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Due to high demand from participants, TIAA-CREF’s two newest, very timely, and highly successful seminars — “Staying on Track in a Volatile Market” and “A History of Strength and Stability” — are now available on its website as a web seminar. The first seminar addresses the historical returns and inherent volatility of stocks as well as the importance of asset allocation. The second seminar provides information on the financial strength of TIAA-CREF.

Given the current financial situation, both topics may be of interest to you, and the web seminars will enable you to learn more about both topics at a time convenient to you.

The seminars may be accessed by going to the TIAA-CREF homepage, tiaa-cref.org, then selecting the tab “Education & Support.”

Due to the staff retreat on Thursday, Oct. 23, no courier service will be available that day. Regular service will continue on Friday, Oct. 24.

The Staff Development Committee anticipates your attendance at this year’s conference with guest speaker Dan Brunner (Seminary). The theme of the event is “Where Do I Fit? Finding Your Piece of the Puzzle.”

The conference runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, at Family Life Church, 502 St. Paul Highway, in Newberg. Come and see how we all fit together into this community called George Fox University.

The university is selling a 1995 Mercury Grand Marquis GS that was formerly driven by Dave Brandt and Dana Miller. It is light blue and has 106,000 miles on it. Selling as is. Call Plant Services at ext. 2010 to see the car and arrange for a test drive. If interested, make an offer in writing and turn in to Plant Services by 4:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27.

Congratulations to Patti Odenweller (Registrar’s Office), winner of the iPod Touch that was generously donated by our University Store for the long-term care insurance meetings. A total of 39 employees attended one of the meetings, and all were entered in the drawing. Thanks to all who attended. If you still have questions, please contact Long Term Care Solutions at 877-286-2852 or Lisa Burton or Peggy Kilburg (Human Resources).

The Graduate Department of Counseling is changing the name of its on-campus clinic. The Portland Center for Counseling and Family Therapy is now called Individual & Family Matters, a Counseling Service of the Graduate Department of Counseling.

Individual & Family Matters is a nonprofit educational and counseling clinic offering therapeutic services to families, couples, individuals and children/adolescents. It is staffed by advanced graduate students supervised by American Association of Marriage & Family Therapy-approved supervisors and George Fox University faculty supervisors. Ellen R. Minshew, MS, LMFT, is the director of the clinic, located in the Portland North Building. More information is available at 503-554-6060.

The Health and Counseling Center will host a walk-in flu shot clinic from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, at the Portland Center, in Room 155B. The cost is $15. Pioneer Education Health Trust will cover the cost. Please note Kaiser Insurance offers free flu shots to members at local Kaiser facilities.

Employees enrolling in long-term care insurance who wish to have coverage effective Dec. 1 (with payroll deductions beginning Dec. 31) and with guarantee issue (enrollment guaranteed without medical questionnaire required), enrollment must be completed Friday, Oct. 17.

To enroll online, go to enrollment.jhcorpchoice.com/login.aspx
User name: georgefox; Password: mybenefit

This website also provides a calculation function to compare costs of various levels of coverage before you enroll. Enrollment is very quick and easy — 10 minutes or less. You also can have your questions answered and/or enroll by calling Long Term Care Solutions at 1-877-286-2852.

If you enroll with the paper enrollment form in the packet, it must be submitted to HR by the deadline. Bring, fax or e-mail the completed form to Peggy Kilburg or Lisa Burton (Human Resources). Our fax number is 503-554-2186.

Spouses of employees also can have premiums payroll deducted. To begin coverage Dec. 1 (for a Dec. 31st deduction), however, a spouse’s enrollment must be done by Friday as well. Spouses and other family members may enroll at any time and will be required to complete a medical questionnaire as part of the enrollment process.

Interested in being a staff adviser for winter serve? We need faculty and staff to lead our trips Jan. 4-10, 2009. This year, teams of students will serve at Twin Rocks, Seattle, Portland and possibly in the Newberg area. Each trip needs a faculty adviser. The theme for the year is “People Matter.”

If you are interested in being a staff adviser for one of these trips, contact Ryan Wilmot at rwilmot04@georgefox.edu. We also are organizing a prayer team of people who will pray for these trips both before and during their week of service. Please respond by Friday, Oct. 24, if you are interested in either advising a trip or being a part of the prayer team.

– Ryan Wilmot
ASC serve trip coordinator

Tigard Costco membership staff will be in the second floor atrium again on Thursday, Oct. 16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to give away samples and offer sign-ups for individual/personal memberships.

You can also call the membership coordinator, Nancy, at 503-639-0773 if you have questions.

Employees interested in learning more about long-term insurance are invited to the university’s final long-term care insurance meeting from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, in Room 280 at the Portland Center. Spouses and/or other family members are welcome to attend as well. Sub sandwiches will be available at the meeting.

Long-term care insurance helps protect your retirement savings and other assets from potentially devastating long-term care costs. Employees have the advantage of this one-time guarantee issue, which means they are guaranteed to be issued a policy upon application with no medical questions asked if they enroll by this Friday, Oct. 17.

Employees attending are eligible to win an iPod, compliments of the University Store. Go to georgefox.edu/offices/hr/benefits.html to read a longer article about LTC insurance. Employees can ask questions and/or enroll at a meeting or call LTC Solutions at 877-286-2852.

The Orbis Cascade Alliance, in conjunction with Online Computer Library Center, is finalizing work on the new Summit catalog. Summit is the catalog for ordering books and media from other academic libraries in Washington and Oregon. With one search, this new catalog will allow you to discover materials from all over the world. One search will soon allow you access to both the Summit and WorldCat catalogs.

The new catalog will be available to use beginning Dec. 1. Some inconveniences and disruptions in Summit features and functions may be part of the transition. The library is working hard to bring you better searching and discovery tools and will appreciate your patience while we work on implementing the new Summit system.

To learn more, go to orbiscascade.org/index/new-summit to read an FAQ on the new Summit catalog.

Kenn Willson (Performing Arts), a Bosendorfer Artist, will present a faculty recital entitled “Encounters with Beethoven” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, in Bauman Auditorium. This is not your typical piano recital, so come out and enjoy.

The GFU Health and Counseling Center will host a walk-in flu shot clinic from 4  to 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, in Room 155b. The cost is $15. Students cost is $1.50 with GFU student insurance (Aetna). Pioneer Education Health Trust will cover the cost for covered employees. A receipt can be provided at request to submit to your insurance for reimbursement as needed. Please note Kaiser Insurance offers free flu shots to members at local Kaiser facilities.

The Newberg campus will take its mid-semester holiday on Monday, Oct. 13. No classes will be held, and the university’s offices, bookstore, switchboard, and library will be closed. The Portland and Boise sites will remain open.

Multicultural Services would like to encourage staff and faculty to hear Tim Jacob Wise share his thoughts on racism at Portland Community College’s Sylvania campus at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15. Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the country and has spoken in 48 states on more than 400 college campuses, including Harvard, Stanford, and the law schools at Yale and Columbia.

Wise is the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son and Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White. A collection of his essays, Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male, will be published in the fall of 2008, and his fourth book, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Race and Whiteness in the Age of Obama, will be released in spring 2009.

Wednesday’s session is entitled “Beyond Diversity: Challenging Racism in an Age of Backlash.” It will take place in the Performing Arts Center at PCC, 12000 S.W. 49th Ave. He also will speak at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, on “White Privilege: Racism, White Denial & the Costs of Inequality,” in the Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104, on the Cascade campus, 705 N. Killingsworth St.

A final meeting, discussing “Profiles in Distortion: Misusing Data to Justify Racism and Privilege,” is set for 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, at The Forum, Building 3, Rock Creek Campus, 17705 N.W. Springville Road.

For more information, visit timwise.org and pcc.edu. E-mail Shelley Yonemura (Mulitcultural Services) if you have questions.

Employees interested in learning more about long-term care insurance are invited to an information meeting from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, in Hoover 102, on the Newberg campus. Spouses and/or other family members are welcome to attend as well.

Long-term care insurance helps protect your retirement savings and other assets from potentially devastating long-term care costs. With the average cost of care being $68,985 per year, long-term care costs could seriously impact your nest egg.

Employees have the advantage of this one-time “guarantee issue,” which means they are guaranteed to be issued a policy upon application with no medical questions asked if they enroll by Oct. 17.

Two other opportunities to hear about long-term care insurance are also available:
Tuesday, Oct. 14, 10-11 a.m., webinar (see link below for instructions)
Wednesday, Oct. 15, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Portland 280 (sub sandwich served)

Employees attending any of the meetings at the Newberg or Portland campuses are eligible to win an iPod, compliments of the University Store. Employees from Boise, Salem and Redmond who participate by joining the webinar also will be included in the drawing.

Go to georgefox.edu/offices/hr/benefits.html for instructions on how to participate in the webinar and to read a longer article about long-term care insurance.

Employees can ask questions or enroll at a meeting or call LTC Solutions at 877-286-2852 if attending a meeting or the webinar is not convenient.

We are looking for a full-time, temporary custodian to work at the Portland Center through October and possibly through November. The work schedule for this position is 5 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. If you know of someone who might be interested in this job, please have the person(s) contact HR at hr@georgefox.edu or at 503-554-2185.

You could spend a semester in another country. Learn about overseas study programs and specialized programs within the United States at one of two informational meetings either Wednesday, Oct. 15, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., or Thursday, Oct. 16, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Both meetings will take place in Hoover 105. Sponsored by the Center for Global Studies. Questions? Contact Lon Fendall (Center for Global Studies) at lfendall@georgefox.edu or ext. 2685.

Plant Services is hosting a surplus sale Thursday and Friday, Oct. 9-10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Drop by the Villa Academic Complex at 501 Villa Road to shop for very used desks, desk chairs, side chairs, and other miscellaneous office items.