Just a reminder: You must show your university ID card when attending home basketball games. Please go to the ticket table, show your ID and have your hand stamped. Playoff games are not covered.
The university has posted a new cellular phone/data policy on the financial affairs website. Visit georgefox.edu/offices/fin_affairs/FORMS.html to get the details. If you have questions, please contact Karon Bell (Financial Affairs) at ext. 2162.
Once a year, the George Fox Symphonic Band invites a guest ensemble to perform with them at a fall concert. This year, the Newberg Community Band will be joining the band in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17, in Bauman Auditorium. Please join the music department in supporting our students and community members. Admission is free.
FoxTALE is being upgraded from version 1.8.6+ to version 1.9 on Monday, Dec. 29. FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 29, until 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 30.
Read about the upgrade and the new 1.9 features on the IT website. Questions? Contact the Service Desk.
The all-employee meeting originally scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 20, has been moved to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, in Hoover 105. Please make a note of this scheduling change. The meeting will provide employees with an opportunity to receive campus updates. Your attendance is strongly encouraged.
For those at the Boise and Portland centers, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. After the meeting, it will be posted at itunesu.georgefox.edu.
Shahriar Ahmed, president of the Bilal Mosque Association in Beaverton, and Rabbi Joseph Wolf from Havurah Shalom in Portland will have an interfaith dialogue at the university’s Liberal Arts and Critical Issues Forum from 4:40 to 5:30 p.m. and from 7 to 7:50 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10, in Hoover 105. The session is part of George Fox’s series of events this fall concerning Islam and the West. For more information, contact Caitlin Corning (History) at ext. 2673 or ccorning@georgefox.edu.
The School of Management will host a roundtable discussion from 7 to 9 a.m. Friday, Nov. 14, in the Portland Center’s Room 285. Dean Ken Armstrong (School of Management) will moderate a panel of experts who will discuss the global financial crisis.
There are three ways to participate:
Additional information is available at the School of Management site. Registration for Newberg attendance is not necessary.
Information on margins for both versions of the university’s new letterhead is now available on marketing communications’ website.
Start your holiday shopping early and enjoy some festive snacks at the George Fox Auxiliary’s annual holiday bazaar and silent auction Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7-8. The bazaar runs from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the Ron Gregory Atrium.
The silent auction also runs Friday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and goes from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Hoover Atrium. Several new vendors are participating in the event this year.
Family Weekend is set for this Friday through Sunday, Nov. 7-9. Don’t forget to register for the different events taking place. For a schedule of events, visit the Family Weekend website. Online registration will be removed at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5.
The university community is invited to a faculty research forum presented by Melanie Hulbert (Sociology) at 10:40 a.m. Friday, Nov. 7, in Hoover 105.
Hulbert will present “The Way Forward: Women Finding Their Voice in a Culture of Confusion.” Her talk will address why women, despite so many options and possibilities today, continue to struggle to know who they are as mothers, wives, workers, and women of faith.
A question-and-answer session will follow, and simple refreshments will be served.
The library is having a book sale Nov. 3-14.
Hardbacks are $2 and paperbacks are $1
There is a little something for everyone. Come by and look.
Why not kick off your Family Weekend with music? This is a reminder that two concerts will be presented this weekend at George Fox. “An Evening of Jazz,” featuring jazz artist Dominique Eade and the George Fox University Jazz Band and Faculty Jazz Trio, is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, in Bauman Auditorium.
On Saturday, Nov. 8, a Fall Concert begins at 4 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. Come listen to the Chamber Singers, Women’s Chorale, Concert Choir, Early Music Ensemble and Symphonic Band.
Both concerts are free.
The university’s theatre department invites the community to its fall musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Nov. 6-9 and Nov. 12-16 in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6-8 and 12-15 and at 2 p.m. both Sundays, Nov. 9 and 16.
The play, directed by Teresa Thuman, is set in the early 1920s, when small-town girl Millie Dillmount moves to New York City. There, she encounters the jazz and glamour of the city, as well as danger and intrigue. The play was adapted from the 1967 Oscar-winning film of the same name, starring Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore.
Employees receive one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the University Store. Students are welcome to see the show free of charge on Thursday, Nov. 6, and Wednesday, Nov. 12, and may pick up those tickets at the University Store. The cost is $10 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. To purchase tickets or find out more, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.
Please take a few minutes to submit your October time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) to your supervisor right away. As always, please be sure it is complete, accurate and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. (If your supervisor is not available to sign it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.)
These documents are available on the HR website. A tip to help you remember to do this each month: Set a recurring appointment on your Outlook calendar for the first business day of each month with a brief notation, “Turn in time sheet.” That gives you one less thing to have to remember, allowing you to save your brain space for important stuff.
Thank you,
Human Resources
Student supervisors, please submit your students’ October time sheets to HR right away. Please be sure the student’s name is legible on each one and use the new cost center numbers.
Also, don’t forget to sign the time sheet 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; HR will hold the check until the time sheet is signed.) If a student delivers his or her own time sheet to HR, it must be in a sealed envelope — a FWS regulation.
The Staff Development Committee would like to say a big thank you to everyone who participated in the Love INC non-food pantry drive. Together, we collected dozens of boxes for those in need, including 3,383 toothbrushes, 558 rolls of toilet paper, 485 containers of dental floss, as well as lots of shampoo, conditioner, baby products, shaving supplies, household cleaners, body soap and more.
Thank you for demonstrating love for our neighbors in need.
– Staff Development Committee
The university’s iTunesU site, devoted to higher education podcasting, is now included in Apple’s public search through the iTunesU tab under the iTunes Store. This marks an upgrade to the site’s profile, as previously George Fox’s site was not searchable in the larger community of iTunesU.
Thanks go to John Taggart and others in IT, as well as the Marketing Communications staff, for getting the site upgraded. We invite you to check it out at itunesu.georgefox.edu.
As part of the university’s Family Weekend next week, the Department of Performing Arts is putting on its Fall Concert at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, in Bauman Auditorium. Come listen to the Chamber Singers, Women’s Chorale, Concert Choir, Early Music Ensemble and Symphonic Band. Admission is free.
The university now has its own Enterprise website to reserve and pay your car and van rentals used for university business. We will be having a training session at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, in Stevens 101. If you book vehicles for your use or your department’s use, please plan to attend. Refreshments will be provided. Questions? Contact Karon Bell (Financial Affairs) at ext. 2162.
