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If so, our First Avenue Career Expo is one of the top sources for:

Join us Friday, April 5, at the University of Portland’s Chiles Center from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. to network with more than 75 companies who are looking to hire for job and internship placement.

To register and view a complete list of companies attending, click here: http://www.olapcfirstavenue.org/home/student-information

For more information contact Career Services – careers@georgefox.edu

Have you received employment opportunities that would be great for George Fox students and alumni? Please email opportunities to careers@georgefox.edu and we will post them on Bruin Careers!

We post full-time employment, part-time employment, internships, student employment, volunteer opportunities, federal work-study, alumni employment and more.

Bruin Careers allows students and alumni to:

The George Fox University Engineering Department presents their annual Engineering Expo on Friday, April 26, from 4:00-6:00pm in the EHS Atrium on the Newberg campus.

The Expo will feature project displays from the program’s Senior Design and Servant Engineering teams for companies and organizations such as Daimler, CUI, Inc., Mercedes-Benz Tech, Climax, Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, Xerox, Greater Yamhill Watershed Council, City of Newberg, Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, NASA, Providence, Oregon Commission for the Blind, Vibetech, 5-Rock Ranch, and Aprovecho Research Center.

Refreshments provided. All are welcome!

For more information, please contact Kristin Bontrager at kbontrager@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2780.

Do you need a really great haircut? Do you want it to go to a super-great cause?

Rose Haven is a women’s drop-in center in northwest Portland, and Faye Judson Salon is willing to donate all proceeds from their salon on Friday, April 19, from 4 to 8 p.m. Call 503-768-3293 to schedule an appointment and say that you want to be part of the “For the Love of Women” event! Minimum donation of $25!

This event is being hosted in partnership with the George Fox social work program. Contact Elise Heidy (eheidy09@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Do you want free admission to attend the First Avenue Career Expo? If so, stop by and attend one of our “How to Work a Job Fair” info sessions today (Friday) in the Career Services office from 12:30 to 1 p.m.

To register for the First Avenue Career Expo, visit olapcfirstavenue.org.

Questions? Contact Career Services at ext. 2330 or careers@georgefox.edu.

Faculty, please let your students know about this opportunity.

Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Thursday) from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. The meeting will include an update from President Baker on the recent board meeting.

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.”

Do you want free admission to attend the First Avenue Career Expo? If so, stop by and attend one of our “How to Work a Job Fair” info sessions today (Thursday) or tomorrow (Friday) in the Career Services office from 12:30 to 1 p.m.

To register for the First Avenue Career Expo, visit olapcfirstavenue.org.

Questions? Contact Career Services at ext. 2330 or careers@georgefox.edu.

Faculty, please let your students know about this opportunity.

An all-employee meeting is scheduled for tomorrow (Thursday) from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. The meeting will include an update from President Baker on the recent board meeting.

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.”

All are welcome to attend the Spring 2013 Faculty Lecture and Richter Scholars Symposium today (Tuesday) beginning at 5 p.m. This event will begin in the Hoover lobby with student presentations of their scholarship funded by the Richter Scholars program.

At 5:30 p.m., Terry Huffman will give a presentation in Hoover 105 on his most recent book, entitled American Indian Educators in Reservation Schools. Dr. Huffman is the George Fox University 2012 Graduate Researcher of the Year.

Today, all staff will receive an e-mail asking for nominations for Staff Development Committee. The e-mail will contain a Google form with a list of all staff eligible to be nominated for the committee.

Please complete and submit the form with your nominations. Deadline for the nominations is this Monday, March 25, at 8 a.m.

The Portland Center South building will be testing our emergency procedures with an emergency evacuation drill early Wednesday evening, March 20. This is a mandatory participation event.

When you hear the alarm sound, please proceed calmly to the nearest exit and proceed to the designated meeting spot directly in line with north, east and west building exits. A safety committee member will inform you when the drill is complete and you are allowed to re-enter the building.

For the past year, we’ve been in conversation with our risk management/insurance company as well as completed a comprehensive review of best practices to reduce risk and liability related to the transportation of students, faculty and staff. You will find the new policy at this link. Please review this very carefully and feel free to contact Plant Services or Brad Lau if you have any questions.

We are not yet ready to implement the personal vehicle aspect of the policy, but are ready to implement the policies and procedures guiding the use of university vehicles.

In order to check out and drive University vehicles (as well as to rent and drive Enterprise vehicles on university business), a student and/or employee driver must be on the “approved driver’s list.” This means that the following has occurred (a minimum of five days before the student or employee plans to pick up and drive a university vehicle):

1. The student or employee has read and agreed to the policy.
2. The student or employee has viewed the 15-minute training video.
3. The student or employee has taken a quiz that requires approximately 10-15 minutes.
4. A background check of the student’s or employee’s driving record has been completed and meets the criteria described in the university policy.

Once all this has been completed and verified (and assuming all the criteria are met), the employee’s or student’s name will be added to the approved driver’s list and university vehicles can be checked out and driven. This process will need to be completed annually for students and once every three years for employees. Of course, there is much more information in the policy, so please review it carefully.

To begin the process of becoming an approved driver, please login to FoxTALE on this page and follow directions.

The new policy is effective immediately, so please take care of this as soon as possible if you plan to drive a university vehicle on university business. When you pick up the vehicle, you will need to show Plant Services your driver’s license and verbally verify that you have current personal automobile insurance (even though university insurance provides coverage for the use of university vehicles).

FoxTALE maintenance during spring break

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, March 25, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

During the scheduled maintenance on Monday, March 25:

1. Fall 2012 sites will be hidden to students. If you want to make your course site available to students, select “Edit settings” in the Course Administration block. Scroll down to the the “Availability” section and select “This course is available to students.” Scroll to bottom and “Save changes.”
2. Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 course sites will be generated. You will see your course sites listed when you log into FoxTALE after the maintenance is completed.

Old FoxTALE available until Aug. 31, 2013

Here’s a reminder that old FoxTALE (foxtale19.georgefox.edu) will be available until Aug. 31, 2013. If you have additional course sites that need to be copied from old FoxTALE to new (current) FoxTALE, please contact the IT Service Desk.

If you have any questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

Encourage your students to attend the First Avenue Career Expo on Friday, April 5!

This is a great opportunity for your students to hear Joshua Waldman, author of Job Searching with Social Media, speak about “What your Parents Can’t Teach You About Finding A Job,” network face-to-face with real professionals at our “Link In Live” event, and connect with more than 100 different companies and graduate schools.

• For a list of attending companies, click here.
• For a list of attending graduate schools, click here.

Questions? Contact the Corina Burke at ext. 2330 or cburke@georgefox.edu.

We will be hosting Peace’d Together – An Intercultural Conference on the Newberg campus in April! The purpose of the event is to initiate dialogue that will assist us as we bridge gaps that culturally separate us, find truth where each of our roads cross, and celebrate the contribution each of us bring to the diversity of God’s kingdom and the George Fox community.

This is a free conference and promises to be amazing! It will be held in various buildings on campus Friday, April 12, from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, April 13, from 9 a.m to 6 p.m. The key speakers will be Pastor Tory Campbell, Dr. Caleb Rosado, Dr. Keith Dempsey partnering with graduate student Amber Nelson, Dr. Joel Perez, Dr. Melanie Hulbert and the Student Congress on Racial Reconciliation (SCORR) team.

Even though this is a free event be sure to register for the conference using your GFU e-mail address! You need to be registered in order to attend the conference.

To register, click this link. The conference is hosted by the Department of Inclusion & Student Leadership Programs of George Fox.

We hope to see you there!

If you would like to nominate a colleague for March’s Employee of the Month, please e-mail Peggy Kilburg a summary of this person’s contributions/outstanding performance in the past 30 days or so.

The winner will be announced and presented with a $100 Visa gift card at our March community meeting.

All of the BlueZone Store’s Cutter & Buck polos are on clearance. Do you need polos for your department? Do you have an event requiring your team to dress alike? This is a great time to purchase!

Cutter & Buck polos are marked 40 percent off the original price of $39.95, so you can get a great polo for $23.95. And remember … if you charge it to your cost center, you get an additional 20 percent off the sale price!

George Fox is hosting the Northwest Independent College Business Officer’s Association Conference Thursday afternoon and Friday morning (March 14-15). Due to the hosting of this event, the Office of Financial Affairs will be staffed only by work-study students during the conference. You may still drop off check requests, deposits, etc., but we ask that you be patient during this time.

We’ll all be back in our offices on Friday afternoon to take care of any questions or issues you may have.

Questions? Contact Andy Dunn at adunn@georgefox.edu.

Our “How to Work a Job Fair” info session is today (Wednesday) in the Career Services office from 12:30 to 1 p.m.

If you attend this session, your registration fee for the First Avenue Career Expo will be refunded!

For more information and to register for the First Avenue Career Expo, visit olapcfirstavenue.org or visit your Career Services office!

Faculty, please let your students know about this opportunity.

Don’t forget, this is the last week to contribute to the Backpack Project Food Drive!

Through Friday, March 15, please bring your food donations to the bins provided in the lobby of the Portland Center. Suggested items include: cans of chili, soup, ravioli in meat sauce, boxes of mac & cheese, small juice boxes (100 percent juice only, no foil containers), individual serving fruit cups, healthy snacks, small packages of dried fruits, oatmeal cups, etc.

Monetary donations can be made at the Information Desk. A $100 donation sponsors a child for weekend meals for the entire school year. Donation checks made out to Fremont United Methodist Church will be tax deductible.

Questions? Contact Emily Maynard at emaynard@georgefox.edu.