The Daily Bruin

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.

For this month especially, we are asking for time sheets (support staff) and time-off reports (administrators) to be submitted as soon as possible so we can provide the necessary year-end vacation accrual reports to the finance office in a timely manner.

Administrators, please resume using paper time-off reports. If you would like to download a copy to keep on your desktop, you can find it at this link.

We had hoped embedding the form in the body of an email would allow us to discontinue using the paper forms; but unfortunately, it did not work out well on the payroll end of the process. We will continue to explore other possibilities for automating this process to improve efficiencies and eliminate paper, but until further notice, we need to ask you to use the paper form.

Thank you,
HR

An NBC Basketball Camp will be on campus this week, Sunday through Thursday (July 6-10). The camp is open to boys and girls ages 8 to 18 and combines skill development with Christian values. Alumnus and former men’s basketball player Mark Johnson serves as site director for the event.

For those who play noon basketball, the courts will be open during the noon hour.

Crews will be installing artificial turf for the Lemmons Football Field on Monday and Tuesday, July 7-8. The parking lot next to the tennis courts (east of MLRC) will be closed during this time to allow room for the crews and their materials. If possible, please avoid this area, as there will be increased traffic for construction.

Thank you for your patience.

– Plant Services

More than 400 participants from Northwest Chinese churches will gather on campus this weekend (July 4-6) for their regional summer retreat, offering services in both English and Mandarin.

Both the Bruin Den and Villa Café will be closed this Friday, July 4, in observance of the Independence Day holiday. Have a safe and happy 4th, and we will see you on Monday when we will be open again with our summer hours.

Please join your colleagues at 3 p.m. this afternoon (Thursday) on the Bruin Den Plaza for an early celebration of our country’s Independence Day and the blessing of freedom we enjoy. We will be serving apple pie a la mode.

Summer student employees are most definitely invited!

Happy summer! The admissions office is gearing up for our final Genesis event next Friday, July 11, and we are in need of more student volunteers.

Volunteers will be helping out with the event from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. by directing students to their next locations and being a guide for the day. Volunteers will be given a T-shirt and a free lunch!

If you’re interested in helping out, please email Keisha Gordon (kgordon@georgefox.edu) and let her know. We would love to have you on board and to help share how awesome George Fox is with our future students.

Staff and faculty, please pass this info along to your students who might be interested.

Thanks!

HR invites you to participate in our ninth annual Red, White and Blue Jeans Day. In recognition of Independence Day this Friday (and a George Fox holiday), you are encouraged to wear casual attire in patriotic colors on Thursday, July 3.

At 3 p.m., the HR staff will serve up the all-American dessert – apple pie a la mode – on the Bruin Den plaza just outside the ASC offices and near “Old Glory” (please note change in location). We hope you can join us for this sweet treat and enjoy a chance to visit with coworkers. Summer student employees are also invited.

Portland employees will gather in PDS 160 to enjoy an Independence Day celebration during afternoon break as well.