Serve Day is coming on Wednesday, Sept. 5! 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.
Staff, faculty and summer work-study students: The lost and found is stuffed full, and if you have misplaced items this summer, you will need to come to the security house by 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24, to check for your lost items.
Any items not reclaimed by their owner will be donated to charitable causes on Friday afternoon so that we can start the academic year with an empty lost and found.
Welcome Weekend begins today (Thursday)! Check-in for new students will take place at the residence halls. In the quad will be an information tent, community fair, wireless assistance, mail key pick-up, and a ticket tent selling meal tickets, Mystery Bus Tour tickets and “High Hopes” T-shirts.
If possible, please do not park in the Stevens lot. We would like to reserve this area for people making their way to the quad.
To see the schedules and more information about the weekend, please go to welcome.georgefox.edu.
Thank you!
Lost all the sites on your FoxTALE home page? Never fear! Just log onto foxtale19.georgefox.edu to access them. We upgraded FoxTALE on Monday, Aug 20. The address foxtale.georgefox.edu now points to a new environment for 2012-13 and beyond.
Your old sites will be available in foxtale19.georgefox.edu for a year. Questions? Contact the Service Desk.
The library is pleased to deliver library materials for participating faculty to their offices. All library material must be signed for by the faculty member or persons designated as their signers.
If you have used this service in the past or you are signing up for the first time, please click on this link and fill out the form. Questions? Contact Gina Braden at rbraden@georgefox.edu.
George Fox’s Center for Peace & Justice has invited artist/musician Aaron Strumpel to be part of the in-residence program and act as the artist practitioner in-residence for the fall semester.
We’ve had a last-minute housing cancellation and need to procure a place for Aaron for the semester in order to welcome him to George Fox. We are asking for donated housing if at all possible for the duration of his stay (he is donating his time to the university), but we will also seek to meet minimal overhead costs as needed.
The ideal living situation would be a space with enough privacy where Aaron could practice his music late at night without disturbing neighbors (or those in the house). Please pass this request to friends and family whom you think might be willing to help host this talented and wonderful musician in Newberg.
For more information, please e-mail Clint Baldwin (cbaldwin@georgefox.edu) or Melanie Newell (mnewell@georgefox.edu) or call 503-554-2686.
Click here to see Aaron’s GFU Center for Peace & Justice in-residence page.
This 40-hours-per-week/10-month position is being announced as “internal only,” available to current employees at this time. Temporary employees may apply as well. Please e-mail hr@georgefox.edu to request a copy of the job description.
To apply, please submit a letter, resume and transfer request (available on the HR jobs web page) to hr@georgefox.edu or drop these materials off in HR. The position will close at 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27.
The university community is invited to celebrate the launch of George Fox’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program at a special ceremony from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Monday, Aug. 27, at the Villa Academic Complex.
The event will include a ribbon-cutting ceremony and will allow visitors to tour the physical therapy facility. The program’s first cohort of 32 students will begin classes that morning. If you plan to attend, R.S.V.P to Mary Monahan at mmonahan@georgefox.edu or ext. 2134.
Effective listening will be the topic as alumna Anna Briggs of V2A (Vision to Action) Solutions, a Lake Oswego business consulting and coaching firm, speaks at the Tuesday, Aug. 28, monthly Newberg meeting of the Christian Chamber of Commerce of the Northwest. The meeting is from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Villa Academic Complex.
Briggs works with her husband, Larry, at V2A Solutions. She says her goal of becoming the best listener possible starts and ends as a wife and the mother of five young adults, two stepsons and two daughters-in-law.
Over the course of the last 25 years of staying home to raise her children, Briggs has been a volunteer facilitator with the Pregnancy Resource Center and The Dougy Center in Portland for grieving children; a MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) Mentor Mom; and has volunteered in her community at large. Briggs holds a bachelor ’s degree in social and behavioral science from George Fox and is currently working to obtain her professional coaching credentials through Western Seminary.
Coffee, tea and pastries will be available at the meeting, which is free for Chamber members who R.S.V.P. at cccnw.net. A $5 donation is suggested from non-members and guests who R.S.V.P.
For more information, go to the above website or call 503-928-8354.
Marketing Communications is collecting orders for name tags. For those who have regular face-to-face contact with the public and need to order a name tag, you may submit your name tag requests at this link.
Be sure to provide the name of the person for whom the name tag is needed; title or department; and the budget to be charged. Examples of title or department include: Dean of Students/Student Life and Admissions Counselor/Admissions. The next order will be placed Wednesday, Aug. 22.
It’s time to order university stationery. For order instructions, go to the marketing communications website. Please continue to purchase all non-departmental stationery (including “second-sheet letterheadâ€) through the university’s Print Services.
Orders are due by Wednesday, Aug. 29.
The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Monday, Aug. 20. If you have not done so already, you will need to create a new “Individual Account†on the form before you can submit your order.
Contact Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu) in marketing communications if you have any questions.
Don’t forget: All employees, half time and above, are requested to attend the all-community meeting scheduled from 8 to 11 a.m. this Friday, Aug. 17, in Klages Dining Hall. Breakfast will be served as part of the meeting.
For those at the university’s regional sites (Boise and Redmond), please note: The meeting will be taped and be available for viewing in MyGFU in the days following the meeting. There will not be stream service available. Portland and Salem employees are encouraged to attend in person.
Someone dropped two flat rate priority envelopes into the U.S. Mail stream last week with a return address of George Fox University. The person printed the labels off – probably using Click N Ship – using the USPS Web site. However, the person did not pay for the postage online or any other way.
The two envelopes came back to the return address – George Fox University – wanting postage to be paid.
One envelope was addressed to Michael Glatfelter of San Diego, Calif., and the other envelope was addressed to Ron Reid of Seminole, Okla. Each envelope contains a check with a return address of International Myeloma Society out of Rochester, Minn.
These envelopes – including the checks – will not be mailed until the postage has been paid. If you recognize this information, please contact Mail Services at ext. 2555 or lsartwel@georgefox.edu.
Thanks!
Please join us as we go over the Welcome Weekend schedule tomorrow morning (Wednesday) at 9 a.m. in Hoover 105. We will be communicating some exciting changes to the program. We feel this is important because every member of this community has the potential to make a positive impact on a new student’s transition to Fox.
Help us welcome the class of 2016 by being in the “know”! Questions? Contact Stephanie St. Cyr at sstcyr@georgefox.edu.
Faculty, please submit requests for course reserve material as soon as possible. Materials are processed in the order received and can take up to five days to complete.
For all requests, please fill out and submit this form. If you have any questions, please contact Gina Braden at ext. 2425 or rbraden@georgefox.edu.
Information regarding student campus mailboxes: All new and returning student campus mailboxes are now “open.†Mail is being put into their mailboxes. All summer forwarding of mail and packages has stopped.
If you have questions, please e-mail Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.
All employees, half time and above, are requested to attend the all-community meeting scheduled from 8 to 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 17, in Klages Dining Hall. Breakfast will be served as part of the meeting.
For those at the university’s regional sites (Boise and Redmond), 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.†Portland and Salem employees are encouraged to attend in person.
The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings, and it includes a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link. Videos of previously recorded meetings are also available on the same page. They are listed in date order, and a username and password is provided which will give you access.
The university’s new faculty members for this fall will be introduced at a special dinner, hosted by the George Fox Auxiliary, at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21, in Klages Dining Hall. The cost is $10 per person.
Reservations can by made by contacting Judy Woolsey at 503-538-7314 by Thursday, Aug. 16. The program will include the introduction of new faculty by Provost Patrick Allen.
Many of you may remember Virginia Pongratz. She worked for the university for 27 years in the financial affairs office and retired about 10 years ago. Her family felt it would be fitting to host a memorial service for her on campus and has extended an invitation to the George Fox community to attend.
The service will be held beginning at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 10, in Bauman Auditorium.
