The Daily Bruin

Now is the time to order university stationery. The collective order helps keep costs low – the higher the volume, the lower the cost. Consequently, it is most economical to overestimate needs and store a small surplus.

I will be accepting orders through Monday, Aug. 18, when orders are due. For order instructions, go to the marketing communications website. Continue to purchase all non-departmental stationery (including “second-sheet letterhead”) through the university’s print services.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Thank you,
Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu)

The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Monday, Aug. 18. If you have not already done so, you will need to create a new individual account before you can submit your order.

Please reference the Chart of Account Mappings for 2014-15 budget information.

Contact Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu) in marketing communications if you have any questions.

The university’s athletic training program will conduct a training simulation with the Newberg Fire Department and Life Flight on Morse Field this Monday, Aug. 18, from 1 to 3 p.m. A helicopter will be landing on Morse Field as the students and staff participate in medical transport training.

If interested in knowing more about Life Flight and what they provide to our community, please see their website here.

Questions regarding the training can be directed to Dana Bates, program director, at dbates@georgefox.edu.

We officially went live with a new chart of accounts on July 1 for the 2014-15 fiscal year. Please visit the financial affairs website for updated information about the change. Please see the “Chart of Accounts” page to learn about the easy conversion tool that will convert your old coding to the new coding. The check request, expense reimbursement form, deposit transmittals, petty cash vouchers and petty cash logs have all been updated and can be found on the “Common Forms” page under 2014-15 Forms.

There have been no changes to the 2013-14 chart or reports.

Our next training session is this Friday, Aug. 15, from 2 to 4 p.m. in Stevens 109. Dates and locations for additional training sessions are posted on the financial affairs website under “Scheduled Training.”

If you have any questions or are having any trouble with the new format, we will help you. Please call Cris Banton at ext. 2167.

Our next FoxTALE upgrade occurs Monday, Aug. 18, between 6 and 10 a.m. Pacific Time. FoxTALE will be unavailable during this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Several new features will be available after this upgrade, and you can preview them now by going to our FoxTALE for Faculty website.

Questions? Write servicedesk@georgefox.edu

– Your Educational Technology Team

Welcome Weekend is next week! With all the new students and their families, we’re expecting more than 2,000 guests on campus Thursday, Aug. 21, and Friday, Aug. 22. Here are a few important details for employees.

Welcoming our Guests: While this may seem obvious, please greet and welcome our guests, ask if they need help, walk them to the Information Tent on the quad if they have a question you can’t answer, and help us make this a special time for our new students and their families.

Schedule: The complete schedule for Welcome Weekend can be found at welcome.georgefox.edu. There are three schedules: traditional students, transfer students, and families and guests.

Parking: On Thursday and Friday, we need employees to park in one of three locations off-campus if at all possible:

• Gravel parking lot on Meridian Street (just past Fulton Street next to the railroad tracks) and walk to campus
• Newberg Friends Church (307 S. College St.) and walk to campus or carpool with colleagues to the gravel parking lot on Meridian Street
• Northside Community Church (1800 Hoskins St.) and walk to campus or carpool with colleagues to the gravel parking lot on Meridian Street

Meals: Employees who signed up to be volunteers will receive one complimentary meal ticket to be used at lunch or dinner. Other employees desiring to eat on campus can pay as they enter the meal lines.

Attire & Name Tags: If you have a George Fox polo or dress shirt please wear it on Thursday and Friday, as well as your name tag.

Questions? Please call the Welcome Weekend office at ext. 2329.

Thank you for being an integral part of welcoming our new students and their families to the George Fox family!

– Mark Pothoff, Dean of Community Life

George Fox community,

Please join the Welcome Weekend staff for an informational meeting about Welcome Weekend on Monday, Aug. 18, from 11:30 a.m. to noon in Hoover 105.

We also are encouraging faculty and staff to participate in the dedication ceremony for new students on Thursday, Aug. 21, at 9 p.m. in Wheeler Sports Center. This is a time of prayer over our new students. We would love to have as many of you as possible be a part of this night.

Questions? Email welcome@georgefox.edu.

Be sure to join us this Thursday, Aug. 14, as we celebrate the roots of barbecue, Texas style. We will be serving traditional smoked beef brisket with regional side dishes out of our food cart on the quad from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

We will also be holding a drawing for a free prize that day in the Bruin Den!

Staff, faculty and adjuncts: If your vehicles have changed, please go on MyGFU now and delete any incorrect registrations by using the minus button to the right of the listing. You can click on the “add vehicle” button to bring up a new row to register any new vehicles. After doing so, please email Nadine Kincaid (nkincaid@georgefox.edu) and tell her if a vehicle replaces a previous one, or if it is an addition.

If your parking hangtag is held together with duct tape and bubble gum, please bring the shards to the security office and we’ll issue you a new one. Or, if yours has gone AWOL, just bring $5 cash to the office and we can issue you a replacement. Additional permits are also available for $5 cash; this can be very convenient if you frequently switch vehicles. If you have new adjuncts in your department, please have them register on MyGFU so we can get a 2014 adjunct permit to them as soon as possible.

If you normally work at the Portland Center but make frequent visits to the Newberg campus, we’d like you to register so you will have a parking permit on your car when you arrive in Newberg.

Questions? Please contact Nadine at ext. 2090 and we’d be glad to help! Also, due to the increased amount of commuters this year, it is going to be very busy in the parking lots for the first few weeks. If you have the ability to walk to campus or ride a bike or carpool, that would help to ease some of the congestion in the Bauman and VAC lots until things settle down.

Thank you!

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

• Administrative Assistant IV, Graduate School of Counseling
• Accounts Payable Specialist II
• Accounts Payable Supervisor
• Hybrid Learning Specialist
• Associate Director of Seminary Masters Program
• Administrative Assistant II, Office of Spiritual Life, Inclusion and Leadership
• Administrative Assistant II, BSW
• Administrative Assistant II, MSW
• 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 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 employees, half time and above, are requested to attend the all-community meeting scheduled from 8 to 11:30 a.m. next Friday, Aug. 15, in the Klages Dining Room on the Newberg campus. Breakfast will be served beginning at 8 a.m., with the program to follow from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.

The meeting will include a time of worship and devotions, updates from President Robin Baker and the VP team, employee service awards, and recognition of the support staff and administrator of the year.

See you there!

The Edwards House, home to George Fox University presidents, will be featured in a historical home tour this Saturday, Aug. 9. The tour is presented by the Yamhill Enrichment Society and includes nine historic homes in Newberg. Also included on the tour will be the Hoover-Minthorn House, childhood home of President Herbert Hoover.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the Wednesday Newberg Farmers’ Market or online at YamhillEnrichmentSociety.org, or on the day of the tour at 515 E. Sherman St. The tour of the homes will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a garden party following from 4 to 6 p.m.

This is a great chance to learn about the history of the area as you experience the architecture and stories of the old homes. Check the above website for more information.

Laura Klaus is leaving the BlueZone Store after 25-plus years of service. Her final day will be Friday, Aug. 8. Please drop by the BlueZone Store on Thursday, Aug. 7, between the hours of 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. to wish her well.

This fall the university is expecting more than 40 new international students. Their first point of contact with our school is in our International Student Orientation. This orientation begins before the general new student orientation and requires international students to arrive several days earlier than the American students.

If we were to house these students on campus, they would be staying in near-empty buildings in rooms without their American roommates. Our desire is to place all of our incoming international students with host families during our international orientation. What better first impression could they have of arriving in America and staying with an American Christian family?

Would you be willing to host a new international student? The students will be arriving on Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 13-14, and be in orientation for a week. Please contact Alex Pia (apia@georgefox.edu) for more information.

It’s that time again … Welcome Weekend is our chance to welcome each and every new student as they step onto campus. With such a large incoming class we need all hands on deck, as we each do our part to make students and their guests feel the “Be Known” promise. And who better to do that than our own faculty and staff?

Please complete this form by Wednesday, Aug. 13, and we will contact you with further instructions.

We are in need of more team leaders for Serve Day! We have had more than 100 project requests, but currently we don’t have enough team leaders to lead that many groups. At this point, we’ll have to turn away eight serve sites.

If you are willing to lead a group, please email serveday@georgefox.edu with your T-shirt size and phone number.

Thanks so much.

The Bruin Den will be closed Monday, Aug. 4, through Friday, Aug. 8, to give us time to prepare for the new school year. We will reopen on Monday, Aug. 11, with our summer hours of 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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

• Accounts Payable Supervisor
• Hybrid Learning Specialist
• Associate Director of Seminary Masters Program
• Administrative Assistant II Office of Spiritual Life, Inclusion and Leadership
• Administrative Assistant II, BSW
• Administrative Assistant II, MSW
• Recruitment and Enrollment Counselor – ADP Admissions
• Associate Director of Student Success, 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 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 BlueZone Store is hiring temporary team members for the fall rush. To apply, please go to this page. The position numbers are #1566 and #1518.

If you are interested, please apply. Position #1566 is for two temporary team members for fall rush. Position #1518 is for a three-quarters time position through June of 2015. Employees, please let your students know about these opportunities.

For more information, please contact John Stewart, manager, at 503-554-2543.

Newberg campus staff and administrators, have you updated your employee photo yet? The deadline to do so this summer is Aug. 8. If your employee photo on the website is more than three years old (the easiest way to tell is if it has a gray background), please do one of the following:

1) Stop by the marketing communications office (River Street House) Monday-Friday between 9 and 11 a.m. 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.