The Daily Bruin

Student life policies for graduate and Department of Professional Studies students are now online. Information about policies and reporting for harassment, discrimination, sexual harassment, bias-related incidents, hate crimes and sexual assault can be found online at graddpspolicies.georgefox.edu.

Please take a minute to familiarize yourself with the information contained in the policies.

If you have questions, please direct them to studentlife@georgefox.edu.

Do you have a colleague who would be deserving of this academic year’s first Employee of the Month award? If so, please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Wednesday, Sept. 19, with a summary of this person’s recent contributions and any other information that 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 community meeting on Thursday, Sept. 27.

Need to look up the extension or box number of a fellow George Fox employee? An updated PDF file, “Employee Extension & Box List,” is now available on the university’s website. To access it, go to the university’s home page and click the “Faculty & Staff” tab. The employee extension/box list comes up as the last option in that section.

Questions? Contact Barbi Doran at ext. 2099.

Don’t forget to let iGFU.georgefox.edu help you kickoff the new semester. We have a new option for how faculty can display photos of all their students in a class if you are on a large screen device like a computer or iPad.

On your course roster page select the “Photos” option at the top to display all of your students’ photos. A good way to learn their names. And remember, if you see an icon associated with an iGFU service, tap it to see what it may provide.

Here are a few friendly fall reminders for faculty using FoxTALE!

Make your course sites available (visible) to students
Your fall 2012 course sites were created as unavailable (hidden) to students. When you’re ready for students to see your course site:

1. In your course site, go to Settings > Course Administration > Edit settings
2. Change the Availability setting to “This course is available to students,” and scroll to the bottom to save changes.

Have you updated your profile and photo in the new FoxTALE?
Sorry, we were not able to transfer your profile and photo from the old FoxTALE to the new FoxTALE.

For information on updating your profile, see this quick guide. For information on updating your photo, see this quick guide.

Lost all the sites on your FoxTALE home page? Never fear! Just log onto foxtale19.georgefox.edu to access them. We upgraded FoxTALE on Monday, Aug 20. The address foxtale.georgefox.edu now points to a new environment for 2012-13 and beyond.

Your old sites will be available in foxtale19.georgefox.edu for a year. Questions? Contact the Service Desk.

This 40-hours-per-week/10-month position is being announced as “internal only,” available to current employees at this time. Temporary employees may apply as well. Please e-mail hr@georgefox.edu to request a copy of the job description.

To apply, please submit a letter, resume and transfer request (available on the HR jobs web page) to hr@georgefox.edu or drop these materials off in HR. The position will close at 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27.

Don’t forget: All employees, half time and above, are requested to attend the all-community meeting scheduled from 8 to 11 a.m. this Friday, Aug. 17, in Klages Dining Hall. Breakfast will be served as part of the meeting.

For those at the university’s regional sites (Boise and Redmond), please note: The meeting will be taped and be available for viewing in MyGFU in the days following the meeting. There will not be stream service available. Portland and Salem employees are encouraged to attend in person.

All employees, half time and above, are requested to attend the all-community meeting scheduled from 8 to 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 17, in Klages Dining Hall. Breakfast will be served as part of the meeting.

For those at the university’s regional sites (Boise and Redmond), the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link” located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.” Portland and Salem employees are encouraged to attend in person.

The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings, and it includes a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link. Videos of previously recorded meetings are also available on the same page. They are listed in date order, and a username and password is provided which will give you access.

The new FoxTALE environment will adopt our regular FoxTALE address (foxtale.georgefox.edu) on the morning of Monday, August 20th.

Until that time, please log in to foxtale22.georgefox.edu to see your 2012-2013 FoxTALE sites if you have not already done so. If you still have content that needs to be moved from the current (soon-to-be-old) FoxTALE to the new FoxTALE, please follow these instructions to mark those courses with MOVE ME.

What are the browser addresses?

• Prior to the morning of Monday, August 20, 2012:
  • Current FoxTALE 1.9: foxtale.georgefox.edu
  • New FoxTALE 2.2: foxtale22.georgefox.edu
• After the morning of Monday, August 20, 2012:
  • Current FoxTALE 2.2: foxtale.georgefox.edu
  • Old FoxTALE 1.9 (available until August 30, 2013): foxtale19.georgefox.edu

How can I learn more about the upgrade?
See the information page. Read release notes, sign up for a webinar, or watch a screencast.

Questions? Please contact the Service Desk.

It’s official: The Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education has granted the university’s physical therapy program candidacy status. This means we are permitted to begin the program this fall.

An all-employee meeting was held on Friday, at which President Robin Baker spoke about the Aug. 2 accreditation visit and program director Tyler Cuddeford introduced the PT staff. If you would like to view the meeting, it will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link” located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.” It is the bottom link in that section.

The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings, and it includes a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link. Videos of previously recorded meetings are also available on the same page. They are listed in date order, and a username and password is provided which will give you access.

Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Wednesday), beginning at 3:30 p.m. in VAC 117 (please note new location). At the meeting, the VP’s will share information regarding the recent restructuring.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link” located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.” It is the bottom link in that section. The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings and include a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link.

Videos from previously recorded meetings will be added to this page in the days following. Please bookmark the page for quick access each month.

President Baker recently returned from a trip to China, where he met with parents, students and higher education partners. When you get a chance, be sure to check out his reflections on the trip by visiting his blog site.

His entries include thoughts on the meaning of a “moral education,” what it was like visiting with a current student and her family, and the story of an interesting incident in a Chinese department store.

The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Please place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Friday, July 13. If you haven’t already created an account, you will need to do so before submitting your order.

If you have questions, contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.

Friday, July 20, will be the financial affairs office’s cutoff date for entering fiscal year 2012 revenue and/or expenses. Please submit appropriate paperwork as soon as possible for any revenues earned or expenses incurred prior to the end of FY2012 (June 30, 2012).

Please remember that these revenues and/or expenses must be included as fiscal year 2012 entries and may not be deferred to fiscal year 2013.

Thank you so much your cooperation as we wrap up FY2012 and prepare for our yearly audit. If you have any questions, please contact the financial affairs office at ext. 2160.

The all-employee meeting scheduled for this month has been moved from July 12 to Wednesday, July 25, beginning at 3:30 p.m. in VAC 117 (please note new location). At the meeting, the VP’s will share information regarding the recent restructuring.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link” located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.” It is the bottom link in that section. The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings and include a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link.

Videos from previously recorded meetings will be added to this page in the days following. Please bookmark the page for quick access each month.

We always appreciate receiving the previous month’s time sheets and time-off reports early in the new month, but we are especially anxious to receive June’s each year. If you haven’t already, please send us your June time-off report or time sheet by this Thursday, July 12, so we can enter vacation and sick leave used in June. This will enable the folks in Financial Affairs to report fiscal year-end balances, which will help them finish their work of closing the books on 2011-12.

If you have any time-off reports or time sheets from earlier in 2011-12 that you have not yet submitted, please turn those in as well. If a supervisor’s absence will cause a delay, please send HR a copy and submit the original after it has both yours and your supervisor’s signatures.

Thank you very much.
– HR

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, July 23, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

Quick: Who was George Fox University’s undergraduate professor of the year in 2008? Who was the staff member of the year in 2009?

If you know, pat yourself on the back! If not, find out these answers and more on the Employee Council site. There, the employees of the year are archived, as are the employees of the month for the last three years. After reading, perhaps you will be inspired to send an e-mail to a colleague — either one who has been honored or one who has not — saying that you appreciate his or her work.

You are always welcome to contact the Employee Council by e-mailing us at employeecouncil@georgefox.edu or by directly contacting an individual on the council (see the website for a list of members).

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 7 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, June 19, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.