The Daily Bruin

President Baker recently returned from a trip to China, where he met with parents, students and higher education partners. When you get a chance, be sure to check out his reflections on the trip by visiting his blog site.

His entries include thoughts on the meaning of a “moral education,” what it was like visiting with a current student and her family, and the story of an interesting incident in a Chinese department store.

The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Please place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Friday, July 13. If you haven’t already created an account, you will need to do so before submitting your order.

If you have questions, contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.

Friday, July 20, will be the financial affairs office’s cutoff date for entering fiscal year 2012 revenue and/or expenses. Please submit appropriate paperwork as soon as possible for any revenues earned or expenses incurred prior to the end of FY2012 (June 30, 2012).

Please remember that these revenues and/or expenses must be included as fiscal year 2012 entries and may not be deferred to fiscal year 2013.

Thank you so much your cooperation as we wrap up FY2012 and prepare for our yearly audit. If you have any questions, please contact the financial affairs office at ext. 2160.

The all-employee meeting scheduled for this month has been moved from July 12 to Wednesday, July 25, beginning at 3:30 p.m. in VAC 117 (please note new location). At the meeting, the VP’s will share information regarding the recent restructuring.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link” located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.” It is the bottom link in that section. The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings and include a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link.

Videos from previously recorded meetings will be added to this page in the days following. Please bookmark the page for quick access each month.

We always appreciate receiving the previous month’s time sheets and time-off reports early in the new month, but we are especially anxious to receive June’s each year. If you haven’t already, please send us your June time-off report or time sheet by this Thursday, July 12, so we can enter vacation and sick leave used in June. This will enable the folks in Financial Affairs to report fiscal year-end balances, which will help them finish their work of closing the books on 2011-12.

If you have any time-off reports or time sheets from earlier in 2011-12 that you have not yet submitted, please turn those in as well. If a supervisor’s absence will cause a delay, please send HR a copy and submit the original after it has both yours and your supervisor’s signatures.

Thank you very much.
– HR

For your entertainment pleasure, Bob Gilmore will be playing the piano in the Bruin Den during lunch time on Tuesday, July 10. Please be sure to come by and enjoy some great music as well as our Bruin barbecue for lunch.

We’re told Bob may take requests, so be thinking of songs you might like him to play.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, July 23, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

For those who place supply orders through our online sites with Office Depot and/or Staples, I wanted to give you a heads-up that an order must meet a minimum order value (MOV) threshold before it can be processed.

The minimum for Office Depot is $50 and the minimum for Staples is $75. When placing an order, you may continue to add items to your shopping cart until you reach the MOV threshold. Once the threshold has been reached, you can proceed to checkout.

If you have any questions, please contact Kathi Becker or Andy Dunn.

Please join us Friday, July 13, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Pennington House courtyard for a farewell reception for Tamara Cissna (Marketing Communications).

Tamara has managed the George Fox creative services team for nine years and is moving to Indiana to become associate vice president of marketing and communication at Earlham College. Please drop by to wish her well.

Also, if you have any Earlham contacts, Tamara would love to hear from you. Please contact her (tcissna@georgefox.edu) or give her a call at ext. 2126.

Please help us welcome our Genesis guests this Friday, July 6, 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!
The Undergraduate Admissions Office

Interested in some free plants, bulbs and trees? “Grandpa Roy,” a regular distributor of cut flowers on campus, has some extras to give away. If interested, give him a call at 503-538-9091.

All the power will be shut off in the Villa Academic Complex on Tuesday, July 3, from 10 a.m. to noon. This is the final work needed to complete the physical therapy remodel project.

Please call Dan Schutter at 503-476-4256 if you have any questions. If you stay in the building during the outage, please be mindful that the fire alarm system will also be turned off. Dan will be the fire watch in case of emergency.

Don’t forget our annual Red, White and Blue Jeans Day. In recognition of Independence Day (and a George Fox holiday) on Wednesday, July 4, you are invited to wear casual attire in patriotic colors on Tuesday, July 3.

At 3 p.m., the all-American dessert – apple pie a la mode – will be served on the Stevens Center plaza for Newberg employees. Please join us for this sweet treat and take the opportunity to visit with colleagues as well. Summer student employees are also invited. The event is being cosponsored by HR and the Staff Development Committee.

Portland and Boise employees are also being provided a similar afternoon break.

It’s time for our seventh (or maybe eighth) annual Red, White and Blue Jeans Day. In recognition of Independence Day (and a George Fox holiday) on Wednesday, July 4, you are invited to wear casual attire in patriotic colors on Tuesday, July 3.

At 3 p.m., the all-American dessert – apple pie a la mode – will be served on the Stevens Center plaza for Newberg employees. Please join us for this sweet treat and take the opportunity to visit with colleagues as well. Summer student employees are also invited. The event is being cosponsored by HR and the Staff Development Committee.

Portland and Boise employees are also being provided a similar afternoon break.

Quick: Who was George Fox University’s undergraduate professor of the year in 2008? Who was the staff member of the year in 2009?

If you know, pat yourself on the back! If not, find out these answers and more on the Employee Council site. There, the employees of the year are archived, as are the employees of the month for the last three years. After reading, perhaps you will be inspired to send an e-mail to a colleague — either one who has been honored or one who has not — saying that you appreciate his or her work.

You are always welcome to contact the Employee Council by e-mailing us at employeecouncil@georgefox.edu or by directly contacting an individual on the council (see the website for a list of members).

Don’t forget to get your tickets for the Saturday, July 14, Portland Timbers game at Jeld-Wen Field. That evening is George Fox University Night as the  Timbers take on L.A. Galaxy at 8 p.m. Enjoy the game with the whole family while connecting with other George Fox alumni, parents and friends.

Tickets are $42 each. Seats are in the View Terrace, Section 222. Tickets may be purchased by contacting Alumni Relations at 503-554-2134 or alumni@georgefox.edu.

A limited number of tickets are available and will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

George Fox is honored to once again to partner with the Oregon Special Olympics State Games as a host site.  The Games are in need of volunteers – please consider serving the community at this great event.

The Summer Games are the state championship competitions in the sports of athletics (track & field), bocce, golf and softball for Special Olympics Oregon athletes.  All athletes and teams have trained in their hometowns for 8 weeks prior to the Summer Games and have qualified to compete at the Summer State Games at a regional level competition.

Date:  July 14 – 15, 2012

Sports:   Athletics (Track & Field), Bocce, Golf Softball

Positions Include:  Sports venues—timers, scorekeepers, runners, announcers, staging, results, forecaddies, judges, spotters, awards, officials, umpires, lunch distribution, set-up, tear-down.  There are also opportunities to help at Olympic Town, Healthy Athletes, lunch support and many other things.

Time:   Generally, volunteer shifts are 4—5 hours on either Saturday or Sunday.

Age:  You must be 16 years or older to volunteer independently. Children 12 – 15 years old must volunteer with a parent.

Training:  We will have key volunteers provide training at the beginning of your shift.

To Register:      Go to Special Olympics Oregon website:  www.soor.org … click on “volunteer” … click on “volunteer for sports competitions” … Choose the competition that you want to volunteer for.

Questions or more information:  Contact LouAnne Tabada, Director of Volunteers for Special Olympics Oregon … LTabada@soor.org … 503.248.0600 ext 19

Saturday, July 14 is George Fox University Night at Jeld-Wen field as the Portland Timbers take on L.A. Galaxy at 8 p.m. Enjoy the game with the whole family while connecting with other George Fox alumni, parents, and friends.

Tickets are $42 each. Seats are in the View Terrace, Section 222.

Tickets may be purchased by contacting Alumni Relations at 503-554-2134 or alumni@georgefox.edu

Limited number of tickets available.  Will be sold on a first-come first-serve basis.

Room reservations are made on a first-come, first-served basis.  The Webviewer is a great tool for all employees to utilize when you need to find a room for your meetings.  Please submit room requests through the r25 system so we can process them and send you a confirmation notice.

When the room you want is already taken, please do not call the person who has the space reserved with expectations that they will give up their room to you.  Your options are to choose a different room or change your meeting time to when the room you want is available.  If you need assistance in choosing a different room or finding a different time, please e-mail or call us: newbergevents@georgefox.edu or X2027.

We recognize all meetings as important.  If you feel that your meeting may have a higher priority than that of your co-workers, please contact me and I will help you work through this process.

Thank you,
Lisa Leslie

Staff employment statements and administrator contracts for 2012-13 will be distributed in campus boxes on Friday.

If you have questions about yours, please contact Peggy Kilburg via email.