As a new semester begins, consider using IT’s WiFi enabled Classroom Responseware solution from TurningPoint Technologies: rwpoll.com. Contact IT for an account. And don’t forget all the uses that our George Fox-enabled Google accounts can provide you. Read about these accounts on the IT site.
George Fox University libraries now provide access to thousands of electronic books through Foxtrax, the library’s online catalog. Our most recent acquisition is a collection of 45,000 leased titles from e-brary, a company that has partnered with 350 publishers to provide access to published books in electronic format.
For additional information about ebrary and other available e-books, please go to the library’s ebook site.
Faculty and adjunct faculty, if your status has changed to adjunct faculty, or you are on contract for all or part of 2010 as an adjunct, you will need an updated parking permit.
Please bring your expired permit to the security office as soon as possible, and we can review your vehicle registration and issue a new permit on the spot. If it is more convenient to do it via campus mail, please send your expired permit to box 6095, and e-mail nkincaid@georgefox.edu with the make, model, color, year, and license plate number of the vehicle(s) you drive, and include a box number so we can mail your new permit.
Please call ext. 2090 if you have any questions.
Thanks!
– Security Services
Want to learn more about making healthy food choices?
Beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, the university invites the community to Food Meet 2010 in the Hoover Academic Building, where attendees can learn about sustainable food, meet local farmers and taste healthy, delicious food from community businesses committed to sustainable, local products. In addition, segments of the recent film Food, Inc. will be shown. The film takes a startling look at what’s happening to our food before it lands on our plate.
Great local food – everything from cupcakes and chocolate to fresh goat cheese – will be available to sample. There will also be many booths where guest vendors and organizations will be demonstrating ways to grow, buy and prepare healthy food.
A $2 admission will go to organizations seeking to promote local, ethical, healthy and delicious ways of eating. More information and the R.S.V.P. are available at georgefox.edu/green/food-meet-2010. Questions? Contact Corey Beals at ext. 2661 or cbeals@georgefox.edu.
THIS Thursday, Jan. 14 wear your BLUE ZONE shirt for the Portland Center’s support of the GFU basketball program. We will have shirts available for purchase ($5 for most folks & $4 for students) and wristbands for free.
Wear your BLUE ZONE t-shirt…and enter the drawing at the front desk for grand prizes.
Then bring your family on Saturday, Jan. 16 to the GFU basketball games at the Newberg campus. All Portland employees, students & families will be able to sit together in reserved seating and have pizza to eat between games. The boys’ game starts at 6 p.m and the girls’ game is at 8 p.m. Entrance is free with your GFU ID card.
GO BRUINS!
The Wireless access key has been changed for the Boise, Portland and Salem campuses. The new key can be found on the front page of mygfu.georgefox.edu or by asking at the front desk at the affected campuses.
Those at the Portland Campus are strongly encouraged to connect to the “foxwifi” network rather than the “foxguest” network. Foxwifi is more secure and will soon offer extra features (such as printing from your laptop computer). For help connecting to foxwifi please visit the IT office in the Information Commons.
C.S. Lewis Academy and George Fox are cosponsoring an “Internet Safety Seminar for Parents” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21, in Hoover 105 on the Newberg campus.
Led by Detective Todd Baltzell of the Newberg-Dundee Police Department, the event will cover:
For more information, contact C.S. Lewis Academy at 503-538-0114.
The School of Business is hosting Derek Ridenour, channel development manager for Mentor Graphics, as its winter speaker series guest from 7 to 9 a.m. Friday, Jan. 22, at The Grand Hotel at Bridgeport, located off I-5 at the Durham exit in Tualatin.
Ridenour will speak on “Analyzing complex data: Bridging the gap between data and good decisions.” Following is a synopsis: “Today’s business world is increasingly complex and competitive. Every decision matters; the interconnectedness of our lives and businesses support this claim. Learn critical methods for gathering data, ethically selecting data, and displaying complex data to contribute to good decision making.”
R.S.V.P. to georgefox.edu/business/events.html. The registration fee is $20.
Please be aware that the U.S. Census will be starting soon, so please remember that census representatives always have a badge, handheld device, and canvas bag stating “Census Bureau.” For more tips, please go to census.gov and check the information under phishing and scams.
– Security Services
The Tilikum Center for Retreats and Outdoor Ministries is looking for 34 amazing individuals to serve on this year’s summer staff (June 1 to Aug. 21). A summer at Tilikum offers you an incredible opportunity and experience that will push you to grow in community, Christian living and service.
For more information, go to camptilikum.org.
Please take a few minutes to submit your December time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) to your supervisor right away. As always, please be sure it is complete (including your ID number), 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 it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.)
The link on the HR website for the staff time sheet is georgefox.edu/offices/hr/TimesheetDec09.xls. The administrator time-off report is at georgefox.edu/offices/hr/Timeoffreport.doc.
A tip to help you remember to do this each month: Set a recurring appointment on your Outlook calendar for the first business day of each month with a brief notation, “Turn in time sheet.” That gives you one less thing to have to remember.
Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg in HR if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for Employee of the Month for January. Your e-mail should include the person’s name, job title, a concise but specific summary of this person’s recent contributions (past 30 days or so) to the university, its students, and/or its employees (what was done, who was impacted, etc.), and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.
Please submit your nomination by Friday, Jan. 22. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the Employee(s) of the Month from the nominations submitted. The winner(s) will be announced at the all-employee meeting on Thursday, Jan. 28, and will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.
Help George Fox University honor its 15th class of inductees at the Sports Hall of Fame Banquet on Saturday, Jan. 23, at the Klages Dining Hall. Reception is at 3 p.m. and dinner at 3:30 p.m.
The 2010 inductees are:
Dinner: $25 for adults, $12 for 12 and under
R.S.V.P.: E-mail Patty Findley or call ext. 2910
The phone system will be down while we change to a new voice provider Wednesday, Dec. 30 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
The switchboard normally closes at 5 p.m. at which time outside calls receive a voicemail with instructions which will continue.
Newberg and Portland campus will be able to make internal calls to other campus numbers but incoming or outgoing EXTERNAL calls will not work during the change.
IT Service Desk
Over the past couple of years there has been a shift in customer buying behavior at our bookstores and with this comes both challenges and opportunities.
Effective Feb. 1, the Portland Center Bookstore will close its physical presence and transition to a Web-based service center at store.georgefox.edu. Â This will allow the bookstore to move from a small space that offers just textbooks and a small selection of other items during limited hours to a Website available 24/7 that will allow students to purchase all their textbooks plus imprinted clothing, gifts, supplies, computer products and academically priced software.
Here’s how it will affect the following groups:
Students
Our Portland and Salem students will be able to shop online at any time and have their orders shipped to their home or delivered to either the Portland or Salem Center for pick up. For payment, we will take Visa or MasterCard or can charge a student account. A vending machine in the Portland Center will provide school supplies such as pens, pencils, batteries and paper.
Bookstore Personnel
John Stewart will move his office to the Newberg campus and transition to the position of marketing and e-commerce coordinator. Â He will focus on growing the Bruin Bookstore e-commerce sales to increase revenue for the university.
Portland/Salem Faculty & Staff
John will be the contact for textbook questions and issues and will help departments with supply needs or special orders.
We are excited about the opportunity to serve our Portland/Salem students, faculty and staff in a new way. If you have questions, please contact John Stewart at 503-554-6125 or at jstewart@georgefox.edu.
We welcome your questions and input.
Student supervisors, please submit the rest of your students’ December time sheets to HR right away — by noon on Tuesday, Jan. 5.
Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Also, don’t forget to sign them and be sure the students did as well. (If the student is not available to sign it this week, please send it without the signature and HR will contact the student.) Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets.
Federal Work Study regulations require that students delivering their own time sheets must have them in a sealed envelope.
If you happen to still have any paperwork to submit on a newly hired student, please hand-deliver it right away — no later than Monday, Jan 4. We need to set up students in the system before the time sheets arrive.
Thanks very much.
HR
The university will close Wednesday through Friday, Dec. 23-25, for the Christmas holiday. It will also be closed on Friday, Jan. 1, for New Year’s Day. All offices, bookstores and libraries will be closed on those days.
Effective Jan 1, 2010, the mileage reimbursement rate will change from 55 to 50 cents per mile. This new rate is due to the IRS-announced reimbursement rate change.
There are now two reimbursement forms posted on the Financial Affairs “Common Forms†site. One is to be used to be reimbursed for miles driven in 2009; the other will now be used to be reimbursed for miles driven in 2010. Please be mindful of your travel dates to ensure that you are being reimbursed at the correct amount.
Questions? Contact Karon Bell at ext. 2162 or kbell@georgefox.edu.
The Center for Teaching and Learning is offering FoxTALE sessions for faculty during the week of Jan. 4, 2010.
FoxTALE Introduction – This session begins with logging in to FoxTALE and assumes no prior experience with FoxTALE. Learn to upload class files such as syllabi, set up discussion forums, and add assignments.
FoxTALE Grade Book – This session reviews FoxTALE grade book features and describes how to set up different grading schemes.
FoxTALE Open Lab Time – A time for faculty to ask questions one-on-one. Come and go as you like.
If you plan to attend any of these sessions, please R.S.V.P. to Sheila Abercrombie and indicate which session.
FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 7 a.m. (Pacific Time) Monday, Dec. 21, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.
