The Daily Bruin

In his latest blog piece, President Robin Baker reflects on growing older and the impact of a “life well lived.” You can read it here.

Welcome Weekend is this week! With all the new students and their families we’re expecting 2,000 guests on campus Thursday, Aug. 29, and Friday, Aug. 30. 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:

• 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 ride shuttle to campus. Pick-up will begin at 7:30 a.m. at the corner of South College Street & East 4th Street and will run every 15 minutes from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
• Northside Community Church (1800 Hoskins St.) and ride shuttle to campus. Pick-up will begin at 7:30 a.m. near the parking lot entrance on East Crestview Drive (just to the east of Hoskins Street) and will run every 15 minutes from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
• Shuttles will arrive and depart from the sidewalk between Stevens and Hoover. The afternoon shuttles will begin departing from this location at 3:30 p.m.

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: If you have a George Fox polo or dress shirt, please wear it on Thursday and Friday.

Questions: Please call the Welcome Weekend office at ext. 2324.

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

– Mark Pothoff

The plant services office in Newberg will be open with limited personnel today (Tuesday) and tomorrow (Wednesday), due to software training. Thank you for your patience.

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

An Acceptable Description for a check request should cover who (is the check for), what (is the product or service), when (was the product/service purchased), where (was the product/service purchased), and why (was/is this product/service needed).

Supporting Documentation includes but is not limited to:

• Original receipt (itemized) or invoice from vendor with the following information:
  • Vendor name and address
  • Description of goods and/or services (including quantity and unit price)
  • Total amount of purchase/service
  • Date of purchase/service

• Substantiation of business purpose may include an agenda, meeting announcement, brochure, or other similar types of documentation.

Questions? Call Kathi Becker in financial affairs at ext. 2166.

The Office of Spiritual Life has a part-time position they would like to fill “yesterday.” This position is slated for 10 hours per week and will run through next May. Work schedule will preferably be all day Fridays with an additional two or three hours one other day. The duties of the position including serving as project manager for the Regeneration Conference in October and providing support for other programs in the spiritual life, inclusion and leadership offices.

If you know someone who might be interested and qualified for this position, please have him or her complete an employment application and send it, along with a letter and resume, to HR as soon as possible. A copy of the job description can be requested by emailing hr@georgefox.edu.

Come see our new location! The dean of the College of Arts and Sciences is hosting an open house on Wednesday, Aug. 28, from 10 a.m. to noon in Lemmons 9.

• Meet the new dean of arts & sciences, Laura Hartley
• Meet the new director of the William Penn Honor’s Program, Joseph Clair
• See the new offices for the Center for Study Abroad and the new theatre department location
• Terrie Boehr from family and consumer sciences remains in the same office as in the past. Goodies provided by FCS!

Please join us! Contact Lynn Scott (lscott@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

Please turn in all August …

• Check/ACH requests
• Expense reimbursements
• Petty cash requests
• IDC’s
• Error corrections
• Credit card receipts

to the financial affairs office no later than 5 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 9. If you have any questions, please call or e-mail Kathi Becker (Financial Affairs) at ext. 2166 or kbecker@georgefox.edu.

Thank you,
The Finance Team

Several of our new international students are looking for off-campus housing. They are not able to live on campus since they are 23 or older or are graduate students. As you know, rental housing in Newberg is really tight this year.

If you need a roommate, are interested in renting a room in your home, or know of any available rental opportunities in Newberg, please contact Louis Liu (541-391-2476 or lliu11@georgefox.edu), Alex Pia (971-275-6202 or apia@georgefox.edu), or Dianna McIntyre (503-351-7153 or dmcintyr@georgefox.edu).

Faculty: Please submit all additional textbook requests as soon as possible so that we may get books here before the start of classes. Please make cancellations and edition changes an exception, as it causes financial hardship for students who may have already purchased their books from other sources.

Thanks for your help as we do our best to have everything ready this week. Contact Sandy Gidding via e-mail with questions (sgidding@georgefox.edu).

– BlueZone Store

If you used the FoxTALE grade book for any of your FoxTALE course sites, we recommend that you back up your Summer 2013 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.

Upgrade planned
A FoxTALE upgrade is planned for 8 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 25, to 8 a.m. Monday, Aug. 26. FoxTALE will not be available during this time. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Prepare for Fall 2013 and Spring 2014

• Use your new, empty Fall 2013 and Spring 2013 sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another course site. See the instructions here for importing.
• If your course site is set to Weekly format, your course might show incorrect dates. To change the dates, go to Settings > Course 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.”
• 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. 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.

Questions? Contact the IT Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2569.

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.