The Daily Bruin

Make plans to attend the all-employee meeting set for Wednesday, June 20, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Canyon Commons. It will be streamed live in PDS 160.

See you there!

This is just a reminder of the Fitness Center’s summer hours through Aug. 26. Be sure you’re aware of them before venturing over to see us!

Sunday: Closed
Monday-Friday: 6 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Saturday: 7 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Closed: July 4

We look forward to seeing you in the gym this summer, even if you’re just looking to escape the heat and be in the AC!

Contact Katherine McCombs (kmccombs16@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Mentoring college students is exciting and meaningful work. Sometimes, though, students may be experiencing life circumstances that mentors feel under-equipped to help students navigate.

The Office for Spiritual Life is hosting a free workshop, featuring speaker Dr. Chris Adams, to equip employees and community partners with tools for providing “soul care” for college students. Join us on Friday, June 22, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in Canyon Commons 101 for this helpful discussion, titled “Soul Care for College Students and the College Mental Health Crisis.” All are welcome.

Adams has a PhD in clinical and family psychology and a master’s degree in theology, both from Fuller Theological Seminary, and holds an MS in marriage and family therapy. Adams has served in pastoral ministry for more than 15 years and is currently the director for the Center for Vocational Ministry at Azusa Pacific University.

Questions? Contact Jamie Noling-Auth (jnolingauth@georgefox.edu).

The Columbia Sportswear Company has invited George Fox employees to shop at the Columbia Sportswear Employee Store through June 24.

What You Get Access To

• Employee pricing (typically 40 to 60 percent off MSRP).
• Access to all brands in the Columbia Sportswear family: SOREL, Mountain Hardwear, prAna, and of course Columbia Sportswear

Instructions on How to Participate

• This invite is non-transferable, but you can bring your family and friends with you (up to four guests per person, per visit).
• Bring the invite with you to the store reception desk (or show the invite on your mobile phone)
• Show your work/organization ID (options listed on invite)

Location and Hours

Columbia Sportswear Employee Store
14100 N.W. Science Park Dr., Portland
Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Click this link to download or print the pass.

Please contact Darby Thiessen at dthiessen@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2188 for assistance with these or any of your George Fox benefits.

The undergraduate admissions office is continuing to welcome our incoming class for Genesis, our new-student orientation event Wednesday through Friday, June 13-15! Please be considerate of our guests by avoiding parking in the Hoover and Stevens parking lots on these days.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Kelly Friesen at kfriesen@georgefox.edu or ext.2248.

Thank you!

With high temperatures being forecast for next week, here are a few safety tips to stay cool …

• Purchase a fan now before local store supplies run out.
• Purchase and cut wooden dowels two to four inches shorter than your window track length to safely keep windows open for ventilation at night, and to prevent unwanted entry.
• Keep curtains closed and windows shut during the daytime and only open up when temperatures have dropped to 70 degrees or below. Use a box window fan to blow in cooler air right before going to sleep.
• Hydrate!
• Don’t forget the sunscreen and a wide-brimmed hat.
• Do not prop open entry doors in a dorm or apartment, as you put the entire residence at risk of unwanted entry.
• If working outdoors, freeze several damp towels and bring them to your work site in a cooler and place periodically around your neck to cool down your body.
• Seek medical treatment immediately if signs of heat exhaustion or heat stroke are present. (Don’t know what they are? Take the First Aid/AED/CPR classes next Monday and Tuesday to learn how to recognize and treat these serious conditions. Sign-ups are on the Campus Public Safety website).

– Campus Public Safety

Campus Public Safety (formerly Security Services) desires that there be at least one or more staff or students trained in First Aid/CPR/AED in each building, and summer is a great time to take this training!

This class will be offered on the Newberg campus on Monday and Tuesday, June 18-19, from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each day in the Hoover Academic Building. Sign-ups can be done here, more information is available and payment can be made on the Campus Public Safety website, and you can pick up your book before class in the Campus Public Safety office after registering and paying.

Class is limited to just eight people, so sign up soon! Non-George Fox people can also register, so pass the word along if you know of people who are interested or need to re-certify.

Contact Mark Stone (mstone@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Our culinary journey along Route 66 is taking us to Missouri today (Wednesday)! We’ll be serving up traditional beef brisket with Missouri coleslaw, corn bread, gooey butter cake and house-made peach soda, all for just $6.95. Lunch will be served between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

Come join us on the patio outside Canyon Commons, and don’t forget to ask for a punch card if you don’t already have one. If you visit four or more times you’ll be entered into a drawing for a fun prize at the end of the road.

Mentoring college students is exciting and meaningful work. Sometimes, though, students may be experiencing life circumstances that mentors feel under-equipped to help students navigate.

The Office for Spiritual Life is hosting a free workshop, featuring speaker Dr. Chris Adams, to equip employees and community partners with tools for providing “soul care” for college students. Join us on Friday, June 22, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in Canyon Commons 101 for this helpful discussion, titled “Soul Care for College Students and the College Mental Health Crisis.” All are welcome.

Adams has a PhD in clinical and family psychology and a master’s degree in theology, both from Fuller Theological Seminary, and holds an MS in marriage and family therapy. Adams has served in pastoral ministry for more than 15 years and is currently the director for the Center for Vocational Ministry at Azusa Pacific University.

Questions? Contact Jamie Noling-Auth (jnolingauth@georgefox.edu).

Come on over for lunch today (Tuesday)! We are grilling up hamburgers, garden burgers and hot dogs outside on the Canyon Commons patio from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. For just $6.75, you get your burger or dog with side dishes, dessert and a drink.

We’ll see you there!

The undergraduate admissions office is continuing to welcome our incoming class for Genesis, our new-student orientation event Wednesday through Friday, June 13-15! Please be considerate of our guests by avoiding parking in the Hoover and Stevens parking lots on these days.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Kelly Friesen at kfriesen@georgefox.edu or ext.2248.

Thank you!

The university has hired Megan Adams to work on a part-time basis as an assistant Serve Day coordinator. Megan is a 2018 graduate of George Fox, ​from which she earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology. During her time as a student, she worked as an assistant area coordinator in 2017-18 and, before that, as a resident assistant from 2015 to 2017. Also, since 2016, she has been a parent relations intern for the university and a school counselor intern in the McMinnville School District. Megan lives in Newberg with her new husband, Austin, and attends Countryside Community Church.

Charles Allen, who has worked on the Newberg campus since March as a server for Bon Appetit, has been hired by plant services as a groundskeeper. Previously, he worked as an area coordinator at Willamette University (2017), as a temp data entry technician at George Fox (2016-17) and as a graduate assistant hall director at Taylor University in Indiana (2014-16). He also served as a residence life coordinator for commuters at George Fox in 2013, and since May of 2017 he’s done independent work as a transcription editor for audiovisual projects. Charles earned a master’s degree in higher education and student development from Taylor University in 2016 and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from George Fox in 2013. He lives in Newberg and attends Newberg Christian Church.

Tom Samek has been hired on a temporary basis to serve as director of plant services, as longtime director Clyde Thomas is set to retire at the end of this month. Tom, husband to provost Linda and a former director of plant services at Corban University, is scheduled to work in his new position for six months.

Jim Jackson, a former full-time employee who left the school in 2012 and was rehired as a temporary gift officer in February, has been hired on a part-time basis. When he left six years ago, Jim had worked at George Fox for 32 years. He also works as a real estate agent in the area.

Alyssa Rands (Theatre), Jocelyn Stein (Honors Program), Ann Lunt (Art and Design) and Josh DeGraff (Plant Services) have left the university.

Theresa Schierman (Financial Aid) retired from the university earlier this month.

Patty Findley is making the transition from her role as an administrative assistant in athletics to an administrative assistant position in the Department of Health and Human Performance. Beginning in August, she will work half time on a nine-month contract for the department.

Ryan Dougherty (Admissions) and his brother, Kevin, teamed up to write an article, “Football, Recruitment, and Retention at U.S. Christian Colleges,” published in the Christian Higher Education journal (Volume 17, No. 3). Kevin is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Baylor University.

Ed Higgins’ (English Faculty Emeritus) poem, “July heat,” was republished in an annual best-of anthology, Selections: Plum Tree Tavern Volume Three (May 2018). Also, his piece “fog swirl” appeared in the February/March 2018 issue of Haiku Presence, Britain’s foremost haiku journal, and his poem “Homonyms Explicated” is in the inaugural edition of the literary-art journal Brine (May 10, 2018). In addition, in May The Magnolia Review published an online interview with Ed on various aspects of his creative writing process.

Tom Head (Business) wrote an introduction to the book Quakers, Politics, and Economics: Quakers and the Disciplines Volume 5, published in May (Full Media Services). Paul Anderson (Christian studies) serves as an editor for the book, part of the Quakers and the Disciplines series. Tom’s chapter can be downloaded in George Fox’s Digital Commons.

June 12            Tiona Cage, Beronica Salazar
June 14            Brian Snider
June 15            Jennifer Lichtenberg, Gary Tandy
June 17            Neal Ninteman
June 18            Sherri Moore, Donna Webb
June 19            Mark McMinn, Kristi Wheaton
June 20            Janet Herron, Angeleen Umfleet
June 21            Jamie Johnson, Susanna Thornhill
June 22            Penny Martin, Dinah Steig, Daniel Sweeney
June 23            Rachel Thomas
June 24            Terri Crawford, Catherine Kacalek, Christina Kiefiuk Yates, Patty Vanier
June 25            Natalie Turner
June 27            Darby Thiessen, Debby Thomas, Kipp Wilfong
June 28            Michael Meek, Dan Schutter
June 29            Mary Peterson, Nathan Slegers
June 30            John Heitz
July 1               Nancy Fawver
July 3               Allie Duncan
July 5               Makenna Wimmer
July 8               Jesse Dillow, Sue Richie, Linda Samek
July 9               Eloise Hockett, Sidney Tafflinger, Kenn Willson, Anna Sophia Ziton
July 10             Laurie Fair
July 11             Spencer Hadduck, Jillian Sokso
July 12             Chris Pulver
July 13             Jordan Nelson
July 14             Mckenna Tillotson, Rebecca Yazzie
July 16             Megan Fisher

As the summer heats up, don’t forget about the upcoming deadlines for claims submissions.

Medical Spending Account

• June 29, 2018: Last day to submit claim(s) incurred between April 1, 2017, and March 31, 2018, with receipt(s)/substantiation
• Up to $500 will be automatically rolled over into your 2018-19 account as long as you are still actively participating in the plan.
• Any balance over $500 remaining unspent will be forfeited (use-it or lose-it rule).

Dependent Care Spending Account

• June 15, 2018: Last day to use funds in the two-and-a-half-month grace period.
• June 30, 2018: Last day to submit 2017-18 claim(s) with receipt(s)/substantiation

Contact Information

Need assistance with submitting Flexible Spending Account claims? Contact Allegiance Benefit Plan Management at 877-424-3570.

Need additional information? See the George Fox University Benefits Allegiance Flexible Spending Employee Benefit Plan webpage to access forms, debit card information, or the links to access your account online

Have questions about this or other George Fox University employee benefits? Contact Darby Thiessen in Employee Empowerment at ext. 2188 or dthiessen@georgefox.edu.

The card-lock system for academic buildings will be down Tuesday, June 12, from 4 a.m. to around 8 or 9 a.m. On Wednesday, we will be working on the science buildings (Wood-Mar, EHS and the Klages Center). They will be offline Wednesday from 4 a.m. to around 8 or 9 a.m.

Security will unlock the exterior doors of larger buildings during this outage and can be contacted at 503-554-2090 during that time for smaller buildings.

Questions? Contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or ext. 2569.

Join us for the next Search Advocate Training to learn how to promote equitable hiring practices in the workplace, and to further encourage the Be Known promise. The workshop series establishes a theoretical foundation of current research about implicit bias and diversity, information about the changing legal landscape in hiring, and an overview of inclusive employment principles.

Rebecca Hernandez and Laura Hartley will teach this two-day session on Wednesday, June 27, and Thursday, June 28, from noon to 5 p.m. both days in Stevens 207. Lunch will be provided!

To sign up and/or learn more about becoming a search advocate, please click on this link.

If you have questions, please contact Rebecca at rhernandez@georgefox.edu or Laurie Fair at lfair@georgefox.edu.

George Fox University is one of two institutions organizing a conference celebrating the culmination of Richard Foster’s public ministry. While online registration is closed for the event, set to take place on the Newberg campus June 10-13, people may still register this morning (Monday) between 7:30 and 9 a.m. in the Hoover lobby. The evening sessions are open to the public.

Get the full schedule for the event, titled “Celebrating 40 Years of Celebration of Discipline: Empowering Spiritual Transformation in the Local Church,” here.

Questions? Contact Paul Anderson at panderso@georgefox.edu.

Campus Public Safety (formerly Security Services) desires that there be at least one or more staff or students trained in First Aid/CPR/AED in each building, and summer is a great time to take this training!

This class will be offered on the Newberg campus on Monday and Tuesday, June 18-19, from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each day in the Hoover Academic Building. Sign-ups can be done here, more information is available and payment can be made on the Campus Public Safety website, and you can pick up your book before class in the Campus Public Safety office after registering and paying.

Class is limited to just eight people, so sign up soon! Non-George Fox people can also register, so pass the word along if you know of people who are interested or need to re-certify.

Contact Mark Stone (mstone@georgefox.edu) with any questions.