The Daily Bruin

Below are the Bruin Store hours for commencement and Christmas break …

• Midyear Commencement (Saturday, Dec. 16): 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
• Dec. 18 to Jan. 5: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Closed Dec. 25-29

It’s never too early to order your textbooks! Rent and purchase your spring textbooks now at georgefoxshop.com. In-store pick-up will be available starting Saturday, Dec. 16.

Contact Michael Simmons (msimmons@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Newberg Curves, a locally owned, women-only gym, has offered to waive 100 percent of its enrollment fee for George Fox employees and students.

The business has scheduled an open house for George Fox community members today (Thursday). Swing by between 6 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. or from 4 to 7 p.m. to take advantage of this offer! Curves is located at 110 N. Everest Road.

Contact Theresa Schierman (tschierman@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Seniors in the health and human performance, exercise science and athletic training education majors will present their senior research projects from 8 to 10 a.m. today (Thursday) in the Wheeler Sports Center’s Room 208. All are invited to come for part or all of the presentations.

Contact Byron Shenk (bshenk@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Please take one to three minutes to take the George Fox Cafés Survey for a chance to win a free coffee.

Thanks for your feedback!
– April Rose (aprilr10@georgefox.edu)

Cafés Survey

Disclaimer:
These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.

The Office for Spiritual Life has become aware of a need in the Newberg School District with regard to the upcoming holiday break. Forty-eight percent of students in the Newberg School District participate in the free lunch program, and 168 of the students experience homelessness.

Over the winter break, these children and families will have difficulty getting the meals that they need. The spiritual life office is collecting monetary donations and gift cards to local grocery stores and restaurants to aid our neighbors during the Christmas holiday. The last day to submit gift cards and/or donations to the Office for Spiritual Life is tomorrow (Thursday). A donation box will be available at the all-employee meeting.

Contact Kearsten McCoy (kmccoy@georgefox.edu) if you have any questions.

Thank you!

Our goal at the Academic Resource Center is to continually expand and improve the resources we offer to students and professors. Please take a few minutes to fill out this survey for professors about your experiences and how we can best serve the George Fox community.

Thank you!
– Maddie Lowen (mlowen@georgefox.edu)

ARC Survey

Here are a couple of Employee Empowerment items to make note of  …

December Deadlines

• All payroll items such as temporary employee time cards, check requests, adjunct contracts and W-4 and direct deposit changes are due by 5 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 14, in order to be effective for December.
• Any benefit change and/or enrollment forms are due by 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 15, in order to be effective for December’s payroll.
• Temporary employee time cards should be filled out through Dec. 13 and returned to Employee Empowerment by 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 15.

Updating Your Personal Information and Consent for W-2

• Make sure your mailing address is correct for year-end reporting. You can check it and update if necessary in MyGFU > Self-Service > Campus Personal Info.
• You can also elect to have your W-2 available via MyGFU rather than mailed. To sign up or check to see if you already have, go to MyGFU > Self-Service > Payroll and Compensation > W-2/W-2c Consent.

Questions? Contact Employee Empowerment at ee@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2180.

Employee Empowerment would appreciate feedback on your experiences as a working parent welcoming a new child. If you would like your voice to be heard as we evaluate our policies designed to support our working parents, take 10 minutes to respond.

Please respond by Friday, Dec. 15. Thank you!

Survey: Welcoming a New Child

Need a pick-me-up during finals week? Come get a Krispy Kreme donut and some hot chocolate sold by the university’s theatre honor society, Alpha Psi Omega. They will be on sale in the Bruin Den and Canyon Commons from 9 a.m. to noon today (Wednesday).

For $3, you can get a cup of hot cocoa with a delicious donut and support the theatre department’s journey to the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in February.

Got questions? Contact Brooke Larson blarson15@georgefox.edu.

While most student concerns and complaints can and should be resolved informally, there is a formal general complaint procedure described in the “Support for Students” section of the Undergraduate Student Handbook as well as on the Graduate/DPS Policies page of the website.

Note that these procedures cover complaints of a general nature and do not supersede specific policies involving special cases such as grade appeals, sexual harassment, etc., which are covered elsewhere in the Student Handbook, catalog or Graduate/DPS Policies.

For more information, contact the student life department (studentlife@georgefox.edu).

Celebrate the Christmas season with a handmade card by your fellow George Fox art students. The Letterpress class will be hosting a print sale from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today (Wednesday) in Canyon Commons.

The sale will feature hand-printed posters, cards and decorations to fund students’ trip to the Southern Graphics Council Print Conference.

Contact Mick Hangland-Skill (mhanglandskill15@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Newberg Curves, a locally owned, women-only gym, has offered to waive 100 percent of its enrollment fee for George Fox employees and students.

The business has scheduled an open house for George Fox community members on Thursday, Dec. 14. Swing by between 6 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. or from 4 to 7 p.m. to take advantage of this offer! Curves is located at 110 N. Everest Road.

Contact Theresa Schierman (tschierman@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Students: Just a reminder that finals week is not a “free pass” week to park in staff parking or wherever you choose. You still need to park where your parking permit indicates through Saturday.

Thank you in advance for promptly moving your cars if they aren’t where they are supposed to be!

Please take one to three minutes to take the George Fox Cafés Survey for a chance to win a free coffee.

Thanks for your feedback!
– April Rose (aprilr10@georgefox.edu)

Cafés Survey

Disclaimer:
These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.

Do you know someone who deserves special recognition for awesome work at our next all-employee meeting (Thursday, Dec. 14)? Please send an email to Employee Empowerment (ee@georgefox.edu) by end of day today (Tuesday) with a short summary (two to three sentences) of their recent success!

You are also welcome to come to the meeting early and add additional “shout-outs” to the board.

The meeting is set from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Canyon Commons. A live stream will be shown in Portland Center’s Room 160.

Questions? Contact Darby Thiessen (dthiessen@georgefox.edu).

The adidas Employee Store is sharing its employee discount with all George Fox University employees, staff/faculty and students. To access the store during the shopping period, To access the store during the shopping period, please show your staff/faculty ID badge or fall 2017 term schedule and a valid Photo ID at check-in.

The student/faculty member must be present for the entire party to enter the store (maximum five persons). Access is unlimited from Dec. 13, 2017, to Jan. 3, 2018. Shop the newest adidas technology, apparel and accessories for all types of winter weather.

The adidas Employee Store is located at 5060 N. Greeley Ave., in Portland. It’s open daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., with the exception of Dec. 24 (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.), Dec. 25 (closed), Dec. 31 (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and Jan. 1 (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.). Contact the store at 971-234-8536 with any questions.

Note: The employee discount of 50 percent off is only valid at the adidas Employee Store located at 5060 N. Greeley Ave. Offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other coupon, discount, or promotion except as otherwise expressly permitted. Not valid for purchases of gift certificates. Offer has no cash value.

adidas reserves the right to change terms and conditions, substitute offer of equal or greater value, end offer at any time without notice, and decline offer to any consumer adidas believes, in its sole discretion, may resell adidas product. Additional restrictions and exclusions may apply; see store for details. Void where prohibited. ©2017 adidas America, Inc.

Students: If you haven’t had a car on campus and plan to bring a car back after Christmas break and live on campus, please be advised that the ONLY permit available will be for the Austin lot. There will be no Resident West, Resident East or Morse lot permits available. The only exception would be a housing change from Resident East to Resident West or vice versa.

If you are moving off campus, please scrape off your residential permit and bring it to the security office to switch it out for a commuter permit after housing has approved the change.

Questions? Contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

Lost and Found 101:

1. Found items should be taken to the security office, where it is logged and tagged with date and location if known. We then check our master list of lost items that have been reported to us for a hopeful match of owner and item.
2. The owners are emailed or called for any item that has been turned in that has a name or some other identifying fact.
3. For faster retrieval of your lost item, write your name on or in it!
4. Come to the security office to report your lost items as soon as you lose them, and please pick them up when we notify you, as we have very limited storage space.
5. And speaking of limited storage space, we reach critical mass about every four to six weeks and then donate all unclaimed items to charitable causes. Several announcements are put in the Daily Bruin and on the Security Facebook page, so be sure to look for those and come in before the deadline!
6. Items left-behind in Duke or Wheeler stay there; they do not come to the security office due to sheer volume. Portland Center items also stay on that campus.
7. Wonder what happens to unclaimed items? Some of them stay here at George Fox and in the past have been put to use by various departments (umbrellas for large admissions tours, fleeces and Nalgenes for the Residence Life Walkabout backpacking trip participants, etc.). Other times the items were sold at various garage sales to reduce the costs for Serve Trip participants, and for the International Students’ Emergency Fund. This fall, items have benefited the homeless in Portland, Union Gospel Mission’s Life Change thrift store, the social work department’s gift bags for the homeless, and the Sisters homeless warming shelter in Central Oregon.
8. A big “thank you!” to those of you that go our of your way to bring left-behind items promptly to the security office! Their owners are daily grateful when we have their lost item.

Don’t forget to stop by the security office before you leave for Christmas break, as everything is being cleared out mid-afternoon on Friday, Dec. 15!

Please take one to three minutes to take the George Fox Cafés Survey for a chance to win a free coffee.

Thanks for your feedback!
– April Rose (aprilr10@georgefox.edu)

Cafés Survey

Disclaimer:
These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.

The George Fox community is setting up a “Meal Train” for Tai and her family during the next few weeks. Please click on the link below to access the site for details and the opportunity to sign up for a meal.

Meal Train for Tai Harden-Moore and Family

You are welcome to prepare a meal or have takeout food delivered. Details are found on the Meal Train website.

Please contact Jere Witherspoon (jwithers@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2316) if you have any questions.

Thank you for your continued support for Tai and her family during this difficult time.