Welcome Weekend kicks off tomorrow (Friday)! We have a full schedule for incoming students. They will begin moving in Friday morning and end the weekend with our Main Event on Sunday night.
Please help us welcome all the new students, along with their parents and guests. You can find the entire schedule on the website here.
If we can be of any help to you, email us at welcome@georgefox.edu
The Department of English and Theatre invites the university community to its semester kickoff! Join us from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. this Monday, Aug. 26, in Wood-Mar Auditorium.
Questions? Contact Kathy Harris at kharris@georgefox.edu.
The Bruin Den and Bridge Cafe will both be open tomorrow (Friday) from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. All three cafes (Bruin Den, Bruin Bites and Bridge Cafe) will be back to school-year hours of operation starting Monday, Aug. 26, as follows:
The library will be conducting a student employee training event on Sunday, Aug. 25. Therefore, the 24-hour space will not be available from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The 24-hour space will reopen at 2:30 p.m.
Are you interested in someday tutoring, teaching Sunday school, or working with people? The psychology department is initiating a new class for advanced undergraduates or graduate students who are interested in the brain science underlying teaching and learning.
The course is Psyc 465: Psychology of Teaching and Learning, and will focus on recent research that will allow you to cut through the myths and see how learning really works – and how tutoring can be targeted to meet the needs of the individual students.
Class will be highly experiential, allowing students to target the course outcomes to their specific interests. We will meet on Mondays from 4 to 4:50 p.m. in Hoover 211. Email Sue O’Donnell (sodonnell@georgefox.edu) if you have any questions.
Don’t wait until the first day of classes to pick up your textbooks! Instead, swing by the bookstore’s textbook pick-up party during Welcome Weekend, down in the FoxHole.
Textbook pick-ups will be available for students who placed their orders online and have prepaid for their items. Our pick-up party will take place on Saturday, Aug. 24, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and on Sunday, Aug. 25, from noon to 3 p.m. Be sure to bring your student ID, and we will see you then!
Questions? Contact Paige Jacobs at pjacobs@georgefox.edu.
Now is the time to order university stationery. The collective order helps keep costs low – the higher the volume, the lower the cost. Consequently, it is most economical to overestimate needs and store a small surplus.
I will be accepting orders through Friday, Aug. 23. For order instructions, go to the marketing communications website. Continue to purchase all non-departmental stationery (including “second-sheet letterheadâ€) through the university’s Office of Mail Services.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Thank you,
– Jamison Loop (jloop@georgefox.edu)
Due to the high volume of calls received by the Office of Student Accounts, we urge you when you call to please leave a message so we can return calls in the order they are received.
Having the Student ID in your message and stating the reason for your call will expedite the return call. The fastest response will be to email at studentaccounts@georgefox.edu.
Thank you so much for your help!
Please note the modified hours for the Hadlock Student Center during Welcome Weekend.
The facility will resume normal hours of operation on Sunday, Aug. 25.
The climbing wall will be closed from Thursday, Aug. 22, through Sunday, Aug. 25, while we are training our staff and setting new routes for the year.
Questions? Email studentcenter@georgefox.edu.
It’s that time again … Welcome Weekend is our chance to welcome each and every new student as they step onto campus. We are still looking for volunteers to help out this Friday, Aug. 23.
With such a large incoming class, we need all hands on deck as we each do our part to make students and their guests feel the Be Known promise. And who better to do that than our own faculty and staff? Please complete this form and we will contact you with further instructions.
The library is pleased to deliver library material for participating faculty to their offices on the Newberg campus. All library material must be signed for by the faculty member or persons authorized to sign.
If you have used this service in the past or if you are signing up for the first time, please fill out this request form. If you have any questions, please contact Patty Vanier at pvanier@georgefox.edu or ext. 2425.
In the past, the Office of Student Life has delivered brightly colored folders with information for staff and faculty to use as a resource should the unforeseeable take place: a student in crisis needing intervention.
In our effort to reduce paper, as well as make these materials accessible to you online, we have created a folder in Google Drive. You will need to use your George Fox email to log in.
Please bookmark this folder for quick reference.Â
You will find a folder with information specific for each campus:
Newberg
Portland
Please take a few minutes to review the information located in the appropriate folders.
Contact Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu) in student life if you have any questions.
The Office for Spiritual and Intercultural Life is looking for Life Group leaders for our eight-week fall Life Groups (the weeks of Sept. 16 to Nov. 8).
Life Groups are small groups of undergraduate students who meet together for prayer, Bible study and fellowship. Groups meet weekly for 60 to 90 minutes at the time and location of your choosing. Participants will select the group they wish to participate in based on the details that leaders provide.
Groups are encouraged to use one of the curriculum options recommended by the Office for Spiritual Life that parallel other themes that are being explored in chapel. We welcome our alumni, family members of George Fox employees and students, and members of our wonderful local churches to consider leading a group.
Our fall leader meeting will take place on Thursday, Sept. 5, from noon to 1:30 p.m., and lunch will be provided. For more information and to sign up, visit our webpage.
This Saturday, Aug. 24, Mail Services will be open between the hours of 1 and 4:30 p.m. to allow you to come pick up your packages. No outgoing packages will be accepted.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.
We hope faculty will find the Libraries’ Digital Learning resources useful as you prepare your FoxTALE course sites. The guide FoxTALE Course Life Cycle includes video demonstrations and instructions on how to import content into your 2019 Fall course sites, make your course sites visible to students, and more.
FoxTALE was upgraded on Aug. 16. You may be interested to know that the Dashboard has changed. The guides Locating Your Courses and Adjusting Course Start and End Dates give a tour of the highlights.
We invite you to join us for 30-minute web conferences through the semester. You will find the listing for these events at Digital Learning Upcoming Events.
You will find additional guides at Digital Learning. You can contact digitallearning@georgefox.edu for more information.
A training session for Cascade Server, the system used to edit the university website, will be offered on Wednesday, Aug. 21, from 2 to 4 p.m.
This basic-level session is tailored for editors who have either not edited the website before or need a refresher on using the software. The session will be held in Stevens 307. Sign up using this form.
Questions? Contact Peter Crackenberg at pcrackenberg@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2138.
Due to the high volume of calls received by the Office of Student Accounts, we urge you when you call to please leave a message so we can return calls in the order they are received.
Having the Student ID in your message and stating the reason for your call will expedite the return call. The fastest response will be to email at studentaccounts@georgefox.edu.
Thank you so much for your help!
We are looking forward to another great Serve Day (Wednesday, Sept. 11) this year! In an effort to underscore our missional convictions around Serve Day, we are implementing some changes in the schedule this year. Here is what to expect for Serve Day 2019:
The Serve Day team has sent serve site placement and information to all employees. If you did not get an email from Serve Day and you are FTE .5 and above, please fill out this form as soon as you are able.
If you have any questions, please contact the Serve Day team at ext. 2326 or serveday@georgefox.edu. More information can be found on the Serve Day website.
Are you curious to see what’s inside our newest dorm? Join us for an informal open house of Newlin Hall following the all-community meeting today (Monday) from 3 to 5 p.m.Â
