The next all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, in Hoover 105.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site (to be provided in an announcement prior to the meeting). A chat room has also been set up, and a video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.
FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, Jan. 23, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.
The Bruin Bookstore, as well as the textbook annex, will be closed on Monday, Jan. 16, for Martin Luther King, Jr. day.
In a follow-up to last year’s Celebration of William Stafford event, George Fox will host authors Ursula K. Le Guin and Eleanor Berry from 2 to 4 p.m. this Saturday, Jan. 14, in Hoover 105. There is no charge to attend.
About Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin’s books have been finalists for the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She writes both poetry and prose in various modes, including realistic fiction, science fiction, fantasy, young children’s books, books for young adults, screenplays, essays, verbal texts for musicians, and voice texts. She has published seven books of poetry, 22 novels, more than 100 short stories (collected in 11 volumes), four collections of essays, 12 books for children, and four volumes of translation. She has received many awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, and others.
About Eleanor Berry
Berry, a former teacher of writing and literature at Willamette University, organizes poetry events in nearby Stayton, is a member of the committee that oversees the Oregon Poetry Collection at the Oregon State Library, and serves on the boards of the Marion Cultural Development Corporation and the Oregon State Poetry Association. Her poetry and essays on poetry have been widely published in journals and anthologies. Green November, a book of poems derived from her acclimation to western Oregon, was published in 2007.
In Honor of Stafford
The authors will read poetry and interact with attendees. The event is held in honor of Stafford, the former U.S. poet laureate and Oregon poet laureate whose life and works exemplified a quest for peace and truth. It is being hosted by the university’s Center for Peace and Justice in collaboration with the Friends of William Stafford and two of that organization’s board members, Dennis and Helen Schmidling.
Questions? Contact Melanie Newell at ext. 2686 or mnewell@georgefox.edu.
The 2011-2012 Bruin Directory is almost here! The tentative date for distribution is Friday, Jan. 13. Once the books arrive on campus they will be sent out through campus mail to each department and each book will be charged to the interdepartmental account.
Please contact Carly Halverson at chalverson09@georgefox.edu with any questions.
This Saturday is Bruin Madness 2! You don’t want to miss the Indoor Tailgate Party dinner with KidZone or the two games against Puget Sound. As an employee, you can get a discount on your tickets to the tailgate party dinner: $9 ($4 discount) for adult tickets and $6 for children under 10.
Come to the Pennington House Tuesday or Wednesday this week to get your tickets. Visit bruinmadness.georgefox.edu for more information on this event.
Questions? Contact Anna Philipsen at ext. 2131 or aphilipsen@georgefox.edu.
Your name tag and business card requests should be placed no later than 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12, to guarantee they are included in this week’s order. If you have questions, contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.
Thank you.
George Fox will celebrate World Religions Day by hosting “Sacred Journey: Perspectives on Lived Faith,” featuring a panel of faith leaders from the Portland area. Guests will engage in conversation from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15, in the Cap and Gown Room on the Newberg campus. The event is part of the university’s engagement with the President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge.
Panelists expected include Rabbi Daniel Isaak from Congregation Neveh Shalom (southwest Portland); Shahriar Ahmed, president of Bilal Masjid (Beaverton); Abbot Kyogen Carlson, from the Dharma Rain Zen Center (southeast Portland); and Sarah Thomas Baldwin, George Fox’s campus pastor and dean of spiritual life.
This time is meant to celebrate the particularity as well as the interconnectivity of lived belief. It is a time meant to learn about each other and to enjoy the company of one another, according to Clint Baldwin (Center for Peace and Justice).
To learn more, visit the Peace and Justice site. Questions? Contact Melanie Newell at ext. 2686 or mnewell@georgefox.edu.
In a follow-up to last year’s Celebration of William Stafford event, George Fox will host authors Ursula K. Le Guin and Eleanor Berry from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, in Hoover 105. There is no charge to attend.
About Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin’s books have been finalists for the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She writes both poetry and prose in various modes, including realistic fiction, science fiction, fantasy, young children’s books, books for young adults, screenplays, essays, verbal texts for musicians, and voice texts. She has published seven books of poetry, 22 novels, more than 100 short stories (collected in 11 volumes), four collections of essays, 12 books for children, and four volumes of translation. She has received many awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, and others.
About Eleanor Berry
Berry, a former teacher of writing and literature at Willamette University, organizes poetry events in nearby Stayton, is a member of the committee that oversees the Oregon Poetry Collection at the Oregon State Library, and serves on the boards of the Marion Cultural Development Corporation and the Oregon State Poetry Association. Her poetry and essays on poetry have been widely published in journals and anthologies. Green November, a book of poems derived from her acclimation to western Oregon, was published in 2007.
In Honor of Stafford
The authors will read poetry and interact with attendees. The event is held in honor of Stafford, the former U.S. poet laureate and Oregon poet laureate whose life and works exemplified a quest for peace and truth. It is being hosted by the university’s Center for Peace and Justice in collaboration with the Friends of William Stafford and two of that organization’s board members, Dennis and Helen Schmidling.
Questions? Contact Melanie Newell at ext. 2686 or mnewell@georgefox.edu.
The George Fox basketball programs have always had incredible fans. So we’ve created Bruin Madness to bring all our fans together to cheer our teams on to victory! The second “Madness” event is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 14.
Bring your family and join alumni, students, parents, community members and other fans for amazingly delicious tailgate fare and exciting activities at the Indoor Tailgate Party Dinner and KidZone. Then head off to Miller Gymnasium to cheer on the Bruins as they take on Puget Sound in a doubleheader. After the game, young alumni (those from the past 10 years) are invited to head over to Abby’s Pizza to continue the celebration.
Don’t miss your best chance to catch this year’s Bruin basketball teams in action, all while you connect with hundreds of other George Fox alumni, parents and students.
Schedule
4 p.m. – Indoor Tailgate Party Dinner & KidZone
6 p.m. – Women’s Basketball Game
8 p.m. – Men’s Basketball Game
10 p.m. – Young Alumni Night at Abby’s
Visit alumni.georgefox.edu or call ext. 2131 for more information and to purchase tickets.
As security has been patrolling campus, we have noticed some very unusual white staff hangtag parking permits being “hung” in some unusual ways! If your white hangtag is broken, please bring the pieces to the security office and we can update your registration on the spot and issue you a new permit. If you have LOST your permit, or need one for a second or third vehicle, the cost is only $5 each (cash only), and they can be purchased in the security office.
Portland employees: If you come to the Newberg campus frequently, please go on MyGFU and register your vehicle, and a gratis staff/faculty or adjunct hangtag will be mailed to your Portland campus mailbox.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call ext. 2090 during office hours.
The Employee Council site‘s “Readings and Resources for Managers and Supervisors” section has a new article: “Top Ten Reasons Why Large Companies Fail To Keep Their Best Talent.”
Although we aren’t a large company, the list of ideas for promoting satisfaction and development of employees is still applicable. This short article provides supervisors with ideas for encouraging employees, and gives all of us some ideas for self-development and contribution to our institution.
We’ve discovered that vacation and sick-leave balances on our Dec. 30 pay statements do not include accruals for December. This issue is the result of our December pay day being a day earlier than usual. These accruals are set up in PeopleSoft to run on the last day of the month (even if it is not a business day). At the time payroll was run for our Dec. 30 pay day, these accruals had not yet been updated, so the YTD “Earned†and “End Balance†on employees’ pay statements do not include the vacation and sick leave hours that you earned in December.
The good news is that these accruals have now been manually processed in the system, so leave balances on our Jan. 31 pay statements will correctly reflect December and January leave accruals. We will do our best to avoid this problem in the future.
And while we are on the topic of vacation and sick leave, please be sure to submit your December time sheets and time-off reports right away. Links to these forms can be found on this page.
– HR
A new year, a new month … It is time to think about nominating a colleague for the first Employee of the Month award for 2012. If you know of someone whose recent contributions make him or her worthy of this honor, please take a few minutes to send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg that includes a specific summary of the person’s contributions (past 30 days or so) and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.
The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient from the nominations submitted and he or she will be recognized and awarded a $100 gift card to The Allison at our community meeting later this month.
All university offices will be closed Monday, Jan. 2, to observe the New Year’s holiday.
Student supervisors, please submit the rest of your students’ December time sheets to HR right away — by Wednesday, Jan. 4, by noon. Pay day is Friday, Jan 13, because Monday, Jan. 16, is a holiday.
Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Please total them, sign them, and be sure the students did as well. (If the student is not available to sign it, please send it without the signature, and HR will contact the student.) Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets.
Federal Work Study regulations require that students delivering their own time sheets must have them in a sealed envelope.
If you happen to still have any paperwork to submit on a student hired in December, please hand-deliver it right away — no later than Tuesday, Jan 3. We need to set up students in the system before the time sheets arrive.
Thanks very much.
– HR
Did you get peanuts for Christmas?
Mail Services can use all of the peanuts and other packing materials that you received. Please bring them to Mail Services and they will gladly be put to use by other shippers – including those from departmenst on campus.
Thanks!
– Mail Services
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 now submit and view your name tag requests at this link online.
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. Examples of title or department include: Dean of Students/Student Life and Admissions Counselor/Admissions. The next order will be placed Friday, Jan. 13.
Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Friday, Jan. 13. Please create a new “Individual Account” on the form.
Contact Danette Newkirk (Marketing Communications) if you have any questions.
It’s time to order university stationery. For order instructions, go to the marketing communications website. You will continue to purchase all non-departmental stationery (including “second-sheet letterheadâ€) through the university’s Print Services.
Orders are due by Thursday, Jan. 12.
