The Daily Bruin

Genealogists and family historians of all skill levels are invited to a presentation of the riches of archives for genealogical research. The talk will be followed by a discussion and tour of the archives of George Fox University and the Northwest Yearly Meeting.

Join us at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17, in the Murdock Learning Resource Center’s multipurpose room. There is no charge to attend.

For more information, please contact the archivist, Rachel Thomas, at rthomas@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2415.

Don’t forget to join us for the university’s fifth annual Dalton Lecture tomorrow (Thursday) as Dr. William Phillips, a 1997 Nobel Prize winner in physics, presents at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The free presentation is entitled “Ordinary Faith, Ordinary Science,” in which he speak on the common ground shared between faith and science. A George Fox student research poster session and dessert reception will follow Phillips’ lecture.

Among the questions Phillips will address are queries that can be particularly troublesome for a Christian: “Why is there suffering if God is good?” “What about all the terrible things done in the name of religion?” and “What about all the good people who are on a different path of faith than Christianity?”

Phillips will also speak Thursday afternoon, Feb. 12, at 3:30 p.m. on the topic “Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe” in Bauman Auditorium.

The Dalton Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Biology and Chemistry. More information can be found on the Dalton Lecture page.

Make plans to attend a free concert commemorating a recent upgrade to the university’s pipe organ in Bauman Auditorium. The Organ Dedication Concert, featuring musicians Dan Miller on organ and Kenn Willson on piano, will take the Bauman stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20. General seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

The university recently purchased a Rodgers Digital Organ. By the use of digital technology, the organ’s original pipes have been connected to the digital organ. In doing so, the university preserved the original pipe organ installed in the early 1980s while greatly enhancing the quality of sound.

The program will include the selections Toccata and Fugue in D-minor by Bach, a patriotic tribute including the Navy Hymn, a medley from The Phantom of the Opera and one piano and organ duet on the tune Lord of the Dance (arranged by Joel Raney).

To learn more about the performers, visit this page.

Proposals for the Friends Association for Higher Education Meetings at George Fox are due Monday, Feb. 16!

This summer, Quaker educators from around the nation will gather at George Fox for their annual meetings June 18-21. Our theme is “Truth and Transformation,” and a special disciplinary focus will be “Quakers and Literature.” As part of the event, essays will be collected for inclusion in a college textbook.

Plan now to join us. George Fox will cover the registration costs of its educators who attend. And please consider proposing a workshop or presentation by this Monday, Feb. 16, at this link: quakerfahe.com.

For more information, contact Paul Anderson (panderso@georgefox.edu), Kathleen Gathercoal (kgathercoal@georgefox.edu), Tom Head (thead@georgefox.edu), Phil Smith (psmith@georgefox.edu) or Ron Mock (rmock@georgefox.edu).

Our software vendor for 25Live will again be making some service upgrades tonight (Tuesday) starting at 5 p.m. You may experience intermittent issues with 25Live between 5 and 7 p.m.

After the upgrades are complete, we encourage you to clear your browser cookies and cache. Any difficulty with your 25Live login following these upgrades should be resolved by that step (or using a different browser).

If you have any questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

You are invited to a retirement party for Sherrie Frost from 3 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, in the Cap and Gown Room. She has worked in Mail Services at George Fox since 1985. Come share your memories with her and wish her well in her new phase of life.

Originally set for Friday, Oct. 9, this holiday has been moved to Friday, Oct. 16. With fall semester beginning Aug. 31, Oct. 16 falls at the end of the seventh week, a week closer to mid-semester than the previous date.

In lieu of the mid-semester holiday, employees at the Portland Center will get Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 7, off.

The 2015-16 holiday schedule posted on the HR website has been updated to reflect this change.

Six staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:

• Director, University Mail and Print Services
• Director of Intercultural Life
• Area Coordinator, Residence Life
• Director of Strategic Business Administration, College of Business
• Executive Assistant to the Dean, College of Business
• Software Engineer, Analytics

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.

Join us for the university’s fifth annual Dalton Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 12, as Dr. William Phillips, a 1997 Nobel Prize winner in physics, presents at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The free presentation is entitled “Ordinary Faith, Ordinary Science,” in which he speak on the common ground shared between faith and science. A George Fox student research poster session and dessert reception will follow Phillips’ lecture.

Among the questions Phillips will address are queries that can be particularly troublesome for a Christian: “Why is there suffering if God is good?” “What about all the terrible things done in the name of religion?” and “What about all the good people who are on a different path of faith than Christianity?”

About Dr. Phillips
In 1997, Phillips was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light, along with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. One result of the development of laser-cooling techniques was the first observation, in 1995, of the Bose-Einstein condensate, a new state of matter originally predicted 70 years earlier by Albert Einstein and the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose.

Phillips will also speak Thursday afternoon, Feb. 12, at 3:30 p.m. on the topic “Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe” in Bauman Auditorium.

The Dalton Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Biology and Chemistry. More information can be found on the Dalton Lecture page.

Genealogists and family historians of all skill levels are invited to a presentation of the riches of archives for genealogical research. The talk will be followed by a discussion and tour of the archives of George Fox University and the Northwest Yearly Meeting.

Join us at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17, in the Murdock Learning Resource Center’s multipurpose room. There is no charge to attend.

For more information, please contact the archivist, Rachel Thomas, at rthomas@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2415.

Is there someone you believe deserves to receive this award? If so, please nominate this person via email to Peggy Kilburg (pkilburg@georgefox.edu) by Wednesday, Feb. 18, with a summary of his or her recent contributions and any other information that makes this person deserving of this accolade.

The individual selected for this honor will be recognized with a citation and a $100 Visa card at our next community meeting on Thursday, Feb. 26.

Congratulations again, Saurra Heide, on being named January’s Employees of the Month.

The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Monday, Feb. 9. If you have not already done so, you will need to create a new individual account before you can submit your order.

Please reference the Chart of Account Mappings for 2014-15 budget information. Contact Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu) in marketing communications if you have any questions.

It’s time to order university stationery. For order instructions, go to the marketing communications website. Continue to purchase all non-departmental stationery (including “second-sheet letterhead”) through the university’s print services.

Orders are due by Monday, Feb. 9.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, Feb. 9, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

During this maintenance update Fall 2014 course sites will be hidden to students. If you want to make any of those course sites available to students after this update, select “Edit settings” in the Course Administration block. Located in the General section, look for the Visible setting and change “Hide” back to “Show.” Scroll to bottom and “Save changes.”

Questions? Contact the IT Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu.

You have until this Thursday, Feb. 5, to submit your 2015-16 tuition remission requests. This is a firm deadline.

To access instructions and forms, please go to this page. The tuition remission section is located at the top of the page.

Please be sure to read the instructions before you begin completing a Tuition Remission Request Form – you will be glad you did (and so will we!).

Questions? Contact Darby Thiessen at dthiessen@georgefox.edu.

Items and information commonly missed/excluded when submitting Expense Reimbursement Requests to financial affairs:

1. Number each receipt consecutively and put that number in the “Item #” column, one line per receipt.
2. Give an explanation of line-items, particularly noting the business purpose of each expenditure. This is critical and is an IRS requirement for an “Accountable Reimbursement Plan,” as noted in the IRS rules which this comes under. Use more than one line per transaction, if needed. A “business purpose” is a short note on the form that says what the cost is and why it is related to what we do at George Fox. An example is, “Food purchased for department volunteers.” What not to say is, “Food.” This would not be acceptable and would be rejected if ever audited by the IRS. If you are traveling, be sure to include the destination in the description column (e.g. “Fundraising conference – Denver, Colo.”)
3. For reimbursement of personal auto usage, list the actual miles traveled in the “Miles” column. The spreadsheet will automatically calculate the total in the next column.
4. Any meals being reimbursed must, by IRS rules, include the names of those at the meal, their connection to George Fox, and the business purpose for the meal. The exception to this is when meals are incurred while traveling on university business. To be as careful as possible, you should carefully note that this is the case.
5. The person being reimbursed must print, sign and date the form in the appropriate place near the bottom of the form.
6. The person who approves spending for the one being reimbursed must approve this report by printing, signing and dating in the appropriate place at the bottom of the form. If the amount being reimbursed is over the amount that the budget manager can approve, the ERR must go to the next level for approval, according to George Fox approval policies.
7. If you need to be reimbursed from more than one fund, department or program, use separate ERR forms for each cost center. Approvals would also have to come from the budget managers where appropriate.

Questions? Contact Matt Hammar at mhammar@georgefox.edu.

Six staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:

• Director, University Mail and Print Services
• Area Coordinator, Residence Life
• Director of Strategic Business Administration, College of Business
• Executive Assistant to the Dean, College of Business
• Software Engineer, Department of Analytics
• Budget Manager, Department of Financial Affairs

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.

The beginning of the new year is a great time to look at your financial picture and think about your retirement savings goals for 2015. To assist employees in this process, a TIAA-CREF consultant will be at the Portland Center on Thursday, Feb. 12.

Click this link to schedule your appointment.