Come over and join us for lunch today (Wednesday)! We are firing up the grill and barbecuing hamburgers and garden burgers with all the trimmings! We will also have salads, chips, dessert and freshly brewed iced tea, all for $6.75. Lunch is served from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Starting the fall 2016 semester, new meal plan options will be available to students. Please check out the Meal Plan Options page for detailed information about the new meal plans and our meal plan policies.
The meal plan form will be available in MyGFU, in “University Forms,” starting Wednesday, June 15. You must select your meal plan no later than June 27, 2016.
Students living on campus in the fall who do not select their meal plan by June 27 will have the lowest meal plan they are eligible for applied to their account by student life. Students living off campus who do not choose a meal plan by June 27 will be given the “No Meal Plan.”
However, students who are eligible to do so may make changes to their meal plan until Friday, Sept. 9.
Please contact Jere Witherspoon in the student life office if you have any questions regarding the meal plan. She can be reached at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2316.
Invite your university guests at the Portland Center that need Wi-Fi access to use the new Bruin-Guest wireless network. Their mobile devices (phones, tablets, and laptops) can get internet access with a pass-code sent to their phone via text or to an email address. Simply connect and register on the Bruin-Guest wireless network.
George Fox students, faculty, and staff should continue to use the Bruin-Secure wireless network. The older foxpublic wireless network will be turned off this Monday, June 6.
Visit the IT Wi-Fi webpage for more information or contact the IT Service Desk with questions.
Our team is planning for Serve Day 2016! Please help us by making sure you’ve completed this survey to communicate site preferences, physical limitations and involvement capacity. (It shouldn’t take any more than three minutes.) It’s essential for our planning!
Please note: The survey is required for all Newberg employees.
See you Sept. 14, 2016, for another great Serve Day!
Plant Services will be removing several trees from the area around Minthorn Hall between May 31 and June 3. For your safety, please respect the boundaries set up. We will be selling the wood from these trees on a first-come, first-served basis. Firewood will be $150 per cord and must be picked up no later than Monday, June 6.
Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.
Thank you,
Plant Services
We are pleased to announce the results of the Staff Development Committee election! Here are your new and continuing members for 2016-17:
The committee is open to your ideas and suggestions for what you would like to see for activities and continuing education, so please email Adina Briggs-McConaughey before June 14 so members can discuss your ideas/considerations/concerns at the calendar planning meeting in June.
It has been a pleasure serving you as SDC chair this spring!
– Nadine Kincaid
Monday is Memorial Day, and the campus will be closed. The courier service for next week will be Tuesday and Thursday. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Richard Silver at 503-554-2551 or rsilver@georgefox.edu.
Seven staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:
The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.
Plant Services will be removing several trees from the area around Minthorn Hall between May 31 and June 3. For your safety, please respect the boundaries set up. We will be selling the wood from these trees on a first-come, first-served basis. Firewood will be $150 per cord and must be picked up no later than Monday, June 6.
Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.
Thank you,
Plant Services
In his final blog piece about his Juniors Abroad visit to Ireland and England, President Robin Baker shares about his first cricket match and reflects on how much he enjoyed the overall trip and the students who accompanied him. You can read it here.
All university offices in Newberg and at regional sites will be closed on Monday, May 30, to observe the Memorial Day holiday. Libraries in Newberg and the Portland Center also will be closed.
When returning unwanted packages back to the sender, whether it be through UPS or USPS, there are certain steps that need to happen before bringing them to Mail Services.
If the package has been opened, then you must pay for the package to be returned to the sender. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Richard Silver at 503-554-2551 or rsilver@georgefox.edu.
Don’t forget the all-employee meeting set for this afternoon (Thursday) from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. The event will be live-streamed at the Portland Center in Room 160.
In his latest blog entry about his Juniors Abroad trip to England and Ireland, President Robin Baker shares about his group’s visit to the Warner Brothers Studio where the Harry Potter movies were filmed. You can read it here.
In February of this past spring semester, our installation of Turnitin started experiencing an issue in processing student file submissions in the standard FoxTALE assignment activity. All files appeared as “pending†and did not produce an originality report.
We have continued to work with Turnitin to resolve the issues affecting the originality reports in the regular FoxTALE assignments. We are starting to see that submissions made weeks ago are now beginning to process. Students are receiving email confirmations from Turnitin on those submissions. We apologize for any confusion this may be causing you or your students.
We are continuing to test with Turnitin through this week to confirm that submission processing is restored. We will send another update when we are confident that the issue is resolved and testing is concluded.
If you have questions, please contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2569.
Fiscal-year-end 2015/2016 is quickly approaching, and the finance department would appreciate your help in ensuring a smooth and timely year-end close. Please review and note the following deadlines for accounts payable requests:
1. Submission of the following FY2015/2016 requests must be received by the finance department on or before July 8, 2016:
2. All Cash Advance Requests for FY2015/2016 expenses must be received by the finance department on or before June 13, 2016.
Please refer to the “Fiscal Year-End Deadlines & Procedures†page on the finance department website for additional details.
Please contact Jennifer Klapp (jklapp@georgefox.edu or ext. 2170) with any year-end accounts payable questions.
Thank you!
The Finance Team
In his latest blog piece about his Juniors Abroad trip to England and Ireland, President Robin Baker reflects on the legacies of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien – and how visits to their old haunts at Oxford always inspire him. You can read it here.
The university community is invited to an all-employee meeting from 3:30 to 5 p.m. this Thursday, May 26, in Hoover 105. The event will be live-streamed at the Portland Center in Room 160.
The Oregon Writing Project Collaborative at George Fox University is pleased to be offering several Young Writers Camps for third- through 12th-grade students. This organization, part of the College of Education, has offered these camps for years at its previous location and is thrilled to be launching them through George Fox.
Topics include Oregon Battle of the Books, Superheroes for a Cause, Creative Nonfiction, and Code/Create/Compose. Please feel free to pass this along to those who might benefit from this experience.
Questions? Contact Andrea Byerley at abyerley@georgefox.edu.
President Robin Baker is winding down his Juniors Abroad trip to Ireland and England. Before returning home, his group had the opportunity to attend Evensong services. You can read about his impressions of the experience here.
