The Daily Bruin

A group of George Fox alumni and current student makers invite the campus community to check out Living Room Market, Newberg’s alleyway soirèe at 111 S. College St.

Join us every first Friday between 4 and 9 p.m. through late summer and early fall (Aug. 7, Sept. 4 and Oct. 2). Our marketplace offers an experience that gathers locals with small businesses and individuals from beyond our town to celebrate creative community, nature-based products and handcrafted goods.

Each event includes an artisan maker’s market, food carts, live music and more! Interested in being one of our rad makers? Visit this link for more details.

In his latest blog piece, President Robin Baker discusses the ongoing need to keep conversation, relationships and listening at the fore as we strive to be a more diverse and inclusive community.

To bring his points home, Robin shares the story of Fabian Jimenez, a former student who overcame challenging socio-economic conditions to attend George Fox and earn a degree. You can read the piece here.

Bon Appetit is excited to welcome you to back to campus this fall! As you’d expect, we’re implementing some serious sanitation and service measures to ensure you can dine with us as safely and comfortably as possible.

While COVID-19 safety is a key priority, it isn’t our only one. We still believe that food has an important role to play in individual wellness and in building culture and community at George Fox. Our chefs will still be cooking from scratch, using fresh local and seasonal ingredients that meet our sustainability standards.

More information about dining can be found on this webpage. As more information unfolds, updates will be communicated with students and posted on this site.

For more information, please General Manager Jason Rosvall at jason.rosvall@cafebonappetit.com or 503-554-3201.

All employee headshot photo shoots are on hold until September. If you are a new employee, or are in need of a new or updated headshot, please wait until further notice before contacting the university photographer or the marketing communications department.

Keep an eye out in the Daily Bruin this fall for an update on when photo shoots will resume.

A group of George Fox alumni and current student makers invite the campus community to check out Living Room Market, Newberg’s alleyway soirèe at 111 S. College St.

Join us every first Friday between 4 and 9 p.m. through late summer and early fall (Aug. 7, Sept. 4 and Oct. 2). Our marketplace offers an experience that gathers locals with small businesses and individuals from beyond our town to celebrate creative community, nature-based products and handcrafted goods.

Each event includes an artisan maker’s market, food carts, live music and more! Interested in being one of our rad makers? Visit this link for more details.

George Fox faculty and students are invited to take part in a virtual interprofessional continuing medical education event addressing suicide prevention on Saturday, Aug. 15. It will take place over Zoom from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The event, hosted by the Interprofessional Primary Care Institute, is free to students and staff. It will feature experts from a variety of healthcare professions to discuss how interprofessional teams in school-based health centers and primary care clinics can work closely together to prevent adolescent suicide in our communities.

After rates of adolescent suicide in the U.S. stabilized from 2000 to 2007, suicide rates for ages 10 to 24 increased from 2007 (6.8 per 100,000 persons) to 2017 (10.6). While suicides increased across this age group, suicide rates most sharply increased for ages 10 to 14, nearly tripling from 2007 (0.9) to 2017 (2.5).

These increasing rates of adolescent suicide highlight the importance of prevention and intervention in schools, primary care and other community-based settings.

To learn more, contact Tammy O’Doherty (todohert@georgefox.edu).

Ready to make your voice heard? We want to hear from you! It’s your turn to have a say in the future of George Fox by participating in an open, informal conversation about your experience going remote during the spring semester of 2020.

This transition was difficult for a number of different reasons, some of which might be sensitive or hard to talk about. For this reason, we would like to chat with you in a group setting or one-on-one, moderated by a recent graduate who also went through the remote transition.

Interested in making Fox a better place? Please share your availability here.

Questions? Contact Jessica Mau at jmau16@georgefox.edu.

Several parking spaces have been marked off in the Hoover parking lot. Please avoid parking in these spaces while some arborist work is done on the tree in the parking lot landscaping. The work will take several days.

Thank you!

Interested in learning more about working as a behavioral health clinician? Join us for a special continuing education event focused on developing new skills for behavioral health learners using the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) model.

The course “Professional Solutions: Behavioral Health Clinician Essentials” will be held virtually the week of Aug. 10-14, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. There is no cost to participate for George Fox faculty or students. The event is hosted by the Interprofessional Primary Care Institute.

Research shows that clinics that implement the BCBH model are better equipped to deliver biopsychosocial-cultural care to the people they serve. The PCBH model is an evolution of psychotherapy that matches the fast pace of primary care by adding a behavioral health clinician (BHC) team member who works in a focused and accessible way.

BHCs in primary care are licensed psychologists, clinical social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists. This event will feature an interprofessional team that includes experts in the PCBH model, primary care clinicians, nurses and others who are invested in the success of BHCs in primary care.

To learn more, contact Tammy O’Doherty (todohert@georgefox.edu).

Several parking spaces have been marked off in the Stevens Center parking lot. Please avoid parking in these spaces while some arborist work is done on the tree in the parking lot landscaping. The work will take several days.

Thank you!

Thank you to staff and faculty alike for bearing with the changes in purchasing at this unique time in our university. To provide clarity across campus, here is a reminder concerning which purchasing tool to use when.

Requisitions: Please fill out a purchase requisition to purchase products or services from a vendor/supplier. Contact purchasing (purchasing@georgefox.edu) with any questions and refer to the Purchasing Policy.

Individuals (not tied to an entity such as a business): Complete a check request in employment records. This is done through HR through George Fox timekeeping. Please refer to the George Fox timekeeping system guide for instruction on how to proceed. Contact HR with questions (hr@georgefox.edu).

Reimbursements:

• Standard full-time staff reimbursements are processed through Concur. Contact Kathi Becker (kbecker@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.
• Part-time hourly staff are to use the reimbursement form found on the finance page under forms. Contact accounts payable (accountspayable@georgefox.edu) if you have questions about finance forms.

Visa Charges and Transactions: All Visa purchases need to be approved through the requisition process in order to receive authorization/approval to purchase. Once a PO is issued, a requester can proceed using their Visa (please keep in mind that you still have to process receipts through Concur for all Visa transactions).

Contact purchasing (purchasing@georgefox.edu) with questions about Visa PO approvals using the requisition process. Contact Kathi Becker (kbecker@georgefox.edu) if you have questions concerning Visa cards and Concur.

For all other questions specifically tied to requisitions and purchase orders, contact purchasing. If you require a tutorial on how to enter a requisition, please contact Sonia Rademacher (srademacher@georgefox.edu) in purchasing.

The vehicle registration portal opens up today (Monday) on MyGeorgeFox for freshmen to register their vehicles for residential parking permits! Be sure to have your DMV registration slip in front of you, as you will need some of that information in order to register.

The portal is currently open for seniors, commuters, graduate students, juniors and sophomores.

George Fox commuter students who do not plan to bring a vehicle to campus can request an exemption from being automatically charged the parking permit fee by completing the parking waiver form. Please read the waiver form thoroughly as you fill it out.

Questions? Call our office at 503-554-2090 during business hours, or email Elrike Shaw at eshaw@georgefox.edu.

Ready to make your voice heard? We want to hear from you! It’s your turn to have a say in the future of George Fox by participating in an open, informal conversation about your experience going remote during the spring semester of 2020. 

This transition was difficult for a number of different reasons, some of which might be sensitive or hard to talk about. For this reason, we would like to chat with you in a group setting or one-on-one, moderated by a recent graduate who also went through the remote transition. 

Interested in making Fox a better place? Please share your availability here.

Questions? Contact Jessica Mau at jmau16@georgefox.edu.

We would like to request that there be no moving of furniture in classrooms between now and when classes start in the fall.

Due to Oregon Health Authority guidelines, we are having to rearrange and remove furniture in all of our instructional spaces and need for the rearranged furniture to remain in specific locations to ensure proper distancing. 

Thank you.

Ready to make your voice heard? We want to hear from you! It’s your turn to have a say in the future of George Fox by participating in an open, informal conversation about your experience going remote during the spring semester of 2020. 

This transition was difficult for a number of different reasons, some of which might be sensitive or hard to talk about. For this reason, we would like to chat with you in a group setting or one-on-one, moderated by a recent graduate who also went through the remote transition. 

Interested in making Fox a better place? Please share your availability here.

Questions? Contact Jessica Mau at jmau16@georgefox.edu.

The vehicle registration portal opens up this Monday, July 27, on MyGeorgeFox for freshmen to register their vehicles for residential parking permits! Be sure to have your DMV registration slip in front of you, as you will need some of that information in order to register.

The portal is currently open for seniors, commuters, graduate students, juniors and sophomores.

George Fox commuter students who do not plan to bring a vehicle to campus can request an exemption from being automatically charged the parking permit fee by completing the parking waiver form. Please read the waiver form thoroughly as you fill it out.

Questions? Call our office at 503-554-2090 during business hours, or email Elrike Shaw at eshaw@georgefox.edu.

The student life office is excited to announce its move to the Hadlock Student Center, 1400 E. Sherman St. 

Entrance to the offices will be through the side door closest to the parking lot of Sherman Street.

George Fox faculty and students are invited to take part in a virtual interprofessional continuing medical education event addressing suicide prevention on Saturday, Aug. 15. It will take place over Zoom from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The event is free to students and staff. It will feature experts from a variety of healthcare professions to discuss how interprofessional teams in school-based health centers and primary care clinics can work closely together to prevent adolescent suicide in our communities.

After rates of adolescent suicide in the U.S. stabilized from 2000 to 2007, suicide rates for ages 10 to 24 increased from 2007 (6.8 per 100,000 persons) to 2017 (10.6). While suicides increased across this age group, suicide rates most sharply increased for ages 10 to 14, nearly tripling from 2007 (0.9) to 2017 (2.5).

These increasing rates of adolescent suicide highlight the importance of prevention and intervention in schools, primary care and other community-based settings.

To learn more, contact Tammy O’Doherty (todohert@georgefox.edu).

Bon Appetit is excited to welcome you to back to campus this fall! As you’d expect, we’re implementing some serious sanitation and service measures to ensure you can dine with us as safely and comfortably as possible.

While COVID-19 safety is a key priority, it isn’t our only one. We still believe that food has an important role to play in individual wellness and in building culture and community at George Fox. Our chefs will still be cooking from scratch, using fresh local and seasonal ingredients that meet our sustainability standards. (We are pleased to mention that, in March, the Humane Society of the United States ranked us the No. 1 food service company, the only one with an A+ grade!)

More information about dining can be found on this webpage. As more information unfolds, updates will be communicated with students and posted on this site.

For more information, please General Manager Jason Rosvall at jason.rosvall@cafebonappetit.com or 503-554-3201.

Andrea Scott joins the university this summer to serve as provost. She arrives from California Baptist University, where she was dean and professor of marketing in the Jabs School of Business the past four years. During her tenure, the Jabs School of Business experienced consistent growth while expanding its undergraduate majors and adding a master of science degree in information technology and an MBA business analytics concentration. Previously, she was a marketing faculty member in Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management for 12 years. Her business resume includes advertising agency experience with national clients such as General Mills and Wrigley at DDB and BBDO in Chicago, with NBC during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and working as a business analyst for Honeywell, Inc. Andrea holds a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College, an MBA from Emory University and a PhD in marketing from the University of South Florida. She lives in Riverside, California, and attends Relevant Church. She plans to move to Oregon in August.

An alumnus of the university’s doctor of education program, Jay Mathisen, has joined George Fox as director of educational leadership. For the past five years, he has worked as the deputy superintendent of Bend-La Pine Schools, a role in which he supervised the district’s schools and academic programming, led school design planning, and supervised human resources. Previously, Jay was principal of La Pine High School (2007-12) in La Pine, Oregon, where he earned “Oregon Principal of the Year” honors in 2011. His education leadership experience also includes serving as assistant principal at La Pine Middle School (2005-07), as principal of McKenzie Middle School and High School in Finn Rock, Oregon (2003-05), and as a teacher and coach at McKenzie schools (1995-2003). In addition, he has taught on an adjunct basis for Corban University and George Fox for the past 10 years. Jay earned an EdD at George Fox (2012) and holds a master’s degree in secondary education from Western Oregon University (2000), as well as a bachelor’s degree from Western Baptist College (1995). He lives in Bend and will be based at the university’s Redmond campus, while weekly traveling to campuses in Newberg and/or Portland. Jay and his wife Shannon have two daughters, Daisy (18) and Molly (16), and they attend Mirror Pond Church in Bend. Jay is passionate about education systems and partnerships in Rwanda, where he has served since 2010 and leads annual professional development trips with educators from the U.S.

Kate Wimer joined the university this summer as a research and instruction librarian and assistant professor. She arrives from Bryan, Texas, where she served as a reference and adult services librarian in the Bryan + College Station Public Library System for the past two years. Previously, Kate worked as a support specialist for the Research Center at the University of Denver Libraries (2015-18). She has served in various roles for public, academic and law libraries since 2010. Kate earned a master of library and information science degree from the University of Denver (2017) and a bachelor’s degree in history from Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas (2014). She lives in Tualatin with her husband Zachary and is looking for a local church.

The following employees are no longer with George Fox University: Jamie Adams (Plant Services), Jonathan Anderegg (Communication Arts), Karen Bowdoin (Art and Design), Mike Campadore (IT), Erik Comfort-Bay (Plant Services), Belinda Creighton (Finance), Kathy Heininge (English), Kimberly Hergert (Theatre), Dwayne Hood (Plant Services), Kacy Hughson (Theatre), Carol Huchinson (Adult Degree Program), Bart Hutchison (Plant Services), Ryan Ingersoll (Library), Robin Jewett (Physician Assistant Program), Fiofana Kalugin (Plant Services), Mary Lou Lewis (Music), Ron Mock (Politics), Annette Nemetz (Business), Melinda Olson (Graduate Admissions), Nadine Pasin (IDEA Center), Chuck Rouse (Plant Services), Jennifer Salzman (Art), Keith Schneider (Student Life), Mark Smith (Plant Services), Stephanie St. Cyr (Student Life), Joyce Staats (Financial Aid), Daniel Winn (Plant Services), Jane Wilson (Admissions), Rob Westervelt (Catalyst) and Steve Winterberg (International Studies).