The university community is invited to an all-employee meeting from 3:30 to 5 p.m. this Monday, Feb. 20, in Canyon Commons 101-103. The event will be live-streamed at the Portland Center in Room 155A.
Reminder: Please send your nominations for Employee of the Month for February to Lisa Burton at lburton@georgefox.edu by the end of the day today (Thursday), and come for the presentation at the all-employee meeting this Monday, Feb. 20.
Did the ice storm of Saturday, Jan. 7, prevent you from attending the memorial service for Arthur Roberts? If so, take heart: The service is now available to watch online.
Visit this page and scroll to the memorial section. An embedded video is now included for viewing.
Two of the university’s buildings have undergone name changes this spring, with Coffin Residence Hall and Gulley House being renamed Gulley Residence Hall and Hiebert House, respectively.
Gulley Hall is named in honor of Emmett W. Gulley, president of then-Pacific College from 1941 to 1948. The name change continues a trend of key campus residence halls being named in honor of former presidents (Brandt Hall, Le Shana Hall, Pennington Hall, etc.).
In conjunction with the new residence hall name, the Gulley House will now be known as Hiebert House, in honor of Roy Hiebert, affectionately known as “Grandpa Roy” on campus for four decades. He died in 2016 at the age of 92.
The music of Schubert, Schumann, Beethoven and Gershwin will fill Bauman Auditorium when Soheil Nasseri, an internationally renowned pianist, performs for the university’s 11th annual Bösendorfer Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday).
All employees and students are entitled to one free ticket. Additional tickets are $12 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. All tickets are reserved seating and are available at this link or at the University Box Office by calling 503-554-3844.
Nasseri has performed at some of the most prestigious concert halls in the world, including Berlin’s Philharmonie and Konzerthaus, London’s Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre, Tokyo’s Musashino Center, Théâtre Fémina in Bordeaux, Florence’s Teatro Comunale, St. Petersburg’s Philharmonia, and Palermo, Italy’s Teatro Politeama.
He will perform four pieces: Schubert’s Sonata in A Minor, D 784, Schumann’s, Carnaval, Op. 9, Beethoven’s Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
To learn more about Nasseri and the concert series, visit this page.
We want to remind everyone in the George Fox community that we are a tobacco-free campus. This means smoking and the use of tobacco products is prohibited everywhere on campus by all members of our community, as well as guests.
Additionally for undergraduate students, the use of tobacco products at any time is prohibited as per the lifestyle standards and values agreed to upon enrollment.
For more information, please visit this link or studenthandbook.georgefox.edu, or visit the student life office.
Wondering how colleagues are using media in their courses? Looking for moral support as you make plans to produce videos? Join us for a brown-bag show-and-tell. Give a five-minute tour of a course, demonstrate your favorite media tool, or come to watch colleagues share. We hope you can join us!
RSVP at this link. Questions? Contact Gloria Doherty (gdoherty@georgefox.edu).
Annual Open Enrollment: Feb. 14 – March 6
During open enrollment, benefit-eligible employees can make changes to benefits without a “change in status†reason. Changes made during Open Enrollment will take effect April 1, 2017.
The changes to the plans are very minimal, with The Pioneer Health Trust/Regence, Kaiser, Allegiance FSA, Lifemap, and Aflac all being offered again this year.
Whether or not you make any changes to your benefit elections, you need to complete the “Open Enrollment Election Form.†This is an electronic form that will be delivered to your George Fox email on Feb. 14, 2017. If you decide to add coverage or make any changes to your current coverage, you will need to complete the appropriate enrollment forms (available on the HR website) and return them to HR at Box 6108 by end of day Monday, March 6.
Watch your inbox for 2017-18 open enrollment rates and details!
You are invited to attend our George Fox Employee Benefit Fair Feb. 16
Come by and visit our George Fox benefit vendors! Booths will be hosted by TIAA, Regence, Kaiser, Lifemap, Allegiance (FSA), and Aflac.
Human Resources will also be hosting a booth at the fair, so stop by with your benefit questions or to turn in your open enrollment forms! Join us Thursday, Feb. 16, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Canyon Commons (Rooms 101 and 102).
Human Resources will be at the Portland Center Feb. 17 from 1 to 5 p.m. in Room 142
Darby Thiessen will have open office hours for Portland Center employees. If you have benefit questions or would like to turn in your open enrollment forms, please stop in!
Questions? Contact Darby at dthiessen@georgefox.edu.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has issued a new I-9 form that MUST be used starting Jan. 22. It has been published on the HR web page here, so please always use the current form, or download it and DELETE your old form. If you have printed forms for new employees/students, please recycle those and print the new ones.
The primary change is that the new form is easier to complete online, but you must still print it, and provide an original signature. By law, we cannot accept faxed forms in HR. There are no changes to the acceptable documents.
Please contact Kera Hallman (khallman@georgefox.edu)Â in HR if you have questions.
You spoke and we listened. Come and join us today (Monday) from 1 to 2 p.m. in Roberts Center 117 to see the exciting new Applicant Pool program.
This applicant tracking system starts with an online application and will transform the way we advertise openings, accept applications, track candidate status through the interview process, and communicate with candidates. Launch date for the Applicant Pool program is coming soon, so hiring managers and department administrators are invited to join us to find out more about this helpful new tool!
If you have questions, contact Kera Hallman at khallman@georgefox.edu.
The music of Schubert, Schumann, Beethoven and Gershwin will fill Bauman Auditorium when Soheil Nasseri, an internationally renowned pianist, performs for the university’s 11th annual Bösendorfer Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday, Feb. 16.
All employees and students are entitled to one free ticket. Additional tickets are $12 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. All tickets are reserved seating and are available at this link or at the University Box Office by calling 503-554-3844.
Nasseri has performed at some of the most prestigious concert halls in the world, including Berlin’s Philharmonie and Konzerthaus, London’s Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre, Tokyo’s Musashino Center, Théâtre Fémina in Bordeaux, Florence’s Teatro Comunale, St. Petersburg’s Philharmonia, and Palermo, Italy’s Teatro Politeama.
He will perform four pieces: Schubert’s Sonata in A Minor, D 784, Schumann’s, Carnaval, Op. 9, Beethoven’s Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
To learn more about Nasseri and the concert series, visit this page.
The William Penn Honors Program invites you to hear Peter Iver Kaufman speak on “Leadership and the Humanities” on Thursday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.
Kaufman is a professor at the University of Richmond in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies and professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill’s history and religious studies departments. He teaches a wide range of leadership courses.
The lecture is open to the public ,and admission is free. If you have any questions regarding the event, please email Jocelyn Stein at honors@georgefox.edu.
As part of the university’s 125th anniversary celebration, special guest Peter Kreeft, PhD, a professor of philosophy from Boston College, will speak in Bauman Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 17. The title of his presentation is “Lewis & Tolkien: Christian Faith in a Postmodern World.”
Kreeft is the author of 75 books as well as a popular writer of Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics. His books include Handbook of Christian Apologetics, Christianity for Modern Pagans and Fundamentals of the Faith. Admission is free, and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Questions? Contact Missy Terry at terrym@georgefox.edu.
Annual Open Enrollment: Feb. 14 – March 6
During open enrollment, benefit-eligible employees can make changes to benefits without a “change in status†reason. Changes made during Open Enrollment will take effect April 1, 2017.
The changes to the plans are very minimal, with The Pioneer Health Trust/Regence, Kaiser, Allegiance FSA, Lifemap, and Aflac all being offered again this year.
Whether or not you make any changes to your benefit elections, you need to complete the “Open Enrollment Election Form.†This is an electronic form that will be delivered to your George Fox email on Feb. 14, 2017. If you decide to add coverage or make any changes to your current coverage, you will need to complete the appropriate enrollment forms (available on the HR website) and return them to HR at Box 6108 by end of day Monday, March 6.
Watch your inbox for 2017-18 open enrollment rates and details!
You are invited to attend our George Fox Employee Benefit Fair Feb. 16
Come by and visit our George Fox benefit vendors! Booths will be hosted by TIAA, Regence, Kaiser, Lifemap, Allegiance (FSA), and Aflac.
Human Resources will also be hosting a booth at the fair, so stop by with your benefit questions or to turn in your open enrollment forms! Join us Thursday, Feb. 16, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Canyon Commons (Rooms 101 and 102).
Human Resources will be at the Portland Center Feb. 17 from 1 to 5 p.m. in Room 142
Darby Thiessen will have open office hours for Portland Center employees. If you have benefit questions or would like to turn in your open enrollment forms, please stop in!
Questions? Contact Darby at dthiessen@georgefox.edu.
Four staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:
The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.
You spoke and we listened. Come and join us on Monday, Feb. 13, from 1 to 2 p.m. in Roberts Center 117 to see the exciting new Applicant Pool program.
This applicant tracking system starts with an online application and will transform the way we advertise openings, accept applications, track candidate status through the interview process, and communicate with candidates. Launch date for the Applicant Pool program is coming soon, so hiring managers and department administrators are invited to join us to find out more about this helpful new tool!
If you have questions, contact Kera Hallman at khallman@georgefox.edu.
The music of Schubert, Schumann, Beethoven and Gershwin will fill Bauman Auditorium when Soheil Nasseri, an internationally renowned pianist, performs for the university’s 11th annual Bösendorfer Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16.
All employees and students are entitled to one free ticket. Additional tickets are $12 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. All tickets are reserved seating and are available at this link or at the University Box Office by calling 503-554-3844.
Nasseri has performed at some of the most prestigious concert halls in the world, including Berlin’s Philharmonie and Konzerthaus, London’s Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre, Tokyo’s Musashino Center, Théâtre Fémina in Bordeaux, Florence’s Teatro Comunale, St. Petersburg’s Philharmonia, and Palermo, Italy’s Teatro Politeama.
He will perform four pieces: Schubert’s Sonata in A Minor, D 784, Schumann’s, Carnaval, Op. 9, Beethoven’s Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
To learn more about Nasseri and the concert series, visit this page.
The university’s Department of Biology and Chemistry invites you to join us for the seventh annual Dalton Lecture at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Thursday) in Bauman Auditorium.
Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, a senior astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, will speak on the topic “Universe of Wonder: Galaxies, Stars, Planets and Life.” Admission is free, and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
In the presentation, Wiseman will investigate what new discoveries are revealing about the cosmos and the significance of life in a dynamic universe. She will also give a scientific talk at 3 p.m. on Feb. 9 in Wood-Mar Auditorium entitled, “Frontiers of Astronomical Discovery: Galaxies, Dark Energy, Planets and Life.”
Wiseman received her BS in physics from MIT, discovering comet Wiseman-Skiff in 1987, and continued her studies at Harvard, earning a PhD in astronomy in 1995. She is a Fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation, a network of Christians in Science. She has authored several essays addressing the relationship of astronomy and the Christian faith.
A dessert reception and Student Research Poster session follows the lecture.
For more information on Wiseman and the Dalton Lecture Series in general, visit this link. Questions? Call the Department of Biology and Chemistry at 503-554-2710.
Please consider those whose contributions have been particularly helpful over the past few weeks. If there is one who you believe deserves special recognition for “above and beyond” work, please send an email to Lisa Burton (lburton@georgefox.edu) by Thursday, Feb. 16, with a summary of this colleague’s recent contributions. Be as specific as possible.
The Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient from the nominations submitted, and the winner will be honored with a citation and $100 gift card at our all-employee meeting on Monday, Feb. 20.
Congratulations again to Darla Norgren, who was our Employee of the Month for January!
Learn how to have quality relationships with the people you serve! The university’s Individual and Family Matters Counseling Clinic is hosting an eight-week group at the Portland Center that will offer all students or professionals in the fields of education, mental health, physical health or ministry the opportunity to improve the quality of their connections and overall care of the people they serve.
This group is based in Relational Cultural Theory and will also offer insights and growth for working with diverse communities and individuals. The whole group costs $40 and begins Thursday, Feb. 9, at 4 p.m.
Please call the clinic at 503-554-6060 or email us at individualandfamilymatters@
