The Daily Bruin

Want to volunteer your lunch hour on Monday, April 10, to help with mock interviews for the career class GEED 216?

We’re looking for a small group of faculty and staff to engage in a fast-paced, round-robin mock interview format to help prepare 28 students for upcoming interviews. Questions will be provided, and no experience is necessary! The session will run from noon to 12:50 p.m. in Canyon Commons 103.

Email Colleen Sump (csump@georgefox.edu) if you have questions or are interested.

Hello everyone,

The following survey is part of a group project we are conducting for our Consumer Behavior class. We are asking some questions to see if we can understand the preferences and the habits of fruit and vegetable consumption at our cafeteria (“The Bon”). Thank you, and have a great day!

Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Survey

If you have any questions pertaining to this survey, please feel free to contact Adam Shull (ashull13@georgefox.edu).

Disclaimer:
These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.

Spring 2017 grads: Stop by our Grad Night Open House tomorrow (Wednesday, April 5), to pick up your cap and gown between 4 and 6:30 p.m. at the Portland Center (PDS 155).

Meet with student accounts, alumni, Jostens and Bruin Store representatives while also enjoying snacks with your cohort and other George Fox graduates!

See you there! Contact Darla Norgren (dnorgren@georgefox.edu) with questions.

Faculty and staff, please let your students know about this event!

Welcome back! We only have a few more chapel and Vespers services. Today Margaret Manning Shull joins us in chapel at 10:50 a.m. from the RZIM Speaking and Writing Team.

Passionate about communicating the gospel in ways that engage both heart and mind, Margaret’s pastoral ministry grounds her speaking and writing in a relational and practical style. She seeks to address the critical intersections between the Christian faith and lived experience in order to engage Christians and non-Christians in conversations that count.

Vespers tomorrow at 7 p.m. will be on Psalm 22. See you there!

The university’s College of Engineering invites the campus community to come hear John Mark Comer speak in Bauman Auditorium this Monday, April 10, at 6:30 p.m.

Comer is the pastor for teaching and vision at Bridgetown: A Jesus Church in Portland and the author of the book Garden City. He will be speaking on his book, which has been this semester’s reading material for students in the Engineering Your Soul book study in the College of Engineering.

Questions? Contact Adina McConaughey (amcconaughey@georgefox.edu).

The Wheeler Fitness Center is currently looking to hire new employees for the summer as well as looking to hire employees to work during the 2017-18 school year. There are two separate applications – one for the summer and the other for the upcoming school year.

Please use Handshake to see Job Summary and to apply. The application deadline is Friday, April 14.

If you have any questions, please contact Cory Hand at chand@georgefox.edu.

The Department of Physical Therapy is excited to host Dr. Jason Wilken, associate professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Iowa, on Tuesday, April 11, in Canyon Commons 103.

Dr. Wilken will present the topic “Experience and Evidence – Evolution of a Custom Fiber Device to Restore Limb Function.” His leading-edge work at the Department of Defense’s Center for the Intrepid (in San Antonio, Texas) over the past decade has led to significant advancement in both rehabilitation and performance technology for individuals with lower limb injuries.

Everyone is encouraged to attend this free event, ask questions and welcome Dr. Wilken to the university. Light refreshments will be served.

Questions? Contact Linda Dallof at ldallof@georgefox.edu.

Hello everyone! The Coast to Coast Swing Club will be hosting a live swing dance this Sunday, April 9, and everyone is invited!

It will be from 6 to 9:30 p.m. in the Wheeler gym. We’ll have snacks and water provided, so bring your friends, bring a date, bring everyone because it is going to be blast! Hope to see you all there.

If you have a questions, please contact Michael Rooney (mrooney14@georgefox.edu).

In February, Nicole Enzinger (Education) gave two presentations at the annual Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Conference in Orlando, Florida: “Investigating prospective teachers’ evaluations of children’s temperature stories” and “Examining Pinterest as a curriculum resource.” Also, in early March, Nicole gave an invited lecture, “Integers: A space for mathematical play,” at the Metropolitan Mathematics Club in Chicago. This invited lecture was based on her upcoming book, Exploring the Integer Addition and Subtraction Landscape: Perspectives on Integer Thinking. More recently, Nicole presented “This is not ‘New Math,’ but we can learn lessons from ‘New Math,’” for the Oregon Association of Teacher Educators Conference at the University of Portland.

Dana Bates (Athletic Training) published a study, “Perceptions from athletic training students involved in an intentional peer-assisted learning pedagogy,” in the Athletic Training Education Journal. The study investigated athletic training students’ perceptions of peer-assisted learning on both the peer-student and peer-tutor. In addition, Dana and Jill Sikkema (adjunct faculty in HHPE) published an article, “Critical-thinking skills of first-year athletic training students enrolled in professional programs,” in the March 2017 Athletic Training Education Journal. In the piece, the authors investigated critical thinking and other demographic variables across first-year athletic training students enrolled in professional bachelor’s degree and master’s degree programs.

Ed Higgins (English) published his poem “To my own two feet” in the surrealist online poetry journal Uut Poetry on March 31.

David Johnstone (Student Life) wrote a review of Soong-Chan Rah’s Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times for the Christian Scholar’s Review (Winter 2017).

Paul Anderson (Christian Studies) published a fourth review of CNN’s Finding Jesus 2 series on The Bible and Interpretation website, titled “Herod the Great, or Herod the Terrible?” He also published an article, “Can Any Good Thing Come from Nazareth? The Childhood Home of Jesus,” on the same site and in the March 22 edition of The Huffington Post. In addition, Paul posted reviews of “Raising Lazarus: Climax or Prequel?” on the Bible and Interpretation and Huffington Post sites.

Andrew Fleming and Kaitlyn Ragan were named the university’s employees of the month for March.

Tryouts for the 2017-18 cheer team are right around the corner! Come be part of a great team with the best seats in the house for all of our athletic events.

Tryouts will be held Friday, April 7, from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, April 8, from 5 to 8 p.m. More information is available on the cheer website: athletics.georgefox.edu/cheer.

April 5              Vicki Tschan
April 8              Joel Kelley
April 10            Cheri Hampton
April 11            Janelle Freitag
April 12            Dylan Harris, John Shaw
April 13            Sarah Taylor
April 14            Kathy Rosenbohm
April 15            Mike Campadore
April 17            Sonia Legg

This week’s weekly 125 Days of Wellness weekly challenge …

Pick three of the following “spread kindness” initiatives and take a total of 125 extra points for the week.

• Eat lunch with someone from another department, that you don’t know well
• Help someone in need
• Give an unexpected gift to someone
• Find a way to help a student (can be anonymously)
• Show your appreciation to another department
• Write a note of appreciation to a city official, military personal, or first responder
• Make a small care package for someone who works outside, or someone who is homeless
• Do something that shows your appreciation to a spouse or family member
• Send a secret package to someone who’s having a hard time
• Write down what you are thankful for, every day, for a week
• Pray for someone that you are having a hard time with

– Brought to you by the Staff Development Committee

You are invited to come hear William Penn Honors Program special guest speaker Miles Hollingworth on Thursday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Hollingworth, PhD, will present “On the True Version of an Event: Saint Augustine of Hippo’s Conversion.” Our guest is an independent philosopher and writer living in Italy who is well-known for his work on Saint Augustine of Hippo. Hollingworth is a past winner of the Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction from the Royal Society of Literature and the Elizabeth Longford Scholarship from the Society of Authors.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Questions regarding the event can be directed to Jocelyn Stein (jstein@georgefox.edu).

In honor of the university’s 125th anniversary, George Fox employees are invited to a special reception at the Oregon State Capitol on Monday, April 17.

The event will take place from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Senate Chamber Lobby of the capitol building, located at 900 Court St. N.E., in Salem. Please R.S.V.P. to Mary Monahan (mmonahan@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2115) by Tuesday, April 11, if you plan to attend.

Later in the month, the university will  host its own anniversary celebration on Saturday, April 29, at 6:30 p.m. in Canyon Commons, at which former presidents David Brandt, Tom Johnson and David Le Shana will be in attendance. Contact Mary by April 12 to R.S.V.P. for that event.

Both events are free to attend.

The university’s human resources department is proud to announce the official launching of Applicant Pool, an applicant tracking system. Some key features are an online application for employment that can connect to a LinkedIn account, a requisition system (replaces the approval-to-recruit process in MyGFU), and a platform for hiring managers to share applications with a search committee that tracks comments and candidate status.

For step-by-step instructions on how to log into Applicant Pool and start a requisition, email Kera Hallman at khallman@georgefox.edu. We welcome your feedback!

Legacy students are students who have at least one parent or grandparent who is considered an alumni of an undergraduate or graduate degree program at George Fox University.

In order to thank these students and their families for their continued commitment to George Fox, we will present graduating legacy students with a legacy stole that may be worn during spring commencement to display their family legacy. There is no cost for the legacy stole; the stole is our way of recognizing families that have shown a long-term dedication to George Fox.

If you are interested in ordering a legacy stole to celebrate your family’s continued commitment to George Fox University, please contact Megan Fisher, associate director of parent programs, at mfisher@georgefox.edu, no later than today (Monday, April 3).

Come make professional connections and network with George Fox alumni, students and employees at the launch of our George Fox Business Leadership Society!

On Thursday, April 13, local leader, life coach and TEDx Talk speaker Jessica J. Williams will speak at 6:30 p.m. at the Portland Center on the topic “Leadership For Real Impact.”

Door prize raffles and heavy hors d’oeuvres will be served. Cost is $3 with early registration, $5 at the door for students.

Register now at this link to save your spot. Questions? Contact Ashley Walker at awalker@georgefox.edu.

The university’s theatre department invites you to our third show of the season, Deus Ex Millennia, set to open this week! Come join us as we explore ways in which millennials encounter God and seek grace in the midst of untidy endings.

The show runs April 6-9 and again April 12-14, with all performances taking place in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Shows start at 7:30 p.m. with the exception of the Sunday, April 9, matinee, scheduled for a 2 p.m. start.

Student tickets are free Thursday, April 6, and Wednesday, April 12. It’s recommended you pick up your free ticket in advance online (select “GFU Student” in the drop-down ticket menu). You may also bring your student ID to the door to gain admission.

Employees are entitled to one complimentary ticket. You may pick up that ticket (select “GFU Employee” in drop-down menu), purchase additional tickets and read a synopsis of the play here.

Contact Kathy Harris (kharris@georgefox.edu) if you have any questions.

If you know someone whose contributions have been above and beyond in the past few weeks, please send an email to Lisa Burton (lburton@georgefox.edu) by the end of the day Monday, April 10, with a summary of this colleague’s recent contributions and any other information that makes this person deserving of this award.

The Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient from the nominations submitted, and the winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 gift card at our community meeting later this month.

Congratulations again to Andrew Fleming and Kaitlyn Ragan, who were our employees of the month for March!

Join us for the final brown-bag sessions of the spring …

Recording and Editing Media
Want to dig a little deeper into producing media for instruction? Colleagues will share tools and strategies.

• Thursday, April 6, 4-5 p.m., Newberg MLRC Study Room 112
• Friday, April 21, noon to 1 p.m., Newberg Lemmons Center Room 4
• RSVP here

Digital Fluency Institute Faculty Show-and-Tell
Come help us celebrate with DFI Cohort 2016-17 faculty as they give a show-and-tell on instructional strategies they have explored this year.

• Tuesday, April 11, 11 a.m. to noon, Portland Center South Room 160
• Thursday, April 13, 4-5 p.m., Newberg Roberts Center Room 168
• RSVP here

Questions? Contact Gloria Doherty at gdoherty@georgefox.edu.