The Daily Bruin

Please encourage your student employees to attend an “Open Meeting with Students” during the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accreditation team visit on Tuesday, May 5 (that is, after going to the ice cream social).

The ice cream social is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. in the Ron Gregory Atrium in EHS. The students’ open meeting with the NWCCU team will be from 3 to 3:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Thank you,
Academic Affairs

The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accreditation team visit on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 5-6, will include meetings with students and employees. Employees are encouraged to attend these meetings, either in person on the Newberg campus or by connecting via live-stream.

The meeting schedule:

Tuesday, May 5: Open Meeting, 3:30-4 p.m. in Hoover 105
Wednesday, May 6: Exiting Meeting, 2:15-2:30 p.m. in Hoover 105

For more information, contact Academic Affairs at ext. 2141.

The card access for Wheeler Sports Center will be deactivated for the summer. The building will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The university will host end-of-year celebrations in both Newberg and at the Portland Center on Monday, May 4. The Newberg event will include the presentation of service awards, a prize drawing, announcement of the support staff and administrator of the year recipients, and an hor d’oeuvres and dessert reception. It will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium, followed by the reception in the Ron Gregory Atrium in EHS.

At the Portland Center, refreshments will be served beginning at 10:30 a.m. in the main lobby, followed by a program at 11 a.m. in Room 155. The celebration will include the presentation of service awards to those who work at the Portland Center.

If you have not already done so, please submit your April 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, including your cost center and ID number. You can find your Employee ID number on Bruindata and/or on your pay statement.

If your supervisor is not available to sign your time sheet by Monday, May 4, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.

Link to the time-off report: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/Timeoffreport.doc

Link to April time sheet: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/TimesheetApr09.xls

April student time sheets must be in HR no later than 3 p.m. Monday, May 4, so please have them hand-delivered to HR as soon as you have processed them. If you are not on the Newberg campus, please fax your student time sheets to 503-554-2186 and then send the originals to HR in campus mail. Also, please check to be sure all of your students have submitted their time sheets to you and follow up with any who have not.

If your student has school-year hours that are continuing through the first three days of May, please include these hours on their April time sheet.

And, as always, we appreciate you checking for the following:

• Student’s name (be sure it is legible)
• Student’s ID number
• Cost center number
• Student’s signature (If the student forgot to sign it, please bring it to HR anyway. Do not send students to HR to sign time sheets.)
• Your signature

Reminder: If a student delivers his or her own time sheet to HR, it must be in a sealed envelope to comply with Federal Work Study regulations.

Thanks very much.

– Human Resources

The university will host two commencement ceremonies on the Newberg campus Saturday, May 2. The traditional undergraduate ceremony will take place in Miller Gymnasium/Wheeler Sports Center at 2 p.m., with audience seating at 1 p.m. Tickets are required for the traditional undergraduate ceremony.

The graduate, seminary and School of Professional Studies ceremony will take place in Miller Gymnasium/Wheeler Sports Center at 7 p.m., with audience seating at 6 p.m.

In addition, the baccalaureate service is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Saturday in Bauman Auditorium. Baccalaureate is an undergraduate worship service providing graduating seniors, their families, faculty, administrators, staff and other guests the opportunity to worship.

For more information, visit the commencement website.

There will be no student mail delivery after 2 p.m. Friday, May 1. This will allow for the transition from spring semester to summer operations.

Mail delivery will begin again on Monday, May 4, for those who requested their mailboxes to remain open, and mail will be forwarded for those who requested that service. If you have questions, please e-mail Linda Sartwell (Mail Services) at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

The university’s library has added texting as part of its “Ask Us” service. Now George Fox students, faculty and staff can send questions and receive answers from librarians by using their cell phones. More information is available at georgefox.edu/offices/murdock/text.html.

The following are summer hours (May 4 to Aug. 29) for the Fitness Center:

Monday – Friday
6-8 a.m.
11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
4-7 p.m.

Closed weekends

The Staff Development Committee invites all employees to the university’s annual ice cream social from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 5, in the Ron Gregory Atrium in EHS. Enjoy a break in the day with your colleagues, and feel free to bring your student employees as well.

To access your April online pay statement, please go to mygfu.georgefox.edu to get to the PeopleSoft login screen. Use the same user ID and password that you use to login to e-mail and Bruindata. Open “Self Service” in the menu on the left and click on “Payroll and Compensation.” You will see a list of all of your pay statements that have been processed in PeopleSoft. Click on the pay date in the far left column labeled “Check Date” to open your statement as a PDF file.

This is the last e-nnnouncment with instructions about accessing your pay statement online, so please be sure to save the instructions above if you have not already done so.

Also on this pay day, new premium amounts for optional life insurance and flexible spending account deductions go into effect.

Shane Roghaar, our TIAA-CREF representative, will be on the Newberg campus between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 12. You may make an appointment to meet with him in the Executive Dining Room to discuss your investments. See the invitation posted on the HR/Benefits web page. There will be additional dates and times to meet with Shane this summer; also, employees in other locations may contact Shane to arrange a telephone consultation at 503-452-6981.

The University Store is hosting a Graduation Sale this Wednesday through Friday, April 29 through May 1. Save 25 percent on all George Fox merchandise (except diploma frames). Store hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Congratulations graduates!

Also, a reminder: The bookstore’s book buyback program also runs Wednesday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bring your books to the main entrance right outside the University Store in the SUB. To see what your books are worth, go to www.store.georgefox.edu, select the “Main Store” heading, then click “Sell” next to “Textbooks” at the top of the page. It’s important to know that you must enter “www” to get into the bookstore’s website.

During the summer, Mail Services will be open as normal from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The courier service will remain the same, going to Portland five days a week and to Salem on Mondays and Thursdays. Questions? Call ext. 2555.

The university’s undergraduate admissions website was recently redesigned and enhanced to include new information, additional features and improved navigation and graphics. Check out the site at admissions.georgefox.edu and be sure to tell colleagues and prospective students about it.

Mark Benjamin (Spiritual Life) and his family will be leaving our community at the end May. To honor them, we are throwing an open house/celebration/going away party from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, April 30, at the Spiritual Life House. Mark is moving to Georgia for the summer and eventually to North Carolina to help with a church plant. Feel free to stop in whenever you can and let Mark know how much you appreciate him!

Book Buyback is this Wednesday through Friday, April 29 to May 1, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bring your books to the main entrance right outside the University Store in the SUB. See what your books are worth by going to store.georgefox.edu, selecting the “Main Store” heading, then clicking “Sell” next to “Textbooks” at the top of the page.

During finals week and the first week of May term, the University Store hours will change to 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday (April 27 to May 8). Graduation store hours on May 2 will be 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.

The bookstore will be closed on Saturdays the rest of the summer. Summer store hours will be 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday starting May 11.

Have a laptop you could donate or sell for a low price?

A group of men and women being trained for pastoral work and other leadership positions in their churches in Rwanda would like to learn the basics of computer operation to help them get jobs to support their ministry. For this training, at least two laptops are needed with Windows and Office on them.

If you have such a computer you’re not using, the Juniors Abroad group going to Rwanda in May could deliver it. If interested, contact Lon Fendall (Center for Global Studies/Center of Peace and Justice) at ext. 2685 or lfendall@georgefox.edu.