The Daily Bruin

Our Serve Day team has received close to 110 serve site project requests, which means we may need as many as 2,000 volunteers. We are in need of more team leaders!

Your responsibility as team leader is a simple yet crucial one. Here is what it involves:

• Check in with your assigned group once via email prior to Serve Day
• Connect with your assigned serve site to let them know you are the team leader
• Attend one meeting (if you are able)

Please email serveday@georgefox.edu with your T-shirt size and cell phone number if you are interested. Thanks so much!

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

• Administrative Assistant – Social Work (undergrad)
• Recruitment and Enrollment Counselor – ADP Admissions
• Executive Assistant to the Provost
• Career Coach – IDEA Center
• Systems Engineer – IT

The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might be a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer them to the website for more information.

Last year, Linda Samek, Debby Espinor, Robin Ashford and Anna Berardi launched an Oregon chapter of Ed Tech Women – known as ETW-Portland. It is an open group (for women and men) that supports women’s use of digital technologies in educational, business and entrepreneurial environments.

Our next event is Thursday, July 31 from 4-7 p.m. in Sherwood. Location and other event information can be found here. There are no membership dues, though each attendee may contribute a few dollars to cover snack costs. Please join us, and feel free to pass this on to friends and colleagues who might also have interest.

The all-employee meeting scheduled for Thursday, July 24 at 3:30 p.m. is still on. The meeting will focus on updates of current issues and will be held in Bauman Auditorium. This meeting will not be live streamed, so a separate meeting will be held for Portland Center employees (TBD).

Attention Newberg campus staff and administrators. Is your employee photo on the website more than three years old? (The easiest way to tell is if the background in your picture is gray.) If so, it’s time for an update! Please do one of the following:

1) Stop by the marketing communications office (River Street House) Monday-Friday between 9 and 11 a.m. by or before August 8th and ask for Quincy.
2) Email Jeremy Lloyd to arrange a group photo session for your department.

Those with photos less than three years old who would like an update for any other reason (bad hair day, etc.) are also welcome to do so. Questions? Contact Jeremy Lloyd.

This is a reminder that security is conducting another active shooter training presentation on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.

On Tuesday, July 22, the presentation will take place in VAC 117 from 9 to 10 a.m. The same training is scheduled at the same location on Wednesday, July 23, from 2 to 3 p.m. All employees and summer student employees who are available to attend are encouraged to participate. They may attend either training.

Unlike the training in the Stevens Center there will not be a live exercise, as classes will be in session and we don’t want to interfere with teaching.

For more information, contact security at ext. 2090.

If you haven’t taken the Serve Day all-employee survey, please do so here. If you have any questions, contact serveday@georgefox.edu.

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

• Recruitment and Enrollment Counselor – ADP Admissions
• Executive Assistant to the Provost
• Sports Information Director/Assistant Director of Sports Marketing
• Archivist and Institutional Repository/Acquisitions Specialist
• Career Coach – IDEA Center
• Systems Engineer

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 will be hosting our next chart of accounts training today (Friday) in Stevens 109 from 2 to 4 p.m. We will provide an overview of the new chart of accounts and provide any assistance you may need with check requests, purchase orders, etc.

There will be additional training/workshops available most Fridays for as long as we need them. Following is a listing of the sessions we have scheduled:

• Friday, July 25, from 10 a.m. to noon, Stevens 109
• Friday, Aug. 1, from 2 to 4 p.m., Stevens 109
• Friday, Aug. 8, from 10 a.m. to noon, Stevens 109
• Friday, Aug. 15, from 2 to 4 p.m., Stevens 109
• Friday, Aug. 22, from 10 a.m. to noon, Stevens 109

We’ll schedule more if we need them. Thank you for the suggestions that we schedule a training session at the Portland Center and videotape one of our sessions; we’re looking into that.

Questions? Please call Cris Banton at ext. 2167.

It’s that time of year when financial affairs will be wrapping up the previous fiscal year. If you have any deposits that need to be credited to Fiscal Year 2013-14, we ask that you turn them in to the finance office no later than Monday, July 21.

We understand that vacations do play havoc with our best intentions. As a reminder, university policy is that all cash and checks should be deposited on a weekly basis. We will be closing Fiscal Year 2013-14 as quickly as possible.

Thank you! If you have questions, please call Kim Forbes at ext. 2173 or email her at kforbes@georgefox.edu.

An update on events in the news and the university’s transgender student housing policy is available at georgefox.edu/transgender.

Security will be conducting another active shooter training presentation on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

On Tuesday, July 22, the presentation will take place in VAC 117 from 9 to 10 a.m. The same training is scheduled at the same location on Wednesday, July 23, from 2 to 3 p.m. All employees and summer student employees who are available to attend are encouraged to participate. They may attend either training.

Unlike the training in the Stevens Center there will not be a live exercise, as classes will be in session and we don’t want to interfere with teaching.

For more information, contact security at ext. 2090.

Reformed Youth Services returns to George Fox this week for the second time to host its National Youth Conference.

More than 700 high school students representing 60 churches spread over 18 states and two Canadian provinces are on campus attending workshops and competing in volleyball, basketball, and soccer, while their leaders further encourage and equip them to become healthy disciples of Christ.

RYS, the youth branch of the Reformed Churches of America, is a youth ministry organization committed to the spiritual and social nurturing of young people. RYS began Monday afternoon and concludes Friday with lunch.

Please be sure to welcome them to George Fox University.

An update on the university’s response to the transgender housing complaint is available at georgefox.edu/transgender.

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

• Area Coordinator
• Assistant Director of Sports Marketing
• Media Specialist IV
• Archivist and Institutional Repository/Acquisitions Specialist
• Career Coach – IDEA Center
• Systems Engineer

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.

Women from Oregon and Idaho United Methodist churches will gather on campus for their annual missions conference, Mission “U,” Thursday through Sunday (July 10-13). Aside from Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends, the United Methodist Women have the longest-running summer conference on our campus, dating back to 1972.

Stevens Center employees and student employees will be participating in an emergency response training and exercise today (Wednesday) from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Campus security will be conducting similar trainings for other campus buildings over the course of the next couple months.

We will begin with a training in Hoover 105 that will go from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Sometime between 2:30 and 3 p.m. will be a brief exercise in the Stevens Center, and we will end with a debrief in the Stevens Center (Duke) atrium. Please make sure to tell your student employees about this exercise.

Contact security (ext. 2090) or student life (ext. 2316) if you have questions.

Financial affairs reps will be in Stevens 101 from 2 to 4 p.m. today (Wednesday) to provide an overview of the new chart of accounts and provide any assistance you may need with check requests, purchase orders, etc.

There will be additional training/workshops available every Friday, beginning July 18, as needed throughout the summer. The next session will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, July 18, in Stevens 109. The remaining sessions will alternate between morning and afternoon sessions through August as needed.

Questions? Contact Cris Banton at cbanton@georgefox.edu.

Stevens Center employees and student employees will be participating in an emergency response training and exercise on Wednesday, July 9, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Campus security will be conducting similar trainings for other campus buildings over the course of the next couple months.

We will begin with a training in Hoover 105 that will go from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Sometime between 2:30 and 3 p.m. will be a brief exercise in the Stevens Center, and we will end with a debrief in the Stevens Center (Duke) atrium. Please make sure to tell your student employees about this exercise.

Contact security (ext. 2090) or student life (ext. 2316) if you have questions.

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 by Monday, July 14.

Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.