Donate your used textbooks to Word Made Flesh to support its people and ministries. Just drop off your textbooks at the Spiritual Life House. Sarah Baldwin will mail them in and the money will go to WMF.
Click this link for more information.
Dana Oswald of William Penn University is studying mentoring at Friends universities and its impact on retention. She would appreciate you taking the time to fill out a simple 10-question survey. Click on this link to take the survey.
Student supervisors: Pay day is Friday, May 14. So, please submit your students’ April time sheets to HR right away – by Monday, May 3, at 3 p.m.. HR apologizes for the short time frame. The time is needed for the extra processing for the last payroll of the school year, so meeting this deadline is crucial.
If your student has school-year hours that are continuing through the first two days of May, please include these hours on his or her April time sheet.
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. (Please make sure the student has signed their time sheet. If they don’t get it signed, a copy will be mailed for them to sign and return.) 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 placed, by you, in a sealed envelope. If you happen to still have any paperwork to submit on a newly hired student who worked in April, please hand-deliver it right away – no later than Friday, April 30. We need to set up students in the system before the time sheets arrive.
Thanks very much.
HR
The Newberg campus will host an employee appreciation event beginning at 3 p.m. Monday, May 3, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Hors d’oeuvres and desserts will be served afterward, beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the Ron Gregory Atrium in the Edwards-Holman Science Center. Please join us for this special time of recognition as we honor employee service award winners and retirees.
There will be no student mail delivery after 2 p.m. on Friday, April 30. Mail delivery will resume on Monday, May 3, either to your open campus mailbox or forwarded to the address you provided to Mail Services.
Auditions for next year’s Concert Choir are happening this week. Those interested in auditioning can call Debbie Hawblitzel (Performing Arts) at ext. 2620 or e-mail her at dhawblit@georgefox.edu to set a time to audition in the Ross Center.
The audition material is posted on the music website.
Faculty, please notify those students who might be interested in this opportunity.
As you plan your summer activities, Print Services is already preparing for your return in the fall. To help ensure a smooth transition back to campus at summer’s end, send those works in now that you will need for the first month of the fall semester (i.e., syllabi, reading lists, class work and course packs). The more that can be printed during the summer, the easier the fall will be.
The most important items to leave with Print Services before you leave for the summer is anything that will require copyright permission. The best way to do this is for you to forward the actual item to print services with your name, class name, class number, and the pages required. If you don’t have the item, then the exact ISBN will be helpful in the search for the correct copy. By sending the actual item or the ISBN, copies will be made from an original, providing the best quality copy to your students.
Please contact Elizabeth Holme at ext. 2550 or eholme@georgefox.edu with any questions that you have. Complete guidelines as published by the Copyright Clearance Center can be found on Print Services’ Web page.
Textbook buyback is scheduled at the Bruin Bookstore Wednesday through Friday, April 28-30, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. outside the store in the SUB.
The last lost and found tables of the semester will be set up at the Bruin Den on Tuesday, April 27, between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Please stop by during this time if you have lost an item. All unclaimed items will be donated to charitable causes at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
Join us for our annual graduation sale at the Bruin Bookstore Monday through Friday, April 26-30. General merchandise is 25 percent off (diploma frames excluded). It’s the perfect opportunity to find that gift for your graduate!
Textbook buyback is scheduled at the Bruin Bookstore Wednesday through Friday, April 28-30, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. outside the store in the SUB.
Please note the following changes to the meal schedules in Klages/Bruin Den/Villa Cafe for this Monday, April 26.
Bruin Den: 7:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Klages: Breakfast, 8-10 a.m.
Lunch, 11 a.m.- 1:30 p.m.
Dinner, 4:30-7 p.m.
Villa Cafe: Closed
Please join the Office of Academic Affairs on Wednesday, April 28, as we say farewell and happy “second” retirement to Ken Armstrong (School of Business).
Delicious refreshments (and perhaps a “roast” or two) will be served from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Hoover lobby (just outside the School of Business offices). If you cannot attend Ken’s reception and want to add to the farewell wishes, please send a note to Karlyn Fleming (kfleming@georgefox.edu) by noon on April 28.
Thank you!
-Â Academic Affairs
As mentioned in Thursday’s all-employee meeting, please be sure to check out the brand plan website to view the draft of the brand portfolio that was put together by the Marketing Team, a committee of faculty and staff.
You can access the brand portfolio at marcom.georgefox.edu/brandplan. This website is secured, so in order to access it, you must be on campus or logged into your VPN. Feedback on the brand portfolio can be sent to brandplan@georgefox.edu. The Marketing Team thanks you in advance for your participation.
Dazed and confused about how to take the next career steps now that summer is here?
Career Services has developed a special six-part series for recent graduates and first-year alumni who are looking for assistance in their job search during the month of May. The “May Daze” sessions will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Stevens 220 between May 11-27. For a complete list of topics and registration information, visit the Career Services website.
Come and enjoy some free Shakespearean entertainment Friday night (April 23) to celebrate William Shakespeare’s birth and death day. The Acting 4 class will be presenting monologues and scenes from various Shakespearean plays and sonnets. Join us in the Amphitheater (weather permitting) beginning at 9:30 p.m. See you there!
What would you do with seven times more space in your inbox? George Fox e-mail will deliver that and more in early June. You can find more information on this transition at the E-Mail Conversion website.
What is changing? When will this happen? Why are we changing? Find out more on the E-Mail Conversion FAQ page.
Did you know that the food system is responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions? That means that our food choices have more of an impact on global warming than either the transportation or mining industries. Bon Appétit Management Company is trying to do something about it, and we’d like your help in getting the word out.
Low Carbon Diet Day will be held on Thursday, April 22, in conjunction with Earth Day. We have written our menus to teach guests the five principles of going on a low-carbon diet: You bought it, you eat it, so don’t waste food; make “seasonal and regional” your food mantra; move away from beef and cheese; don’t buy air-freighted food; if it’s processed and packaged, skip it.
Our students will continue to have extensive choices but will be encouraged to taste new items that are more climate-friendly than some regular features. Our menu Thursday will include:
Guests, staff, faculty and non-board plan students are more than welcome to join us for only $6.50 per person. Lunch is served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Friday, April 23, 4:30 p.m. – Softball vs. Whitworth, Morse Field (makeup of rained-out game)
Saturday, April 24, noon – Baseball vs. Linfield (DH), Morse Field
Sunday, April 25, noon – Softball vs. Lewis & Clark (DH), Morse Field
Sunday, April 25, 1 p.m. – Baseball vs. Linfield, Morse Field
These are the final home sports events of the academic year for the Bruin teams. Live stats and KFOX radio Internet webcasts will be provided for all three baseball games this weekend.
The men’s and women’s golf teams will be participating in the Northwest Conference Championships Saturday and Sunday, April 24-25, at the Heron Lakes Golf Courses in north Portland. Tee times are set for 10 a.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday. The women’s golf team, now ranked No. 6 in the nation, will host a “tailgater†party in the Heron Lakes parking lot Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m. for all family, friends, and supporters of the team.
For more information, visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com or call the sports information office at ext. 2926.
Our “Empty Bowls: A Night for Haiti” event last Friday raised approximately $15,000 for our brothers and sisters in Haiti. Another $3,000 was raised at the Mr. Bruin Pageant, bringing the overall fundraising total to about $18,000.
We still have about a table’s worth of bowls left in the ceramics lab that need to be cleared out so we can clean up for finals. We have declared the remaining bowls “seconds” and offer them on a first-come, first-served basis at $5 per bowl. Stop by the lab and pay at the art office across the drive.
As of noon on Tuesday, all proceeds from the sale of seconds will go to the Swaziland May Serve team, which is still short of funds needed for their imminent departure.
Thanks,
Mark Terry
