The Daily Bruin

Please join President Baker and your Newberg campus colleagues at 3 p.m. Monday, May 3, in Wood-Mar Auditorium for our annual employee recognition event.

The president will share year-end remarks, and the event will feature presentations for service awards and employee of the year awards, as well as a time to honor six retiring members of our community. Immediately following, refreshments will be served in the Ron Gregory (EHS) Atrium.

We will be doing a “sweep” of the men’s locker room during the month of May. If you want to keep your locker and its contents, please let us know. You may e-mail Patty Findley or call ext. 2910 with your locker number and we won’t remove the lock and dispense your gear to those less fortunate.

Tilikum Center for Retreats and Outdoor Ministries invites mothers and daughters to take time out and retreat together in a relaxing, country setting May 7-9.

Highlights include teaching and relationship-building sessions, singing and worship, campfire time, a hayride, crafts, and challenge course activities, along with plenty of time to simply be together, mother and daughter. It’s a wonderful opportunity to walk upon common ground while celebrating your differences and exploring God’s design for your lives.

Learn more at tilikum.georgefox.edu.

A continuing education opportunity for church leaders, the Leadership Institute for Group Discernment, will be hosted on the university’s Newberg campus May 17-20.

The institute is a three-and-a-half-day experience empowering church leaders in facilitating group discernment. It will integrate theological, spiritual and practical organizational processes, helping church leaders from different traditions understand and implement discernment-oriented leadership within their own settings, with the ultimate goal of leading to consensus and unity within the church.

For-credit options are available through George Fox University and George Fox Evangelical Seminary; all are welcome. For more information, contact Jan Wood, director of Good News Associates, via the Good News Associates website.

It’s time for the university’s annual ice cream social. Take a break, visit with your colleagues, and have some ice cream between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 5, in the Ron Gregory (EHS) Atrium. Student employees are invited to attend the event, sponsored by the Staff Development Committee.

Learn to make those gorgeous hanging baskets that grace the university’s quad area. You can learn how these beauties are assembled and help us in the process by joining us for a class on Wednesday, May 12, in the Plant Services Building at 1101 Villa Road. The session begins at 9 a.m. and will last approximately four hours.

You are welcome to join in the class at any time.

Thank you,
Plant Services

The Fitness Center hours for the summer are as follows: 6-8 a.m., 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and 4-8 p.m.

The university will host two commencement ceremonies on the Newberg campus Saturday, May 1. The traditional undergraduate ceremony will take place in Miller Gymnasium/Wheeler Sports Center at 2 p.m., with audience seating at 1 p.m. Tickets are required for the traditional undergraduate ceremony.

The graduate, seminary and School of Professional Studies ceremony will take place in the same Wheeler Sports Center location at 7 p.m., with audience seating at 6 p.m.

In addition, the baccalaureate service is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Saturday in Bauman Auditorium. Baccalaureate is an undergraduate worship service providing graduating seniors, their families, faculty, administrators, staff and other guests the opportunity to worship.

More information on this weekend’s events are available on the commencement website.

Please join the Office of Academic Affairs on Wednesday, April 28, as we say farewell and happy “second” retirement to Ken Armstrong (School of Business).

Delicious refreshments (and perhaps a “roast” or two) will be served from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Hoover lobby (just outside the School of Business offices). If you cannot attend Ken’s reception and want to add to the farewell wishes, please send a note to Karlyn Fleming (kfleming@georgefox.edu) by noon on Wednesday.

Donate your used textbooks to Word Made Flesh to support its people and ministries. Just drop off your textbooks at the Spiritual Life House. Sarah Baldwin will mail them in and the money will go to WMF.

Click this link for more information.

Dana Oswald of William Penn University is studying mentoring at Friends universities and its impact on retention. She would appreciate you taking the time to fill out a simple 10-question survey. Click on this link to take the survey.

Student supervisors: Pay day is Friday, May 14. So, please submit your students’ April time sheets to HR right away – by Monday, May 3, at 3 p.m.. HR apologizes 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 through the first two days of May, please include these hours on his or her April time sheet.

Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Also, don’t forget to sign them and be sure the students did as well. (Please make sure the student has signed their time sheet. If they don’t get it signed, a copy will be mailed for them to sign and return.) 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. If you happen to still have any paperwork to submit on a newly hired student who worked in April, please hand-deliver it right away – no later than Friday, April 30. We need to set up students in the system before the time sheets arrive.

Thanks very much.
HR

The Newberg campus will host an employee appreciation event beginning at 3 p.m. Monday, May 3, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Hors d’oeuvres and desserts will be served afterward, beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the Ron Gregory Atrium in the Edwards-Holman Science Center. Please join us for this special time of recognition as we honor employee service award winners and retirees.

There will be no student mail delivery after 2 p.m. on Friday, April 30. Mail delivery will resume on Monday, May 3, either to your open campus mailbox or forwarded to the address you provided to Mail Services.

Auditions for next year’s Concert Choir are happening this week. Those interested in auditioning can call Debbie Hawblitzel (Performing Arts) at ext. 2620 or e-mail her at dhawblit@georgefox.edu to set a time to audition in the Ross Center.

The audition material is posted on the music website.

Faculty, please notify those students who might be interested in this opportunity.

As you plan your summer activities, Print Services is already preparing for your return in the fall. To help ensure a smooth transition back to campus at summer’s end, send those works in now that you will need for the first month of the fall semester (i.e., syllabi, reading lists, class work and course packs). The more that can be printed during the summer, the easier the fall will be.

The most important items to leave with Print Services before you leave for the summer is anything that will require copyright permission. The best way to do this is for you to forward the actual item to print services with your name, class name, class number, and the pages required. If you don’t have the item, then the exact ISBN will be helpful in the search for the correct copy. By sending the actual item or the ISBN, copies will be made from an original, providing the best quality copy to your students.

Please contact Elizabeth Holme at ext. 2550 or eholme@georgefox.edu with any questions that you have. Complete guidelines as published by the Copyright Clearance Center can be found on Print Services’ Web page.

Textbook buyback is scheduled at the Bruin Bookstore Wednesday through Friday, April 28-30, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. outside the store in the SUB.

The last lost and found tables of the semester will be set up at the Bruin Den on Tuesday, April 27, between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Please stop by during this time if you have lost an item. All unclaimed items will be donated to charitable causes at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Join us for our annual graduation sale at the Bruin Bookstore Monday through Friday, April 26-30. General merchandise is 25 percent off (diploma frames excluded). It’s the perfect opportunity to find that gift for your graduate!

Textbook buyback is scheduled at the Bruin Bookstore Wednesday through Friday, April 28-30, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. outside the store in the SUB.