If you have tickets for the Oregon Symphony performance on Friday, Jan. 18, and find that you will not be able to use them, please return the tickets to the box office as soon as possible. We have a wait list of those who are hoping to receive any tickets turned in.
Thank you,
Mary Monahan (mmonahan@georgefox.edu)
For your convenience, GFU Mail Services will be opening its customer service window at 7:30 a.m. on Monday, Jan 14. Please expect some waiting at the window throughout the day due to the large number of packages we have to distribute (more than 1,400 on our shelves).
We thank you in advance for picking up your packages as soon as possible.
– Mail Services
A beginning guitar class and private guitar lessons are being offered this spring at George Fox. Get credit while learning to play the guitar!
Here are the details:
Lessons are taught by George Fox guitar professor Dave Iula (daveiula.com). E-mail Dave with questions or for more info: daveiula1@gmail.com.
“The Power and Pitfalls of Social Media†will be the topic when Matt Payne of Beaverton-based Social Bridge Media speaks at the monthly Newberg meeting of the Christian Chamber of the Northwest on Tuesday, Jan. 22. The meeting is from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Villa Academic Complex.
After working for a small business, a Fortune 500 company and nonprofits, Payne founded Social Bridge Media to help businesses, government agencies, and non-profits understand, develop and implement smart social media strategies. Payne keeps up on the ever-changing social media world and aims to communicate it to his customers in ways they can understand and implement.
Coffee, tea and pastries will be available at the meeting, which is free for Chamber members who R.S.V.P. at cccnw.net. A $5 donation is suggested from non-members and guests who R.S.V.P.
For more information, go to the Chamber’s website listed above or call 503-928-8354.
Friday, Jan. 11, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Whitworth (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Friday, Jan. 11, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Whitworth (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Saturday, Jan. 12, 4 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Whitman (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Saturday, Jan. 12, 6 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Whitman (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Please note that Saturday’s games are two hours earlier than the usual start times, in order to allow the Whitman teams extra time for their return travel.
For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.
Many thanks to those of you who have already given your consent to receive your W-2s online. If you haven’t, please consider doing so to enable us to make it available to you sooner, and to make it accessible to you in MyGFU (self-service) when you are ready to print it.
This will save the university the time and expense of purchasing and stuffing paper W-2 forms and envelopes (over 2,000 last January). And of course, it is also friendlier to our environment. In the future, there will be a $5 charge for replacement W-2s issued and mailed in hard copy.
In order to receive a W-2 in online form only (instead of receiving a paper form), the law requires that you give your consent. This should take you only about 30 seconds to do, so I encourage you to take care of it as soon as possible – perhaps right now:
You’ll receive a confirmation e-mail of your decision shortly after completing this process. And just to be clear, you will only have to do this once — not every year.
This full-time position is currently open only to internal applicants (employees). Temporary employees may also apply, but external applications are not being accepted.
If you would like a copy of the job description, please e-mail hr@georgefox.edu. To apply, please submit a completed transfer request, cover letter, and resume to Human Resources.
The position will close on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found here.
Would you please take a minute to check your Dec. 28 pay statement (through MyGFU self-service) to be sure the address on it is correct? If so, you need do nothing. If not, please send an e-mail to hr@georgefox.edu with your current address.
This will ensure that we get this information correct on your W-2 (available by Jan. 31), always a good thing.
Mail Services is running out of room to store packages as they arrive on campus. If you are on campus this week, please pick up any packages you have as soon as possible. This will help you to avoid the long line on Monday at our service window.
Thanks in advance for your help.
– Mail Services
Please note the location change for this Thursday’s (Jan. 10) IT workshops. The following workshops have been moved from MLRC 013 to the Lemmons 3 Computer Lab:
See our website for more information. Questions? E-mail servicedesk@georgefox.edu
The Bruin Den is open this week (Jan. 7-11) from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Regular hours will resume next week.
Happy New Year from all of us at Bon Appetit!
On Friday, Jan. 18, at 8 p.m., George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony in its 26th appearance in Newberg. George Fox employees (halftime and over) may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – on a first-come, first-served basis starting today (Tuesday) at 9 a.m. at the Box Office in Pennington House.
Phone reservations (503-554-3844) will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers.
Questions? Contact Vangie Pattison at epattison@georgefox.edu.
On Friday, Jan. 18, George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony in its 26th appearance in Newberg at 8 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The concert is free to George Fox employees – a gift from George Fox board member Ken Austin and his wife, Joan, founders of A-dec.
The Austins have provided the university with a limited number of tickets for its employees. These tickets are separate from those to be issued by the Newberg Area Chamber of Commerce to the general public.
George Fox employees (halftime and over) may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – on a first-come, first-served basis starting Tuesday, Jan. 8, at 9 a.m. at the Box Office in Pennington House. Phone reservations (503-554-3844) will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers.
On Monday, Jan. 14, beginning at 9 a.m., any remaining tickets (again, a limit of two per person) will be available – also on a first-come, first-served basis – to those who sign up on a waiting list. If you find you will not be able to attend the concert, please return your tickets for another employee to use.
Questions? Contact Vangie Pattison at epattison@georgefox.edu.
Staff, faculty and adjuncts: Now is a good time to log on to MyGFU and review your vehicle information to see if it is up to date. Use the minus button to the right of the listing if you no longer have a vehicle, and click on “Add Additional Vehicle” if you need to add a vehicle.
Please e-mail Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu to note any vehicle additions/subtractions so your parking permit assignments can be updated as well on the Security Services database.
Adjuncts: Your parking permits expired Dec. 31, 2012, if you didn’t get an updated one for 2013 in December, so please come to the security office to procure one for 2013 if you will be on contract.
Additional staff/faculty permits are available for just $5 cash each, so save some early-morning frustration and come to the security office for additional permits if needed.
Questions? Call Security Services at 503-554-2090 or e-mail Nadine at the above e-mail address.
Mail Services is running low on our supply of packing peanuts, the little Styrofoam pieces. If you have any extra or unwanted ones that you are discarding, please bring them to us. We can take them off your hands.
Thanks,
Mail Services
An all-employee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 24, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in VAC 117 (please note location). The original meeting scheduled for Jan. 17 has been canceled.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link†located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.†It is the bottom link in that section. The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings and include a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link.
Videos from previously recorded meetings will be added to this page in the days following. Please bookmark the page for quick access each month.
IT is offering Adobe Acrobat Basic Forms, Excel Basics, FoxTALE, and Google webinars and training sessions during the week of Jan. 7.
View the schedule and sign up at this link. Information on how to join each webinar will be delivered via e-mail 24 hours prior to the webinar.
Questions? Contact the Service Desk.
This show will be held Friday through Sunday, Jan. 4-6, at the Oregon Convention Center. It features hundreds of exhibits about – you guessed it – building, remodeling and landscaping.
If you would like to attend this show, you can pick up two tickets (worth $6 each) from Barbi Doran at the Information Services window in Stevens Center. Portland and Salem employees, you can reserve yours by e-mailing Barbi. She will send them to you through campus mail.
We have a limited supply, so please request/pick them up only if you are reasonably certain you will attend this event.
This show will be held Friday through Sunday, Jan. 4-6, at the Oregon Convention Center. It features hundreds of exhibits about – you guessed it – building, remodeling and landscaping.
If you would like to attend this show, you can pick up two tickets (worth $6 each) from Barbi Doran at the Information Services window in Stevens Center beginning Wednesday, Jan. Â 2. Portland and Salem employees, you can reserve yours by e-mailing Barbi. She will send them to you through campus mail on Jan. 2.
We have a limited supply, so please request/pick them up only if you are reasonably certain you will attend this event.
Along with the new year comes the opportunity to select the first Employee of the Month for 2013. Is there someone you believe is deserving of this recognition? If someone comes to mind, please nominate him or her via e-mail Peggy Kilburg by Friday, Jan. 11, with a summary of this person’s recent contributions and any other information that makes this person deserving of this award. Because of the earlier community meeting this month, there will be no reminder ennouncement about submitting nominations.
The president, provost and vice presidents will select a recipient from among the nominees, and the winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 gift card to The Allison. We will honor both December’s and January’s employees of the month at our next community meeting scheduled for Jan. 17.
