The Daily Bruin

Eight-hundred regular and student employees have given consent to receive their W-2s online. If you are not among these, please consider doing so no later than 10 a.m. this Friday, Jan. 18. There are several advantages:

• It will be available to you sooner
• It will be accessible to you in MyGFU (self service) when you are ready to print it. If you should misplace it after your print it, you won’t have to pay $5 for a replacement copy. You simply reprint it.
• It will save the university the time and expense of purchasing and stuffing paper W-2 forms and envelopes.

Here is how you give your consent; it should take you only about 30 seconds:

1. Log in to http://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. Read the statement and check the box to give consent
6. Enter your GFU password as a confirmation of your identity and click “Continue”
7. Click “OK”

You’ll receive a confirmation e-mail of your decision shortly after completing this process.

Tickets are available for employees to attend the Portland Renovation & Remodeling Show scheduled Friday through Sunday, Jan. 25-27, at the Portland Memorial Coliseum. This event features hundreds of exhibits with home improvement experts available to show attendees what is new for building, remodeling, decorating and landscaping homes.

Employees can pick up two tickets each ($8 total value) at the Information Services Desk in the Stevens Center. Children under 18 are free. Portland employees can request tickets by e-mailing Barbi Doran. Visit this link for vendor coupons for the event.

Would you please take a moment to review this brief “position announcement” and share this opportunity with anyone you know that might provide a good fit?

This temporary full-time professional is needed to assist with the spring (February-April) workload in Career Services and will have responsibility to:

• Counsel students seeking internship and job search guidance
• Assist director in managing Optimal Resume online reviews
• Provide administrative lead to First Avenue Career Expo preparation
• Connect with employers seeking relationship and information
• Supervise intern who is working on OLAPC First Avenue Career Expo and the Healthcare Fair
• Support current programming and plan and coordinate healthcare fair
• Assist with software
• Teach online course, depending on registrations

We are seeking someone who is familiar with George Fox and the Career Services office/functions and can “hit the ground running.” A bachelor’s degree with career-related experience is required; master’s degree is preferred. Also needed is a high level of technology proficiency and basic career development knowledge.

Please direct interested individuals to submit a letter, resume and application to Human Resources no later than next Friday, Jan. 25. Materials can be sent via fax (503-554-2186), e-mail to hr@georgefox.edu, U.S. Mail, or dropped off in HR. Applications can be found at this link.

If you have tickets for the Oregon Symphony performance on Friday, Jan. 18, and find that you will not be able to use them, please return the tickets to the box office as soon as possible.

We have a wait list of those who are hoping to receive any tickets turned in. Tickets can be turned in at the box office up until 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 18, or at the door of Bauman Auditorium the evening of the event.

Thank you,
Mary Monahan (mmonahan@georgefox.edu)

In reviewing your department expenses, you will notice credit card charges being posted to a new account: 52009 – Advance Clearing. Charges are being temporarily posted to this account to make sure the expenses are included in the proper month.

These charges will be moved to their normal expense accounts in subsequent months.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, Jan. 29, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

Today (Wednesday) is the last day to register to serve on Monday, Jan. 21, to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, dream, and the change he sparked in our nation.

We will meet in the Stevens Center parking lot at 6:30 a.m. and bus to Concordia together for the rally and service. We’ll arrive back on campus around 4 p.m.

You can register at this link.

Contact Shelley Yonemura (syonemura@georgefox.edu) or Amber Nelson (nelsona@georgefox.edu) with questions.

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Are you interested in seeing Oregon Ballet Theatre’s performance of Swan Lake (Feb. 16) or Broadway Across America’s performance of War Horse (Feb. 27)? It’s not too late to get discounted tickets for both of these shows!

Visit broadway.georgefox.edu or contact Mary Monahan at 503.554.2134. Swan Lake tickets are $62 each, which is 45 percent off the retail price of $114. War Horse tickets are $47 each. All seats are in the middle three sections of the first balcony.

The all-employee meeting set for next Thursday, Jan. 24, has been moved to Bauman Auditorium. The meeting is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. and will feature information about Stoffer Family Stadium and the track and field and football programs.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link” located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.”

If you have tickets for the Oregon Symphony performance on Friday, Jan. 18, and find that you will not be able to use them, please return the tickets to the box office as soon as possible. We have a wait list of those who are hoping to receive any tickets turned in.

Thank you,
Mary Monahan (mmonahan@georgefox.edu)

Many thanks to those of you who have already given your consent to receive your W-2s online. If you haven’t, please consider doing so to enable us to make it available to you sooner, and to make it accessible to you in MyGFU (self-service) when you are ready to print it.

This will save the university the time and expense of purchasing and stuffing paper W-2 forms and envelopes (over 2,000 last January). And of course, it is also friendlier to our environment. In the future, there will be a $5 charge for replacement W-2s issued and mailed in hard copy.

In order to receive a W-2 in online form only (instead of receiving a paper form), the law requires that you give your consent. This should take you only about 30 seconds to do, so I encourage you to take care of it as soon as possible – perhaps right now:

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. Read the statement and check the box to give consent
6. Enter your GFU password as a confirmation of your identity and click “Continue”
7. 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.

This full-time position is currently open only to internal applicants (employees). Temporary employees may also apply, but external applications are not being accepted.

If you would like a copy of the job description, please e-mail hr@georgefox.edu. To apply, please submit a completed transfer request, cover letter, and resume to Human Resources.

The position will close on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found here.

Would you please take a minute to check your Dec. 28 pay statement (through MyGFU self-service) to be sure the address on it is correct? If so, you need do nothing. If not, please send an e-mail to hr@georgefox.edu with your current address.

This will ensure that we get this information correct on your W-2 (available by Jan. 31), always a good thing.

On Friday, Jan. 18, at 8 p.m., George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony in its 26th appearance in Newberg. George Fox employees (halftime and over) may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – on a first-come, first-served basis starting today (Tuesday) at 9 a.m. at the Box Office in Pennington House.

Phone reservations (503-554-3844) will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers.

Questions? Contact Vangie Pattison at epattison@georgefox.edu.

On Friday, Jan. 18, George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony in its 26th appearance in Newberg at 8 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The concert is free to George Fox employees – a gift from George Fox board member Ken Austin and his wife, Joan, founders of A-dec.

The Austins have provided the university with a limited number of tickets for its employees. These tickets are separate from those to be issued by the Newberg Area Chamber of Commerce to the general public.

George Fox employees (halftime and over) may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – on a first-come, first-served basis starting Tuesday, Jan. 8, at 9 a.m. at the Box Office in Pennington House. Phone reservations (503-554-3844) will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers.

On Monday, Jan. 14, beginning at 9 a.m., any remaining tickets (again, a limit of two per person) will be available – also on a first-come, first-served basis – to those who sign up on a waiting list. If you find you will not be able to attend the concert, please return your tickets for another employee to use.

Questions? Contact Vangie Pattison at epattison@georgefox.edu.

Mail Services is running low on our supply of packing peanuts, the little Styrofoam pieces. If you have any extra or unwanted ones that you are discarding, please bring them to us. We can take them off your hands.

Thanks,
Mail Services

An all-employee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 24, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in VAC 117 (please note location). The original meeting scheduled for Jan. 17 has been canceled.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link” located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.” It is the bottom link in that section. The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings and include a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link.

Videos from previously recorded meetings will be added to this page in the days following. Please bookmark the page for quick access each month.

IT is offering Adobe Acrobat Basic Forms, Excel Basics, FoxTALE, and Google webinars and training sessions during the week of Jan. 7.

View the schedule and sign up at this link. Information on how to join each webinar will be delivered via e-mail 24 hours prior to the webinar.

Questions? Contact the Service Desk.

This show will be held Friday through Sunday, Jan. 4-6, at the Oregon Convention Center. It features hundreds of exhibits about – you guessed it – building, remodeling and landscaping.

If you would like to attend this show, you can pick up two tickets (worth $6 each) from Barbi Doran at the Information Services window in Stevens Center. Portland and Salem employees, you can reserve yours by e-mailing Barbi. She will send them to you through campus mail.

We have a limited supply, so please request/pick them up only if you are reasonably certain you will attend this event.

This show will be held Friday through Sunday, Jan. 4-6, at the Oregon Convention Center. It features hundreds of exhibits about – you guessed it – building, remodeling and landscaping.

If you would like to attend this show, you can pick up two tickets (worth $6 each) from Barbi Doran at the Information Services window in Stevens Center beginning Wednesday, Jan.  2. Portland and Salem employees, you can reserve yours by e-mailing Barbi. She will send them to you through campus mail on Jan. 2.

We have a limited supply, so please request/pick them up only if you are reasonably certain you will attend this event.