The Daily Bruin

I am trying to get a group of men who are interested in trying an all-men’s beginning yoga class for four weeks. The weekly class would be in the evenings from 5:45 to 7:15 p.m. or possibly on the weekend. The course will be at First Street Yoga and led by John Estrem, who has been practicing Iyengar yoga for 10 years. The total cost is $48.

If interested, please e-mail Michael Bevis at mbevis@georgefox.edu and the evening that works best for you.

Thank you,
Michael Bevis

If you would like to nominate a colleague for September Employee of the Month, please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Friday, Sept. 23, with a summary of this person’s contributions and/or outstanding performance in the past 30 days or so.

The winner will be announced and presented with a $100 gift card to The Allison at our community meeting on Thursday, Sept. 29.

You are invited to help George Fox honor its 16th class of inductees at the 2011 Sports Hall of Fame ceremony, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 1. The event begins with an induction ceremony at 3 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium, followed by a 4:30 p.m. reception in the Duke Atrium of the Stevens Center.

The induction ceremony is free to attend. Reception tickets are $13 for adults and $8 for children 12 and under.

The 2011 inductees include coach Scott Rueck (1996-2010), who guided the women’s basketball team to a national title in 2009; athletes Sharon (Barnett) McPherson (2000), Katie (Greller) Lacey (2001), Karli Holub Harshman (2002) and the 2001 women’s basketball team. Also honored will be Larry Gibson (1970) for meritorious service.

For more information and to R.S.V.P., contact Patty Findley at ext. 2910 or pfindley@georgefox.edu.

Students, staff and all of the George Fox community (as well as the Newberg community) are invited to a special event reflecting on the impact of the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

On Tuesday, Sept. 13, a panel of George Fox professors will share and discuss their views on “9-11: Ten Years Later, What Have We Learned?” Please join us in Hoover 105 at 7:30 p.m.

Questions? Contact Michael MacLeod (mmacleod@georgefox.edu).

In preparation for implementing a new point of sale and inventory management system at the Bruin Bookstore, we are beginning the process of returning textbooks to publishers. If you have not yet purchased your textbooks for this semester, we encourage you to do so now. Books will begin leaving the store by the end of this week, so make sure you have purchased what you need.

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

The Staff Development Committee has budgeted funds for use by support staff members to attend seminars that will enhance their job skills and professional development. The Professional Development Fund will cover a portion of the seminar fee as follows: Up to 50 percent of the total cost, with a maximum of $75. For seminars over $500, reimbursement is $100.

Each support staff member is limited to one use of this fund per fiscal year. Funds are available until used up, so apply as early as possible. If you have questions, please contact Barbi Doran, Staff Development Committee chair, at ext. 2099 or visit our website at sdc.georgefox.edu.

The Bruin Bookstore will be closed on Wednesday, Sept. 7, for Serve Day. We will reopen on Thursday, Sept. 8.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, Sept. 20, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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.