Josten’s representative Troy Decker will be in the Portland Center 2nd floor atrium (by the elevator) on Wed. & Thurs. October 8 & 9 from 5 to 8:30 p.m. to take orders for college rings.
You can view ring options online at jostens.com/college.
If you use a mac and would benefit from a user group to share ideas and tips, we will be having such a group on Wed. Oct. 22 in Room 210, 12 to 1 p.m. Bring a bag lunch if you want to eat during that time.
Contact Gloria Doherty or Bonnie Nakashimada with questions or ideas.
October’s Community Lunch is THIS Tuesday, Oct. 7 in Room 155 from 12 to 1 p.m.
As usual, Bon Appetit will be serving lunch for $3 or you are welcome to bring your own. See you there!
Beth LaForce (Education) and Kathleen Gathercoal (Psychology) will present the fall faculty lecture, “For Such a Time as This,” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, in Hoover 105 on the Newberg campus. The lecture honors the work of Sherrie Schulke, an assistant professor of social work at George Fox until her death in 2003 after a long battle with cancer. Beth and Kathleen were part of a team from Portland State University and Doernbecher Children’s Hospital that finished and published Schulke’s research project.
AT&T Mobility 15 percent discounts are available for George Fox University employees. Visit http://att.com/wireless/gfuemployees to learn more. You will need this employee FAN number: 2601384. An individual original iPhone account may not be eligible.
Employees interested in learning more about long-term care insurance are invited to an information meeting from noon to 1 p.m. this Friday, Oct. 3, in the Cap and Gown Room on the Newberg campus.
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.
The university is hosting a series of sessions about enrollment in this voluntary insurance through mid-October. 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.
Meetings are scheduled as follows. Please note that the Portland room location is a change from the Sept. 18 e-nnouncement.
Employees attending any of the meetings at the Newberg or Portland campus 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 http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/hr/benefits.html for instructions on how to participate in the webinar and to read a longer article about the insurance LTC Solutions offers.
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.
Bon Appetit would like to thank everyone for the success and overwhelming support given by the vast majority of students with the first “Trayless Tuesday.” With few exceptions, we received dozens of very positive comments from students and we’re encouraged that so many share concerns regarding the amount of food typically wasted each meal and how it affects our environment.
Our thanks go out to everyone for making this small weekly sacrifice of convenience, and we look forward to continued support and success with the remaining “Trayless Tuesdays” this year.
– Bon Appetit
The United States Postal Service will be on the Newberg campus Thursday, Oct. 2, for new passport applications (or renewals). The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Cap and Gown Room A. Passport photos also are available. Family members are welcome.
Please take a few minutes to submit your September time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) to your supervisor right away. As always, 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.) The link on the HR website for these documents is georgefox.edu/offices/hr/forms.html.
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’ September 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 sheets, 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 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 Federal Work Study regulation.
If you happen to still have any paperwork to submit on a newly hired student, please send that in right away as well. It is necessary in order to pay students.
The Oct. 10 payroll will be the first payroll run in the new PeopleSoft system, so we anticipate it taking more time than usual. Receiving time sheets earlier than usual will be a big help.
Thanks very much.
– Human Resources
An administrative assistant II .75 FTE position (30 hours per week over 12 months) is currently open. The job is to provide administrative support to the dean and the director of the Doctor of Management program (currently Ken Armstrong and Craig Johnson, respectively) on the Newberg campus. This position is paid on Pay Range 4.
We are recruiting internally only, so it is not posted on our website, nor are we seeking external applicants. It will be open until at least 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 7. Please contact HR to request a Transfer Request form and a copy of the job description if you are interested in applying for this position (hr@georgefox.edu or Peggy Kilburg).
You are invited to attend the artist talk and opening reception for the art exhibit “Natural Affinities,” featuring the work of Steve Tyree, Blythe Eastman and Totem Shriver. The artist talk (in Hoover 102) begins at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30, with the opening reception to follow at 5 p.m. The exhibit runs through Oct. 23 in the Minthorne Gallery.
Andrew S. Miller, a student in the Master of Arts in Spiritual Formation program, believes that “beauty is important, especially to those who love God.” Come and enjoy the beauty he has found through his camera lens. His photographic art will be displayed through October at the Portland Center Library.
Many of you have been asking, so we wanted to let you know that the reception desk in the first floor atrium is for our receptionist, Barbara Lybarger. We are moving her workspace into that area to greet visitors and students with a friendly hello and ability to direct folks to where they need to go. The other purpose is to help with building security as Barbara will be able to see all three entrances into the building.
We are also working on maximizing space at the Portland Center to include more areas for students to use as study areas and break-out areas. This will be a slow process, but we are definitely prioritizing it as a need for you. We are hoping to add more furniture pieces as well as updating the look.
We are also working toward getting a coffeehouse put in upstairs in the student lounge area. We are still working on finding the funding for the project. We hope to be able to have it in by the end of fall semester at the latest. We will continue to offer evening meals from Bon Appetit Monday through Thursday.
We trust that you are off to a great semester!
Questions or comments can be emailed to Janis Sanford, Site Supervisor
The Portland Center will be changing the dates for our monthly community lunches.
We will now meet on Tuesdays 12 to 1 p.m. and we will meet in Room 155.
The dates are as follows:
Please change your calendar accordingly. See you there!
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, an associated professor of religion and humanities at Reed College, will speak about the complex issues surrounding Islamic extremism in the Middle East at a Liberal Arts Critical Issues event from 4:40 to 5:30 p.m. and from 7 to 7:50 p.m. Monday, Sept. 29, in Hoover 105. For more information, contact Caitlin Corning (History) at ext. 2673 or ccorning@georgefox.edu.
Cathie Smith from Entertainment Publications is once again offering George Fox employees a discount on Entertainment Books for 2009. Books are $15 (normal retail is $25). You may place your orders by contacting her at 503-381-4353 or e-mail at csmith@entertainment.com.
A bike rack was installed at the west entrance of the south building for student use. We are looking into purchasing another for the west entrance to hopefully be installed this fall.
Have a great fall semester!
It has come to our attention that some employees did not receive a fall 2008 spiritual life calendar. If you would like to have one sent to you, please contact Kayin Griffith at kgriffith@georgefox.edu or stop by our office located on the corner of Sheridan and Meridian streets and pick one up.
– Office of Spiritual Life
A faculty teaching forum, “Finding the Sweet Spot: Creating Assignments Your Students Want to Write — and You Want to Read,” will be presented by Melanie Mock (Writing/Literature) from 3:40 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1, in Hoover 104.
Writing assignments can often times be tedious exercises: both for the students who have to complete them, and for the professors who have to grade them. The forum will consider how writing assignments can engage students while also meeting course objectives; how assignment presentation influences student engagement with the assignment; and how we can construct creative writing assignments that might actually be a pleasure to read. Participants should bring one of their “favorite” writing assignments to share.
Refreshments will be served. No R.S.V.P. is required.
All faculty — full time, part time and adjunct — are invited to attend faculty teaching forums. Video podcasts of the forums will be available at the “Events and Resources†link on the Center for Teaching and Learning website.
