The Daily Bruin

The Bruin Den will be closed through Friday, Aug. 14, as we get prepared for the upcoming school year. We will reopen Monday, Aug. 17, and resume summer hours (8 a.m. to 2 p.m.) through Aug. 28.

Please note that on Aug. 17 only, we will be opening at 11:30 a.m. due to an all-campus event taking place earlier that morning. And remember, during the time the Bruin Den is closed we will be serving picnic-style lunches out of the Groovy Bruin on the quad from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Do you enjoy working with people in a campus environment? Are you interested in working, but can’t commit to full-time work during the semester because of all your classes? Have some free time and just want to learn some new jobs skills? If so, you should consider applying at the Bruin Store, a.k.a. the George Fox Bookstore!

We are about to start recruiting temporary associates to work our busy back-to-school season. We are looking for individuals who possess a commitment to customer service, superior organizing skills, are detail oriented, and are able to multitask. We prefer candidates to have retail or cashiering experience, but we are willing to train the right people.

Job requirements:

• Minimum age: 18
• Superior customer service
• Professional appearance/interpersonal skills
• Strong work ethic
• Detail oriented
• Able to lift 50 pounds
• Able to work 15-30 hours per week between Aug 17. and Sept. 4
• Ability to multitask

Preferred qualifications: Retail or cashier experience

As a highly valued associate, you will greet and assist customers, ring sales, stock shelves and help keep the store clean, neat and tidy. Along with this opportunity, you’ll enjoy discounts on textbooks, clothing and gifts. So what are you waiting for? Apply now! To apply, go to this link.

The Bruin Store will be receiving applications through Aug. 13. Employees, please let your students know about this opportunity.

Seven staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency they are:

• Mail and Print Services Clerk
• Administrative Assistant, Academic Affairs Office
• Director of Human Resources
• Business Communications Manager, College of Business
• Administrative, Analytics, and Project Manager, College of Business
• Enrollment Specialist, Registrar’s Office
• Director of Gift Development, Advancement

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.

We’ve had a great response thus far in the first week of vehicle registration on our new database! A few questions have come up more than once, so here are a few more tips and hints on completing the process for staff, faculty and students:

1. Staff, faculty and adjuncts need to put the George Fox address of “414 N. Meridian St. Newberg, OR 97132” in the “Mailing Address” field, and on the second line put your campus PO box. Permits will be sent to your department box via campus mail. They will not be mailed to your home address.
2. Students: You will not be able to access the vehicle registration database until your housing designation is complete. If you have been approved to commute, please make sure all of your paperwork has been completed and turned into housing. If you have been assigned campus housing, please accept and confirm that assignment before attempting to register.
3. Staff and faculty: If you have purchased additional permits in the past, and wish to have one permit per vehicle, you will need to register the primary vehicle on the database for your gratis permit, and then bring in the pertinent information to the security office along with $5 cash for each additional permit you desire. Security personnel will then register your additional vehicle(s), take your $5 cash per permit, and hand you your permit(s) on the spot. We want to serve you as quickly as possible, so please call (ext. 2090) or e-mail security to make sure that Ed or Nadine are present in the office before coming.
4. Students living off campus roughly within two blocks of campus who qualify for a gratis neighborhood permit will need to bring proof of residence (checkbook, lease agreement with your name on it, bill addressed to you at that address, etc.) to the security office along with your DMV registration card. Your car will be registered on the spot by security personnel and a neighborhood permit issued. Please do not register online, as you will be charged for a commuter permit since you will be coded as living off campus in the database. Please do this as soon as possible to avoid a long wait once school starts.
5. Don’t know your seven-digit ID number that is used to register? For students, log on to MyGFU, select “Self Service,” then “Student Center,” then “Demographic Data” and voila! Your seven-digit ID number will be displayed there. For employees, log on to “MyGFU,” select “Self Service,” then “Campus Personal Information” and finally “Demographic Information” to access your number.
6. Students, the “not bringing a car to campus” option no longer exists on this database. It is solely for those who indeed have a car, will be driving it to campus, and need to register it for a parking permit.

We love to answer your questions and to find working solutions, so please feel free to email Nadine Kincaid or call 503-554-2090 if you get stuck in the registration process, or have an out-of-the-box situation.

The Strength and Conditioning Room in the Duke Athletic Center will be closed today (Friday) beginning at 2 p.m. It will be unavailable the remainder of the day as well as on Saturday, Aug. 1, until 4 p.m., as the university will be hosting a “Gathering of Gratitude” event in the Duke building. The Wheeler Fitness Center will remain open and be available for use during this time frame.

Thank you for your understanding.

All staff time sheets and admin time-off reports for July will need to be turned in to the human resources office by the end of the day on Friday, Aug. 7.

Thank you,
Human Resources

The university’s Adult Degree Program is hosting an evening open house from 6 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 4, in Room 160 at the Portland Center to share information about the major programs starting this fall.

Do you have friends or family who have been considering finishing their degree? We would be honored if you would pass this invitation on to them. All students looking to finish their bachelor’s degree are welcome to attend.

Anyone interested in attending can RSVP by emailing adultdegree@georgefox.edu. Questions? Contact Danae Allen at dallen@georgefox.edu.

Don’t forget to attend the all-employee meeting from 3:30 to 5 p.m. today (Thursday) in Hoover 105. The event will be live-streamed at the Portland Center in Room 160.

Don’t forget to stop by the Bruin Den today (Wednesday) between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to purchase your picnic lunch punch card. The Bruin Den will be closed Aug. 3-14, but we’ve got lunch covered for you!

Just $30 buys you five picnic-style lunches served out of the Groovy Bruin food cart on the quad. Stop by, enjoy a complimentary glass of lemonade, and learn more about our picnic promotion.

George Fox University Athletics and the Chehalem Park and Recreation District are excited to announce the inaugural Bruins Sports Day. Girls and boys entering the second through eighth grades in the fall will have the opportunity to pick one sport (football, cross country, volleyball, soccer, golf) to participate in at an afternoon clinic (1 to 3 p.m.) on Wednesday, Aug. 26, free of charge.

The afternoon will be spent learning basic skills from members of the George Fox athletic teams and coaching staff. Invite young children to enjoy a fun-filled day on the beautiful George Fox campus. More information can be found at this link. If you have questions, please contact the Chehalem Park and Recreation District at 503-554-0283.

Do you enjoy working with people in a campus environment? Are you interested in working, but can’t commit to full-time work during the semester because of all your classes? Have some free time and just want to learn some new jobs skills? If so, you should consider applying at the Bruin Store, a.k.a. the George Fox Bookstore!

We are about to start recruiting temporary associates to work our busy back-to-school season. We are looking for individuals who possess a commitment to customer service, superior organizing skills, are detail oriented, and are able to multitask. We prefer candidates to have retail or cashiering experience, but we are willing to train the right people.

Job requirements:

• Minimum age: 18
• Superior customer service
• Professional appearance/interpersonal skills
• Strong work ethic
• Detail oriented
• Able to lift 50 pounds
• Able to work 15-30 hours per week between Aug 17. and Sept. 4
• Ability to multitask

Preferred qualifications: Retail or cashier experience

As a highly valued associate, you will greet and assist customers, ring sales, stock shelves and help keep the store clean, neat and tidy. Along with this opportunity, you’ll enjoy discounts on textbooks, clothing and gifts. So what are you waiting for? Apply now! To apply, go to this link.

The Bruin Store will be receiving applications through Aug. 13. Employees, please let your students know about this opportunity.

Come on over to the Bruin Den today (Tuesday) and Wednesday between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. and buy a picnic lunch punch card! For just $30 you will get a card good for five picnic-style lunches served from Aug. 3 through Aug. 14 out of our Groovy Bruin food cart on the quad.

The Bruin Den will be closed, but we’ve got lunch covered! Stop by, enjoy a complimentary glass of lemonade, and learn more about our picnic promotion!

This is a last call for departments to send housing the names of your students coming to campus early this fall! If you have anyone moving into campus housing before Aug. 29 (or 27th for new students), email housing@georgefox.edu to get an early arrival form sent your way.

We need everything in by Thursday, July 30, at the very latest. Thanks for your help in making this process as seamless as possible!

This is just a reminder that whenever a job is being submitted to Print Services, your department’s chart of accounts number must accompany the job. Print Services is not responsible for knowing your chart of accounts number.

If a work-study student is submitting a job, please make sure they are provided the chart of accounts number. This is the full string of numbers and not just the six-digit department ID. Therefore, it should look like this, for example: 54510-10000-610100-MG130-ALL.

Thank you for your help. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2551.

We’re off to a great start on our brand new vehicle registration system! Thank you to all who hopped right on and registered. We have a few more tips to make the registration process easier, and to hopefully answer some questions that came up last week.

1. The Vehicle Registration link is near the bottom of the “GFU Resources” column on the right side of the home page, not “University Resources” as previously noted. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.
2. The system will auto-fill your preferred name that is attached to your ID number, so don’t worry if that isn’t the exact version that is on your driver’s license. The registration will still go through.
3. If you have an old ID card where the ID numbers between the dashes are only six digits, you will need to add a “1” before those six digits on the sign-in page. Everybody else can use the seven digits in between the dashes to register. The system is set up to take exactly seven digits.
4. Staff, faculty and adjuncts should put their campus PO box number on the second address line of the “mailing address” fields, as your permits will be sent via campus mail to that PO box, and you or your administrative assistant will sign for it at mail services just like a package.
5. All staff/faculty/adjuncts need to register their vehicles on this new database as the parking permits are also new, and the old ones are void next month. If you want to purchase an additional hang tag for each car, please bring your vehicle registration information and $5 cash to the security office during business hours, and we will help you register the additional vehicles and assign the additional permits to them in the office.

Please feel free to call security during business hours at 503-554-2090 or email Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu if you still have unanswered questions or encounter difficulty in the registration process.

Eight staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:

• Mail and Print Services Clerk I (half time)
• Administrative Assistant III, Academic Affairs Office
• Director of Human Resources
• Inquiry and Application Coordinator, Admissions, Portland Center, (temporary)
• Business Communications Manager, College of Business
• Administrative, Analytics, and Project Manager, College of Business
• Enrollment Specialist, Registrar’s Office
• Director of Gift Development, Advancement

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.

The Bruin Den will be closed Aug. 3-14, but we’ve still got lunch covered for you! Stop by the Bruin Den Tuesday or Wednesday (July 28-29) between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. and purchase a picnic punch card. You may also purchase the card in the food service office any day (Monday through Friday) between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

For only $30 you receive a card good for five picnic-style lunches, which will be served out of the Groovy Bruin on the quad and you will also receive a 10 percent discount on your first “lunch club” card if purchased at the same time. There will be a variety of delicious sandwiches, sides and desserts, plus a beverage that you can customize to create a lunch just the way you like it!

Lunches may also be purchased at the Groovy Bruin (cash or check only) during this time period for $6.75. Savor summer, it’s time for a picnic!

The university community is invited to an all-employee meeting from 3:30 to 5 p.m. this Thursday, July 30, in Hoover 105. The event will be live-streamed at the Portland Center in Room 160.

In hopes of including everyone, we have changed Mark Ocker’s retirement gathering to a reception at the Portland Center from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 14. Mark has touched the lives of many people in the George Fox community over the years, and we look forward to an evening of celebration. There is no cost to attend, and all are invited.

For more information, contact Ashley O’Doherty at 503-554-6180 or aodoherty@georgefox.edu.

We are looking for employees to lead eight-week-long Life Groups for undergraduate students this fall. Groups are designed to foster spiritual growth of students and meet weekly at the time of your choosing.

Sign up by Friday, Aug. 14. For more details, go to this page.