The Daily Bruin

Fiscal-year-end 2015/2016 is quickly approaching, and the finance department would appreciate your help in ensuring a smooth and timely year-end close. Please review and note the following deadlines for accounts payable requests:

1. Submission of the following FY2015/2016 requests must be received by the finance department on or before July 8, 2016:

• Check Requests
• Invoices
• Expense Reimbursement Requests
• Petty Cash Logs for expenses through June 30, 2016, only

2. All Cash Advance Requests for FY2015/2016 expenses must be received by the finance department on or before June 13, 2016.

Please refer to the “Fiscal Year-End Deadlines & Procedures” page on the finance department website for additional details.

Please contact Jennifer Klapp (jklapp@georgefox.edu or ext. 2170) with any year-end accounts payable questions.

Thank you!
The Finance Team

Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. Marketing communications will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source before Monday, June 13.

Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.

End-of-the-fiscal-year deposits to be included in this year’s budget must be in finance no later than July 1, 2016. Checks dated prior to June 30 must be deposited in the current fiscal year.

Please look around your desks and file cabinets to see if there are any lingering items that need to go to the bank. If you are taking vacation during the July 4 holiday, please send your deposits over before you leave. If you should have any questions about deposits, please contact Heather Groenlund at ext. 2173.

Final petty cash reconciliations for this fiscal year are due in finance no later than July 8, 2016. Please remember to submit all receipts, cash and reconciliation reports before this deadline. If you will be taking vacation over the July 4 holiday, please plan ahead and send these over before you leave. If you have questions about petty cash protocols, please contact Jen Klapp at ext. 2170.

Invite your university guests at the Portland Center that need Wi-Fi access to use the new Bruin-Guest wireless network. Their mobile devices (phones, tablets, and laptops) can get internet access with a pass-code sent to their phone via text or to an email address. Simply connect and register on the Bruin-Guest wireless network.

George Fox students, faculty, and staff should continue to use the Bruin-Secure wireless network. The older foxpublic wireless network will be turned off this Monday, June 6.

Visit the IT Wi-Fi webpage for more information or contact the IT Service Desk with questions.

Six staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:

• Program Director, Theologia (George Fox Summer Theology Institute, Portland Center)
• Video Producer, Marketing Communications
• Technical Director, Department of English and Theatre
• Financial Aid Counselor
• Records Specialist, Registrar
• Associate Director of Annual Giving

The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.

All testing of FoxTALE assignments using Turnitin show that processing of submissions is restored. Faculty and students can access Originality reports. We are continuing to work with Turnitin on the default settings for any new regular FoxTALE assignments when enabling Turnitin. Until this issue is resolved, we recommend you use the settings shown in our guide when enabling Turnitin in your assignment.

See FoxTALE Turnitin Originality Reporting for details. We will send an update when this issue has been resolved.

If you have questions, please contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2569.

– Your Educational Technology Team

Invite your university guests at the Portland Center that need Wi-Fi access to use the new Bruin-Guest wireless network. Their mobile devices (phones, tablets, and laptops) can get internet access with a pass-code sent to their phone via text or to an email address. Simply connect and register on the Bruin-Guest wireless network.

George Fox students, faculty, and staff should continue to use the Bruin-Secure wireless network. The older foxpublic wireless network will be turned off this Monday, June 6.

Visit the IT Wi-Fi webpage for more information or contact the IT Service Desk with questions.

With the end of our fiscal year quickly approaching, and to ensure a clean cut-off between 2015/16 and 2016/17 spending, the last day to use your Visa card for current fiscal year purchases is Friday, June 24. Please refrain from using your card for any purchases after this date.

If you will be traveling for business during this time, please contact Matt Hammar or Kathi Becker to discuss arrangements on how to handle travel after June 24. Credit card purchases for the 2016/17 fiscal year can begin on or after July 1. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Matt at ext 2162 or Kathi at ext. 2166.

While most student concerns and complaints can and should be resolved informally, there is a formal general complaint procedure described in the “Support for Students” section of the Undergraduate Student Handbook as well as on the Graduate/DPS Policies page of the website.

Please note that these procedures cover complaints of a general nature and do not supersede specific policies involving special cases such as grade appeals, sexual harassment, etc., which are covered elsewhere in the Student Handbook, catalog or Graduate/DPS Policies.

For more information, contact the student life department at studentlife@georgefox.edu.

Invite your university guests at the Portland Center that need Wi-Fi access to use the new Bruin-Guest wireless network. Their mobile devices (phones, tablets, and laptops) can get internet access with a pass-code sent to their phone via text or to an email address. Simply connect and register on the Bruin-Guest wireless network.

George Fox students, faculty, and staff should continue to use the Bruin-Secure wireless network. The older foxpublic wireless network will be turned off this Monday, June 6.

Visit the IT Wi-Fi webpage for more information or contact the IT Service Desk with questions.

We are pleased to announce the results of the Staff Development Committee election! Here are your new and continuing members for 2016-17:

• Chair: Adina Briggs McConaughey
• Vice Chair: Peg Hutton
• Treasurer: Debbie Hawblitzel
• Secretary: Belinda Creighton
• Portland Center member: Mary Cameron
• Continuing members: Patti Cooke, Janeen Dillow, Jesse Dillow, Christee Wise
• Newly elected members: Kera Hallman, Jeff Marble, Tim Jaquith, Teresa Arnold, Jennifer Hanks
• Rotating off the committee: Paul Becker and Nadine Kincaid

The committee is open to your ideas and suggestions for what you would like to see for activities and continuing education, so please email Adina Briggs-McConaughey before June 14 so members can discuss your ideas/considerations/concerns at the calendar planning meeting in June.

It has been a pleasure serving you as SDC chair this spring!

– Nadine Kincaid

Monday is Memorial Day, and the campus will be closed. The courier service for next week will be Tuesday and Thursday. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Richard Silver at 503-554-2551 or rsilver@georgefox.edu.

Seven staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:

• Program Director, Theologia (George Fox Summer Theology Institute, Portland Center)
• Video Producer, Marketing Communications
• Technical Director, Department of English and Theatre
• Financial Aid Counselor
• Records Specialist, Registrar
• MBA and DBA Program Coordinator, College of Business (Portland Center)
• Associate Director of Annual Giving

The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.

In his final blog piece about his Juniors Abroad visit to Ireland and England, President Robin Baker shares about his first cricket match and reflects on how much he enjoyed the overall trip and the students who accompanied him. You can read it here.

All university offices in Newberg and at regional sites will be closed on Monday, May 30, to observe the Memorial Day holiday. Libraries in Newberg and the Portland Center also will be closed.

When returning unwanted packages back to the sender, whether it be through UPS or USPS, there are certain steps that need to happen before bringing them to Mail Services.

1. The packages CANNOT be opened; they have to stay sealed.
2. Do not write on any of the labels that are on the package.
3. If the package is being returned through UPS, write in red “Refused.”
4. If the package is being returned through USPS, write in red “Unclaimed.”

If the package has been opened, then you must pay for the package to be returned to the sender. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Richard Silver at 503-554-2551 or rsilver@georgefox.edu.

Don’t forget the all-employee meeting set for this afternoon (Thursday) from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. The event will be live-streamed at the Portland Center in Room 160.

In his latest blog entry about his Juniors Abroad trip to England and Ireland, President Robin Baker shares about his group’s visit to the Warner Brothers Studio where the Harry Potter movies were filmed. You can read it here.

In February of this past spring semester, our installation of Turnitin started experiencing an issue in processing student file submissions in the standard FoxTALE assignment activity. All files appeared as “pending” and did not produce an originality report.

We have continued to work with Turnitin to resolve the issues affecting the originality reports in the regular FoxTALE assignments. We are starting to see that submissions made weeks ago are now beginning to process. Students are receiving email confirmations from Turnitin on those submissions. We apologize for any confusion this may be causing you or your students.

We are continuing to test with Turnitin through this week to confirm that submission processing is restored. We will send another update when we are confident that the issue is resolved and testing is concluded.

If you have questions, please contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2569.

Fiscal-year-end 2015/2016 is quickly approaching, and the finance department would appreciate your help in ensuring a smooth and timely year-end close. Please review and note the following deadlines for accounts payable requests:

1. Submission of the following FY2015/2016 requests must be received by the finance department on or before July 8, 2016:

• Check Requests
• Invoices
• Expense Reimbursement Requests
• Petty Cash Logs for expenses through June 30, 2016, only

2. All Cash Advance Requests for FY2015/2016 expenses must be received by the finance department on or before June 13, 2016.

Please refer to the “Fiscal Year-End Deadlines & Procedures” page on the finance department website for additional details.

Please contact Jennifer Klapp (jklapp@georgefox.edu or ext. 2170) with any year-end accounts payable questions.

Thank you!
The Finance Team