Attention all employees: Please take a moment a fill out this quick survey regarding Serve Day if you have not yet done so.
The more information we have from you the easier our jobs become.
Thank you!
– Serve Day Committee
An all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 24, in Hoover 105.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. For best results, use Mozilla Firefox for your web browser, and your computer must have QuickTime Player installed. Simply copy the link into the address bar of your browser. If you have any problems, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569.
In addition, a chat room has been set up to allow for interaction. A video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing the following day at itunesu.georgefox.edu.
The Bruin Bookstore and its online store will close down business to conduct its annual year-end inventory process starting at noon next Monday, June 28. To strive for accuracy, we are not able to conduct any business during this closure. Phone calls, voice mail messages and e-mails will not be responded to until this procedure is completed. There also will not be any money on hand to make change. Please plan ahead to get all your Bruin necessities before June 28. We truly appreciate your understanding and cooperation.
The bookstore will reopen starting at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 6, after the July 4 holiday weekend. Thank you for supporting your Bruin Bookstore!
The university is seeking to fill this 30-hour-per week/10-month (August-May) position to assist the dean of instruction and others in the academic affairs office beginning Aug. 1. This .62FTE position is currently open only to internal applicants (employees). Please e-mail hr@georgefox.edu to obtain a copy of the job description and transfer request if you are interested in this opening.
To apply, you will need to submit the completed transfer request, cover letter and resume to Human Resources no later than Tuesday, June 29.
Bruin Den lunch specials for the week of June 21-25 …
Monday: Two barbecue beef sliders served with fresh fruit salad and cole slaw with small bottled water or medium soda. $5
Tuesday Expo: Stir-fried Cantonese reddened pork and fresh veggies served with fried rice with small bottled water or medium soda. $5
Wednesday: Artisan-style woodstone pizza featuring “pizza explosion” with mushrooms, olives and Italian sausage, or BLT pizza served with tossed Caesar salad and medium soda or small bottled water. $5
Thursday Expo: Penne and chicken fresco pasta saute with fresh grape tomatoes, basil, lemon butter sauce and seasoned chicken served with focaccia and small bottled water or medium soda. $5
Friday: Iron-grilled smoked chicken panini sandwich with mozzarella cheese, smoked bacon and sundried tomato pesto mayo on a rosemary cibatta roll served with choice of Caesar salad or small fries and small bottled water or medium soda. $5.50
IT will be upgrading the FoxFiles software on Tuesday, June 22, between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., PDT. There will be no impact to any of your documents since this is a software upgrade; however, documents will not be available during the upgrade. FoxTALE course documents and media located in FoxFiles will be temporarily unavailable during this window of time as well.
Contact the IT service desk if you have any questions.
An all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. this Thursday, June 24, in Hoover 105.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. For best results, use Mozilla Firefox for your web browser, and your computer must have QuickTime Player installed. Simply copy the link into the address bar of your browser. If you have any problems, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569.
In addition, a chat room has been set up to allow for interaction. A video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing the following day at itunesu.georgefox.edu.
Interested in learning more about the new e-mail system? Used to the basics but want to know more? IT has scheduled several training sessions from June through September. Check out the schedule and sign up on the R.S.V.P. form.
Basic training
Groups Training
Calendar Training
For more information about the transition, including FAQ and Quick Guides, visit the website at georgefox.edu/email-conversion.
Thanks to 131 donors who gave gifts to the Austin Sports Complex ranging from $5 to $25,000 since Oct. 16, 2009, we have raised the $250,000 needed by June 30 to match the gift by an anonymous donor. Among those who gave were graduating seniors, George Fox employees, alumni, board members and other friends of the university.
To date, we have raised nearly $2.1 million toward our $6.5 million fundraising goal for Phase I of the Austin Sports Complex. This is a three-year effort, and we hope to raise another third of our goal (approximately $2.5 million) in 2010-11.
Phase I calls for the development of 11 of the 23 acres of land through construction of a synthetic turf soccer field, a multi-use synthetic turf field, and a multi-use field building. Progress on the project is well underway. The general contractor, The Saunders Co., is overseeing the installation of the first synthetic Astro Turf GameDay Grass MT45 field this week, so it will be ready for soccer this fall.
For more information or to participate in the campaign, visit the Austin Sports Complex page.
Back by popular demand, we are pleased to announce that the Villa Cafe has reopened for the summer. Please join us for a steaming cup of Starbucks coffee, freshly baked pastries, fresh fruit smoothies, hand-crafted deli and panini sandwiches and our popular homemade soups. We also feature a full array of delicious grab-and-go sandwiches and salads made fresh daily.
Summer hours are Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Convenient payment options include cash (always), credit and debit as well as our popular Bruin Bucks. If you have a university ID card, just ask our cashier how you can get an additional 10 percent in buying power.
Questions? Call our office at ext. 2500.
– Denny Lawrence,
Bon Appetit
I can’t thank everyone enough for all of the cards, flowers, support and prayers during the past several weeks since my son’s death. I can feel all of you holding me up during this difficult time.
A celebration of life service will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 27, at the Northside Community Church, located at the corner of Crestview Drive and Hoskins Street. Contributions can be made to a memorial fund at Attrell’s Funeral Home to help defray costs. A private graveside service will be held for family and friends at 3 p.m. at the Yamhill Pike cemetery on Sunday, June 27.
– Debby O’Kelley,
Plant Services
Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has contracted with K.F. Jacobsen & Co., Inc. to perform pavement resurfacing work on six Newberg streets between June 21 and July 9. Construction work includes grinding, soft spot repair and paving.
Streets to be paved are:
Villa Road grinding will be performed during the day from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and paving during the night from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Work on the five other streets will be performed during the day from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Streets will be closed to all through traffic. Emergency and local access is allowed. Residents and businesses are urged to park on adjacent streets, and on-street parking is not allowed during construction. The schedule is weather dependent and may vary a few days.
Traffic delays should be expected, and the city appreciates your understanding and cooperation. Visit newbergoregon.gov for construction or traffic updates or a PDF map. Residents and businesses adjacent to the construction site will be notified by the contractor of the progress.
We are expecting a large number of new students and their families for Genesis Thursday through Saturday, June 17-19. Would you please help welcome them to our campus by sacrificing your parking spots in the Hoover, Stevens and Wood-Mar lots during these three days? There are lots of parking spaces in the Pennington and Bauman lots, and the campus side of Meridian and Sheridan streets are also good options.
We also have a large group arriving for the weekend on Friday afternoon, so parking will be quite busy for the next few days. Please also pass this on to your summer student workers. Thank you in advance for helping us to graciously welcome our new students!
– Security Services
Another Phase II garage sale is scheduled Thursday and Friday, June 17-18, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the side porch of Pennington House. Event props, centerpieces, framed art and miscellaneous household items will be available. Feel free to swing by!
Please drop by the Bruin Bookstore’s Genesis sidewalk sale June 17-19 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Selected Bruin merchandise is 20 to 75 percent off.
Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (HR) if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for June Employee of the Month. Your e-mail should include the person’s name, job title, a concise but specific summary of this person’s contribution(s) to the university, its students, and/or its employees in the 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 Friday, June 18. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the Employee of the Month from the nominations submitted. The winner of both the May and June Employee of the Month awards will be announced at the all-employee meeting on Wednesday, June 23, and each will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.
Please join us for the university’s annual golf tournament at The Reserve Vineyards and Golf Club in Aloha, Ore., Thursday, July 15. The event will benefit student scholarships and the Bruin Athletic Association.
This year, we’re offering an employees-only special: Register between now and June 30 and get a special registration price of $150. This deal is not available through online registration. To register at this price, please contact Ronecca Dockter at ext. 2116 or rdockter@georgefox.edu, or drop by the University Fund Office, 211 N. Center.
Registration includes greens fees, a golf cart, a $50 gift certificate to the Nike Mobile Golf Shop, a boxed lunch, dinner and a gift package. Additional information is available at golf.georgefox.edu.
The men’s locker rooms in Wheeler Gymnasium will be closed all day Wednesday, June 16, for floor finishing and repair. Please do not enter the locker rooms until Thursday.
The parking registration database is again up and running, and we would like to ensure your vehicle information is up to date.
Please login to MyGFU and click “Self-Serve” and “University Forms.” Then click the vehicle registration link to verify your vehicle(s) are listed and your staff and adjunct hangtag numbers are correct. If any deletions, corrections or additions need to be made, please e-mail those to nkincaid@georgefox.edu and we will edit your information. If your information is up to date, we’d like to know that as well.
If you have replaced one vehicle with another, please let us know which vehicle it replaces. Also, you are no longer limited to registering two vehicles, so you may now register additional ones. Also new is the option to purchase additional staff and adjunct hangtags for $5 each. Drop by the security office during office hours with $5 cash for each additional permit desired.
It would help our department immensely if you could do this before Aug. 1. Please call ext. 2090 if you have questions, and thank you in advance for your prompt attention to this.
– Security Services
The university will host the seventh annual Symposium on Native North American Theology and Mission in the Hoover Academic Building on the Newberg campus June 10-12. Events will be held throughout the day, and evening sessions are free and open to the public. The event is sponsored by the North American Instititute for Indigenous Theological Studies.
For more event or schedule details, contact Randy Woodley at rwoodley@georgefox.edu.
