lee at klee19@georgefox.edu.

The Newberg-to-Portland campus courier service resumes its regular schedule today (Monday) and will be delivering daily. If you have items that need to go to the Portland Center, please make sure you have them to Mail Services by 10:30 a.m.

If you have any questions, please contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

After 24 years of service at George Fox, John Heitz is retiring at the end of August. John has served the university in plant services’ building repair department, and more recently as planner/estimator for plant services projects.

Students will remember him best by his startling demonstration on why undamaged window screens are important. Some staff may remember him best by his willingness to chase out unwanted animal residents. Serving 24 years means that there are so many great stories!

In lieu of a campus event, we would like to bless John with cards and letters. If you could take a moment to write him a note (or recall a favorite memory), please send those to Box 6449. Thank you!

Marketing communications has designed some custom George Fox playing cards for students to enjoy this year, and they turned out good enough that we’d like to share them with the whole community!

If you’d like to order any for yourself or your department, simply fill out this Google form. The price per deck will depend on order volume, but they should be $8 each at the most, possibly less.

Email questions to Jamison Loop (jloop@georgefox.edu).

Join us across campus at 11 a.m. tomorrow (Tuesday) for Fall Academic Convocation Chapel. This first chapel of the year will be live-streamed across campus and available at this link.

President Robin Baker will introduce the new provost, Andrea Scott, welcome students to campus, and deliver the community charge with ASC president Meredith Green. Start the year off blessed as we worship and welcome students back to campus!

The Portland Writing Center is seeking a new writing consultant who is enthusiastic about helping fellow graduate and degree completion students understand the components of effective writing.

Portland Writing Center consultants are current adult degree-completion and graduate students who work four to eight hours per week meeting with students on Zoom or email sessions through the Portland Writing Center.

Writing consultant duties include helping students with the following:

• Thinking through ideas for a writing assignment
• Considering writing choices with regard to audience, focus, purpose, cohesion, and organization
• Developing ideas with specific evidence
• Improving research strategies
• Applying proper documentation and formatting, and
• Understanding basic grammar and mechanics

Click here for a Consultant Job Description, and click here for a Consultant Application. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

For more information, contact Jennie Harrop, Portland Writing Center director, at 503-554-6024 or jharrop@georgefox.edu.

IDEA Center CAP coaches are here to help you finalize your fall schedule. There will be no in-person drop-ins for the first two weeks. Instead, you can make a virtual or phone mini appointment through Handshake. Go here to learn how.

You can also email your questions to your CAP Coach.

This year we are excited to partner with the app iAttended to track all spiritual life attendance requirements.

Please download the app ASAP, create your account using your George Fox email account, and then press the “Enter Code” button. In the pop-up box, enter the code C358.

If you encounter problems, or have any questions, please email spirtuallife@georgefox.edu. 

The Office of Student Accounts and the Office of Financial Aid will be open today (Saturday), both from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please come early so we can help you take care of your financial aid and payment needs for the fall.