Plant Services will be in training for PeopleSoft this Thursday and Friday, Aug. 21-22. The office will be open but will be operating with limited staff. We will try to answer phones and check e-mail.
– Plant Services
This is a final reminder that the University Store is conducting its annual laser printer cleaning event on Aug. 27-28. If you want your office laser printer cleaned, please e-mail Andy Dunn (University Store) the following information:
Andy must receive your request no later than Aug. 25.
Marketing Communications is currently collecting orders for name tags. Please submit your requests online. Provide the name of the person for whom the name tag is needed; title or department; and the budget to be charged. Examples of titles/departments include: Dean of Students/Office of Student Life, Admissions Counselor/Undergraduate Admissions. Supervisors should determine a standard for his or her area and attempt to remain consistent.
The next order will be placed Friday, Sept. 12. Communications will verify your request and the information provided and place your order with all others.
Marketing Communications is now collecting orders for business cards. Orders are due Monday, Aug. 25. Please place your orders through your department’s administrative assistant. Expected delivery is the beginning of October.
If you have not already done so, please submit your July time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) right away. Please be sure it is complete, accurate and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. The link on the HR website for these documents is: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/forms.html.
If your supervisor is not available to sign it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed. And one last reminder for completing time sheets: Do not write any hours on the date marked holiday (July 4) unless you worked the holiday.
Thank you.
– Human Resources
The Office of Human Resources will be closed Aug. 18-22 for PeopleSoft implementation work. We will check e-mail and voice mail as much as we can between sessions, but there likely will be delays in responding to our customers. We regret the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding and patience as we attend to this necessary training and testing to ensure a successful conversion to PeopleSoft.
The office will reopen on Monday, Aug. 25.
– Human Resources
The IT Service Desk will have a student employee in the Murdock Learning Resource Center each weekday, Monday through Thursday, from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. and during library hours on Saturday and Sunday. The IT Service Desk in the Stevens Center will be closing at 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. The policy for requesting equipment or technical help has not changed. Please visit it.georgefox.edu for details.
The room formerly known as the CAI lab (Stevens Center) will now be a classroom. The Murdock Learning Resource Center (Newberg library) will have an “info commons” outfitted with new furniture and six iMac computers that will be an alternate place students can use for online research and printing. Other computer lab areas are the same as in past years.
The Center for Teaching and Learning is offering FoxTALE workshops in August for faculty and other interested employees.
On the Newberg campus:
FoxTALE Introduction – Friday, Aug. 22, 9 a.m. – noon, Hoover 211
FoxTALE Open Lab Time – Friday, Aug. 22, 1-4 p.m., Hoover 211
FoxTALE Introduction – Monday, Aug. 25, 9 a.m. – noon, Hoover 211
FoxTALE Quizzes and Grades – Tuesday, Aug. 26, 9 a.m. – noon, Hoover 211
At the Portland Center:
FoxTALE Introduction – Monday, Aug. 25, 1-4 p.m., PDS 210
Please R.S.V.P. to Sheila Abercrombie (IT) at sabercrombie@georgefox.edu if you would like to attend any of these workshops. FoxTALE documentation is located on the IT website.
FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 10 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 18, for server maintenance and preparation for the fall semester. Please note that your online course(s) will be unavailable during this time.
Calendar (R25), Goldmine, and Blackberry service will be down for security upgrades from 6 to 7 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 18.
Foxserve, the network file sharing system that includes the “K” drive, will be down for security updates from 6 to 7 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 19.
The university’s paving contractor, Signature Paving Services, will be installing the speed table on Fulton Street across from the Friendsview Retirement Community the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 12.
This section of Fulton will be closed for the duration of the day to allow for the asphalt to cure and for installation of the pavement markings and signs.
The university’s fall community meeting is scheduled for this Friday, Aug. 15. The gathering will begin in the Klages Dining Hall with breakfast at 8 a.m. before moving to Bauman Auditorium at 8:30 a.m. for a meeting that will last until 10:30 a.m.
All employees are required to attend. (Employees working on the four-day work week schedule will have to make arrangements to accommodate their attendance at the meeting.)
The University Store has a new addition to its inventory – pet products. Feel free to check out the new puppies and kittens during the store’s “Dog Days of Summer Sale” Aug. 12-15. Save 10 to 50 percent on pet clothing, dishes, collars and other gift items.
It is again time for faculty to prepare and submit your reserves list for the upcoming semester.
1) You will need to fill out the Online Reserves Request Form at:
georgefox.edu/offices/murdock/reserves.html
2)Â After you fill out and submit the online form, bring your materials (with your name attached) to the library circulation desk for processing. In order for a reserve item to be ready by the first week of classes, requests must be submitted by Aug. 22. Please remember, the reserves process can take five to seven school days at the beginning of the semester, two to three days during less busy times. We receive hundreds of reserves requests every semester which we process as quickly as possible.
If you have any further questions, please contact me by phone at ext. 2425 or by e-mail at seggerichs@georgefox.edu.
Thank you,
Sarah Eggerichs (Library)
The University Store is conducting its annual laser printer cleaning event Aug. 27-28. If you want your office laser printer cleaned, please e-mail Andy Dunn the following information:
Andy must receive your request no later than Aug. 25.
FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 10 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 18, for server maintenance and preparation for the fall semester. Please note that your online course(s) will be unavailable during this time.
There is still time to sign up for the third annual George Fox University Motorcycle Rally, scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 16. If you ride a street motorcycle of any kind, you are invited to join other members of the George Fox family in this special event. For more information and to register, visit georgefox.edu/alumni/events/motorcyclerally.html.
The following are dates for 2008-09 all-employee meetings. All of the meetings are on a Thursday, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. The only exception is the October meeting, which will take place on Friday, Oct. 24, at the same time and location.
A May meeting will be scheduled at a later date. The meetings will provide employees an opportunity to receive campus updates. Your participation is strongly encouraged.
