The Daily Bruin

Here’s a reminder that FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, Sept. 20, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

If you would like to nominate a colleague for September Employee of the Month, please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Friday, Sept. 23, with a summary of this person’s contributions and/or outstanding performance in the past 30 days or so.

The winner will be announced and presented with a $100 gift card to The Allison at our community meeting on Thursday, Sept. 29.

The Staff Development Committee has budgeted funds for use by support staff members to attend seminars that will enhance their job skills and professional development. The Professional Development Fund will cover a portion of the seminar fee as follows: Up to 50 percent of the total cost, with a maximum of $75. For seminars over $500, reimbursement is $100.

Each support staff member is limited to one use of this fund per fiscal year. Funds are available until used up, so apply as early as possible. If you have questions, please contact Barbi Doran, Staff Development Committee chair, at ext. 2099 or visit our website at sdc.georgefox.edu.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, Sept. 20, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

The university’s campuses in Portland, Salem, Boise and Redmond will be closed on Monday, Sept. 5, for the Labor Day holiday. The Newberg campus will be open and will instead take a mid-semester holiday on Friday, Oct. 14.

August is now behind us, so please submit your August time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) this week. Be sure it is complete, accurate and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108.

If your supervisor is not available to sign your time sheet by Tuesday, Sept. 6, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed. Links to the time-off report and the August time sheet can be found at this link.

Please nominate a colleague that would be deserving of this month’s Employee of the Month award by submitting your nomination via e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Monday, Sept. 19. It should be a summary of this person’s recent contributions and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.

The President’s 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 to The Allison at our next community meeting.

Your IT department would like to call your attention to opportunities that now exist for your mobile Internet-enabled devices. iGFU, our new mobile portal, has many tools that can help you navigate your way through a new school year.

Check out this link for help configuring your mobile device.

The Office of Financial Affairs has updated the following forms:

• Check Request Form – This form has been changed to make it easier for you to communicate to us which fund-cost center-account combination is to be charged.

• Rush Check Request Justification – This form has been eliminated and replaced with the “RUSH Check Request” form. This new form combines the check request and rush justification forms into one form so that it will no longer be required to submit both forms for a rush check. Please be aware that the policies for issuing rush checks have not changed. The new form will be subject to the same approvals as the old form and should be used only in critical situations where an exception to the normal payment policy is justified.

Please visit the Financial Affairs webpage soon to download the new forms from the Common Forms page.

Due to Valerie Rogers’ transfer to the Department of Advanced Integrated Marketing, there is an opening for an administrative assistant II position in communication arts/English. This .56FTE (30 hours per week, nine months per year) position is currently open to internal applicants (employees). Temporary employees may also apply, but external applications are not being accepted.

If you would like a copy of the job description, please e-mail hr@georgefox.edu. To apply, please submit a completed transfer request, cover letter, and resume to Human Resources no later than Monday, Aug. 29, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found here.

President Robin Baker invites the university community to visit his blog to catch up on what he’s been up to and what’s on his mind. You can read it at this link.

Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. The Office of Marketing Communications will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Friday, Aug. 26. The login user ID is “gfubc” and password is “gfu123.”

Contact Danette Newkirk (Marketing Communications) if you have any questions.

It’s time to order university stationery. For order instructions, go to the marketing communications website. You will continue to purchase all non-departmental stationery (including “second-sheet letterhead”) through the university’s Print Services.

Orders are due by Thursday, Sept. 1.

Women faculty and staff interested in joining the 2011-12 Women’s Leadership Development Institute cohort are invited to apply. Applications are available at this link (must be on campus to access) and must be returned to Box #6255 by Sept. 1. The new cohort will commence at a retreat Sept. 29-30, and Sheri Philips will continue to give leadership to the program.

The university’s first Women’s Leadership Development cohort concluded at a celebration for the program mentors and mentees in May. After attending the kick-off retreat in October, each cohort mentee met monthly with her mentor from October to May and attended five required leadership skills sessions. Cohort mentees read several texts during the program and shared their learning on a WLDI Foxtale site.

Even though only a limited number can be accepted, please feel encouraged to apply.

The IT Service Desk will have times of limited staffing the week of Aug. 15-19 to provide training to summer students for the upcoming year. Here are the times of limited staffing:

Monday: 10 a.m. to noon
Tuesday: 10 a.m. to noon
Wednesday: 2-4 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m. to noon
Friday: 2-4 p.m.

If you cannot reach the Service Desk during the times of limited staffing we are helping other customers. Please try again after our students and staff have returned. The Service Desk will be fully staffed the rest of the day to serve you.

Thank you in advance for your patience and consideration.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, Aug. 16, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

The “foxguest” wireless access key will be changed at the Boise, Portland and Salem centers and on the Newberg campus on Monday, Aug. 15. The new key can be found on the front page of mygfu.georgefox.edu or by contacting the IT Service Desk.

Those at the Portland Center and on the Newberg campus are strongly encouraged to connect to the “foxwifi” network rather than the “foxguest” network. Foxwifi is more secure. For help connecting to foxwifi, please contact the IT Service Desk.

Join the George Fox community for our annual meeting on Friday, Aug. 19. Following is the schedule:

8 a.m. Breakfast – Klages Dining Hall
8:45 a.m. Worship and Devotional – Bauman Auditorium
9:10-11:30 a.m. Community Meeting – Bauman Auditorium

All employees half time and above are requested to attend.

Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Monday, Aug. 15, if you would like to nominate a colleague for August Employee of the Month with a summary of this person’s contributions and/or outstanding performance in the past 30 days or so.

The winner will be announced and presented with a $100 gift card to The Allison at our community meeting on Friday, Aug. 19.

Join IT for an introduction to FoxTALE, the university Learning Management System (LMS) used by instructors and students to include digital resources and provide options for online classroom interaction. This seminar assumes no prior FoxTALE experience and begins with logging in to FoxTALE. Learn to develop your course site, upload course files such as syllabi, set up an online discussion forum, and set up assignments.

You can sign up at this link for sessions on Wednesday, Aug. 17, from 9 a.m. to noon in Stevens 307 in Newberg, or Thursday, Aug. 25, from 9 to 10 a.m. (Pacific) in an online webinar. (New regular faculty participating in New Faculty Orientation Aug. 16-18 will have a separate seminar as part of NFO.)

Visit Faculty FoxTALE Quick Guides for more information on using FoxTALE.