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 .
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.
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.
The beginning of the 2008-09 school year is near, which means it’s time to mark your calendars for the fall community meeting on Friday, Aug. 15. The gathering will begin in the Klages Dining Hall with breakfast at 8 a.m. At 8:30 a.m., we will move to Bauman Auditorium 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.)
Please join us as we share our appreciation with Carol Green, dean of the School of Professional Studies, at 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 11, in the Portland Center’s main lobby. If you cannot attend and would like to send a note or card, please mail those to Karlyn Fleming (Academic Affairs) at Box 6246.
Carol is heading to LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas, to serve as vice president for the School of Graduate and Professional Studies. She has been dean of the George Fox SPS program since 2005.
Thank you,
Academic Affairs
