We in the Spiritual Life Office hope to see you today (Friday)! From 2 to 4 p.m., we are hosting an open house honoring Andrea MacLeod (Crenshaw) and her 11 years of service to George Fox. Join us in the Spiritual Life Office, located on the corner of Sheridan and Meridian streets.
If you have any questions, please e-mail spirituallife@georgefox.edu.
The campus community is invited to attend a recognition ceremony for IT’s Brian McLaughlin and Tim Goodfellow at 10:30 a.m. today (Thursday) in front of IT on the third floor of the Stevens Center. Refreshments will be served.
Brian and Tim will receive a Northwest Academic Computing Consortium Hugi Exemplary Practice Award for their work on the iGFU mobile portal project. The goal of the Hugi Award Program is to recognize individuals or groups whose outstanding work in technology has benefited NWACC member institutions. You can read more about the award here.
Contact Greg Smith if you have questions.
Today (Wednesday) a power outage is scheduled for the Hoover, EHS and Wood-Mar buildings from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. PGE will be replacing the main feeders on Meridian with larger cables in order to provide more power to customers along that grid.
If you have any questions, please contact Plant Services at ext. 2010.
Don’t forget the two farewell receptions scheduled for this afternoon (Wednesday). Between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m., a reception in honor of former advancement employees Jim Jackson, Nancy Almquist and Valerie Rogers is scheduled at Coyote Place (located behind Burger King).
Also this afternoon, an event for Dale Seipp, former vice president of enrollment services, is set from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Stevens Center (Duke) Atrium. Dale has accepted a new position as VP for enrollment and marketing at Warner Pacific College.
Please take time to wish these former colleagues well. All are invited.
Mark your calendar now! On Friday, June 15, from 2 to 4 p.m., we are hosting an open house in honor of Andrea MacLeod (Crenshaw), who is leaving us after 11 years of service to George Fox University. The open house will be in the Spiritual Life Office, located on the corner of Sheridan and Meridian streets.
If you have any questions, please e-mail spirituallife@georgefox.edu.
Beginning this Saturday, June 16, the Fitness Center will be open each Saturday this summer from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The center is also open Monday through Friday from 6 to 8 a.m., 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and 4 to 8 p.m.
Join the university’s Relay for Life team and help give cancer the boot! We are looking for people who are willing to sign up for an hour or two of walking on Friday and Saturday, June 22-23. We’ll be filling time slots between 6 p.m. on Friday and 3 p.m. on Saturday. The event will take place at Joan Austin Elementary School in Newberg.
Please contact Vangie Pattison (epattison@georgefox.edu or ext. 2121) if you are able to join this effort and support the American Cancer Society with your time.
Please help us welcome our Genesis guests this Thursday and Friday (June 14-15) by parking somewhere other than the Stevens and Hoover parking lots. This will allow them to park close to the event check-in location.
Thank you so much!
The Undergraduate Admissions Office
HR is continuing to diligently work over the next few weeks to prepare employment statements for support staff and annual contracts for administrators for the new fiscal year (2012-13). They will be sent to employees’ campus boxes no later than Monday, June 25, but the goal is to have them out sooner. We apologize for the delay in issuing these.
The building inspections originally scheduled for Tuesday, June 5, have been rescheduled for today (Wednesday) on the Newberg campus. Plant Services will conduct inspections of all campus buildings and houses. We will be entering residential and administrative spaces anytime between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. If you have questions or concerns, please call the office at ext. 2010.
Thank you,
Plant Services
The university community is invited to a School of Business Speaker Series event featuring Mohan Nair, chief innovation officer at Regence, from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. on Friday, June 15, at the Portland Center. The deadline to register is this Friday, June 8.
Focusing on “seven deadly sins to avoid,” Nair will present “Strategic Business Transformation,” in which he’ll offer a way to view business transformation through the lens of personal transformation to anticipate, understand and command the waves of change in business. The event is free, and coffee and tea will be served.
To learn more about the presentation and to register, visit this page.
On Tuesday, June 5, Plant Services will conduct inspections of all campus buildings and houses. We will be entering residential and administrative spaces anytime between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. If you have questions or concerns, please call the office at ext. 2010.
Thank you
Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Friday) at 3:30 p.m. in Hoover 105. We will discuss the physical therapy accreditation status and provide end-of-year updates. This meeting will not include a live-stream link.
During this interim time (June), Josiah Philipsen will be handling room requests for the Portland Center.
To guarantee approval for your request in an open room, we ask that all room request and technology reservations are entered by 1 p.m. the prior business day of the date needed. Thank you for your understanding and patience during this time.
This position, then full time, was vacated by Abby Burgess earlier this spring when she joined the undergraduate admissions team and has been staffed with a temporary employee since then.
Beginning July 1, it will be .5 FTE (year-round) and is currently open only to internal applicants (employees). Temporary employees may also apply, but external applications are not being accepted.
If you would like a copy of the job description, please e-mail hr@georgefox.edu. To apply, please submit a completed transfer request, cover letter, and resume to Human Resources no later than Tuesday, June 5, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found here.
Villa Cafe will be closed from Saturday, June 2, through Sunday, June 10. We will reopen on Monday, June 11. Our hours of operation this summer are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Staff and faculty: Now is a great time to check out and update your vehicle registration on MyGFU. Just log on and select “Self Service.” Next, choose “University Forms.” The Vehicle Registration link will open up in the middle of the page.
If the information is not correct, then hit the minus sign to the right of the listing and delete it. You can click on the “Add Additional Vehicle” tab to enter the correct information. List all the vehicles you usually drive to campus, as there is no limit.
If you regularly drive more than one vehicle to campus, security recommends purchasing an additional parking permit for $5 to avoid having to switch your permit from one car to another. Just bring $5 cash to the security office during office hours, and we can issue it on the spot. If your permit is in disrepair, bring it to the security office and we can issue you a new gratis permit. If you’ve misplaced your permit, it is only $5 to purchase a new one. Adhesive staff permits are also available for your motorcycle or scooter’s windshield.
Adjunct permits are issued on the calendar year, so if you are teaching this summer or fall and didn’t teach this past spring, please come to the security office to pick up a 2012 parking permit. Parking permits are also available for Portland Center employees who frequently come to the Newberg campus.
Please don’t hesitate to call ext. 2090 or e-mail Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu if you have questions about vehicle registration or parking that are not answered on the Web pages.
More than 180 of the top junior players from around the Pacific Northwest, including the No. 1-ranked player in the nation in the Boys’ 14 section, will visit Newberg this weekend as the university hosts the United States Tennis Association’s George Fox University Juniors Champs Tournament Saturday through Monday, May 26-28.
“This is our first time to host an event like this, and the response has been tremendous,†said George Fox coach Neal Ninteman. “The field just mushroomed, so we’ve had to engage additional courts at Newberg High School and Jacquith Park. We’re excited to have so many of the top junior tennis players from across the Northwest coming to Newberg, and we want to invite everyone in the community to come out and see some of the up-and-coming young stars in U.S. tennis.â€
Highlighting the boys’ field is Henrik Wiersholm of Kirkland, Wash., ranked No. 1 in the nation in the Boys 14 age bracket. The highest-ranked girls’ player is Dasha Ivanova of Beaverton, Ore., who is No. 5 nationally in the Girls 14 age bracket. She is seeded second in the Girls 18 tournament, behind Erin Larner of Portland’s Jesuit High School, the Oregon 6A girls’ state champion. Also competing will be the Oregon 6A boys’ state champion, Goutham Sundaram of Portland’s Lincoln High School, who is the top seed in the Boys 16 tournament.
Matches will begin at 9 a.m. each day, with the finals scheduled for Monday afternoon. Brackets will include 12-, 14-, 16-, and 18-and-under tournaments for both boys and girls. Complete draws, match schedules, and eventual results can be found on line at the USTA tournament website.
Our June Serve team going to Romania and Moldova is in need of three to five larger suitcases or duffel bags. We will be using these bags to help transport donated items and supplies; however, due to airport baggage fees, we will not be bringing the bags back with us.
For more information or if you have questions, please e-mail spirituallife@georgefox.edu.
Our June Serve team going to Romania and Moldova is in need of 3-5 larger suitcases or duffle bags. We will be using these bags to help transport donated items and supplies, however due to airport baggage fees we will not be bringing the bags back with us.
We are also gathering donated items to take to the at-risk children we will be working with. This is a wish-list from our missionary partners in Romania and Moldova.
If you would like to donate any of these items, please bring them to the Spiritual Life House by the end of the month of May. If our offices are not open, please drop it by the front door.
Items needed:
school supplies (especially markers, pens, glue sticks)
durable soccer balls
nerf balls
badminton rackets and birdies
jump ropes
roller blades
simple board games
Go fish
Uno
Legos
chess/checkers
colored construction paper
glue sticks
Elmer’s glue
water balloons
colored thread (for weaving bracelets)
permanent markers
blue gel pens
gardening gloves
blue sticky tack
colored chalk
fabric paint
fabric markers
badminton rackets and birdies
puzzles (for ages 7-10)
etch a sketch
For more information or questions please email spirituallife@georgefox.edu
