The Daily Bruin

It takes a village to make our football games a success. 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 in the parking lots directing traffic prior to every home game. The team arrives two hours prior to 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, 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, 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). Wi-Fi is available at the gates.

2021 Football Schedule

• Saturday, Sept. 4, vs. Redlands at 7:05 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 9, vs. Willamette at 1 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 23 vs. Pacific at 1 p.m.
• Saturday, Nov. 13, vs. Whitworth at 1 p.m.

Go Bruins!

Not vaccinated? The Health & Counseling Center on the Newberg campus is offering free Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccinations today (Friday) for employees, students and their families.

Drop by anytime between 9 a.m. and noon or from 1 to 4 p.m. Questions? Contact Molly Hickok (mhickok@georgefox.edu).

Attend TIAA Live Webinars to help boost your financial know-how. You can register for upcoming titles at TIAA.org/webinars.

Upcoming September webinars (all times Pacific):

• The 411 on 529 College Savings Plans: Sept. 14 at 9 a.m. 
• Inside Money: Managing Income and Debt: Sept 14 at noon
• Start to Finish: The Early Career Woman’s Guide to Financial Wisdom: Sept. 15 at 9 a.m. 
• Tomorrow in Focus: Sept. 15 at noon
• Understanding Medicare: Sept. 16 at 9 a.m. 
• Making it Easier for You: Online Tools and Resources: Sept. 16 at noon

Not vaccinated? The Health & Counseling Center on the Newberg campus is offering free Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccinations tomorrow (Friday) for employees, students and their families.

Drop by anytime between 9 a.m. and noon or from 1 to 4 p.m. Questions? Contact Molly Hickok (mhickok@georgefox.edu).

Welcome Weekend is almost here! In order for our hundreds of new students to have a seamless move-in experience, we need extra cooperation from the staff, faculty and students already here on Thursday evening, Aug. 26, and Friday, Aug. 27.

Staff and faculty: Please plan to park along the street, in the front lot of Roberts, the Stevens lot or Hoover lot on Friday.

The Bauman and Le Shana parking lots will be barricaded on Thursday after 5 p.m., so please park nearest to Stoffer Stadium if you need to park in the Bauman lot. Please also refrain from parking in the Pennington lot.

The parking rows adjacent to the service road by Newlin will also be barricaded and unavailable for parking. Please make sure to move any vehicles parked there by 5 p.m. on Thursday.

Questions? Please contact Campus Public Safety at 503-554-2090 and view the parking brochure on the Campus Public Safety website for lot locations. 

Thank you in advance for your cooperation to help make move-in day the best day ever for our new students!

Mail Services will be running its courier service between campuses this fall. Below is the schedule.

• Medical Science Building (Werth): Monday through Friday
• Portland Center: Tuesday and Thursday

Items that need to be delivered must be at Mail Services by 10:30 a.m. for same-day delivery. If you have any questions, please contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

Andrea Friesen, a kinesiology student and Richter Scholar researcher, is in need of 30 faculty members to fill out a health and well-being survey (PROMIS) to form a control group as she studies the effect of exercise program participation on workplace self-efficacy.

Those who participate in the control group will be asked to complete the survey again in eight weeks. After completion of pre- and post-survey, control group participants will be entered in a raffle to win one of two $10 gift cards to Coffee Cottage.

Please contact Andrea for more information (afriesen19@georgefox.edu).

The Hadlock Student Center will be closed all day tomorrow (Thursday) for staff training.

We will reopen at 6 a.m. on Aug. 27 with extended hours for Welcome Weekend: 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Aug. 27; 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Aug. 28; and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 8 to 11 p.m. on Aug. 29.

Contact AJ Heil (aheil@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Join us Tuesday, Aug. 31, at 10:50 a.m., for Fall Academic Convocation Chapel in Bauman Auditorium. Provost Andrea Scott will address the community, and president Robin Baker and ASC president Micah Mensing will lead the Community Charge.

Come start the year off blessed as we worship together and welcome students to campus. See you Tuesday!

Contact Laurie Fair (lfair@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

The library is pleased to delivery library materials to faculty offices on the Newberg campus. All library material must be signed for by the faculty member or persons authorized to sign.

If you have used this service in the past, or if you are signing up for the first time, please fill out the request at this link. If you have any questions, please contact Mary Cameron at mcameron@georgefox.edu or ext. 2422.

Volunteers are needed for the Bruin Community Pantry food bank on Fridays and Saturdays. If you are interested in getting involved with this vital part of our Be Known promise, please contact Jere Witherspoon as soon as possible. Our schedule changes starting at the end of this week! 

Please email Jere at bruincommunitypantry@georgefox.edu.

We hope you are doing well and remembering to take good care of yourself. There are still free water bottles available at HR, so please stop by anytime between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

This week we are encouraging you to take mini breaks to help you decompress and recharge your energy. A quiet moment can go a long way in a busy or stressful day. Find out about different and surprising ways to relax in a short time.

Be well. Questions? Contact HR at hr@georgefox.edu.

The Undergraduate Student Handbook is a significant resource that serves to articulate the lifestyle standards, community policies, and other aspects of being a member of the George Fox community.

Students are encouraged to bookmark this important resource and set aside some time to read the university’s policies found in its contents.

If you have any questions, please Jere Witherspoon in the student life office (studentlife@georgefox.edu).

Faculty are now invited to submit requests for fall semester course reserves at the library. Materials are processed in the order received and can take up to 5 days to complete.

To place a request please fill out and submit the reserves on the library website. If you have any questions please contact Mary Cameron, mcameron@georgefox.edu or ext. 2422

If you as a faculty or staff member require a desk, bookcase, filing cabinet or table, a work order will need to be entered for the delivery of these items.

Contact your building monitor so that they can enter the work order on your behalf. The custodial services team will deliver an item that matches the existing building furniture style. If no items exist in the surplus furniture inventory, your request will be denied and purchasing will work with you on acquiring the pieces of furniture that are needed.

Visits to Plant Services to look at the surplus furniture inventory are not allowed at this time. Contact Sonia Rademacher (srademacher@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Faculty are now invited to submit requests for fall semester course reserves at the library. Materials are processed in the order received and can take up to five days to complete.

To place a request, please fill out and submit the reserves on the library website. If you have any questions, please contact Mary Cameron at mcameron@georgefox.edu or ext. 2422.

It takes a village to make our football games a success. 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 in the parking lots directing traffic prior to every home game. The team arrives two hours prior to 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, 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, 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). Wi-Fi is available at the gates. 

2021 Football Schedule

• Saturday, Sept. 4, vs Redlands at 7:05 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 9, vs Willamette at 1 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 23 vs Pacific at 1 p.m.
• Saturday, Nov. 13, vs Whitworth at 1 p.m.

Go Bruins!

We want to make our George Fox community aware that Family Weekend is scheduled for Oct. 22-24. This weekend is an opportunity for families and students to connect again and spend some quality time together at a crucial time in the semester.

Family Weekend plans are underway, and if you have an event, lecture or idea that could benefit students and families, we invite you to contact us! Preference will be given to those events with hybrid or individualized capabilities. The format will be adapted as needed depending on COVID restrictions and policies at that time.

For more information, contact Megan Fisher, director of parent and family programs, at mfisher@georgefox.edu.

As of Aug. 23, George Fox is requiring multi-factor authentication for faculty members to sign in to university resources through Single Sign On. This change affects signing into resources such as email and Canvas.

If you haven’t already, please opt in to multi-factor authentication by following these instructions (you will need to log in to the data-wiki with your George Fox credentials to access the instructions).

Please contact the IT Service Desk (servicedesk@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Ready to get started in Canvas? Digital Learning has some resources to help you:

How to Enter Canvas

• Go to this Canvas link (you may want to consider adding this link in your Chrome bookmarks or Firefox browser)
• Sign in using your George Fox username and password

Explore Your Sandbox

When you enter Canvas, you will see courses listed on your dashboard. One of these courses is entitled “[Your Name] Sandbox.” You can use this site to play with features. Cannot find it? The guide, Locating Your Course, demonstrates how to find courses and organize your dashboard.

Complete the training Higher Education: First Day Ready

• The video, Accessing First Day Ready (1:25 minutes) demonstrates how to enroll in the tutorial.
• In the Canvas dashboard, click on the “Help” icon located at the bottom of the navigation bar, which is on the left side of the screen
• Select “Training Services Portal”
• In the “Learning Library” tab, select the tutorial “Higher Education: First Day Ready”
• Enroll

The tutorial is a series of modules that guide you through the features of Canvas from the instructor’s perspective. It is self-paced so you can complete modules over an extended period of time.

Import Content into Your Canvas Instructional Course Sites

All FoxTALE course sites have been migrated to Canvas. The guides at Importing Course Content demonstrate how to review your migrated sites, labeled Moodle, and import content from those sites into your new instructional course sites, labeled 2021 Fall or 2022 Spring.

We are glad to answer questions as you explore. You may also want to join us for 30-minute web conferences in which we cover specific topics. See the Digital Learning Calendar for the listing of topics and dates.

Questions? Contact Gloria Doherty (gdoherty@georgefox.edu).