The archives has decommissioned a few hundred legal-sized hanging file folders. They are in great shape but were no longer needed after our remodel. If anyone on campus can use them, please let Rachel Thomas know at rthomas@georgefox.edu or ext. 2415.
Bon Appetit and the president’s office invite all employees and work-study students to join them for a mini-celebration of the opening of the Bridge Cafe and the new Canyon Commons dining hall.
Join us from 8 to 8:30 a.m. today (Monday) for the celebration. Free coffee will be provided in the Bridge Cafe and in the dining area’s main cafe, and pastries will be served as well. Denny also invites the campus community to stop by the Canyon Commons from noon to 12:30 p.m. this afternoon to enjoy some free food samples (not lunch) being prepared in the walk station in the main dining area.
The main opening/inauguration will be on Wednesday, Aug. 17, but President Robin Baker and Bon Appetit’s Denny Lawrence thought it would be fun to have an early celebration. We hope you can join us!
Questions? Contact Missy Terry at terrym@georgefox.edu.
Invite your university guests at the Portland Center that need Wi-Fi access to use the new Bruin-Guest wireless network. Their mobile devices (phones, tablets, and laptops) can get internet access with a pass-code sent to their phone via text or to an email address. Simply connect and register on the Bruin-Guest wireless network.
George Fox students, faculty, and staff should continue to use the Bruin-Secure wireless network. The older foxpublic wireless network will be turned off this Monday, June 6.
Visit the IT Wi-Fi webpage for more information or contact the IT Service Desk with questions.
Join us on Monday, June 6, for the opening of the new Bridge Café in the Canyon Commons! You are invited to enjoy complimentary coffee and pastries in the Bridge Café from 8 to 8:30 a.m. during our grand opening.
During lunch, we’ll be sampling delicious bites from our fire pit in the Canyon Commons between noon and 12:30 p.m. The Bridge Café is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the summer.
Six staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:
The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.
All testing of FoxTALE assignments using Turnitin show that processing of submissions is restored. Faculty and students can access Originality reports. We are continuing to work with Turnitin on the default settings for any new regular FoxTALE assignments when enabling Turnitin. Until this issue is resolved, we recommend you use the settings shown in our guide when enabling Turnitin in your assignment.
See FoxTALE Turnitin Originality Reporting for details. We will send an update when this issue has been resolved.
If you have questions, please contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2569.
– Your Educational Technology Team
The archives has decommissioned a few hundred legal-sized hanging file folders. They are in great shape but were no longer needed after our remodel. If anyone on campus can use them, please let Rachel Thomas know at rthomas@georgefox.edu or ext. 2415.
Bon Appetit and the president’s office invite all employees and work-study students to join them for a mini-celebration of the opening of the Bridge Cafe and the new Canyon Commons dining hall.
Join us from 8 to 8:30 a.m. this Monday, June 6, for the celebration. Free coffee will be provided in the Bridge Cafe and in the dining area’s main cafe, and pastries will be served as well. Denny also invites the campus community to stop by the Canyon Commons from noon to 12:30 p.m. that afternoon to enjoy some free food samples (not lunch) being prepared in the walk station in the main dining area.
The main opening/inauguration will be on Wednesday, Aug. 17, but President Robin Baker and Bon Appetit’s Denny Lawrence thought it would be fun to have an early celebration. We hope you can join us!
Questions? Contact Missy Terry at terrym@georgefox.edu.
Invite your university guests at the Portland Center that need Wi-Fi access to use the new Bruin-Guest wireless network. Their mobile devices (phones, tablets, and laptops) can get internet access with a pass-code sent to their phone via text or to an email address. Simply connect and register on the Bruin-Guest wireless network.
George Fox students, faculty, and staff should continue to use the Bruin-Secure wireless network. The older foxpublic wireless network will be turned off this Monday, June 6.
Visit the IT Wi-Fi webpage for more information or contact the IT Service Desk with questions.
With the end of our fiscal year quickly approaching, and to ensure a clean cut-off between 2015/16 and 2016/17 spending, the last day to use your Visa card for current fiscal year purchases is Friday, June 24. Please refrain from using your card for any purchases after this date.
If you will be traveling for business during this time, please contact Matt Hammar or Kathi Becker to discuss arrangements on how to handle travel after June 24. Credit card purchases for the 2016/17 fiscal year can begin on or after July 1. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Matt at ext 2162 or Kathi at ext. 2166.
While most student concerns and complaints can and should be resolved informally, there is a formal general complaint procedure described in the “Support for Students†section of the Undergraduate Student Handbook as well as on the Graduate/DPS Policies page of the website.
Please note that these procedures cover complaints of a general nature and do not supersede specific policies involving special cases such as grade appeals, sexual harassment, etc., which are covered elsewhere in the Student Handbook, catalog or Graduate/DPS Policies.
For more information, contact the student life department at studentlife@georgefox.edu.
Bon Appetit and the president’s office invite all employees and work-study students to join them for a mini-celebration of the opening of the Bridge Cafe and the new Canyon Commons dining hall.
Join us from 8 to 8:30 a.m. this Monday, June 6, for the celebration. Free coffee will be provided in the Bridge Cafe and in the dining area’s main cafe, and pastries will be served as well. Denny also invites the campus community to stop by the Canyon Commons from noon to 12:30 p.m. that afternoon to enjoy some free food samples (not lunch) being prepared in the walk station in the main dining area.
The main opening/inauguration will be on Wednesday, Aug. 17, but President Robin Baker and Bon Appetit’s Denny Lawrence thought it would be fun to have an early celebration. We hope you can join us!
Questions? Contact Missy Terry at terrym@georgefox.edu.
Come over and join us for lunch today (Wednesday)! We are firing up the grill and barbecuing hamburgers and garden burgers with all the trimmings! We will also have salads, chips, dessert and freshly brewed iced tea, all for $6.75. Lunch is served from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Starting the fall 2016 semester, new meal plan options will be available to students. Please check out the Meal Plan Options page for detailed information about the new meal plans and our meal plan policies.
The meal plan form will be available in MyGFU, in “University Forms,” starting Wednesday, June 15. You must select your meal plan no later than June 27, 2016.
Students living on campus in the fall who do not select their meal plan by June 27 will have the lowest meal plan they are eligible for applied to their account by student life. Students living off campus who do not choose a meal plan by June 27 will be given the “No Meal Plan.”
However, students who are eligible to do so may make changes to their meal plan until Friday, Sept. 9.
Please contact Jere Witherspoon in the student life office if you have any questions regarding the meal plan. She can be reached at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2316.
Invite your university guests at the Portland Center that need Wi-Fi access to use the new Bruin-Guest wireless network. Their mobile devices (phones, tablets, and laptops) can get internet access with a pass-code sent to their phone via text or to an email address. Simply connect and register on the Bruin-Guest wireless network.
George Fox students, faculty, and staff should continue to use the Bruin-Secure wireless network. The older foxpublic wireless network will be turned off this Monday, June 6.
Visit the IT Wi-Fi webpage for more information or contact the IT Service Desk with questions.
Our team is planning for Serve Day 2016! Please help us by making sure you’ve completed this survey to communicate site preferences, physical limitations and involvement capacity. (It shouldn’t take any more than three minutes.) It’s essential for our planning!
Please note: The survey is required for all Newberg employees.
See you Sept. 14, 2016, for another great Serve Day!
Plant Services will be removing several trees from the area around Minthorn Hall between May 31 and June 3. For your safety, please respect the boundaries set up. We will be selling the wood from these trees on a first-come, first-served basis. Firewood will be $150 per cord and must be picked up no later than Monday, June 6.
Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.
Thank you,
Plant Services
We are pleased to announce the results of the Staff Development Committee election! Here are your new and continuing members for 2016-17:
The committee is open to your ideas and suggestions for what you would like to see for activities and continuing education, so please email Adina Briggs-McConaughey before June 14 so members can discuss your ideas/considerations/concerns at the calendar planning meeting in June.
It has been a pleasure serving you as SDC chair this spring!
– Nadine Kincaid
Monday is Memorial Day, and the campus will be closed. The courier service for next week will be Tuesday and Thursday. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Richard Silver at 503-554-2551 or rsilver@georgefox.edu.
Seven staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:
The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.
