Weeks of Welcome at Buffalo State is a programming series hosted by student organizations and the campus community to welcome our students back for the start of another successful semester.

Information on programs and events can be found by visiting the Weeks of Welcome Schedule through the Student Leadership and Engagement website.

Campus departments and student organizations are encouraged to submit programs to be included in the Weeks of Welcome schedule of events.

To submit an event, please complete a Weeks of Welcome Program Submission Form.

The Graduate School is pleased to announce its spring Orientation for new graduate students on Wednesday, January 22, from 4:00 to 7:30 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center.

Please join the Civic and Community Engagement Office for a free student-focused web conference, "Designing Asset-Based Educational Experiences," on Thursday, February 27, at 3:00 p.m. in South Wing 137.

Using participatory facilitation methods, this 60-minute interactive webinar will introduce Tara J. Yosso’s Community Cultural Wealth Model as a framework for discovering and embracing every student’s unique assets, knowledge, and talents and exploring ways we can transform teaching and learning experiences that welcome students’ whole selves and actively honor diverse ways of knowing, being, and learning. Facilitators will share a variety of examples of how our campuses are incorporating the model and designing asset-based educational experiences. Dr. Yosso is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Riverside.

Please register by e-mail or phone: 878-3919.

Please join the Civic and Community Engagement Office for a free live web conference, "Braving the Wilderness: How Vulnerability Can Be a Pathway for Social Change," on Thursday, February 13, at 3:00 p.m. in South Wing 137.

As community engagement leaders, we navigate institutional power, internalized conditioning, and patterns of entitlement through seen and unseen hierarchical systems. During this interactive webinar, you will learn a framework to give language and understanding for how fear and power imbalances affect our capacity to communicate and connect with people across power and dominance. Instead of retreating and protecting, we will explore what it means to remain “value-based” and vulnerable as you build and deepen authentic relationships across these barriers as the foundation for systemic and transformative justice. You will be asked to reflect on times you have braved the wilderness advocating for change to systems that perpetuate fear and power imbalances—and the times when you haven’t. What have you learned from those experiences? How can those experiences help each of us as leaders to advance change within the context of our community engagement work centered on equity and inclusion? Please note, this workshop will invite participants to share their personal experiences and stretch their comfort zones.

Tomorrow, January 15, is the last day to submit proposals for the NYS ACE Women's Network annual conference, which will be held Thursday and Friday, April 2 and 3, in Cooperstown, New York.

The conference theme is Women in Higher Education: Next Level Leadership. The conference committee is seeking presentations, abstracts, papers, symposiums, workshops, cases, panels, and interactive roundtable topics that represent the best contemporary thinking about women and leadership from a diverse range of perspectives. All proposals must be submitted via e-mail to ns.owhe@gmail.com. For more information on the conference, please visit the conference website.

Proposals should include the following:

• Presentation title
• Presenter(s) information (name, title, brief bio)
• Presentation description (no more than 250 words)
• Learning outcome(s)
• Time requested for the presentation (45 minutes maximum)
• Presentation format (presentation, abstract, paper, symposium, workshop, case, panel, or interactive roundtable topics)
• Other pertinent information
• Audiovisual needs

Please join the Civic and Community Engagement Office for the webinar "Building Democratic Skills through Deliberative Dialogue" on Thursday, January 30, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m in South Wing 137.

In the face of ever-increasing polarization and divisiveness, there is a great need and desire for an effective, accessible, and inclusive tool for diverse people to engage across differences in pursuit of common ground for action on major social issues.

This workshop will provide an overview of the National Issues Forum deliberative dialogue model and allow participants to engage in a brief practice forum.

Reservations can be made by e-mail at cce@buffalostate.edu.

The J-Term 2020 grading window will close Thursday, January 30, at 9:00 p.m. Detailed documentation for entering grades (PDF, 191 KB) is available on the Banner website. Additional assistance is available by calling the IT Help Desk at 878-4357 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

If you have questions about grading, please call the Registrar's Office at 878-4811. We have provided a grading tip sheet (PDF, 617 KB) to assist you in successful grading.

After you have completed (submitted and saved) your J-Term 2020 grades in Banner, please go back in to your roster and double-check that all grades are there as you intended.

If you have any questions about grading, please call the IT Help Desk at 878-4357 or the Registrar's Office at 878-4811. 

The J-Term 2020 grading window closes Thursday, January 30, at 9:00 p.m.

Faculty members will enter their J-Term 2020 grades using Banner. The grading window for J-Term 2020 is now open and will close Thursday, January 30, at 9:00 p.m. Detailed documentation for entering grades (PDF, 191 KB) is available on the Banner website. Additional assistance is available by calling the IT Help Desk at 878-4357 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

If you have questions about grading, please call the Registrar's Office at 878-4811. We have provided a grading tip sheet (PDF, 617 KB) to assist you in successful grading.

Faculty members will enter their J-Term 2020 grades using Banner. The grading window will open Wednesday, January 22, at 9:00 a.m. and close Thursday, January 30, at 9:00 p.m. In preparation, faculty members are encouraged to log on to Banner to be sure that all their courses are listed under their accounts. Detailed documentation for entering grades (PDF, 191 KB) is available on the Banner website. Additional assistance is available by calling the IT Help Desk at 878-4357 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

If you have questions about grading, please call the Registrar's Office at 878-4811. We have provided a grading tip sheet (PDF, 617 KB) to assist you in successful grading.