The Daily Bruin

Nominations for Support Staff Member of the Year and Administrator of the Year for 2011-12 will be accepted through Friday, April 13.

If you have any colleagues you believe are deserving of this award, please take a few minutes to submit a nomination. Links to a memo about the nomination process and criteria, the nomination form, and the list eligible employees can be found at the top of the Payroll and Performance Forms page of the HR website.

Using the nomination form is optional. Nominations can also be submitted in an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (pkilburg@georgefox.edu).

During spring break the custodial department drops to 13 full-time staff and cleans the entire Newberg campus without the assistance of our work- study students. As a result, we will be reducing the regular cleaning schedule for offices and other services in most public buildings for this week.

If, however, you feel there is cleaning that we have overlooked that needs to be done in your building this week, please e-mail me at dastlefo@georgefox.edu and I will get someone to take care of it as soon as possible.

Thank you,
Dwayne Astleford, Plant Services

Don’t forget to submit your design for our new Bruin mascot! Submissions are due Monday, April 2, at 5 p.m. The contest open to students, alumni, faculty and staff. The winner(s) will receive a cash prize!

More information and submission forms are available outside ASC offices in the SUB or on the ASC website by clicking “Resources.” Once you’ve clicked that tab, you’ll see a “Mascot Contest PDF Entry Form” in the bottom left-hand corner of the page.

Send submissions to: GFU ASC, 414 N. Meridian St. Box A, Newberg, OR 97132 or to Emily Jordan at ejordan08@georgefox.edu.

Sign up today for Run for Romania! Run for Romania will be held at 9 a.m. on Sunday, April 22, at the Newberg campus track. It is a 5K walk that will benefit the June Serve team’s trip to Romania and Moldova this summer.

June Serve is a group of George Fox students and faculty that will partner with the organization Word Made Flesh, which seeks to serve Jesus amongst the poorest of the poor in Romania and Moldova.

Registration is $30 for adults and $15 for children (12 and under). To register, go to this link.

If you know a deserving student who fits the requirements for the Multicultural Returnee Scholarship, encourage them to apply!

This brand-new scholarship will be awarded starting in the fall of 2012. Four $2,500-per-year renewable scholarships will be given to returnee students who meet the following requirements:

• Considered a domestic undergraduate student
• Actively involved in leadership at GFU
• Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above
• Willingness to be engaged in diversity requirements

To qualify, students must not already be on a multicultural scholarship (any that partner with George Fox; students are to check with Shelley Yonemura if there are questions). The following must be submitted to student life no later than Wednesday, April 4, at 5 p.m.:

• Two copies of a printed leadership resume that includes the following:
  • Tell us what makes the student qualified as a Multicultural Leadership Scholar
  • Cumulative GPA
  • Two names of GFU faculty/staff that would recommend the student

An e-mail will be sent to inform those who make it to the second round. Round Two will take place on Thursday, April 12, from 5 to 8 p.m.

Questions? Contact Shelley Yonemura, director of Multicultural Student Programs, in STV 327 or a syonemura@georgefox.edu.

George Fox’s three-game Northwest Conference baseball series with Whitman, originally scheduled at home this weekend, has been moved to the new Hilken Community Stadium at Concordia University in Portland due to wet conditions at the Bruins’ Morse Field.

Saturday, March 24, noon – Baseball vs. Whitman, DH (at Concordia)
Saturday, March 25, noon – Baseball vs. Whitman (at Concordia)

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit gfubruins.com.

The Fitness Center will be closed the duration of spring break. It will close at 4 p.m. Friday, March 23, and not reopen until 6 a.m. on Monday, April 2.

Questions? Contact Patty Findley at pfindley@georgefox.edu.

Mark your calendars: An all-employee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, April 5, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. The session will include progress reports from our innovation team chairs.

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.

In addition, a chat room has been set up, and a video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.

Dear Student Supervisors,

Please use this reminder checklist now as you prepare to send your March time sheets to HR:

• 3 p.m. on the third business day of the month is the deadline for time sheets (looking ahead: April 4 at 3 p.m). If your student employees are not working over spring break, I would appreciate them earlier.
• Late time sheets: Please include a note explaining why it’s late
• Timesheets must be:
  • Totaled by you
  • Checked for a.m./p.m. errors (correct them)
  • Signed by you
  • Check the dates: Are the dates listed for the correct month?
  • Legible with student name and ID number
  • Checked for six-hour shifts: Note meal period in start-stop times or initial and OK by you (this should be an exception, not the rule)

To ensure that we get the time sheets on time, please hand deliver them to HR. You can ask a student employee to deliver the time sheets to us as long as you first put them in a sealed envelope (keeps us in legal compliance). The only exception to this rule is the Portland Center – please scan or fax your time sheets first, then drop the originals in the mail.

Thank you for working with me to ensure a timely and accurate payroll for our students.

Melodee Powers, HR

On Monday, April 9, 180 seniors in the Liberal Arts and Critical Issues Program will present their research on Christians and American Culture from noon to 4 p.m. in EHS and Hoover.

As part of this, we need a number of judges to help evaluate the projects. This will take about an hour. Each judge will get a chance to talk to our seniors, and we provide a small “thank you” gift. We would love judges from the faculty, staff and administration. No experience is necessary. We provide all the judging materials.

If you would be interested in doing this or have any questions, please contact Caitlin Corning (ccorning@georgefox.edu or ext. 2673).

To be successful in the new world of work, we need to create a structure for capturing, clarifying and organizing all the forces that assail us, and to ensure time and space for thinking, reflecting and decision making.

In the New York Times article “When Office Technology Overwhelms, Get Organized,” David Allen provides five actions to help optimize focus and resources. Read the article at the Employee Council site, and while you’re there, add a comment about a remarkable employee you work with (see the “8 Qualities of Remarkable Employees” article) and read about some of the remarkable employees we have.

Please help out the Bruin Directory staff by answering this short questionnaire. If you have already filled this out, then please do not feel the need to fill it out again. Your input is very valuable as it helps us determine the future of the Bruin Directory.

Thank you for your help!

Come worship and hear a message in Spanish this Friday! We will meet from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. in Hoover 105. Chapel credit is provided.

The International Club is again hosting a Chinese language class tonight (Thursday) from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the International House/Cultural Center. All are welcome!

We will spend the first 30 minutes getting to know each other and reviewing what we have learned in our previous class. The main learning time is from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m, so if you can’t make it until then you won’t miss class time. Free snacks will be provided.

I hope to see you there. I enjoyed the company of each of you last time.

Yali He (yhe11@georgefox.edu)

MyGFU will be unavailable tonight (Wednesday) at 6 p.m. through Thursday, March 22, at 7 a.m. for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

The Bruin Bookstore, textbook annex and its online store will be closed for business to conduct its annual year-end inventory process starting this Monday, March 26, during spring break.

To strive for accuracy, we are not able to conduct any business during this closure. Phone calls, voice mail messages and e-mails will not be responded to until this procedure is completed. There will not be any money on hand to make change. Please plan ahead to get all your Bruin necessities before Monday! We truly appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

The bookstore will reopen on Monday, April 2, at 8 a.m. Thank you for supporting your Bruin Bookstore!

To benefit eligible employees: If you have considered purchasing or making changes to your Aflac supplemental insurance, now is the time. Enrollment forms must be submitted to Paul Frampton by Friday, March 30 (this is a firm deadline). See details here.

Questions? Contact Lisa Burton at lburton@georgefox.edu.

Our last Peace and Justice Symposium of the year will feature Roger and Sue Newell this Thursday, March 22. Those of you who have attended our symposiums before know this to be a wonderful time to dialogue and build a deeper understanding of what peace and justice looks like in practice both locally and globally through stories shared by George Fox faculty, staff and administrators.

Thursday’s symposium, titled “Journeys: South Africa, Social Justice, Sabbath,” will feature Sue, an assistant professor of social work, and Roger, a professor of religious studies. The event is free and open to the public.

This past summer, Roger and Sue traveled to South Africa to teach summer school at the College of the Transfiguration, a theological college in Grahamstown that trains pastors for ministry in the Anglican church of South Africa. From there, they traveled to Capetown, where Sue helped coordinate international placements for George Fox students at Cornerstone University. Their talks will reflect on their conversations last summer.

Please join us at 7:15 p.m. in the Quaker Heritage Room (upstairs library). Refreshments will be provided. Spiritual life credit is offered for students.

Questions? Contact Melanie Newell at ext. 2686 or mnewell@georgefox.edu.

It’s time again to join with your fellow students and living area chaplains for worship and community. Below are the locations of your chapel per living area on Wednesday, March 21.

• PCWB – Penn Lobby
• Co-Ed – Edwards Lobby
• HMS – Sutton Lobby
• North & East Houses and Apartments – Le Shana Lobby
• West Houses, Apartments & Commuters – International Culural House (formerly known as Moore House)

Dr. Roger Nam, the university’s 2010-11 Graduate Faculty Researcher of the year, will present a faculty lecture, titled “When Amos Meets Jabez: Towards a Biblical Theology of Wealth,” this evening (Tuesday) beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.

The lecture will examine three seemingly incongruous messages within their socio-historical contexts, depicting a theology of wealth and poverty that is complex, challenging, and relevant to Christian communities.

The entire George Fox community is invited to this lecture, hosted by the Faculty Development Committee. Light refreshments are included.