The Daily Bruin

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. 22, and Friday, Aug. 23.

• Staff and faculty: Please plan to park along the street, in the Bauman or 99W lot on Friday.
• Students: If your on-campus residence is Pennington, Edwards, Weesner Village, Hobson, Macy, Sutton, Le Shana, Gulley, Brandt or Newlin Hall, we need you to vacate the lots associated with these locations on Thursday evening and stay out of them on Friday.
• If you normally park in the Le Shana or Newlin Hall lots, please move your cars as close to Fulton Street as possible so that the areas in front of the buildings remains clear. You can also move your vehicles to the Bauman or Morse lot on Thursday evening.
• Everyone in the Pennington lot, lollipop area, Edwards or Weesner Village needs to move to the 99W lot on Thursday evening. Please keep Sheridan Street clear for easier access for our incoming students!
• The Morse lot and the front lot only of Roberts Center are also available for Friday.
• The lot in-between the Roberts Center, Gulley and Brandt Halls must be vacated on Thursday evening.

Questions? Please contact Campus Public Safety at 503-554-2090 and view the parking brochure on the CPS 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!

Are you interested in getting involved with the Bruin Community Pantry?

We will be scheduling two volunteer meetings on Thursday, Sept. 5, one at 4 p.m. in Stevens 207 and another at 7 p.m. in the Bruin Den.

If you are not able to attend either of these meetings, please contact Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu) to make an appointment to go over what you would have missed at one of the meetings.

Here is the link to the volunteer form.

The Office of the President has a Presidential Appearance Request Form that will assist in managing the president’s schedule. The president strives to accommodate as many engagement requests which support the mission of the university as possible. The completion of this form is required for anyone desiring the president (and spouse) be present and/or participate at an event.

We appreciate your patience with scheduling the president’s complex calendar. The link to the form can also be found on the President’s Office contact page.

Please note: It is expected that the requestor has followed procedures and obtained the approval of their administrator prior to submitting the request.

Join us at 10:50 a.m. this Tuesday, Aug. 27, for Fall Academic Convocation Chapel in Bauman Auditorium.

Sarita Gallagher Edwards, the 2018-19 Undergraduate Teacher of the Year, will present the faculty address. Come start the year off blessed as we worship together and welcome students to campus!

See you Tuesday!

Welcome Weekend kicks off tomorrow (Friday)! We have a full schedule for incoming students. They will begin moving in Friday morning and end the weekend with our Main Event on Sunday night.

Please help us welcome all the new students, along with their parents and guests. You can find the entire schedule on the website here.

If we can be of any help to you, email us at welcome@georgefox.edu

The Bruin Den and Bridge Cafe will both be open tomorrow (Friday) from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. All three cafes (Bruin Den, Bruin Bites and Bridge Cafe) will be back to school-year hours of operation starting Monday, Aug. 26, as follows:

• Bruin Den/Bridge Cafe: Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
• Bruin Bites: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

The library will be conducting a student employee training event on Sunday, Aug. 25. Therefore, the 24-hour space will not be available from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The 24-hour space will reopen at 2:30 p.m.

Now is the time to order university stationery. The collective order helps keep costs low – the higher the volume, the lower the cost. Consequently, it is most economical to overestimate needs and store a small surplus.

I will be accepting orders through Friday, Aug. 23. For order instructions, go to the marketing communications website. Continue to purchase all non-departmental stationery (including “second-sheet letterhead”) through the university’s Office of Mail Services.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Thank you,
– Jamison Loop (jloop@georgefox.edu)

Please note the modified hours for the Hadlock Student Center during Welcome Weekend. 

• Thursday, Aug. 22: Closed all day for staff training
• Friday, Aug. 23: Noon to 10 p.m.
• Saturday, Aug. 24: Noon to 10 p.m. 

The facility will resume normal hours of operation on Sunday, Aug. 25.

The climbing wall will be closed from Thursday, Aug. 22, through Sunday, Aug. 25, while we are training our staff and setting new routes for the year.

Questions? Email studentcenter@georgefox.edu.

It’s that time again … Welcome Weekend is our chance to welcome each and every new student as they step onto campus. We are still looking for volunteers to help out this Friday, Aug. 23.

With such a large incoming class, we need all hands on deck as we each do our part to make students and their guests feel the Be Known promise. And who better to do that than our own faculty and staff? Please complete this form and we will contact you with further instructions.

The library is pleased to deliver library material for participating faculty to their 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 this request form. If you have any questions, please contact Patty Vanier at pvanier@georgefox.edu or ext. 2425.

In the past, the Office of Student Life has delivered brightly colored folders with information for staff and faculty to use as a resource should the unforeseeable take place: a student in crisis needing intervention.

In our effort to reduce paper, as well as make these materials accessible to you online, we have created a folder in Google Drive. You will need to use your George Fox email to log in.

Please bookmark this folder for quick reference. 

You will find a folder with information specific for each campus:

Newberg

• Employee responsibilities regarding sexual misconduct response
• Faculty and staff guide to working with students in distress
• Newberg campus emergency response
• Newberg campus faculty and staff contact guide
• Newberg campus faculty and staff-student concern response guide
• Reporting card
• Sexual misconduct: respond, refer, report

Portland

• Employee responsibilities regarding sexual misconduct response
• Portland Center faculty and staff guide to working with students in distress
• Portland Center staff and faculty-student concern response guide
• Reporting card
• Sexual misconduct: respond, refer, report
• FERPA information for employees
• Reporting card
• Use of this folder

Please take a few minutes to review the information located in the appropriate folders.

Contact Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu) in student life if you have any questions.

The Office for Spiritual and Intercultural Life is looking for Life Group leaders for our eight-week fall Life Groups (the weeks of Sept. 16 to Nov. 8).

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 at the time and location of your choosing. Participants will select the group they wish to participate in based on the details that leaders provide.

Groups are encouraged to use one of the curriculum options recommended by the Office for Spiritual Life that parallel other themes that are being explored in chapel. We welcome our alumni, family members of George Fox employees and students, and members of our wonderful local churches to consider leading a group.

Our fall leader meeting will take place on Thursday, Sept. 5, from noon to 1:30 p.m., and lunch will be provided. For more information and to sign up, visit our webpage.

This Saturday, Aug. 24, Mail Services will be open between the hours of 1 and 4:30 p.m. to allow you to come pick up your packages. No outgoing packages will be accepted.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

We hope faculty will find the Libraries’ Digital Learning resources useful as you prepare your FoxTALE course sites. The guide FoxTALE Course Life Cycle includes video demonstrations and instructions on how to import content into your 2019 Fall course sites, make your course sites visible to students, and more.

FoxTALE was upgraded on Aug. 16. You may be interested to know that the Dashboard has changed. The guides Locating Your Courses and Adjusting Course Start and End Dates give a tour of the highlights.

We invite you to join us for 30-minute web conferences through the semester. You will find the listing for these events at Digital Learning Upcoming Events.

You will find additional guides at Digital Learning. You can contact digitallearning@georgefox.edu for more information.

A training session for Cascade Server, the system used to edit the university website, will be offered on Wednesday, Aug. 21, from 2 to 4 p.m.

This basic-level session is tailored for editors who have either not edited the website before or need a refresher on using the software. The session will be held in Stevens 307. Sign up using this form.

Questions? Contact Peter Crackenberg at pcrackenberg@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2138.

Are you looking for a place to develop your musicianship as a singer, find community, and fulfill your fine arts requirement? Join choir! Click on this link for more information.

To sign up for an audition, click here.

We are looking forward to another great Serve Day (Wednesday, Sept. 11) this year! In an effort to underscore our missional convictions around Serve Day, we are implementing some changes in the schedule this year. Here is what to expect for Serve Day 2019:

• Lunch lines are open from 8 to 9:10 a.m. in the quad.*
• The Kickoff Celebration will begin at 9:15 a.m. in the quad.
• A Church & Activities Fair will take place from 3 to 4:15 p.m. in Bauman/Ross parking lot.
• Serve Day chapel will be at 4:15 p.m. in Stoffer Family Stadium.
• The Church & Activities Fair will continue after chapel from 4:45 to 5:30 p.m. in the Bauman/Ross parking lot.
  
  *Breakfast and dinner is on your own. Lunch is free for students, team leaders and the Serve Day Committee; employees may purchase lunch at the Bruin Den (open from 8 to 10 a.m., offering the same lunch option as students, as well as other lunch and beverage options).

The Serve Day team has sent serve site placement and information to all employees. If you did not get an email from Serve Day and you are FTE .5 and above, please fill out this form as soon as you are able.

If you have any questions, please contact the Serve Day team at ext. 2326 or serveday@georgefox.edu. More information can be found on the Serve Day website. 

Are you curious to see what’s inside our newest dorm? Join us for an informal open house of Newlin Hall following the all-community meeting today (Monday) from 3 to 5 p.m. 

Please note the modified hours for the Hadlock Student Center during Welcome Weekend. 

• Thursday, Aug. 22: Closed all day for staff training
• Friday, Aug. 23: Noon to 10 p.m.
• Saturday, Aug. 24: Noon to 10 p.m. 

The facility will resume normal hours of operation on Sunday, Aug. 25.

The climbing wall will be closed from Thursday, Aug. 22, through Sunday, Aug. 25, while we are training our staff and setting new routes for the year.

Questions? Email studentcenter@georgefox.edu.