The Daily Bruin

Have you noticed how easy it is to donate when the donation site is right on your way to work? With this in mind, the Bruin Community Pantry will be making it easier than ever to donate non-perishable food.

Offices participating in this initiative will be given a bright yellow reusable grocery bag to place in a highly visible location in their office. Individuals who work in that office who wish to donate only have to bring their donations with them to work, or class.

When the bag is full, call Jere Witherspoon (ext. 2316) in the Office of Student Life and a BCP volunteer will come to your office, replace the full bag with an empty one, and take the full bag to the pantry.

It’s as easy as it sounds. Bags will be available at the all-community meeting this Monday, Aug. 19.

A big thank you to the Staff Development Committee, who donated funds to purchase the grocery bags.

This Friday, Aug. 16, Plant Services will be cleaning the large Wheeler/Le Shana parking lot. The construction fence for the Newlin residence hall is down, so we would like to clean the entire lot before the cars start arriving.

Please be sure to park elsewhere on Friday (you can park in the North Street parking lot that day) so that we can clean the area thoroughly.

Thank you for your cooperation!

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 this Monday, Aug. 19, from 3 to 5 p.m. 

FoxTALE will be upgraded on Friday, Aug. 16, and unavailable 6 a.m. to 4 p.m (Pacific Time). We apologize for any inconvenience.

Questions? Contact servicedesk@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2569.

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)

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.

Please take a moment to share the gift of words with our employees who are celebrating a “years of service” milestone. Feel free to thank them or share a favorite memory by adding a comment under their name on this form.

We’ll share your gift of words on cards, and present them at the all-community meeting on Monday, Aug. 19.

Please reach out to Kara Holcombe (kholcombe@georgefox.edu or ext. 2189) if you have any questions regarding the honorees.

The Bruin Den reopens today (Monday) with summer hours of operation (8 a.m. to 2 p.m.). However, we will be closed tomorrow (Tuesday) for our all-employee back-to-school meeting.

Students will be arriving soon, and our first group of new incoming students will be our football players on Wednesday, Aug. 14.

These players work hard helping other students move into housing, and we want to show them some love and appreciation by offering this same service when they arrive.

We are looking for volunteers to be at the Stevens Center by 7:30 a.m. on Aug. 14 to help move football players into their living areas. There are approximately 40 new players arriving that day. We will be finished by 10 a.m. at the latest.

If you can help, please contact Megan Fisher at ext. 2112 or mfisher@georgefox.edu.

Help out in recognizing coworkers who are celebrating milestone anniversaries at this year’s all-community meeting, scheduled for Monday, Aug. 19.  

We in HR are looking for volunteers to help us with the presentation at the meeting. Each volunteer will speak for two to three minutes and honor a group celebrating a milestone by reminiscing about the year they were hired (don’t worry, we will help you out with content).

If you are able to help, please contact Nichole Drew at ndrew@georgefox.edu to volunteer. 

Please have all vehicles out of the Wood-Mar parking lot by Friday, Aug. 16, at noon. The crane will be moving into place the new HVAC on the roof. 

On Saturday, the parking lot, Wood-Mar and EHS will be closed for the crane work. Thanks for your cooperation, and don’t get your car trapped inside the lot for the weekend!

Make plans to join your colleagues at the all-community meeting, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 19, in Canyon Commons.

The day will begin with a continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m., and lunch will be provided midway through the meeting. The event will include a worship and devotional time, updates from President Robin Baker, and employee service award recognition.

We are looking for George Fox-approved driver(s) to pick up first-year incoming international students at the Portland International Airport on Friday, Aug. 16, and Saturday, Aug. 17.

These pick-ups are clustered to scheduled times between 8:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. only. Pay is offered. If you would like more information, please contact Rebecca Hernandez at rhernandez@georgefox.edu or at ext. 2147.  

On Wednesday, Student Accounts mailed a bill to each student with a balance due. This new statement has a very different look and feel.

Change can be hard, even when it is positive change, so to assist with questions that may arise we have a web page designed to answer anticipated questions. If you would like to see what the new bill looks like or if you are helping someone with their bill, go to sa.georgefox.edu and choose “FAQ,” or you can search the George Fox website for “Student Accounts FAQ.” 

Need an updated photo for the university website? Do you currently have the Bruin bear as your faculty/staff pic? The marketing communications team will be outside of Canyon Commons after the all-community meeting on Monday, Aug. 19, between 3 and 4 p.m.

No appointment is necessary. Just drop by and have your photo taken; the marketing communications team will take care of the rest!

In following up from the all-employee meeting on July 25, we want to remind you that George Fox is changing its single sign-on process today, Aug. 7.

All current systems using single sign-on (ie. Library services, StarRez, Handshake, Slate, etc.) will be directed to a new login page. On Aug. 16, we will also add Gmail and FoxTALE.

Please note: The first time you log in you will be asked to enter a secondary email as well as choose security questions and an image. This is to confirm your account going forward; after entering this information in once, you will not need to do it again.

Questions? Contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu.

Students will be arriving soon, and our first group of new incoming students will be our football players on Wednesday, Aug. 14.

These players work hard helping other students move into housing, and we want to show them some love and appreciation by offering this same service when they arrive.

We are looking for volunteers to be at the Stevens Center by 7:30 a.m. on Aug. 14 to help move football players into their living areas. There are approximately 40 new players arriving that day. We will be finished by 10 a.m. at the latest.

If you can help, please contact Megan Fisher at ext. 2112 or mfisher@georgefox.edu.

These are the last few days to visit the museum exhibit in the Stevens Center on international students and the English Language Institute. There will be a new exhibit next week on our Quaker heritage in the early years of the college.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Caitlin Corning (ccorning@georgefox.edu or museum@georgefox.edu). 

As we approach the new academic year, all guests of the Hadlock Student Center must resign the waiver for the 2019-20 academic year.

Please take a few moments to complete the waiver, which can be found on our homepage or by logging to your MyGeorgeFox (formerly MyGFU) account to take care of this. 

Questions? Contact Rob Simpson at simpsonr@georgefox.edu.

We are looking for George Fox-approved driver(s) to pick up first-year incoming international students at the Portland International Airport on Friday, Aug. 16, and Saturday, Aug. 17.

These pick-ups are clustered to scheduled times between 8:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. only. Pay is offered. If you would like more information, please contact Rebecca Hernandez at rhernandez@georgefox.edu or at ext. 2147.