The Daily Bruin

If your department has students who will be arriving to campus early this fall and living in campus housing, you can still submit applications even though the “Early Arriver” deadline to notify housing has passed (July 24). If you have questions or need the “Early Arriver” form sent your way, you can email housing@georgefox.edu to have that sent to you.

Security Services is pleased to announce that the new vehicle registration system is up and running! Here are some tips to make the registration process smoother:

1. The link to register is on MyGFU and is underneath the “University Resources” heading.
2. Have your vehicle’s registration card from the DMV with you when you register for needed information.
3. Important Change: Any vehicle or license plate changes that need to be made AFTER you have registered need to be done by security office personnel. Come into the office during business hours or email Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.
4. Staff, faculty and adjuncts are given one gratis permit to use between vehicles. If you wish to have a permit for each vehicle, please come to the security office to register additional vehicles and to pay the $5 cash fee per permit.
5. All staff permits will be delivered via campus mail to your university PO box number, so please have that handy when you register.
6. For this initial year only, all newly assigned adjunct permits will be valid for 1.5 years, until December 2016. Thereafter they will expire on Dec. 31 of each year. Staff and full-time faculty permits do not expire.
7. Portland employees need to register only if they frequently come to the Newberg campus.

Questions? Have a situation out-of-the-box? Either e-mail Nadine at the above e-mail address, or call 503-554-2090 during business hours.

Be sure to join Bon Appetit tomorrow (Thursday) as we celebrate the roots of barbecue, Texas style. We are serving up traditional smoked-beef brisket with regional side dishes out of our food cart on the quad from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

We will also be holding a drawing for a free prize in the Bruin Den, so stop by and sign up to be eligible to win a terrific gift bag full of barbecue-related items!

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

Only hours remain before voting closes in an online contest to pick your favorite Elite 89 student-athlete from the 2014-15 season. Among the contestants is George Fox wing Sammy Naluai, who was the Bruins’ “sixth man” on a squad that reached the finals of the NCAA Division III women’s basketball tournament and went 32-1 on the season.

The Elite 89 is presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative GPA participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA’s 89 championships. Last week’s voting narrowed the field down to 30 semifinalists. Voting can be done on this page and closes at 5 p.m. (Pacific Time) tonight (Tuesday), when the field will be narrowed down to 10 finalists. Be sure to click “Save Votes” at the bottom of the page to register your vote.

The winner will be celebrated from NCAA social media accounts on July 24. Be sure to cast a vote for Sammy! You can read more about her award here.

Mail services will be issuing new department lanyard badges for this upcoming academic year. These badges are what your student workers will need to use when they come pick up mail and packages at mail services; packages will not be released if your students do not have the badge.

Badges will  be going out this week. Therefore, if you do not receive your badge by Aug. 17, please notify Richard Silver ASAP so your department badge can be issued. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Richard at rsilver@georgefox.edu or ext. 2551.

Last week the Office of Student Financial Services sent out fall semester updates and alerts (this time specifically to traditional undergraduate students) through the “SFS News,” our communication tool to students. Did you know that you don’t need to be a student to subscribe?

If you have not signed up yet, please don’t delay. Go now to this link to both sign up and view previously sent SFS alerts and reminders. Click on the icon “Get Email Updates” to enroll and scroll down to “View Archived Newsletters” to see our most recent news or to access archives. It’s important!

Questions? Contact Jenny Getsinger at jgetsing@georgefox.edu.

Summer yoga will be concluding this week. The last class will be Friday, July 24. There will not be class Wednesday, July 22, but we plan to meet both July 20 and 24. Sessions meet in Minthorn 200 from 8 to 9 a.m.

Questions? Contact Marcella Loprinzi-Hatfield at Hatfield7@gmail.com.

The Wheeler access road is closed until Wednesday, Aug. 12, at the corner between the tennis courts and Edwards Residence Hall. The west half of the bridge will be constructed on the Edwards Hall front lawn, and the end of it will block the road at this location.

Summer yoga will be concluding this week. The last class will be Friday, July 24. There will not be class Wednesday, July 22, but we plan to meet both July 20 and 24. Sessions meet in Minthorn 200 from 8 to 9 a.m.

Questions? Contact Marcella Loprinzi-Hatfield at Hatfield7@gmail.com.

The Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends (NWYM) is holding its annual church conference here this week. This is the longest-running summer conference at George Fox. The NWYM is a community of evangelical Friends churches who join together in worship and service to impact society through love in action.

The Chinese Evangelical Church Retreat arrives for its annual event on Friday, July 24. Several Chinese churches from Oregon and Washington gather together each summer to worship together and share what God is doing in and through their congregations.

Please contact the conference and event office if you have questions (503-554-2027).

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.

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

• Director of Game Management and Assistant Coach (internal only — contact hr@georgefox.edu for description)
• Administrative Assistant and Serve Day Coordinator, Spiritual and Intercultural Life
• Director of Human Resources
• Financial Aid and Communications Specialist
• Inquiry and Application Coordinator, Portland Center (temporary)
• Business Communications Manager
• Administrative, Analytics, and Project Manager, College of Business
• Enrollment Specialist
• Director of Gift Development

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.

Many of you have been asking when the vehicle registration will be available on MyGFU, and the answer is: end of July! The final touches and testing are being done on the new registration portal, and if all goes well it will go live around the last week of July.

We will be announcing it via The Daily Bruin and also on the security services’ Facebook page, so stay tuned! It will require a little bit more information than before, so be sure and have your vehicle registration printout from the DMV in front of you when you begin registering.

• All employees will need to put in their campus PO box numbers on the second address line, as your permits will be sent there.
• Students will need to choose a mailing address, as the permits will be mailed to whichever mailing address you indicate (home, campus PO box, off-campus housing).
• All employees and adjuncts will need to re-register their vehicles, as new, sturdier hang tags will be issued to everybody (this summer’s and previous versions are void as of August).

Instructions will be on the vehicle registration link, so stay tuned for the date it is ready to receive vehicle registrations. Portland Center employees will need to register if they are frequently on the Newberg campus.

Questions? Have an outside-the-box vehicle situation? Call security during business hours at 503-554-2090, or e-mail Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

Is your employee photo on the George Fox website more than three years old? Does it have a gray or brown background? Do you no longer resemble the person pictured? If so, it’s time to update your picture!

Today (Thursday), university photographer Joel Bock will be in the quad in Newberg between 9 and 11 a.m. taking employee pictures. If you are on the Newberg campus during that time and have a few minutes to spare, swing by and get your photo taken (no appointment is necessary). Joel will be shooting on the path between Stevens and Hoover, in the grass right next to Hoover.

Questions? Contact Joel at jbock@georgefox.edu.

We are now offering a variety of ice cream bars as well as frozen lemonade and fruit bars for sale in the Bruin Den. These hot summer days are the perfect time to enjoy a delicious frozen treat … it’s time for ice cream!

We are serving up Kansas City-style barbecue for lunch today (Thursday) from our food cart on the quad. Come on over between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. for barbecued chicken, sausage, regional side dishes and peach tarts. See you there!

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.

Is your employee photo on the George Fox website more than three years old? Does it have a gray or brown background? Do you no longer resemble the person pictured? If so, it’s time to update your picture!

This Thursday, July 16, university photographer Joel Bock will be in the quad in Newberg between 9 and 11 a.m. taking employee pictures. If you are on the Newberg campus during that time and have a few minutes to spare, swing by and get your photo taken (no appointment is necessary). Joel will be shooting on the path between Stevens and Hoover, in the grass right next to Hoover. If it’s raining, the session will be rescheduled.

Questions? Contact Joel at jbock@georgefox.edu.

The Wheeler access road is closed until Wednesday, Aug. 12, at the corner between the tennis courts and Edwards Residence Hall. The west half of the bridge will be constructed on the Edwards Hall front lawn, and the end of it will block the road at this location.