In his most recent blog post, President Robin Baker reflects on the ways postmodern culture has redefined terms such as “sacred” and “religious,” and offers his thoughts on the importance of a university maintaining a “common tongue,” as author Wendell Berry puts it.
You can read the piece here.
The Association of Christian Librarians 60th annual conference is scheduled on the George Fox campus June 13-17. The conference will draw librarians from around the United States and several foreign countries.
Conference events include a presentation of the play First Lady Lou, a one-woman dramatization of the life of Lou Hoover, wife of President Herbert Hoover, at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 16, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. The play features professional actress Jane Fellows in the title role. The campus community is invited to the presentation with tickets, available at the door, for $5.
After the play, a “talk-back†session with Fellows and Leslie Hoover-Lauble, great-granddaughter of Herbert and Lou Hoover, will be moderated by the university’s archivist Rachel Thomas. Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, attended the precursor to George Fox, Friends Pacific Academy, in the 1880s.
Questions? Contact Susan Richie at srichie@georgefox.edu.
Fiscal-year-end 2015/2016 is quickly approaching, and the finance department would appreciate your help in ensuring a smooth and timely year-end close. Please review and note the following deadlines for accounts payable requests:
1. Submission of the following FY2015/2016 requests must be received by the finance department on or before July 8, 2016:
2. All Cash Advance Requests for FY2015/2016 expenses must be received by the finance department on or before June 13, 2016.
Please refer to the “Fiscal Year-End Deadlines & Procedures†page on the finance department website for additional details.
Please contact Jennifer Klapp (jklapp@georgefox.edu or ext. 2170) with any year-end accounts payable questions.
Thank you!
The Finance Team
Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. Marketing communications will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source before Monday, June 13.
Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.
End-of-the-fiscal-year deposits to be included in this year’s budget must be in finance no later than July 1, 2016. Checks dated prior to June 30 must be deposited in the current fiscal year.
Please look around your desks and file cabinets to see if there are any lingering items that need to go to the bank. If you are taking vacation during the July 4 holiday, please send your deposits over before you leave. If you should have any questions about deposits, please contact Heather Groenlund at ext. 2173.
Final petty cash reconciliations for this fiscal year are due in finance no later than July 8, 2016. Please remember to submit all receipts, cash and reconciliation reports before this deadline. If you will be taking vacation over the July 4 holiday, please plan ahead and send these over before you leave. If you have questions about petty cash protocols, please contact Jen Klapp at ext. 2170.
Join us today (Monday) for the opening of the new Bridge Café in the Canyon Commons! You are invited to enjoy complimentary coffee and pastries in the Bridge Café from 8 to 8:30 a.m. during our grand opening.
During lunch, we’ll be sampling delicious bites from our fire pit in the Canyon Commons between noon and 12:30 p.m. The Bridge Café is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the summer.
The archives has decommissioned a few hundred legal-sized hanging file folders. They are in great shape but were no longer needed after our remodel. If anyone on campus can use them, please let Rachel Thomas know at rthomas@georgefox.edu or ext. 2415.
Bon Appetit and the president’s office invite all employees and work-study students to join them for a mini-celebration of the opening of the Bridge Cafe and the new Canyon Commons dining hall.
Join us from 8 to 8:30 a.m. today (Monday) for the celebration. Free coffee will be provided in the Bridge Cafe and in the dining area’s main cafe, and pastries will be served as well. Denny also invites the campus community to stop by the Canyon Commons from noon to 12:30 p.m. this afternoon to enjoy some free food samples (not lunch) being prepared in the walk station in the main dining area.
The main opening/inauguration will be on Wednesday, Aug. 17, but President Robin Baker and Bon Appetit’s Denny Lawrence thought it would be fun to have an early celebration. We hope you can join us!
Questions? Contact Missy Terry at terrym@georgefox.edu.
Join us on Monday, June 6, for the opening of the new Bridge Café in the Canyon Commons! You are invited to enjoy complimentary coffee and pastries in the Bridge Café from 8 to 8:30 a.m. during our grand opening.
During lunch, we’ll be sampling delicious bites from our fire pit in the Canyon Commons between noon and 12:30 p.m. The Bridge Café is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the summer.
Six staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:
The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.
All testing of FoxTALE assignments using Turnitin show that processing of submissions is restored. Faculty and students can access Originality reports. We are continuing to work with Turnitin on the default settings for any new regular FoxTALE assignments when enabling Turnitin. Until this issue is resolved, we recommend you use the settings shown in our guide when enabling Turnitin in your assignment.
See FoxTALE Turnitin Originality Reporting for details. We will send an update when this issue has been resolved.
If you have questions, please contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2569.
– Your Educational Technology Team
The archives has decommissioned a few hundred legal-sized hanging file folders. They are in great shape but were no longer needed after our remodel. If anyone on campus can use them, please let Rachel Thomas know at rthomas@georgefox.edu or ext. 2415.
Bon Appetit and the president’s office invite all employees and work-study students to join them for a mini-celebration of the opening of the Bridge Cafe and the new Canyon Commons dining hall.
Join us from 8 to 8:30 a.m. this Monday, June 6, for the celebration. Free coffee will be provided in the Bridge Cafe and in the dining area’s main cafe, and pastries will be served as well. Denny also invites the campus community to stop by the Canyon Commons from noon to 12:30 p.m. that afternoon to enjoy some free food samples (not lunch) being prepared in the walk station in the main dining area.
The main opening/inauguration will be on Wednesday, Aug. 17, but President Robin Baker and Bon Appetit’s Denny Lawrence thought it would be fun to have an early celebration. We hope you can join us!
Questions? Contact Missy Terry at terrym@georgefox.edu.
With the end of our fiscal year quickly approaching, and to ensure a clean cut-off between 2015/16 and 2016/17 spending, the last day to use your Visa card for current fiscal year purchases is Friday, June 24. Please refrain from using your card for any purchases after this date.
If you will be traveling for business during this time, please contact Matt Hammar or Kathi Becker to discuss arrangements on how to handle travel after June 24. Credit card purchases for the 2016/17 fiscal year can begin on or after July 1. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Matt at ext 2162 or Kathi at ext. 2166.
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.
Please 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 at studentlife@georgefox.edu.
Bon Appetit and the president’s office invite all employees and work-study students to join them for a mini-celebration of the opening of the Bridge Cafe and the new Canyon Commons dining hall.
Join us from 8 to 8:30 a.m. this Monday, June 6, for the celebration. Free coffee will be provided in the Bridge Cafe and in the dining area’s main cafe, and pastries will be served as well. Denny also invites the campus community to stop by the Canyon Commons from noon to 12:30 p.m. that afternoon to enjoy some free food samples (not lunch) being prepared in the walk station in the main dining area.
The main opening/inauguration will be on Wednesday, Aug. 17, but President Robin Baker and Bon Appetit’s Denny Lawrence thought it would be fun to have an early celebration. We hope you can join us!
Questions? Contact Missy Terry at terrym@georgefox.edu.
Come over and join us for lunch today (Wednesday)! We are firing up the grill and barbecuing hamburgers and garden burgers with all the trimmings! We will also have salads, chips, dessert and freshly brewed iced tea, all for $6.75. Lunch is served from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Starting the fall 2016 semester, new meal plan options will be available to students. Please check out the Meal Plan Options page for detailed information about the new meal plans and our meal plan policies.
The meal plan form will be available in MyGFU, in “University Forms,” starting Wednesday, June 15. You must select your meal plan no later than June 27, 2016.
Students living on campus in the fall who do not select their meal plan by June 27 will have the lowest meal plan they are eligible for applied to their account by student life. Students living off campus who do not choose a meal plan by June 27 will be given the “No Meal Plan.”
However, students who are eligible to do so may make changes to their meal plan until Friday, Sept. 9.
Please contact Jere Witherspoon in the student life office if you have any questions regarding the meal plan. She can be reached at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2316.
Our team is planning for Serve Day 2016! Please help us by making sure you’ve completed this survey to communicate site preferences, physical limitations and involvement capacity. (It shouldn’t take any more than three minutes.) It’s essential for our planning!
Please note: The survey is required for all Newberg employees.
See you Sept. 14, 2016, for another great Serve Day!
Plant Services will be removing several trees from the area around Minthorn Hall between May 31 and June 3. For your safety, please respect the boundaries set up. We will be selling the wood from these trees on a first-come, first-served basis. Firewood will be $150 per cord and must be picked up no later than Monday, June 6.
Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.
Thank you,
Plant Services
