Shane Roghaar, our TIAA-CREF representative, will be on the Newberg campus Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 10-11. You may make an appointment with him to discuss your investments by opening this link on the HR Benefits web page. Employees in other locations may contact Shane to arrange a telephone consultation at 1-866-928-4221.
Career Services invites you to an open house. Come visit our new space on the first floor of the Stevens Center on Wednesday, Oct. 6, between noon and 5 p.m. Enjoy light refreshments and test your career savvy with some interactive games. All are welcome!
The Fitness Center in the Wheeler Sports Center will be closed Thursday, Oct. 7, at 5 p.m. until Monday, Oct. 11, at 6 a.m.
Several new George Fox University employees will be introduced at a George Fox Auxiliary luncheon at noon Friday, Oct. 15, in the Cap and Gown Room. Reservations are required and tickets are $7.50 per person.
The new university employees will share their backgrounds and talk about their pilgrimage to George Fox. To make reservations, contact Margene Haworth at 503-538-0604 by Monday, Oct. 11.
Tickets are now available for a Wednesday, Oct. 27, concert featuring musical guest Gungor in Bauman Auditorium. Tickets for the 8 p.m. concert can be purchased at the Bruin Bookstore for $10 (faculty and community). The event is free for George Fox students. Tickets will also be available at the door.
Gungor is a musical band born out of a journey of learning what it means to be a follower of Jesus. Their philosophy is that their music would serve as a means to an end, to change people, and be a part of God’s kingdom. According to Michael Gungor, the group’s music speaks to the spiritual journey that happens when we follow God in trusting him to “make beautiful things out of the dust in our lives, that God will somehow use us, use our obedience and love, our feeble human effort, and build himself a kingdom.â€
To listen to their music, visit gungormusic.com, or check out their latest song, “Beautiful Things” on YouTube.
Beginning this year, banners for the quad lampposts and for exterior buildings require an approval process. This process will help ensure banners are consistent with the university’s brand and visual identity system, and are regulation size (i.e., fit the lamppost brackets properly).
Requests to install banners need to be made through Event Services seven days prior to the install date. However, to ensure you will have approved banners in time for your event, please contact the Department of Marketing Communications earlier. If a new design is necessary, lead times will be at least six weeks for lamppost banners and four weeks for building banners.
For information about scheduling and banner size requirements, contact Lisa Leslie in Event Services. For information about visual standards, contact Tamara Cissna in Marketing Communications.
With the advent of October, we ask you to please nominate a colleague that you believe is deserving of this month’s award. Your nomination should include a concise but specific summary of the person’s recent contributions (past 30 days or so) – what was done, who was impacted, etc. – and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.
Please submit your nomination via e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Oct. 22. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the recipient from the nominations submitted. The winner will be announced at our community meeting on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 28, and will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.
Gmail has announced the option of turning off the conversation view in your e-mail. Tired of related e-mails being “stacked” into one message? Simply click on “Settings” in the upper-right corner, then the “General” tab. The sixth option on the list will turn off conversations and let every e-mail you receive remain independent in your in-box.
Are your students struggling with tests? Encourage them to attend an Academic Resource Center workshop, “How to Get A’s on All Your Tests (or at Least Become a Better Test-taker),” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Stevens 208.
Rick Muthiah (Learning Support Services) will cover several strategies for improving performance on tests. Questions? Contact Rick at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu.
Attention all freshman through senior students considering graduate school within the next few years: Please come to Career Services’ Getting into Graduate School Workshop from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 20, in Stevens 109.
Topics will include if graduate school if right for you, choosing your schools, writing your essays, picking letter writers, taking the admission tests, and more. To sign up or get more information, visit this link.
Faculty, please encourage those students who are interested in graduate school to attend.
The lost and found items will all be in the Bruin Den between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 5. Please stop by between those times if you are missing an item. All items not reunited with their owners will be donated to charitable causes at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
Come join us Friday morning for First Friday Worship in Bauman Auditorium from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. We will worship together with creative prayer and music. We look forward to worshiping with you!
If a balance of more than one year of vacation accrual remains after December time sheets and time-off reports are processed (in January), the employee will lose the portion that exceeds one year’s accrual.
Available on the HR website are vacation accrual charts with instructions, one each for support staff and administrators. Please use this chart along with the information on your Sept. 30 pay statement to determine how many hours of vacation you need to use before Jan. 1, 2011. Your vacation balance on your Sept. 30th pay statement does not take into account any vacation you may have taken in September since those time sheets and time-off reports have not yet been received or processed in HR. Links to these charts can be found by clicking this link.
If you have any questions after you have reviewed your vacation balance and the chart that applies to your vacation accrual, please contact HR for assistance.
Don’t forget about the Disney Carnival Friday night (Oct. 1) at 8 p.m. on the track. Prizes include Disneyland tickets, a 32-inch TV, an iHome, and best costume prize. Lots of games and food!
Do you love spending time outside? If so, Experiential Ministries has the opportunity for you. We are in need of faculty or staff members who want to join us on outdoor recreation trips throughout the year. This may include backpacking, snowshoeing, rock climbing, cycling, hiking, etc. If you love to spend time outside in God’s creation, we’d love to have you join us!
A faculty/staff member is needed on each trip for liability purposes. We are willing to schedule our trips based on your schedule. If interested, please contact Paige Copenhaver at pcopenhaver09@georgefox.edu.
This Monday, Oct. 4, Dr. Anita Weiss will speak on the lives of women in Pakistan and Afghanistan for the university’s Liberal Arts and Critical Issues Forum. Weiss is a professor of international studies at the University of Oregon and specializes in development issues and gender. She is currently working on two books, Interpreting Islam, Modernity and Women’s Rights in Pakistan, and Pathways to Power: The Domestic Politics of South Asia.
Weiss will present in two sessions: from 4:40 to 5:40 p.m. and from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105.
Next week, the university will host the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History (CFH) Oct. 6-9. The theme of this year’s conference is “The Search for Peace, Justice and Equality.” Approximately 170 attendees will be presenting more than 150 papers on a variety of historical subjects.
For location, content and cost information, visit the university’s history webpage, the society’s web page or contact Caitlin Corning.
Please join us in the Bruin Den or Villa Cafe this Tuesday, Oct. 5, when representatives from Starbucks will be on campus serving free coffee samples, featuring their new Starbucksâ„¢ Shared Planetâ„¢ blends as well as some new seasonal drinks. Samples will be served from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.
– Bon Appetit
This is a reminder that an all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 30, in Hoover 105.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. If you have any problems connecting, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569. In addition, a chat room has been set up to allow for interaction. A video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.
Friday, Oct. 1, 7 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Puget Sound, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Oct. 2, 7 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Pacific Lutheran, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Sunday, Oct. 3, noon – Women’s Soccer vs. Puget Sound, Austin Sports Complex
For more information, call the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the Bruins’ website at gfubruins.com.
