The Daily Bruin

George Fox University employees are invited to join the George Fox Auxiliary membership.  During the academic year, the Auxiliary hosts five informational lunches, each featuring George Fox departments and programs.  In addition, the Auxiliary raises $5,000 for student scholarships through the Auxiliary holiday bazaar held the first full weekend each November.

Membership is $5 for the year. Lunches are held at noon in the Cap & Gown Room and cost $7.50 per person. This year’s lunches will be held on September 5, 2008, October 24, 2008, December 5, 2008, February 6, 2009 and April 17, 2009.

To join, please enclose your name, address, phone and email along with your $5 payment (checks made to the GFU Auxiliary) and send to campus box 6177.  Questions?  Contact Norman and Margaret Winters at 503-537-7006.

Marketing Communications is currently collecting orders for name tags. Please submit your requests online. Provide the name of the person for whom the name tag is needed; title or department; and the budget to be charged. Examples of titles/departments include: Dean of Students/Office of Student Life, Admissions Counselor/Undergraduate Admissions. Supervisors should determine a standard for his or her area and attempt to remain consistent.

The next order will be placed Friday, Sept. 12. Communications will verify your request and the information provided and place your order with all others.

Marketing Communications is now collecting orders for business cards. Orders are due Monday, Aug. 25. Please place your orders through your department’s administrative assistant. Expected delivery is the beginning of October.

If you have not already done so, please submit your July time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) right away. Please be sure it is complete, accurate and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. The link on the HR website for these documents is: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/forms.html.

If your supervisor is not available to sign it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed. And one last reminder for completing time sheets: Do not write any hours on the date marked holiday (July 4) unless you worked the holiday.

Thank you.

– Human Resources

The Office of Human Resources will be closed Aug. 18-22 for PeopleSoft implementation work. We will check e-mail and voice mail as much as we can between sessions, but there likely will be delays in responding to our customers. We regret the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding and patience as we attend to this necessary training and testing to ensure a successful conversion to PeopleSoft.

The office will reopen on Monday, Aug. 25.

– Human Resources

The password for the wireless network has been changed for the fall semester.

The new password will appear on the first page of BruinData on Monday, Aug. 18.

If you need the password before then, or need help entering the new password on your laptop please contact Bruce Arnold in his office in the Information Commons at the Portland Center at extension 6127 or call the help desk at extension 2569 (503-554-2569 from a cell phone).

The Center for Teaching and Learning is offering FoxTALE workshops in August for faculty and other interested employees.

On the Newberg campus:

FoxTALE Introduction – Friday, Aug. 22, 9 a.m. – noon, Hoover 211
FoxTALE Open Lab Time – Friday, Aug. 22, 1-4 p.m., Hoover 211
FoxTALE Introduction – Monday, Aug. 25, 9 a.m. – noon, Hoover 211
FoxTALE Quizzes and Grades – Tuesday, Aug. 26, 9 a.m. – noon, Hoover 211

At the Portland Center:

FoxTALE Introduction – Monday, Aug. 25, 1-4 p.m., PDS 210

Please R.S.V.P. to Sheila Abercrombie (IT) at sabercrombie@georgefox.edu if you would like to attend any of these workshops. FoxTALE documentation is located on the IT website.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 10 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 18, for server maintenance and preparation for the fall semester. Please note that your online course(s) will be unavailable during this time.

Calendar (R25), Goldmine, and Blackberry service will be down for security upgrades from 6 to 7 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 18.

Foxserve, the network file sharing system that includes the “K” drive, will be down for security updates from 6 to 7 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 19.

Huge Book Sale at the Portland Center Bookstore.  Prior edition textbooks marked at 50% to 80% off retail prices.  Come in while supplies last!  All sales are final on sale books.

Contact John Stewart for more information.

Amber Russell, Director of Professional MBA is looking for a few people willing to carpool from the Portland Center on Sunday.

If you are interested you can call her at extension 6179 or email her at arussell@georgefox.edu

The university’s fall community meeting is scheduled for this Friday, Aug. 15. The gathering will begin in the Klages Dining Hall with breakfast at 8 a.m. before moving to Bauman Auditorium at 8:30 a.m. for a meeting that will last until 10:30 a.m.

All employees are required to attend. (Employees working on the four-day work week schedule will have to make arrangements to accommodate their attendance at the meeting.)

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 10 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 18, for server maintenance and preparation for the fall semester. Please note that your online course(s) will be unavailable during this time.

The University Bookstore is conducting its annual laser printer cleaning event for the Portland Center on August 20th.

If you want your office laser printer cleaned please email Andy Dunn the following information.

Printer make & model (ex: HP 4200TN)
Location of printer
Contact Name & ext.
Cost Center to be charged.

Andy must receive your request no later than August 18th.

Spiritual Emphasis Week (SEW) is coming up soon (October 6-9 to be exact), and your creative minds and hard-working hands are needed. For two years the School of Professional Studies operated with a very small contingent to make this special event available to students and staff of the Portland Center. Several students decided to become a Jesus follower during these sessions, and many more were enriched in their faith.

We really need your help in developing SEW. Some of you already expressed a strong interest in doing so. If you can be involved, please come to an organizational meeting on Monday, August 11 at noon in Room 155a. This first meeting will be brief, but I hope we can do some really effective brainstorming.

Please let me know if you plan on joining the team, if so, an agenda will come your way soon.

Thanks!

Mark Ocker @ ext. 6186
mocker@georgefox.edu
School of Professional Studies

The Portland Center campus will be closed on August 15, 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. while all employees attend a meeting in Newberg. The front office, library, and bookstore will re-open at 12 p.m.

There is still time to sign up for the third annual George Fox University Motorcycle Rally, scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 16. If you ride a street motorcycle of any kind, you are invited to join other members of the George Fox family in this special event. For more information and to register, visit georgefox.edu/alumni/events/motorcyclerally.html.

The following are dates for 2008-09 Portland Center community lunches. All of the meetings are on a Thursday, from 12 to 1 p.m. in Room 155, except Sept. 11, which will be in Room 285 .

• Sept. 11
• Oct. 9
• Nov. 13
• Dec. 11
• Jan. 15
• Feb. 12
• March 12
• April 9

The meetings will provide employees an opportunity to receive campus updates from the President or a member of the Executive Leadership Team. Your participation is strongly encouraged.

The following are dates for 2008-09 all-employee meetings. All of the meetings are on a Thursday, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. The only exception is the October meeting, which will take place on Friday, Oct. 24, at the same time and location.

• Sept. 25
• Oct. 24
• Nov. 20
• Dec. 11
• Jan. 22
• Feb. 26
• March 19
• April 23
• June 11

A May meeting will be scheduled at a later date. The meetings will provide employees an opportunity to receive campus updates. Your participation is strongly encouraged.