The Daily Bruin

George Fox will be open Monday, Aug. 21 during the eclipse. Employees may take up to 30 minutes for eclipse viewing without taking personal time off. Please work out the details with your supervisor. Viewing the eclipse can cause eye damage. Take safety precautions and wear approved solar filters or glasses.

Traffic on state highways on the day of the eclipse is expected to be heavy. Employees who are concerned about their commute may request permission from their supervisors to work an alternate schedule or to work from home. Some students will be checking in on Monday morning. Some employees will be providing essential services and will not be eligible to work from home. For more information on travel on the day of the eclipse, see the ODOT website.

Senior administrative staff will monitor the traffic on the morning of the eclipse. If traffic in the region becomes gridlocked, an emergency closure notice would be sent out by 6:30 a.m. You may check the university’s FlashAlert webpage or sign up for alerts to be sent your mobile phone.

Faculty, please submit requests for fall semester course reserves as soon as possible. Materials are processed in the order received and can take up to five days to complete.

Please fill out and submit the form located at this link. If you have any questions, please contact Patty Vanier at pvanier@georgefox.edu or ext. 2425.

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 click on this link and fill out the form.

Questions? Contact Patty Vanier at pvanier@georgefox.edu or ext. 2425.

The Office of Student Life would like to share that Kristi Welker has been hired as the director of commuter life. Her office is located on the third floor of the Stevens Center. She is excited to work with commuter students this year, and her role is to help them in their college journey at George Fox.

If you know commuter students who need help feeling connected here, feel free to email her at kwelker@georgefox.edu, stop by the student life office or call her at 503-554-2308.

George Fox will be open Monday, Aug. 21 during the eclipse. Employees may take up to 30 minutes for eclipse viewing without taking personal time off. Please work out the details with your supervisor. Viewing the eclipse can cause eye damage. Take safety precautions and wear approved solar filters or glasses.

Traffic on state highways on the day of the eclipse is expected to be heavy. Employees who are concerned about their commute may request permission from their supervisors to work an alternate schedule or to work from home. Some students will be checking in on Monday morning. Some employees will be providing essential services and will not be eligible to work from home. For more information on travel on the day of the eclipse, see the ODOT website.

Senior administrative staff will monitor the traffic on the morning of the eclipse. If traffic in the region becomes gridlocked, an emergency closure notice would be sent out by 6:30 a.m. You may check the university’s FlashAlert webpage or sign up for alerts to be sent your mobile phone.

Welcome Weekend will be here Aug. 24-27. We are excited to welcome in the class of 2021! If you are available to help students move in or in some other capacity on the morning of Aug. 24, please fill out the volunteer form on the Welcome Weekend Hub at welcomeweekendhub.georgefox.edu. The Hub includes helpful resources such as further information on the schedule, weather contingencies and information for speakers. It also can easily be read from a mobile device.

In addition, if you are able, please plan to attend the Welcome Weekend information meeting on Thursday, Aug. 17, at 10 a.m. in Hoover 105. The purpose of this meeting is to acquaint you with the schedule. We will have 2,000 new people on campus during the weekend, and we want to be as hospitable and helpful as possible as new students and their families transition to this new season in their lives.

Questions? Please email welcome@georgefox.edu.

Faculty members: Here is some helpful information about how students are saving money by renting their textbooks through the Bruin Store.

• Cost Effective: Our rental program is better priced and more convenient for students than Amazon.
• Convenient: Students can highlight and write in rentals. As long as the book is still usable. they simply check in the book by the last day of finals.
• No Risk: Rentals can be converted to a purchase by simply paying the difference between the rental and retail price.

For more information, email Michael Simmons at msimmons@georgefox.edu.

Jennifer Joy Loop, an adjunct professor of art history at George Fox, has renovated an old camper trailer into a ceramic studio/pottery pop-up shop. She will debut her studio and have work for sale this Friday, Aug. 18, at The Coffee Cottage (508 E Hancock St.). Stop by anytime between 5:30 and 9 p.m.

The studio trailer will be parked in the drive-through area. Come celebrate with her, check out some pottery, and get yourself a new coffee mug for the start of school. You can see some of her work on this site or follow her on Instagram @jenniferjoystudio to see what she’s up to.

It is time to email your list of work-study students to Mail Services. Please email your list to Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu. This is the list of students who have been given permission to come to Mail Services and pick up the department’s mail and packages.

Also, department lanyards will also be going out in the coming week for academic year 2017-18. Please note: If the work-study student does not have the department lanyard, they will not be able to pick up the mail and packages; no exceptions.

If you have any questions, please contact Richard at the above email address.

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 Wednesday, 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 Print Services.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Thank you,
Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu)

Bonnie Jerke, longtime director of career services at George Fox, passed away over the summer after a lengthy battle with cancer. She loved the Lord deeply and served George Fox students, faculty and staff very well for many, many years before retiring six years ago. She was a wonderful colleague and friend to many and will be greatly missed.

Bonnie’s friends are organizing a celebration and remembrance of Bonnie on Saturday, Sept. 23, from noon to 5 p.m. at Jaquith Park in Newberg. There will be a potluck lunch at 1 p.m., and those attending are asked to bring a dish to share with others. It will be a “come-and-go” event with a time of sharing after the lunch. Those organizing this event wanted to invite Bonnie’s colleagues and friends from the university community as well. They are asking that people RSVP on Bonnie’s Facebook page under the invite post from Linda Byrd.

Please continue to pray for Bonnie’s family and friends during this time of grief and loss.

During finals week our community experienced the tragic death of undergraduate student Daniel Mellers. Due to the timing of his death, the university decided to wait until school reconvenes for the fall semester to host a service in his honor.

The service will be held at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 5, in Canyon Commons. We will make the date more widely known once the school year begins but wanted employees to be able to save the date, as it may have implications for other campus events and student support needs.

Please contact the spiritual life office with any additional questions or concerns (ext. 2320).

Fall semester is right around the corner! This is a reminder to not wait until the last minute, so plan ahead and get your syllabus turned into Print Services. Please submit your syllabus to Print Services by Tuesday, Aug. 22, and you can submit your syllabus to printservices@georgefox.edu.

If you have any questions, please contact Print Services at 503-554-2550.

Faculty members: Here is some helpful information about how students are saving money by renting their textbooks through the Bruin Store.

• Cost Effective: Our rental program is better priced and more convenient for students than Amazon.
• Convenient: Students can highlight and write in rentals. As long as the book is still usable. they simply check in the book by the last day of finals.
• No Risk: Rentals can be converted to a purchase by simply paying the difference between the rental and retail price.

For more information, email Michael Simmons at msimmons@georgefox.edu.

The Wheeler Fitness Center will be closing at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 15, and will remain closed for the remainder of the day for necessary maintenance. Pending the length of maintenance, it may be necessary for the Fitness Center to remain closed through Wednesday, Aug. 16, as well. We will keep you updated.

Thank you for your understanding

Some of our undergraduate families are expressing frustration due to the hotel/housing shortage related to the solar eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21. If you are able to house a parent or two or allow them to camp on your property, please contact Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu) in the Office of Student Life.

FoxTALE will be upgraded on Friday, Aug. 18, and unavailable 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. We apologize for any inconvenience and invite you to check the “New Features” highlighted here.

Our top picks:

• Restore Deleted Content with Recycle Bin
• New grading page in Assignments
• Pinned Forum Discussions
• New Theme – Boost (mobile friendly)
• ShareStream Links

You can also sign up for a webinar giving an overview of all new features. IT offers faculty development events prior to the start of fall semester that focus on FoxTALE features. We offer both face-to-face meetings and webinars. View the 2017 Fall Schedule of Events here.

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

– Your Education Technology Team

Faculty, please submit requests for fall semester course reserves as soon as possible. Materials are processed in the order received and can take up to five days to complete.

Please fill out and submit the form located at this link. If you have any questions, please contact Patty Vanier at pvanier@georgefox.edu or ext. 2425.

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 click on this link and fill out the form.

Questions? Contact Patty Vanier at pvanier@georgefox.edu or ext. 2425.

Did you, your department, or program go through changes with the university reorganization? Even if you didn’t, you probably work with others whose coding has changed. Please check out the new Department and Program Listing for Fiscal Year 2017-18 to find out where departments and programs are now!

All of the changes are effective as of July 1, 2017, so save yourself from getting returned forms from Finance with incorrect coding.