The Daily Bruin

Please join Student Life as we celebrate Joel Perez for his service to our university. Joel accepted a position this fall at Seattle Pacific University as the dean of student life.

He and his family will be back on campus so that we can send him off in style.

Join us …

Friday, Sept. 13
3 to 5 p.m.
Stevens (Duke) Atrium

Security services is offering its annual C-CERT training course. We will meet every Wednesday between Sept. 18 and Oct. 6 from 2 to 5 p.m. in Lemmons 5.

In a large-scale disaster, the university needs to be prepared to be self-sufficient. This is why we are providing Campus Community Emergency Response Team training, or C-CERT.

Become part of the team and be prepared. Follow the link below for more information and get signed up now. The first class is in two weeks.

C-CERT Training

The university has just implemented a new pass-through process for Bruin Careers. Click here to go directly to the Bruin Careers site. Once there, log in with your Bruin Careers username and password. If you haven’t set up an account before, click where it says “click here to register.”

Make sure that your username and password are the same as your George Fox e-mail and password. Now, whenever you log onto MyGFU you will click directly into Bruin Careers without needing to log on.

Please e-mail careers@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2330 if you have any questions!

Please turn in all August …

• Check/ACH requests
• Expense reimbursements
• Petty cash requests
• IDC’s
• Error corrections
• Credit card receipts

to the financial affairs office no later than 5 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 9. If you have any questions, please call or e-mail Kathi Becker (Financial Affairs) at ext. 2166 or kbecker@georgefox.edu.

Thank you,
The Finance Team

Some FoxTALE reminders …

• Use your new, empty Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another or previous course site. See the instructions here for importing.
• Your Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 sites are unavailable (hidden) to students. When you are ready to make a site available, go to Settings > Course administration > Edit settings on the course home page. Scroll down to the “Availability” section and select “This course is available to students” from the drop-down menu. Scroll to the bottom of the page and “Save changes.”
• Remember that all students enrolled in your class in MyGFU will automatically be enrolled in your FoxTALE course site. As students add and drop your course in MyGFU, they will be added to or removed automatically from your FoxTALE site.

Contact the IT Service Desk (servicedesk@georgefox.edu) for more information or visit the FoxTALE for Faculty resource page.

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 by Monday, Sept. 9.

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

Marketing communications is collecting orders for name tags. For those who have regular face-to-face contact with the public and need to order a name tag, you may submit your request here.

Be sure to provide the name of the person for whom the name tag is needed; title or department; and the budget to be charged.

The next order will be placed Monday, Sept. 2. Contact Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

This .75 FTE position (30 hours per week year round) will be open to internal applicants (employees) only for one week. Temporary employees may also apply, but external applications are not being accepted.

If you would like a copy of the job description, please email hr@georgefox.edu. To apply, please submit a completed transfer request, cover letter, and resume to Human Resources. The link to the transfer request form can be found here. If the position is not filled with an internal candidate, it will be posted externally beginning Thursday, Sept. 3.

This is a reminder to come see our new location this morning! The dean of the College of Arts and Sciences is hosting an open house today (Wednesday), from 10 a.m. to noon in Lemmons 9.

• Meet the new dean of arts & sciences, Laura Hartley
• Meet the new director of the William Penn Honor’s Program, Joseph Clair
• See the new offices for the Center for Study Abroad and the new theatre department location
• Terrie Boehr from family and consumer sciences remains in the same office as in the past. Goodies provided by FCS!

Please join us! Contact Lynn Scott (lscott@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

In his latest blog piece, President Robin Baker reflects on growing older and the impact of a “life well lived.” You can read it here.

The plant services office in Newberg will be open with limited personnel today (Tuesday) and tomorrow (Wednesday), due to software training. Thank you for your patience.

Please contact the plant services office at ext. 2010 if you have any questions.

An Acceptable Description for a check request should cover who (is the check for), what (is the product or service), when (was the product/service purchased), where (was the product/service purchased), and why (was/is this product/service needed).

Supporting Documentation includes but is not limited to:

• Original receipt (itemized) or invoice from vendor with the following information:
  • Vendor name and address
  • Description of goods and/or services (including quantity and unit price)
  • Total amount of purchase/service
  • Date of purchase/service

• Substantiation of business purpose may include an agenda, meeting announcement, brochure, or other similar types of documentation.

Questions? Call Kathi Becker in financial affairs at ext. 2166.

The Office of Spiritual Life has a part-time position they would like to fill “yesterday.” This position is slated for 10 hours per week and will run through next May. Work schedule will preferably be all day Fridays with an additional two or three hours one other day. The duties of the position including serving as project manager for the Regeneration Conference in October and providing support for other programs in the spiritual life, inclusion and leadership offices.

If you know someone who might be interested and qualified for this position, please have him or her complete an employment application and send it, along with a letter and resume, to HR as soon as possible. A copy of the job description can be requested by emailing hr@georgefox.edu.

Come see our new location! The dean of the College of Arts and Sciences is hosting an open house on Wednesday, Aug. 28, from 10 a.m. to noon in Lemmons 9.

• Meet the new dean of arts & sciences, Laura Hartley
• Meet the new director of the William Penn Honor’s Program, Joseph Clair
• See the new offices for the Center for Study Abroad and the new theatre department location
• Terrie Boehr from family and consumer sciences remains in the same office as in the past. Goodies provided by FCS!

Please join us! Contact Lynn Scott (lscott@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

Please turn in all August …

• Check/ACH requests
• Expense reimbursements
• Petty cash requests
• IDC’s
• Error corrections
• Credit card receipts

to the financial affairs office no later than 5 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 9. If you have any questions, please call or e-mail Kathi Becker (Financial Affairs) at ext. 2166 or kbecker@georgefox.edu.

Thank you,
The Finance Team

Faculty: Please submit all additional textbook requests as soon as possible so that we may get books here before the start of classes. Please make cancellations and edition changes an exception, as it causes financial hardship for students who may have already purchased their books from other sources.

Thanks for your help as we do our best to have everything ready this week. Contact Sandy Gidding via e-mail with questions (sgidding@georgefox.edu).

– BlueZone Store

If you used the FoxTALE grade book for any of your FoxTALE course sites, we recommend that you back up your Summer 2013 grade book to a spreadsheet that is saved outside of FoxTALE. See the instructions here for backing up grades. You will want to keep an archive of your course grades that cover the last five years.

Upgrade planned
A FoxTALE upgrade is planned for 8 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 25, to 8 a.m. Monday, Aug. 26. FoxTALE will not be available during this time. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Prepare for Fall 2013 and Spring 2014

• Use your new, empty Fall 2013 and Spring 2013 sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another course site. See the instructions here for importing.
• If your course site is set to Weekly format, your course might show incorrect dates. To change the dates, go to Settings > Course administration > Edit settings on the course home page. Scroll down to the Course start date and change it to the first day of your summer course. Scroll to the bottom of the page and “Save changes.”
• Your Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 sites are unavailable (hidden) to students. When you are ready to make a site available, go to Settings > Course administration > Edit settings on the course home page. Scroll down to the “Availability” section and select “This course is available to students” from the drop-down menu. Scroll to the bottom of the page and “Save changes.”
• If you have course content to move from old FoxTALE to new FoxTALE, please contact the Service Desk. Please note that old FoxTALE will no longer be available after Aug. 31, 2013.
• You can create assignments before the upgrade. Assignments in courses that go through the upgrade will be automatically converted to the new format. No further action is required.

Questions? Contact the IT Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2569.

Web Development is still looking for feedback on the new redesign we launched this week. If you haven’t already, we would love to hear what you think of the new design.

The form can be found at this link. It will be closing on Tuesday, Aug. 27, at which point we will evaluate feedback and plan changes to the template accordingly.

Thank you for your participation.

Having trouble logging into Bruin Careers? We just implemented a new pass-through process!

Click here to go directly to the Bruin Careers site. Once there, log in with your Bruin Careers username and password. If you haven’t set up an account before, click on “click here to register.”

Make sure that your username and password are the same as your George Fox e-mail and password. Now, whenever you log onto MyGFU you will click directly into Bruin Careers without needing to log on.

Please e-mail careers@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2330 if you have any questions.

The plant services office in Newberg will be open with limited personnel Monday, Aug. 26, through Wednesday, Aug, 28, due to software training. Thank you for your patience.

Please contact the plant services office at ext. 2010 if you have any questions.