The Daily Bruin

A beginning guitar class and individual guitar lessons are being offered this fall on campus. Sign up and add some fun to your schedule!

The Beginning Guitar Class is offered for those new to the guitar who want to learn in a fun group setting. Learn to play awesome rock and roll classics and your favorite worship songs. No experience is necessary. MUSI 250-A (Tuesdays/Thursdays, 9:40-10:30 a.m).

Private Guitar Lessons are offered to bring your playing to the next level! One-on-one lessons cover beginners all the way to very experienced players. Sign up and get some new skills and techniques. Work on music that you really want to play. MUSA 105/305 GT

Lessons are taught by in-demand Portland guitarist Dave Iula. He performs with Portland’s top bands (Mel Brown, Patrick Lamb, Excellent Gentlemen) as well as many churches in Portland (Beaverton Foursquare, Southlake Church, Rolling Hills, Imago Dei Community).

E-mail Dave for more info at daveiula1@gmail.com.

Web Development is still looking for feedback on the new redesign we launched this week. If you haven’t already, we would love to hear what you think of the new design.

The form can be found at this link. It will be closing on Tuesday, Aug. 27, at which point we will evaluate feedback and plan changes to the template accordingly.

Thank you for your participation.

Having trouble logging into Bruin Careers? We just implemented a new pass-through process!

Click here to go directly to the Bruin Careers site. Once there, log in with your Bruin Careers username and password. If you haven’t set up an account before, click on “click here to register.”

Make sure that your username and password are the same as your George Fox e-mail and password. Now, whenever you log onto MyGFU you will click directly into Bruin Careers without needing to log on.

Please e-mail careers@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2330 if you have any questions.

The plant services office in Newberg will be open with limited personnel Monday, Aug. 26, through Wednesday, Aug, 28, due to software training. Thank you for your patience.

Please contact the plant services office at ext. 2010 if you have any questions.

On Monday, Aug. 26, the password for Foxpublic WiFi will be changed. To access the new password, log into MyGFU and it will be listed on the home page. If you currently use Foxwifi, there is nothing you need to do.

IT highly recommends all employees and students use Foxwifi, as it provides better security and performance. Instructions for connecting to Foxwifi can be found on this IT webpage.

We have lost two valuable members of our community. Margaret Lemmons, honorary trustee and the 2004 Volunteer of the Year (along with husband Gerald), passed away on Aug. 8 and her service is this Saturday, Aug. 24, at 2 p.m. at the Newberg Friends Church (307 S. College St.).

Another honorary trustee, Wayne Roberts, passed away on Monday, Aug. 19. His service is also at Newberg Friends and is set for Friday, Aug. 23, at 3 p.m.

Please hold the families in your prayers. Both Margaret and Wayne loved George Fox University and will be deeply missed.

IT has a limited supply of used wireless routers for sale to university employees. The Apple Extreme Base Stations (2009 3rd Generation) are $30 each, tested and in good working order. Please visit the IT Service Desk for more information or to purchase. All sales are final.

Fall semester is nearly upon us, and those of us in media production services want to make sure you’re aware of the services we provide. We are your one-stop shop for on-campus media equipment and event recording. We’re here to help you with staffing and recording your large event in Bauman Auditorium, getting you a document camera for your science class, and everything between.

If you take a look at our website, you’ll notice a lot has changed since last school year. In addition to updated information about our recording services, our system for reserving rooms, equipment, and requesting recording has all moved to 25Live. For those of you familiar with the R25 calendar system, 25Live is its “big brother.” By going to this link, you can create an event, reserve a room and request equipment and recording, all in one go.

Need a little help getting started with 25Live? Our new YouTube page has you covered. Check in often for new tutorials for 25Live and more.

Since most of our workforce is made up students, we try to schedule as much as we can for them before classes start. As such, please try to make as many requests for event video recording and live-streaming before Aug. 26. Simply select “Video Recording” or “Live-Streaming” from the Resources list, and we’ll be in touch.

If you don’t have the full details for your event yet, send us an e-mail. The important thing is that we get the conversation started so we can get your event staffed and make it awesome.

We’re looking forward to working with you this semester and hope to be in touch with you soon!

Tyler Robertson
Media Production Services
503-554-2569

Serve Day is coming on Wednesday, Sept. 11! If you are planning to purchase a meal, please complete this form so we know how much food to prepare.

Breakfast and dinner are provided for all employees; all meals are provided 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.

Believe it or not, in one week our largest incoming class, of more than 750 students, will step foot onto our campus. Not to mention almost 1,200 of their families and guests. We want to roll out the welcome mat and make them feel at home from the start. We need your help to make this happen. If you are interested, please click the following link and sign up as a Welcome Weekend volunteer:

Welcome Weekend Volunteer

Regardless of whether you can physically serve or not, please pray for the orientation team, administration, student leaders and all of the faculty and staff who will help make this event possible. Let’s not forget: Incoming students and their families are making one of their biggest transitions of their lives.

If you have any questions, please contact Stephanie St. Cyr at sstcyr@georgefox.edu or Onjalai Flake at oflake11@georgefox.edu.

Staff, faculty, summer students and summer work-study students: The summer lost and found is overflowing! If you have lost something this summer, please come to the security office before Friday, Aug. 30, as the unclaimed items will be donated to charitable causes that afternoon. We need to make room for fall’s lost and found, so please don’t delay!

We have a new enrollment counselor moving from Washington in need of temporary housing. We are eager to have her begin serving students; however, she is having a difficult time finding available housing (for her and her cat) prior to Oct. 1.

If you have anything or know of anything available, please contact Bill Buhrow at bbuhrow@georgefox.edu.

It’s time to order university stationery. For ordering instructions, go to the marketing communications website. Please continue to purchase all non-departmental stationery (including “second-sheet letterhead”) through the university’s Print Services.

Orders are due by Tuesday, Aug. 27.

If you’ve visited the George Fox website yesterday, you may have noticed things have changed. While most of the content of the site has stayed the same, the new design will both freshen up the look and feel of the site, and introduce some key new features:

• Responsive Design – Instead of a mobile-specific website, the new site uses a framework that allows content to be reformatted for multiple devices. That means that one webpage can work for both desktop, tablet and mobile phone visitors.
• School Colors – The site now uses Navy Blue and Old Gold more, to better reinforce university branding.
• Font Usage – We have better font usage throughout the site, which makes text-heavy pages look cleaner, and gives a more professional presentation.
• More Flexible Template – The new design allows for much more power in our designers hands, meaning as we redesign pages in the future, we’ll be able to do more with less effort.

We’d love to have feedback from the university community about the new design. As we move forward with more designs in the future, your input will be critical into how we move forward.

Please fill out our web survey form and let us know what you think. Or, if you would prefer to interact directly with us, e-mail webmaster@georgefox.edu.

Thanks,
The Web Development Team

Please join us as we discuss the Welcome Weekend schedule in detail tomorrow (Wednesday) at 9 a.m. in Hoover 105. We would like to update you on all of the changes happening this year and answer any questions you may have as we welcome the largest class in George Fox history.

Hope you can make it!

Questions? Contact Stephanie St. Cyr at sstcyr@georgefox.edu.

As you have probably heard, we have a large incoming class of undergraduate students. This is good news, but it comes with many complexities. One of the complexities is ensuring that all of our students who need a place to live on campus have a bed to sleep in on Aug. 29.

Currently we are in need of 16 spaces for male students. Gender and age add to this complex “dance.” Our sense is that this need will diminish and hopefully disappear by the day students check in (Aug. 29).

If it takes a little longer, one of our contingencies is to develop a list of faculty/staff that would be willing to host one or two (or five) students until things settle down in those first few days of the semester.

If you would be willing, have an extra bed in your home, and live in Newberg, please e-mail housing@georgefox.edu. We will add you to that list and contact you if we need your assistance.

Thanks for your care of our students. In our goal to be hospitable to all of them, finding a bed for them is important.

FoxTALE will be upgraded from Moodle version 2.2 to version 2.4 from 8 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 25, until 8 a.m. Monday, Aug. 26, to stay in alignment with updates at moodle.org. FoxTALE will not be available during this time. You can create assignments before the upgrade. Assignments in courses that go through the upgrade will be automatically converted to the new format. No further action is required.

Here are some of the highlights of the new version:

• All icons will change. See the mapping from old to new icons.
• Assignments will be enhanced and have a new look and feel. There is only one type of assignment with many customizable features. See the new assignment features.
  • Existing assignments will be automatically converted to the new format. No action is required.
• Drag and drop files from your computer onto your course home page. The files will be added as resources.

Sign up for one of the FoxTALE webinars we are offering over the next two weeks, or one of the labs we are hosting Aug. 28 in Newberg and Aug. 29 at the Portland Center.

Old FoxTALE available until Aug. 31, 2013
Here’s a reminder that old FoxTALE (foxtale19.georgefox.edu) will be available until Aug. 31, 2013. If you have additional course sites that need to be copied from old FoxTALE to new (current) FoxTALE, please contact the IT Service Desk before Aug. 20 so that assignments in those courses can be converted in the Aug. 25 upgrade.

If you have any questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

Use your new, empty Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another course site. See the instructions here for importing.

Your Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 sites are unavailable (hidden) to students. When you are ready to make a site available, go to Settings > Course administration > Edit settings on the course home page. Scroll down to the “Availability” section and select “This course is available to students” from the drop-down menu. Scroll to the bottom of the page and “Save changes.”

If you have course content to move from old FoxTALE to new FoxTALE, please contact the Service Desk before Aug. 20 so that assignments in those courses can be converted in the Aug. 25 upgrade. Please note that old FoxTALE will no longer be available after Aug. 31, 2013.

You can create assignments before the upgrade. Assignments in courses that go through the upgrade will be automatically converted to the new format. No further action is required.

Metacourses Used Only for Special Cases
To folks who have been using FoxTALE for several years … Remember the good ol’ days when courses were set up with templates and metacourses? Well, those days are behind us now, and the process has simplified. Here is an overview of a course life cycle that we’ve been using since Fall 2012.

New course sites are created for each semester, and content can be imported (video) from one semester to the next. Metacourses may still be used in special cases where you want to use one FoxTALE site for multiple sections of the same class. If you still use metacourses, contact the Service Desk for assistance with setting them up.

Plant services has had an unusually busy summer. We are still in the process of completing multiple building and remodeling projects, as well as numerous office moves. As a result we have accumulated more than 700 open work requests. We are working hard to catch up but must complete student housing requests first.

Thank you for your patience during this very busy time.

Now would be a great time to update your vehicle registrations on MyGFU! Please delete any vehicles you no longer own by using the minus button to the right of that listing. Click on “Add additional vehicles” to bring up a fresh row of boxes to input new vehicle information. Once you’ve done that, please notify Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu so she can re-assign your parking permit to your new vehicle.

Permit info
If your current permit is in tatters, bring the shards to the security office and we can get a new one issued to you on the spot. Do you drive several cars to campus and forget to switch your permit from car to car? Additional staff/adjunct permits are available for $5 cash at the security office. It only takes a minute, and it would be great to do that before the semester starts, as the line is often out the door the first few weeks of school.

Parking challenges
Due to the very large incoming class and the construction in the Bauman lot, parking will be challenging for the first few weeks. Please either look at our parking brochure on the security services website, or come to the security office for your own copy and we’ll make suggestions for additional places to park during the craziness of the first few weeks of school. And if you live in Newberg, we’d love it if you could walk/bike/carpool/take the bus to school during Welcome Weekend and the first few weeks of the semester!

Info for adjuncts
Adjuncts: If you haven’t been on contract since fall of 2012, your parking permit has expired. Adjunct parking permits are issued for a calendar year, not an academic year. So, please check your parking permits, and if it expired last December 2012, please come to the security office between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Friday and we can issue a new one on the spot.

If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to call security at ext. 2090.