Alumni and Parent Relations has tickets available for purchase to see Portland’s “Singing Christmas Tree” on Saturday, Dec. 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Keller Auditorium. Seats are located in the second balcony and cost $24 each.
Your may purchase your tickets at this link. Contact Mary Monahan with any questions at 503-554-2134 or mmonahan@georgefox.edu.
Faculty: Spring textbooks are now listed on the BlueZone Store website (gfubookstore.com – search by course). Please review your courses to ensure the correct books/editions are listed. We want to ensure the information is as accurate as possible before students begin purchasing books.
E-mail Sandy Gidding (sgidding@georgefox.edu) with any changes or questions.
Thanks for your help.
Is there someone you consider a gift to have as a colleague, whether in your department or another department? If someone comes to mind, please consider submitting a nomination via e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (pkilburg@georgefox.edu) by Wednesday, Dec. 11, with a summary of this person’s recent contributions and any other information that makes this person deserving of this award.
The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select a recipient from among the nominees, and the winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 Visa card at our all-employee meeting on Thursday, Dec. 19.
Congratulations again to Nancy Fawver on being named November Employee of the Month.
All university offices on the Newberg campus and at the Portland Center will be closed Thursday and Friday, Nov. 28-29, for the Thanksgiving holiday.
This is a reminder that employees and their families are invited to join Robin and Ruth Baker for the Bakers’ annual Christmas Open House from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, at the Edwards House (402 S. College St.).
Light appetizers and holiday sweets will be served as we celebrate together.
Employees are invited to attend each of the provost candidate presentations on “The future of higher education” at 3:40 p.m. in Hoover 105 on the dates listed below.
The candidates will also do a Q&A time at the Portland Center (details listed below).
Newberg campus presentations:
Portland Center Q&A sessions: 10 a.m. on days listed
Be sure to check out President Robin Baker’s latest blog piece. In it, he discusses his recent trip to Pennsylvania and what he learned while visiting “Amish country.”
You can read the blog here.
If you are on the Newberg campus, please join your colleagues for all-employee lunch today (Tuesday) in the Cap and Gown Room. The lunch is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. so that you may come and go as your schedule permits. The cost is $3.
Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. Marketing communications will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Monday, Dec. 2.
Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.
FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, Nov. 25, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.
This is a reminder to join us for the all-employee meeting today (Thursday), from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium!
“Thanksgiving” is the theme this month, so we’re serving a special Thanksgiving “Blessings Mix” snack. At the Portland Center, we will have a live video feed and also serve treats in Room 161.
Marketing communications is collecting orders for name tags. For those who have regular face-to-face contact with the public and need to order a name tag, you may submit your request at this link.
Be sure to provide the name of the person for whom the name tag is needed; title or department; and the budget to be charged.
The next order will be placed Tuesday, Nov. 26. Contact Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.
Don’t forget to join us for the all-employee meeting tomorrow (Thursday), 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).
Here is the agenda …
Welcome
Brad Lau
Employee of the Month
Devotional
Mary Peterson
Achieving the Vision
Lindsay Knox: Update on Visits and Applications
Doug Beatty: National Student Clearing House Results
Innovating to Improve Outcomes
Ted Allen: Best Christian Workplaces
Ryan Dougherty: Sports Marketing and the Introduction to Athletic Recruitment & Marketing (ARM)
Putting Students First
Justin Varnier, ASC President
Christ in Everything
Special Video
Closing Prayer and Dismissal
Sarah Baldwin
Robin and Ruth Baker invite employees and their families to join them for the Bakers’ annual Christmas Open House from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, at the Edwards House (402 S. College St.). Light appetizers and holiday sweets will be served as we celebrate together.
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday schedule, please be aware of the following changes to the usual financial affairs office payment schedule.
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:
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.
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.
