The Daily Bruin

“The Power and Pitfalls of Social Media” will be the topic when Matt Payne of Beaverton-based Social Bridge Media speaks at the monthly Newberg meeting of the Christian Chamber of the Northwest on Tuesday, Jan. 22. The meeting is from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Villa Academic Complex.

After working for a small business, a Fortune 500 company and nonprofits, Payne founded Social Bridge Media to help businesses, government agencies, and non-profits understand, develop and implement smart social media strategies. Payne keeps up on the ever-changing social media world and aims to communicate it to his customers in ways they can understand and implement.

Coffee, tea and pastries will be available at the meeting, which is free for Chamber members who R.S.V.P. at cccnw.net. A $5 donation is suggested from non-members and guests who R.S.V.P.

For more information, go to the Chamber’s website listed above or call 503-928-8354.

Friday, Jan. 11, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Whitworth (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Friday, Jan. 11, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Whitworth (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Saturday, Jan. 12, 4 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Whitman (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Saturday, Jan. 12, 6 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Whitman (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)

Please note that Saturday’s games are two hours earlier than the usual start times, in order to allow the Whitman teams extra time for their return travel.

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.

Many thanks to those of you who have already given your consent to receive your W-2s online. If you haven’t, please consider doing so to enable us to make it available to you sooner, and to make it accessible to you in MyGFU (self-service) when you are ready to print it.

This will save the university the time and expense of purchasing and stuffing paper W-2 forms and envelopes (over 2,000 last January). And of course, it is also friendlier to our environment. In the future, there will be a $5 charge for replacement W-2s issued and mailed in hard copy.

In order to receive a W-2 in online form only (instead of receiving a paper form), the law requires that you give your consent. This should take you only about 30 seconds to do, so I encourage you to take care of it as soon as possible – perhaps right now:

1. Log in to mygfu.georgefox.edu
2. From the menu at left, select “Self Service”
3. Select “Payroll and Compensation”
4. Select “W-2/W-2c Consent”
5. Read the statement and check the box to give consent
6. Enter your GFU password as a confirmation of your identity and click “Continue”
7. Click OK

You’ll receive a confirmation e-mail of your decision shortly after completing this process. And just to be clear, you will only have to do this once — not every year.

This full-time position is currently open only to internal applicants (employees). Temporary employees may also apply, but external applications are not being accepted.

If you would like a copy of the job description, please e-mail hr@georgefox.edu. To apply, please submit a completed transfer request, cover letter, and resume to Human Resources.

The position will close on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found here.

Would you please take a minute to check your Dec. 28 pay statement (through MyGFU self-service) to be sure the address on it is correct? If so, you need do nothing. If not, please send an e-mail to hr@georgefox.edu with your current address.

This will ensure that we get this information correct on your W-2 (available by Jan. 31), always a good thing.

Mail Services is running out of room to store packages as they arrive on campus. If you are on campus this week, please pick up any packages you have as soon as possible. This will help you to avoid the long line on Monday at our service window.

Thanks in advance for your help.

– Mail Services

Please note the location change for this Thursday’s (Jan. 10) IT workshops. The following workshops have been moved from MLRC 013 to the Lemmons 3 Computer Lab:

• Sync Your Files with Google Drive (1 p.m.)
• Adobe Acrobat Basic Forms (2 p.m.)
• Open Lab with IT Help (3 p.m.)

See our website for more information. Questions? E-mail servicedesk@georgefox.edu

Undergraduate students that have advanced from freshmen to sophomore or sophomore to junior between fall and spring semesters may be eligible to receive an increase to their Federal Stafford loan.  If this is the case and you are interested in the increase, please contact your financial aid counselor right away.  The average increase is $1,000 but can be more.  Call Student Financial Services at 503-554-2300.

Joel Schutter joined Plant Services as an electrical apprentice in December after working as a temp in the department for the past year. He spent the past four summers working for Plant Services as a work-study student and earned bachelor’s degrees in Spanish and athletic training from George Fox in 2011. Joel lives in Newberg with his wife Natalie and attends Grace Baptist Church in town.

A 2012 graduate of the university, Tyler Rhys Robertson, joined IT as a media production specialist in December. He served as the technical director of the 14th annual Fox Film Festival this spring while completing his bachelor’s degree in cinema and media communication. He also served as a KFOX radio station manager and as a student media editor during the 2011-12 school year. Tyler lives in Newberg.

Greg Smith (Chief Information Officer) is leaving the university this month to become the chief information officer and vice provost-research at Missouri University of Science & Technology. Greg had served in his position at George Fox for the past eight and a half years.

Cathi Comish (Enrollment Services, Boise) left the university after her position at the Boise Center was eliminated at the end of December. She has accepted a position in the admissions office at Concordia University’s School of Law in Boise.

Ed Higgins’ (English) poem, “First of all, it’s dank in here,” was published in the quarterly online e-zine Ancient Path Literary Magazine. Also, two of his poems, “as i was looking back” and “Self-deception As Self-knowing,” were published in the Dec. 17 edition of the online poetry journal Dead Snakes. Finally, his poem “Summer Rue” appeared in Brevity Poetry Review, an online poetry journal, on Dec. 14.

Jan. 8           Kristin Bontrager, Jonathan Morell
Jan. 9           Mary Cameron
Jan. 10         George Byrtek, Keith Schneider, Larry Shelton
Jan. 11         Ginny Birky, Debbie Penkin
Jan. 12         Tim Rahschulte
Jan. 13         Andrew Bradford
Jan. 14         Jim Steele
Jan. 15         Janeen Dillow, Deborah Hawblitzel
Jan. 16         Nate McIntyre
Jan. 17         Christine Austin, John Libemday
Jan. 18         Dwayne Astleford, Robin Baker, Matt Dyment, Dot Tobey
Jan. 19         Ken Badley, David Liu
Jan. 22         John Smith

The Bruin Den is open this week (Jan. 7-11) from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Regular hours will resume next week.

Happy New Year from all of us at Bon Appetit!

On Friday, Jan. 18, at 8 p.m., George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony in its 26th appearance in Newberg. George Fox employees (halftime and over) may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – on a first-come, first-served basis starting today (Tuesday) at 9 a.m. at the Box Office in Pennington House.

Phone reservations (503-554-3844) will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers.

Questions? Contact Vangie Pattison at epattison@georgefox.edu.

On Friday, Jan. 18, George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony in its 26th appearance in Newberg at 8 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The concert is free to George Fox employees – a gift from George Fox board member Ken Austin and his wife, Joan, founders of A-dec.

The Austins have provided the university with a limited number of tickets for its employees. These tickets are separate from those to be issued by the Newberg Area Chamber of Commerce to the general public.

George Fox employees (halftime and over) may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – on a first-come, first-served basis starting Tuesday, Jan. 8, at 9 a.m. at the Box Office in Pennington House. Phone reservations (503-554-3844) will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers.

On Monday, Jan. 14, beginning at 9 a.m., any remaining tickets (again, a limit of two per person) will be available – also on a first-come, first-served basis – to those who sign up on a waiting list. If you find you will not be able to attend the concert, please return your tickets for another employee to use.

Questions? Contact Vangie Pattison at epattison@georgefox.edu.

Staff, faculty and adjuncts: Now is a good time to log on to MyGFU and review your vehicle information to see if it is up to date. Use the minus button to the right of the listing if you no longer have a vehicle, and click on “Add Additional Vehicle” if you need to add a vehicle.

Please e-mail Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu to note any vehicle additions/subtractions so your parking permit assignments can be updated as well on the Security Services database.

Adjuncts: Your parking permits expired Dec. 31, 2012, if you didn’t get an updated one for 2013 in December, so please come to the security office to procure one for 2013 if you will be on contract.

Additional staff/faculty permits are available for just $5 cash each, so save some early-morning frustration and come to the security office for additional permits if needed.

Questions? Call Security Services at 503-554-2090 or e-mail Nadine at the above e-mail address.

Mail Services is running low on our supply of packing peanuts, the little Styrofoam pieces. If you have any extra or unwanted ones that you are discarding, please bring them to us. We can take them off your hands.

Thanks,
Mail Services

Students who have registered “NOCAR” for fall semester, but are bringing a car back to campus for the spring semester, please follow these steps:

1. Log on to MyGFU and DELETE your “NOCAR” listing by using the minus sign to the right of that listing.

2. Once the boxes are cleared, input your vehicle information and click on OK.

3. Your permit will be sent to Mail Services, and you will need to sign for it there.

PLEASE NOTE: Simply erasing/deleting the “NOCAR” listing and entering vehicle information without using the minus button will NOT work, and your registration will not go through to the security side of the database!

If you are bringing a car to campus temporarily only to move in with, please come to the Security Services office to get a temporary permit at no charge.

Call 503-554-2090 if it is outside office hours, and any officer can make a temporary permit for you.

All vehicles brought to campus must have some type of permit on them.

If you have changed residences from one side of the campus to the other, or moved off-campus over break, you will need to scrape off your parking permit and bring it to the security office during office hours so we can get your registration changed and the proper permit issued. Do the same thing if you are bringing a different car to campus other than what was registered fall semester.

Questions? Call Security during office hours at 503-554-2090, or e-mail Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

For detailed information about parking on the Newberg campus, please check out this website.

An all-employee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 24, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in VAC 117 (please note location). The original meeting scheduled for Jan. 17 has been canceled.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link” located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.” It is the bottom link in that section. The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings and include a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link.

Videos from previously recorded meetings will be added to this page in the days following. Please bookmark the page for quick access each month.

IT is offering Adobe Acrobat Basic Forms, Excel Basics, FoxTALE, and Google webinars and training sessions during the week of Jan. 7.

View the schedule and sign up at this link. Information on how to join each webinar will be delivered via e-mail 24 hours prior to the webinar.

Questions? Contact the Service Desk.

This show will be held Friday through Sunday, Jan. 4-6, at the Oregon Convention Center. It features hundreds of exhibits about – you guessed it – building, remodeling and landscaping.

If you would like to attend this show, you can pick up two tickets (worth $6 each) from Barbi Doran at the Information Services window in Stevens Center. Portland and Salem employees, you can reserve yours by e-mailing Barbi. She will send them to you through campus mail.

We have a limited supply, so please request/pick them up only if you are reasonably certain you will attend this event.