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:
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!
Following board approval this past weekend, off-campus studies are now covered by tuition remission. Up until now, non-GFU off-campus studies have been excluded unless required for a major.
The employee handbook will be updated this week to reflect this change in policy.
The application process for off-campus studies for the 2011-12 academic year is now complete. The next opportunity to apply for this program will be January 2012 for the 2012-13 academic year – the same timeframe for requesting tuition remission. Tuition Remission requests for the 2012-13 academic year will be due Feb. 1, 2012.
If you have questions, contact Peggy Kilburg via e-mail at pkilburg@georgefox.edu.
Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) and Brian Bews will be hosting discussions of four crises in the early church, providing a state-of-the-art analysis of the Gospel of John’s audience. From there, new insights into the narrative will be explored, including reflecting on how readers today are drawn into a transformative dialogue with Jesus from the Gospel of John. All are welcome!
Join us this Wednesday (March 16) from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m. at North Valley Friends Church, 4o2o N. College St.
Contact Paul if you have questions at panderso@georgefox.edu.
Please complete the LibQUAL+® Lite Library Survey. If you have already filled out the survey, thank you! If not, we ask you to take five to seven minutes to go to this link and help us by taking the survey.
Only you can tell us how well we are serving your library needs, and you can enter to win one $50 or 10 $25 Amazon gift cards.
An all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Monday, March 28, 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.
Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Thursday, March 24, if you would like to nominate a colleague for March Employee of the Month. Your e-mail should include a concise but specific summary of this person’s contributions and/or outstanding performance in the past 30 days or so.
The winner will be announced at the community meeting on Monday, March 28, and will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.
The staff employee in Print Services, Elizabeth Holme, will be unavailable Thursday and Friday, March 17-18. Print Services will be open on a limited basis and operated by the student employees in that department.
If you have print job(s) that must be done before March 20, please submit them no later than Tuesday, March 15. Your early submission of print jobs is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Sherrie Frost (ext. 2556)
Pat Stone, a psychiatrist, Vietnam veteran and expert on veterans affairs, will speak Monday, March 14, on the challenges faced by veterans from the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars and ways that we can respond and better support them as they reach for the American Dream.
All are welcome to join us from 4:40 to 5:40 p.m. or from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105. The event is part of the university’s Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series.
For more information, contact Caitlin Corning (History) at ext. 2673 or ccorning@georgefox.edu.
The George Fox community (students, faculty and staff) is invited to engage the movie The Gospel of John for the next six Sunday mornings (9:30-10:30 a.m.) at North Valley Friends Church (4020 N. College St., in Newberg). A discussion will be led by Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) and Brian Bews. All are welcome!
Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. Marketing Communications will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Thursday, March 17.
The login user ID is “gfubc†and password is “gfu123†(please save for future reference). Contact Danette Newkirk (Marketing Communications) if you have any questions.
All women employees – faculty, administrators and staff – are invited to a Women’s Leadership Development Team event:
Brown Bag Lunch with Dr. Andrea Cook
Wednesday, March 16
Cap and Gown Rooms, Newberg Campus
Noon – 1:15 p.m.
Dr. Cook is the president of Warner Pacific College and is credited with driving the college to embrace its identity as an urban campus dedicated to serving the city of Portland. Prior to serving at Warner Pacific, Andrea held administrative roles at Judson Baptist College, the University of Oregon, George Fox University and Goshen College. Her stint at George Fox University began in 1987 and spanned 15 years, culminating in the role of vice president for enrollment services from 1993 to 2002.
Please don’t miss this opportunity to hear from a significant leader in Christian higher education as she shares her leadership journey.
The Women’s Leadership Development committee invites all women employees on the Newberg campus to join us for this event as we continue exploring leadership development. Please bring your own lunch to this event.
The event will be live-streamed for all other university sites at noon Pacific Standard Time.
Questions? Contact Sheri Philips at sphilips@georgefox.edu.
Your donations are needed! Please bring donations of any kind to the Spiritual Life House by Friday, March 11, to support the 2011 May Serve team that is going to Peru. Then come to the sale on Saturday, March 12, in the Wood-Mar parking lot (8 a.m. to 3 p.m.)
Questions? Contact Rebecca Barnick at rbarnick07@georgefox.edu.
Thanks!
Fourteen of the 15 golden tickets that were tucked inside the staff appreciation million-dollar chocolate bars have been redeemed! Here is a list of the winners:
Chris Young (Boise), Sara Kelm, Jean Miller (Portland), Becky Greenwood (Salem), Lois Hutchinson, Tony Pruitt, Piper Parks, Gina Braden, Larry Mennenga, Cathy Peterson, Alan Thurston, Jesse Dillow, Jane Sweet and Sandy Cherachanko (Newberg).
All winners received a pair of movie tickets to Regal Cinemas.
There is still one golden ticket out there. If you haven’t already, please check inside the foil wrapping of your million-dollar chocolate bar to see if there is a ticket hiding inside. You just might be a winner!
