The Daily Bruin

We are still looking for 14 families who would be willing to host new international students during their orientation, Aug. 21-28. If you are able to host one or more students for all or part of this time, please contact Dianna McIntyre (dmcintyre@georgefox.edu) or Alex Pia (apia@georgefox.edu).

Families are asked to provide breakfast and dinner. Lunch will be provided on campus during orientation. We also ask families to provide transportation to George Fox between 8 and 8:30 a.m. and pick students up at approximately 5 p.m. Host families will receive a stipend to help defray some of the costs of meals and transportation.

Thank you for your willingness to consider this opportunity.

Security services would love to make you aware of another excellent resource on iGFU. After you log on to iGFU on your smart phone, computer or tablet, select “University Resources.” One option is “Emergency Procedures,” and after you click on that, you can choose the emergency and  read some concise information on what to do.

This is extremely helpful if you aren’t in your office or classroom and are unable to view the Emergency Response Guides hanging on the walls. Be sure to check it out before you need it, and also familiarize yourself with the Emergency Response Guides posted around campus, as they contain more detailed information.

PGE has scheduled a power shut-down for MLRC, Heacock Commons, Wheeler and Edwards Residence Hall for today (Wednesday) from approximately 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thank you for your patience while they are working to hook up the Duke Athletic Center.

The first George Fox Auxiliary meeting of the new academic year is set for this Tuesday, Aug. 20, at 6 p.m. in the Klages Dining Room. The program will feature Provost Linda Samek, who will be introducing new faculty members.

Cost of the dinner is $10.50 (remaining meals throughout the year will be Friday lunches and cost $8.50).

Please R.S.V.P. to Judy Woolsey at 503-538-7314 if you plan to attend.

Because of the scheduled power outage for today (Wednesday), the BlueZone Store and Annex will be open from 1 to 4:30 p.m. We will resume our regular 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. schedule on Thursday.

Believe it or not, in less than three weeks our largest incoming class, of nearly 800 students, will step foot onto our campus. Not to mention almost 1,200 of their family 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 on the below 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 the incoming students and their families as they make one of their biggest transitions of their life.

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

Because of the scheduled power outage on Wednesday, Aug. 14, the Murdock Learning Resource Center on the Newberg campus will be open from 1 to 5 p.m. that day. We will resume our regular 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. schedule on Thursday.

All employees, half time and above, are requested to attend the all-community meeting scheduled from 8 to 11 a.m. this Friday, Aug. 16, in Klages Dining Hall on the Newberg campus. Breakfast will be served beginning at 8 a.m., with the program to follow from 8:40 to 11 a.m.

See you there!

PGE has scheduled a power shut-down for MLRC, Commons, Wheeler and Edwards Residence Hall for Wednesday, Aug. 14, from approximately 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thank you for your patience while they are working to hook up the Duke Athletic Center.

Our 25Live calendar system is up and ready to take requests. This system not only allows you to request a room but now equipment reservations will be done in 25Live for meetings, events and classes.

Here is the link to the system: 25live.georgefox.edu. Use your normal George Fox login to access the system.

IT will be providing training over the next few weeks. To reserve your place in a class, e-mail pparks@georgefox.edu. Space is limited to 20 people per session.

Here is a schedule of training sessions on the Newberg campus:

Friday, Aug. 9, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Stevens 307: Room and Equipment Reservations
Learn how to enter a room request, do searches and reserve equipment with a room or for a class.

Thursday, Aug. 15, 1:30-2:30 p.m., Stevens 307: Room Reservations
Learn how to enter a room request, do searches for events, locations and resources and request equipment with your room request. Practice time available between 2:30 and 3 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 15, 3-4 p.m., Stevens 307: Equipment Reservations
Learn how to request equipment only for a classroom. This is a new process so we recommend this class if you reserve equipment for a class. Practice time available between 4 and 4:30 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 16, 2-3 p.m., Stevens 307: Equipment Reservations
Learn how to request equipment only for a classroom. This is a new process so we recommend this class if you reserve equipment for a class. Practice time available between 3 and 3:30 p.m.

The School of Education (soon to be “College of Education”) will be hosting a group of Chinese educators from Chengdu from Sept. 22 through Oct. 12. While they will be staying most of the time in a motel, they have also specifically requested that we provide a home-stay experience. The dates of the home stays will be Saturday, Oct. 5, through Wednesday, Oct. 9 (four nights). This will allow them some time to be included in their host family’s weekend activities.

Ideally, two or more would be placed per home, but some could be placed individually, as space allows. Host families are asked to provide sleeping accommodations and meals (except lunch on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday). They will also need transportation to and from campus on weekdays. Each host family will be given $100 per guest to help defray costs.

If you are interested in hosting one or more guests from Chengdu, or have questions, please contact Sondra Creason at screason@georgefox.edu by Monday, Aug. 26. Please feel free to forward this information to others who may also be interested.

IT will be performing an upgrade to the network core this Wednesday, Aug. 7, from 5 to 7 a.m. During this time, all connections to and from the Newberg campus internal network will be unavailable. This includes all wired and wireless connections to servers, the Internet, etc. External services such as georgefox.edu, MyGFU, and FoxTALE will remain available.

The university is expecting approximately 55 new international students this fall. Our desire is to bless their lives, not only with a quality education, but also to introduce them to caring people who are a reflection of the reality of Jesus Christ within them.

Rather than house these students in empty dorm rooms during orientation, we are looking for about 25 families who would be willing to have up to two international students stay in their home the nights of Aug. 21-28. Students will be engaged in orientation all day Aug. 23 and Aug. 26-28. They would be free to be with the families the entire weekend of Aug. 24-25.

Families are asked to provide breakfast and dinner. Lunch will be provided on campus during orientation. We also ask families to provide transportation to George Fox between 8 and 8:30 a.m. and pick students up at approximately 5 p.m. Host families will receive a stipend to help defray some of the costs of meals and transportation.

Our students’ feedback is that staying with a host family is a very meaningful experience for newly arrived, uncertain and anxious students beginning their new life in the U.S. We also recognize the impact of this experience is not confined to the students’ lives only. Our host families attest of the great blessing these gracious international students have been to them, too. Often relationships developed with host families continue throughout the time the students are at George Fox and into the future.

If you are interested in serving as a host family, please contact Dianna McIntyre (dmcintyre@georgefox.edu, 503-554-2649) or Alex Pia (apia@georgefox.edu, 503-554-2643). If you know of others who might be interested, please let us know so we may contact them.

Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Friday, Aug. 9.

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

The university is hosting a blood drive on the Newberg campus from 1 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 7, in Room 117 of the Villa Academic Complex. Donations are needed and greatly appreciated! You can sign up by clicking this link and entering the sponsor code “GeorgeFox.”

If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail Andrea Riley at ariley12@georgefox.edu.

FoxTALE will be upgraded from Moodle version 2.2 to version 2.4 from Sunday, Aug. 25, at 8 a.m. to Monday, Aug. 26, at 8 a.m., to stay in alignment with updates at moodle.org. FoxTALE will not be available during this time. No preparation is required by faculty. (Please note: We have changed the schedule for this event).

Here are some of the highlights of the new version:

• All icons will change. See the mapping from old to new icons (http://goo.gl/WxzRw).
• 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 (http://goo.gl/nKbMA).
• 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.

Also, sign up for one of the FoxTALE labs we are hosting Wednesday, Aug. 28, in Newberg and Thursday, Aug. 29, at the Portland Center.

Old FoxTALE available until Aug. 31: This is a reminder that old FoxTALE (foxtale19.georgefox.edu) will be available until Aug. 31. If you have additional course sites that need to be copied from old FoxTALE to new (current) FoxTALE, please contact the IT Service Desk.

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

Now is a great time for staff and faculty to update their vehicle registration before the fall semester begins! To do so, log on to myGFU and select “Self Service.” Next, click on “University Forms” and the “Vehicle Registration” link should pop up in the middle of the page. After you’ve clicked on that, you can see the vehicles that are currently registered to you. If you no longer have a vehicle, just click on the minus sign to the right of the vehicle info and it will be deleted. To add another vehicle(s), click on the “add another vehicle” box and input the information. The last step is to e-mail Nadine Kincaid with your vehicle changes so your parking permit can be taken off a previous vehicle and reassigned to the new one.

You can purchase an additional permit for just $5 cash at the Security office. Finally, if your permit is taped/stapled/glued together, just bring the pieces to the Security office and we can get you a new one on the spot! Portland Center employees should register their vehicles if they visit the Newberg campus frequently. If you come just once a semester or so, then please come and get a temporary permit at the Security office when you arrive on campus. If you have any questions, call us at ext. 2090 or e-mail Nadine Kincaid (nkincaid@georgefox.edu).

As previously announced, the George Fox calendar software (calendar.georgefox.edu) will be down this week (July 29-Aug. 2) for an upgrade. Be watching for an announcement about accessing the new 25Live calendar.

The Bruin Den will be closed Aug. 3-18. It will reopen Monday, Aug. 19 with summer hours, 8 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

The Villa Café will be closed from July 27 until the fall semester begins. Thanks for the great summer, and we will see you in the fall!