The Daily Bruin

The position of Director of Web Development is being vacated by Gloria Foltz and is open to George Fox employees at this time.  It will remain open until 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 27. Foltz has accepted the position of executive assistant to the vice president for enrollment services.

You can e-mail Peggy Kilburg or Melodee Powers (Human Resources) to obtain a copy of the Director of Web Development position announcement. To apply for this position, request a Transfer Request form by e-mailing hr@georgefox.edu and submit it to Human Resources along with a cover letter and resume.

The faculty business meeting scheduled for Friday, Sept. 28, will be broadcast via PolyCom in the conference room at the Boise Center. It will be shown from 11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mountain Time that day. Missy Terry (Academic Affairs) will send all faculty the agenda and accompanying proposal handouts via e-mail next week.

You can view chapel live on your computer during normal chapel times on Monday and Wednesday via the following link: georgefox.edu/offices/student_life/campus_ministries/streaming.html.

When chapel is not in session, the link will allow you to visit archives of past chapels. If you need QuickTime, you can download and install it for free by visiting apple.com/quicktime.

The Graduate Department of Counseling announces the opening of the Portland Center for Counseling and Family Therapy. This community counseling center serves as the practicum/internship clinic for students in the GDC.

The center is administrated by a GDC faculty member and staffed by a professional counselor and advanced graduate students who are supervised by faculty trained in individual, marital, and family therapy. The center is now accepting individuals, couples, and families.

Any referrals would be appreciated. If you would like a packet of information, including business cards or brochures, they can be delivered to you at the Salem, Portland, or Newberg campuses. They are to be offered to any individuals you think may be in need of mental health services, including those who suffer from anxiety, depression, grief or loss, significant stress, abuse, or other concerns.

As a community counseling center, it is important that these services be accessible to the broadest population possible. Therefore, the center offers a sliding per-session fee schedule ranging from $15 to $75.

If you would like to visit the new clinic, tours are available by appointment between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in September. Also feel free to call (ext. 6060) with any questions about services or referrals. The center will return calls on Tuesdays and Wednesdays when the clinic is open.

If you have a prayer need, please know there are colleagues who would like to pray for you. You can send your prayer request through a Prayer Request Form. The form is also accessible by going to the Staff Development Committee site and clicking “Prayer Request Form.”

You may submit your request anonymously or let us know who you are. Do you have a praise report? Let us thank God with you. If you have a heart for prayer and would like to be part of the PrayerNet team, contact Sarah Marvin (Telephone Services) at smarvin@georgefox.edu.

The chapel will be open for prayer on Fridays from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. There also will be a prayer request box located in the chapel.

“Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praise.” James 5:13

Employees are welcome to a faculty teaching forum from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 19, in the Executive Dining Room on the Newberg campus.

Presenter Gloria Doherty (Hybrid Learning/Seminary) will lead a discussion about the successes and challenges of pedagogically strategizing course design that achieves meaningful learning outcomes; realistically measuring the student work load; and brainstorming assignments, projects, and assessments that inspire the learner to fully engage in the process.

To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (Student Life) at jwithers@georgefox.edu by 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 17. Everyone is welcome to attend the session, whether bringing a lunch or reserving a lunch.

All faculty — full-time, part time, and adjunct — are invited to attend faculty teaching forums. Video podcasts of the forums will be available at the “Events and Resources” link on the Center for Teaching and Learning website, ctl.georgefox.edu.

If you give a regular employee or student employee an honorarium, stipend, gift card, or gift certificate, the IRS considers it taxable income.  The amounts of these will be processed through payroll in order to be taxed so it is important that the name(s) of the recipients be included on check requests submitted for payment.

The university is now using iTunesU (iTunesUniversity) to distribute public events such as chapel. Access it from blogs.georgefox.edu/chapel/itunesu.html and it will fire off your iTunes program.

A number of courses also are beginning to use iTunesU to supplement the distribution of podcasts such as classroom lectures and special assignments.

New employees who have yet to have their official university photo taken, or those who would like a retake, are invited to a photo session from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13.

Participants should check in at the Office of Marketing and Communications,  located on the second floor of the Stevens Center.  Photos will be taken in the River Street House.

It is now possible to access all university calendars from any location. Until now, users had to be on the campus network or use the VPN to see internal university events.

To view the internal calendar, go to calendar.georgefox.edu or select the Calendar tab in Bruindata and log in with your regular George Fox username and password. As before, the public calendar is available to everyone from calendar.georgefox.edu/public and does not require a login.

If you have questions about the calendar, contact the IT Service Desk by e-mail or by calling ext. 2569.

Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions was selected to replace the current SunGard Bi-Tech software that had been scheduled discontinuance in 2010. This process progressed through extensive demos from four major vendors. In the end, it was apparent the decision came down to either SunGard’s Banner or PeopleSoft.

The new system will take a couple of years to deploy; however, early benefits are expected from the customizable web portal in the first year. The unanimous decision to go with PeopleSoft was influenced by opportunities for more web services and integrated online campus data management. Other Bi-Tech customers joining us in the selection of PeopleSoft include: Azusa Pacific, Anderson, Walla Walla, and Vanguard.

Our Administrative Integrated Software (AIS) committee deserves our gratitude for conducting this extensive selection process.

To: Summit Borrowing and catalog contacts
From: Nancy Nathanson

Summit will be down beginning late Saturday night, Sept. 8, through Sunday afternoon Sept. 9, at about 4 p.m. We will shut down Summit sometime after 9 p.m. Saturday night, prior to a campus power outage for electrical equipment maintenance and upgrade.

Please contact me if you have any questions.
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Nancy Nathanson, Resource Sharing Program Manager, Orbis Cascade Alliance
nnathans@uoregon.edu
(541) 346-1860

If you have not already done so, please complete, check, and sign your August time sheet (staff) or time-off report (administrators), and then send it on to your supervisor for signature. These forms can be found at: http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/hr/forms.html.

Please send it to Human Resources at Box 6108 this week. If your supervisor is not available to sign, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.

George Fox libraries now provide access to Classical Music Library, Smithsonian Global Sound, and African American Song.  These combine to offer tens of thousands of tracks of music as well as drama, poetry, and more.  To access, go to the library’s alphabetical list of databases at http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/murdock/alphabeticalindex.html and select the database of choice.   Listeners can create playlists of their favorite tracks.

Employees in Portland, Boise, Salem, and Redmond will get a day off on Monday, Sept. 3, in recognition of the Labor Day holiday. The Newberg campus will stay with its traditional schedule, remaining open on Labor Day and closing for a mid-semester holiday on Friday, Oct. 12. Portland, Boise, Salem, and Redmond will not take a mid-semester holiday.

The Center for Teaching and Learning will host a faculty teaching forum from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Executive Dining Room on the Newberg campus Thursday, Sept. 6. The forum is entitled “Putting Student Evaluations to Use” and will provide information about resources available to make practical sense of student evaluation numbers.

To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu) by noon on Tuesday, Sept. 4. Everyone is welcome to attend whether they bring a lunch or reserve one.

A video podcast of the session will be available on the Center for Teaching and Learning website.

All employees are invited to participate in the 2007-08 Wellness Challenge. Check out the new scoring system, individual competition, monthly prizes, and wellness teams. Go to wellness.georgefox.edu. Sign up online by Friday, Aug. 31. Competition begins Monday, Sept. 3. If you have questions, contact Andrea Byerley (abyerley@georgefox.edu).

Please follow this link to view a position announcement describing the Executive Assistant I for Enrollment Services: http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/hr/ZExecAsstI.html

This is an internal posting. We welcome your interest and your resumes. Questions? Call Melodee in Human Resources at 2180.

FoxTALE will be upgraded to version 1.8 on Monday, August 13, from 6am – noon. FoxTALE will be unavailable during this time. Faculty members, you will receive additional information via email. Please contact the Service Desk with any questions or concerns.

The Library and IT departments are pleased to inform you that selections of PBS videos are available for viewing for any GFU employee or student. You can gain access to these Videos On Demand via BruinData by choosing the VOD menu. The titles will also be incorporated into our library’s Foxtrax catalog. This program is somewhat experimental so feedback will help us determine how or if this program should grow. Comments can be directed to Greg Smith.