Courier service to the Salem Center is limited to Thursday, March 24, only during spring break. Service to the Portland Center will be Monday through Thursday.
Questions? Contact Mail Services at ext. 2555
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Mail Services
Friday, March 18, is the last day for open enrollment, including your Voluntary Life benefit if you are eligible and wish to enroll or increase coverage.
All employees who are eligible for benefits, even if you aren’t enrolled through GFU, are required to return the Open Enrollment Election form. If you no longer have your form and you wish to make no changes to your insurance plans, you may send an e-mail to lburton@georgefox.edu simply stating that you want no changes.
Remember that Flexible Spending does not automatically renew.
Thank you!
– HR
Freshmen, sophomores and juniors: Are you looking for work or an internship this summer or next year?
Seniors: Are you trying to find a job after graduation or are you considering graduate school?
The First Avenue Career & Graduate School Fair offers information on:
Join us Friday, April 1, at University of Portland Chiles Center from noon to 3 p.m.
View a list of employers and grad schools expected to attend at this site. Stop by Career Services and register today for just $5! Registration also includes admission to Contacts & Connections, a networking event with local professionals.
Faculty, please let your students know about this great opportunity.
Questions? Contact Career Services at ext. 2330 or careers@georgefox.edu.
Dinner on Friday, March 18, will be from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., and the last board meal before spring break is breakfast on Saturday, March 19, from 8:30 to 9 a.m.
Hours of operation resume with dinner on Sunday, March 27, from 5 to 7 p.m. Have a great spring break!
The Bruin Den and Villa Cafe will be closing at 2 p.m. on Friday, March 18, for spring break. We will resume normal hours on Monday, March 28.
KFOX radio is planning to provide a live audio webcast of all three of this weekend’s baseball games.
For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the Bruins’ website at gfubruins.com.
Following are the Fitness Center hours over spring break:
Note: We will have guests over spring break (ACE Convention). Do not plan to use any other part of the building.
Questions? Contact Patty Findley at pfindley@georgefox.edu.
Nominations for Support Staff Member of the Year and Administrative Staff Member of the Year for 2010-11 are due in HR on Monday, March 21.
If you have any colleagues you believe are deserving of this honor (and $500 gift), you have just a few days left to submit a nomination. Just describe the person’s unique “above and beyond†contributions to George Fox, its students, and/or its employees in the past year. Indicate what was done, who was impacted, etc. In other words, what makes this person stand out?
Other questions to also consider: How has this person encouraged or helped you, other employees, or students in the past year? What is it about this person’s job performance that impresses you? How has this person demonstrated Christian commitment, loyalty to GFU, and leadership skills at the university and the broader community in the past year?
Nominations can be submitted to Peggy Kilburg via e-mail, fax (503-554-2186), or hard copy (Campus box 6108), but they must arrive in HR by 5 p.m. on Monday.
Dr. Andrea Cook visited with George Fox women today to share her leadership journey. She recommended three books to the women in attendance. For those who want to know the names of those books, they are:
The Bruin Bookstore’s spring break hours next week will be 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, with the exception of Wednesday, March 23, when the bookstore and textbook annex will be closed for completion of its year-end inventory.
Ruth Baker and Lori Allen invite all women of the university community to join them for a free dinner and the movie Under the Same Moon at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, in EHS 102.
After the movie, Polly Peterson will facilitate a talk-back session. Come and connect with other women in the GFU community. The dinner and movie are free, but feel free to bring a sweet treat to share.
Contact Lori Allen if you have any questions: allen.redpants@gmail.com or 503-487-6648.
The university community is invited to hear R. Corban Harwood, from Washington State University, speak on “Semilinear Operator Splitting and Modeling Lead-Acid Batteries” on Thursday, March 17. Please stop by EHS 325 at 10:35 a.m.
Questions? Contact Lynn Scott at lscott@georgefox.edu.
Chapel on Wednesday (March 16) will be dispersed throughout campus for worship with your living area.
We look forward to worshiping with you!
Students … Do you have some favorite photos from your time abroad? Would you like to share them with friends and the campus community?
The International Student Service Office is sponsoring a GFU International Photo Contest. You can share with others some of the special images that you’ve captured on film while abroad. We encourage you to submit photos of your most memorable moments!
Submit your international photos by Thursday, March 17. All submitted photos will be displayed in a virtual gallery, with selected photos displayed on campus and voted on by the campus community. Cash prizes will be awarded. This is a great opportunity to share with others the beauty of God’s creation and human endeavors (architecture, sculptures, etc.) from distant lands.
To enter your photos or get more information, please visit our web page at international.georgefox.edu or e-mail dzhuang09@georgefox.edu.
Faculty, please let your students know about this opportunity.
Application forms are now available for students interested in applying for summer jobs. You can check it out at this link. Please post your openings out on Bruin Careers as soon as possible so you can select from the best candidates.
Don’t forget to post your openings for fall while you’re at it!
Following board approval this past weekend, off-campus studies are now covered by tuition remission. Up until now, non-GFU off-campus studies have been excluded unless required for a major.
The employee handbook will be updated this week to reflect this change in policy.
The application process for off-campus studies for the 2011-12 academic year is now complete. The next opportunity to apply for this program will be January 2012 for the 2012-13 academic year – the same timeframe for requesting tuition remission. Tuition Remission requests for the 2012-13 academic year will be due Feb. 1, 2012.
If you have questions, contact Peggy Kilburg via e-mail at pkilburg@georgefox.edu.
Interested in launching a fair trade student group on campus? An objective of Fair Trade is to cultivate the consciousness that will help shape a global economy based on justice and integrity. Fair Trade promotes economic systems that empower producers so that they can reap fair benefits for their labors.
Meet us at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 15, in the River Street House (the back side of the Stevens Center) if this sounds like the kind of group you’d like to help launch. Write Melanie Newell in the Center for Peace and Justice if you have questions.
Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) and Brian Bews will be hosting discussions of four crises in the early church, providing a state-of-the-art analysis of the Gospel of John’s audience. From there, new insights into the narrative will be explored, including reflecting on how readers today are drawn into a transformative dialogue with Jesus from the Gospel of John. All are welcome!
Join us this Wednesday (March 16) from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m. at North Valley Friends Church, 4o2o N. College St.
Contact Paul if you have questions at panderso@georgefox.edu.
The university’s International Justice Mission chapter is hosting another meeting this Wednesday, March 16, at 7:50 p.m. in the Le Shana lobby. The chapter deals in large part with the issue of sex-trafficking on both a global and local scale, and what steps we can do to combat it.
Two major focuses of the chapter are prayer and how we can get involved in the community. Please come and see how you can get involved as well!
Contact Stephen Kenyon at skenyon09@georgefox.edu if you have questions.
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