Angela J. Doty (Career Services) hosted the Oregon Career Development Association board meeting on Sept. 24. OCDA actively promotes quality career development in Oregon by offering professional development opportunities for career counselors, practitioners and educators. Angela is in her second year as president of OCDA.
Tim Goodfellow (Student Life) was selected as the university’s Employee of the Month for September.
Oct. 5 Larry Osborn, Vangie Pattison
Oct. 6 Stephen Gilday, Judy Keeney, Lyn Lumley
Oct. 7 Cindy Howard
Oct. 9 Sheila Abercrombie, Ben Kulpa, Alan Timmins
Oct. 10 Rob Felton, Jim Smart, Lisa Venable
Oct. 12 Becky Greenwood
Oct. 13 Andrea Heath, Jason Schwanz, Kathy Weiss
Oct. 14 Travis Morgan
Oct. 15 Debra Espinor, Gina Worley
Oct. 16 Clint Baldwin, David Collett, Richard Shaw
Beginning this year, banners for the quad lampposts and for exterior buildings require an approval process. This process will help ensure banners are consistent with the university’s brand and visual identity system, and are regulation size (i.e., fit the lamppost brackets properly).
Requests to install banners need to be made through Event Services seven days prior to the install date. However, to ensure you will have approved banners in time for your event, please contact the Department of Marketing Communications earlier. If a new design is necessary, lead times will be at least six weeks for lamppost banners and four weeks for building banners.
For information about scheduling and banner size requirements, contact Lisa Leslie in Event Services. For information about visual standards, contact Tamara Cissna in Marketing Communications.
With the advent of October, we ask you to please nominate a colleague that you believe is deserving of this month’s award. Your nomination should include a concise but specific summary of the person’s recent contributions (past 30 days or so) – what was done, who was impacted, etc. – and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.
Please submit your nomination via e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Oct. 22. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the recipient from the nominations submitted. The winner will be announced at our community meeting on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 28, and will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.
Gmail has announced the option of turning off the conversation view in your e-mail. Tired of related e-mails being “stacked” into one message? Simply click on “Settings” in the upper-right corner, then the “General” tab. The sixth option on the list will turn off conversations and let every e-mail you receive remain independent in your in-box.
Are your students struggling with tests? Encourage them to attend an Academic Resource Center workshop, “How to Get A’s on All Your Tests (or at Least Become a Better Test-taker),” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Stevens 208.
Rick Muthiah (Learning Support Services) will cover several strategies for improving performance on tests. Questions? Contact Rick at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu.
Attention all freshman through senior students considering graduate school within the next few years: Please come to Career Services’ Getting into Graduate School Workshop from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 20, in Stevens 109.
Topics will include if graduate school if right for you, choosing your schools, writing your essays, picking letter writers, taking the admission tests, and more. To sign up or get more information, visit this link.
Faculty, please encourage those students who are interested in graduate school to attend.
Do tests drive you crazy? You read the book, did the assignments, studied the night before, and still didn’t do as well as you wanted on your test; what else can you do? In this session, Rick Muthiah (Learning Support Services) will cover several strategies for improving performance on tests.
Tuesday, Oct. 5, at 6:30 p.m. in Stevens 208
Questions: rmuthiah@georgefox.edu
Are you interested in the upcoming May Serve Missions Trip in 2011?
Come to an informational night on Monday, Oct. 4, at 9 p.m. The meeting will be in Lemmons 8 and is open to all students interested in May Serve. Applications for the trip will also be available at this meeting.
Contact Andrea Crenshaw at acrensha@georgefox.edu for more information.
The lost and found items will all be in the Bruin Den between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 5. Please stop by between those times if you are missing an item. All items not reunited with their owners will be donated to charitable causes at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
This weekend the Outdoors Club is heading to The Circuit rock climbing gym. We’ll be meeting in the Bruin Den on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. No experience necessary. Since this a bouldering gym, no harnesses are needed either! It’s $10 to get in, $4 for shoes. There’s a group discount, as well as a first-time discount. We’ll be back around 11 p.m.
Questions: E-mail dwulff09@georgefox.edu
Come join us Friday morning for First Friday Worship in Bauman Auditorium from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. We will worship together with creative prayer and music. We look forward to worshiping with you!
If a balance of more than one year of vacation accrual remains after December time sheets and time-off reports are processed (in January), the employee will lose the portion that exceeds one year’s accrual.
Available on the HR website are vacation accrual charts with instructions, one each for support staff and administrators. Please use this chart along with the information on your Sept. 30 pay statement to determine how many hours of vacation you need to use before Jan. 1, 2011. Your vacation balance on your Sept. 30th pay statement does not take into account any vacation you may have taken in September since those time sheets and time-off reports have not yet been received or processed in HR. Links to these charts can be found by clicking this link.
If you have any questions after you have reviewed your vacation balance and the chart that applies to your vacation accrual, please contact HR for assistance.
Don’t forget about the Disney Carnival Friday night (Oct. 1) at 8 p.m. on the track. Prizes include Disneyland tickets, a 32-inch TV, an iHome, and best costume prize. Lots of games and food!
Do you love spending time outside? If so, Experiential Ministries has the opportunity for you. We are in need of faculty or staff members who want to join us on outdoor recreation trips throughout the year. This may include backpacking, snowshoeing, rock climbing, cycling, hiking, etc. If you love to spend time outside in God’s creation, we’d love to have you join us!
A faculty/staff member is needed on each trip for liability purposes. We are willing to schedule our trips based on your schedule. If interested, please contact Paige Copenhaver at pcopenhaver09@georgefox.edu.
This Monday, Oct. 4, Dr. Anita Weiss will speak on the lives of women in Pakistan and Afghanistan for the university’s Liberal Arts and Critical Issues Forum. Weiss is a professor of international studies at the University of Oregon and specializes in development issues and gender. She is currently working on two books, Interpreting Islam, Modernity and Women’s Rights in Pakistan, and Pathways to Power: The Domestic Politics of South Asia.
Weiss will present in two sessions: from 4:40 to 5:40 p.m. and from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105.
Next week, the university will host the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History (CFH) Oct. 6-9. The theme of this year’s conference is “The Search for Peace, Justice and Equality.” Approximately 170 attendees will be presenting more than 150 papers on a variety of historical subjects.
For location, content and cost information, visit the university’s history webpage, the society’s web page or contact Caitlin Corning.
Experiential Ministries is hosting its first event of the year- a day hike at Silver Falls State Park! Bring your own lunch and meet at the Bruin’s Den at 9:00 on Sunday, October 3rd. We will be back no later than 5:00. Drivers and vehicles are needed. Liability forms are located outside the ASC offices.
Contact Paige Copenhaver at pcopenhaver09@georgefox.edu
Please join us in the Bruin Den or Villa Cafe this Tuesday, Oct. 5, when representatives from Starbucks will be on campus serving free coffee samples, featuring their new Starbucksâ„¢ Shared Planetâ„¢ blends as well as some new seasonal drinks. Samples will be served from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.
– Bon Appetit
Chehalem Youth and Family Services is hiring! If you qualify for work-study and have not yet found a job on campus, please check out the job posted in Bruin Careers for an office assistant with CYFS. The office is conveniently located within walking distance of George Fox.
For details, go to MyGFU > Career Services > Bruin Careers. Create a profile (if you haven’t already) so you can search all student employment positions.
