The Daily Bruin

Here are some reminders about check request and expense report procedures:

• Please use 2014/15 forms which can be found at this link.
• Please use the new chart of accounts, which is effective for the 2014/15 fiscal year. All check requests must be signed by the requester and expense reports signed by the payee. You cannot approve your own check requests or expense reports, regardless of dollar amount.
• A printed name, signature and date are required on all forms. Forms will be returned if a printed name, signature and date are not completed.

Authorizations
Requester/payee must get the appropriate approval signature before sending the form to financial affairs. Forms will be returned if the appropriate signatures are not completed.

• Budget Manager – may authorize expenses up to $1,000
• Department Head – may authorize expenses up to $2,499
• Dean – may authorize expenses up to $4,999
• VP – must authorize all expenses over $5,000
• COO – must authorize all expenses over $25,000

Purchase Orders (PO) should be used when ordering merchandise or services for which an invoice requiring payment will be sent to the university. It is the approved method for ordering that the university has adopted and should be used whenever possible.

Please call the finance office at ext. 2162 or ext. 2166 if further help is needed.

Bruin football fans! Tomorrow night (Saturday) the Bruins will host the University of La Verne at 7 p.m. The gates will open at 5:30 p.m. Please make sure to bring your student or employee ID, as your ID card will be your ticket in.

If you need to purchase additional tickets, you can do so at this link. To check out photos from the first game, go here. To watch a video about the program, visit this site.

Mail Services would like to kindly remind you it is crucial that all department mailings and outgoing deliveries include the five-segment chart of accounts number (e.g., 54510-10000-610100-MG130-ALL). This applies to Print Services as well. All department print jobs must be accompanied with the 5-segment chart of accounts number.

Print requests/jobs and outgoing mail/packages will be delayed if the new chart of accounts number is missing.

Thank you for your help making sure the account numbers are supplied to allow us to process your mail and printing requests in a timely manner through this  accounting transition.

Kindly,
Mail and Print Services

Bruin football fans! This Saturday, Sept. 13, the Bruins will host the University of La Verne at 7 p.m. The gates will open at 5:30 p.m., and we want to see all of you there! Please make sure to bring your student or employee ID. We’ll be swiping cards to get people into the game this weekend, so those are your tickets in.

If you need to purchase additional tickets, you can do so at this link. To check out photos from the first game, go here. To watch a video about the program, visit this site.

The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Wednesday, Sept. 17. If you have not already done so, you will need to create a new individual account before you can submit your order.

Please reference the Chart of Account Mappings for 2014-15 budget information.

Contact Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu) in marketing communications if you have any questions.

The Staff Development Conference is coming up on Wednesday, Nov. 5. In an effort to incorporate our staff more fully in our conference, the Staff Development Committee would like to invite any interested staff to form a worship team and lead worship at the conference.

If you have a talent and willingness to serve in this area, please email Barbi Doran at bdoran@georgefox.edu by Friday, Sept. 19.

As many of you are aware, all-community (employee) meetings are held on a monthly basis. The Leadership Team is interested in your feedback about the ongoing success of these meetings as we strive for better communication campus-wide.

Please take a moment to complete the survey at this link. We appreciate your input.

Thank you!

George Fox community,

We are so thrilled at the turnout, the Bruin pride and the electricity that filled Stoffer Family Stadium last Saturday as the Bruin football team took the field for the first time in 46 years. What a day! It was one that we’ll all remember for a long time to come.

This Saturday, Sept. 13, the Bruins will host the University of La Verne at 7 p.m. The gates will open at 5:30 p.m., and we want to see all of you there! Please make sure to bring your student or employee ID. We’ll be swiping cards to get people into the game this weekend, so those are your tickets in.

If you need to purchase additional tickets, you can do so at this link. To check out photos from the first game, go here. To watch a video about the program, visit this site.

Go Bruins!

Mark A. Noll, PhD, the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, will present the lecture “The Challenges for Christian Learning: Looking Back, Looking Ahead” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, in Wood-Mar Auditorium on the Newberg campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Noll is the author of numerous books, including The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind and The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. During his years at Wheaton College, he was a co-founder of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and, in 2006, received the National Endowment for the Humanities medal at a White House ceremony.

The lecture is sponsored by the William Penn Honors Program. A reception immediately following the lecture will be held for those interested in learning more about the honors program.

Please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.

Michael Ward, PhD, professor of apologetics at Houston Baptist University and director of the C.S. Lewis Centre in Oxford, England, will visit the Newberg campus to present a lecture, “The Heavens are Telling the Glory of God: C.S. Lewis, Narnia and the Planets,” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, in Bauman Auditorium. There is no charge to attend.

Ward is a leading expert on the works of C.S. Lewis and the author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis. He is senior research fellow at Blackfriars Hall in the University of Oxford and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis. He presented the BBC television documentary, The Narnia Code (2009). As an Anglican clergyman, he served as chaplain of St Peter’s College at the University of Oxford from 2009 to 2012 and as chaplain of Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge from 2004 to 2007.

The lecture is sponsored by the William Penn Honors Program. A reception immediately following the lecture will be held for those interested in learning more about the honors program.

Please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.

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

• Administrative Assistant II, Department of Biology and Chemistry
• Administrative Assistant IV, Graduate School of Counseling
• Accounts Payable Supervisor
• Administrative Assistant II Office of Spiritual Life, Inclusion and Leadership
• Associate Director of Student Success, Career Coach

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.

Back to school and back to Employee of the Month awards! This month marks the sixth anniversary of this tradition that honors our outstanding colleagues.

With so many who have been working so hard to ensure that the new academic year began well for our students, there are probably many whose contributions have especially stood out over the last several weeks. If you know someone you believe deserves special recognition for “above and beyond” kind of work, please send an email to Peggy Kilburg by Friday, Sept. 19, with a summary of this colleague’s recent contributions and any other information that describes why this person is deserving of this award.

The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient from the nominations submitted, and the winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 Visa gift card at our community meeting on Thursday, Sept. 25.

This is a reminder that we will be hosting a chart of accounts training session in the Portland Center today (Thursday) from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in PDS #280.

Hope to see you there!

The Finance Team

Got warts? “Wart Wednesday” will be starting on Wednesday, Sept. 10, and continue every other week throughout the year. Treatment is offered free of charge to all Newberg campus students. Portland Center students and employees are welcome with the $20 co-pay.

Please call the Health Center at 503-554-2340 to schedule your appointment.

As many of you are aware, all-community (employee) meetings are held on a monthly basis. The Leadership Team is interested in your feedback about the ongoing success of these meetings as we strive for better communication campus-wide.

Please take a moment to complete the survey at this link. We appreciate your input.

Thank you!

Here is our schedule of training for the new chart of accounts during September:

• Thursday, Sept. 4, 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Portland Center, PDS #280
• Friday, Sept. 5, 10 a.m. – noon in Lemmons Room #2
• Friday, Sept. 12, 3-5 p.m. in Lemmons Room #2
• Friday, Sept. 19, 10 a.m. – noon in Lemmons Room #2
• Friday, Sept. 26, 3-5 p.m. in Lemmons Room #2

Please check the financial affairs website, “Chart of Accounts” page, for updates regarding scheduled training.

Thank you,
The Finance Team

IT is offering multiple webinars and open labs throughout the fall semester. Topics include FoxTALE Quizzes, Assignments, Gradebook, Google Apps for instruction, Hosting a Web Conference, and using the ShareStream Pick and Play.

View the schedule and RSVP here.

Questions? Contact Kandie Comfort at kcomfort@georgefox.edu.

Now that we’ve finished cooking and serving more than 25,000 meals over the past week and we’re finally catching our breath, we felt it was time to remind everyone of the multiple dining options on campus.

Bruin Bucks: Available to everyone including staff, faculty and students with a valid GFU ID card that works like a debit card, we offer a 10 percent bonus to everyone who puts $50 or more on their ID card. It can then be used at any of our three retail cafe’s on campus (Bruin Den, Bruin Bites and Villa Café).

Lunch Club Card: Available exclusively to faculty and staff, this punch card offers 15 lunches in Klages Dining Room for just $60. Our “all you care to eat” options include a full salad bar; multiple hot entrees including vegetarian, vegan and made without gluten; artisan-style pizza; deli items; and a multitude of other foods and beverages giving you a great opportunity to interact and sit with students or other staff/faculty.

Both are very easy to sign up and use. Just visit our Bon Appetit offices in the rear of the commons, bring your ID card and cash/credit card or check, and we’ll do the rest.

Our menus are posted weekly along with great nutritional information at cafebonappetit.com/georgefox.

Please feel free to give us a call at ext. 2500 or just drop by if you have any questions.

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

• Administrative Assistant II, Department of Biology and Chemistry
• Administrative Assistant IV, Graduate School of Counseling
• Accounts Payable Supervisor
• Hybrid Learning Specialist
• Administrative Assistant II Office of Spiritual Life, Inclusion and Leadership
• Associate Director of Student Success, Career Coach

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.

As a reminder, following is the schedule for Serve Day (Wednesday, Sept. 3).

• 7:30-8:30 a.m.: Continental Breakfast on the quad (free); pack a lunch ($7 for non-team leader employees)
• 8:30-9 a.m.: Kickoff Celebration
• 9-9:15 a.m.: Break off into groups (a selection of sites to be provided later)
• 9:15 a.m.-4 p.m.: Service with our community
• 4:30 p.m.: Dinner! (non-George Fox employees pay $8.75 and $6 per child)

Employees*, see your email for your site assignment. Students, check with your RAs.

Questions? Email serveday@georgefox.edu

*Portland employees are not required to participate; however, as some have volunteered, we are sending this schedule to you as well.