The Daily Bruin

George Fox Evangelical Seminary invites you to consider a continuing education opportunity! All faculty, staff, administrators and student leaders are invited to an Emotional Intelligence (EI) seminar, led by Rich Handley, DBA, on Wednesday, May 28. The event is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Portland Center.

Rich’s presentation will offer a compelling accompaniment to the information shared by Jared Roth, who was hosted by the university’s College of Business on Friday, April 25, as part of its spring events series. Rich is the founder of EQ University.

The May 28 event includes morning snacks and lunch, EI printed interpretations and a Leadership Presence Handbook.

Benefits:

• Consider your development as a leader through the EI framework
• Receive an interpretation of your own emotional intelligence inventory
• Apply the result of your EI inventory to the “leadership presence” framework
• Create a plan for developing EI leadership qualities and boosting your work performance
• Share a time of informal conversation and questions with Dr. Handley following his presentation
• Pursue two private coaching sessions via phone or Skype with Dr. Handley

The seminar is limited to 25 participants, and the cost is just $200 per person. RSVP to Mindy Holland at mholland@georgefox.edu.

For your further consideration, here is a link to a description of EI, as well as an example of some of the reports that participants will have.

Do you anticipate receiving a service award for five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, or 40 years during our employee recognition event in August?

If your name does not appear but you believe you should receive an award, or if your name is on the list and you don’t think you should receive an award this year, please contact Peggy Kilburg by email and include any information you think may be helpful. (If you are a rehire, your previous benefits-eligible experience at George Fox counts toward your service award.)

Your help is most appreciated to ensure that the right employees are honored at this event. Please note: Only service at half time or above is used in determining your years of service.

Five-Year (hired between Sept. 2, 2008 and Sept. 1, 2009): Robert Bonner, Gina Braden, Tom Buchanan, Mary Cameron, Eileen Celentano, Sandy Cherachanko, Aaron Dort, Sarah Gibson, Fred Gregory, Justine Haigh, Ryan Halley, Becky Jensen, Jamie Johnson, Taylor Martin, Brenda Morton, Annette Nemetz, Bruce Owen, Dan Predoehl, Sue Richie, Theresa Schierman, Winston Seegobin, Rusty St. Cyr, Gary Tandy, Heidi Thomason, Waneen White, Nick Willis, Mandee Wilmot, Shelley Yonemura

10-Year (hired between Sept. 2, 2003 and Sept. 1, 2004): Jeong Ahn, Kelley Borror, Karen Buchanan, Elizabeth Hamilton, Kathy Heininge, Carol Jaquith, Jonathan Morell, Rick Muthiah, Sean Patterson, Mary Peterson, Kyle Wattenbarger, Cynthia Weston

15-Year (hired between Sept. 2, 1998 and Sept. 1, 1999): Wayne Adams, Robin Baker, Mike Campadore, Blair Cash, Jeff Duerr, Karlyn Fleming, Claudia Hirsch, Peg Hutton, Mark McLeod-Harrison, John Smith, Missy terry, Nancy Thurston, Brad Weldon

20-Year (hired between Sept. 2, 1993 and Sept. 1, 1994): Andy Baker, Bill Buhrow, Carlisle Chambers, Patti Cooke, Scot Headley, Bill Jolliff, Lisa Leslie, Carl Lloyd, Larry Mennenga, Alan Thurston, Brent Wilson, Deb Worden

25-Year (hired between Sept. 2, 1988 and Sept. 1, 1989): Paul Anderson, Viki Defferding, MaryKate Morse, Don Powers, Kenn Willson

30-Year (hired between Sept. 2, 1983 and Sept. 1, 1984): John Johnson

40-Year (hired between Sept. 2, 1973 and Sept. 1, 1974): Mike Wirta

Don’t forget to celebrate with us as we honor retiring Gary Kilburg with a reception today (Monday) in the Villa Academic Complex’s Room 117. The event will run from 4 to 6 p.m.

Throughout Gary’s career, he has modeled professionalism, kindness, and the love of Christ to his colleagues and students. He has served the university family for 22 years, taking on leadership roles and forming foundational work in the area of mentoring for the College of Education.

Please join us in celebrating Gary’s work with us and wishing him well in retirement.

This full-time position (on pay range 4), open due to Alene Horney’s decision to not return to the workforce following the birth of her son, is currently open only to employees. Please email hr@georgefox.edu to request a job description if you are interested in the duties and qualifications of this position.

To apply, please submit a completed transfer request, cover letter, and resume to Human Resources by 5 p.m. on Friday, May 9. The link to the transfer request form can be found at this link.

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

• Systems Engineer
• Executive Assistant to Vice President and Dean of Seminary
• Assistant Director of Sports Marketing
• Benefits and Compensation Manager
• Director of Purchasing and Administrative Services

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.

If you are planning to move, plant services needs you to fill out a “Relocation Form,” located on our website. Please fill out the form completely and be specific with your needs so we can better serve you.

Thank you,
Plant Services

Be sure to check out President Robin Baker’s latest blog piece, “Appreciating the Significance of Divine Moments,” in which he reflects on Francis S. Collins’ book The Language of God.

The piece can be read here.

Don’t forget to join us as we celebrate Carrie Bohl’s service to the university at a reception tomorrow (Friday) from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the advancement office at Coyote Place (700 Deborah Road). Refreshments will be served.

Carrie has served at George Fox for 16 years. She is leaving to focus full time on her home-based business. We appreciate her work in both student services and university advancement. She will be greatly missed!

As the academic year comes to a close and as many of you pack up to leave for the summer, please be sure any monetary donations intended for university advancement are turned in for processing.

Please forward all donations to Advancement, Campus Box 6256 (Attn: Kristi Hagen) before the fiscal year ends on June 30. If you have any questions, contact Kristi at khagen@georgefox.edu or ext. 2111.

Thank you in advance for your help as we wrap up the fiscal year.

Use your new, empty 2014 Summer sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another course site. See the instructions here for importing. Here are some end-of-semester reminders:

• 2014 Summer sites are currently hidden from students. When you are ready, you can share the sites with your students. Here is a quick guide on how to make the courses available: FoxTALE Making Courses Visible to Students

• If you used the FoxTALE grade book for any of your FoxTALE course sites, we recommend that you back up your 2014 Spring grade book to a spreadsheet that is saved outside of FoxTALE. See the instructions here for backing up grades. You will want to keep an archive of your course grades that cover the last five years.

• If your course site is set to Weekly format, your course might show incorrect dates. To change the dates, go to Administration> Edit settings on the course home page. Scroll down to the course start date and change it to the first day of your summer course. Scroll to the bottom of the page and “Save changes.”

– IT Educational Technology Team
Questions? Write servicedesk@georgefox.edu

George Fox’s libraries have recently partnered with bepress to provide the services of Digital Commons, the leading hosted institutional repository (IR) software platform. A Digital Commons repository showcases the breadth of scholarship produced at an institution – everything from faculty papers, student scholarship and annual reports to open-access journals, conference proceedings, monographs, dissertations, and more.

Scholarly material and special collections in Digital Commons repositories are highly discoverable in Google, Google Scholar, and other search engines. The content is all the institution’s. As one example of success, Pacific University’s Digital Commons has experienced nearly 260,000 downloads of full-text documents in the last year.

Our library is just now in the process of establishing the IR, but we do have a small amount of content that can be accessed at digitalcommons.georgefox.edu. Please feel free to take a look. Additional work on this project will continue over the summer, and next fall we look forward to sharing and discussing more with faculty as well as recruiting content.

The last day to place orders using the purchase order system is May 31, 2014, for the current fiscal year. This includes all requisitions which must be budget checked, approved and converted to purchase orders and products or services ordered. Please be sure orders are placed by May 31 to ensure items are received by June 30, 2014.

Fiscal year 2015 purchase orders will need to wait until June 15, when we expect the new chart of accounts to be available for use in the purchase order system. Please work directly with Kathi Becker before creating any FY15 purchase orders to ensure that this transition to the new system goes smoothly.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact Kathi by email (kbecker@georgefox.edu) or at ext. 2166.

With the end of our fiscal year quickly approaching, and to ensure a clean cut-off between FY14 and FY15 spending, the last day to use your Visa card for fiscal year 2014 purchases is Friday, June 20. Please refrain from using your card for any purchases after this date.

If you will be traveling for business during this time, please contact Kathi Becker to discuss arrangements on how to handle purchases after June 20. Credit card purchases for the 2014-15 fiscal year can begin on or after July 1.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact Kathi by email (kbecker@georgefox.edu) or at ext. 2166.

All university employees are invited to celebrate with us as we honor retiring Gary Kilburg with a reception on Monday, May 5, in the Villa Academic Complex’s Room 117. The event will run from 4 to 6 p.m.

Throughout Gary’s career, he has modeled professionalism, kindness, and the love of Christ to his colleagues and students. He has served the university family for 22 years, taking on leadership roles and forming foundational work in the area of mentoring for the College of Education.

Please join us in celebrating Gary’s work with us and wishing him well in retirement.

Come join the spiritual life and student life departments in commissioning Sarah Baldwin and Clint Baldwin in their future endeavors! We will host a farewell reception for them from 1 to 3 p.m. today (Wednesday) in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium.

Sarah served George Fox as the dean of spiritual life and university pastor, and Clint has served as the director of the Center for Peace and Justice. Sarah has accepted the position of vice president of student development at Asbury University.

Let’s celebrate this new step in their journey as well as thank them for the time they have spent in developing our campus community!

It’s commencement week at George Fox! Students graduating from George Fox’s graduate programs and George Fox Evangelical Seminary will attend commencement ceremonies on Thursday and Friday, May 1-2, at various locations. Details on when and where they will take place are available at this link.

In a new format this year, the university will host two undergraduate commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 3. This year, a ceremony for students in the school’s College of Business, College of Christian Studies, College of Education and College of Engineering will will take place at 10 a.m.

In the afternoon, a second undergraduate ceremony for those graduating with degrees from the College of Arts and Sciences and College of Behavioral and Health Sciences is set for 2:30 p.m. Both ceremonies will take place in Miller Gymnasium in the Wheeler Sports Center. Commencement can be viewed live at this link 15 minutes prior to the start of the ceremony.

Richard Foster, a 1964 graduate of George Fox and the author of Celebration of Discipline, will serve as commencement speaker at the two undergraduate ceremonies.

To read more about Foster and for a complete guide to commencement events, visit this page.

Come join the spiritual life and student life departments in commissioning Sarah Baldwin and Clint Baldwin in their future endeavors! We will host a farewell reception for them from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium.

Sarah served George Fox as the dean of spiritual life and university pastor, and Clint has served as the director of the Center for Peace and Justice. Sarah has accepted the position of vice president of student development at Asbury University.

Let’s celebrate this new step in their journey as well as thank them for the time they have spent in developing our campus community!

Please join us as we celebrate Carrie Bohl’s service to the university at a reception this Friday, May 2, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the advancement office at Coyote Place (700 Deborah Road).

Carrie has served at George Fox for 16 years. She is leaving to focus full time on her home-based business. We appreciate her work in both student services and university advancement. She will be greatly missed!

Plan to enjoy some refreshments as we honor Carrie.

Want to be a part of the spring 2014 undergraduate commencement ceremony in Miller Gymnasium? Come help out as an usher!

We are in need of people for both ceremonies on Saturday, May 3. The morning ceremony starts at 10 a.m., and the afternoon ceremony starts at 2:30 p.m. Duties include passing out programs, guiding people to their seats and assisting guests.

Please e-mail Jennifer Kepler (jkepler@georgefox.edu) if interested.

All are invited to Shary Wortman’s retirement celebration from 4 to 7 p.m. on Monday, April 28, at the Redmond Center located at Ridgeview High School in Redmond, Ore.

Shary has served the community of Central Oregon through teaching, administration, and most recently, through her work as a teacher educator at George Fox. She joined the MAT team in 2005 and worked to give us a strong foundation in the Redmond area. Her work is marked by warm, personal touches that allow each student and faculty member to be truly known.

Please join us in celebrating the work of Shary and wishing her well in her retirement.