The Daily Bruin

IT is offering a webinar on the FoxTALE-MyGFU integration. Join the webinar session from any computer on Monday, Aug. 9, between 10 and 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time. Space is still available, so sign up on this RSVP form.

This integration allows faculty to activate course sites. Students will automatically be enrolled. For fall 2010, faculty have the option of using the new system or continuing with the usual process. The new system will be fully implemented in the spring of 2011.

Before Aug. 9, visit the iVocalize support website and go through the four sections available on the Getting Started page. Be sure to run the system requirements test available on this page. The login information for the training session will be sent to you via e-mail prior to the event.

If you need assistance, contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or call ext. 2569.

Registration is still open for the university’s fourth Motorcycle Rally, scheduled Saturday, Aug. 14. The event features both a long (185-215 miles) and short (110-115 miles) ride, with the former traveling through the coast range and the latter winding through the hills and valleys of Yamhill County.

The event also features a motorcycle show and barbecue dinner on the Newberg campus that evening. For schedule and price details, visit the event website or contact Alumni Relations at ext. 2131. The registration deadline is Monday, Aug. 9.

All employees who will be working with new students are invited to attend an overview of the orientation schedule before the festivities begin. Join us for this overview at 9 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 12, in Hoover 105.

Due to the large size of the incoming class, the schedule has been changed this year. We would love for everyone involved to be informed of these changes. Hope to see you there!

We have an excess of office supplies (and binders) from our recent remodel and want to offer them up to the university’s students, staff and faculty. Please stop by the registrar’s office on the first floor of the Stevens Center and see if there’s anything you can use. Stop by anytime Wednesday through Friday of this week.

As we begin the 2010-11 academic year, it is time once again to gather as a community.

Please mark your calendars:

The fall 2010 George Fox University Employee Community Meeting is scheduled from 8 to 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 20. Attendance is required.

Breakfast will be served in Klages Dining Room from 8 to 8:35 a.m. The meeting will follow in Bauman Auditorium, starting with worship at 8:45 a.m. led by Bill Jolliff.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. In addition, a chat room has been set up to allow for interaction. A video recording of the event will be available in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.

As of Friday, Print Services has acquired five Xerox ColorQubes that will allow campus users to make color copies and create scans that can be sent to e-mail. Scanning to e-mail is free to all users. Black and white copies are 10 cents per side, while color copies are 20 cents per side.

As with all of our walk-up copiers, activation cards may be purchased from IT or from the library’s front desk. The machines are located in the Hoover second-floor lobby, the second-floor mezzanine in the Stevens Center, the MLRC’s first-floor copier center, and the VAC lobby. The fifth machine is in Print Services, where customers will be able to print from their own computers, student kiosk computers, or copy and then make payment to the staff.

Please note that the Xerox ColorQube will print black and white or color, so be sure to designate what you want. Also, this is “solid ink” technology (crayon), so an item printed/copied from the ColorQube will not be able to go through a heat-based process (lamination).

As we move into August, please consider nominating a deserving colleague for the August Employee of the Month award. As always, your nomination should include the person’s name, job title, a concise but specific 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.

Please submit your nomination by Monday, Aug. 16, via e-mail to Peggy Kilburg. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the recipient from the nominations submitted. The winners for both the July and August awards will be announced at our community meeting on Friday morning, Aug. 20, and will each receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.

Every Newberg employee should have received an e-mail indicating their Serve Day assignment for 2010. If you did not receive an e-mail, please let us know by e-mailing serveday@georgefox.edu.

Student supervisors: Payday is Monday, Aug. 16. For HR to meet this deadline, we need your students’ July time sheets by 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 4.

Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Also, don’t forget to sign them and be sure the students did as well. Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets.

Thanks so much for helping us get our students paid in a timely manner!

– HR

Drop by Print Services anytime between 3 and 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 29, to say farewell to Steve Edwards. He has accepted a pastorial position in Rochester, Minn. His last day at George Fox is Friday.

Following are lunch specials in the Bruin Den this week.

Tuesday: “Godfather of Pasta” featuring Italian sausage, roasted zucchini, garlic, onions and peppers tossed with our housemade herb marinara sauce served with focaccia. $5.50

Wednesday: Artisan-style woodstone pizza featuring roasted chicken and red onions with fontina cheese and fresh basil or summer vegetable medley with mozzarella, parmesan and cheddar cheeses. Served with Caesar salad. $5

Thursday: Honey-chicken stir fry with peppers, onions, broccoli and chilies served with sticky rice. $5.50

Friday: Deep-fried southern style breaded catfish served with hushpuppies and sweet corn slaw, sliced locally grown tomatoes and ginger lemonade. $5

All lunch specials come with choice of medium soda or small bottled water.

The office of International Student Services has moved. The new location is the International Center/Cultural House, located across from the Pennington parking lot (the former Moore House).

Stay tuned for the open house, to be announced in the fall.

The Center for Peace and Justice/Global Studies is hiring a student employee for the coming school year to help provide administrative/clerical support to the director and coordinator, help with planning and execution of events, and help maintain websites. Applicants with interest and experience in issues of peace and justice are encouraged to apply, whether or not they are Federal Work Study awarded.

If you feel you are a good fit, or know someone who would be, please click on this link to Job Connect for more information.

Thanks,
Melanie Newell

Interested employees are welcome to apply for an administrative assistant III position in the undergraduate teacher education department (located in the Villa Academic Complex).

If you are interested in this 40-hour-per-week, 10.5-month position (Aug. 1 to June 15 annually/.88FTE), please apply by this Wednesday, July 21. To do so, e-mail hr@georgefox.edu to obtain a copy of the job description and transfer request.

A transfer request, cover letter and resume must be submitted (e-mail or hard copy) to Human Resources by Wednesday.

Following are the lunch specials in the Bruin Den this week:

Tuesday: Asian shrimp yakisoba stir fry tossed with fresh ginger chili sauce with a spring roll and medium soda or small bottled water. $5.50

Wednesday: Hand-tossed artisan-style pizza featuring meat-lovers pizza with pepperoni, sausage, bacon, red onions and olives or roasted vegetable pizza with yellow tomatoes, fresh basil and oregano and fresh mozzarella. Served with tossed Caesar salad and medium soda or small bottled water. $5

Thursday: Barbecue on the quad featuring grilled hamburgers or quarter-pound all-natural beef hot dogs with baked beans, potato salad and sliced watermelon with medium soda or small bottled water. $5.50

Friday: Hand-battered fish & chips served with homemade coleslaw and medium soda or small bottled water. $5

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 7 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, July 27, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

– IT

The university is again hosting Selah, a one-day seminar for women, on Saturday, Sept. 25, from 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The theme of his year’s event is “It’s time to Simplify. Discover the biblical truth that less is more.”

Keynote speakers will be Vicki Norris, president of Restoring Order, and university pastor Sarah Thomas Baldwin. Online registration and complete details are now available at selah.georgefox.edu.

Get $10 off your registration and a free T-shirt when you volunteer for Selah! If interested, please contact Amy Lorenz (University Relations) at alorenz@georgefox.edu or ext. 2134.

The university community is invited to meet head women’s basketball coach candidate Corey Laster at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, July 19, in Hoover 105.

Laster is currently the first assistant coach for the women’s basketball team at Bucknell University (D-I). He was also the head women’s coach for Defiance College in Ohio (D-III) and Taylor University in Indiana (NAIA). He and his wife are members of Missionary Alliance.

Please come meet Corey and hear about his approach to the basketball experience.

Scott Rueck, the coach who guided George Fox to a 2009 national D-III women’s basketball championship and seven conference titles in 14 seasons, has written an open letter to thank the university community for its unwavering support over the years. Rueck announced earlier this month he was leaving George Fox to take the head women’s basketball job at Oregon State University, his alma mater.

Click here to read Scott’s letter of thanks to the community.

Join us in celebrating Vickie Timmons’ retirement! An open house reception will be held at the Pennington House garden from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, July 22. Just come around the side of the house to the backyard.