The Daily Bruin

Three things you need to know about COVID-19 and campus life:

1. Wear your face masks where required. By state mandate, masks are required in indoor public spaces and at outdoor public settings where six feet of physical distancing is not possible.

2. Let us know if you have symptoms. Students and employees who experience COVID-19 or cold symptoms should quarantine and let the university know by completing the COVID Care Form. We can help you – and protect our community – if you let us know.

3. Free COVID testing and vaccinations are available on the Newberg campus. Contact the Health and Counseling Center to make an appointment (503-554-2340).

Join us Tuesday, Aug. 31, at 10:50 a.m., for Fall Academic Convocation Chapel in Bauman Auditorium. Provost Andrea Scott will address the community, and president Robin Baker and ASC president Micah Mensing will lead the Community Charge.

Come start the year off blessed as we worship together and welcome students to campus. See you Tuesday!

Contact Laurie Fair (lfair@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Disability & Accessibility Services, the Academic Resource Center, faculty, staff, and student leaders are joining together to offer a whole slate of connection opportunities this fall. Click here to indicate your interest in receiving information about one or more of these options! We’d love to have you join us!

• Academic Coaching (all students)
• ADHD Group (all students)
• Autism/Aspergers Group (Newberg campus)
• Becoming a Tutor (all students)
• Celiac/Gluten Free Group (Newberg campus)
• Chronic Illness Group (all students)
• Learning Disability Group (all students)
• Trauma Group (Newberg campus)

Contact Andrea Byerley (abyerley@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

The Portland Writing Center (PWC), located in the Portland Center Library, is available for Zoom video conference and email writing consultations.

Graduate, George Fox Connect (GFC), and George Fox Digital (GFD) students are invited to contact the PWC for feedback on writing projects, citation assistance, or other writing-related issues. Check wc.georgefox.edu for additional information, including hours of operation and appointment scheduling.

For more information, email the Writing Center at wc@georgefox.edu. If you have questions about the Portland Writing Center, please contact Hannah Jackson at hjackson@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2449.

Not vaccinated? The Health & Counseling Center on the Newberg campus is offering free Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccinations today (Friday) for employees, students and their families.

Drop by anytime between 9 a.m. and noon or from 1 to 4 p.m. Questions? Contact Molly Hickok (mhickok@georgefox.edu).

Attend TIAA Live Webinars to help boost your financial know-how. You can register for upcoming titles at TIAA.org/webinars.

Upcoming September webinars (all times Pacific):

• The 411 on 529 College Savings Plans: Sept. 14 at 9 a.m. 
• Inside Money: Managing Income and Debt: Sept 14 at noon
• Start to Finish: The Early Career Woman’s Guide to Financial Wisdom: Sept. 15 at 9 a.m. 
• Tomorrow in Focus: Sept. 15 at noon
• Understanding Medicare: Sept. 16 at 9 a.m. 
• Making it Easier for You: Online Tools and Resources: Sept. 16 at noon

Not vaccinated? The Health & Counseling Center on the Newberg campus is offering free Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccinations tomorrow (Friday) for employees, students and their families.

Drop by anytime between 9 a.m. and noon or from 1 to 4 p.m. Questions? Contact Molly Hickok (mhickok@georgefox.edu).

Mail Services will be running its courier service between campuses this fall. Below is the schedule.

• Medical Science Building (Werth): Monday through Friday
• Portland Center: Tuesday and Thursday

Items that need to be delivered must be at Mail Services by 10:30 a.m. for same-day delivery. If you have any questions, please contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

Andrea Friesen, a kinesiology student and Richter Scholar researcher, is in need of 30 faculty members to fill out a health and well-being survey (PROMIS) to form a control group as she studies the effect of exercise program participation on workplace self-efficacy.

Those who participate in the control group will be asked to complete the survey again in eight weeks. After completion of pre- and post-survey, control group participants will be entered in a raffle to win one of two $10 gift cards to Coffee Cottage.

Please contact Andrea for more information (afriesen19@georgefox.edu).

Join us Tuesday, Aug. 31, at 10:50 a.m., for Fall Academic Convocation Chapel in Bauman Auditorium. Provost Andrea Scott will address the community, and president Robin Baker and ASC president Micah Mensing will lead the Community Charge.

Come start the year off blessed as we worship together and welcome students to campus. See you Tuesday!

Contact Laurie Fair (lfair@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

We hope you are doing well and remembering to take good care of yourself. There are still free water bottles available at HR, so please stop by anytime between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

This week we are encouraging you to take mini breaks to help you decompress and recharge your energy. A quiet moment can go a long way in a busy or stressful day. Find out about different and surprising ways to relax in a short time.

Be well. Questions? Contact HR at hr@georgefox.edu.

If you as a faculty or staff member require a desk, bookcase, filing cabinet or table, a work order will need to be entered for the delivery of these items.

Contact your building monitor so that they can enter the work order on your behalf. The custodial services team will deliver an item that matches the existing building furniture style. If no items exist in the surplus furniture inventory, your request will be denied and purchasing will work with you on acquiring the pieces of furniture that are needed.

Visits to Plant Services to look at the surplus furniture inventory are not allowed at this time. Contact Sonia Rademacher (srademacher@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

As of Aug. 23, George Fox is requiring multi-factor authentication for faculty members to sign in to university resources through Single Sign On. This change affects signing into resources such as email and Canvas.

If you haven’t already, please opt in to multi-factor authentication by following these instructions (you will need to log in to the data-wiki with your George Fox credentials to access the instructions).

Please contact the IT Service Desk (servicedesk@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Ready to get started in Canvas? Digital Learning has some resources to help you:

How to Enter Canvas

• Go to this Canvas link (you may want to consider adding this link in your Chrome bookmarks or Firefox browser)
• Sign in using your George Fox username and password

Explore Your Sandbox

When you enter Canvas, you will see courses listed on your dashboard. One of these courses is entitled “[Your Name] Sandbox.” You can use this site to play with features. Cannot find it? The guide, Locating Your Course, demonstrates how to find courses and organize your dashboard.

Complete the training Higher Education: First Day Ready

• The video, Accessing First Day Ready (1:25 minutes) demonstrates how to enroll in the tutorial.
• In the Canvas dashboard, click on the “Help” icon located at the bottom of the navigation bar, which is on the left side of the screen
• Select “Training Services Portal”
• In the “Learning Library” tab, select the tutorial “Higher Education: First Day Ready”
• Enroll

The tutorial is a series of modules that guide you through the features of Canvas from the instructor’s perspective. It is self-paced so you can complete modules over an extended period of time.

Import Content into Your Canvas Instructional Course Sites

All FoxTALE course sites have been migrated to Canvas. The guides at Importing Course Content demonstrate how to review your migrated sites, labeled Moodle, and import content from those sites into your new instructional course sites, labeled 2021 Fall or 2022 Spring.

We are glad to answer questions as you explore. You may also want to join us for 30-minute web conferences in which we cover specific topics. See the Digital Learning Calendar for the listing of topics and dates.

Questions? Contact Gloria Doherty (gdoherty@georgefox.edu).

If you as a faculty or staff member require a desk, bookcase, filing cabinet or table, a work order will need to be entered for the delivery of these items.

Contact your building monitor so that they can enter the work order on your behalf. The custodial services team will deliver an item that matches the existing building furniture style.

If no items exist in the surplus furniture inventory, your request will be denied and purchasing will work with you on acquiring the pieces of furniture that are needed.

Contact Sonia Rademacher (srademacher@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

This week we remind you to stay hydrated to feel energized and well. Water improves digestion, relieves fatigue and helps us stay focused.

Find out more about some easy and helpful ways to keep up with the water intake. And stop by HR to pick up a free water bottle!

Questions? Contact HR at hr@georgefox.edu

Thank you for all your hard work this year at the Portland Center! RSVP to join HR for lunch on Thursday, Aug. 26, between noon and 12:45 p.m.

Contact Amilcar Del Cid (adelcid@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Graduate research students in the PsyD program are looking for 65-plus-year-old adult participants to complete a short interview and some cognitive assessments over Zoom.

Participation takes less than two hours, can be completed from the comfort of home, and all participants will receive a $20 Amazon gift card. The study is being funded by the Richter Scholars Foundation.

If interested, or for more information, email Robert Kessler at rkessler19@georgefox.edu.

Do you have incredible attention to detail? Have great organizational skills? Are you articulate, technically strong and driven? Do you have payroll experience?

If you answered yes to these questions, consider applying for the university’s payroll administrator position. We are seeking someone with two to three years of payroll experience who demonstrates these qualities, along with a professional attitude and excellent customer service skills.

The job entails using PeopleSoft to process monthly and multiple off-cycle payrolls for the university. To learn more, check out the job description online or contact HR at hr@georgefox.edu.

With the increase of cases as a result of the recent COVID-19 variant, Monday’s all-community meeting was initially moved from Canyon Commons to Stoffer Stadium. Unfortunately, as the track has yet to be completed, we are now moving the gathering to Bauman Auditorium. Masks will be required, and you are encouraged to attend in person.

Some employees have expressed concerns about attending, so we are offering a live stream, not for convenience, but as an option for those who have health-related concerns. If you are vaccinated you can enter the space with confidence, as Bauman is large enough for people to spread out, and to emphasize the point, masks will be required.

If you plan to attend in person, join us for donuts at 8:30 a.m. (in front of Bauman) in advance of our 8:50 a.m. start. We will dismiss at about 11:30 a.m., at which time you are welcome to a complimentary lunch with your colleagues in Canyon Commons.