The Daily Bruin

Financial affairs will offer credit card reconciliation training at the Portland Center at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 16, in P240. If you have a new university credit card, this is your chance to learn how the new process for monthly reconciliation will be conducted.

Bring your receipts, as you will have the ability to use your real data while training. At the end of the training you will be well on your way (if not finished) with reconciling your first month’s transactions.

Please e-mail Andy Dunn (adunn@georgefox.edu) if you plan on attending. Also, there will be 10 laptops available to use, so please let Andy know if you will be bringing your own laptop or if you need one provided for you. If you have questions, please e-mail or call Andy at ext. 2162.

All U.S. military veterans are invited to a gathering from 3:40 to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 13, in Stevens 101. Meet other veterans and discuss experiences as a veteran at George Fox University. You’ll also hear about services on campus, and share ideas for supporting veterans in our university community.

Click this link to R.S.V.P. so we can plan appropriately for snacks and refreshments. Contact Rick Muthiah (rmuthiah@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

We’re extending the date for donations to the Northeast Portland Backpack Lunch Project to Tuesday, Nov. 13!

Please bring your “kid-friendly” food donations to the bins provided all over the Portland Center. Suggested items include: cans of chili, soup, ravioli in meat sauce, boxes of mac ‘n’ cheese, small juice boxes (100 percent juice only, no foil containers), individual serving fruit cups, healthy snacks, small packages of dried fruits, oat meal cups, etc.

Monetary donations can be made at the front desk; $100 sponsors a child for weekend meals for the entire school year. Donation checks made out to Fremont United Methodist Church will be tax deductible. More info is available at this Facebook page.

The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Tuesday, Nov. 12. If you have not done so already, you will need to create a new “Individual Account” on the form before you can submit your order.

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

Students, staff and faculty: Just a heads-up that there will be a test sometime this week of the Fox Alert Emergency Notification System. If you have NOT registered your phone to receive these alerts, please go on MyGFU to your personal information page, and register it underneath the “Fox Alert” tab.

GFU has implemented the service to provide us with the ability to reach students and staff members with information and updates during unforeseen events or emergencies, within minutes, through phone calls, e-mails and/or text messages.

In the unlikely event of an emergency you would be potentially notified through three different methods:

1. Cell phone
2. E-mail
3. Text message

HOWEVER, for either of these methods to work YOU must enter your personal contact information in your MYGFU account.
Here’s how you do it!

– Login to your MYGFU account
– Click on SELF SERVICE
– Click on CAMPUS PERSONAL INFORMATION
– Click on PHONE NUMBERS
– On the PHONE TYPE pick list, choose the phone type you are registering.
– Type in your contact information
– Click SAVE
– If you need to add a number, first click on ADD A PHONE NUMBER
– Make sure you click SAVE after each change.

For more information contact Security Services – nkincaid@georgefox.edu

This is a reminder that all are invited to attend “Faith, Sexuality and Identity – a Conversation,” scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7, in Hoover 105.

This event, hosted by the Office of Student Life and the Human Sexuality Discussion Group, will be moderated by Phil Smith, chair of the university’s Department of Religious Studies. Panelists will be: Gerry Breshears, pastor and professor at Western Seminary; Darleen Ortega, Oregon Court of Appeals judge; Erica Tan, psychologist and George Fox adjunct faculty member; and Nathan Meckley, pastor at Metropolitan Community Church.

Viewpoints expressed may not reflect the official university stance on LGBTQ issues, which can be found at georgefox.edu/lgbtq.

Questions? Contact Jere Witherspoon at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu.

All U.S. military veterans are invited to a gathering from 3:40 to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 13, in Stevens 101. Meet other veterans and discuss experiences as a veteran at George Fox University. You’ll also hear about services on campus, and share ideas for supporting veterans in our university community.

Click this link to R.S.V.P. so we can plan appropriately for snacks and refreshments. Contact Rick Muthiah (rmuthiah@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

IT is offering an instructional workshop on Using Google Drive at the Portland Center. Join us Tuesday, Nov. 6, from 9 to 10 a.m. in the Portland Center’s Room 210.

View the schedule and sign up at this link. Questions? Contact Kandie Comfort at kcomfort@georgefox.edu.

All George Fox employees can purchase Entertainment® 2013 Books at a discounted employee price of $20 (retail $35). Enjoy a free download of the Entertainment® Membership Coupon App to your smart phone with each edition, allowing you to redeem coupons from your phone rather than your book.

Choose your book – either Portland or Greater Oregon – and purchase it at the Information Services Desk in the Stevens Center. Questions? Contact Barbi Doran at bdoran@georgefox.edu.

This position, reporting to Director of Nursing Carla Hagen, is currently open only to internal applicants (employees). Temporary employees may also apply, but external applications are not being accepted.

If you would like a copy of the job description, please e-mail hr@georgefox.edu. To apply, please submit a completed transfer request, cover letter, and resume to Human Resources no later than Thursday, Nov. 8, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found here.

It’s not too early to start thinking about spring! Please check your Spring 2013 FoxTALE sites. Your Spring 2013 sites start empty but may already have content if you requested that IT move it.

• If you want to copy content forward from a site in new FoxTALE to a Spring 2013 FoxTALE site, you can import the content by following these steps on the quick guide.

• If you still have course content that needs to be copied from the old to the new FoxTALE, please continue to mark your courses with “MOVE ME.”

• We continue to move spring and summer courses from the old FoxTALE. If you have an urgent need, please contact the Service Desk.

You are invited to attend “Faith, Sexuality and Identity – a Conversation,” scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7, in Hoover 105.

This event, hosted by the Office of Student Life and the Human Sexuality Discussion Group, will be moderated by Phil Smith, chair of the university’s Department of Religious Studies. Panelists will be: Gerry Breshears, pastor and professor at Western Seminary; Darleen Ortega, Oregon Court of Appeals judge; Erica Tan, psychologist and George Fox adjunct faculty member; and Nathan Meckley, pastor at Metropolitan Community Church.

Viewpoints expressed may not reflect the official university stance on LGBTQ issues, which can be found at georgefox.edu/lgbtq.

Questions? Contact Jere Witherspoon at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu.

The board of trustees recently strongly affirmed and approved the “Theology of Racial and Ethnic Diversity Statement.” The statement can be found at this link on the website.

We still have some discounted tickets left for The Nutcracker performance on Saturday, Dec. 15, at the Keller Auditorium. Tickets are in the middle three sections of the first balcony and they cost $58 each (this is more than 40 percent off the retail price of $102.70)!

The deadline for purchasing has been extended to Saturday, Nov. 10, but we do have a limited amount of tickets available. Visit broadway.georgefox.edu or contact Mary Monahan (ext. 2134 or mmonahan@georgefox.edu) to purchase your tickets.

The Portland Center fundraiser for the Northeast Portland Backpack Lunch Program beings today (Wednesday).

In the 2011-12 school year, the Backpack Lunch Program collected donations for 5,000 weekend sack lunches for children in need. This all-volunteer run program provides enough “kid-friendly” food for two meals per weekend. It serves more than 170 students at four Northeast Portland schools.

Oregon hunger statistics are higher than the national average. We can’t solve this problem completely, but our community can make a world of difference to this group of children!

From Oct. 31 through Nov. 7, 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% 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. More information is available at this link.

Delays in delivery of packages and mail for the East Coast will be occurring over the next few days due to Hurricane Sandy. Carriers are working diligently to keep on track but are exercising caution for the safety of their personnel, equipment and facilities. Guaranteed shipping times are not honored at this time.

The Oct. 31 payroll will be the first one processed through US Bank. You may see a direct deposit and reversal in your account prior to payday, but don’t spend test funds – wait until the 31st!

Thank you,
Human Resources

Staff, faculty and students: Are you tired of driving to and from campus with gas hovering near $4 gallon? Take the bus! This link lists the timetable for buses that pass through Newberg and go to McMinnville and beyond (Hillsboro, Salem and the Tigard Transit Center). Check it out!

Genworth is allowing us to extend the long-term care insurance information and enrollment period until Nov. 9. If you have not yet taken advantage of the opportunity to learn more about this benefit, we encourage you to click here to do so.

Thanks to all who attended the informational meetings, and congratulations to Linda Sartwell – her name was drawn as the winner of a gift card to the Blue Zone Store! If you missed the meeting, it’s not too late. There’s a recorded webinar here.

An all-employee meeting is scheduled for this afternoon (Thursday) from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. Among the items on the agenda is a report from last weekend’s 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.” 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.