The Daily Bruin

During finals week our community experienced the tragic death of undergraduate student Daniel Mellers. Due to the timing of his death, the university decided to wait until school reconvenes for the fall semester to host a service in his honor.

The service will be held at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 5, in Canyon Commons. We will make the date more widely known once the school year begins but wanted employees to be able to save the date, as it may have implications for other campus events and student support needs.

Please contact the spiritual life office with any additional questions or concerns (ext. 2320).

Fall semester is right around the corner! This is a reminder to not wait until the last minute, so plan ahead and get your syllabus turned into Print Services. Please submit your syllabus to Print Services by Tuesday, Aug. 22, and you can submit your syllabus to printservices@georgefox.edu.

If you have any questions, please contact Print Services at 503-554-2550.

Faculty members: Here is some helpful information about how students are saving money by renting their textbooks through the Bruin Store.

• Cost Effective: Our rental program is better priced and more convenient for students than Amazon.
• Convenient: Students can highlight and write in rentals. As long as the book is still usable. they simply check in the book by the last day of finals.
• No Risk: Rentals can be converted to a purchase by simply paying the difference between the rental and retail price.

For more information, email Michael Simmons at msimmons@georgefox.edu.

The Wheeler Fitness Center will be closing at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 15, and will remain closed for the remainder of the day for necessary maintenance. Pending the length of maintenance, it may be necessary for the Fitness Center to remain closed through Wednesday, Aug. 16, as well. We will keep you updated.

Thank you for your understanding

Some of our undergraduate families are expressing frustration due to the hotel/housing shortage related to the solar eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21. If you are able to house a parent or two or allow them to camp on your property, please contact Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu) in the Office of Student Life.

FoxTALE will be upgraded on Friday, Aug. 18, and unavailable 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. We apologize for any inconvenience and invite you to check the “New Features” highlighted here.

Our top picks:

• Restore Deleted Content with Recycle Bin
• New grading page in Assignments
• Pinned Forum Discussions
• New Theme – Boost (mobile friendly)
• ShareStream Links

You can also sign up for a webinar giving an overview of all new features. IT offers faculty development events prior to the start of fall semester that focus on FoxTALE features. We offer both face-to-face meetings and webinars. View the 2017 Fall Schedule of Events here.

Questions? Contact servicedesk@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2569.

– Your Education Technology Team

Faculty, please submit requests for fall semester course reserves as soon as possible. Materials are processed in the order received and can take up to five days to complete.

Please fill out and submit the form located at this link. If you have any questions, please contact Patty Vanier at pvanier@georgefox.edu or ext. 2425.

The library is pleased to deliver library material for participating faculty to their offices on the Newberg campus. All library material must be signed for by the faculty member or persons authorized to sign. If you have used this service in the past or if you are signing up for the first time, please click on this link and fill out the form.

Questions? Contact Patty Vanier at pvanier@georgefox.edu or ext. 2425.

Did you, your department, or program go through changes with the university reorganization? Even if you didn’t, you probably work with others whose coding has changed. Please check out the new Department and Program Listing for Fiscal Year 2017-18 to find out where departments and programs are now!

All of the changes are effective as of July 1, 2017, so save yourself from getting returned forms from Finance with incorrect coding.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Pacific Time) on Friday, Aug. 18, for a scheduled upgrade and maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Welcome Weekend will be here Aug. 24-27. We are excited to welcome in the class of 2021! If you are available to help students move in or in some other capacity on the morning of Aug. 24, please fill out the volunteer form on the Welcome Weekend Hub at welcomeweekendhub.georgefox.edu. The Hub includes helpful resources such as further information on the schedule, weather contingencies and information for speakers. It also can easily be read from a mobile device.

In addition, if you are able, please plan to attend the Welcome Weekend information meeting on Thursday, Aug. 17, at 10 a.m. in Hoover 105. The purpose of this meeting is to acquaint you with the schedule. We will have 2,000 new people on campus during the weekend, and we want to be as hospitable and helpful as possible as new students and their families transition to this new season in their lives.

Questions? Please email welcome@georgefox.edu.

Don’t forget the all-community meeting tomorrow morning (Tuesday) in Canyon Commons. All employees, half time and above, are required to attend (absences must be approved by your vice president). The meeting will run from 8 to 11:30 a.m. and includes breakfast. The program will start promptly at 8:35 a.m., so be sure to get there as close to 8 a.m. as possible to eat breakfast.

The session will include a time of worship, ​an update from President Robin Baker and the VP team​​, and employee service awards. Contact Missy Terry at terrym@georgefox.edu with any questions. See you there!

The Bruin Den will be closed today (Monday) through Aug. 23 for a construction project. We will reopen on Thursday, Aug. 24. Come visit us in the Bridge Cafe; we will be open starting Monday, Aug. 14, with summer hours of 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Renting textbooks is:

• Cost Effective: Our rental program is better priced and more convenient for students than Amazon.
• Convenient: Students can highlight and write in rentals. As long as the book is still usable they simply check in the book by the last day of finals.
• No Risk: Rentals can be converted to a purchase by simply paying the difference between the rental and retail price.

Rent your books now at georgefoxshop.com.

Faculty members: Here is some helpful information about how students are saving money by renting their textbooks through the Bruin Store.

• Cost Effective: Our rental program is better priced and more convenient for students than Amazon.
• Convenient: Students can highlight and write in rentals. As long as the book is still usable. they simply check in the book by the last day of finals.
• No Risk: Rentals can be converted to a purchase by simply paying the difference between the rental and retail price.

For more information, email Michael Simmons at msimmons@georgefox.edu.

The Wheeler Fitness Center will be closing at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 15, and will remain closed for the remainder of the day for necessary maintenance. Pending the length of maintenance, it may be necessary for the Fitness Center to remain closed through Wednesday, Aug. 16, as well. We will keep you updated.

Thank you for your understanding!

Interested in joining drumline? We play at football games and events around campus. No prior experience necessary! Contact Sydney Soetenga (soetenga18@gmail.com) for more information.

When the Bruins play at home, you can count on a packed stadium. It takes a village to make our football games the success they are, and we’d love to have you join our team of incredible volunteers, the Bruin Brigade. All volunteers will receive lunch or dinner at each game they volunteer, free entry into the game and a T-shirt.

If you’re interested in joining the Bruin Brigade as a ticket seller or at the information table, send an email to Sarah Reid (sreid@georgefox.edu) and she’ll get you connected.

2017 Football Schedule

• Sept. 16 vs. Redlands University, 1:30 p.m.
• Sept. 23 vs. University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire (Homecoming), 1:30 p.m.
• Sept. 30 vs. Pacific University, 7 p.m.
• Oct. 14 vs. Willamette University, 1 p.m.
• Oct. 28 vs. Lewis and Clark University (Family Weekend), 2:30 p.m.
• Nov. 4 vs. Pacific Lutheran University, 2 p.m.

Last call for the lost and found! If you lost something on campus from last April until now, and have yet to pick it up, now is the time to do so! All of the lost-and-found items not reunited with their original owners will be donated to charitable causes on Friday, Sept. 1, to make room for incoming items.

If we have emailed you about left-behind items, please come to the security office as soon as you arrive back on campus to claim your items, as space is very limited!

Renting textbooks is:

• Cost Effective: Our rental program is better priced and more convenient for students than Amazon.
• Convenient: Students can highlight and write in rentals. As long as the book is still usable they simply check in the book by the last day of finals.
• No Risk: Rentals can be converted to a purchase by simply paying the difference between the rental and retail price.

Rent your books now at georgefoxshop.com.