The Daily Bruin

Learn to make those gorgeous hanging baskets that grace our George Fox quad area. You will learn how these beauties are assembled and help us in the process.

Join us Wednesday, May 14, starting at 9 a.m. for our class on creating hanging baskets. It will last approximately four hours, and you are welcome to join in at any time. We will meet in the plant services building at 1101 Villa Road.

Questions? Contact the plant services office at 503-554-2010.

Sunday, May 4, 3:30 p.m. – Baseball vs. Linfield (Morse Field)

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.

Graduating seniors and students who are withdrawing: Avoid a $15 key charge. Be sure to return your mailbox key before you leave campus.

There are key return envelopes in the post office lobbies of Beebe and SUB. Put your name and box number on the key envelope. With the key sealed inside, return the envelope to Mail Services either through the Campus Mail slot or by dropping it off at Mail Services’ North Street Annex.

If you have questions, please email Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

Starting Tuesday, May 6, Marcella Hatfield will be offering a free yoga class two days a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays). Start time is 8:10 a.m. in Minthorn 200, and we will be done before 9 a.m.

Bring your own yoga mat if you have one. There will be no class on July 3, 29 or 31. Questions should be directed to Marcella at mloprinzihatfield09@georgefox.edu.

Graduating seniors and students who are withdrawing: Be sure to return your mailbox key before you leave campus. There are key return envelopes in the post office lobbies of Beebe and SUB.

Put your name and box number on the key envelope. With the key sealed inside, return the envelope to Mail Services either through the Campus Mail slot or by dropping it off at Mail Services’ North Street Annex.

If you have questions, please email Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

Some of you have a lot of mail. Please clean out your mailboxes before you leave campus.

Thanks!
– Mail Services

The George Fox Auxiliary invites the university community to the final installment of a series of luncheons featuring the theme “Reflections on Pacific College/GFC/GFU History.”

On Friday, May 9, Barry Hubbell, an alumnus of the university and retired employee who worked at the school for 37 years, will present “Reflections on the 1980s-1990s: The Ed Stevens Presidency” from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room.

Hubbell served in a variety of roles at George Fox, including as director of information, director of university relations, sports information director and executive assistant to the president.

The cost to attend the luncheon is $8.50 per person, and reservations must be made by Thursday, May 8. Reservations can be arranged by contacting Judy Woolsey at 503-538-7314 or dajuwoo@gmail.com.

Hours of operation will change slightly for all Bon Appetit on-campus locations this Friday, May 2. The Bruin Den, Bruin Bites and Villa Café will all be closing at 2 p.m.

Also, the Bruin Den will be open on Saturday, May 3, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Summer hours (8 a.m. to 2 p.m.) will begin in the Bruin Den on Monday, May 5.

Congratulations to our graduates from all of us at Bon Appetit!

Be sure to check out President Robin Baker’s latest blog piece, “Appreciating the Significance of Divine Moments,” in which he reflects on Francis S. Collins’ book The Language of God.

The piece can be read here.

Don’t forget to join us as we celebrate Carrie Bohl’s service to the university at a reception tomorrow (Friday) from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the advancement office at Coyote Place (700 Deborah Road). Refreshments will be served.

Carrie has served at George Fox for 16 years. She is leaving to focus full time on her home-based business. We appreciate her work in both student services and university advancement. She will be greatly missed!

The admissions office is currently seeking students who will be around this summer and interested in helping out with our events. Genesis kicks off the process for our incoming students, and we need volunteers to help us on the following dates:

• May 15, 16, 17
• June 18 and 19
• July 11

Volunteers will assist us from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will be given a shirt and free lunch!

If you are interested, please email Keisha Gordon at kgordon@georgefox.edu.

Thanks!

As the academic year comes to a close and as many of you pack up to leave for the summer, please be sure any monetary donations intended for university advancement are turned in for processing.

Please forward all donations to Advancement, Campus Box 6256 (Attn: Kristi Hagen) before the fiscal year ends on June 30. If you have any questions, contact Kristi at khagen@georgefox.edu or ext. 2111.

Thank you in advance for your help as we wrap up the fiscal year.

Use your new, empty 2014 Summer sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another course site. See the instructions here for importing. Here are some end-of-semester reminders:

• 2014 Summer sites are currently hidden from students. When you are ready, you can share the sites with your students. Here is a quick guide on how to make the courses available: FoxTALE Making Courses Visible to Students

• If you used the FoxTALE grade book for any of your FoxTALE course sites, we recommend that you back up your 2014 Spring grade book to a spreadsheet that is saved outside of FoxTALE. See the instructions here for backing up grades. You will want to keep an archive of your course grades that cover the last five years.

• If your course site is set to Weekly format, your course might show incorrect dates. To change the dates, go to Administration> Edit settings on the course home page. Scroll down to the course start date and change it to the first day of your summer course. Scroll to the bottom of the page and “Save changes.”

– IT Educational Technology Team
Questions? Write servicedesk@georgefox.edu

Please bring your student mail to Mail Services by 9 a.m. on Friday, May 2, to have the mail delivered to student mailboxes on that day. There will be no deliveries made to student mailboxes after 1 p.m. on Friday.

Normal student mail delivery will begin on Monday to student mailboxes that are remaining open after finals week.

Employee mail will continue throughout the day as normal.

If you have questions, please email Linda Sartwell lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

George Fox’s libraries have recently partnered with bepress to provide the services of Digital Commons, the leading hosted institutional repository (IR) software platform. A Digital Commons repository showcases the breadth of scholarship produced at an institution – everything from faculty papers, student scholarship and annual reports to open-access journals, conference proceedings, monographs, dissertations, and more.

Scholarly material and special collections in Digital Commons repositories are highly discoverable in Google, Google Scholar, and other search engines. The content is all the institution’s. As one example of success, Pacific University’s Digital Commons has experienced nearly 260,000 downloads of full-text documents in the last year.

Our library is just now in the process of establishing the IR, but we do have a small amount of content that can be accessed at digitalcommons.georgefox.edu. Please feel free to take a look. Additional work on this project will continue over the summer, and next fall we look forward to sharing and discussing more with faculty as well as recruiting content.

Seniors! I still need four tickets for the 2:30 p.m. ceremony this weekend! These are for friends and family coming in from out of town, so it is really important for me to get them in. Any extra tickets you may have, even one, I would love to take off your hands.

Please let me, Alyssa Asdell, know ASAP by e-mail: aasdell11@georgefox.edu.

In a new format this year, the university will host two undergraduate commencement ceremonies this Saturday, May 3. This year, a ceremony for students in the school’s College of Business, College of Christian Studies, College of Education and College of Engineering will will take place at 10 a.m.

In the afternoon, a second undergraduate ceremony for those graduating with degrees from the College of Arts and Sciences and College of Behavioral and Health Sciences is set for 2:30 p.m. Both ceremonies will take place in Miller Gymnasium in the Wheeler Sports Center. Commencement can be viewed live at this link 15 minutes prior to the start of the ceremony.

Students graduating from George Fox’s graduate programs and George Fox Evangelical Seminary will attend commencement ceremonies on Thursday and Friday, May 1-2, at various locations. Details on when and where they will take place are available at this link.

Richard Foster, a 1964 graduate of George Fox and the author of Celebration of Discipline, will serve as commencement speaker at the two undergraduate ceremonies.

To read more about Foster and for a complete guide to commencement events, visit this page.

The last day to place orders using the purchase order system is May 31, 2014, for the current fiscal year. This includes all requisitions which must be budget checked, approved and converted to purchase orders and products or services ordered. Please be sure orders are placed by May 31 to ensure items are received by June 30, 2014.

Fiscal year 2015 purchase orders will need to wait until June 15, when we expect the new chart of accounts to be available for use in the purchase order system. Please work directly with Kathi Becker before creating any FY15 purchase orders to ensure that this transition to the new system goes smoothly.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact Kathi by email (kbecker@georgefox.edu) or at ext. 2166.

With the end of our fiscal year quickly approaching, and to ensure a clean cut-off between FY14 and FY15 spending, the last day to use your Visa card for fiscal year 2014 purchases is Friday, June 20. Please refrain from using your card for any purchases after this date.

If you will be traveling for business during this time, please contact Kathi Becker to discuss arrangements on how to handle purchases after June 20. Credit card purchases for the 2014-15 fiscal year can begin on or after July 1.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact Kathi by email (kbecker@georgefox.edu) or at ext. 2166.

How hard is it to build and publish a native app? All those technical decisions – which language, which framework, how many developers, what skill sets are needed – can be mind-boggling, especially for a non-technical entrepreneur.

If you know of students who have an interest in this area, encourage them to join us for a visit to Puppet Labs on Tuesday, May 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. The business is located at 926 N.W. 13th Ave., in Portland.

Students can register for the event by emailing Deb Mumm-Hill at dmummhill@georgefox.edu. More information is available by calling the IDEA Center at 503-554-2330.