The Daily Bruin

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, Aug. 16, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

The “foxguest” wireless access key will be changed at the Boise, Portland and Salem centers and on the Newberg campus on Monday, Aug. 15. The new key can be found on the front page of mygfu.georgefox.edu or by contacting the IT Service Desk.

Those at the Portland Center and on the Newberg campus are strongly encouraged to connect to the “foxwifi” network rather than the “foxguest” network. Foxwifi is more secure. For help connecting to foxwifi, please contact the IT Service Desk.

The Bruin Bookstore needs two temporary workers to help with textbook receiving, stocking, and prep for fall semester. The job begins on Monday, Aug. 15, and ends on Friday, Sept. 2.

If you are interested, please click this link to apply. Search by Zip code 97132 for the position. Questions? Contact John Stewart at jstewart@georgefox.edu.

Join the George Fox community for our annual meeting on Friday, Aug. 19. Following is the schedule:

8 a.m. Breakfast – Klages Dining Hall
8:45 a.m. Worship and Devotional – Bauman Auditorium
9:10-11:30 a.m. Community Meeting – Bauman Auditorium

All employees half time and above are requested to attend.

Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Monday, Aug. 15, if you would like to nominate a colleague for August Employee of the Month with a summary of this person’s contributions and/or outstanding performance in the past 30 days or so.

The winner will be announced and presented with a $100 gift card to The Allison at our community meeting on Friday, Aug. 19.

The Event Services office will be closed this Thursday and Friday, Aug. 11-12, to facilitate the transition from summer to school year. We’ll return calls on Monday. Thank you for your patience. It’s been a full and busy summer!

Join IT for an introduction to FoxTALE, the university Learning Management System (LMS) used by instructors and students to include digital resources and provide options for online classroom interaction. This seminar assumes no prior FoxTALE experience and begins with logging in to FoxTALE. Learn to develop your course site, upload course files such as syllabi, set up an online discussion forum, and set up assignments.

You can sign up at this link for sessions on Wednesday, Aug. 17, from 9 a.m. to noon in Stevens 307 in Newberg, or Thursday, Aug. 25, from 9 to 10 a.m. (Pacific) in an online webinar. (New regular faculty participating in New Faculty Orientation Aug. 16-18 will have a separate seminar as part of NFO.)

Visit Faculty FoxTALE Quick Guides for more information on using FoxTALE.

Join IT throughout the fall for 30-minute webinars on FoxTALE, FoxFiles, Google Docs, Polling, and Social Media. View the schedule, and sign up at this link. Information on how to join each webinar will be delivered via e-mail 24 hours prior to the webinar.

As of Aug. 1, women faculty and staff have the opportunity to apply for participation in the 2011-12 Women’s Leadership Development Institute cohort that will commence at a retreat planned for Sept. 29-30. Applications will be available at this link. Please return all applications to Campus Box #6255 by Sept. 1. Sheri Philips will continue to give leadership to the program.

The university’s first Women’s Leadership Development cohort concluded at a celebration for the program mentors and mentees in May. After attending the kick-off retreat in October, each cohort mentee met monthly with her mentor from October to May and attended five required leadership skills sessions.

Cohort mentees read several texts during the program and shared their learning on a WLDI Foxtale site. Mentees last year included Melissa Terry, Kathy Weiss, Audrey Williamson, Shelley Yonemura, Sondra Creason, Angela Wilson Henry and Brenda Burg.

Even though only a limited number can be accepted, please feel encouraged to apply.

If you are looking for a George Fox student to rent a room in your home you might consider one of our new international students.  Some of our new international students, who will be enrolling in the full-time MBA program or American Culture and Language Courses, will need to find housing off-campus.. Please email Alex Pia or Dianna McIntyre if you would like one these new students to contact you.

Please join us Monday (Aug. 8 ) at 11 a.m. in Hoover 105 for an informational meeting about Welcome Weekend (formally called Orientation).  We will go over changes to the schedule this year and answer any questions you may have.  Hope to see you there.

Wood-Mar Hall and EHS will have limited access during the week of August 8-12 due to extensive work on the fire alarm system. Card access only will be available through the west (parking lot) doors of Wood-Mar Hall between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.. If you need to enter these buildings, you must sign in and out at the Academic Affairs Office and indicate the room(s) where you will be working.

Please call ext. 2140 if you need to access the building and do not have card access.

Please join us for an informational meeting about Welcome Weekend (formally called New Student Orientation) on Monday, Aug. 8 at 11 a.m. in Hoover 105.  The purpose of the meeting is to update everyone on changes to the schedule this year and to answer any questions you may have.  Hope to see you there!

Contact Stephanie St. Cyr for more infomation.

We are already a few days into August, so please think about a colleague that would be deserving of this month’s Employee of the Month award.  Please submit your nomination by Monday, August 15, via email to Peggy Kilburg. It should be a summary of this person’s recent contributions (past 30 days or so) — what was done, who was impacted, etc. — and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.

The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient from the nominations submitted, and the winner, along with July’s recipient, will be honored and presented with a $100 gift card to The Allison at our all employee/community meeting on Friday morning, August 19.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, Aug. 16, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

The West Coast Christian Conference will bring more than 1,200 guests to the Newberg campus this week.  Conference guests will represent several west coast Chinese-American Churches and international locations.  They will use a majority of the campus for meetings.

A rare Ethiopian manuscript of the four Gospels belonging to Queen/Empress Zewditu (1916-1930) is on special display at the Murdock Learning Resource Center from Aug. 1-18.  The hours for the library are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.  After this display, the manuscript will be returned to Ethiopia.

The Wheeler/Le Shana Parking lots will be closed for resurfacing the week of Aug. 8-12. The Wheeler service road will also be closed for part of this time for patching.

Plant Services thanks you for your patience in advance as we complete these projects.

In the coming weeks IT will be making changes to security settings on Windows workstations. These changes are designed to provide better protection from malicious attacks. These changes should be transparent for Windows XP users. With Windows 7, users may now see notifications when important system resources are accessed.

Please contact the IT Service Desk if you have questions.

IT will begin pushing out an update to Windows 7 on Wednesday, August 3. You will be prompted to reboot your computer when the update has installed successfully. If you are not running Windows 7 this update will have no impact on you.

Please contact the IT Service Desk if you have any questions about this.