The academic affairs office has an abundance of five-tab and eight-tab notebook dividers available on a first-come, first-served basis. We also have sheet protectors (clear, non-glare), used hanging folders (8.5″ X 11″) and used manila file folders available.
Please contact Karlyn Fleming at kfleming@georgefox.edu or ext. 2141 if interested. We will gladly send these to your campus box.
Thank you!
Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Wednesday), beginning at 3:30 p.m. in VAC 117 (please note new location). At the meeting, the VP’s will share information regarding the recent restructuring.
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.
I wanted to thank all of you for working with me during this interim time with room reservations. It has been fun to work with you throughout the past few weeks. However, we have hired a new site coordinator, and she will be handling room reservations from now on. Her name is Emily Maynard, and you can contact her by e-mail (emaynard@georgefox.edu) or phone (ext. 6164)
Emily will be handling any room reservations, but I will still be handling the technology request. Please remember to get all room reservations and technology requests in by 1 p.m. the prior business day that it is needed.
Again, thank you for working with me.
Josiah Philipsen
Faculty: Please go to our store website (gfubookstore.com) and check to make sure your textbooks are listed correctly for each of your courses. This is what students use to purchase books. Please help me catch any mistakes before it’s too late to fix them. Any missing courses means I don’t have an order from you and need those A.S.A.P.
E-mail me at sgidding@georgefox.edu with any questions or changes. Thanks for your help.
– Sandy Gidding
If you didn’t get a chance to attend Tamara Cissna’s farewell reception last week, you still have the opportunity to wish her well. A “memory book” has been created for her. If you are interested in writing a note of farewell or encouragement in the book, it will be available to sign at the front desk in the marketing communications office in the River Street House through Friday, July 20.
Next week, if you are interested in having the book circulated in your department, contact Janelle Olivarez (jolivarez@georgefox.edu) to arrange for pick-up. The book will eventually be shipped to Tamara in Indiana, where she will work as the associate vice president of marketing communication at Earlham College.
Don’t forget to drop by Tamara Cissna’s farewell reception this afternoon (Friday) from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Pennington House courtyard.
Tamara has managed the George Fox creative services team for nine years and is moving to Indiana to become associate vice president of marketing and communication at Earlham College.
President Baker recently returned from a trip to China, where he met with parents, students and higher education partners. When you get a chance, be sure to check out his reflections on the trip by visiting his blog site.
His entries include thoughts on the meaning of a “moral education,” what it was like visiting with a current student and her family, and the story of an interesting incident in a Chinese department store.
The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Please place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Friday, July 13. If you haven’t already created an account, you will need to do so before submitting your order.
If you have questions, contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.
Friday, July 20, will be the financial affairs office’s cutoff date for entering fiscal year 2012 revenue and/or expenses. Please submit appropriate paperwork as soon as possible for any revenues earned or expenses incurred prior to the end of FY2012 (June 30, 2012).
Please remember that these revenues and/or expenses must be included as fiscal year 2012 entries and may not be deferred to fiscal year 2013.
Thank you so much your cooperation as we wrap up FY2012 and prepare for our yearly audit. If you have any questions, please contact the financial affairs office at ext. 2160.
The all-employee meeting scheduled for this month has been moved from July 12 to Wednesday, July 25, beginning at 3:30 p.m. in VAC 117 (please note new location). At the meeting, the VP’s will share information regarding the recent restructuring.
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.
We always appreciate receiving the previous month’s time sheets and time-off reports early in the new month, but we are especially anxious to receive June’s each year. If you haven’t already, please send us your June time-off report or time sheet by this Thursday, July 12, so we can enter vacation and sick leave used in June. This will enable the folks in Financial Affairs to report fiscal year-end balances, which will help them finish their work of closing the books on 2011-12.
If you have any time-off reports or time sheets from earlier in 2011-12 that you have not yet submitted, please turn those in as well. If a supervisor’s absence will cause a delay, please send HR a copy and submit the original after it has both yours and your supervisor’s signatures.
Thank you very much.
– HR
FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, July 23, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.
For those who place supply orders through our online sites with Office Depot and/or Staples, I wanted to give you a heads-up that an order must meet a minimum order value (MOV) threshold before it can be processed.
The minimum for Office Depot is $50 and the minimum for Staples is $75. When placing an order, you may continue to add items to your shopping cart until you reach the MOV threshold. Once the threshold has been reached, you can proceed to checkout.
If you have any questions, please contact Kathi Becker or Andy Dunn.
Please join us Friday, July 13, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Pennington House courtyard for a farewell reception for Tamara Cissna (Marketing Communications).
Tamara has managed the George Fox creative services team for nine years and is moving to Indiana to become associate vice president of marketing and communication at Earlham College. Please drop by to wish her well.
Also, if you have any Earlham contacts, Tamara would love to hear from you. Please contact her (tcissna@georgefox.edu) or give her a call at ext. 2126.
Quick: Who was George Fox University’s undergraduate professor of the year in 2008? Who was the staff member of the year in 2009?
If you know, pat yourself on the back! If not, find out these answers and more on the Employee Council site. There, the employees of the year are archived, as are the employees of the month for the last three years. After reading, perhaps you will be inspired to send an e-mail to a colleague — either one who has been honored or one who has not — saying that you appreciate his or her work.
You are always welcome to contact the Employee Council by e-mailing us at employeecouncil@georgefox.edu or by directly contacting an individual on the council (see the website for a list of members).
Don’t forget to get your tickets for the Saturday, July 14, Portland Timbers game at Jeld-Wen Field. That evening is George Fox University Night as the Timbers take on L.A. Galaxy at 8 p.m. Enjoy the game with the whole family while connecting with other George Fox alumni, parents and friends.
Tickets are $42 each. Seats are in the View Terrace, Section 222. Tickets may be purchased by contacting Alumni Relations at 503-554-2134 or alumni@georgefox.edu.
A limited number of tickets are available and will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.
George Fox is honored to once again to partner with the Oregon Special Olympics State Games as a host site. Â The Games are in need of volunteers – please consider serving the community at this great event.
The Summer Games are the state championship competitions in the sports of athletics (track & field), bocce, golf and softball for Special Olympics Oregon athletes. Â All athletes and teams have trained in their hometowns for 8 weeks prior to the Summer Games and have qualified to compete at the Summer State Games at a regional level competition.
Date:  July 14 – 15, 2012
Sports: Â Athletics (Track & Field), Bocce, Golf Softball
Positions Include:  Sports venues—timers, scorekeepers, runners, announcers, staging, results, forecaddies, judges, spotters, awards, officials, umpires, lunch distribution, set-up, tear-down.  There are also opportunities to help at Olympic Town, Healthy Athletes, lunch support and many other things.
Time:  Generally, volunteer shifts are 4—5 hours on either Saturday or Sunday.
Age:  You must be 16 years or older to volunteer independently. Children 12 – 15 years old must volunteer with a parent.
Training: Â We will have key volunteers provide training at the beginning of your shift.
To Register:    Go to Special Olympics Oregon website:  www.soor.org … click on “volunteer†… click on “volunteer for sports competitions†… Choose the competition that you want to volunteer for.
Questions or more information:  Contact LouAnne Tabada, Director of Volunteers for Special Olympics Oregon … LTabada@soor.org … 503.248.0600 ext 19
Saturday, July 14 is George Fox University Night at Jeld-Wen field as the Portland Timbers take on L.A. Galaxy at 8 p.m. Enjoy the game with the whole family while connecting with other George Fox alumni, parents, and friends.
Tickets are $42 each. Seats are in the View Terrace, Section 222.
Tickets may be purchased by contacting Alumni Relations at 503-554-2134 or alumni@georgefox.edu
Limited number of tickets available. Â Will be sold on a first-come first-serve basis.
Staff employment statements and administrator contracts for 2012-13 will be distributed in campus boxes on Friday.
If you have questions about yours, please contact Peggy Kilburg via email.
FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 7 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, June 19, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.
