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The Career Management Seminar sponsored by the School of Professional Studies will be on April 10, 2010 in Room 285b will feature speaker Peter DePaoli.  Peter is an adjunct professor at GFU with over 30 years of career development experience.  Through this seminar you will come to understand and assess your God given talents, and apply your interests to tangible work positions.

The cost of this seminar is $50.

For more information please contact Jack Lyda at lydaj@georgefox.edu or 503.554.6188
Please sign up by Friday, April 2.

Please note a correction to the rehearsal dates for the university’s mass singing of Vivaldi’s Gloria. Practices will be on Mondays and Tuesdays April 5-6, 12-13 and 19-20, between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. in Ross 208.

All those with singing experience are invited to join in singing with the choir at the final concert of the spring semester, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 23, in Bauman Auditorium.

For more information, contact Debbie Hawblitzel at dhawblit@georgefox.edu.

Debbie Melton, the director of admissions for Oregon Health and Science University’s MD program, will visit George Fox at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, in Hoover 103. She will speak about the OHSU School of Medicine and its admissions process.

The session will include an opportunity for questions and answers following her talk. If you are interested in attending medical school at OHSU, this is a wonderful opportunity. Joining Debbie will be Lori Toner and Ebony Lawrence, also from OHSU.

Loren Wenz would like to invite those in the university with singing experience to join a mass choir for a singing of Vivaldi’s Gloria at the final concert of the spring semester, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 23, in Bauman Auditorium.

Those interested will need to attend practices between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. on the following dates: April 5-6, 12-13, and 19-20. Practices will take place in Ross 208.

For more information, contact Debbie Hawblitzel at dhawblit@georgefox.edu.

Join us in Hoover 105 on Wednesday, March 31, for a showing of the movie Papers from 6 to 8 p.m. Following the movie, a panel discussion will take place and feature the producer of Papers, an immigration attorney, and a community activist.

Papers is the story of undocumented youth and the challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status. The event, hosted by the office of transitions and inclusion, is being held in commemoration of Cesar Chavez and his dream of human rights in education.

About 65,000 undocumented students graduate every year from high school without “papers,” and the door to their future slams shut.

Please join the women of George Fox for pizza and a movie Tuesday, March 30, in Hoover 105. Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m., and the movie Lars and the Real Girl begins at 6:30 p.m. See you there!

After 32 years of service to the university, communication arts professor Richard Engnell is retiring this spring. To honor his contributions, a legacy book is being created. Colleagues and former students of Richard are invited to send thoughts, wishes, stories and memories of him to Valerie Rogers (vrogers@georgefox.edu) so they may be included in the book.

Submissions are due by Friday, April 2. A retirement reception for Richard is scheduled later in the month (details to be announced).

Student supervisors, please submit your students’ March time sheets to HR right away – by Monday, April 5, by 3 p.m. Since there is a holiday on Friday, April 2, payroll processing time will be short, so meeting this deadline is crucial.

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. (If the student is not available to sign it this week, please send it without the signature, and HR will contact the student.) Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets.

Federal Work Study regulations require that students delivering their own time sheets must have them placed, by you, in a sealed envelope. If you happen to still have any paperwork to submit on a newly hired student who worked in March, please hand-deliver it right away – no later than Wednesday, March 31. We need to set up students in the system before the time sheets arrive.

Thanks very much.
HR

Be sure to verify that any changes you requested to your medical insurance, your cash-in-lieu of insurance and/or your dental insurance are reflected in the deductions portion of your March 31 pay statement. For flexible spending, the March 31 deduction is the last one of the current plan year so you won’t see a change in your flex spending deduction until April 30.

Amy Dee and Ken Badley (School of Education) will present “Authorizing Our Students” at a Faculty Teaching Forum from 12:40 to 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 31, in Cap and Gown A.

The session will explore ways to give students voice and choice in the courses we teach while remaining true to course objectives.

To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (jwithers@georgefox.edu) by 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 30. Everyone is welcome to attend the session, whether bringing a lunch or reserving a lunch.

All faculty — full time, part time, and adjunct — are invited to attend Faculty Teaching Forums (FTFs). The schedule of upcoming sessions is available online. Video podcasts of FTFs will be available on iTunesU.

The next two fiscal years’ holiday schedules have been finalized and approved and are now available for employees to view at:

georgefox.edu/offices/hr/2009-10_2011-12%20Holidays%20Final.pdf

The Bruin Bookstore will close at 5 p.m. this Thursday, April 1, and will be closed for Good Friday and the rest of the Easter weekend. The store will reopen at 8 a.m. on Monday, April 5.

Attention Spring 2010 Graduates-

On Monday, March 29 and Tuesday, March 30, the Portland Center will be hosting a “grad fair” for you from 4 to 8:30 p.m. in Room 155. This is an exclusive “graduates only” party to celebrate your achievement and to help you connect with some fantastic opportunities to:

• Check out Alumni products from the Bruin Bookstore
• Meet with a Josten’s representative to order a class ring or graduation announcements
• Check on your student account and ask questions of your Student Financial Services representative
• Interact with admissions counselors from the Graduate schools
• Talk with Career Services about the tools available to you
• Meet your alumni services team to learn how to stay connected to GFU
• Pick up your regalia and verify your name for your diploma

There will be door prizes awarded, wonderful food provided by Kam & Kam Catering as well as your very own “Swag Bag” filled with graduation goodies.

Textbooks for all programs at the Portland Center will be posted online by April 16, 2010.  To order your books for Summer 2010, simply log on to www.store.georgefox.edu and click the “textbooks” tab.  Couldn’t be easier!  See you online!

P.S.  You can also order diploma frames and George Fox clothing online!

Textbook buyback happens twice a year and is scheduled for three days during fall finals and three days during spring finals.

Books being used for subsequent semesters will be purchased at 50 percent of the new price (regardless of whether the book was purchased new or used).

Books not needed for the Bruin Bookstore will be purchased at the price set by the wholesaler.

The next Portland Center textbook buyback is scheduled for:

Tuesday-Thursday

April 27 – 29, 2010
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Location: TBA

If you are unable to come in during these hours, consider having a friend bring your textbooks in for you.

Please join the women of George Fox for pizza and a movie on Tuesday, March 30, in Hoover 105. Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m., and the movie Lars and the Real Girl begins at 6:30 p.m. Please R.S.V.P. to Lori Allen at allen.redpants@gmail.com by Monday, March 29. Thank you and see you there!

Following is University Mail Services’ schedule for spring break:

Open: Monday through Thursday, March 22-25, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Closed: Friday, March 26

Courier Service:
Portland Center: Normal schedule, Monday through Thursday
Salem campus: Normal schedule Monday and Thursday only

The university now has a subscription to the online version of “Birds of North America.” You can access it from the library’s website.

Scroll down to the “Birds of North America” link, halfway down the page under Environmental Resources. This can be accessed from off-campus by entering your ID number for the bar code. Enjoy!

Don’t forget: An all-employee meeting is set from 3:40 to 5 p.m. Thursday, March 18, in Hoover 105. As part of the meeting, President Robin Baker will give a report of the March 12-13 board of trustees meeting.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. For best results, use Mozilla Firefox for your web browser, and your computer must have QuickTime Player installed. Simply copy the link into the address bar of your browser. If you have any problems, 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 the following day at itunesu.georgefox.edu.

Nominations for Support Staff Member of the Year and Administrative Staff Member of the Year for 2009 are due in HR on Monday, March 22.

If you have any colleagues you believe are deserving of this award, please take a few minutes to submit a nomination by describing each 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, and how this impact was and can be observed. 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 George Fox, and leadership skills at the university and the broader community in the past year?

Nominations can be submitted via e-mail (hr@georgefox.edu), fax or hard copy, but they must arrive in HR by 5 p.m. on Monday.