PBS videos on demand are no longer available through Bruindata, but may still be accessed through the library. These videos are available for viewing for any university employee or student. You can gain access to these “Videos on Demand” via FoxTrax by searching for the keyword “VOD.”Â
Faculty Business Meeting, please refer to the agenda and proposal documents provided in e-mail by Karlyn Fleming.
Date: Friday, April 11, 2008
Time: 11:40-12:30 Mountain Time
Location: Conference Room
What are you planning to do with your summer? Faculty responses to such a query typically range from research to relaxing. Come share your summer plans and hear from others about how they use their summer to further their calling as educators and scholars.
A Faculty Teaching Forum, “Summer Reading, Writing, and Renewal,” is set from noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, in the Executive Dining Room on the Newberg campus.
Guiding questions will be used to help in planning your summer activities. If you’re interested, read Don’t Waste Your Summer and Finally, Some Time for … in advance of the session.
To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (Student Life) at jwithers@georgefox.edu by 1:30 p.m. Monday, April 14. Everyone is welcome to attend the session, whether bringing a lunch or reserving a lunch.
All faculty — full time, part time, and adjunct — are invited to attend Faculty Teaching Forums (FTFs). Video podcasts of FTFs will be available at the “Events and Resources†link on the Center for Teaching and Learning website.
President Robin and Ruth Baker invite you to attend the annual presentation of employee awards:
Date: Wednesday, May 7
Place: Wood-Mar Auditorium
Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m.
An employee reception, featuring refreshments, will follow in the Ron Gregory Atrium in EHS from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. The event is in lieu of the annual employee appreciation dinner.Â
The library staff wishes to thank the George Fox community for participating in the recent library service quality survey. Over the past few weeks, 887 students, faculty, staff, and administrators, or 22 percent of the university community, completed the survey. Many respondents also supplied written comments. Library faculty and staff will soon review the data plus all the suggestions and comments with great interest.
Congratulations to these winners whose names were randomly drawn from all who took the survey and entered their e-mail addresses.
iPod Shuffle:
Angela Leder
Annette Ann Korkeakoski-Sears
$25 Amazon gift certificate:
Andrew Miller
Daniel Brunner
Kaitlan White
Kathryn Hite
Susan Corbett-Furgal
If you have not already done so, please submit your March time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) this week. Please be sure it is complete, accurate, and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. The link on the HR website for these documents is georgefox.edu/offices/hr/forms.html.
If your supervisor is not available to sign it this week, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.
A Faculty Teaching Forum, “Best practices to promote student learning,” is set from noon to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in the Executive Dining Room. Tom Johnson (Religious Studies) will facilitate a discussion of the question “What’s one thing you do that produces real (and assessable) student learning?” Bring your own practices, ideas, and questions.
To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon at jwithers@georgefox.edu) by 1:30 p.m. on Monday, March 31. Everyone is welcome to attend the session, whether bringing a lunch or reserving a lunch.
All faculty — full time, part time, and adjunct — are invited to attend Faculty Teaching Forums (FTFs). Video podcasts of FTFs will be available at the “Events and Resources†link on the Center for Teaching and Learning website.
The deadline to nominate anyone for the Administrative Staff Member of the Year and/or Support Staff Member of the Year awards is Wednesday, March 26.
Please submit your nomination(s) today. Simply state why you think your nominee is deserving of the award – his or her contributions to the university, its students, and its employees. Indicate what was done, who was impacted, and how this impact was and can be observed. In other words, what makes this person stand out in your mind?
Winners will each receive a plaque and a $500 check at the employee appreciation event on May 7. Nominations can be e-mailed to Peggy Kilburg at Box 6108 or delivered to the Human Resources office by Wednesday.
If you plan to nominate anyone for the Administrative Staff Member of the Year and/or Support Staff Member of the Year awards, please submit your nomination no later than Wednesday, March 26.
A form can be used but is not required. Simply state why you think your nominee is deserving of the award -Â his or her contributions to the university, its students, and its employees. Indicate what was done, who was impacted, and how this impact was and can be observed. In other words, what makes this person stand out in your mind? Winners will each receive a plaque and a $500 check at the employee appreciation event on May 7.
Nominations can be e-mailed to Peggy Kilburg (Human Resources) or mailed to HR, Box 6108.
The university’s offices and libraries will be closed on Friday, March 21, to observe Good Friday. Newberg and Portland libraries also will be closed over Easter weekend.
It’s time to nominate individuals for the Staff Development Committee. Visit the web-nomination form and choose four names you would like to nominate for the committee. To be eligible to serve, members must be employed at least three-quarters time over nine months and have been employed for at least one year. Elected members will serve a three-year term. Elections will be held in April.
Please make your nominations no later than Thursday, March 27.
If you would like a paper copy of the nomination form, contact Patty Findley (Athletics). Patty will mail you a paper copy. Once you fill it out, return it to Patty at Box 6147 no later than March 27.
If you need assistance with the web-nomination form, contact Jere Witherspoon (Student Life).
For more information about the Staff Development Committee, visit the committee’s website.
Your time is running out to complete the library survey and be eligible for the survey prizes. The survey ends Wednesday, March 19. Please follow this link and give us your opinion by taking the library survey: survey.libqual.org/index.cfm?ID=629358.
Those who participate will be entered into a drawing for iPod Shuffles and Amazon gift cards.
Thank you to the 238 people who have already turned in their yellow benefit enrollment forms. If you’re one of the 231 who have not, Friday (today) is the day. At the very least, please put the forms in campus mail (Box 6108) so you won’t get a phone call Monday afternoon.
Reminder No. 1: if you’re on Pioneer Medical, you’ll want to look up your doctors to make sure they are in the Regence network.
Reminder No. 2: If you have a debit card with your flexible spending account, you must complete the separate request form in your packet in order to re-authorize the card for 2008-09.
Reminder No. 3: Changes in flex amounts will be reflected on your April check, not March.
Thanks for sending in your forms.
– Human Resources
It’s time to nominate individuals for the Staff Development Committee. Visit the web-nomination form and choose four names you would like to nominate for the committee. To be eligible to serve, members must be employed at least three-quarters time over nine months and have been employed for at least one year. Elected members will serve a three-year term. Elections will be held in April.
Please make your nominations no later than Thursday, March 27.
If you would like a paper copy of the nomination form, contact Patty Findley (Athletics). Patty will mail you a paper copy. Once you fill it out, return it to Patty at Box 6147 no later than March 27.
If you need assistance with the web-nomination form, contact Jere Witherspoon (Student Life).
For more information about the Staff Development Committee, visit the committee’s website.
Rick Muthiah (Student Life) will present a Faculty Teaching Forum, “From Teaching to Learning — a New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education,” from noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, in the Executive Dining Room.
“The paradigm that has governed our colleges is this: A college is an institution that exists to provide instruction. Subtly but profoundly we are shifting to a new paradigm: A college is an institution that exists to produce learning. This shift changes everything.”
These words, written by Robert Barr and John Tagg in 1995, sparked a discussion that continues across the nation. The March 19 faculty teaching forum will be a discussion about the paradigms described by Barr and Tagg.
Those who would like to read the article ahead of time can access the document through course reserves (http://catalog.georgefox.edu/search/pmut/pmut/1,1,1,B/l962~1255909&FF=pmut&1,1,,0,0). To access it, you must use your university ID barcode. An overview of the article will be provided during the session, so reading the article is not a pre-condition for participation.
To reserve a lunch e-mail Jere Witherspoon (jwithers@georgefox.edu) by 1:30 p.m. on Monday, March 17. Everyone is welcome to attend the session, whether bringing a lunch or reserving a lunch.
All faculty — full time, part time, and adjunct — are invited to attend Faculty Teaching Forums (FTFs). Video podcasts of FTFs will be available at the “Events and Resources†link on the Center for Teaching and Learning website.
Due to a technical glitch, employees and students received outdated e-nnouncement and/or e-Colleague news on March 12. The mishap was a result of the system improperly categorizing 15 old e-nnouncements as new ones. The Office of Marketing and Communications apologizes for the inconvenience.
Faculty Business Meeting via PolyCom
Date: March 14, 2008
Time: 11:40-12:30 pm Mtn Time
Location: Conference Room, Boise Campus
A reminder to benefit-eligible employees: There are 332 yellow benefit election forms still out there. The deadline to turn them in is this Friday, March 14. Lisa Burton (Human Resources) needs a yellow form back from everyone, especially if you want to continue with the flex plan (please attach a completed flex enrollment for this year) or if you want to change anything about your other benefits (attach change forms as instructed).
If you have medical or dental insurance with the Pioneer plan, you will receive a letter by mail to your home requesting verification of other insurance. Please return that information promptly (whether you have other insurance or not) either by mail or by phone so there will be no delay on your claims.
Please note: The dental plan is not on a different cycle than the medical plans. Even though the university enrolled last July, now is the time to add or drop this plan, not July 2008.
There are new forms and updated information on the HR benefits web pages:
georgefox.edu/offices/hr/EmployeeBenefits.index/beneforms.html.
If you have not already done so, please complete the LibQUAL+â„¢ Library Web Survey. If you have already filled out the survey, thank you. If not, we ask you to take 10 minutes and help us by taking the survey. Only you can tell us how well we are serving your library needs.
Survey URL: http://survey.libqual.org/index.cfm?ID=629358
Just a reminder: Daylight saving time begins this weekend. Officially, it begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, so don’t forget to set your clocks ahead one hour.
