The Daily Bruin

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.

Along with the new year comes the opportunity to select the first Employee of the Month for 2013. Is there someone you believe is deserving of this recognition? If someone comes to mind, please nominate him or her via e-mail Peggy Kilburg by Friday, Jan. 11, with a summary of this person’s recent contributions and any other information that makes this person deserving of this award. Because of the earlier community meeting this month, there will be no reminder ennouncement about submitting nominations.

The president, provost and vice presidents will select a recipient from among the nominees, and the winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 gift card to The Allison. We will honor both December’s and January’s employees of the month at our next community meeting scheduled for Jan. 17.

Some end-of-semester reminders from IT …

• If you used the FoxTALE grade book for any of your FoxTALE course sites, we recommend that you back up your Fall 2012 grade book to a spreadsheet that is saved outside of FoxTALE. See the instructions here for backing up grades.

Prepare for Spring 2013

• Use your new, empty Spring 2013 sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another course site. See the instructions here for importing.

• Your Spring 2013 sites are unavailable (hidden) to students. When you are ready to make a site available, go to Settings > Course administration > Edit settings on the course home page. Scroll down to the “Availability” section and select “This course is available to students” from the drop-down menu. Scroll to the bottom of the page and “Save changes.”

• If you have course content to move from old FoxTALE to new FoxTALE, please contact the Service Desk.

Come join us as we honor Arden Butler and celebrate his retirement from George Fox. Refreshments will be served at Plant Services from noon to 1 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 21 (please note the new date).

Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 a.m. to noon (Pacific Time) on Monday, Jan. 7, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

Come join us as we honor Arden Butler and celebrate his retirement from George Fox. Refreshments will be served at Plant Services from noon to 1 p.m. this Thursday, Dec. 20.

Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.

The university box office will operate under its normal hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. this week with the exception of Wednesday, Dec. 19, when it will close at 11:30 a.m. It will also be closed on Friday, Dec. 21.

Beginning Friday, the box office will be closed until Thursday, Jan. 3, when it will resume regular hours. During this time you can reach the box office by e-mail at boxoffice@georgefox.edu. Information on upcoming shows can be found at boxoffice.georgefox.edu, where there is a link labeled “Current Season” to purchase tickets online.

The box office e-mail and phone line will be checked periodically between Dec. 21 and Jan. 2 with response only to urgent requests. All other requests will be responded to on Jan. 3.

Questions? Contact Mary Monahan at mmonahan@georgefox.edu.