Joel Perez will present the findings of his doctoral dissertation, “Drivers that Motivate Christian Colleges to Seek Change in the Area of Diversity,” on Tuesday, May 3, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. in Stevens 101. All are invited to attend.
Shane Roghaar, our TIAA-CREF representative, will be on the Newberg campus May 10-11. You may make an appointment with him to discuss your investments using this link on the HR/Benefits web page.
We are finalizing plans for a Pre-Retirement Planning Seminar in Newberg with one of our TIAA-CREF consultants and a representative from Social Security on Thursday, May 12. This session will be especially helpful to those of you considering retirement in the next three to five years. Save the date! We will announce a time for this seminar shortly.
The university is expecting approximately 30 to 40 new international students this fall. They will be arriving on Aug. 19 to begin the international student orientation.
Rather than house these students in empty dorm rooms during orientation, we are looking for about 15 to 20 families who would be willing to have up to two international students stay in their home the nights of Aug. 19-25 (students would be free to be with the families the entire weekend of Aug. 19-21).
Families are asked to provide breakfast and dinner. Lunch will be provided on campus during orientation. We also ask families to provide transportation to George Fox between 8 and 8:30 a.m. and pick students up at approximately 5 p.m. Host families will receive a stipend to help defray some of the costs of meals and transportation.
If you are interested in serving as a host family, please contact Dianna McIntyre (dmcintyre@georgefox.edu) or Alex Pia (apia@georgefox.edu). If you know of others who might be interested, please let us know so we may contact them.
Thank you for your willingness to consider this opportunity.
The following is information on the delivery of class papers.
For returning students: Their class papers will go into their campus mailbox – and be there when the student returns.
Graduating students or students withdrawing: Their class papers will be stored at Mail Services for six months. Students may stop and ask for them.
Thanks,
Mail Services
Following is information regarding student mail delivery beginning on May 1.
For students who requested their mailbox be open all or part of the summer, your mail (including campus) will be delivered to your campus box as normal.
Those returning students who chose to have your mail forwarded, your U.S. Mail will be sent to the address you gave and your class papers will be in your campus box for when you return in the fall.
For graduating seniors or students withdrawing, your U.S. Mail will be forwarded to the address you gave and your class papers will be stored at Mail Services for six months.
Questions? Contact Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.
The university will host two commencement ceremonies on Saturday, April 30. This year, the ceremony for graduate, seminary and adult degree programs is scheduled for 10 a.m., while the undergraduate ceremony is set for 3 p.m. Both will take place in Miller Gymnasium in the Wheeler Sports Center.
Arthur Roberts, a presence on campus for five decades, will be the guest speaker in the undergraduate commencement ceremony. Mohan Nair, chief innovation officer at Regence, will speak in the graduate event. Audience seating begins an hour before each ceremony.
Also on Saturday, undergraduate department receptions are scheduled at 1 p.m. For a complete guide to commencement events, visit this page.
There will be no campus mail distributed to student mailboxes after 1 p.m. on Friday, April 29. If you have something that must be in their mailboxes, please have it at Mail Services by 11 a.m. Friday morning.
Thanks!
University Mail Services
Monday, May 2, 2 p.m. – Baseball vs. Concordia-Portland, Morse Field
For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the sports website at gfubruins.com.
The Center for Peace and Justice/Center for Global Studies is still seeking essay contest entries on the theme “Fair Trade: A Market-based Approach to Sustainability and Justice.â€
The details:
Learn more on the Fair Trade page on the university’s website. Questions? Contact Melanie Newell at ext. 2686 or mnewell@georgefox.edu.
Faculty, please tell your students about this contest.
The Master of Arts in Teaching class of 2011 will be hosting its Research Symposium today (Thursday, April 28) from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Wheeler Sports Center’s Miller Gymnasium.
Students and faculty members are invited to come view the MAT students’ research projects.
Questions? Contact Judy Deale at jdeale@georgefox.edu.
Tilikum is hosting a contest to design the artwork for its 2011 camp T-shirts. There are two designs: one for the Tilikum Adventure Programs (grades 6-12) and one for the Day Camp (grades 1-6).
The Tilikum Adventure Programs theme is “Revealed.” With this theme, we are exploring the ways God reveals himself through creation, Scripture, history (our own stories and those of others), and present-day encounters. The Day Camp theme is “Rooted: Growing in God.â€
The winner for each design will receive a T-shirt, a $20 gift card to Chapters, and the satisfaction that more than 2,300 campers and staff will be wearing their artwork.
You may submit artwork for both themes. Time is running out. The contest ends Tuesday, May 3!
Please e-mail Nate Forbes at nforbes@georgefox.edu to enter or get more details.
Please be sure you have your calendar marked to join President Baker and your Newberg campus colleagues at 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, May 4, for our annual employee recognition event in Wood-Mar Auditorium.
The president will share year-end remarks, and there will be presentations for service awards and employee of the year awards. Five retiring members of our community will be honored as well. Immediately following, refreshments will be served in the EHS (Ron Gregory) Atrium.
Six-inch yellow potted mums will be available for purchase on Monday, May 2. Each mum is $5, or two for $8. Stop by the Pennington House to pick yours up!
Please call Vangie Pattison at ext. 2121 to check availability.
Following are Klages Dining Hall hours for the remainder of this week.
Thursday, April 28: Regular hours
Friday, April 29
Breakfast: 7:15-10 a.m.
Lunch: 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Dinner: 4:30-6 p.m.
Saturday, April 30
Breakfast: 9-10 a.m.
Lunch 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Note: The Bruin Den and Villa Cafe will close at 2 p.m. Friday, April 29.
Following are Fitness Center hours from Monday, May 2 through Friday, Aug. 26:
Questions? Contact Patty Findley at pfindley@georgefox.edu.
Student supervisors: Pay day is Monday, May 16, so please submit your students’ April time sheets to HR right away — by Tuesday, May 3 by 3 p.m. I apologize 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 into the first few days of May, please include these hours on a May School Year time sheet and submit it to HR as soon as they are done for the year.
Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Also, don’t forget to total them, sign them and be sure the students did as well. (Please make sure the student has signed his or her time sheet. If they don’t get it signed, a copy will be mailed for them to sign and return. Do not hold any time sheets just for a student’s signature.) 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.
ATTENTION: Summer student employee orientation is Monday, May 2, at 9 a.m. in EHS 102. This is required for ALL summer student employees.
Thanks very much.
HR
For printer servicing requests, please use this link. This is only for printer servicing, not for photocopiers.
Questions? Contact John Stewart (Bruin Bookstore) at jstewart@georgefox.edu.
The Bruin Bookstore is now on Facebook. Visit this link to check it out.
Log on and become a fan! You’ll be the first to know about sales and special signing events.
A May church leadership conference is available for May term or summer credit (graduate and undergraduate). The Leadership Institute for Group Discernment will be offered at George Fox May 16-19, and George Fox students (undergraduate and seminary) can take it for academic credit (CHMN 485; PSTD 585) with Paul Anderson.
A special discount is available for college and seminary students on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact Paul at panderso@georgefox.edu for more information.
The next all-employee meeting has once again been rescheduled. The meeting, originally rescheduled for May 11, will now take place on Wednesday, May 25, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at this stream site. AÂ chat room has also 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.
