Plant Services is hosting a surplus sale Thursday and Friday, Oct. 9-10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Drop by the Villa Academic Complex at 501 Villa Road to shop for very used desks, desk chairs, side chairs, and other miscellaneous office items.
Don’t forget the university’s health fair scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the Stevens Center atrium. Special guests include Portland Running Company, Providence Newberg Medical Center, and local massage therapists.
Beth LaForce (Education) and Kathleen Gathercoal (Psychology) will present the fall faculty lecture, “For Such a Time as This,” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, in Hoover 105 on the Newberg campus. The lecture honors the work of Sherrie Schulke, an assistant professor of social work at George Fox until her death in 2003 after a long battle with cancer. Beth and Kathleen were part of a team from Portland State University and Doernbecher Children’s Hospital that finished and published Schulke’s research project.
Do you know a George Fox senior who demonstrates outstanding service as a servant leader on campus or in the community? Please nominate them for the C.W. Perry Servant Leadership Award.
Five seniors will be selected to receive the award. Each recipient will receive $1,000. The award recipient will be required to set aside $250 for a charitable organization of their choice, with the remaining $750 to be distributed to the award recipient in the form of a cash reward. Only seniors are eligible for the award. There is not a limit on how many students you can nominate.
The nomination form can be found at this link on the Student Life site. All nomination forms are due Oct. 31 to Kristina Findley (Student Life) at Box 6148.
AT&T Mobility 15 percent discounts are available for George Fox University employees. Visit http://att.com/wireless/gfuemployees to learn more. You will need this employee FAN number: 2601384. An individual original iPhone account may not be eligible.
The university’s health fair is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the Stevens Center atrium. Come and see what it means to be truly healthy, with special guests Portland Running Company, Providence Newberg Medical Center, and local massage therapists.
Do you have used golf clubs in your garage that are just itching to get back out on the course? Students in our golf classes would love to give them new life. We need all clubs, and it would be nice to get several putters. Whatever you can spare will be appreciated. Call Mark Sundquist at ext. 2918 for pick-up.
A staff lunch is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, in the Cap and Gown Room. Enjoy food, fellowship and door prizes. The cost is $3.
A Red Cross fall blood drive is scheduled from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, in the Wheeler Sports Center gym. If you haven’t signed up to give blood yet, you still can. Go to givelife.org and type in the sponsor code “georgefox.” It only takes a few minutes to make an appointment. Give blood and help save three lives.
Employees interested in learning more about long-term care insurance are invited to an information meeting from noon to 1 p.m. this Friday, Oct. 3, in the Cap and Gown Room on the Newberg campus.
Long-term care insurance helps protect your retirement savings and other assets from potentially devastating long-term care costs. With the average cost of care being $68,985 per year, long-term care costs could seriously impact your nest egg.
The university is hosting a series of sessions about enrollment in this voluntary insurance through mid-October. Employees have the advantage of this one-time “guarantee issue,” which means they are guaranteed to be issued a policy upon application with no medical questions asked.
Meetings are scheduled as follows. Please note that the Portland room location is a change from the Sept. 18 e-nnouncement.
Employees attending any of the meetings at the Newberg or Portland campus are eligible to win an iPod, compliments of the University Store. Employees from Boise, Salem and Redmond who participate by joining the webinar also will be included in the drawing.
Go to http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/hr/benefits.html for instructions on how to participate in the webinar and to read a longer article about the insurance LTC Solutions offers.
Employees can ask questions or enroll at a meeting or call LTC Solutions at 877-286-2852 if attending a meeting or the webinar is not convenient.
Are you registered to vote? If not, you are invited to register between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. at a table in the Bruin Den through Friday, Oct. 3. Stop by and get it taken care of before election time.
If you enjoyed chapel speaker Paul Young, make sure to stop by the University Store to pick up his book. The store is selling The Shack for $15.
“The Shack is a one-of-kind invitation to journey to the very heart of God. Through my tears and cheers, I have been indeed transformed by the tender mercy with which William Paul Young opened the veil that too often separated me from God and from myself. With every page, the complicated do’s and don’ts that distort a relationship into a religion were washed away as I understood Father, Son, and Holy Ghost for the first time in my life.” – Patrick M. Roddy, Emmy-award winning producer of ABC News
Bon Appetit would like to thank everyone for the success and overwhelming support given by the vast majority of students with the first “Trayless Tuesday.” With few exceptions, we received dozens of very positive comments from students and we’re encouraged that so many share concerns regarding the amount of food typically wasted each meal and how it affects our environment.
Our thanks go out to everyone for making this small weekly sacrifice of convenience, and we look forward to continued support and success with the remaining “Trayless Tuesdays” this year.
– Bon Appetit
The United States Postal Service will be on the Newberg campus Thursday, Oct. 2, for new passport applications (or renewals). The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Cap and Gown Room A. Passport photos also are available. Family members are welcome.
Please take a few minutes to submit your September time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) to your supervisor right away. As always, be sure it is complete, accurate and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. (If your supervisor is not available to sign it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.) The link on the HR website for these documents is georgefox.edu/offices/hr/forms.html.
A tip to help you remember to do this each month: Set a recurring appointment on your Outlook calendar for the first business day of each month with a brief notation, “Turn in time sheet.” That gives you one less thing to have to remember, allowing you to save your brain space for important stuff.
Thank you.
– Human Resources
Student supervisors, please submit your students’ September time sheets to HR right away. Please be sure the student’s name is legible on each one and use the new cost center numbers. Also, don’t forget to sign the sheets, and be sure the students did as well. (If the student is not available to sign it this week, please send it without the signature and HR will hold the check until the time sheet is signed.) If a student delivers his or her own time sheet to HR, it must be in a sealed envelope — a Federal Work Study regulation.
If you happen to still have any paperwork to submit on a newly hired student, please send that in right away as well. It is necessary in order to pay students.
The Oct. 10 payroll will be the first payroll run in the new PeopleSoft system, so we anticipate it taking more time than usual. Receiving time sheets earlier than usual will be a big help.
Thanks very much.
– Human Resources
Doug Campbell’s (Visual Arts) photo expressionism exhibit, “Second Street Parking,” is currently on display in the Murdock Learning Resource Center. The show runs through the month of October.
An administrative assistant II .75 FTE position (30 hours per week over 12 months) is currently open. The job is to provide administrative support to the dean and the director of the Doctor of Management program (currently Ken Armstrong and Craig Johnson, respectively) on the Newberg campus. This position is paid on Pay Range 4.
We are recruiting internally only, so it is not posted on our website, nor are we seeking external applicants. It will be open until at least 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 7. Please contact HR to request a Transfer Request form and a copy of the job description if you are interested in applying for this position (hr@georgefox.edu or Peggy Kilburg).
You are invited to attend the artist talk and opening reception for the art exhibit “Natural Affinities,” featuring the work of Steve Tyree, Blythe Eastman and Totem Shriver. The artist talk (in Hoover 102) begins at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30, with the opening reception to follow at 5 p.m. The exhibit runs through Oct. 23 in the Minthorne Gallery.
Andrew S. Miller, a student in the Master of Arts in Spiritual Formation program, believes that “beauty is important, especially to those who love God.” Come and enjoy the beauty he has found through his camera lens. His photographic art will be displayed through October at the Portland Center Library.
