The Daily Bruin

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.

This full-time, 10-month position will be open through next Tuesday, July 15. Please email hr@georgefox.edu to ask for a copy of the job description.

To apply, please submit a completed transfer request, cover letter, and resume to Human Resources no later than Tuesday, July 15, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found here.

For this month especially, we are asking for time sheets (support staff) and time-off reports (administrators) to be submitted as soon as possible so we can provide the necessary year-end vacation accrual reports to the finance office in a timely manner.

Administrators, please resume using paper time-off reports. If you would like to download a copy to keep on your desktop, you can find it at this link.

We had hoped embedding the form in the body of an email would allow us to discontinue using the paper forms; but unfortunately, it did not work out well on the payroll end of the process. We will continue to explore other possibilities for automating this process to improve efficiencies and eliminate paper, but until further notice, we need to ask you to use the paper form.

Thank you,
HR

An NBC Basketball Camp will be on campus this week, Sunday through Thursday (July 6-10). The camp is open to boys and girls ages 8 to 18 and combines skill development with Christian values. Alumnus and former men’s basketball player Mark Johnson serves as site director for the event.

For those who play noon basketball, the courts will be open during the noon hour.

Crews will be installing artificial turf for the Lemmons Football Field on Monday and Tuesday, July 7-8. The parking lot next to the tennis courts (east of MLRC) will be closed during this time to allow room for the crews and their materials. If possible, please avoid this area, as there will be increased traffic for construction.

Thank you for your patience.

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More than 400 participants from Northwest Chinese churches will gather on campus this weekend (July 4-6) for their regional summer retreat, offering services in both English and Mandarin.

Both the Bruin Den and Villa Café will be closed this Friday, July 4, in observance of the Independence Day holiday. Have a safe and happy 4th, and we will see you on Monday when we will be open again with our summer hours.

Please join your colleagues at 3 p.m. this afternoon (Thursday) on the Bruin Den Plaza for an early celebration of our country’s Independence Day and the blessing of freedom we enjoy. We will be serving apple pie a la mode.

Summer student employees are most definitely invited!

Happy summer! The admissions office is gearing up for our final Genesis event next Friday, July 11, and we are in need of more student volunteers.

Volunteers will be helping out with the event from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. by directing students to their next locations and being a guide for the day. Volunteers will be given a T-shirt and a free lunch!

If you’re interested in helping out, please email Keisha Gordon (kgordon@georgefox.edu) and let her know. We would love to have you on board and to help share how awesome George Fox is with our future students.

Staff and faculty, please pass this info along to your students who might be interested.

Thanks!

HR invites you to participate in our ninth annual Red, White and Blue Jeans Day. In recognition of Independence Day this Friday (and a George Fox holiday), you are encouraged to wear casual attire in patriotic colors on Thursday, July 3.

At 3 p.m., the HR staff will serve up the all-American dessert – apple pie a la mode – on the Bruin Den plaza just outside the ASC offices and near “Old Glory” (please note change in location). We hope you can join us for this sweet treat and enjoy a chance to visit with coworkers. Summer student employees are also invited.

Portland employees will gather in PDS 160 to enjoy an Independence Day celebration during afternoon break as well.