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Due to the Thanksgiving holiday schedule, please be aware of the following changes to the usual financial affairs office payment schedule.

• Check requests received in our office before noon on Thursday, Nov. 21, will be paid on Wednesday, Nov. 27.
• Check requests, including “rush” check requests, received in our office after noon on Thursday, Nov. 21, and before 5 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 2, will be paid with the Dec. 6 check run.

Questions? Contact Bruce Owen at bowen@georgefox.edu.

In support of our Creation Care values, Human Resources has issued year-end W-2 forms online in “Self Service” for all employees. In order for the university to save the expense of purchasing, printing, stuffing into envelopes and delivering your form by campus mail, the law requires that you give your consent to receiving this form online.

If you consented last year, you do not need to do so again. You can verify your consent status or give consent for the first time by following the steps below. It only takes about 30 seconds, so we encourage you to take care of it as soon as possible (perhaps right now?) Here’s how:

1. Log in to mygfu.georgefox.edu
2. From the menu at left, select “Self Service”
3. Select “Payroll and Compensation”
4. Select “W-2/W-2c Consent”
5. Check your current status. Does it say “Consent received?” If so, thank you! You’re done. If not …
6. Read the statement and check the box to give consent
7. Enter your GFU password as a confirmation of your identity and click “Continue”
8. Click OK

You’ll receive a confirmation e-mail of your decision shortly after completing this process. And just to be clear, you will only have to do this once — not every year.

Thanks very much. Contact Katie Sol at ksol@georgefox.edu with questions.

Be sure to join us for an all-employee meeting next Thursday, Nov. 21, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium!

Our theme this month is “Thanksgiving,” which will include the serving of a special Thanksgiving “Blessings Mix.” At the Portland Center, we will have a live video feed and also serve treats in Room 161 (please note room change from last month’s meeting).

Don’t forget to turn in your donations for the Backpack Project Food Drive by Friday, Nov. 15! Team Seminary is in the lead for now, but there are two more days for your team to win!

Shopping lists, instructions and donation bins are located in the common areas of the North and South buildings.

Questions? Contact Emily Maynard at emaynard@georgefox.edu.

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday schedule, please be aware of the following changes to the usual financial affairs office payment schedule.

• Check requests received in our office before noon on Thursday, Nov. 21, will be paid on Wednesday, Nov. 27.

• Check requests, including rush check requests, received in our office after noon on Thursday, Nov. 21, and before 5 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 2, will be paid with the Dec. 6 check run.

Questions? Contact Bruce Owen at bowen@georgefox.edu.

The university’s College of Christian Studies and William Penn Honors Program invite all to a free presentation, “Re-Tuned by God: The Future of Worship,” featuring Jeremy Begbie of Duke Divinity School and Wolfson College, Cambridge, at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, in Bauman Auditorium.

Begbie will speak, perform, and use recorded music and visual material to explore the way the New Testament helps us understand more deeply some of the basic components of worship. He is a professionally trained musician and theologian who has taught in the United Kingdom and North America and delivered multimedia performance lectures around the world.

In addition to his Monday performance, Begbie will speak as a guest of the music and religion departments on Tuesday, Nov. 19, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Ross 208. The “Intellectual Feast” session is also open to the university community free of charge.

Begbie, described as “a musician and theologian par excellence” by N.T. Wright, is the inaugural holder of the Thomas A. Langford Research Professorship in Theology at Duke Divinity School and a senior member at Wolfson College, Cambridge. More information and a video of Begbie is available here.

Questions? Contact Joseph Clair at ext. 2153 or jclair@georgefox.edu.

Due to the Veteran’s Day holiday, there will be no outgoing mail today (Monday). Other carriers such as UPS and FedEx are open and will be delivering and picking up packages. Questions? Contact Sherrie Frost at ext. 2556.

Can you think of a coworker you are especially thankful for this month – someone who might deserve to be named as November’s Employee of the Month? If someone comes to mind, please submit a nomination via email to Peggy Kilburg by Thursday, Nov. 14, with a summary of this person’s recent contributions and any other information that makes him or her deserving of this award.

The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select a recipient from among the nominees, and as is our custom, the winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 Visa gift card at our community meeting on Thursday, Nov. 21.

Congratulations again to Jason Schwanz on being named October Employee of the Month.

We will be running a test of the GFU Emergency Notification System (FoxAlert) in the near future, and in order to be notified, your cell phone number needs to be current on MyGFU. Please go to this link to update your emergency contact information and to sign up for FoxAlert.

Questions? Please call security at 503-554-2090.

The university’s College of Christian Studies and William Penn Honors Program invite all to a free presentation, “Re-Tuned by God: The Future of Worship,” featuring Jeremy Begbie of Duke Divinity School and Wolfson College, Cambridge, at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, in Bauman Auditorium.

Begbie will speak, perform, and use recorded music and visual material to explore the way the New Testament helps us understand more deeply some of the basic components of worship. He is a professionally trained musician and theologian who has taught in the United Kingdom and North America and delivered multimedia performance lectures around the world.

Begbie, described as “a musician and theologian par excellence” by N.T. Wright, is the inaugural holder of the Thomas A. Langford Research Professorship in Theology at Duke Divinity School and a senior member at Wolfson College, Cambridge. More information and a video of Begbie is available here.

Questions? Contact Joseph Clair at ext. 2153 or jclair@georgefox.edu.

Attention faculty and staff: I am a current George Fox student working on a carbon footprint project for the university and am looking for information on the distance you travel from home to school. A short three-question survey was created in order to gather some data for the project.

If you could take just a couple of minutes to complete this survey, I would really appreciate it.

Carbon Footprint Survey

Thank you,
Weldin Yanes

Disclaimer:
These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.

The School of Physical Therapy invites the university community to hear Dr. Tim Flynn (PT, PhD), distinguished professor at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, as he lectures on “Turning the Traditional Classroom into a 21st Century Knowledge Exchange.” He will join us from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 13, in Hoover 105.

Synopsis
Let’s face it: Technology is changing the face of education from preschool through graduate school. Physical therapy education is no exception. Despite a body of evidence suggesting that the traditional lecture style instruction is lacking, it remains the predominant mode of information exchange.

In the last decade there has been a move toward the flipped classroom where students watch lectures at home at their pace and communicate with peers and faculty with online discussions. Face-to-face time with the faculty focuses on engaging problem solving and laboratory experiences.

This presentation will discuss how current best evidence lectures are produced and shared as homework assignments outside of class while sacred classroom time is reserved for collaborative work and hands-on learning activities. We will describe mechanisms to ensure learning is occurring and preliminary outcomes using this methodology.

Upon completion, attendees will be able to:

• Define blended learning
• Identify and discuss the six primary blended learning models
• Describe characteristics of successful online learners and teachers
• Describe the flipped classroom model
• Identify key technical components required to successfully implement the flipped classroom model in DPT education
• Examine the benefits, risks and challenges of this model

Dr. Flynn is board-certified in orthopaedic physical therapy, a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists, and a frequent research presenter at state, national and international meetings.

Questions? Contact Holly Kirby at hkirby@georgefox.edu.

A new version of Google bar is coming – something we announced was coming a few weeks ago in our TechTips group. The change occurred immediately for public Google accounts, and now Google has announced it’s ready for Google Apps.

They are removing the black navigation bar at the top of the screen that lets you quickly get to other Google products such as Drive, Calendar, Groups, etc., and replacing it with a small white grid in the upper right corner that gives you a listing of the different apps.

Google’s announcement (released on 10/30/2013) …

We are rolling out a new version of the Google bar for Google Apps users. This is designed to be simpler and more consistent with Android and Chrome OS. It includes notifications, a Google+ share box (if Google+ is enabled), and a new App Launcher with links to other Google products.

To see what it looks like, check out the TechTip posting we sent out.

– IT Service Desk

If you would like to order university Christmas cards this year, please e-mail Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu) with the quantity you’d like to order and the budget to be charged by the order submission deadline of Thursday, Nov. 7. The cost will be no more than $1.20 each (or as low as 79¢).

Join us for the all-employee meeting today (Thursday) from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium!

Our theme is “Halloween,” which will include the serving of special food: mini “spider web” brownie cupcakes, “mummy” sausages with two mustard dipping sauces, and “creepy crawly” citrus punch.

At the Portland Center, we will have a live video feed and also serve “creepy mystery treats” in Room 160.

Here is the agenda …

Welcome
Rob Westervelt

Employee of the Month

Christ in Everything
Video of Faith and Service

Devotional
Shelley Yonemura

Achieving the Vision
Doug Beatty: NACCAP and National Student Clearing House Results

Rob Felton: Unmasking the First-year Undergraduate and Graduate Student Surveys

Putting Students First
Bill Buhrow: Unmasking the new “Student Success Center”

Innovating to Improve Outcomes
Brenda Morton: Innovative New Grant to Improve Schools

Ted Allen – Home Improvement: The George Fox Edition

Living the Promise
Robin Baker: Delivering the Promise to Alumni

Closing Prayer
Sarah Baldwin

President Robin Baker and his wife Ruth invite employees to join the university community at this year’s Christmas concert in Bauman Auditorium on Sunday, Dec. 15.

Our time together will start at 1:30 p.m., when we will serve festive desserts, apple cider and hot chocolate in the Bauman foyer. The concert follows at 2:30 p.m., featuring the university’s Concert Choir, Women’s Chorale, Symphonic Band & Strings. The theme of this year’s concert is “Tell the Good News!”

Concert tickets are now available for pick-up at the Box Office located in Pennington House. Employees (half time and above) are entitled to up to four complimentary tickets for Sunday’s matinee performance or a single ticket for any of the other performances (at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 13-14).

Tickets are not transferable and need to be returned if they will not be used. Tickets must be picked up by Friday, Nov. 8. A limited number of tickets are available.

Box Office hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Ticket reservations will not be taken over the phone except for those at the Salem and Portland locations.

Additional information is available by contacting Mary Monahan at 503-554-2134 or mmonahan@georgefox.edu.

Deadlines for the end-of-month (non-student) payroll:

November and December holidays bring many things, including early deadlines for payroll data entry. Normally we must receive check requests and contracts by the 18th of the month to ensure they will be included in the current payroll, but we’ll need everything earlier for the next two months due to shorter processing time. We will include items received by these dates in the month-end payroll:

November: Thursday the 14th
December: Friday the 13th

As a reminder, we always need time sheets and time-off reports (complete and signed, please) by the 10th of every month for regular staff and administrators. Temporary and hourly paid staff should bring time sheets to HR on or before the 15th of the month for these two months.

Vacation: Use it, don’t lose it!

Please take a look at your vacation balance on your October pay statement. It will include accruals through October and vacation taken through September. Remember that you may carry 12 months of your accrual into 2014, so be sure to plan accordingly. Tables for calculating your accrual are on the Payroll Forms webpage, along with instructions for accessing your pay statement in MyGFU.

Thank you,
– HR

Don’t forget to join us for an all-employee meeting tomorrow (Thursday), Oct. 31, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium!

Our theme is “Halloween,” which will include the serving of special food: mini “spider web” brownie cupcakes, “mummy” sausages with two mustard dipping sauces, and “creepy crawly” citrus punch.

At the Portland Center, we will have a live video feed and also serve “creepy mystery treats” in Room 160.

Here is the agenda …

Welcome
Rob Westervelt

Employee of the Month

Christ in Everything
Video of Faith and Service

Devotional
Shelley Yonemura

Achieving the Vision
Doug Beatty: NACCAP and National Student Clearing House Results

Rob Felton: Unmasking the First-year Undergraduate and Graduate Student Surveys

Putting Students First
Bill Buhrow: Unmasking the new “Student Success Center”

Innovating to Improve Outcomes
Brenda Morton: Innovative New Grant to Improve Schools

Ted Allen – Home Improvement: The George Fox Edition

Living the Promise
Robin Baker: Delivering the Promise to Alumni

Closing Prayer
Sarah Baldwin

The College of Business invites the university community to hear Tom Mears, chairman of The Holland, Inc., parent company to Burgerville, today (Wednesday), from 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. in Hoover 105. The presentation will be followed by a talk-back session from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Mears is the driving force behind Burgerville’s mission-led philosophy of “Serve with Love.” His visit is a part of the College of Business’ Executive in Residence program.

Questions? Contact Becky Jensen at rjensen@georgefox.edu.

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