The Daily Bruin

If you’ve ever wanted to be in a parade (and get a free George Fox T-shirt), this is your opportunity.

George Fox has been asked to provide the grand marshal for this summer’s Newberg Old Fashioned Festival Parade. It’s the start of our 125th year, and we want to recognize the people who have helped us get this far… our employees and students. This is your invitation to be one of the grand marshals for the parade.

Newberg Old Fashioned Festival Grand Festival Parade
Saturday, July 30
9-11 a.m.
Meet at Newberg’s Rennie Field (Blaine and 6th)

We’re assembling a group of employees, students, parents and alumni to walk and hand out candy. It’ll probably take less than 20 minutes of walking. Some spots will be available for riding and waving. We’ll also have the Bruin bus, Professor Ed Higgins’ 1934 Ford flatbed truck, the Bruin bear (“Pennington”) and the Victory Bell.

If you want a free T-shirt please sign up online by July 10. Follow this link for more info and to sign up for the T-shirt. You can pick up your T-shirt at 9 a.m. on parade day at the staging area.

All are invited to come dressed in red, white and blue and celebrate our nation’s independence. HR will serve up the all-American dessert – apple pie à la mode – at 2 p.m. tomorrow (Friday, July 1) on the patio of the Canyon Commons.

Summer student employees are included in this invitation.

The Bruin Store is hiring temporary and part-time workers to work our “rush” weeks during August and September. Your hours may vary, with our busiest time centering around Welcome Weekend (Aug. 25-29) and can be tailored to fit class and other work schedules.

If you or someone you know is interested in working for the Bruin Store, email Michael Simmons at msimmons@georgefox.edu for more information on how to apply. Employees, please tell students about this opportunity.

Thank you and go Bruins!

The Bruin cheer and stunt team is hosting tryouts on campus through July 11 and is accepting video tryouts for students who don’t live nearby. If you’re interested in joining the team for the 2016-17 year, contact head coach Michelle Berg (mberg@georgefox.edu) for tryout requirements and more information.

If you have a background in dance, gymnastics and/or cheer, we’d love to hear from you!

The meal plan form in MyGFU is now ready for undergraduates to select their meal plan for the fall 2016 semester.

Details about the meal plan policies can be found on this Meal Plan Options web page.

In order to have the meal plan charge listed correctly on the first billing cycle, students should choose their meal plan by Monday, June 27, 2016. However, students may make changes to their meal plan up to Sept. 9, prior to the end of the “add/drop” period.

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.

Please deliver all staff time sheets and administrator time-off reports for June to Human Resources by Wednesday, July 6, to close the fiscal year. (Student time sheets are due Tuesday, July 5.)

Please plan ahead if you expect to be out of the office or on vacation. Additionally, if you have missed turning in time sheets from prior months, this is a very important time to catch up! Please contact Katie Sol with questions at ext. 2181.

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:

• Check Requests
• Invoices
• Expense Reimbursement Requests
• Petty Cash Logs for expenses through June 30, 2016, only

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

Oregon Suzuki Institute
The Oregon Suzuki Institute is a week-long program (June 26-July 1) held every summer at George Fox. The institute provides an opportunity for approximately 350 Suzuki students to receive lessons, perform and take classes in order to reinforce their normal studies.

Bruin Camp: Gridiron Football Camps
John Bates and Ken Ingram host two camps this week: a team camp for high school students (June 26-29) and an individual skills camp (June 30-July 1).

Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. Marketing communications will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source before Monday, July 11.

Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.

Marketing communications is collecting orders for name tags. For those who have regular face-to-face contact with the public and need to order a name tag, you may submit your request at this link.

Be sure to provide the name of the person for whom the name tag is needed; title or department (optional); and the chart of accounts budget to be charged. The next order will be placed on Monday, July 11.

Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.

Oregon Suzuki Institute
The Oregon Suzuki Institute is a week-long program (June 26-July 1) held every summer at George Fox. The institute provides an opportunity for approximately 350 Suzuki students to receive lessons, perform and take classes in order to reinforce their normal studies.

Bruin Camp: Gridiron Football Camps
John Bates and Ken Ingram host two camps this week: a team camp for high school students (June 26-29) and an individual skills camp (June 30-July 1).

Ten staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:

• Student Account Specialist, Portland Center, Temporary
• Financial Aid Specialist/Processor
• Media Specialist, Academic Computing
• Events Coordinator, William Penn Honors Program
• Enrollment Specialist, Registrar
• Program Director, Theologia (George Fox Summer Theology Institute)
• Video Producer, Marketing Communications
• Technical Director, Department of English and Theatre
• Records Specialist, Registrar
• Associate Director of Annual Giving

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.

Geoffrey Moore, an author, speaker and advisor who has written a million-selling book and advises high-tech enterprises that include Microsoft, Intel and Salesforce, will speak on the George Fox campus on Friday, July 8. The public is invited to attend, and admission is free.

Moore’s life’s work has focused on the market dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations. In addition to writing three books (Crossing the Chasm, The Gorilla Game and Inside the Tornado), Moore’s most recent endeavor, Escape Velocity, addresses the challenge large enterprises face when they seek to add a new line of business to their established portfolio.

Join us from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. in Lemmons 8. Questions? Contact Adina McConaughey at amcconaughey@georgefox.edu.

George Fox employees and students are invited to attend the Global Leadership Summit sponsored by the Willow Creek Association on Aug. 11-12. WCA’s annual world-class leadership event will be broadcast from the Willow Creek campus to participating churches around the globe.

A special discounted rate of $89 is available for all college and university faculty and students. Please contact Newberg Christian Church (503-538-3014; newbergcc.org) for more information. The church is located at 2315 Villa Road.

Please be considerate of our guests for Summer Visit Day today (Friday) by avoiding parking in the Hoover and Stevens parking lots. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Kelly Friesen at kfriesen@georgefox.edu or ext. 2248.

Our wonderful custodians have been hard at work deep-cleaning all of the residences since school let out, and they have been bringing copious amounts of left-behind items to the lost and found, including clothing, kitchenware, cleaning supplies, a backpack, a rug runner, a scooter, long mirror, and various other things.

Many of these items came from the Lewis Apartments, Winters Apartments, Carey 2, Brandt (men’s side), etc. Now that you’ve unpacked, did you leave anything behind in those residences? If so, please contact security to describe your left-behind item(s), as most are tagged with where they were found.

Claimed items will only be kept until the first week of school, and the unclaimed items will be donated to charitable causes soon due to lack of space, so please call 503-554-2090 or email Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu to describe your left-behind item(s).

Please be considerate of our guests for Summer Visit Day tomorrow (Friday) by avoiding parking in the Hoover and Stevens parking lots. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Kelly Friesen at kfriesen@georgefox.edu or ext. 2248.

Employees: If you still have the white staff permit hang tag, or an adjunct one that expired on Dec. 31, 2015, it’s time to register your car on the new vehicle registration portal on MyGFU! Also, if you’ve changed cars since last summer, it’s time to update which vehicles you are driving to campus. It’s easy and fast!

If you are new to George Fox, or didn’t register on the new database last summer, just grab that vehicle registration form from the DMV and sign in to MyGFU. The vehicle registration link is underneath “GFU Resources.” It will ask you basic information about your vehicle, and also to click in agreement twice. Your permit will be sent to you via campus mail, so be sure to have your university post office box number in front of you before beginning the process.

Staff permits are valid until your permit either breaks or you leave the university. The orange adjunct permits are currently only valid until the last day of 2016, so adjuncts, please stay tuned this fall for instructions on how to re-register after fall semester.

Have a current staff or adjunct permit, but you’ve changed vehicles recently? Just bring your vehicle information to the security office and we will switch over your permit to your new vehicle and get it registered in our office.

Tired of switching permits from vehicle to vehicle? Bring $5 cash to the security office and we can issue you a new permit for that second vehicle.

Work at the Portland Center but come frequently to Newberg for meetings or to teach? We’d love for you to register as well!

Questions? Out-of-the-box vehicle situation? Email Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu, or call 503-554-2090 during office hours.

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:

• Check Requests
• Invoices
• Expense Reimbursement Requests
• Petty Cash Logs for expenses through June 30, 2016, only

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