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Please tell students that today is the last day to vote in the Buffalo State undergraduate student elections. Undergraduate students must show Buffalo State or state ID to vote. Polls are open from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Campbell Student Union lobby. Election results will be posted online by 9:00 p.m. tonight.

Please tell students to vote in the Buffalo State undergraduate student elections Monday, March 11, through Thursday, March 14, in the Campbell Student Union lobby. Undergraduate students must show Buffalo State or state ID to vote. Polls are open Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 9:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. and Thursday 9:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Election results will be posted online by 9:00 p.m. Thursday, March 14.

Please join the Vice President for Finance and Management’s Office for a retirement reception for Karen Giczkowski, secretary 2, on the occasion of her retirement from Buffalo State College on Friday, March 22, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in Cleveland Hall 205. Ms. Giczkowski has assisted one associate vice president and four vice presidents in her 23 years of service to the college. Please stop by to thank her for her remarkable dedication to Buffalo State and to wish her well.

The Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship Program (USRF) supports eight weeks of full-time research, scholarly, or creative activities in the summer. The USRF program is open to all Buffalo State undergraduates with a graduation date of December 2019 or later.

Each fellowship provides a student stipend of $3,000, a faculty stipend of $1,000, and $500 for travel, supplies, or equipment to support the project. To learn more about the program, please visit the Undergraduate Research Office USRF website.

The deadline for student submissions is Tuesday, April 9. Mentors have until Thursday, April 11, to complete the application. Information about current programs and resources about mentoring undergraduates conducting research can also be found on the Undergraduate Research Office website.

The one-day conference "Accessibility: Designing Access for All Learners," focusing on needs in higher education, will be held Friday, March 22, in the Campbell Student Union Social Hall and Assembly Hall. This conference aims to provide attendees with tools and resources to increase their knowledge and to ensure that we are meeting the needs of all learners. Speakers for this conference will be faculty and staff members from higher education institutions who are experts in the field of universal design for learning (UDL), web accessibility, student services, and compliance. Please see the full agenda and register today.

This event has been made possible by the support of the SUNY 2018–2019 Explorations in Diversity and Academic Excellence (EDAE) Awards, the Grant Allocation Committee (GAC), and Buffalo State College.

The next Assessment and Reporting Seminar will be held on Thursday, March 14. The Institutional Effectiveness Office is offering this series of assessment and reporting seminars, open to all faculty and staff members, during the spring 2019 semester. The intent is to assist academic programs and units, co-curricular programs, and functional areas with various areas of assessment and reporting, such as designing an assessment plan, using Taskstream, completing a department annual report, and developing indirect and direct methods of assessment.

Faculty and staff members are welcome to attend any date; however, sessions will alternate between those focusing on academic programs and those focusing on co-curricular and functional areas. Departments and units are encouraged to attend as groups of colleagues. Remaining dates and times are listed below. All sessions will be held on Thursdays during Bengal Pause, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., in the computer lab in Classroom Building A108. Please use the links below to select and sign up for a seminar.

For more information, please contact Luke Krieg, interim associate vice president for institutional effectiveness, 878-3838.

Focus on Academic Programs
March 14
April 11 

Focus on Co-Curricular and Functional Areas
March 28
April 25

Please join health and wellness majors for a Spring Health Fair on Wednesday, March 20, from 12:15 to 1:45 p.m. in the Campbell Student Union lobby. The event is designed to enhance college students’ health and well-being. Visit engaging and interactive exhibits created by health and wellness majors. Participants will learn ways to stay healthy throughout the semester. For more information about this event, please call 878-4758.

The Buffalo State Guitar Club, Seconda Prattica, and the Great Lakes Guitar Society present the Leo Brouwer International Composition Competition to be held at Buffalo State College, Friday, March 15–Sunday, March 17. All Buffalo State faculty, staff, and students may attend any or all events free of charge. For more information and a full schedule of events and campus locations, please visit the event website.

Information Technology offers the electronic course evaluation platform EvaluationKIT for the creation of department-level course surveys as an alternative to the use of Scantrons and Blackboard Enterprise Surveys.

EvaluationKIT offers a fully hosted online course evaluation and survey system designed to streamline the entire student feedback process for our campus.

All departmental service requests to use EvaluationKIT for spring course evaluations must be made by Friday, March 15, to guarantee successful deployment. 

Request a departmental course evaluation deployment through the IT self-service portal.
Register for a workshop through the Workshop Registration System to learn more about EvaluationKIT.