Plant Services will be having a sale on surplus items from campus. Items for sale will include furniture, binders, office supplies, etc. The sale will be held at Plant Services on Friday, Aug. 5 from 8 a.m. to noon.  More details coming soon.
Contact: Debby O’Kelley, dokelley@georgefox.edu
Starting Aug. 1, women faculty and staff will have the opportunity to apply for participation in the 2011-12 Women’s Leadership Development Institute cohort that will commence at a retreat planned for Sept. 29-30. Applications will be available at this link. Please return all applications to Campus Box #6255 by Sept. 1. Sheri Philips will continue to give leadership to the program.
The university’s first Women’s Leadership Development cohort concluded at a celebration for the program mentors and mentees in May. After attending the kick-off retreat in October, each cohort mentee met monthly with her mentor from October to May and attended five required leadership skills sessions.
Cohort mentees read several texts during the program and shared their learning on a WLDI Foxtale site. Mentees last year included Melissa Terry, Kathy Weiss, Audrey Williamson, Shelley Yonemura, Sondra Creason, Angela Wilson Henry and Brenda Burg.
Even though only a limited number can be accepted, please feel encouraged to apply.
All “Art Advantage” brand art supplies are marked down 40 to 70 percent off retail pricing in the Bruin Bookstore. Lots of selection!
The store is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Questions? Contact John Stewart at jstewart@georgefox.edu.
A media production specialist position is currently open only to internal applicants (employees). Please e-mail hr@georgefox.edu to ask for a copy of the job description. To apply, please submit a completed transfer request, cover letter, and resume to Human Resources no later than 5 p.m. on Friday, July 29. The transfer request form is available here.
Qualified, temporary employees are welcome to apply but should submit a George Fox employment application with the cover letter and resume rather than the transfer request form.
The Tilikum Retreat Center is sponsoring a father/daughter retreat Aug. 5-7. Come spend a weekend in the beautiful Chehalem Valley enjoying time strengthening your father/daughter relationship.
Brad Lau (Student Life) will speak on the topic “A Time To Build” and will address four core values that fathers should pass along to their daughters, enabling them to become the young women God has intended for them to be. Attendees can also enjoy the “Big Swing,” the “Little Zipline,” archery, a water slide, swimming and boating. A fishing derby is also planned.
New this year will be the “Big Zipline,” which starts on a platform 70 feet in a tree and zips 700 feet across the lake. As with all Tilikum retreats, the food service staff will offer the center’s home cooking.
To sign up or learn more, visit this link or call 503-538-2763.
Let’s Learn Together, an informational series sponsored by the Staff Development Committee, will kick off Tuesday, Aug. 2, from noon to 1 p.m. This first session of the year will focus on “Excel: Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts” and feature an IT specialist from George Fox. Watch your staff announcements for location and other information.
Questions? Contact Jan Lefebvre at jlefebvre@georgefox.edu.
Before moving forward with renting five canoes for our second annual Floatabout training, the spiritual life staff is checking to see if there might be any canoes available for borrowing (or even renting at a much-discounted price!) from within our Fox community. We would be looking to borrow them for our four-day float Aug. 16-19 on the Willamette River Trail from Buena Vista Park to Roger’s Landing in Newberg.
Floatabout is becoming our “preseason” training for our student chaplains and chapel leadership team, primarily for listening to God through solitude and community, in order to prepare for a year of ministry to our student community at George Fox.
If you can help us, contact Rusty St. Cyr at rstcyr@georgefox.edu.
The one-day-a-week courier service to the Salem campus is changing from Thursdays to Mondays for the rest of the summer break. The same service to the Portland Center will remain the same: every weekday Monday through Friday.
Questions? Call Mail Services at ext. 2555.
Now that we have started a new fiscal year, please make sure you are using the correct Budget Reference (Bud Ref) date when creating requisitions in PeopleSoft. You need to enter 2012 as the Bud Ref in order to have the funds taken out of your new 2011-2012 budget.
If you are entering a requisition and you don’t know where to find the Bud Ref, please call Andy Dunn at ext. 2162 or Kathi Becker at ext. 2166.
With June now behind us and a new fiscal year just underway, please think about a colleague who would be deserving of the first Employee of the Month award for 2011-12. As always, your nomination should include the person’s name, job title, a concise but specific summary of this person’s recent contributions (past 30 days or so), and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.
Please submit your nomination by Wednesday, July 27, via e-mail to Peggy Kilburg. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the recipient from the nominations submitted. The winner will be announced at our next community meeting (date not yet set but probably in early August) and will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.
Beginning today and using the heading “Benefit in Brief,†HR will highlight a benefit or two each month throughout 2011-12 with the goal of educating or just reminding employees about the various benefits the university provides to us.
July’s Benefit in Brief
There are two types of paid time off that employees don’t often use or think about: bereavement leave and time off for jury duty. Both of these are included as benefits for regular employees who work half time or above.
Information about bereavement leave and time off for jury duty can be found in the Employee Handbook on pages 43 and 44.
The deadline for ordering rental regalia for convocation chapel is approaching. Friday, July 8, is the deadline for ordering faculty regalia. Please notify your colleagues regarding the deadline.
The form for ordering can be found at this link. Questions? Contact John Stewart at jstewart@georgefox.edu.
There has been some confusion about our prior e-nnouncement regarding the printer service request form.
Point of clarification: This form is ONLY for printers. It is NOT for photocopiers. The photocopier service requests are still made through university print services (Richard Silver).
If your unit is a multi-function unit (photocopy, scan, print, etc.), then it likely falls under the “photocopier” category and your contact will be Richard at ext. 2551.
Join IT for an introduction to FoxTALE, the university Learning Management System (LMS) used by instructors and students to provide options for online classroom interaction. This seminar assumes no prior FoxTALE experience and begins with logging in to FoxTALE. Learn to develop your course site, upload course files such as syllabi, set up an online discussion forum, and set up assignments.
You can sign up at this link for sessions on Wednesday, Aug. 17, from 9 a.m. to noon in Stevens 307 in Newberg, or Thursday, Aug. 25, from 9 to 10 a.m. (Pacific) in an online webinar. (New regular faculty participating in New Faculty Orientation Aug. 16-18 will have a separate seminar as part of NFO.)
Visit Faculty FoxTALE Quick Guides for more information on using FoxTALE.
This is a final reminder that an all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, July 6, in Hoover 105.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at this stream site. 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.
Don’t forget the upcoming all-employee meeting, scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, July 6, in Hoover 105.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at this stream site. 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.
The IRS mileage reimbursement rate has gone up effective July 1 to $0.555. There is a new Expense Reimbursement Request (ERR) form available for download at the Financial Affairs webpage under the Common Forms link. Please update your files with the new form to ensure you are paid the correct amount for mileage.
If you have any questions, e-mail Andy Dunn or call ext. 2162.
All printer service requests should be submitted via the new web form. You will find a link to the form on the bookstore website. It is at the bottom of each page.
Click here for a direct link to the form.
We always appreciate receiving the previous month’s time sheets and time-off reports early in the new month, but we are especially anxious to receive June’s each year. This will enable HR to enter vacation and sick leave used in June right away so fiscal year-end balances can be reported and accounted for in a timely manner. This will, in turn, help the folks in financial affairs finish their work to close the books on 2010-11.
If you have any time-off reports or time sheets from earlier in 2010-11 that you have not yet submitted, please turn those in as well. If a supervisor’s absence will cause a delay, please send HR a copy of the original and submit the original after it has both yours and your supervisor’s signatures.
Thank you very much.
– HR
Student supervisors: Payday is Friday, July 15, so please submit your students’ June time sheets to HR right away — by Tuesday, July 5, by 3 p.m. Please note the earlier due date. The July 4 holiday will shorten payroll processing time.
Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Also, don’t forget to total them, sign them and be sure the students did as well. Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets. We will notify them if a signature is needed.
Federal Work Study regulations require that students delivering their own time sheets must have them placed, by you, in a sealed envelope.
Thanks very much.
– Human Resources
