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In order to process an invoice, the Accounts Pay team needs all of the below-mentioned information:

• Vendor ID number
• Vendor Name as appearing in PeopleSoft
• PeopleSoft PO number
• PeopleSoft receipt number
• And finally, a copy of the invoice.

AP receives a multitude of emailed payment requests, and there is a high probability of those getting buried, especially in cases wherein any of the above information is missing in the email.

To comply with audit requirements, AP does not have access to the purchasing module, thus they are unable to themselves obtain PO &and receipt numbers from PeopleSoft.

In order to improve our current “Procure to Pay” process, and to help you to pay your invoices in a timely manner, we have released a Request for Payment form. This form replaces emailed and paper payment requests.

We are planning a formal training session in the coming months where we will share more information with you. In the meantime, feel free to email your questions to purchasing@georgefox.edu.

Thank you,
The Accounts Pay and Purchasing Teams

Join us on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 3-4, for the Interprofessional Primary Care Institute’s Strengthening Team™ Ethics & Legal Considerations Suicide Prevention two-day event.

Day 1: We will explore safety, security, risk and common ethical and legal concerns in healthcare practice, followed by applying these concepts to emerging roles in primary care (behavioral health clinicians and culturally responsive community health workers). We will share experiences of power differentials in high-quality primary care early adopters.

Day 2: Kent Corso, PsyD, will present “Proactive Reduction of Suicide in Populations via Evidence-Based Research.” After that, we will discuss suicide in healthcare workers, as well as a system-wide approach to suicide prevention in primary care sustained since 2011.

If you would like to register for the event, sign up here. Contact Tammy O’Doherty at todohert@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Do you have a food allergen? Please come talk to a chef in Canyon Commons! Bon Appétit takes your food allergies very seriously. We carefully train our staff on food allergy awareness issues, and we use a descriptive language menu to notify you of foods that use the nine major allergens.

We would love to work with you to ensure you get a delicious and safe meal every day!

Please talk to a chef in Canyon Commons or email Katie Anderson at katie.anderson@cafebonappetit.com for more info.

Employees not transporting students to Serve Day sites are requested to park in specific lots on Wednesday, Sept. 14. Employees are welcome to park in the Bauman lot along Meridian, or even at Steve’s Auto lot along 99. This will give spaces for our service sites to park the buses and vans that they are using to pick up our students and employees.

If you have any questions, please contact Jere Witherspoon at jwithers@georgefox.edu.

Bon Appetit has a meal plan for employees, featuring 10 meals in Canyon Commons for $80. These can be used for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and they never expire.

To sign up, please email Kim Johnson at kjohnson@georgefox.edu and provide us with your name, ID number and best phone number to contact you. Kim will call between 2 and 4 p.m. to collect payment and activate the meals on your ID card.

You can also sign up for the GET Mobile food app and order online from the Bridge Cafe or Canyon Commons. The link to sign up can be found on our website.

We also accept credit and debit cards in the main dining hall if you want to join us for a single meal. It is dine-in only, but we offer all you care to eat.

Any questions can be directed to katie.anderson@cafebonappetit.com.

George Fox University Recreation is hosting a Leave No Trace trainer course on Oct. 1-2. It is open to the public and discounted for George Fox students and employees. This course is ideal for anyone who enjoys outdoor recreation, especially those that love to share the outdoors with other people!

Participants in the two-day course will learn Leave No Trace skills and ethics as well as techniques for educating others about these low-impact practices. Participants who successfully complete the course will receive certificates and become official instructors of Leave No Trace.

To register and for more information, go here.

Contact AJ Heil if you have any questions at aheil@georgefox.edu.

The city of Newberg has an emergency alert system that automatically alerts city residents about emergency situations via text, phone, and email. You can sign up for this free service here.

Questions? Contact Campus Public Safety at 503-554-2090.

Interested in a volunteer opportunity to serve our awesome Bruin football fans? Then Bruin Brigade is the place for you!

The Bruin Brigade is a team of volunteers who help at the ticket tent, gates, and direct traffic in the parking lots prior to every home game. The team arrives two hours before kickoff and are free to enjoy the rest of the game starting at halftime.

All volunteers will receive a meal prior to each game they volunteer, free entry into the second half of the game, and a T-shirt.

If this sounds like something you would like to help with, please email Mindy Mickelson in the athletics department at mmickelson@georgefox.edu with your first and last name, the games you can volunteer, your cell phone number, and your T-shirt size.

Please note: We are asking for a three-game commitment to receive a T-shirt. Volunteers working the gates will need to be willing to use their phone to scan in tickets through the HomeTown Gate app (free on app store). WiFi is available at the gates.

2022 Football Schedule:

• Saturday, Sept. 17, vs. Chapman at 7 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 1, vs. Pacific Lutheran at 4:30 p.m. (Homecoming & Hall of Fame)
• Saturday, Oct. 15, vs. Puget Sound at 1:30 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 29, vs. Linfield at 1:30 p.m. (Family Weekend)
• Saturday, Nov. 5, vs. Lewis & Clark at 4:30 p.m.

Intentional living has been our focus this year, and we are resuming our safety topics this fall. September is National Preparedness Month, bringing awareness of being prepared for disasters and emergencies that could happen at any time.

Are you ready? Disasters don’t care who you are or where you live. That is why everyone needs a plan of action. Now is the time to find out how to keep you and your family as safe as possible. Provided here is an idea for creating an effective emergency plan.

Come to the Hadlock Student Center every Friday to play some volleyball, meet new people, and have fun! We get together every Friday from 7:30 to 10 p.m. It’s open to both employees and students.

Follow @gfuvolleyballclub for more info!

Be aware of construction work going on at the senior art studio this week. Machinery will be digging, making lots of dust and noise, and construction work will also be going on in the empty lot between Chapman House and Riley House.

Be on the lookout for dump trucks coming and going throughout the day. Please be aware of the activity going on in these areas, and be mindful when parking nearby.

Thank you,
Plant Services (plantservices@georgefox.edu)

Interested in applying for a George Fox University Grant? Simply use this Grant Registration Form to learn how many resources and people are available to assist in the process. The form is required for any university employee interaction funders and is necessary for letters of inquiry, fellowship grants, or grant proposals by faculty or staff at George Fox.

Start your form today! If you have questions or need assistance, please contact Sarah Tenney, director of development for government, corporate, and foundation relations in the advancement office, at stenney@georgefox.edu.

The Richter Scholars program at George Fox distributes funds to support student research activities that are devised, initiated and carried out by individual student researchers, with mentorship, guidance and expertise provided by a faculty mentor.

The purpose of these funds is to support educational research opportunities that encourage the practices of independent thought, leading to independent achievement and personal responsibility. For the purpose of this program, research is defined as a knowledge-generating activity that is designed to provide new information on a topic, tool or process, and that proceeds according to established and accepted research methods.

Before preparing a proposal, please read through the full proposal guidelines, eligibility requirements, and review criteria. The proposal deadline is Monday, Oct. 17.

Faculty mentors: Please note that several important proposal elements and eligibility requirements have been recently updated. Please thoroughly read through all posted documentation as you work with your student mentee to prepare a proposal. All submittals will be electronic.

For more information, contact Vetta Berokoff at vberokof@georgefox.edu.

With the combination of rising food costs, inflation and gas prices, food banks are facing significant challenges in getting government-subsidized food. In addition, Yamhill Community Partnership’s (our connection to the Oregon Food Bank) freezer broke, and, due to supply chain issues, it won’t be repaired for several weeks.

This has greatly impacted the Bruin Community Pantry food bank’s ability to provide frozen meat to our clients. Last month we began to purchase ground meat – the easiest meat for our students to prepare – from Grocery Outlet to offset this situation. However, our budget is unable to sustain this for long.

We are reaching out to the George Fox community to let you know about this situation, and invite you to participate in financially supporting this effort or to purchase ground meat and donate it to the Bruin Community Pantry.

If you would like to become a financial partner with the BCP, please contact advancement at giving@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2110 for details on how to either give monthly or make a one-time gift.

If you would like to donate frozen ground meat to the food bank, please contact Jere Witherspoon to arrange a drop-off at the food bank in Roberts 110. You can call or email Jere at jwithers@georgefox.edu or call her at 503-554-2316.

Thank you for considering this opportunity.

The university’s Ping Pong Club is a super fun place where beginning to experienced players can find others to play with and have a great time. The club meets every week in the Hadlock Student Center on Wednesdays from 6 to 7 p.m. Our first meeting is tomorrow (Wednesday). 

Sign up via this form to get email updates about upcoming events and Ping Pong Club news. The club is open to both students and employees.

Please email nredmanbrown20@georgefox.edu or ewelborn21@georgefox.edu with any and all questions.

Do you have a pesky wart on your face, hand or foot that is bothering you, and has been resistant to home remedies? Starting on Wednesday, Sept. 7, stop by the Health and Counseling Center every other Wednesday and have your wart removed once and for all with liquid nitrogen (called cryotherapy).

Future “Wart Wednesdays” will be on Sept. 21, Oct. 5, Oct. 19, Nov. 2, Nov. 16 and Nov. 30.

Call 503-554-2340 to schedule your appointment!

Sign up today for a vendor space at this year’s Bruin Market during homecoming. Join George Fox alumni, community members and student vendors to showcase your business, talents, innovation and artistic wares.

The event is scheduled from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 1. Sign up online at this link, and contact Holly Anderson at handerson@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.

Mark your calendars for Serve Day 2022: Wednesday, Sept. 14.

This annual event mobilizes all undergraduate students and Newberg employees to serve alongside community partners throughout the surrounding region. As an expression of our university mission statement, “to prepare students to serve with passion,” the university will close all Newberg offices and cancel classes so that we may direct our efforts toward serving our community.

Check-in begins at 8 a.m., followed by a kickoff celebration in the quad at 9:15 a.m. Teams will be dismissed to their service locations at 9:45 a.m., and return to campus by 3:30 p.m. to enjoy snacks, lawn games and music on the quad.

Questions? Contact us at serveday@georgefox.edu, or visit our Serve Day page.

We want to make you aware of extra parking for staff, residents and commuters.

• The Morse Lot is near the baseball fields on the north side of campus.
• The 99 lot is right next to Steve’s Automotive between Highway 99W and Portland Road. (Do not park in spaces marked off for Steve’s Automotive.)

Please contact Campus Public Safety at 503-554-2090, between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m., for more information.

The Academic Resource Center (ARC) has a new scheduling system called Penji. Students can schedule an appointment with us by downloading the Penji app in an app store, visiting our website, or clicking on the Penji Penguin icon at the bottom left corner in their Canvas.

The ARC website has been updated to reflect the new scheduling process instructions. Please encourage your students to check out our services!

If you have any questions, please email Hannah Jackson at hjackson@georgefox.edu.