The Daily Bruin

This is a reminder that an all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 30, 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.  If you have any problems connecting, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569. In addition, a chat room has been set up to allow for interaction. A video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.

The university community is invited to Paul Otto’s lecture tracing the use of wampum in ceremony, trade, currency and friendship. Please join us at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Hoover 105 and learn the history of these “Beads of Power.”

Interested in looking at a digital solution for giving students immediate feedback? Join IT for a session on how to use the FoxTALE Grade Book as part of your assessment tool kit.

IT will host two face-to-face sessions: On Tuesday, Oct. 5, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Portland Center (Room 210) and on Thursday, Oct. 7, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Hoover 211. Can’t make it? Join our webinar on Wednesday, Oct. 6, from 3 to 4 p.m. Pacific (PDT).

Space is still available for these sessions. Sign up on this R.S.V.P. form. For details on what this session covers, see Add Assignments and Grades printable instructions at Faculty Quick Guides for FoxTALE.

See all of the faculty and staff development sessions IT hosts at Schedule of Events.

The Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends and the university’s Center for Peace and Justice would like to invite all students, faculty and staff to this weekend’s conference: “Christians and Immigration in a Land of Contradictions: A Call to Biblical Action.”

On Friday and Saturday, join with other concerned Christians as we educate ourselves about immigration in the United States. Together, we will examine details of immigration law and history, hearing firsthand stories about the immigrant experience and be inspired by fellow Christians working to share the love of Christ with our immigrant brothers and sisters. Although there is no charge for those from George Fox, participants are asked to register online at this link.

For a detailed schedule of events, please see our page on the university’s website.

Questions? E-mail peaceandjustice@georgefox.edu.

We hope to see you this weekend.

Blessings,
George Fox Center for Peace and Justice

Tickets are still available for this Thursday’s concert featuring internationally acclaimed pianist Valentina Lisitsa in Bauman Auditorium. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m.

Lisitsa will play a selection of Chopin and Liszt pieces in celebration of their 200th birthdays (Chopin was born in 1810 and Liszt in 1811). She is making the appearance to benefit the Friends of Music program, the main resource fund for the university’s Bösendorfer concert series.

Tickets are only $5 for all university students and employees (get your ticket at the box office). To learn more about Lisitsa, visit valentinalisitsa.com. Don’t miss seeing this gifted pianist perform!

Tilikum Center for Retreats & Outdoor Ministries’ annual Potlatch celebration is Saturday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. in the Klages Dining Room. All are welcome, and the registration deadline is Monday, Oct. 11.

The event celebrates past donors and program supporters and presents the camp’s “Foundations for the Future, Phase 2” campaign. To R.S.V.P., call 503-538-2763 or e-mail tilikum@georgefox.edu.

Student supervisors: The first pay day of the new school year for student employees is Friday, Oct. 15. For us to meet this deadline, we need your students’ September time sheets by Tuesday, Oct. 5, by 5 p.m.

Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Also, don’t forget to sign them and be sure the students did as well. Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets.

If you still have paperwork for new or returning student employees, please get it turned in as soon as possible.

Thanks so much for helping us get our students paid in a timely manner!

– HR

The university community is invited to Paul Otto’s lecture tracing the use of wampum in ceremony, trade, currency and friendship. Please join us at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Hoover 105 and learn the history of these “Beads of Power.”

Join us to hear author Shauna Niequist as she speaks in chapel Wednesday,  Sept. 29. Following chapel at 11:30 a.m., she will be signing copies of her books at the Bruin Bookstore from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Her books, Bittersweet and Cold Tangerines, will be available at a discount in the store. Refreshments will be provided.

That night, Niequist also will be speaking at a special evening chapel beginning at 9 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Join us at North Valley Friends Church this Saturday, Sept. 25, to help build and establish the Newberg peace trail. Visit the project website to learn of the vision and plan. It is “a place for peace, to learn about peace, to celebrate peace” put together by North Valley Friends and the surrounding Newberg community, including the university’s Center for Peace and Justice.

If interested, please send us an e-mail R.S.V.P. at peaceandjustice@georgefox.edu. We’ll meet at 9 a.m. outside in the Stevens Center parking lot to carpool. If you have a car, please bring it. You will be working on putting the language and quote boards on the peace poles, preparing the ground and building the forms for the bench pads, and working on the path leading from the walking trail to the labyrinth. There may also be space for you to assist with labyrinth design.

We will work until around mid-afternoon, depending on how many people assist with the project. Lunch will be provided to all of the workers.

– Center for Peace and Justice/Center for Global Studies

Marketing Communications is collecting orders for name tags. For those who have regular face-to-face contact with the public and need to order a name tag, you may now submit and view your name tag requests. Click on this link to place your order.

Provide the name of the person for whom the name tag is needed; title or department; and the budget to be charged. Examples of title or department include: Dean of Students/Student Life and Admissions Counselor/Admissions. The next order will be placed Friday, Oct. 1.

We have a new batch of books out now for sale. Come take a look!

$2 for hardback; $1 for paperback;

Volume discount -> more than 10 books = half price ($1 hardbacks; $0.50 paperbacks!)

Portland Center Library hours:

Monday-Thursday: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

An all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 30, 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.  If you have any problems connecting, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569. In addition, a chat room has been set up to allow for interaction. A video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.

George Fox Evangelical Seminary will host author Scot McKnight for a one-day seminar, “In the Beginning was the Gospel,” from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Sept. 29, in Room 155 at the Portland Center. The event is part of the seminary’s Ministry in Contemporary Culture series.

McKnight, author of The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible, will discuss “the many differences between how we ‘evangelize’ and how the apostles evangelized.” He poses such questions as “Do we need to re-examine the meaning of ‘gospel’?”, “Did Jesus preach the gospel or were the apostles the first to preach the gospel?”, and “How important is the cross to the gospel?”

Admission is $20 for employees and students. An optional deli lunch will be available on site for $10. To register online or learn more about McKnight, visit seminars.georgefox.edu.

The admissions office, in conjunction with Human Resources, is hosting an information session for all employees who have questions regarding the 2011 undergraduate admissions process for tuition remission students. Join us from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22, in Hoover 105.

Please note the location change to Hoover 105 due to the amount of interest we have been receiving.

The seventh annual Selah women’s seminar is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. this Saturday, Sept. 25, in Bauman Auditorium. Speakers Vicki Norris and Sarah Thomas Baldwin will share on topics related to the conference’s theme, “It’s Time to Simplify: Discover the Biblical Truth That Less is More.” The event will encourage you to live simply, prioritize your highest values, and spend your time and resources intentionally.

To register or to learn more about the speakers or workshops offered, visit selah.georgefox.edu. The seminar is free to the university’s traditional undergraduate students and costs $32 for employees ($47 at the door). Questions? Visit the event website or contact Amy Lorenz (University Relations) at alorenz@georgefox.edu or ext. 2134.

Tickets are now on sale for a concert featuring internationally acclaimed pianist Valentina Lisitsa at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30, in Bauman Auditorium.

The performance, which will include a selection of Chopin and Liszt pieces, marks a return to George Fox for Lisitsa, who performed at the fourth annual Bösendorfer Artist Concert Series in February. She is making this appearance to benefit the university’s Friends of Music program.

Tickets are $5 for all university students and employees. Additional tickets are available for $20 (adults) and $10 (alumni and seniors). All tickets may be purchased at music.georgefox.edu. To learn more about Lisitsa, visit valentinalisitsa.com.

Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (HR) by Friday, Sept. 24, if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for September 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 employee meeting on Sept. 30 and will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.

The admissions office, in conjunction with Human Resources, is hosting an information session for all employees who have questions regarding the 2011 admissions process for tuition remission students. Join us from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22, in Hoover 104.

Questions? Contact Taylor Martin (Admissions) at tmartin@georgefox.edu.

As you may be aware, George Fox asks new faculty and staff to voluntarily answer questions about their race and ethnicity. This helps us when we report information in aggregate (it is never reported for individuals) about our employees.

Recently, the U.S. Department of Education implemented new race and ethnicity categories that require responses to two questions rather than one. This allows for better reporting given the changing makeup of our nation’s population. You might recognize these questions from the 2010 U. S. Census form.

We would appreciate it if all employees responded to the new questions to enable us to better comply with the new reporting requirements (on IPEDS and other reports).

To do so:

1. Login to MyGFU.

2. Navigate to Self Service > Campus Personal Information > Ethnicity. (The message in the screen mentions “students,” but it is applicable to employees as well.)

3. If you indicated racial/ethnic information to George Fox in the past, it will be shown. Respond to the questions, and check the “The information is correct as entered” box.

4. Click Submit.

Again, reporting your race and ethnicity is voluntary, but it is very helpful to us as we assess our programs and serve our diverse world.

For more information, visit this link.

Thank you,
HR