The Daily Bruin

The transition to remote education brings various challenges for many students as they navigate new living situations, different course formats, and upended schedules. The support during remote learning webpage has advice about moving forward this semester, and students can watch this brief message about support that is available.

If you would like to see the emails sent to all traditional undergraduate students from Rick Muthiah, director of Learning Support Services, you can find the text at the bottom of the webpage linked above. Students are encouraged to contact a professor, CAP coach, Student Life, or someone else at the university if they are having difficulty with the remote learning experience.

If they aren’t sure who to contact, they can call the university switchboard (503-538-8383), or email or call Rick Muthiah at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2314.

The university pastors and the Employee Prayer Network would like to invite you to consider joining us in a special spring semester prayer project. 

Knowing that there are many personal concerns within our student community – including physical and mental health, finances, family relationships, soul care, graduation transitions, and academic success – this is an important time for us to pray for our students purposefully, listening to the prompting of the Holy Spirit and praying with consistency.

If you would be willing to pray for the same five students each business day, from now through May 1, please send an email to Jamie Noling-Auth (jnolingauth@georgefox.edu) and the Office for Spiritual Life can provide you with a list of students. Or, if you have a specific group that you know and want to pray for, would you share those names with us?

We would love to make sure that all of our undergraduates have someone committed to praying for them in this unusual time. (As always, all student information needs to remain within our employee community in order to protect student privacy and adhere to FERPA guidelines.)

Thank you! Contact our office (spirituallife@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

The Wineskin is the on-campus literary and art magazine. We are currently accepting prose, poetry, artwork and photography!

Submissions are due on Friday, April 17, to gfuwineskin@gmail.com with the guiding and optional theme of peace. The guidelines are below:

• Submit all pieces as editable files with a title
• All prose should be under 1,000 words
• Do not include watermarks

Questions? Contact Kialynn Palpant at kpalpant16@georgefox.edu.

Your March Concur reports are now due. Please submit them as soon as possible.

• If you are a supervisor that approves Concur reports, please take the time to review/reject outstanding reports as soon as possible.   
• If you are a Concur user that has transactions waiting to be assigned to a report, please create the report and submit.
• If you are a delegate to a Concur user, please make sure that you have taken care of those employees assigned to you.

If you have any issues or questions, call Kathi Becker at 503-554-2166.

The Hadlock Student Center is committed to helping you continue to find your fit. We are excited to announce that we will be offering additional virtual group fitness classes this week, including barre, yoga, and total body tone.

These classes will be taught by our own instructors that you already know and love. Sign up now on imleagues.com!

Keep an eye on our Instagram and Facebook feeds in the coming days as we continue to add additional classes. Questions? Contact Rob Simpson at simpsonr@georgefox.edu.

Student Accounts is now processing personal checks through my.georgefox.edu. This payment method allows for swift, secure and safe payment handling. An added benefit is that payments generate a receipt to the student that can be forwarded to whomever made payment on their account. 

To make future payments online directly, please visit our website to learn how and to authorize access for others to make payments on your behalf. You will find that once the bank account information is saved, the payment process is very quick. No fee is charged for submitting e-check payments. Thank you for helping us in this way!

This change impacts personal check payments only. Other payments require customary handling and will experience a slight delay.

Contact Jenny Getsinger (jgetsing@georgefox.edu) if you have any questions.

The student life office wants to know how you are doing as we all are doing our best to finish the semester well. This quick survey will take less than two minutes. We look forward to hearing from you!

Questions? Email studentlife@georgefox.edu.

The Bruin Store is offering 20 percent off Champion brand clothing and accessories, as well as free shipping, through Monday, April 13!

Visit our website and use promo code CHAMPION20 to get the discount. We also carry a variety of shelter-at-home study essentials and great gifts for graduates. All shipping is free.

Questions? Contact Paige Jacobs at pjacobs@georgefox.edu.

The Hadlock Student Center is committed to helping you continue to find your fit. We are excited to announce that we will be offering additional virtual group fitness classes this week including barre, yoga, and total body tone.

These classes will be taught by our own instructors that you already know and love. Sign up now on imleagues.com!

Keep an eye on our Instagram and Facebook feeds in the coming days as we continue to add additional classes. Questions? Contact Rob Simpson at simpsonr@georgefox.edu.

Finance understands that many of you are currently working remotely and may not have thought about “year-end” when the COVID-19 stay-home request was made.

Please do what you can to ensure that any deposits, reimbursement requests, reconciliations for Visa reimbursements and invoices find their way (with the appropriate documentation to complete the transaction) to finance as soon as reasonably possible.  

The finance team is here and is available to help if you have questions.

• Visa cards, Concur, travel – Kathi Becker (503-554-2166 or kbecker@georgefox.edu)
• Accounts Payable – Michelle Conrad (503-554-2160) or Patrick Culligan (503-554-2163) or accountspayable@georgefox.edu
• Close out your petty cash – Michelle Conrad (503-554-2160) or Patrick Culligan (503-554-2163) or accountspayable@georgefox.edu
• Deposits – Heather Groenlund (503-554-2173 or hgroenlund@georgefox.edu)
• Error Corrections/IDC’s other questions – Bruce Owen (503-554-2169 or bowen@georgefox.edu)
• Miscellaneous questions – Debbie Cash (503-554-2171  dcash@georgefox.edu)

Thank you for your help during this challenge.
-The Finance Team

Each year during Holy Week, the Office for Spiritual Life invites the community to meditate on Jesus’ journey to the cross through a Stations of the Cross prayer experience.

As we are not able to gather together for this annual tradition, the university pastors invite you to create a similar experience in your own home. We invite you to print this document and post the Scriptures around your home so that, as you move through your house, you may prayerfully meditate on Jesus’ journey to the cross throughout this Holy Week.

Peace be with you.

The engineering department is overwhelmed by your transparency sheet donations. Thank you to all who have searched around your offices and donated. In addition to those we gathered on campus, Newberg schools donated 40 boxes and a local business reached out and offered 1,000 sheets! 

It’s a blessing to see our campus and community help in this way. This will keep our 3D printers busy for a long time. If you have questions, contact Lora Froescher at lfroescher@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2777.

The Bruin Store is currently offering 20 percent off Champion brand clothing and accessories, as well as free shipping, through Monday, April 13!

Visit our website and use promo code CHAMPION20 to get the discount. We also carry a variety of shelter-at-home study essentials and great gifts for graduates. All shipping is free.

Questions? Contact Paige Jacobs at pjacobs@georgefox.edu.

Coca-Cola has emptied their beverages from all of their vending machines on campus as of yesterday (Thursday). With little or no current usage, this helps ensure that there is no expired product in the machines being sold. They will resume stocking the machines in the near future.

Questions? Contact Matt Hammar at mhammar@georgefox.edu.

In anticipation of a temporary reduction in campus services and staff working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, finance and purchasing are asking for your help to cut or defer all spending that is not critical to the operation of the university. 

To assist with this goal, all purchases over $1,000 must have an authorized purchase order. Please limit all office supply orders to only include items that are critical to operate.

We are currently reviewing changes to credit card limits and availability, and we will communicate with affected departments/employees as those changes are finalized. 

For help, please contact:

Matt Hammar (mhammar@georgefox.edu or extension 2006) for purchase order help and information.

Kathi Becker (kbecker@georgefox.edu or extension 2166) for Visa and Concur help and information.

Each year during Holy Week, the Office for Spiritual Life invites the community to meditate on Jesus’ journey to the cross through a Stations of the Cross prayer experience.

As we are not able to gather together for this annual tradition, the university pastors invite you to create a similar experience in your own home. We invite you to print this document and post the Scriptures around your home so that, as you move through your house, you may prayerfully meditate on Jesus’ journey to the cross throughout this Holy Week.

Peace be with you.

The student life office wants to know how you are doing as we all are doing our best to finish the semester well. This quick survey will take less than two minutes. We look forward to hearing from you!

Questions? Email studentlife@georgefox.edu.

Join us for a Jackbox Game Night tonight (Thursday) at 7 p.m.! Sign up here for a chance to beat your friends in some party games over the phone.

Remember to keep checking our Instagram for other fun activities we have planned, including a quarantine Bingo and a potting plants tutorial!

Questions? Contact activities@georgefox.edu.

Does your department have 8.5″ x 11″ clear transparency sheets you are no longer using? The engineering department can use these to make face shields. 

A couple of our staff are busy using the 3D printer for the headpiece and are in need of transparencies for the shield that drops over the face. These are being distributed to local health care facilities and frontline workers. 

Drop them in the campus mail to: Transparencies, Box 6088. If you have questions or need a pick-up, contact Lora Froescher at lfroescher@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2777.

Now is the time to book end-of-semester ARC appointments! If you would like help with a paper or support with staying organized and studying for tests, book a remote Zoom appointment at arcschedule.georgefox.edu.

Be sure to schedule early because appointments fill up quickly this time of year. Check out this helpful resource with tips on developing better concentration while studying.

Questions? Contact Julia James at jjames@georgefox.edu.