If you give a regular employee or student employee an honorarium, stipend, gift card, or gift certificate, the IRS considers it taxable income. The amounts of these will be processed through payroll in order to be taxed so it is important that the name(s) of the recipients be included on check requests submitted for payment.
The university is now using iTunesU (iTunesUniversity) to distribute public events such as chapel. Access it from blogs.georgefox.edu/chapel/itunesu.html and it will fire off your iTunes program.
A number of courses also are beginning to use iTunesU to supplement the distribution of podcasts such as classroom lectures and special assignments.
New employees who have yet to have their official university photo taken, or those who would like a retake, are invited to a photo session from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13.
Participants should check in at the Office of Marketing and Communications, located on the second floor of the Stevens Center. Photos will be taken in the River Street House.
Everyone is invited to attend a global church lecture given by Father Wulutomoh Silikpoh from Liberia at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 12-13, in Lemmons 8.
Silikpoh is the pastor of The Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Ganta, a city in north central Liberia. He is helping to rebuild the church after the destruction of the country’s recent civil wars (1989-1996, 1999-2003).
It is now possible to access all university calendars from any location. Until now, users had to be on the campus network or use the VPN to see internal university events.
To view the internal calendar, go to calendar.georgefox.edu or select the Calendar tab in Bruindata and log in with your regular George Fox username and password. As before, the public calendar is available to everyone from calendar.georgefox.edu/public and does not require a login.
If you have questions about the calendar, contact the IT Service Desk by e-mail or by calling ext. 2569.
Corrections to the hours of operation for our coffee cart:
Bruin Coffee Hours: (unless otherwise posted)
Monday……….8:00am – 1:00pm & 4:00pm – 8:15pm
Tuesday………4:00pm-8:15pm
Wednesday…..4:00pm-8:15pm
Thursday……..8:00am-1:00pm & 4:00pm-8:15pm
Friday…………8:00am-1:00pm
Saturday……..8:00am-1:00pm
With a big thanks to Janelle Baugh and the IT department, the Portland Center’s classes and events are on the University Calendar. Employees may request space for meetings online if you are logged into the website. All of the administrative assistants have been trained on how to make requests online. Be sure to ask your AA to show you how to make a request.
If you need additional training on how to navigate the Webviewer, please contact the office manager, Janis Sanford at ext. 6164 or by e-mailing her at jsanford@georgefox.edu.
Multicultural Services and the Center for Teaching and Learning are hosting “A Kingdom Conversation: Diversity in the Classroom” discussion from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, in the Bruin Den annex.
Join in for conversations on more effective teaching methods on an ever-changing campus. Bring your own lunch.
If you received a lunch from Bon Appetit for Servce Day you might have noticed a coupon for a free latte or mocha from the Cafe Villa.
Many of you may not know where the Cafe Villa is located.
The Cafe Villa is operated by Bon Appetit and is located in the Villa Academic Center on Villa Road in Newberg.
Dear George Fox Colleagues:
Thanks for your participation in Serve Day! Already we are hearing wonderful things about the impact that you have had in showing Christ’s love to others. We hope that this has been a meaningful day of service and building relationships with other people. Our deepest desire is that an ethos of service permeates this campus as we look for ways to serve beyond Serve Day itself. There are so many opportunities to get involved in serving others and we encourage you to take advantage of them. Please take a few moments to fill out an evaluation at:
http://www.georgefox.edu/serveday/serve_evaluation.html
After completing the evaluation, print out the candy bar coupon and bring it to Student Life. The first 300 who bring the coupons will receive a candy bar. Your feedback is important to us, so please complete the evaluation as soon as possible and have a terrific semester!
Blessings,
Kayin Griffith
Serve Day Coordinator
Brad Lau
Vice President for Student Life
Bruin Coffee will have its grand re-opening THIS Thursday, September 6th.
New this year-fresh salads and sandwiches.
“Typical hours” will be Monday thru Thursday 7:45am-1:00pm & 4:00pm-8:15pm Fridays 7:45am to 1:00pm.
Please see posted “Hours of Operation” at the cart (2nd floor in the Student Lounge).
Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions was selected to replace the current SunGard Bi-Tech software that had been scheduled discontinuance in 2010. This process progressed through extensive demos from four major vendors. In the end, it was apparent the decision came down to either SunGard’s Banner or PeopleSoft.
The new system will take a couple of years to deploy; however, early benefits are expected from the customizable web portal in the first year. The unanimous decision to go with PeopleSoft was influenced by opportunities for more web services and integrated online campus data management. Other Bi-Tech customers joining us in the selection of PeopleSoft include: Azusa Pacific, Anderson, Walla Walla, and Vanguard.
Our Administrative Integrated Software (AIS) committee deserves our gratitude for conducting this extensive selection process.
Selah, a one-day seminar for women featuring licensed professional counselor Pam Vredevelt, George Fox Campus Pastor Sarah Thomas Baldwin, and professor/pastor MaryKate Morse is set for Saturday, Sept. 29, in Bauman Auditorium.
The fourth annual event runs from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with a book-sales session scheduled from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Speakers will address aspects of the event’s theme, “Uncovering Joy,†which emphasizes the fact women “are the beloved of Christ and can live in the freedom of hope regardless of circumstances that threaten to steal joy.”
Georgene Rice will return as emcee, and Bonnie Knopf will lead worship. Mark Demel, a Willow Creek artist, will present demonstrations.
Seminar schedule, cost, and registration information is available at selah.georgefox.edu or by contacting Amy Lorenz (University Relations) at ext. 2134.
To: Summit Borrowing and catalog contacts
From: Nancy Nathanson
Summit will be down beginning late Saturday night, Sept. 8, through Sunday afternoon Sept. 9, at about 4 p.m. We will shut down Summit sometime after 9 p.m. Saturday night, prior to a campus power outage for electrical equipment maintenance and upgrade.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
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Nancy Nathanson, Resource Sharing Program Manager, Orbis Cascade Alliance
nnathans@uoregon.edu
(541) 346-1860
Portland Center Employees: Let’s represent our campus well. The deadline to sign up for the challenge was last Friday; however, you can still sign up today.
Monthly prizes … accountability partners … Wellness teams … new scoring system … individual competition.
Go to wellness.georgefox.edu for more information.
Lindgren Gallery will host an exhibit by Azusa Pacific University graduate student Kathleen Yorba beginning Thursday, Sept. 6, and running through Monday, Oct. 8.
Next week, an exhibit featuring the prints of Yuji Hiratsuka and the sculptures of Kim Hoffman begins with an opening reception from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, in the Minthorne Gallery. Hoffman is a professor at Western Oregon University and Hiratsuka teaches at Oregon State University. Their show runs through Oct. 11 in the Minthorne Gallery.
If you have not already done so, please complete, check, and sign your August time sheet (staff) or time-off report (administrators), and then send it on to your supervisor for signature. These forms can be found at: http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/hr/forms.html.
Please send it to Human Resources at Box 6108 this week. If your supervisor is not available to sign, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.
Join us for Classroom Diversity: A Kingdom Conversation on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in the Bruin Den Annex on the Newberg campus. We’ll exchange ideas about teaching in a culturally diverse classroom and preparing students for a diverse world. Bring your own lunch bag (BYOLB).
Sponsored by Multicultural Services. For more information, contact Burel Ford at bford@georgefox.edu.
George Fox libraries now provide access to Classical Music Library, Smithsonian Global Sound, and African American Song. These combine to offer tens of thousands of tracks of music as well as drama, poetry, and more. To access, go to the library’s alphabetical list of databases at http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/murdock/alphabeticalindex.html and select the database of choice.  Listeners can create playlists of their favorite tracks.
The George Fox community is invited to hear recent grads Aaron Gapasin (’02), Jessica Lebold (’03) and Brittney Quinn (’05) discuss their work for various non-governmental organizations in the developing world from 4:40 to 5:30 p.m. and from 7-8 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 3, in Lemmons Center 8.
Contact Caitlin Corning (History) at ext. 2673 or at ccorning@georgefox.ed for more information.
