The next all-employee meeting, originally scheduled for April 28, has been rescheduled for Wednesday, May 11, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at this stream site. AÂ chat room has also been set up, and a video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.
Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Friday, April 22, if you would like to nominate a colleague for April Employee of the Month. Your e-mail should include a concise but specific summary of this person’s contributions and/or outstanding performance in the past 30 days or so. Please take a few minutes to nominate a deserving colleague.
The winner will be announced at the community meeting at the end of the month, and he or she will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.
The Safety Committee would like to thank the George Fox employee community (including student employees) for an injury-free first quarter of 2011!
Most injuries can be prevented through planning ahead, being aware of surroundings and using proper tools and protective gear. Thank you for doing these well. For information about the safety committees in Newberg and Portland, please contact Dan Schutter or John Newberry.
New diploma frames to fit the newly sized diplomas are now available at the Bruin Bookstore. You may also purchase them at our online store: store.georgefox.edu. Just select the “Gifts & Supplies” tab.
FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, May 17, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.
There is an opening for the director of housing position in the Office of Student Life. It is currently open only to internal applicants (employees). It is vacant due to Tim Goodfellow accepting a programmer analyst position in Administrative Computing/IT.
Please e-mail hr@georgefox.edu to ask for a copy of the job description. To apply, please submit a completed transfer request, cover letter, and resume to Human Resources no later than Wednesday, April 13, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found here.
If you know of someone whose recent contributions make him or her worthy of being named April Employee of the Month, please take a few minutes to send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg that includes a specific summary of the person’s contributions (past 30 days or so) and any other relevant information about the person.
The deadline for nominations is Friday, April 22. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient, and the winner will receive a certificate and a $100 Allison gift card at our community meeting at the end of April.
Despite the ramped-up pace that seems to come with the last month of the undergraduate academic year, please take a few minutes to honor a colleague with your nomination if someone comes to mind as deserving of this honor.
Please note the following:
If you have questions, contact Lisa Burton (HR) at lburton@georgefox.edu.
The U.S. Postal Service is increasing rates on April 17, 2011. First Class letters weighing one ounce or less will remain at 44 cents each. The additional ounce will increase by 3 cents, bringing it to 20 cents for each additional ounce. Postcards increase to 29 cents each.
For additional increases, visit the U.S.P.S. website. Click on the “New Rates†in the lower right corner. You can view the different categories: Priority, Media, Parcel Post, etc.
Questions? Contact Linda Sartwell at ext. 2560 or Sherrie Frost at ext. 2556.
In order for us to be in compliance with federal regulations and reporting requirements, some recent changes in definitions and procedures have been made which impact students planning to withdraw from the university or take a leave of absence. This applies to all student populations (traditional undergraduate, graduate and adult degree programs). Please review the following:
Who is a student? Someone who is registered for any credit hours in a given term and who has completed their “Enrollment Confirmation†checklist item for that term in their MyGFU portal. (If the “Enrollment Confirmation†checklist item has not been completed by the student by the 10th day of classes, they are not officially considered a student for that term and their schedule will be dropped.)
How does a student withdraw? To officially cease enrollment at George Fox University either during or at the end of a semester/enrollment period, the student must notify the registrar’s office of their departure via the online Withdrawal/Leave of Absence form. Any other means of communication to the university is not considered official notification. The official withdrawal date is the date on which the student submits the Withdrawal/Leave of Absence form.
If a student tells a professor or administrative assistant that they aren’t returning, can that be considered notification of their withdrawal? No. If a student discusses their intent to withdraw from the university with you, please refer them to the online Withdrawal/Leave of Absence form.
Do students use this form to drop a class? No. If a student is dropping a class or two, they would complete that through their MyGFU self-service portal. They would only use the online Withdrawal/Leave of Absence form if they are vacating all coursework for the term.
We will no longer accept the old paper withdrawal forms, so please recycle any copies you may have on file (including pdf copies on your computer).
More information about the Withdrawal/Leave of Absence policy is available in the Catalog and Student Handbook or by contacting an enrollment counselor in the registrar’s office.
Thank you to all who participated in the LibQUAL+® Lite Library Survey. The library faculty and staff will be reviewing the data as well as your written comments and appreciate your willingness to share your opinions with us.
Congratulations to the winners whose names were randomly drawn from all who took the survey and entered their e-mail address.
Don’t forget today’s all-employee meeting, scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium (please note the location change). The agenda will include an update from President Robin Baker, who will provide details on the recent board meeting.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. A chat room has also been set up, and a video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing in the days following the meeting atitunesu.georgefox.edu.
A programmer analyst position is currently open only to internal applicants (employees). Please e-mail hr@georgefox.edu to ask for a copy of the job description.
To apply, please submit a completed transfer request, cover letter and resume to Human Resources no later than Thursday, March 31, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found at this link.
All Newberg, Portland and Salem offices and libraries will be closed this Friday, March 25, for the spring break holiday. The Boise Center will be open this Friday and will instead take its spring holiday the following Friday, April 1.
Don’t forget this Monday’s all-employee meeting, scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium (please note the location change). The meeting was originally scheduled for March 31 but has been moved up three days.
The agenda will include an update from President Robin Baker, who will provide details on the recent board meeting. For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. A chat room has also been set up, and a video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.
Friday, March 18, is the last day for open enrollment, including your Voluntary Life benefit if you are eligible and wish to enroll or increase coverage.
All employees who are eligible for benefits, even if you aren’t enrolled through GFU, are required to return the Open Enrollment Election form. If you no longer have your form and you wish to make no changes to your insurance plans, you may send an e-mail to lburton@georgefox.edu simply stating that you want no changes.
Remember that Flexible Spending does not automatically renew.
Thank you!
– HR
Nominations for Support Staff Member of the Year and Administrative Staff Member of the Year for 2010-11 are due in HR on Monday, March 21.
If you have any colleagues you believe are deserving of this honor (and $500 gift), you have just a few days left to submit a nomination. Just describe the person’s unique “above and beyond†contributions to George Fox, its students, and/or its employees in the past year. Indicate what was done, who was impacted, etc. In other words, what makes this person stand out?
Other questions to also consider: How has this person encouraged or helped you, other employees, or students in the past year? What is it about this person’s job performance that impresses you? How has this person demonstrated Christian commitment, loyalty to GFU, and leadership skills at the university and the broader community in the past year?
Nominations can be submitted to Peggy Kilburg via e-mail, fax (503-554-2186), or hard copy (Campus box 6108), but they must arrive in HR by 5 p.m. on Monday.
Dr. Andrea Cook visited with George Fox women today to share her leadership journey. She recommended three books to the women in attendance. For those who want to know the names of those books, they are:
Following board approval this past weekend, off-campus studies are now covered by tuition remission. Up until now, non-GFU off-campus studies have been excluded unless required for a major.
The employee handbook will be updated this week to reflect this change in policy.
The application process for off-campus studies for the 2011-12 academic year is now complete. The next opportunity to apply for this program will be January 2012 for the 2012-13 academic year – the same timeframe for requesting tuition remission. Tuition Remission requests for the 2012-13 academic year will be due Feb. 1, 2012.
If you have questions, contact Peggy Kilburg via e-mail at pkilburg@georgefox.edu.
Please complete the LibQUAL+® Lite Library Survey. If you have already filled out the survey, thank you! If not, we ask you to take five to seven minutes to go to this link and help us by taking the survey.
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