From the Chair of the College Senate
Reports to the College Senate are posted on the College Senate website. The most recent reports are from the May 10, 2019, Senate meeting.

Podcasts serve as the official audio record of each College Senate meeting. If you missed a Senate meeting and want to catch up, podcasts are posted to the Senate's podcasts web page. Senate meeting summaries are posted to the website after they are presented to the Senate.

From the Chair of the College Senate
The campus community is invited to comment on the SUNY Green Paper on General Education Revision, which is available on the College Senate’s General Education Ad-Hoc Task Force on Curriculum web page. Please send comments to SUNY.

Blackboard, Aleph (Butler Library database), Degree Works, Confluence, and Ensemble will be down for system maintenance during the following time frames:

Friday, May 17: 4:00–5:00 a.m.
Tuesday, May 21: 4:00–7:00 a.m.
Wednesday, May 22: Midnight–6:00 a.m.

From the Chair of the College Senate
College Senate meetings for the 2019–2020 academic year will be held on the following dates:

Fall 2019
September 13  |  3:00 p.m.  |  Bulger Communication Center 423
October 11  |  3:00 p.m.  |  Bulger Communication Center 423
November 8  |  3:00 p.m.  |  Bulger Communication Center 423
December 13  |  2:00 p.m.  |  Bulger Communication Center 215

Spring 2020
February 14  |  3:00 p.m.  |  TBA
March 13  |  3:00 p.m.  |  TBA
April 10  |  3:00 p.m.  |  TBA
May 8  |  2:00 p.m.  |  TBA

The College Senate Office is located in Cleveland Hall 211. Joseph Marren, professor of communication, serves as chair of the College Senate for the 2019–2020 academic year. Please stop by the office, call 878-5139, or e-mail Vincent Masci, assistant to the College Senate, with questions or for general information.

From the Chair of the College Senate
The College Senate will hold its annual New Senator Orientation for all newly elected senators on Thursday, September 5, during Bengal Pause (12:15–1:30 p.m.) in the Grande Conference Room, Cleveland Hall 418. This annual session, hosted by the chair of the College Senate and the College Senate parliamentarian, gives newly elected faculty, professional staff, and students an overview of the official rules and basic protocol of College Senate meetings. The College Senate follows Robert’s Rules of Order, as is mandated by its bylaws. Attendance is not mandatory but is strongly encouraged. Formal invitations will be sent to all newly elected senators in late summer. Please e-mail Vincent Masci, assistant to the College Senate, or phone the office at 878-5139 with questions.

From the Chair of the College Senate Bylaws and Elections Committee
Congratulations to the following individuals, who were elected as officers and committee chairs of the College Senate for the 2019–2020 academic year at the College Senate Caucus on May 10:

Chair of the College Senate
Joseph Marren, Professor of Communication

Vice Chair of the College Senate
TBA*

Academic Plan Committee Chair
Jason Grinnell, Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy

Budget and Staff Allocations Committee Chair
Ted Schmidt, Professor of Economics and Finance

Bylaws and Elections Committee Chair
Julian Cole, Associate Professor of Philosophy

Curriculum Committee Chair
Bhakti Sharma, Associate Professor of Art and Design

Faculty and Staff Welfare Committee Chair
Maria Brickhouse, Coordinator of the Academic Center of Excellence, Educational Opportunity Program

Instruction and Research Committee Chair
Arlesa Shephard, Associate Professor, Fashion and Textile Technology

Standards for Students Committee Chair
Marguerite “Meg” Knowles, Associate Professor of Communication

Student Welfare Committee Vice Chair**
Steve Macho, Associate Professor, Career and Technical Education

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*A runoff election for vice chair of the College Senate will be held May 15–17. Please note: Runoff election voting is restricted to returning and newly elected 2019–2020 senators only.

Candidates for vice chair of the College Senate:

Jason Grinnell, Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy
Amy Woznick, Director of the Academic Commons

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**The Student Welfare Committee chair is a student senator who works with the vice chair.

The Buffalo State College Child Care Center, located in Buckham Hall, is holding a capital campaign to raise funds for its playground rehabilitation project. The center’s playground has not been refurbished in more than a decade and is in crucial need of both cosmetic and safety upgrades.

An invaluable resource for the students and employees of Buffalo State, the Child Care Center provides high-quality care for 80 enrolled children between 6 weeks and 5 years of age. The center’s dedicated teachers—more than 75 percent of whom are Buffalo State alumni—help foster a love of learning in an educationally rich environment that supports the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of the children they serve.

The importance of play to the development of young children is well documented, and outdoor gross-motor play is especially vital. As spring (finally!) arrives in Western New York, please help the center continue to provide a safe and nurturing environment for the children of Buffalo State.

Please make your gift in any amount using the secure online form, or mail your check, payable to the Buffalo State Child Care Center, through campus mail to Buckham Hall C102.

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The Buffalo State College Child Care Center is licensed by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services and has been accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) for more than two decades. Fewer than 10 percent of all child care centers, preschools, and kindergarten programs nationally achieve NAEYC recognition, indicating that Buffalo State’s program has met nationally established standards of excellence.

A vulnerability in WhatsApp—Facebook's encrypted messaging app for mobile devices—is being actively exploited to install spyware on mobile phones. Attackers have infected targeted devices by calling the mobile numbers; users did not even have to answer the call. A fix for end-users was released on Monday, May 13. The vulnerability affects both Android and iOS devices. If you or your relatives are actively using WhatsApp, update to the latest version; otherwise, uninstall it.

Information Technology Services conducted a campuswide audit of printers and print volume with the vendor ComDoc in late April. We thank the campus community for its cooperation in the audit. Preliminary numbers from the walk-through indicate that we have 1,280 printing and/or copying devices on campus—1,004 local and 276 networked—including 226 different models of HP printers. More data is being gathered by ComDoc as we work with Finance and Management to optimize printing solutions for Buffalo State.

The call for proposals is now open for the 2019 PDS Conference, to be held Friday, September 27, at the Buffalo Grand Hotel, 120 Church Street, Buffalo, NY 14202. Categories are as follows:

Concurrent Sessions: 45-minute professional presentations of school-university partnership work to inform PDS Consortium members of best practices or action research.

Roundtable Sessions: 30-minute informal, discussion-oriented presentations of school-university partnership work to inform PDS Consortium members of best practices or action research.

Poster Sessions: Visual displays exploring an educational topic. Posters displaying undergraduate and graduate student research are welcome.

Note: Preference will be given to concurrent and roundtable proposals that

• are submitted jointly among various constituencies of the PDS (faculty, mentor teachers, school- or community-based leadership, or teacher candidates);
• focus on current PDS initiatives such as resilience, international PDS work, and impact.

Please submit the following information by Saturday, June 1.

Names of all presenters
E-mail addresses of all presenters
Preferred session type (concurrent, roundtable, or poster)
Title of presentation
Three- or four-sentence description of the presentation (for the 2019 PDS Conference program)