The Daily Bruin

Student supervisors: Would you please submit your students’ April time sheets as soon as your students finish their last work shifts and no later than Wednesday, May 2? This due date is a little earlier than usual because we won’t have our wonderful student employees here to help process this payroll.

A few reminders:

If your student has school-year hours that are continuing into the first few days of May, please include these hours on a separate May academic year time sheet and submit it to HR as soon as they are done for the year.

A quick checklist of items regarding time sheets:

• Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number are legible.
• Please total them, sign them and be sure the students did as well. (If a student leaves without signing his or her time sheet, please send it to HR anyway.)
• To keep us in compliance with Federal Work Study regulations, please be sure that if you ask students to deliver their own time sheets, you first place the sheets in a sealed envelope.

If you have any questions, contact Melodee Powers at mpowers@georgefox.edu.

Thanks for all your work this past year in attending to these details. Without you doing your part, it would have been tough to meet our monthly payrolls.

HR

Please be sure your summer student employees attend an orientation this Monday, April 30, at 9 a.m. in Hoover 105. A number of important topics are covered in this meeting, and it is required for all summer student employees.

Questions? Contact Melodee Powers at mpowers@georgefox.edu.

Learn to make those gorgeous hanging baskets that grace our George Fox quad area. You will learn this valuable lesson on how these beauties are assembled and help us in the process.

Join us Wednesday, May 16, beginning at 9 a.m. at the Plant Services Building at 1101 Villa Road. We will work on baskets for about four hours.

You are welcome to join in the class at any time. Please contact the Plant Services office at 503-554-2010 if you have questions.

Beginning next week, the courier will be delivering to the Salem campus on Tuesdays only for the summer months. We will deliver this Thursday, April 26, as our final trip for the academic year.

Questions or concerns? Contact Sherrie Frost at ext. 2556.

The university will host two commencement ceremonies this Saturday, April 28. This year, the ceremony for graduate, seminary and adult degree programs is scheduled for 10 a.m., while the undergraduate ceremony is set for 3 p.m. Both will take place in Miller Gymnasium in the Wheeler Sports Center. A live streaming of the undergraduate ceremony will be shown in Bauman Auditorium.

Angela Bymaster, a 2000 alumna of George Fox who become an MD and now works for the Santa Clara County Homeless Healthcare Program, will speak to the undergraduates. Jeanette Eggert, an associate professor of math and physics at Concordia University in Portland, Ore., will address the graduate, seminary and adult degree program students. Audience seating begins an hour before each ceremony.

Commencement can be viewed live at this link 15 minutes prior to the start of the ceremony.

Also on Saturday, undergraduate department receptions are scheduled at 1 p.m. For a complete guide to commencement events, visit this page.

Mark your calendars for a treat!

On Friday, May 4, your Staff Development Committee will be distributing ice cream. Please join us at 3 p.m. in the “party hall” at the Portland Center.

Security services is striving to provide you with the opportunity to get involved by joining our Campus Community Emergency Response Team (C-CERT). We will be hosting training daily from 8 a.m. to noon the week of May 7-12 in EHS 125.

Volunteers will be the first on-the-scene emergency responders to an event that happens on campus, especially when firefighters, police and public safety are overwhelmed with requests for help and could be slowed down by impassable streets and other damage.

In a large-scale disaster, George Fox needs to be prepared to be self-sufficient, too. This is why we are providing this training. Become part of the team and be prepared.

More information is available at this link, and you can also sign up for the upcoming training in May via the link.

Questions? Contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Thursday) from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105.

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.

Kforce, a finance and accounting staffing firm, will be on the Newberg campus to speak with interested students this Friday, April 20. Talent Associate Chrissy Blundon is seeking to fill the following entry-level and experienced positions for local employers:

• Entry-level financial analyst (potential contract with Nike)
• Senior divisional accountant
• Tax manager
• Senior audit
• Business analyst
• Sales tax analyst

No appointment is necessary. Drop by Career Services on the first floor of Stevens between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. to visit with Chrissy on a first-come, first-served basis. Graduating seniors and alumni are both welcome.

Questions? Contact Angela Doty at 503-554-2331 or adoty@georgefox.edu.

Faculty, please let your students know about this opportunity!

The university’s engineering department will present its annual Engineering Expo this Friday, April 20, between 3 and 6 p.m. in the EHS Atrium on the Newberg campus.

The expo will include project displays, a robotics competition and lab demonstrations. Also featured will be projects from the program’s Senior Design and Servant Engineering teams. In addition, high school design projects will be featured. Refreshments will be provided. All are welcome!

For more information, please contact Kristin Bontrager at kbontrager@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2780.

Don’t forget to stop by the retirement receptions for Irv Brendlinger (Religious Studies) and Margi Macy (Education) this afternoon (Thursday).

Irv will be honored from 4:15 to 6 p.m. in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium, and Margi’s farewell event is from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Room 117 of the Villa Academic Complex.

Just a friendly reminder: All employees, including faculty, staff, and administrators, are responsible for fines on overdue Summit materials per consortia agreement and for replacement costs on books that are lost or damaged.

Thanks for your cooperation; we appreciate you clearing out your fines before the end of the school year.

– Merrill Johnson,
University Librarian

You have the opportunity to get discounted tickets to Broadway Across America’s performance of Million Dollar Quartet on Wednesday, May 23, in Keller Auditorium.

Million Dollar Quartet is the smash-hit musical inspired by the famed recording session that brought together rock ‘n roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins for the first and only time. Click here to watch a video and read more about the show.

Tickets with the George Fox group will be in one of the middle sections of the first balcony and are at the discounted price of $48.

Visit broadway.georgefox.edu to buy your tickets! They will only be available through April 19. Call the Office of University Engagement at 503-554-2134 or e-mail alumni@georgefox.edu with questions.

Textbook buyback begins on Monday, April 23. Come and see the new BlueZone store in the SUB! Remember to bring in your coupon so you can receive an additional $10 for $50 worth of books sold.

Questions? Contact John Stewart at jstewart@georgefox.edu.

Three farewell receptions are scheduled for faculty members this week:

• A reception to honor Lisa McMinn, who will be leaving George Fox at the end of this term, is set from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 18, in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium. Please drop by to wish Lisa well.

• Irv Brendlinger is retiring from the Department of Religious Studies. Please join us for a reception honoring Irv and thanking him for his contribution to the George Fox community on Thursday, April 19, from 4:15 to 6 p.m. in the Stevens Center (Duke) Atrium.

• Finally, a retirement reception for Margi Macy (Education), who has spent 30 years at the university, is set from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in Room 117 of the Villa Academic Complex.

Learn more about the upgrade
Join us for a 30-minute webinar that covers new features in the upgraded FoxTALE system. Webinars are scheduled for late spring and summer.

We are also hosting open lab times in Newberg and Portland during the week of May 7-11 so that you can drop in and view your course sites in the new FoxTALE or ask questions.

See the schedule.

Identify course content to be copied for fall 2012
The upgrade requires a new FoxTALE environment. We need your help to identify FoxTALE course sites with content to be copied to the new environment. We’d like to copy and move courses needed for fall 2012 first and have them copied for you before summer. Please follow these steps.

Future communications
Please watch for updates through e-nnouncements.

Questions
Please direct current questions to the Service Desk.

Next year’s first-year book has been selected. The title of the book is The Other Wes Moore. I would like to recommend that all of you purchase the book and read it along with our incoming class. New students will be receiving the book as part of the Genesis program this summer.

If you have questions, feel free to contact me at ext. 2305.

Thank you,
Joel Perez

Engagement is collecting names of volunteers who have served at George Fox University over the past school year. If you would like to have someone who has volunteered in your area receive an invitation to our Volunteer Appreciation Reception in May, please provide the volunteer’s name and address to Mary Monahan at mmonahan@georgefox.edu.

Names must be turned in by the end of the day on Friday, April 13, for inclusion.

The Bruin Store will begin a remodel project this weekend. We will reopen on Monday, April 23, with a new store, a new name (“The BlueZone Store”), and brand new product! During the remodel, the textbook annex will be open for textbook purchases and final project needs.

Questions? Contact John Stewart at jstewart@georgefox.edu.

Mark your calendars: An all-employee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, April 19, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105.

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.