The Daily Bruin

Please help support Chehalem Youth and Family Services by picking up a gift tag on the Giving Tree in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium and purchase a gift for a teenage boy or girl. You may leave the unwrapped gift with tag attached under the tree – or bring them to the Office of University Relations (Pennington House). Gift cards are easy and convenient if you are unsure of what to purchase.

Questions? Contact Danya Ochsner (University Relations) at ext. 2121 or dochsner@georgefox.edu.

Midyear commencement is set to take place at 2 p.m. this Saturday, Dec. 19, in Miller Gymnasium on the Newberg campus. Please visit the university’s commencement site to get details, including hooding ceremonies and luncheon information.

The music department is selling poinsettias from the Christmas concert for $5 each. You can pick them up and pay for them at the music office (Ross 201) between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. through Friday, Dec. 18.

The music department wishes you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Want to know if you are really prepared for your upcoming job search? Contact Career Services at ext. 2330 or visit Stevens 220 to complete a Job Search Readiness Survey and setting appropriate goals to reach that readiness level. You might be surprised at what it takes to compete in our current market-be prepared. We can help.

An all-employee meeting is set from 3:40 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17, in Hoover 105.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. For best results, use Mozilla Firefox for your web browser, and your computer must have QuickTime Player installed. Simply copy the link into the address bar of your browser. If you have any problems, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569.

In addition, a chat room has been set up to allow for interaction. A video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing the following day at itunesu.georgefox.edu.

Attention Students:

Not Returning next semester? Graduating, withdrawing, or studying abroad?
1. Email lsartwel@georgefox.edu with your forwarding address.  Or fill out a Forwarding address card available in Beebe, the SUB or at Univerity Mail Services.  Return the card to Mail Services.
2. Return your mailbox key to Mail Services before you leave campus.

Returning Next Semester?
1. Keep your mailbox key over the Christmas break.
2. Your mail will be waiting for you when you return.

Merry Christmas!
– Mail Services

Michelle Webber joined the Tilikum staff as office manager earlier this month. For the past eight years, she worked as a computer and graphics consultant for Webber Consulting in Canby, a company that provides information technology services to businesses and home users throughout the Pacific Northwest. Before that, she was an administrative assistant for the National Association of Reunion Managers for three years. She’s also been active in her community as a member of the Canby Area Chamber of Commerce and other organizations. Michelle lives in Canby with her teenage children, Brittnee and Morgan. They attend Canby Christian Church.

Megan Marsh (Student Life) is leaving George Fox at the end of the month. She is completing the university’s Master of Arts in Teaching program and will work this spring as a full-time student teacher at Glencoe High School in Hillsboro. Upon graduation in the spring, she and her husband plan to move to Southern California.

Rhonda Bonham (Graduate Admissions) has left the university to stay home with her infant son Gabriel. She had served as an admissions counselor in the School of Education for five years.

Ed Higgins’ (English) poem “Santa’s Stuck” was published in the current issue of Danse Macabre XXX, a Nevada online literary magazine.

Dec. 15    Paul Corbett-Furgal, Rick Muthiah, Cliff Rosenbohm
Dec. 17    Becky Ankeny, Gary Buhler, Viki Defferding
Dec. 19    Phil Smith
Dec. 20    Howard Macy
Dec. 22    Robin Ashford, Jennifer Getsinger
Dec. 23    Rodger Bufford
Dec. 24    Jeong Ahn, Greg Allen, Bethany Goldman
Dec. 25    Ken Armstrong, Danya Ochsner, Debby O’Kelley
Dec. 26    Carol Namburi
Dec. 28    Robert Simpson
Dec. 30    Lori DeKruyf
Dec. 31    Sherrie Frost
Jan. 1      Bob Harder, Mandria Montplaisir
Jan. 3      Julie Green, Sarah Marvin, Amber Russell
Jan. 4      Brenda Graf, Chris Koch, Dan Vanderwater
Jan. 5      Melva Lloyd, Joy Reimann
Jan. 6      Merrill Johnson
Jan. 7      Cathy Peterson
Jan. 8      Jonathan Morell
Jan. 9      Mary Cameron, Shannan Wheelock
Jan. 10    George Byrtek, Dave Covington, Keith Schneider, Larry Shelton
Jan. 11    Ginny Birky

Marketing Communications is collecting orders for name tags. For those who have regular face-to-face contact with the public and need to order a name tag, you may now submit and view your name tag requests.

Provide the name of the person for whom the name tag is needed; title or department; and the budget to be charged. Examples of title or department include: Dean of Students/Student Life and Admissions Counselor/Admissions. The next order will be placed Monday, Jan. 4, 2010.

Marketing Communications has changed how we process business card orders. The new and improved method allows you to place your order at any time directly from B&B Print Source at eorder.bbprintsource.net/avnet/avlogin.asp.

The login user ID is “gfubc” and the password is “gfu123.”

Please contact Danette Newkirk (Marketing Communications) to walk you through the process the first time.

Student supervisors, please be sure to collect your student employee’s time sheets before they leave for winter break. Please submit these time sheets to Human Resources right away. If students will be working over the winter break, turn time sheets in when they are done for the month.

While we would like the time sheets as early as possible, all December time sheets must be turned in to Human Resources by Tuesday, Jan. 4, by noon. Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Also, don’t forget to sign them and be sure the students did as well. (If the student is not available to sign it, please send it without the signature, and HR will contact the student.)

Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets. Federal Work Study regulations require that students delivering their own time sheets must have them in a sealed envelope.

Note about new students: If you have hired students for December, please hand-deliver their paperwork right away. We need to set up students in the system before the time sheets arrive. If you have hired students to start in January, please submit their paperwork as soon as possible. Thanks very much.

Thanks,
HR

Don’t forget to turn in your December timesheets to your supervisor before you leave for winter break.  Be sure your name is typed or printed legibly at the top, it is complete and accurate, and you have signed it. If you will be working over the winter break, make sure you sign and turn in your timesheet when you are done working for the month. Payday is on Friday, January 15. Have a wonderful Christmas!

– Human Resources

With the chance of inclement arriving this weekend it is possible that alternative plans will be made for the Winter Formal – A Knight of Enchantment.

Please check the ASC website for up-to-date information about this event and any changes that may take place due to weather.

Signs and permanent exterior displays on the George Fox campus need to be approved by marketing communications in order to ensure that the university presents a consistent, professional image to external and internal audiences. In accordance with this policy (Employee Handbook 2.15), campus lamppost banners also need to be created or approved by Marcom prior to printing.

The banners will need to meet a high standard of quality and visual appeal, and be consistent with the university’s visual identity system. Banner materials, whether vinyl or fabric, should be opaque enough for lettering to not be clearly visible on the backside.

For further information or help, please submit a job request on the Marcom webpage or contact Tamara Cissna, director of brand management.

Now is a great time to request new spring course sites, archive and reset courses, and export grades for safekeeping. For new course sites, contact the IT Service Desk and include the course number and name and also whether you want content from your existing course site copied to the new site.

See the FoxTALE Quick Guides website for documentation on archiving and resetting courses to prepare for a new semester.

Students eligible to change their meal plan for the Spring 2010 semester may now do so by logging into their MYGFU account.

Once you have logged onto your MYGFU account, find STUDENT RESOURCES.

Then find ENROLLMENT FORMS. You will be asked to LOG IN again.

There you will find your MEAL PLAN SELECTION FOR SPRING 2010.

The meal plans that you are eligible for, based on the number of credit hours you have attempted/completed, will be listed there.

All changes to meal plans in MYGFU MUST be made prior to Friday, January 22, 2010.