The Daily Bruin

Print Services has a lot of extra specialty paper, and we want to get rid of it at a fraction of the cost. The paper would be perfect for personal or department use. Sorry, no substituting or mismatching reams or packages.

It is on a first-come, first-serve basis. So, come on in and see what we have. Because when it is gone … it’s gone! Sorry, no credit card transactions; cash or check only.

Questions? Contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

Due to the Memorial Day holiday this Monday, our mail service courier will make his last trip to the Salem campus on Tuesday, May 28.

Questions? Contact Mail Services at ext. 2555.

Next Tuesday, May 28, we will celebrate Brenda Burg’s 13 years of service to George Fox. Come and join us from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Hoover lobby, where we will wish our colleague well as she transitions to new adventures outside the university.

All university offices in Newberg and at regional sites will be closed on Monday, May 27, to observe the Memorial Day holiday. Libraries in Newberg and the Portland Center also will be closed.

An all-employee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, May 30, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. Among the items on the agenda is an update on enrollment.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link” located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.”

Also, please note: The June 27 all-employee meeting has been canceled because of scheduling conflicts. The next meeting will be announced at a later date.

Something new has been added to Google+ Hangouts. If you’re a regular user of Google+ and Hangouts, you’ll want to know how these new changes affect you. IT has put together a short guide to get you started so you can make the necessary updates and continue to use the Hangouts feature with as little inconvenience as possible.

One of the new features is that Hangouts and Chat are now synced across devices, and you can switch from one device to another within the same Hangout and/or Chat. Check out our guide at this link.

Save the date! On Tuesday, May 28, from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Hoover lobby we will celebrate Brenda Burg’s 13 years of service to George Fox University! Come wish your colleague well as she transitions to new adventures outside the university.

Don’t forget to join us for the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Stoffer Family Stadium this afternoon (Monday) at 4 p.m.

The stadium will serve as future home of the university’s revived football program – set to kick off in 2014 after a 45-year hiatus – and the track and field team. It will be built on campus where the current track facility is located.

The groundbreaking ceremony will include a ceremonial groundbreaking, a time to honor the donors who helped make the project possible, and details on how the stadium will impact not only the university’s football and track and field programs, but athletics for the entire George Fox community.

To date, more than $5.3 million of the $7.2 million project has been raised. Crews began work on the complex – which will include the synthetic-turf Lemmons Family Field, grandstand facilities and the Duke Athletic Center (home to a training facility, a locker room, offices and classrooms) – this spring, with construction due to be completed in time for football’s kickoff in September of 2014.

To R.S.V.P. for the groundbreaking ceremony, e-mail Jan Lefebvre at jlefebvre@georgefox.edu.

Earlier this week there was an e-nnouncement explaining how to create a PO using your 2013-14 budget but, just to make sure there is no misunderstanding, I want to clarify a couple of important pieces of information about using your FY14 budget.

• No receiving can be done until after July 1 for any PO using 2013-14 budget
• No invoices can be dated before July 1 for any PO using 2013-14 budget

Failure to comply will cause charges to be applied to this year’s budget. If you have any questions, please contact Andy Dunn at adunn@georgefox.edu.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, May 28, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

The Department of Art & Design is pleased to present “Revealing Containment,” a show of thrown ceramic work created by Joscelyn Silberbach during her year as Artist in Residence at George Fox.

Joscelyn, a recent studio art graduate of Linfield College, spent the last year working on traditional functional ware, concentrating her final season on the bottle. This show is a culmination of Josie’s study. Please join us Friday, May 17, at 5 p.m. in the Minthorne Gallery for the opening.

The university community is invited to a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Stoffer Family Stadium this Monday, May 20, at 4 p.m.

The stadium will serve as future home of the university’s revived football program – set to kick off in 2014 after a 45-year hiatus – and the track and field team. It will be built on campus where the current track facility is located.

The groundbreaking ceremony will include a ceremonial groundbreaking, a time to honor the donors who helped make the project possible, and details on how the stadium will impact not only the university’s football and track and field programs, but athletics for the entire George Fox community.

To date, more than $5.3 million of the $7.2 million project has been raised. Crews began work on the complex – which will include the synthetic-turf Lemmons Family Field, grandstand facilities and the Duke Athletic Center (home to a training facility, a locker room, offices and classrooms) – this spring, with construction due to be completed in time for football’s kickoff in September of 2014.

To R.S.V.P. for the groundbreaking ceremony, e-mail Jan Lefebvre at jlefebvre@georgefox.edu.

If you’re starting to prepare purchase orders against your 2013-14 preliminary budget, there are two vital steps that you need to do in order to have the charges apply to the proper year. You must use Bud Ref 2014 and your Budget Date must be 7/1/13. Below is the routing you take to find these fields when creating a requisition.

1. For Bud Ref: Click ePro, click on “Create Requisition,” click “Define Requisition,” then expand “Line Defaults,” and under “Accounting Defaults” on the Chartfiled1 tab, scroll to the right and enter “2014” in the proper field.
2. For Budget Date: The steps are the same until you come to Accounting Defaults; click Details tab and change Budget Date to 7/1/13.

If you have questions or are unable to enter/change the required fields, please contact Andy Dunn (adunn@georgefox.edu or ext. 2162) for assistance.

There is a change in the courier schedule for the summer break (May through August).

• To Salem site: Mondays only
• To Portland Center: Each week day, Monday through Friday

There will be no courier service on university-scheduled holidays.

Questions? Contact Sherrie Frost at ext. 2556.

A preliminary 2013-14 budget will be loaded into PeopleSoft and available on Monday, May 13. This budget is a placeholder, not yet final and is subject to change. This will allow departments to begin the purchase order process for fiscal year 2013-14 and to review the preliminary budget for their cost centers.

Questions or requested changes to this budget should be directed to your budget managers.

The textbook annex for the BlueZone Store will be closed Monday through Wednesday, May 13-15. We will be moving textbooks to our new annex location at 1109 E. Hancock St.

Our main store will be open during the move. If you need to purchase textbooks, please use our website at gfubookstore.com.

If you used the FoxTALE grade book for any of your FoxTALE course sites, we recommend that you back up your Spring 2013 grade book to a spreadsheet that is saved outside of FoxTALE. See the instructions here for backing up grades.

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.”

Prepare for Summer and Fall 2013
Use your new, empty Summer and Fall 2013 sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another course site. See the instructions here for importing.

Your Summer and Fall 2013 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.

Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Wednesday, May 8.

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

It’s time to submit nominations for Support Staff and Administrator of the Year awards for the 2012-13 year. Since this program was established in 1994 to recognize George Fox administrative and support staff members for their contributions, 46 employees have received this honor.

There are two separate awards: Support Staff Member of the Year and Administrative Staff Member of the Year. Each recipient will be honored with a plaque and a check in the amount of $500 at our first community meeting for 2013-14 in August. Nominations will be accepted through Friday, May 31.

The executive team will make the selections from nominations received and recommendations of an ad hoc committee that includes last year’s awardees.

Please send your nomination to Peggy Kilburg at pkilburg@georgefox.edu according to the following guidelines:

1. Nominations may be made from a list of support staff and administrators (contact Melodee Powers for the complete list). Those on the list meet the following eligibility criteria:

• .56FTE (usually 30 hours per week, 9 months) or above
• Completion of at least three years of service by March 31
• Continuing in employment next year unless retiring, and
• Not a previous recipient of this award

2. All George Fox employees may make nominations.

3. More than one person in each category may be nominated; however, a separate e-mail should be sent for each nomination.

Questions you may want to consider as you make your nomination:

• How has this person encouraged or helped you, other employees, and/or students?
• What is it about this person’s job performance that impresses you?
• What have been this person’s unique contributions above and beyond assigned duties?
• How does this person demonstrate Christian commitment, loyalty to George Fox, and leadership skills at the university and in the broader community?

I hope you will take some time to consider your colleagues’ contributions and nominate any you believe are deserving of this award.

– Peggy Kilburg, HR

The university will host two commencement ceremonies this Saturday, May 4. This year, the ceremony for graduate, seminary and adult degree programs is scheduled for 10 a.m., while the undergraduate ceremony is set for 3 p.m. Both will take place in Miller Gymnasium in the Wheeler Sports Center. A live streaming of the undergraduate ceremony will be shown in Bauman Auditorium.

John Davis, a business and real estate attorney who also serves as a state representative (District 26) in the Oregon State House of Representatives, will speak in both ceremonies. Audience seating begins an hour before each ceremony.

Commencement can be viewed live at this link 15 minutes prior to the start of the ceremony.

Also on Saturday, undergraduate department receptions are scheduled at 1 p.m.

For a complete guide to commencement events, visit this page.