Greetings from your Staff Development Committee!
Please take a moment and visit the new Staff Development Committee website to learn about upcoming events and benefits available to you as a staff member at George Fox. The website is: georgefox.edu/sdc.
Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (HR) by this Friday, Aug. 13, if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for August 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 (what was done, who was impacted, etc.), and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.
Please submit your nomination by Friday, Aug. 13. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the Employee of the Month from the nominations submitted. The winners of both the July and August Employee of the Month awards will be announced at the all-employee meeting on Aug. 20, and each will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.
First-generation college alumni students are needed for a doctoral research project. (Participants do not need to be George Fox alumni.) Each participant will receive a $10 gift certificate to Starbucks for a 55-minute interview.
If you are interested in this project, please e-mail Joel Perez at jperez@georgefox.edu or phone him at ext. 2305.
Thank you.
Two questions concerning early America – “Did America have a Christian founding?†and “Did the founders want separation of church and state?†– will be addressed at a summer symposium hosted on the Newberg campus on Friday, Aug. 13.
Daniel L. Dreisbach, a professor in the Department of Law, Justice and Society at American University who studied philosophy as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, will present a lecture, “Thomas Jefferson and the ‘Wall of Separation’ Between Church and State,†from 6 to 7 p.m. in Hoover 105. There is no charge to attend.
Prior to the lecture, a barbecue and book-signing session are scheduled from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the quad. The cost for the barbecue is $13 per person. Joining Dreisbach at the book signing will be Mark David Hall (Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Political Science), a frequent collaborator with Dreisbach. The two coauthored The Sacred Rights of Conscience and teamed with Jeffry H. Morrison to write The Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life and The Founders on God and Government. Copies of the books will be available for sale at the signing session.
Registration details and more information are available at veritasschool.net. Seating is limited, so those interested in attending are encouraged to register as soon as possible. The lecture is co-sponsored by the university’s political science department and Veritas School of Newberg.
IT is offering a webinar on the FoxTALE-MyGFU integration. Join the webinar session from any computer on Monday, Aug. 9, between 10 and 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time. Space is still available, so sign up on this RSVP form.
This integration allows faculty to activate course sites. Students will automatically be enrolled. For fall 2010, faculty have the option of using the new system or continuing with the usual process. The new system will be fully implemented in the spring of 2011.
Before Aug. 9, visit the iVocalize support website and go through the four sections available on the Getting Started page. Be sure to run the system requirements test available on this page. The login information for the training session will be sent to you via e-mail prior to the event.
If you need assistance, contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or call ext. 2569.
Registration is still open for the university’s fourth Motorcycle Rally, scheduled Saturday, Aug. 14. The event features both a long (185-215 miles) and short (110-115 miles) ride, with the former traveling through the coast range and the latter winding through the hills and valleys of Yamhill County.
The event also features a motorcycle show and barbecue dinner on the Newberg campus that evening. For schedule and price details, visit the event website or contact Alumni Relations at ext. 2131. The registration deadline is Monday, Aug. 9.
As we begin the 2010-11 academic year, it is time once again to gather as a community.
Please mark your calendars:
The fall 2010 George Fox University Employee Community Meeting is scheduled from 8 to 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 20. Attendance is required.
Breakfast will be served in Klages Dining Room from 8 to 8:35 a.m. The meeting will follow in Bauman Auditorium, starting with worship at 8:45 a.m. led by Bill Jolliff.
For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. In addition, a chat room has been set up to allow for interaction. A video recording of the event will be available in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.
As we move into August, please consider nominating a deserving colleague for the August Employee of the Month award. 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) – what was done, who was impacted, etc. – and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.
Please submit your nomination by Monday, Aug. 16, via e-mail to Peggy Kilburg. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the recipient from the nominations submitted. The winners for both the July and August awards will be announced at our community meeting on Friday morning, Aug. 20, and will each receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.
Student supervisors: Payday is Monday, Aug. 16. For HR to meet this deadline, we need your students’ July time sheets by 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 4.
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.
Thanks so much for helping us get our students paid in a timely manner!
– HR
Drop by Print Services anytime between 3 and 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 29, to say farewell to Steve Edwards. He has accepted a pastorial position in Rochester, Minn. His last day at George Fox is Friday.
Interested employees are welcome to apply for an administrative assistant III position in the undergraduate teacher education department (located in the Villa Academic Complex).
If you are interested in this 40-hour-per-week, 10.5-month position (Aug. 1 to June 15 annually/.88FTE), please apply by this Wednesday, July 21. To do so, e-mail hr@georgefox.edu to obtain a copy of the job description and transfer request.
A transfer request, cover letter and resume must be submitted (e-mail or hard copy) to Human Resources by Wednesday.
FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 7 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, July 27, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.
– IT
The university is again hosting Selah, a one-day seminar for women, on Saturday, Sept. 25, from 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The theme of his year’s event is “It’s time to Simplify. Discover the biblical truth that less is more.”
Keynote speakers will be Vicki Norris, president of Restoring Order, and university pastor Sarah Thomas Baldwin. Online registration and complete details are now available at selah.georgefox.edu.
Get $10 off your registration and a free T-shirt when you volunteer for Selah! If interested, please contact Amy Lorenz (University Relations) at alorenz@georgefox.edu or ext. 2134.
Scott Rueck, the coach who guided George Fox to a 2009 national D-III women’s basketball championship and seven conference titles in 14 seasons, has written an open letter to thank the university community for its unwavering support over the years. Rueck announced earlier this month he was leaving George Fox to take the head women’s basketball job at Oregon State University, his alma mater.
Click here to read Scott’s letter of thanks to the community.
Join us in celebrating Vickie Timmons’ retirement! An open house reception will be held at the Pennington House garden from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, July 22. Just come around the side of the house to the backyard.
Interested employees are welcome to apply for an administrative assistant III position in the undergraduate teacher education department (located in the Villa Academic Complex).
If you are interested in this 40-hour-per-week, 10.5-month position (Aug. 1 to June 15 annually/.88FTE), please apply by this Friday, July 16. To do so, e-mail hr@georgefox.edu to obtain a copy of the job description and transfer request. A transfer request, cover letter and resume must by submitted (e-mail or hard copy) to Human Resources by Friday.
It is time once again to order university stationery. For detailed order instructions, go to the university’s communications website.
Elizabeth Holme (Print Services) will work with the Office of Marketing Communications in ordering general university (i.e. non-departmental stationery) letterhead and envelopes. You will continue to purchase all non-departmental stationery (including “second-sheet letterheadâ€) through her.
Orders are due by Tuesday, July 20.
Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (HR) by this Friday if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for July 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 (what was done, who was impacted, etc.), and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.
Please submit your nomination by Friday, July 16. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the Employee of the Month from the nominations submitted. The winner of both the July and August Employee of the Month awards will be announced at the all-employee meeting in August, and each will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.
Interested employees are welcome to apply for an administrative assistant III position in the undergraduate teacher education department (located in the Villa Academic Complex).
This opening is the result of what HR refers to as the “domino effect.†Brenda Burg was selected to fill the new executive assistant I position to assist the dean of instruction and others in the AAO beginning Aug. 1. Brenda’s job change has created a vacancy for a 40-hour-per-week, 10-month position (.88FTE). It will be open only to internal applicants (employees) through at least Friday, July 16.
Please e-mail hr@georgefox.edu to obtain a copy of the job description and transfer request if you are interested. To apply, please submit a transfer request, cover letter and resume to Human Resources by July 16.
Print Services will be placing caution labels on all floor-model Ricoh copiers within the next week. The Ricoh Americas Corporation distributed the labels based on the risk of the copiers tipping over when more than one of the paper trays is open at the same time. While there have been no reports of such incidents in the United States, prevention starts with this notice, the application of the labels, and a follow-up visit from the repair techs as they can get to each machine.
If you have noticed even the slightest possibility of this incident with any of our Ricoh copiers, please let Elizabeth Holme (Print Services) know either by e-mail or phone (ext. 2550).
