All members of the campus community—faculty, staff, and students—are invited to a meeting of the Friends of the Buffalo State Maud Gordon Holmes Arboretum on Thursday, March 8, at 12:15 p.m. in the Classroom Building's fourth-floor conference room. The meeting will provide an update on the exciting work taking place on campus to rebuild our arboretum, including new trees being planted. An update on efforts to protect and enhance the Buffalo State landscape will also be provided, and upcoming programs will be discussed. Everyone is welcome. For more information, please contact Susan McCartney, director of the Small Business Development Center and special adviser to the provost for economic development, 878-4030.

Chartwells will partner with Student Life to help fight food insecurity by assembling healthful MATTERbox snack packs with handwritten notes of encouragement on Wednesday, February 28, in the Campbell Student Union lobby at noon. The packs will benefit the campus's Milligan’s Food Pantry as well as visitors of Friends of Night People through “One Million Acts of Good,” a Cheerios and Ellen Show campaign.

Half of the 300 boxes assembled by volunteers will go to Milligan’s Food Pantry, and the other half will go to Friends of Night People.

Students, faculty, staff, and those who attend are encouraged to post their photos and activities to the hashtags #BSCforGood and #OneMillionActsofGood in the hopes that enough social media "noise" will make the Ellen Show take notice of this great event and Buffalo itself.

A reminder to academic departments and student programs: Student awards listings for print in the Commencement booklet are due Monday, March 12. The booklet will be distributed at each of the three ceremonies on Saturday, May 19, and will be posted on the Commencement website. Undergraduate and graduate departments, programs, please follow the guidelines provided on the Commencement website. Please contact Academic Affairs with any questions regarding both bachelor's and master's/C.A.S. listings.

Thank you for recognizing the outstanding achievements of the Class of 2018.

The excitement of Commencement is in the air as the campus prepares for the big celebration on Saturday, May 19. Departments, programs, and academic and service organizations, as you plan recognition for your graduates during the ceremonies and at individual recognition and celebratory events, please refer to the Policy on Commencement Honors Cords and Accessories to guide you and your student groups. Please contact the Academic Affairs Office, 878-5550, with any questions. Thank you.

The spring 2018 Conversations in and Out of the Disciplines series continues on Friday, March 23, as Steve Peraza, assistant professor of history and social studies education, presents “Slaves, Freedom Suits, and the Early Black Liberation Struggle” at 3:00 p.m. in Ketchum Hall 320. A Q&A and brief wine-and-cheese reception will follow the talk. Everyone is welcome.

Please join us again on Friday, April 27, when Daniel DiLandro, head of archives and special collections in Butler Library, presents “Thomas Penney’s Leon Czolgosz Trial Scrapbooks: Cross-Discipline Teaching with the ‘Most Boring Thing in the World’” at 3:00 p.m. in Ketchum Hall 320.

Please join the Civic and Community Engagement Office today, February 26, for the webinar "Service-Learning Course Design to Facilitate Intercultural Learning and Support Internationalization," presented by Julie A. Hatcher and Mary F. Price of the IUPUI Center for Service and Learning, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Carmine A. Grande Conference Room, Cleveland Hall 418. Please e-mail us to let us know if you're coming. 

Preparing graduates with civic and global competencies is of keen importance to colleges and universities across the globe. Strategic use of service learning (SL) and international service learning (ISL) pedagogy can integrate learning outcomes that link global and civic learning through the lens of intercultural competence and critical global citizenship. This webinar will provide an overview of good practice and evidence of student outcomes, and introduce practical strategies for integrating service learning as part of a campus internationalization plan. This event is free to faculty, staff, students, advisers, and administrators and is sponsored by the CEPA Foundation.

Please join us for the professional development workshop "Purposeful Networking: Creating Valuable Professional Connections," presented by Scott Burns, associate vice president for development, on Wednesday, February 28, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Butler Library 181B. Lunch will be provided, sponsored by the Buffalo State chapter of United University Professions (UUP).

You may be creative and thoughtful and work well within a team setting, but others often seem to have the edge when it comes to networking and making beneficial professional connections. This session will offer you tips and tactics for developing and refining a networking style that works for you.

Please register through the Workshop Registration System.

The search committee for the college’s next chief information officer and vice president for enrollment, marketing, and communications invites the campus community to attend an open forum with the third candidate for the position on Thursday, March 1, from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center’s Newman Lecture Hall (Bulger North). The candidtate will offer a short opening statement followed by a question-and-answer session. The search committee encourages the campus community to provide feedback by completing an online survey after the presentation. The survey will be open until Friday, March 2, at noon; responses will be anonymous. Questions may be directed to search chair Bradley Fuster, associate vice president for institutional effectiveness. For more information on the position, please visit the search website.

The search committee for the college’s next chief information officer and vice president for enrollment, marketing, and communications invites the campus community to attend an open forum with the second candidate for the position on Wednesday, February 28, from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center’s Newman Lecture Hall (Bulger North). The candidate will offer a short opening statement followed by a question-and-answer session. The search committee encourages the campus community to provide feedback by completing an online survey after the presentation. The survey will be open until Friday, March 2, at noon; responses will be anonymous. Questions may be directed to search chair Bradley Fuster, associate vice president for institutional effectiveness. For more information on the position, please visit the search website.

The search committee for the college’s next chief information officer and vice president for enrollment, marketing, and communications invites the campus community to attend an open forum with the first candidate for the position on Tuesday, February 27, from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center’s Newman Lecture Hall (Bulger North). The candidate will offer a short opening statement followed by a question-and-answer session. The search committee encourages the campus community to provide feedback by completing an online survey after the presentation. The survey will be open until noon Friday, March 2; responses will be anonymous. Questions may be directed to search chair Bradley Fuster, associate vice president for institutional effectiveness. For more information on the position, please visit the search website.