The December Community Lunch will be held in Room 155 on Tuesday, Dec. 14 from noon to 1 p.m.
There will be door prizes!!!!
Kam & Kam Catering will be serving their famous chicken fajitas & all the fixings for just $3.
We will be honoring Barb Braun for her service to us before, seeing a video of the GRAD Night event, and hearing a couple Portland Center updates.
TODAY, Dec. 13, the staff and faculty of the Portland Center will be hosting the 6th Annual Wassail Party in the main lobby on the first floor from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Stop by anytime, even a few times if you like.
Wassail is a warm spiced cider drink and we’ll have loads of treats, maybe even a few healthy ones.
There will be intermittent caroling, continuous conversation, and always some Christmas fun!
Hey-ho! Got books laying around the house that you’ve read but no longer need?
Bring them to the library and put them in the blue bin by the copy machines! They will be donated, sold to fund the non-profit or recycled. See the link below for more details.
The Fitness Center will be closed from 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 17, until Monday, Jan. 10. Ask Santa for a one-month membership to a health club to jump start your New Year’s resolution! The track is available also.
Have a wonderful Christmas.
An all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 16, in Hoover 105.
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.
Poinsettias will be sold for $5 after this weekend’s Christmas Concert. You may pay and reserve your poinsettias at any of the performances, but they will not be available for pick-up until after Sunday’s performance.
If you cannot make it on Sunday, they will be available for pick-up on Monday in the music office.
Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (HR) by Monday, Dec. 13, if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for December Employee of the Month. Your e-mail should include the person’s name, job title, a concise but specific summary of this person’s contribution(s) to the university, its students, and/or its employees in the 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 then select someone for this honor from the nominations submitted. The winner will be announced at the community meeting next Thursday, Dec. 16, and will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.
All George Fox employees can purchase Entertainment 2011 Books at a discounted employee price. Enjoy $30 in bonus savings cards with each edition. Example copies are available for viewing at the Information Desk in the Stevens Center (see Barbi Doran).
Order yours (Portland and/or Greater Oregon) for only $20 (retail price is $35). Call Susan Lowry-Nix at Entertainment Publications at 503-753-7045 or e-mail her at slowry-nix@entertainment.com to order your copy.
One last reminder: The deadline for submissions to the William Stafford poetry contest is Wednesday, Dec. 8, at midnight. This is an excellent opportunity for students to become published in an upcoming anthology of poetry honoring Stafford. As well, each of the three finalists will receive $50 compensation for their work.
We have received some submissions already, however we would like to see more! Submissions should be electronically sent to william.stafford.poetry@gmail.com.
For more information, click this link. Questions? Write peaceandjustice@georgefox.edu
This Friday, Dec. 10, is the final day employees will be able to complete the Best Christian Workplaces survey, so please take about 10 minutes to do so this week if you haven’t already. Just log in to this link and use the access code 2079-571.
If you would rather complete the survey on paper, please request it from Chris Koch. You can then return it to him and he will ensure that it is submitted confidentially. The Best Christian Workplaces Institute will present the survey results in summary format to maintain all employees’ confidentiality. These results will be shared with employees early in 2011.
Wednesday, Dec. 8, is the final day employees may pick up their complimentary tickets for Saturday’s employee Christmas concert event. Stop by the first-floor Information Center in the Stevens Center before 5 p.m. to claim your two free tickets (for employees half time and above).
The presentation, “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear,” is scheduled this Friday through Sunday, Dec. 10-12, in Bauman Auditorium. Performances are scheduled Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. The complimentary tickets are designated for Saturday’s performance. Additional tickets may be purchased at music.georgefox.edu.
Questions? Contact Debbie Hawblitzel (Performing Arts) at ext. 2620 or dhawblit@georgefox.edu.
Shane Roghaar, our TIAA-CREF representative will be at Portland Center Tuesday, December 14 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
You may make an appointment with him to discuss your investments by opening the invitation on the HR/Benefits web page: http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/hr/EmployeeBenefits/beneforms.html
The university’s Center for Peace and Justice will host an evening with Liberian speaker Saah Joseph, who will present “From Liberia with Love: Experiences of War/A Life of Peace†from 7 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 8, in the Cap and Gown Room.
Joseph grew up as a Christian in Liberia, left his family at a young age, and escaped from the war to Sierra Leone when he was 12. After encountering another war, Joseph fled through three more countries until ending up at a refugee camp.
Joseph has worked with humanitarian organizations, including the Red Cross, for which he helped reunite war-torn families. He returned to Liberia and started to set up schools for refugee children. Currently, Joseph works at an organization called PLAN for the Children Humanitarian Aid. The organization recently started a school in a refugee camp, Mount Barcley, which enrolls 900 children.
In addition to Joseph’s presentation, the evening will include a special musical performance by Lasana “Lazso,†who will sing African gospel songs before and after Joseph’s talk. He too escaped war in his native country and survived persecution, poverty and personal failure.
Questions? Contact Melanie Newell at ext. 2686 or mnewell@georgefox.edu.
Monday, Dec. 6, is the last day to R.S.V.P. for the employee Christmas celebration on Saturday, Dec. 11.
The event includes:
Questions? Contact Evangeline at ext. 2121 or epattison@georgefox.edu.
University policy allows a maximum of one year’s vacation accrual to be carried over into the next year. Any excess accrued vacation balance is forfeited.
Available on the HR website are vacation accrual charts with instructions, one each for support staff and administrators. Please use a chart along with the information on your Nov. 30 pay statement to determine if you need to use any vacation before Jan. 1, 2011.
Please keep in mind that the vacation balance on your Nov. 30 pay statement:
Links to these charts can be found at this link. If you have vacation hours that should be used by Dec. 31, please talk to you supervisor about scheduling time off between now and then.
December holidays include Thursday and Friday, Dec. 23-24; Monday, Dec. 27; and Friday, Dec. 31.
If you have any questions after you have reviewed your vacation balance and the chart that applies to your vacation accrual, feel free to contact HR for assistance.
Looking for on-campus employment, an internship, or full-time employment? Check out BruinCareers, a new interactive job-posting system for students and alumni. In MyGFU, click on Career Services > BruinCareers. New users must create a new account.
Questions? Contact Career Services at careers@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2330.
Would you take a few seconds (literally, seconds) to complete a two-question survey? We’d like to find out if you have an iPad and if you’d be interested in finding out how people are using their iPads.
Go to a George Fox faculty poll, iPad Use, at this link. Thanks from your grateful IT staff.
Just a reminder: The Bruin Bookstore’s buyback is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, Dec. 13-17, in the SUB.
Join us for textbook buyback Monday through Friday, Dec. 13-17, in the SUB outside the Bruin Bookstore. We’ll be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
The university community is invited to a farewell reception in honor of Reid Kisling (Registrar) from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 17, in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium. Reid has accepted the position of senior pastor at Grace Baptist Church in Newberg and will be leaving the university Dec. 31 after five years of service.
