The Daily Bruin

Following is the schedule for Serve Day (Wednesday, Sept. 3).

• 7:30-8:30 a.m.: Continental Breakfast on the quad (free); pack a lunch ($7 for non-team leader employees)
• 8:30-9 a.m.: Kickoff Celebration
• 9-9:15 a.m.: Break off into groups (a selection of sites to be provided later)
• 9:15 a.m.-4 p.m.: Service with our community
• 4:30 p.m.: Dinner! (non-George Fox employees pay $8.75 and $6 per child)

Employees*, see your email for your site assignment. Students, check with your RAs.

Questions? Email serveday@georgefox.edu

*Portland employees are not required to participate; however, as some have volunteered, we are sending this schedule to you as well.

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Staff, summer work study students and returning students: If you lost something between April of last semester and now, please come to the security office by this Friday, Aug. 29, to claim your lost items, as they will all be donated to charitable causes by end of day Friday.

Several of you were emailed in May about items left behind in your residences; please claim them this week!

Join us this week for chapel in Bauman Auditorium! Today (Tuesday) at 10:50 a.m. will be the Academic Convocation Chapel to celebrate the beginning of the academic year. Nick Willis, undergraduate teacher of the year, will share a message.

On Wednesday at 7 p.m., Pastor Jamie Noling-Auth will share her testimony and begin our “Unfolding Life” series.

Check out this link for more information about chapel speakers.

Larry Mennenga is retiring after 20 years of faithful service as an electrician for plant services. Please join us as we celebrate his retirement at an open house on Thursday, Aug. 28, between 3 and 4:30 p.m. in the plant services break room.

It’s now just over a week before our 16th annual Serve Day! On Wednesday, Sept. 3, we will send out more than 1,800 employees and students to serve over 100 sites in Newberg and the surrounding area.

Employees will receive their Serve Day assignments shortly. If you have any questions about your assignment, let Trisha Elizarde know by emailing serveday@georgefox.edu. Students who live on campus will receive their assignments from their RAs. Additional information will be available in living areas.

Employees are encouraged to park on the gravel lot (down Meridian Street near Fulton Street) on Serve Day unless they were specifically assigned to drive to a serve site. If so, a parking lot/departure site is assigned, which can be found on their email about Serve Day. Stevens will be used for some organizations that are coming to campus to provide transportation.

Join us in Wheeler tonight (Tuesday) at 6 p.m. for the grand opening of the climbing wall this semester. There will be something for every skill level. We have all the gear you need and instructors to teach basic skills and safety.

We have routes from 5.6 for the beginners on up to 5.12+ for the experienced. The climbing wall is a great place to hang out with some awesome people and climb!

For additional information, contact Spencer Giles (sgiles11@georgefox.edu) or Sam Read (sread11@georgefox.edu).

Semester wall hours will be announced as soon as possible. Climb on!

Due to the excessive number of packages that need to be delivered to students and departments, creating long lines at our customer service window, Mail Services is requesting your assistance by bringing outgoing personal packages (packages that need to be shipped off campus) only between the hours of 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. during the first three weeks of school.

Purchases of shipping supplies and stamps should also be limited to only between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Department packages can be brought to Mail Services anytime during our business hours (8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.)

Thanks,
Mail Services

Welcome to fall semester 2014! Need to add or drop a class? Have a question about a waitlisted class? Need to make any other fall semester schedule changes?

Career and Academic Planning (CAP) coaches will be available during drop-in hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 25, through Friday, Aug. 29. Drop-in hours will be adjusted starting the second week of the semester. Inquire at the IDEA Center on the first floor of the Stevens Center for more information.

Faculty, please feel free to tell your students about this resource. Thank you!

Questions? Write idea@georgefox.edu

In light of creation care and sustainability, we would like to encourage students and faculty to bring their own water bottles on Serve Day (Wednesday, Sept. 3) in order to reduce the plastic waste at the end of the day. We ask leaders to collect and bag the plastic water bottles that do end up being used so they can be taken to FISH, where they are turned in for 5 cents each.

Let’s do our part to serve the community and the world, even as we stay hydrated on Serve Day. Thank you!

This is a reminder that the chart of accounts training session scheduled for today (Friday, Aug. 22) from 10 a.m. to noon in Stevens 109 will be rescheduled due to all the Welcome Weekend activities.

We will have updated times and dates for additional training posted on the financial affairs website soon.

Thank you,
The Finance Team

Is the only number you know on campus “0”?

The Employee Extension and Box List is newly updated and available for you to print! You can find it here. The list is updated approximately every two weeks so you can always be “in the know”! Questions or updates? Contact Barbi Doran at bdoran@georgefox.edu.

Have a wonderful semester!

Welcome to a new academic year! Here are a few things to help you start the year off well!

• Use your new, empty 2014 Fall sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another course site. See the instructions here for importing.
• 2014 Fall sites are currently hidden from students. When you are ready, you can share the sites with your students. Here is a quick guide on how to make the courses available: FoxTALE Making Courses Visible to Students.
• If your course site is set to Weekly format, your course might show incorrect dates. To change the dates, go to Administration> Edit settings on the course home page. Scroll down to the course start date and change it to the first day of your summer course. Scroll to the bottom of the page and “Save changes.”
• If you used the FoxTALE grade book for any of your FoxTALE course sites, we recommend that you back up your 2014 Summer grade book to a spreadsheet that is saved outside of FoxTALE. See the instructions here for backing up grades. You will want to keep an archive of your course grades that cover the last five years.

– Your Educational Technology Team

As many of you are aware, all-community (employee) meetings are held on a monthly basis. The Leadership Team is interested in your feedback about the ongoing success of these meetings as we strive for better communication campus-wide.

Please take a moment to complete the survey at this link. We appreciate your input.

Thank you!

Serve Day is coming on Wednesday, Sept. 3! If you are planning to purchase a meal, please complete this form so we know how much food to prepare. If you do not plan to purchase a meal, you do not need to complete this form.

Breakfast and dinner are provided free of charge for all employees. In addition, lunch is provided free of charge for team leaders and committee members. Dinner is available for purchase for families of employees; bring a blanket and enjoy a picnic on the quad after a wonderful day of service.

For George Fox employees who have so graciously offered to drive participants to the various Serve Day sites, please know that you can be reimbursed for your mileage.

Please contact Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu) for instructions.

Thank you.

The Graduate School of Counseling at the Portland Center is currently interviewing for an Administrative Assistant IV. This fast-paced position requires strong organization, computer, customer service and leadership skills. If you have family, friends or neighbors who you think might enjoy using their skills in service to our students in the GSC, can you please pass along our job announcement to them?

Thank you.

More information is available at this link.

Welcome to fall semester 2014! Need to add or drop a class? Have a question about a waitlisted class? Need to make any other fall semester schedule changes?

Career and Academic Planning (CAP) coaches will be available during drop-in hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 25, through Friday, Aug. 29. Drop-in hours will be adjusted starting the second week of the semester. Inquire at the IDEA Center on the first floor of the Stevens Center for more information.

Faculty, please tell your students about this resource.

Questions? Contact Marisa Lee at mlee@georgefox.edu.

The library is pleased to deliver library materials for participating faculty to their offices on the Newberg campus. All library material must be signed for by the faculty member or persons authorized to sign. If you have used this service in the past or if you are signing up for the first time, please click on this link and fill out the form.

Questions? Contact Patty Vanier at pvanier@georgefox.edu or ext. 2425.

We are serving 102 sites at Serve Day this year! Help us make this possible by offering to drive your personal vehicle (if you have not already) and taking the university certification test on the plant services website.

Questions? Contact Trisha Elizarde at telizarde@georgefox.edu.