Campbell Student Union, Cassety Hall, Chase Hall, Classroom Building, Porter Hall, Technology Building, and Twin Rise Center, North, and South Wing may experience brief, intermittent water service interruptions on Monday, March 26 (spring break), as part of the ongoing Bishop Hall Renovation project. Water lines, routes, and shut-off valves will be tested to isolate the working area for the Bishop Hall water main replacement scheduled from late May through mid-July.

Occupants of affected buildings are asked to use a neighboring building when water is not available and can be assured that service will be restored shortly.

Your patience and understanding are appreciated as work progresses on this important project. Please visit the Facilities Construction and Maintenance website for additional information about this and other construction projects on campus.

From the Special Adviser to the Provost for Academic Research Initiatives
Please join us today for the second workshop on funding for research, "Patent, Copyright, Technology Transfer, and Entrepreneurship," presented by Tanya Waite and Steven Wood of the SUNY Research Foundation and William Grieshober of the Small Business Development Center at Buffalo State, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Caudell Hall 127. Please note the corrected room number. Light refreshments will be provided.

Elizabeth Licata, editor in chief of Buffalo Spree magazine, will present "A Buffalo Bucket List" on Tuesday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Carmine A. Grande Conference Room, Cleveland Hall 418. The lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact Jean F. Gounard, director of special international programs, 878-6917.

In an effort to make the application process easier for students to live on campus, the Residence Life Office has adjusted the way it collects housing deposits. The cost will remain $125, but students now pay at the end of their housing application instead of using a separate tab in Banner. Please direct students to visit the "MyHousing" link under the Student tab in Banner to start the housing application. To complete the application, students will be directed to a payment page to submit their housing deposit. The previous tab labeled "Housing Deposit" no longer exists.

Please direct students who have questions to 878-3000 or reslife@buffalostate.edu.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has directed that flags on all state government buildings be flown at half-staff today, March 19, to honor the four New York National Guard members who were killed when the helicopter they were flying crashed in Iraq on Thursday, March 15, 2018.

"On behalf of all New Yorkers, I extend my deepest condolences to the friends and family of these courageous New York National Guard members," Governor Cuomo said. "We join their loved ones and fellow service members in honoring the sacrifice they have made, so that others may live free in New York and across the entire nation."

The four New York Air National Guard members, assigned to the 106th Rescue Wing, were stationed at F. S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base in Westhampton Beach. The service members were killed, along with three others, when their HH-60 Pave Hawk rescue helicopter crashed near the city of Qaim in Iraq. There is no evidence of enemy action involved in the crash, and the incident is under investigation, according to the Department of Defense.

The service members killed in the crash were

• Capt. Christopher Zanetis, from Long Island City
• Capt. Andreas O'Keeffe, from Center Moriches
• Master Sgt. Christopher Raguso, from Commack
• Staff Sgt. Dashan Briggs, from Port Jefferson

The 106th Rescue Wing specializes in air, land, and sea rescue of pilots and other military personnel.

More information is available on the governor's website.

Buffalo State’s Rotaract Club, Nutrition Club, Phi Upsilon Omicron, and EOP students will host the second annual HOPE Haiti fundraiser on Thursday, April 26, at 5:00 p.m. in the Marcy Casino, 199 Lincoln Parkway in Buffalo. The event will provide hors d'oeuvres and music along with a large assortment of raffle baskets. Proceeds will support the purchase of books for libraries in Borgne, Haiti. Tickets are $35 ($20 for students); donations of gift baskets are also needed. Tickets may be purchased online or by e-mail. Raffle baskets will be picked up by request: please e-mail Carol DeNysschen, professor and chair of the Health, Nutrition, and Dietetics Department. Thank you.

One of the changes resulting from the 2017 Academic Affairs reorganization was a centralized process for the review of undergraduates’ academic standing.

Previously, deans’ offices used college policy to review the academic standing of students from their schools. When Provost Perreault joined Buffalo State, she worked with the associate deans and Academic Standards to improve consistency across schools by developing uniform academic standing review guidelines based on college policy and a student’s time at the college. The schools used these guidelines for their review process from spring 2016 to spring 2017. Following the reorganization in fall 2017, the guidelines were further used by the assistant provost for academic success to review undergraduates’ academic standing across schools.

The centralized review process included the creation of a Dismissal Appeals Board (composed of the associate deans and the assistant provost for academic success), which collectively reviews all undergraduate dismissal appeals. Students who are unsuccessful in their appeals to the board may further appeal to the provost if they can present new information or believe there was a violation of due process.

The fall 2017 centralized review process has resulted in consistency for all students across schools. Nearly 1,400 undergraduate records have been reviewed since the implementation of the guidelines. The centralized review process has led to more rapid information-sharing across campus related to student standing, faster response times for academic advisers to assist probationary students with schedule adjustments, and the collection of a comprehensive data set that allows for improvements to student support services through data-driven decisions.

We will continue to review the centralized academic standing review process for undergraduates each semester. If you have ideas, suggestions, or observations, please contact Heather Maldonado, assistant provost for academic success.

If you would like additional information about the academic standing process at Buffalo State, please visit the Academic Standards website.

The Academic Success area, new to the college since the 2017 reorganization of Academic Affairs, realigns the College Opportunity Mentoring Program Achieving Student Success (COMPASS), Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), and Say Yes student support programs under the assistant provost for academic success. In addition, New Student Academic Programs (learning communities, master schedule management for freshman summer registration, transfer student experiences, and the First Semester Recovery program) also report to the assistant provost for academic success. Additional responsibilities of the assistant provost include oversight of all-college academic standards, such as academic appeals petitions for changes to all-college academic standards, undergraduate academic standing reviews, financial aid satisfactory academic progress eligibility waivers, and oversight of the college’s academic misconduct procedures. 

The creation of the Academic Success area has resulted in the following personnel and office structuring:

Heather Maldonado, Assistant Provost for Academic Success, Twin Rise 100
Shelly Inniss-Jackson, COMPASS Coordinator, South Wing 510
Yanick Jenkins, EOP Director, South Wing 710
Stanley Simmons, Say Yes Coordinator, Cleveland Hall 210
Leasa Rochester-Mills, New Student Academic Programs Coordinator, Twin Rise 100

Additional updates about the work of these areas will be shared with the campus community through the Daily Bulletin in the upcoming weeks.

From the Special Adviser to the Provost for Academic Research Initiatives
Please join us for the second workshop on funding for research, "Patent, Copyright, Technology Transfer, and Entrepreneurship," presented by Tanya Waite and Steven Wood of the SUNY Research Foundation and William Grieshober of the Small Business Development Center at Buffalo State, on Tuesday, March 20, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Caudell Hall 176. Light refreshments will be provided.

If your want to close your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or other social media accounts, you may find that you can “deactivate” them, which is not the same as deleting them. Wired magazine has an article about how to break up with your “clingy” social media accounts for good.