The Daily Bruin

Student Supervisors:

There were some problems that cropped up during the March 15 payroll, so I thought I would send out this note with a few reminders. Please use this reminder checklist now as you prepare to send your March time sheets to HR:

• 3 p.m. on third business day of the month is the deadline for time sheets (looking ahead: April 5 at 3 p.m.)
• Late time sheets: Please include a note explaining why it’s late
• Time sheets must be:

1. Totaled by you
2. Checked for a.m./p.m. errors (correct them)
3. Signed by you
4. Checked for dates: Are the dates listed for the correct month?
5. Legible with student name and ID number
6. Checked for six-hour shifts — note meal period in start-stop times or initial and OK by you (this should be an exception, not the rule)

To ensure that we get the time sheets on time, please hand-deliver them to HR. You can ask a student employee to deliver the time sheets to us as long as you first put them in a sealed envelope (keeps us in legal compliance). The only exception to this rule is the Portland Center – please scan or fax your time sheets first, then drop the originals in the mail.

Thank you for working with me to ensure a timely and accurate payroll for our students.

– Melodee Powers, HR

The university community is invited to a panel discussion, “The Future of the 14th Amendment,” from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 31, in Hoover 105.

Join us as a panel of local students and political science experts discusses the implications concerning that section of the 14th Amendment that states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens.” The purpose of the event is to have dialogue about proposed legislation that seeks to limit the scope of the amendment, according to Joel Perez (Dean of Transitions and Inclusion).

Participants will include Mark David Hall (Political Science); Richard W. Etulain, professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico; and Jose-Antonio Orosco, associate professor in the philosophy department and director of the peace studies program at Oregon State University.

The event, sponsored by the Center for Peace and Justice, the Office of Transitions and Inclusion and the Latino Heritage Club, is in commemoration of the life of Cesar Chavez, the American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist whose birthday was March 31. More information is available here.

Questions? Contact Perez at jperez@georgefox.edu.

Having a good hair day? Come to Marketing Communication’s Le Shana Hall portrait studio for this month’s portrait session from 2 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5. These high-quality studio portraits will be used on the university website and will be available for professional promotional use.

Please call or e-mail Danette Newkirk (ext. 2125) to let us know what time you are planning to come. You can still come without prior notice, but your university photo ID will be required for entrance at the southwest side (the side facing Coffin Residence Hall) of the building.

Thank you to all who participated in the LibQUAL+® Lite Library Survey. The library faculty and staff will be reviewing the data as well as your written comments and appreciate your willingness to share your opinions with us.

Congratulations to the winners whose names were randomly drawn from all who took the survey and entered their e-mail address.

All female employees and female spouses of employees are invited to enjoy dinner and a movie together on Tuesday, April 5, at 5:30 p.m., in EHS 102. We will watch Under the Same Moon, with discussion to follow. The dinner and movie are free, but feel free to bring a dessert to share.

Come and connect with other women in the GFU community. Contact Lori Allen if you have any questions: allen.redpants@gmail.com or 503-487-6648.

A programmer analyst 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 Thursday, March 31, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found at this link.

All Newberg, Portland and Salem offices and libraries will be closed this Friday, March 25, for the spring break holiday. The Boise Center will be open this Friday and will instead take its spring holiday the following Friday, April 1.

Don’t forget this Monday’s all-employee meeting, scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium (please note the location change). The meeting was originally scheduled for March 31 but has been moved up three days.

The agenda will include an update from President Robin Baker, who will provide details on the recent board meeting. For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. 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.

This is a reminder that the Bruin Bookstore and its online store will be closed on Wednesday, March 23, to finalize its year-end inventory. So that inventory can be accurately processed, phone calls, voice mails and e-mails will not be answered. There also won’t be any money available to make change.

The bookstore will reopen on Thursday at 8:30 a.m. Store hours for the remainder of spring break week will be 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday and closed on Saturday. We appreciate your cooperation and support!

All employees are invited to join alumni, students and prospective students to watch the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday, April 12. It is the team’s final home game and the annual Fan Appreciation Night, so you don’t want to miss it!

Alumni Relations still has tickets available. You can purchase them by clicking here (promotion code: GEORGEFOX). Tickets are $20 each, and Tuesday, March 22, is the final day to get your tickets.

Questions? Contact Anna Philipsen at aphilipsen@georgefox.edu.

Has anyone seen my black/animal print zip bag? It somehow jumped out of my purse in the Stevens parking lot. How do I know? My husband actually saw it on the ground next to a green car on Friday, but he didn’t pick it up thanks to a misunderstanding of the description.

If you have it, please call me at 503-554-2264. I miss my little zip bag!

Thanks,
Beth Molzahn

Courier service to the Salem Center is limited to Thursday, March 24, only during spring break. Service to the Portland Center will be Monday through Thursday.

Questions? Contact Mail Services at ext. 2555

Thank you,
Mail Services

Friday, March 18, is the last day for open enrollment, including your Voluntary Life benefit if you are eligible and wish to enroll or increase coverage.

All employees who are eligible for benefits, even if you aren’t enrolled through GFU, are required to return the Open Enrollment Election form. If you no longer have your form and you wish to make no changes to your insurance plans, you may send an e-mail to lburton@georgefox.edu simply stating that you want no changes.

Remember that Flexible Spending does not automatically renew.

Thank you!
– HR

Nominations for Support Staff Member of the Year and Administrative Staff Member of the Year for 2010-11 are due in HR on Monday, March 21.

If you have any colleagues you believe are deserving of this honor (and $500 gift), you have just a few days left to submit a nomination. Just describe the person’s unique “above and beyond” contributions to George Fox, its students, and/or its employees in the past year. Indicate what was done, who was impacted, etc. In other words, what makes this person stand out?

Other questions to also consider: How has this person encouraged or helped you, other employees, or students in the past year? What is it about this person’s job performance that impresses you? How has this person demonstrated Christian commitment, loyalty to GFU, and leadership skills at the university and the broader community in the past year?

Nominations can be submitted to Peggy Kilburg via e-mail, fax (503-554-2186), or hard copy (Campus box 6108), but they must arrive in HR by 5 p.m. on Monday.

Dr. Andrea Cook visited with George Fox women today to share her leadership journey. She recommended three books to the women in attendance. For those who want to know the names of those books, they are:

• Life of The Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, by Henri Nouwen
• Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living, by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler
• The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything, by Stephen M.R. Covey

The Bruin Bookstore’s spring break hours next week will be 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, with the exception of Wednesday, March 23, when the bookstore and textbook annex will be closed for completion of its year-end inventory.

Ruth Baker and Lori Allen invite all women of the university community to join them for a free dinner and the movie Under the Same Moon at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, in EHS 102.

After the movie, Polly Peterson will facilitate a talk-back session. Come and connect with other women in the GFU community. The dinner and movie are free, but feel free to bring a sweet treat to share.

Contact Lori Allen if you have any questions: allen.redpants@gmail.com or 503-487-6648.

Notice the huge display in the Lobby? Its to collect food for 150+ kids at five schools in Portland who don’t have enough food to eat over the weekends. This time, however, we are donating food so they have food to eat over Spring Break.

In partnership with Take Action, Inc, we are trying to collect enough food to feed at least 30 children for their Spring Break. Please join us in this effort.

You can also donate by check: Make the check out to “Mt. Park Church,” indicating “Backpack Project” in the memo line and give it to one of the front office staff. We will make sure the donations make it to the church in time for food to be purchased. Examples of food items to donate are on the fliers at the display.

Questions? Contact Janis Sanford, Site Supervisor at 503.554.6164 or by email.

Application forms are now available for students interested in applying for summer jobs. You can check it out at this link. Please post your openings out on Bruin Careers as soon as possible so you can select from the best candidates.

Don’t forget to post your openings for fall while you’re at it!