The Daily Bruin

Financial Affairs will be loading a temporary budget for 2012-13 and opening up the 2012-13 year in PeopleSoft on Monday, June 18. This is a temporary budget that will show the 2011-12 budget numbers; this will not be the final budget.

This is only being loaded as a place-holder to allow urgent purchase orders to be created for 2012-13 until the Adjusted 2012-13 Budget is complete. Please contact Cris Banton (ext. 2167) or Debbie Cash (ext. 2171) before entering any purchase orders over $5,000.

Thank you.

The campus community is invited to attend a recognition ceremony for IT’s Brian McLaughlin and Tim Goodfellow at 10:30 a.m. today (Thursday) in front of IT on the third floor of the Stevens Center. Refreshments will be served.

Brian and Tim will receive a Northwest Academic Computing Consortium Hugi Exemplary Practice Award for their work on the iGFU mobile portal project. The goal of the Hugi Award Program is to recognize individuals or groups whose outstanding work in technology has benefited NWACC member institutions. You can read more about the award here.

Contact Greg Smith if you have questions.

Don’t forget the two farewell receptions scheduled for this afternoon (Wednesday). Between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m., a reception in honor of former advancement employees Jim Jackson, Nancy Almquist and Valerie Rogers is scheduled at Coyote Place (located behind Burger King).

Also this afternoon, an event for Dale Seipp, former vice president of enrollment services, is set from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Stevens Center (Duke) Atrium. Dale has accepted a new position as VP for enrollment and marketing at Warner Pacific College.

Please take time to wish these former colleagues well. All are invited.

Join the university’s Relay for Life team and help give cancer the boot! We are looking for people who are willing to sign up for an hour or two of walking on Friday and Saturday, June 22-23. We’ll be filling time slots between 6 p.m. on Friday and 3 p.m. on Saturday. The event will take place at Joan Austin Elementary School in Newberg.

Please contact Vangie Pattison (epattison@georgefox.edu or ext. 2121) if you are able to join this effort and support the American Cancer Society with your time.

HR is continuing to diligently work over the next few weeks to prepare employment statements for support staff and annual contracts for administrators for the new fiscal year (2012-13). They will be sent to employees’ campus boxes no later than Monday, June 25, but the goal is to have them out sooner. We apologize for the delay in issuing these.

The university community is invited to a School of Business Speaker Series event featuring Mohan Nair, chief innovation officer at Regence, from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. on Friday, June 15, at the Portland Center. The deadline to register is this Friday, June 8.

Focusing on “seven deadly sins to avoid,” Nair will present “Strategic Business Transformation,” in which he’ll offer a way to view business transformation through the lens of personal transformation to anticipate, understand and command the waves of change in business. The event is free, and coffee and tea will be served.

To learn more about the presentation and to register, visit this page.

An all-employee meeting is scheduled in the Portland Center’s Room 285A on Monday, June 4, at 11 a.m. We will discuss the physical therapy accreditation status and provide end-of-year updates. This meeting will not include a live-stream link.

During this interim time (June), Josiah Philipsen will be handling room requests for the Portland Center.

• If you have any room request, please continue to put them into calendar.georgefox.edu under “My Requests.”
• If you have any questions about your room or equipment request, please contact Josiah by e-mail (jphilipsen@georgefox.edu) or by phone (ext. 6127).

To guarantee approval for your request in an open room, we ask that all room request and technology reservations are entered by 1 p.m. the prior business day of the date needed. Thank you for your understanding and patience during this time.

This position, then full time, was vacated by Abby Burgess earlier this spring when she joined the undergraduate admissions team and has been staffed with a temporary employee since then.

Beginning July 1, it will be .5 FTE (year-round) and 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 no later than Tuesday, June 5, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found here.

Staff and faculty: Now is a great time to check out and update your vehicle registration on MyGFU. Just log on and select “Self Service.” Next, choose “University Forms.” The Vehicle Registration link will open up in the middle of the page.

If the information is not correct, then hit the minus sign to the right of the listing and delete it. You can click on the “Add Additional Vehicle” tab to enter the correct information. List all the vehicles you usually drive to campus, as there is no limit.

If you regularly drive more than one vehicle to campus, security recommends purchasing an additional parking permit for $5 to avoid having to switch your permit from one car to another. Just bring $5 cash to the security office during office hours, and we can issue it on the spot. If your permit is in disrepair, bring it to the security office and we can issue you a new gratis permit. If you’ve misplaced your permit, it is only $5 to purchase a new one. Adhesive staff permits are also available for your motorcycle or scooter’s windshield.

Adjunct permits are issued on the calendar year, so if you are teaching this summer or fall and didn’t teach this past spring, please come to the security office to pick up a 2012 parking permit. Parking permits are also available for Portland Center employees who frequently come to the Newberg campus.

Please don’t hesitate to call ext. 2090 or e-mail Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu if you have questions about vehicle registration or parking that are not answered on the Web pages.

Our June Serve team going to Romania and Moldova is in need of 3-5 larger suitcases or duffle bags. We will be using these bags to help transport donated items and supplies, however due to airport baggage fees we will not be bringing the bags back with us.

We are also gathering donated items to take to the at-risk children we will be working with. This is a wish-list from our missionary partners in Romania and Moldova.

If you would like to donate any of these items, please bring them to the Spiritual Life House by the end of the month of May. If our offices are not open, please drop it by the front door.

Items needed:
school supplies (especially markers, pens, glue sticks)
durable soccer balls
nerf balls
badminton rackets and birdies
jump ropes
roller blades
simple board games
Go fish
Uno
Legos
chess/checkers
colored construction paper
glue sticks
Elmer’s glue
water balloons
colored thread (for weaving bracelets)
permanent markers
blue gel pens
gardening gloves
blue sticky tack
colored chalk
fabric paint
fabric markers
badminton rackets and birdies
puzzles (for ages 7-10)
etch a sketch

For more information or questions please email spirituallife@georgefox.edu

Mail Services received a UPS bill for a Next Day Air letter that was sent on 4/11/2012 to Matheny on Market Street in San Francisco, CA.  Unfortunately, the sender did not give their name or cost center for this package.  If you send this letter, please contact Sherrie Frost, Ext. 2556.  Thank you.

This year we will be merging Homecoming & Family Weekend into one weekend. Mark your calendars for Oct. 26-28, 2012. Alumni and parents of current students alike are invited to visit campus and take part in a weekend full of activities and events for the whole family. Reunions are planned for the classes 1952, 1972, 1982, 1986, 1992 and 2002. For more information, contact alumni relations at alumni@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2134.

Thanks to all of you who responded to the questionnaire/s in April about the performance review process. Both questionnaires (one for employees who received performance reviews and one for supervisors who gave performance reviews) are now closed. And to those of you who volunteered to participate in a focus group, we appreciate your willingness to do that.

As previously announced, Mark Pothoff and Andrea Byerley, both members of the performance review task force, are planning to meet with two small groups at the end of May for about 90 minutes each. One focus group will be made up of employees who have received performance reviews to discuss the results of that survey. A second, separate focus group for supervisors will also be convened to review and probe a little more deeply into the results of the supervisor questionnaire.

More people are needed to participate in these focus groups, so if you are interested and willing, would you please e-mail Andrea or Mark directly to let them know – and also please indicate which focus group you would like to participate in. (Exact date and time of meetings will be communicated to those who volunteer.)

Many thanks,
Lisa Burton, Andrea Byerley, Mark Pothoff, Peggy Kilburg

As part of the university’s reorganization announced last week, this full-time position is currently open 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 no later than Wednesday, May 23, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found on this page.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Wednesday, May 30, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

If you are interested in taking part in the American Heart Association’s Heart & Stroke Walk on Saturday, May 19, you still have time to sign up. E-mail Peggy Kilburg (pkilburg@georgefox.edu) by Wednesday, May 16, if you’d like to take part.

This fun, family-friendly event will take place in Portland along the Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade. The 5K walk (or run if you prefer) promotes exercise and raises funds for cardiovascular disease research and initiatives that promote prevention, treatment and better care for stroke and heart disease patients. Festivities begin at 8:30 a.m., and the walk begins at 10 a.m.

George Fox is pulling together volunteers to support Mohan Nair’s team. Nair is the chief innovation officer at Regence and was executive in residence for the School of Business last fall.

Participants will each get a free T-shirt, so please include your T-shirt size in your e-mail. More information is available about the event at this link.

Due to Jenna Parisi’s upcoming departure for graduate school, this full-time position is currently open 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 no later than Tuesday, May 22, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found on this page.

Effective May 16, 2012 until Jan. 13, 2013, the U.S. Postal Service will prohibit outgoing international mailing of:

• Lithium metal or lithium-ion batteries
• Any devices containing lithium batteries

Customers sending any electronic devices containing removable lithium batteries must remove the lithium batteries before shipping the device. Electronic equipment with non-removable lithium batteries may not be sent by international mail or APO FBO (military addresses.)

Examples: Video cameras, scanners, cell phones, MP3 players, Bluetooth headsets, smartphones, laptop computers, shavers, power drills, tablets, portable DVD players, measuring equipment, GPS, etc.

This prohibition does not apply to lithium batteries mailed within the United States.

Questions? Contact Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

Faculty: Please remember to submit your textbook orders for fall semester before you go into “summer mode.” We will begin placing orders very soon. You can find the form under Faculty Resources.

We are open all summer (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday), so late orders are always accepted and we will make every attempt to get your books here on time. Fall sales begin July 1. If you’ve already submitted your orders, thanks and enjoy your summer!

Questions? Contact Sandy Gidding at sgidding@georgefox.edu.