The Daily Bruin

The university’s campuses in Portland, Salem, Boise and Redmond will be closed on Monday, Sept. 5, for the Labor Day holiday. The Newberg campus will be open and will instead take a mid-semester holiday on Friday, Oct. 14.

The university’s courier will not be going to Portland or Salem on Monday (Sept. 5) as normal, as both of those campuses are closed for Labor Day.

The courier will go to Portland and Salem on Tuesday, Sept. 6.

Thanks!
University Mail Services

Marketing Communications will host a staff/faculty portrait session from 1 to 4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15, in the Cap and Gown Room. These high-quality studio portraits will be used on the university website and will be available for professional promotional use.

Please call or e-mail Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu or ext. 2125) to let us know what time you are planning to come. You can still come without prior notice.

August is now behind us, so please submit your August time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) this week. Be sure it is complete, accurate and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108.

If your supervisor is not available to sign your time sheet by Tuesday, Sept. 6, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed. Links to the time-off report and the August time sheet can be found at this link.

Please nominate a colleague that would be deserving of this month’s Employee of the Month award by submitting your nomination via e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Monday, Sept. 19. It should be a summary of this person’s recent contributions and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.

The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient from the nominations submitted, and the winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 gift card to The Allison at our next community meeting.

This is an invitation for anyone connected with the George Fox community to join our online community of Quaker (Friends) students, faculty and staff. If you are interested in learning about events, opportunities, and information connected to the Quaker community, please e-mail Jamie Johnson (jejohnson@georgefox.edu) to be added to the group.

If you have any empty two-liter plastic soda bottles, could you please drop them off in the admissions office before Tuesday, Sept. 6? They will be used for Serve Day. Thanks so much!

Student Supervisors,

We thought we would clear up some conflicting information that you have received from HR. For your students who worked all summer, the last day of summer employment was Aug. 28. Starting Aug. 29, all students must use the Academic Year time sheet. The last three days of August are to be included on the September time sheet.

For your students who started work for the school year early (Aug. 26 or earlier), you must submit an August time sheet for them through Aug. 31. Time sheets are due in HR on Friday, Sept. 2, for a payday of Sept. 15.

Make sure you have all paperwork submitted to HR for your student employees by Friday, Sept. 2.

Thank you,
HR

For clarification: If you are in need of service and/or supplies for all copiers on campus, contact Print Services at ext 2551.

For service and supplies for individual printers on campus, contact the University Store (bookstore).

Faculty and staff, just a reminder as fall semester is upon us: If you encounter any kind of technical problem in the classrooms please let us know.  The on-call phone number for Portland IT is 503-593-4921.

IT staff and student hours are posted in every classroom. If you can’t reach us, or if you’d rather e-mail regarding non-urgent technical issues, please write to us at pdxtech@georgefox.edu.

Your IT department would like to call your attention to opportunities that now exist for your mobile Internet-enabled devices. iGFU, our new mobile portal, has many tools that can help you navigate your way through a new school year.

Check out this link for help configuring your mobile device.

All printer service requests need to be submitted by the online form. A link to this form can be found at the bottom of each of our web pages at store.georgefox.edu.

Click here for the URL for the form. This form is for printers only (not photocopiers).

Questions? Contact John Stewart at jstewart@georgefox.edu.

The Office of Financial Affairs has updated the following forms:

• Check Request Form – This form has been changed to make it easier for you to communicate to us which fund-cost center-account combination is to be charged.

• Rush Check Request Justification – This form has been eliminated and replaced with the “RUSH Check Request” form. This new form combines the check request and rush justification forms into one form so that it will no longer be required to submit both forms for a rush check. Please be aware that the policies for issuing rush checks have not changed. The new form will be subject to the same approvals as the old form and should be used only in critical situations where an exception to the normal payment policy is justified.

Please visit the Financial Affairs webpage soon to download the new forms from the Common Forms page.

Due to Valerie Rogers’ transfer to the Department of Advanced Integrated Marketing, there is an opening for an administrative assistant II position in communication arts/English. This .56FTE (30 hours per week, nine months per year) position is currently open 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 Monday, Aug. 29, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found here.

Installation of the new scoreboards in Miller Gymnasium has been moved up to Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 22-23. The gym’s center court will be closed both days; the other two courts will remain open for use.

President Robin Baker invites the university community to visit his blog to catch up on what he’s been up to and what’s on his mind. You can read it at this link.

Miller Gymnasium’s center court will be closed all day on Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 29-30, for the installation of the new scoreboards. The other two courts will remain open for use.

Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. The Office of Marketing Communications will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Friday, Aug. 26. The login user ID is “gfubc” and password is “gfu123.”

Contact Danette Newkirk (Marketing Communications) if you have any questions.

It’s time to order university stationery. For order instructions, go to the marketing communications website. You will continue to purchase all non-departmental stationery (including “second-sheet letterhead”) through the university’s Print Services.

Orders are due by Thursday, Sept. 1.

Women faculty and staff interested in joining the 2011-12 Women’s Leadership Development Institute cohort are invited to apply. Applications are available at this link (must be on campus to access) and must be returned to Box #6255 by Sept. 1. The new cohort will commence at a retreat Sept. 29-30, and Sheri Philips will continue to give leadership to the program.

The university’s first Women’s Leadership Development cohort concluded at a celebration for the program mentors and mentees in May. After attending the kick-off retreat in October, each cohort mentee met monthly with her mentor from October to May and attended five required leadership skills sessions. Cohort mentees read several texts during the program and shared their learning on a WLDI Foxtale site.

Even though only a limited number can be accepted, please feel encouraged to apply.