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Michelle Cox (Counseling) is leaving the university this spring to begin a new position as director of student health and counseling services at Western Oregon University in May. Michelle is an alumna of Western Oregon and completed her internship at the WOU counseling center while earning her master’s degree at George Fox in 2003.

Jerry Young (Plant Services) retired from the university after serving as a plumber at the Newberg and Portland campuses for the past six-plus years.

Becky Greenwood (Salem Site Coordinator) left the university in late April. She moved to Puyallup, Wash., to help take care of her sister-in-law with terminal brain cancer.

Kathy Weiss, associate professor of biology, received the university’s Achievement Award for Undergraduate Teaching and Doug Campbell, professor of art, was named recipient of the Undergraduate Faculty Research and Scholarship Award. At the graduate level, Terry Huffman, an education professor in the Educational Foundations and Leadership program, received the Faculty Achievement Award for Graduate Research and Scholarship, while Chris Meade, assistant professor of management, received the Faculty Achievement Award for Graduate Teaching. You can read more about them here.

Sarah Gibson’s (Cinema and Media Communication) interactive documentary, Steve Taylor’s Digital Clone, was awarded the Best of Festival King Foundation Award in the faculty interactive media category at the Broadcast Education Association national convention as well as Best in Competition in the faculty interactive documentary category. This is the highest distinction at BEA given to only the top 1.2 percent of all entries. In addition, Gibson’s companion documentary, Steve Taylor is Not Dead, screened at North Central University’s new documentary festival as a non-competition invited lead entry. Sarah also presented a paper, “Social Media in the Courtroom,” at the Pacific Northwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.

Kevin T. Jones (Communication Arts) presented a paper, “I’m guilty, but leave my family alone: Circumventing personal disaster through sex scandal apologia,” at the Northwest Communication Association annual conference April 12-14, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The paper examined rhetorical strategies used by noteworthy individuals (i.e Tiger Woods) when confronting the media about a sex scandal. Several communication arts students presented papers as well. Seniors Lishan Zeng and Kaleb Olsen presented “The influence of uncertainty on self-disclosure/intimacy in intercultural communication,” and senior Amanda Kate Winkelman and junior Matayah Fox shared their paper “Mass Media Study: Online exposure compared to Internet involvement and disclosure.”

Jim Steele (Business) was a featured speaker on the topic “A Leader’s Guide to Navigating Change” at Corvallis LEADS (Leadership, Education and Development Summit), sponsored by the Corvallis Chamber of Commerce on April 20.

Joel Perez (Dean of Transitions and Inclusion) was quoted in an Urban Faith article, “Doing College Diversity Well,” that appeared on the organization’s website on April 27. The article is available at this link.

Douglas Campbell (Visual Arts) had “Check,” a mixed media piece, and “Enore,” a monoprint, accepted into a juried exhibit, “Full Moon Rising,” at the Red Raven Gallery in Salem, Ore. The exhibit runs from May 2 through May 30. Also, his poems “Reims Rendezvous” and “Paths” are included in the Spring 2012 issue of Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature; his poem “The Demon Cupid” was included in the Winter 2011 issue of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review; and his poems “Rodin’s Gates of Hell” and “Constable’s Landscape” were included in the online journal Ides of March in April.

May 1        Patrick Allen
May 2        Elaine Smith
May 3        Angela Doty
May 5        Robert Bonner
May 6        Greg Smith, Dick Van Noord
May 7        Betty Cordill
May 8        Molly Hickok, Brent Wilson, Deb Worden
May 10      Jim Jackson, Christopher Meade
May 11      Melanie Newell
May 12      Marla Sweningson
May 13      Ethan Burke
May 14      Kathi Becker, Don Powers
May 15      Dirk Barram
May 16      Audrey Williamson
May 17      Paul Anderson
May 18      Paul Otto, Cynthia Weston
May 20      Val Orton, Dan Predoehl
May 22      Heather Ayala, Cliff Berger
May 23      Chuck Conniry
May 24      Brenda Morton
May 28      Beth LaForce

Any students wishing to earn between 1-4 hours of summer academic credit for the Discernment-Oriented Leadership Special Study should contact Paul Anderson by Friday afternoon (May 4).

This special study (CHMN 485; PSTD 585) is built upon the student’s participation in the Leadership Institute for Group Discernment May 21-24 at Tilikum (http://goodnewsassoc.org/leadershipinstitute/) and additional research tailored to the student’s interests.

IT is offering two instructional workshops on Google E-mail and Google Docs during week of April 30 at its Newberg campus and Portland Center locations.

• Google E-mail How-tos: Wednesday, May 2, 10-11 a.m., Portland Center
• Google Docs – Organization, Sharing and Collaboration: Wednesday, May 2, 11 a.m. – noon, Portland 210
• Google E-mail How-tos: Wednesday, May 2, 2-3 p.m., Stevens 307
• Google Docs Organization, Sharing and Collaboration: Thursday, May 3, 2-3 p.m., Stevens 307

View the schedule and sign up at this link. Questions? Contact Kandie Comfort at kcomfort@georgefox.edu.

The wireless network foxguest is being replaced with foxpublic and will be upgraded to WPA2 for better encryption and security. If you are currently using foxguest, you will be required to move to either foxwifi or foxpublic.

We encourage students and employees to use foxwifi and visitors to the campus to use foxpublic. Please contact Josiah with Portland Center IT at 503-554-6127 if you need assistance connecting to wireless. The wireless password can be found on the main page of MyGFU.

The Portland Center will see both foxguest and foxpublic wireless for a one-week transition period.

Employees who connect to foxwifi wireless at the Portland Center will no longer need to use VPN to access their desktop computer or files on the administrative network (foxserve, printing, K drive). You will still need VPN for off-campus access to these resources.

– IT

The wireless network foxguest is being replaced with foxpublic and will be upgraded to WPA2 for better encryption and security. If you are currently using foxguest, you will be required to move to either foxwifi or foxpublic.

We encourage students and employees to use foxwifi and visitors to the campus to use foxpublic. Please contact the service desk at 503-554-2569 if you need assistance connecting to wireless. The wireless password can be found on the main page of MyGFU.

– IT

For the first time, we are able to offer Spanish interpreting services at our traditional undergraduate commencement ceremony.

This service will be available only in Miller Gymnasium, and a ticket to Miller Gym is required. Headsets are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 2 p.m. on April 28 (one hour prior to commencement).

If this service would be helpful to you or a family member, please stop by the information table in the Wheeler Sports Center’s lower lobby.

If you have questions, please contact Joel Perez, dean of transitions and inclusion, at jperez@georgefox.edu.

Beginning Monday, we will have potted mums for sale from this weekend’s graduation festivities. All are yellow mums with a blue or green pot cover. The cost is $4.

Come to Pennington House anytime after 10 a.m. on Monday, April 30, to get yours. First come, first serve. You may also reserve flowers by e-mailing Mary Monahan at mmonahan@georgefox.edu or calling ext. 2134.

The employee recognition event that has been held in early May for the past few years will be part of the first community gathering at the beginning of the 2012-13 academic year on Friday, Aug. 17.

Service Award recipients, Support Staff Employee of the Year, Administrator of the Year, and retirees will be honored at this event.

The Veterans Certifying Official in the student financial services office has an opening for a VA work study position. An applicant must be a veteran or receiving VA educational benefits under a transfer of entitlement and currently registered for classes. “GFU Student Employment” eligibility not required. For all chapters except CH 33, students must be training at a minimum of three-quarters time. For CH 33, rate of pursuit must be at least 75 percent.

Please print and complete the Student Employment Application found at this link. Forms should be returned to Sherri Moore in the student financial services office.

If you have questions, please contact Sherri at smoore@georgefox.edu.

Please be sure to sign and submit your April time sheet to your supervisor at the end of your last shift of the school year.

As always,

• Please be sure your name is typed or printed legibly at the top
• Check it for accuracy and completeness, and
• Sign it and submit it to your supervisor

Payday is on Tuesday, May 15

Paychecks will be mailed to the most recent address on file with Mail Services, UNLESS you are working on campus this summer and have an open campus box. In that case, your check will go there instead.

Thanks for your help in getting your time sheets to HR on time. And thank you, too, for your work and contribution to the department/s in which you have worked this academic year. We hope you have a fabulous summer.

If you are working on campus this summer, please plan to attend a summer orientation on Monday, April 30, at 9 a.m. in Hoover 105.  This required meeting will provide important information you will need as a summer employee.

– Human Resources

The Bruin Den will close at 2 p.m. Friday, April 27, and will reopen Monday, April 30, with summer hours (8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday).

Villa Cafe closes early: The Villa Cafe will close at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 27.

This Friday and Saturday, April 27-28, students will be eating in the Cap and Gown Room as the dining room is being used for graduation events. Breakfast and lunch hours on Friday are normal, but dinner is from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

On Saturday, breakfast is from 9 to 10 a.m. and lunch, our final board meal, is from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bon Appetit congratulates the class of 2012!

Graduating seniors and other non-returning students:

Key return envelopes are found in all of the post office lobbies as well as at the service window at Mail Services. Put your name and box number on the key envelope (key inside), seal the envelope, drop the envelope in campus mail, or return key envelope to Mail Services.

Mailbox keys must be returned by 5 p.m. Friday, April 27, to avoid a $15 key charge to your student account.

If you have questions, please e-mail Linda Sartwel at lsartwel@georgefox.edu

Thanks!

Following are Wheeler Sports Center hours for this summer:

• Friday, April 27, closed at 5 p.m.
• Saturday-Sunday, April 28-29, closed
• Monday-Friday, April 30-Aug. 24:
  open 6 to 8 a.m., 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 8 p.m.

The center will be closed on weekends, on Monday, May 28 and on Wednesday, July 4.

Questions? Contact Patty Findley at ext. 2910 or pfindley@georgefox.edu.

Students: Several jackets and other items have been turned in to the lost and found this past week. If you are missing an item, please stop by the security office during office hours to look for it, or call ext. 2090 to inquire about your item before you leave for the summer.

There are also a large number of car keys. Do you know where yours are? All unclaimed items will be donated to charitable causes during the summer.

For more information, please contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

The 14th Annual Fox Film Festival was a complete success! It broke the record of attendance at the Cameo screening! As the committee plans for next year, please take three minutes and complete this survey about this recent exciting event if you were able to attend either night.

Thanks!

Student supervisors: Would you please submit your students’ April time sheets as soon as your students finish their last work shifts and no later than Wednesday, May 2? This due date is a little earlier than usual because we won’t have our wonderful student employees here to help process this payroll.

A few reminders:

If your student has school-year hours that are continuing into the first few days of May, please include these hours on a separate May academic year time sheet and submit it to HR as soon as they are done for the year.

A quick checklist of items regarding time sheets:

• Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number are legible.
• Please total them, sign them and be sure the students did as well. (If a student leaves without signing his or her time sheet, please send it to HR anyway.)
• To keep us in compliance with Federal Work Study regulations, please be sure that if you ask students to deliver their own time sheets, you first place the sheets in a sealed envelope.

If you have any questions, contact Melodee Powers at mpowers@georgefox.edu.

Thanks for all your work this past year in attending to these details. Without you doing your part, it would have been tough to meet our monthly payrolls.

HR

Please be sure your summer student employees attend an orientation this Monday, April 30, at 9 a.m. in Hoover 105. A number of important topics are covered in this meeting, and it is required for all summer student employees.

Questions? Contact Melodee Powers at mpowers@georgefox.edu.