The Daily Bruin

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.  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.  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:   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:  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.  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.

Financial Affairs will be loading a temporary budget for 2012-13 and opening up the 2012-13 year in PeopleSoft on Monday, June 18. This is a temporary budget that will show the 2011-12 budget numbers; this will not be the final budget.

This is only being loaded as a place-holder to allow urgent purchase orders to be created for 2012-13 until the Adjusted 2012-13 Budget is complete. Please contact Cris Banton (ext. 2167) or Debbie Cash (ext. 2171) before entering any purchase orders over $5,000.

Thank you.

The campus community is invited to attend a recognition ceremony for IT’s Brian McLaughlin and Tim Goodfellow at 10:30 a.m. today (Thursday) in front of IT on the third floor of the Stevens Center. Refreshments will be served.

Brian and Tim will receive a Northwest Academic Computing Consortium Hugi Exemplary Practice Award for their work on the iGFU mobile portal project. The goal of the Hugi Award Program is to recognize individuals or groups whose outstanding work in technology has benefited NWACC member institutions. You can read more about the award here.

Contact Greg Smith if you have questions.

Don’t forget the two farewell receptions scheduled for this afternoon (Wednesday). Between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m., a reception in honor of former advancement employees Jim Jackson, Nancy Almquist and Valerie Rogers is scheduled at Coyote Place (located behind Burger King).

Also this afternoon, an event for Dale Seipp, former vice president of enrollment services, is set from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Stevens Center (Duke) Atrium. Dale has accepted a new position as VP for enrollment and marketing at Warner Pacific College.

Please take time to wish these former colleagues well. All are invited.

Join the university’s Relay for Life team and help give cancer the boot! We are looking for people who are willing to sign up for an hour or two of walking on Friday and Saturday, June 22-23. We’ll be filling time slots between 6 p.m. on Friday and 3 p.m. on Saturday. The event will take place at Joan Austin Elementary School in Newberg.

Please contact Vangie Pattison (epattison@georgefox.edu or ext. 2121) if you are able to join this effort and support the American Cancer Society with your time.

HR is continuing to diligently work over the next few weeks to prepare employment statements for support staff and annual contracts for administrators for the new fiscal year (2012-13). They will be sent to employees’ campus boxes no later than Monday, June 25, but the goal is to have them out sooner. We apologize for the delay in issuing these.

The university community is invited to a School of Business Speaker Series event featuring Mohan Nair, chief innovation officer at Regence, from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. on Friday, June 15, at the Portland Center. The deadline to register is this Friday, June 8.

Focusing on “seven deadly sins to avoid,” Nair will present “Strategic Business Transformation,” in which he’ll offer a way to view business transformation through the lens of personal transformation to anticipate, understand and command the waves of change in business. The event is free, and coffee and tea will be served.

To learn more about the presentation and to register, visit this page.

An all-employee meeting is scheduled in the Portland Center’s Room 285A on Monday, June 4, at 11 a.m. We will discuss the physical therapy accreditation status and provide end-of-year updates. This meeting will not include a live-stream link.

During this interim time (June), Josiah Philipsen will be handling room requests for the Portland Center.

• If you have any room request, please continue to put them into calendar.georgefox.edu under “My Requests.”
• If you have any questions about your room or equipment request, please contact Josiah by e-mail (jphilipsen@georgefox.edu) or by phone (ext. 6127).

To guarantee approval for your request in an open room, we ask that all room request and technology reservations are entered by 1 p.m. the prior business day of the date needed. Thank you for your understanding and patience during this time.

This position, then full time, was vacated by Abby Burgess earlier this spring when she joined the undergraduate admissions team and has been staffed with a temporary employee since then.

Beginning July 1, it will be .5 FTE (year-round) and 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 Tuesday, June 5, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found here.

Staff and faculty: Now is a great time to check out and update your vehicle registration on MyGFU. Just log on and select “Self Service.” Next, choose “University Forms.” The Vehicle Registration link will open up in the middle of the page.

If the information is not correct, then hit the minus sign to the right of the listing and delete it. You can click on the “Add Additional Vehicle” tab to enter the correct information. List all the vehicles you usually drive to campus, as there is no limit.

If you regularly drive more than one vehicle to campus, security recommends purchasing an additional parking permit for $5 to avoid having to switch your permit from one car to another. Just bring $5 cash to the security office during office hours, and we can issue it on the spot. If your permit is in disrepair, bring it to the security office and we can issue you a new gratis permit. If you’ve misplaced your permit, it is only $5 to purchase a new one. Adhesive staff permits are also available for your motorcycle or scooter’s windshield.

Adjunct permits are issued on the calendar year, so if you are teaching this summer or fall and didn’t teach this past spring, please come to the security office to pick up a 2012 parking permit. Parking permits are also available for Portland Center employees who frequently come to the Newberg campus.

Please don’t hesitate to call ext. 2090 or e-mail Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu if you have questions about vehicle registration or parking that are not answered on the Web pages.

Our June Serve team going to Romania and Moldova is in need of 3-5 larger suitcases or duffle bags. We will be using these bags to help transport donated items and supplies, however due to airport baggage fees we will not be bringing the bags back with us.

We are also gathering donated items to take to the at-risk children we will be working with. This is a wish-list from our missionary partners in Romania and Moldova.

If you would like to donate any of these items, please bring them to the Spiritual Life House by the end of the month of May. If our offices are not open, please drop it by the front door.

Items needed:
school supplies (especially markers, pens, glue sticks)
durable soccer balls
nerf balls
badminton rackets and birdies
jump ropes
roller blades
simple board games
Go fish
Uno
Legos
chess/checkers
colored construction paper
glue sticks
Elmer’s glue
water balloons
colored thread (for weaving bracelets)
permanent markers
blue gel pens
gardening gloves
blue sticky tack
colored chalk
fabric paint
fabric markers
badminton rackets and birdies
puzzles (for ages 7-10)
etch a sketch

For more information or questions please email spirituallife@georgefox.edu

Mail Services received a UPS bill for a Next Day Air letter that was sent on 4/11/2012 to Matheny on Market Street in San Francisco, CA.  Unfortunately, the sender did not give their name or cost center for this package.  If you send this letter, please contact Sherrie Frost, Ext. 2556.  Thank you.