All employee headshot photo shoots are on hold until September. If you are a new employee, or are in need of a new or updated headshot, please wait until further notice before contacting the university photographer or the marketing communications department.
Keep an eye out in the Daily Bruin this fall for an update on when photo shoots will resume.
A group of George Fox alumni and current student makers invite the campus community to check out Living Room Market, Newberg’s alleyway soirèe at 111 S. College St.
Join us every first Friday between 4 and 9 p.m. through late summer and early fall (Aug. 7, Sept. 4 and Oct. 2). Our marketplace offers an experience that gathers locals with small businesses and individuals from beyond our town to celebrate creative community, nature-based products and handcrafted goods.
Each event includes an artisan maker’s market, food carts, live music and more! Interested in being one of our rad makers? Visit this link for more details.
George Fox faculty and students are invited to take part in a virtual interprofessional continuing medical education event addressing suicide prevention on Saturday, Aug. 15. It will take place over Zoom from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The event, hosted by the Interprofessional Primary Care Institute, is free to students and staff. It will feature experts from a variety of healthcare professions to discuss how interprofessional teams in school-based health centers and primary care clinics can work closely together to prevent adolescent suicide in our communities.
After rates of adolescent suicide in the U.S. stabilized from 2000 to 2007, suicide rates for ages 10 to 24 increased from 2007 (6.8 per 100,000 persons) to 2017 (10.6). While suicides increased across this age group, suicide rates most sharply increased for ages 10 to 14, nearly tripling from 2007 (0.9) to 2017 (2.5).
These increasing rates of adolescent suicide highlight the importance of prevention and intervention in schools, primary care and other community-based settings.
To learn more, contact Tammy O’Doherty (todohert@georgefox.edu).
Several parking spaces have been marked off in the Hoover parking lot. Please avoid parking in these spaces while some arborist work is done on the tree in the parking lot landscaping. The work will take several days.
Thank you!
Interested in learning more about working as a behavioral health clinician? Join us for a special continuing education event focused on developing new skills for behavioral health learners using the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) model.
The course “Professional Solutions: Behavioral Health Clinician Essentials†will be held virtually the week of Aug. 10-14, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. There is no cost to participate for George Fox faculty or students. The event is hosted by the Interprofessional Primary Care Institute.
Research shows that clinics that implement the BCBH model are better equipped to deliver biopsychosocial-cultural care to the people they serve. The PCBH model is an evolution of psychotherapy that matches the fast pace of primary care by adding a behavioral health clinician (BHC) team member who works in a focused and accessible way.
BHCs in primary care are licensed psychologists, clinical social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists. This event will feature an interprofessional team that includes experts in the PCBH model, primary care clinicians, nurses and others who are invested in the success of BHCs in primary care.
To learn more, contact Tammy O’Doherty (todohert@georgefox.edu).
Several parking spaces have been marked off in the Stevens Center parking lot. Please avoid parking in these spaces while some arborist work is done on the tree in the parking lot landscaping. The work will take several days.
Thank you!
Thank you to staff and faculty alike for bearing with the changes in purchasing at this unique time in our university. To provide clarity across campus, here is a reminder concerning which purchasing tool to use when.
Requisitions: Please fill out a purchase requisition to purchase products or services from a vendor/supplier. Contact purchasing (purchasing@georgefox.edu) with any questions and refer to the Purchasing Policy.
Individuals (not tied to an entity such as a business): Complete a check request in employment records. This is done through HR through George Fox timekeeping. Please refer to the George Fox timekeeping system guide for instruction on how to proceed. Contact HR with questions (hr@georgefox.edu).
Reimbursements:
Visa Charges and Transactions: All Visa purchases need to be approved through the requisition process in order to receive authorization/approval to purchase. Once a PO is issued, a requester can proceed using their Visa (please keep in mind that you still have to process receipts through Concur for all Visa transactions).
Contact purchasing (purchasing@georgefox.edu) with questions about Visa PO approvals using the requisition process. Contact Kathi Becker (kbecker@georgefox.edu) if you have questions concerning Visa cards and Concur.
For all other questions specifically tied to requisitions and purchase orders, contact purchasing. If you require a tutorial on how to enter a requisition, please contact Sonia Rademacher (srademacher@georgefox.edu) in purchasing.
We would like to request that there be no moving of furniture in classrooms between now and when classes start in the fall.
Due to Oregon Health Authority guidelines, we are having to rearrange and remove furniture in all of our instructional spaces and need for the rearranged furniture to remain in specific locations to ensure proper distancing.
Thank you.
The student life office is excited to announce its move to the Hadlock Student Center, 1400 E. Sherman St.Â
Entrance to the offices will be through the side door closest to the parking lot of Sherman Street.
George Fox faculty and students are invited to take part in a virtual interprofessional continuing medical education event addressing suicide prevention on Saturday, Aug. 15. It will take place over Zoom from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The event is free to students and staff. It will feature experts from a variety of healthcare professions to discuss how interprofessional teams in school-based health centers and primary care clinics can work closely together to prevent adolescent suicide in our communities.
After rates of adolescent suicide in the U.S. stabilized from 2000 to 2007, suicide rates for ages 10 to 24 increased from 2007 (6.8 per 100,000 persons) to 2017 (10.6). While suicides increased across this age group, suicide rates most sharply increased for ages 10 to 14, nearly tripling from 2007 (0.9) to 2017 (2.5).
These increasing rates of adolescent suicide highlight the importance of prevention and intervention in schools, primary care and other community-based settings.
To learn more, contact Tammy O’Doherty (todohert@georgefox.edu).
Bon Appetit is excited to welcome you to back to campus this fall! As you’d expect, we’re implementing some serious sanitation and service measures to ensure you can dine with us as safely and comfortably as possible.
While COVID-19 safety is a key priority, it isn’t our only one. We still believe that food has an important role to play in individual wellness and in building culture and community at George Fox. Our chefs will still be cooking from scratch, using fresh local and seasonal ingredients that meet our sustainability standards. (We are pleased to mention that, in March, the Humane Society of the United States ranked us the No. 1 food service company, the only one with an A+ grade!)
More information about dining can be found on this webpage. As more information unfolds, updates will be communicated with students and posted on this site.
For more information, please General Manager Jason Rosvall at jason.rosvall@cafebonappetit.c
All employee headshot photo shoots are on hold until September. If you are a new employee, or are in need of a new or updated headshot, please wait until further notice before contacting the university photographer or the marketing communications department.
Keep an eye out in the Daily Bruin this fall for an update on when photo shoots will resume.
The city of Newberg will be doing some water meter testing on campus this week. During each appointed time, the water will be shut off at that particular meter for about 30 minutes.
Each meter tested has a scheduled time, and if the meter has a bypass valve, you may not notice an interruption in service.
Monday, July 20, testing:
Tuesday, July 21, testing:
Wednesday, July 22, testing:
Thank you for your patience!
Face shields are available for George Fox employees. They are available in the student life office on the third floor of the Stevens Center. The office is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please drop by if you want to pick up a face shield.
For more information, please contact Jere Witherspoon at  jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu.
As a key strategy for soul care of undergraduates during the pandemic, the Office for Spiritual Life is looking for 30 Life Group leaders for our nine-week fall Life Groups series (the weeks of Sept. 7 through Nov. 6).
Life Groups are small groups of undergraduate students who meet together for prayer, Bible study and fellowship. Groups meet weekly for 60 to 90 minutes. This fall, all of our groups will be either Zoom groups or hybrid groups. (Hybrid groups will meet primarily via Zoom, but may occasionally meet outdoors as the weather, state and university regulations, and participant comfort permit.)
Throughout the pandemic, Life Groups through the Office for Spiritual Life will also be chapel credit-eligible in order to encourage students to engage in high-quality spiritual formation experiences that are participatory and offer ongoing community.
We welcome our employees, alumni, family members of George Fox employees and students, and members of our wonderful local churches to consider leading a group. Groups may also be co-led with an upperclassman student if the leader desires.
For more information and to sign up, visit this webpage or contact the Office for Spiritual Life at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.
Office moves/relocations have a process and policy. After discussing proposals with your dean or department head, submit the relocation form located at this link.
One form per person is needed, so that specific furniture move requests can be listed. Matt Hammar, the director of Purchasing, must approve all furniture moves and furniture requests.
After the relocation form is submitted, your executive team member will then approve the relocation request. After approval, Plant Services will schedule your move. (The form allows you to enter your proposed move date, but the actual date will be set by the scheduling team.)
This move process notifies Plant Services, Information Services, Mail Services and Institutional Technology (IT), including MPS and IT infrastructure. Please refer to the website with any questions. Thank you!
The city of Newberg will be doing some water meter testing on campus next week. During each appointed time, the water will be shut off at that particular meter for about 30 minutes.
Each meter tested has a scheduled time, and if the meter has a bypass valve, you may not notice an interruption in service.
Monday, July 20, testing:
Tuesday, July 21, testing:
Wednesday, July 22, testing:
Thank you for your patience!
An all-employee meeting will be made available for viewing this morning (Wednesday) after 10 a.m. We will hear from Provost Andrea Scott and get an update on the new academic enterprise structure, from Brian Doak, director of George Fox Digital, and from President Robin Baker.
The meeting will be available at this link. As was the case last month, the password to join is provided on the meeting site.
This is a reminder that all purchases, regardless of the dollar amount or funding source, must be entered in PeopleSoft as a requisition PRIOR to any spending. Once your receive a PO from Purchasing, you have approval to place your order or complete your George Fox Visa transaction.
If you need assistance, please contact Purchasing at purchasing@georgefox.edu for requisition/PO questions or Kathi Becker at kbecker@georgefox.edu for George Fox Visa questions.
The university’s purchasing policy can be found here.
An all-employee meeting will be made available for viewing tomorrow (Wednesday) after 10 a.m. We will hear from Provost Andrea Scott and get an update on the new academic enterprise structure, from Brian Doak, director of George Fox Digital, and from President Robin Baker.
The meeting will be available at this link. As was the case last month, the password to join is provided on the meeting site.
