Starting immediately, the Newberg campus bookstore has officially changed its name from George Fox University Store to Bruin Bookstore. The new name allows the bookstore to represent the university with a more collegiate feel and gives us the opportunity to highlight our great mascot. Same great merchandise, same great service, great new name! Come check us out.
Do you teach anything about environmental science, ecology, creation care, sustainability in any of your courses? Or perhaps you teach an entire course dedicated to one of these topics?
The Creation Care Committee wants to know about it. Please let us know even if you just teach on such a topic one day out of the entire course. We are trying to get an inventory of where creation care and the environment are being taught in our curriculum. Also, let us know if you are hoping to teach on such matters or would like to in the future. Please respond to Corey Beals at cbeals@georgefox.edu with your response.
Due to a last-minute conflict, Provost Patrick Allen will not be leading Thursday’s regularly scheduled Faculty Teaching Forum. Instead, a panel of George Fox professors will take part in a roundtable discussion about teaching practices that have been effective at the university.
The session will still meet from noon to 1:20 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10, in Cap and Gown Room A (note different location than on academic calendar). All faculty – full time, part time, and adjunct – are invited to attend Faculty Teaching Forums (FTFs). Video podcasts of FTFs will be available on iTunesU.
The library is pleased to announce that we now provide access to a suite of 32 periodical and reference database products from Gale/Cengage. Examples of our new databases are Gale’s Academic OneFile, covering a broad range of disciplines and subject-specific databases such as the Health & Wellness Resource Center and Business & Company Resource Center.
A complete list of these new databases is available. Databases can also be found at the Databases A-Z list on the library’s home page (library.georgefox.edu), and in some library subject guides.
With the academic year now underway, Employee of the Month Awards will resume. This year’s winners will be selected from nominations from coworkers and other colleagues. Support staff and administrators from all sites are eligible to receive this award once each year. Monthly winners will be announced at the all-employee meetings and each will receive a $100 gift certificate to the Jory Restaurant at the new Allison Inn & Spa in Newberg.
Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (Human Resources) if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for Employee of the Month. Your e-mail should include the person’s name, job title, a concise but specific summary of this person’s contribution(s) to the university, its students, and/or its employees in the past 30 days or so (what was done, who was impacted, etc.) and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.
Please submit your nomination by Friday, Sept. 18. The president’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the Employee(s) of the Month from the nominations submitted. The winner(s) will be announced at the all-employee meeting on Thursday, Sept 24.
Provost Patrick Allen will lead a Faculty Teaching Forum titled “Classroom Practices: Three Paths to Better Teaching†from noon to 1:20 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10, in Cap and Gown Room A (note different location than on academic calendar).
The session will review three “oldies, but goodies” in classroom practice: “Desirable Difficulties,” “Spacing” and “Metacognitive Monitoring,” and discuss how they can assist student learning. A recent Chronicle article suggests that they many not always be appropriate, so we will put our heads together and discuss when and where they work – and when they don’t. Inexperienced and experienced teachers invited!
To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (jwithers@georgefox.edu) by 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 8. Everyone is welcome to attend the session, whether bringing a lunch or reserving a lunch. Please have your lunch ready so we can begin the conversation at noon.
All faculty — full time, part time, and adjunct — are invited to attend Faculty Teaching Forums (FTFs). Video podcasts of FTFs will be available on iTunesU.
All regional site campuses (Boise, Portland, Salem and Redmond) will be closed on Monday, Sept. 7, in observance of Labor Day.
If you have not already done so, please submit your August time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) this week. Please be sure it is complete, accurate and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. Be sure to include your cost center and ID numbers. You can find your Employee ID number in MyGFU and/or on your pay statement.
If your supervisor is not available to sign your time sheet by Friday, Sept. 4, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.
Link to the time-off report: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/Timeoffreport.doc
Link to August time sheet: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/TimesheetAug09.xls
Order Bruin Directories for your department now with our easy online form at bit.ly/bd09-10. The price has not been set yet, but directories should be about $4 each. Please submit one order for your entire department. Questions? E-mail rleslie06@georgefox.edu.
It’s time to order university stationery. For detailed order instructions, go to the university communications website.
Elizabeth Holme (Print Services) will work with the Office of Marketing Communications in ordering general university (i.e. non-departmental stationery) letterhead and envelopes. You will continue to purchase all non-departmental stationery (including “second-sheet letterhead”) through her.
Orders are due by Monday, Sept. 7.
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 now submit and view your name tag requests. Provide the name of the person for whom the name tag is needed; title or department; and the budget to be charged. Examples of title or department include: Dean of Students/Student Life and Admissions Counselor/Admissions. The next order will be placed Tuesday, Sept. 15.
Bruindata will be retired on Thursday morning, Aug. 27. The services formerly accessed in Bruindata are now available at MyGFU.georgefox.edu.
Bruindata will be down for maintenance between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. Aug. 19-20.

All university employees are requested to attend an all-community meeting scheduled from 8 to 11 a.m. this Friday, Aug. 21.
Activities will begin at 8 a.m. with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the campus quad to commemorate the recent Klages Dining Hall remodeling project. A breakfast buffet in the dining room will follow. At 9 a.m., the all-community meeting will begin with worship in Bauman Auditorium.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. For best results, use Mozilla Firefox for your web browser, and your computer must have QuickTime Player installed. Simply copy the link into the address bar of your browser. If you have any problems, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569.
Also, employees at remote sites can interact via a chat room, available at https://edtech.campfirenow.com/32af4.

 A video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing the following day at itunesu.georgefox.edu.
The university’s library will be migrating its catalog and related software to a new server on Thursday, Aug. 13. Foxtrax and library databases will be unavailable from 8 a.m. until Thursday evening.
IT has begun a multiphase wireless upgrade over the next few years. On Tuesday, Aug. 11, the Newberg campus wireless access points will change names. The reconfiguration of the wireless devices will take several hours and will begin at 7 a.m. The current wireless access points names GFU-NEWBERG will be replaced with FOXWIFI. You will no longer need a WEP key to connect; rather, you can sign in using your university login. Specific instructions will be sent to your mailbox early next week.
This will not impact the other campuses at this time.
Some needed maintenance will be done to the site calendar.georgefox.edu between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 4-5. The website will be unavailable during this maintenance window.
Employees are invited to attend an all-employee meeting from 4 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 29, in Wood-Mar Auditorium (please note location change). The meeting will provide employees an opportunity to receive campus updates. Your participation is strongly encouraged.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. For best results, use Mozilla Firefox for your web browser, and your computer must have QuickTime Player installed. Simply copy the link into the address bar of your browser. If you have any problems, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569.
A video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing the following day at itunesu.georgefox.edu.
IT will be installing an update for FoxTALE from 6 to 7 a.m. (PST) on Monday, Aug. 3. FoxTALE will be unavailable during this time. The update includes a few new gradebook features, with details forthcoming. Faculty are encouraged to export grades to a spreadsheet for archiving prior to the update.
The Office of Marketing Communications is now collecting orders for business cards. Orders are due Wednesday, July 29. Please place your orders through your department’s administrative assistant. Expect delivery in mid-August.
Please submit your order using our online form.
