The Daily Bruin

As our new international students are settling into their classes and establishing relationships, we would like to connect them with an American family who would serve as a friend and a point of contact outside of campus. Our past students have highly valued this opportunity to know an American family as a friend. Would you consider serving as a Fox Friendship Family?

The minimum requirements are to provide your telephone number to your students, host the students in your home for at least two meals during the school year, be available for regular contact with your students, and commit to pray for your students. If you would like to continue your relationship with the students who stayed with you during orientation, please let us know by calling or e-mailing Alex Pia (apia@georgefox.edu; ext. 2643) or Dianna McIntyre (dmcintyr@georgefox.edu; 2649) as soon as possible.

For those of you who choose to be a Fox Friendship Family, we would like to invite you as our guest for a dessert for families and students on Monday, Oct. 8, from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. You will not need to bring anything. Please save the date.

All university women are invited to a Ladies Movie Night next week!

Join us for the movie Blue Like Jazz at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, in EHS 102. Dessert will be provided!

Learn how you can help partner with Bon Appetit and support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and their quest to find a cure for cancer!

Volunteer Opportunity Informational Meeting
Tuesday, Oct. 2
4:30 – 6:30 p.m. in the Bruin Den (ongoing conversation about volunteer opportunity – come when you can)
Free cookies & hot cocoa from Bon Appétit
Speakers: Stephanie Fagerstrom, volunteer coordinator, “Light the Night Walk” and George Fox alumna, and Amelia Pitts, campaign manager, “Light The Night Walk”

Event support is needed for the “Light the Night Walk” on Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Volunteer opportunities include set-up, event support and clean-up. There are four-hour shifts starting at 9 a.m. and going until 9 p.m. Come help when you can! They need 100 volunteers on the day of the event to ensure it is a success!

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s “Light The Night Walk” funds lifesaving research and support for people battling cancer. Friends, families and coworkers form fundraising teams and millions of consumers help by donating at retail outlets. These efforts culminate in inspirational, memorable evening walks in more than 200 communities each fall across North America.

Please come see us on Oct. 2 and join us on Oct. 27 to help save a life.

Questions? Contact Denny Lawrence at dlawrenc@georgefox.edu.

If you have not already completed the paperwork for students you have hired or rehired this fall, please do so just as soon as you can and send it to HR. For all student employees, this includes an offer letter. For students who have not worked (for GFU) before, a W-4 and I-9 are also needed, and a direct deposit form is encouraged (but not required).

Even though a student submits a time sheet, he or she cannot be set up in the payroll system and be paid without these documents. Please take a few minutes to be sure this paperwork has been submitted for all of your student employees today if possible and no later than Monday, Oct. 1.

As always, we very much appreciate your efforts with and on behalf of our students.

– HR

Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Thursday) at 3:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.

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.” The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings and include a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link.

Videos from previously recorded meetings will be added to this page in the days following. Please bookmark the page for quick access each month.

Bruin Directories are officially being made available to faculty and staff this year! The project is underway and in an effort to make the deliveries as timely as possible, the order form is available now! You can access it at this link.

Please fill it out soon so we can get a rough estimate on how many to order. Thanks for your support!

Questions? Contact Margaret Vogt at asccommunicationsdirector@georgefox.edu.

Don’t forget this afternoon’s retirement celebration for Larry Osborn, who is leaving us after 22 years of service to the university. Larry has been the mechanic and metal fabricator for the university and the previous property manager for Tilikum.

We will gather from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.

An all-employee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 27, at 3:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.

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.” It is the bottom link in that section. The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings and include a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link.

Videos from previously recorded meetings will be added to this page in the days following. Please bookmark the page for quick access each month.

As a George Fox employee you are eligible for a 15 percent discount on your calling plan from Verizon Wireless. Discount only applies to lines billing at $34.99 or higher and account name must be that of the employee. If account is not in the employee’s name, it can be changed at a local Verizon Wireless retail store, or by calling Verizon Customer Care at 1-800-922-0204.

To register your line for your employee discount, follow these simple steps:

1. Go to verizonwireless.com/discounts

2. Enter your work e-mail address and select “Check for Discounts.”

3. You will receive an e-mail. Click the “Get Started” button in the e-mail to continue the registration process.

4. Click on the “Enroll Now” button under “Existing Verizon Wireless Customer.”

5. Your information will be reviewed, and if approved you will be notified that your discount will appear in one to two billing cycles.

If you have any questions, please contact Andy Dunn.

Tonight (Monday), all George Fox women – which includes administration, faculty and staff as well as the spouses of employees – are invited to president and Ruth Baker’s home at 402 S. College St., for a gathering from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. 

Please come with a salad to share.* This is a great opportunity to meet the new women of our community and to reconnect with friends. If you have questions, feel free to contact Missy Terry at ext. 2101 or terrym@georgefox.edu.

*If you are new this year, please just come as our guest.

All university women are invited to a Ladies Movie Night!

Join us for the movie Blue Like Jazz at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, in EHS 102. Dessert will be provided!

Good news! We are changing the IT cell phone service to a more reliable carrier. The cell phone has had bad service this past month and we apologize if you have not been able to get through to it.

The new IT cell phone number is 971-533-8633.

Come join in the retirement celebration! We are honoring Larry Osborn for 22 years of faithful service to the university. Larry has been the mechanic and metal fabricator for the university and the previous property manager for Tilikum.

We will gather from 3 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 26, in the Cap and Gown Room.

Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.

Applications for the spring online faculty Professional Learning Community (PLC) “Teaching the Big Ideas: Ethics” are due Monday, Oct. 1.

Key features of this PLC:

• Three to four synchronous sessions supplemented by asynchronous collaboration and sharing (group members will set dates and times for the synchronous sessions)
• Share how you approach the teaching of ethics
• Get ideas and resources from other faculty in other fields who also teach ethics
• Consider how various understandings of faith integration inform the teaching of ethics across the university
• Gather resources and suggestions to share with all GFU faculty
• Receive a $300 honorarium for participating

The online format will provide access to those who typically cannot attend PLC offerings, and this learning community will have the added benefit of allowing faculty who are not experienced in online teaching tools to practice with the format in a low-risk, collegial context.

Questions? Contact facilitator Gary Sehorn (gsehorn@georgefox.edu).

The application is posted at the Faculty Development webpage. Complete and return to Brenda Burg (bburg@georgefox.edu) by 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 1.

The university community is invited to a Faculty Research Forum this Friday, Sept. 21, at 10:40 a.m. in Hoover 105 on the Newberg campus.

Kent Yinger, a professor of New Testament at the seminary, will present “Ruminating on the Fruit of the Spirit: Origin and Theological Significance of a Pauline Phrase.” Kent will discuss some of the theological conclusions that have been drawn from Paul’s use of the phrase “the fruit of the Spirit” in Galatians 5:22.

Please join us!

Google Drive is the new home for Google Docs.

Your files are now stored in Google Drive, and you can access them anytime at drive.google.com or by clicking on the word “Drive” in the black Google Toolbar. Just like before, you can upload, edit, share, and create files online. But with Google Drive, you can access your files wherever you are, from any device. And you can work with even more file types by installing Google Drive apps.

Learn more about Google Drive here.

Don’t forget next week’s salad supper for women! All George Fox women – which includes administration, faculty and staff as well as the spouses of employees – are invited to president and Ruth Baker’s home at 402 S. College St., for a gathering from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 24.

Please come with a salad to share.* This is a great opportunity to meet the new women of our community and to reconnect with friends. If you have questions, feel free to contact Missy Terry at ext. 2101 or terrym@georgefox.edu.

*If you are new this year, please just come as our guest.

Hello Faculty and Staff!

As we look at the option and opportunity to produce a Bruin Directory, whether it be now or in the future, we’re looking for your feedback on what you’d like to see! Please fill out the short survey at this link and make sure your voice is heard.

We appreciate your time and feedback. Stay tuned for more updates on the Bruin Directory.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, Sept. 24, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

Don’t forget tonight’s presentation by Lutaaya Abul, director of African Hearts Orphanage in Kampala, Uganda, at 7 p.m. in EHS 102.

Lutaaya  grew up in the gutters of Kampala, started to attend a church, became involved in music, and started the African Hearts Orphanage. The organization’s target population is children who are living on the street, many of whom have been orphaned by HIV or abandoned or victimized by family violence. Our Juniors Abroad groups visit the orphanage when we travel to East Africa.

The organization currently runs two homes housing former street children in Kampala and Ssenge. Children living in these homes are taught the Bible and are provided with shelter, food, love and education.

Questions? Contact Lynn Scott at lscott@georgefox.edu.