The Daily Bruin

If you haven’t taken the Serve Day all-employee survey, please do so here. If you have any questions, contact serveday@georgefox.edu.

Six staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:

• Recruitment and Enrollment Counselor – ADP Admissions
• Executive Assistant to the Provost
• Sports Information Director/Assistant Director of Sports Marketing
• Archivist and Institutional Repository/Acquisitions Specialist
• Career Coach – IDEA Center
• Systems Engineer

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.

We will be hosting our next chart of accounts training today (Friday) in Stevens 109 from 2 to 4 p.m. We will provide an overview of the new chart of accounts and provide any assistance you may need with check requests, purchase orders, etc.

There will be additional training/workshops available most Fridays for as long as we need them. Following is a listing of the sessions we have scheduled:

• Friday, July 25, from 10 a.m. to noon, Stevens 109
• Friday, Aug. 1, from 2 to 4 p.m., Stevens 109
• Friday, Aug. 8, from 10 a.m. to noon, Stevens 109
• Friday, Aug. 15, from 2 to 4 p.m., Stevens 109
• Friday, Aug. 22, from 10 a.m. to noon, Stevens 109

We’ll schedule more if we need them. Thank you for the suggestions that we schedule a training session at the Portland Center and videotape one of our sessions; we’re looking into that.

Questions? Please call Cris Banton at ext. 2167.

It’s that time of year when financial affairs will be wrapping up the previous fiscal year. If you have any deposits that need to be credited to Fiscal Year 2013-14, we ask that you turn them in to the finance office no later than Monday, July 21.

We understand that vacations do play havoc with our best intentions. As a reminder, university policy is that all cash and checks should be deposited on a weekly basis. We will be closing Fiscal Year 2013-14 as quickly as possible.

Thank you! If you have questions, please call Kim Forbes at ext. 2173 or email her at kforbes@georgefox.edu.

An update on events in the news and the university’s transgender student housing policy is available at georgefox.edu/transgender.

Security will be conducting another active shooter training presentation on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

On Tuesday, July 22, the presentation will take place in VAC 117 from 9 to 10 a.m. The same training is scheduled at the same location on Wednesday, July 23, from 2 to 3 p.m. All employees and summer student employees who are available to attend are encouraged to participate. They may attend either training.

Unlike the training in the Stevens Center there will not be a live exercise, as classes will be in session and we don’t want to interfere with teaching.

For more information, contact security at ext. 2090.

Reformed Youth Services returns to George Fox this week for the second time to host its National Youth Conference.

More than 700 high school students representing 60 churches spread over 18 states and two Canadian provinces are on campus attending workshops and competing in volleyball, basketball, and soccer, while their leaders further encourage and equip them to become healthy disciples of Christ.

RYS, the youth branch of the Reformed Churches of America, is a youth ministry organization committed to the spiritual and social nurturing of young people. RYS began Monday afternoon and concludes Friday with lunch.

Please be sure to welcome them to George Fox University.

An update on the university’s response to the transgender housing complaint is available at georgefox.edu/transgender.

The George Fox football program is proudly sponsoring Newberg’s Old Fashioned Festival parade, and we want you to join us! We’ll meet on campus at 9 a.m. on Saturday, July 26. Bring your smile and parade wave.

You’ll be handing out candy and football schedule cards along the parade route, and we’ll have a T-shirt for you to wear that day and keep.

Contact Sarah Reid (sreid@georgefox.edu or ext. 2105) or Rob Felton (rfelton@georgefox.edu or ext. 2129) to join the fun! You will be provided more detailed information on where to meet after contacting them.

Six staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:

• Area Coordinator
• Assistant Director of Sports Marketing
• Media Specialist IV
• Archivist and Institutional Repository/Acquisitions Specialist
• Career Coach – IDEA Center
• Systems Engineer

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.

Women from Oregon and Idaho United Methodist churches will gather on campus for their annual missions conference, Mission “U,” Thursday through Sunday (July 10-13). Aside from Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends, the United Methodist Women have the longest-running summer conference on our campus, dating back to 1972.

Stevens Center employees and student employees will be participating in an emergency response training and exercise today (Wednesday) from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Campus security will be conducting similar trainings for other campus buildings over the course of the next couple months.

We will begin with a training in Hoover 105 that will go from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Sometime between 2:30 and 3 p.m. will be a brief exercise in the Stevens Center, and we will end with a debrief in the Stevens Center (Duke) atrium. Please make sure to tell your student employees about this exercise.

Contact security (ext. 2090) or student life (ext. 2316) if you have questions.

Financial affairs reps will be in Stevens 101 from 2 to 4 p.m. today (Wednesday) to provide an overview of the new chart of accounts and provide any assistance you may need with check requests, purchase orders, etc.

There will be additional training/workshops available every Friday, beginning July 18, as needed throughout the summer. The next session will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, July 18, in Stevens 109. The remaining sessions will alternate between morning and afternoon sessions through August as needed.

Questions? Contact Cris Banton at cbanton@georgefox.edu.

Stevens Center employees and student employees will be participating in an emergency response training and exercise on Wednesday, July 9, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Campus security will be conducting similar trainings for other campus buildings over the course of the next couple months.

We will begin with a training in Hoover 105 that will go from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Sometime between 2:30 and 3 p.m. will be a brief exercise in the Stevens Center, and we will end with a debrief in the Stevens Center (Duke) atrium. Please make sure to tell your student employees about this exercise.

Contact security (ext. 2090) or student life (ext. 2316) if you have questions.

The university welcomes Rebecca Hernandez as associate vice president for intercultural engagement and faculty development. Rebecca, who will also serve as the school’s chief diversity officer, arrives from Goshen College, where she was associate dean of intercultural development and educational partnerships for the past two years. Prior to that, she was director of Goshen College’s Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning and an assistant professor of nursing (2008-12). Rebecca has also worked at Oregon Health and Science University as an assistant professor of nursing (2006-08) and as a research associate (2004-06). She holds a doctorate in human development and family studies from Oregon State University (2005), a master’s degree in public administration from Portland State University (1996) and a bachelor’s degree in secondary education-social studies from Lakeland College (1989). Rebecca has also worked in several nonprofit organizations in Oregon focused on the health and well-being of Latino and other diverse communities. Rebecca lives in Tualatin with her niece Jordan and attends Mid Valley Community Church in Woodburn.

The university welcomes Cristina Schmitt as a graduate admissions counselor at the Portland Center, where she will specialize in serving students applying to the doctor of physical therapy and new master of social work programs. She arrives from the Stephenson Children’s Care Association, for which she served for the last six years as an on-site director for the Jackson Club, a middle-school-age after-school program and summer camp in Portland. Before that, she worked for a year as a teacher at The Children’s House Academy in Lake Oswego, Ore. Cristina earned a bachelor’s degree in educational ministries from Multnomah University in 2007. She lives in Portland and attends Village Baptist Church in Beaverton.

Dan Predoehl (ADP admissions) is leaving George Fox on July 22. He has accepted a position as the new director for the Emeritus Instructional Program at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, Calif. Dan had served in ADP admissions for five years, the last three as associate director.

Blair Cash (Athletics) left the university June 30 after 15 years as sports information director. He will continue to teach at the university on an adjunct basis in the Christian studies department. He is also the official scorer for the Hillsboro Hops baseball team.

Kathi Gatlin (IDEA Center/Registrar) is leaving George Fox on July 11. She says she’s ready for life’s “next adventure,” wherever that will take her.

Corina Burke (IDEA Center) left the university last month.

Caleb Wirth (Custodial) left the university last month.

Jan Amerson (Financial Affairs) has left George Fox after eight years at the university. She has taken an accounting position with Harvest Farms of McMinnville.

Trena Worthington (Custodial) left the university last month, moving back to California to take a job she held previously for many years.

Laura Gifford (History) presented a paper, “Piercing Leathered Hides and Stultified Thinking: Tom McCall and the ‘Third Force’ of the Watergate Era,” at the Institute for Policy History’s Policy History Conference in Columbus, Ohio, June 4. She also chaired and commented upon a panel titled “Forging Conservative Coalitions in Modern America.”

July 8            Jesse Dillow, Sue Richie, Linda Samek
July 9            Eloise Hockett, Sidney Tafflinger, Kenn Willson
July 12          Kimberly Forbes, Chris Pulver
July 19          Patti Fitzgerald
July 21          Gordon Aarness, Jeff Houck, Daniel Kang, Gregg Palmer
July 23          Randy Dalzell, Mark Stone, Clyde Thomas
July 26          Bob Dexter, Rand Michael
July 27          Emily Maynard, Randy Woodley
July 29          David Hansen
July 30          Dale Isaak, Ron Mock, Thomas Peng
July 31          Lindsay Knox, Gary Spivey
Aug. 1           Darcy Mize, Rob Westervelt
Aug. 3           Nancy Thurston

Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. Marketing communications will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Monday, July 14.

Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.

This full-time, 10-month position will be open through next Tuesday, July 15. Please email hr@georgefox.edu to ask for a copy of the job description.

To apply, please submit a completed transfer request, cover letter, and resume to Human Resources no later than Tuesday, July 15, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found here.