The Art and Design Student Exhibition 1 is on display through Saturday, April 14, in the Czurles-Nelson Gallery. A reception will be held Tuesday, April 10, at 5:00 p.m.

?The Czurles-Nelson Gallery is an academic space dedicated to supporting the scholarly and cultural mission of visual arts programs at Buffalo State College and providing a forum for the creative and critical expression of the students and faculty of the visual arts.

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The Art and Design Faculty Exhibition 2 is now on display in the Czurles-Nelson Gallery through Thursday, March 15. A reception will be held Tuesday, March 6, at 5:00 p.m.

?The Czurles-Nelson Gallery is an academic space dedicated to supporting the scholarly and cultural mission of visual arts programs at Buffalo State College and providing a forum for the creative and critical expression of the students and faculty of the visual arts.

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Spring 2018 Exhibition at the Czurles-Nelson Gallery

Buffalo State Alumni Artists: Works from the Gerald Mead Collection
January 29–February 15
Reception: Tuesday, February 13, at 5:00 p.m.

?The Czurles-Nelson Gallery is an academic space dedicated to supporting the scholarly and cultural mission of visual arts programs at Buffalo State College and providing a forum for the creative and critical expression of the students and faculty of the visual arts.

Hours: Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

The 2017 Form W-2 is now available on New York State Payroll Online (NYSPO). Paper copies of 2017 W-2s will be mailed to employees' home addresses. 

Please remember to turn off the pop-up blocker to open your W-2.

Please call the Payroll Office at 878-4124 if you need help accessing NYSPO.

Please join Weigel Health Promotions for workshops, programming, and training on various topics on Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Houston Gym 214. All sessions are open to students and the college community. For more Weigel Health Promotions programs, check out our newsletter, watch us on our Youtube channel, or follow us on social media (Buffalo State Health Promotions). Please contact healthpromo@buffalostate.edu with questions.

Are you a secretary or office assistant interested in learning how you can use Excel at work to be more efficient or make sense of data and information more quickly? Do you use Excel for a current process in your unit but think there may be additional Excel tools to make that process more effective? Come to the session "Excel toward Productivity and Efficiency," facilitated by RITE Instructional Design and Training and the Professional Development Center, to learn more. Please use the links below to register for a session. All workshops will be held in Bulger Communication Center 122. After you register for a session, you will be sent a short survey to help us better understand your Excel needs during the session.

Wednesday, February 7
9:30–10:30 a.m.
10:30–11:30 a.m.

Thursday, February 15
11:30 a.m.–30 p.m.
12:30–1:30 p.m.

Friday, February 23 
9:30–10:30 a.m.
10:30–11:30 a.m.

Monday, February 26
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
12:30–1:30 p.m.

Marcia Tate, Ed.D., best-selling author and speaker, will present "'Sit and Get' Won't Grow Dendrites: 20 Professional Learning Strategies that Engage the Adult Brain" on Tuesday, March 6, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in Butler Library 210.

Visualize the worst presentation that you have ever been a part of as an adult learner. Now, visualize the best one. No doubt, there is a considerable difference between the two. This workshop is designed for administrators, staff developers, teacher leaders, instructional coaches and coordinators, college and university professors, business and community leaders, and anyone else who teaches the adult brain.

Many presenters to adult audiences do not realize that having participants sit and get information is not the most effective way to ensure that the information sticks in their brains. Adults don’t retain information simply by sitting and viewing multiple PowerPoint slides and being read what is contained on them.

Participants in this workshop are engaged the entire time while they learn the answers to the following three basic questions: (1) What are 20 strategies that I can use to make my professional learning experience unforgettable? (2) What are techniques that appear to result in sustained adult behavior change? And, as a bonus, (3) What are 10 things that keep adults living well beyond the age of 80?

RSVP by Thursday, March 1. 

CTLE credit available.

Sponsored by the Buffalo State College Grant Allocation Committee, the School of Education, the Woods-Beals Endowment for Urban Education, the Horace Mann Endowment for Exceptional Education, the Elementary Education and Reading Department, the Professional Development Schools Consortium, the New York State Master Teacher Program, and the Buffalo State Literacy Center.

The Buffalo State College Literacy Center in Bacon Hall 227 offers free one-on-one literacy tutoring (strategy instruction) for children (grades K–12) of Buffalo State students, faculty, and staff. Sessions are on Mondays or Tuesdays from 5:00 to 6:45 p.m. There are eight sessions and one parent conference. Sessions begin in February. Please e-mail Keli Garas-York, associate professor of elementary education and reading, to register.

Last chance! Please join fellow faculty and staff members for a discussion on connecting community-based learning experiences with course content and civic learning on Wednesday, January 24, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Caudell Hall 110. 

Helping students reflect on and connect their community-based learning to the academic content of your course is critical to ensuring student learning. The Civic and Community Engagement Office will provide strategies and activities to assist you in connecting the community experiences with the learning objectives of your course, as well as easily allowing students to consider the civic purposes of their community-engagement experiences. Experienced faculty members will share examples. Come with questions! This conversation is appropriate for experienced community-engagement faculty and staff members as well as anyone new to the pedagogy.

Register now: e-mail cce@buffalostate.edu or call 878-3919.

The Buffalo State Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) will host the NYS Citizen Preparedness Corps Training on Thursday, February 22, from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. in the Campbell Student Union Assembly Hall.

The purpose of the training program is to provide citizens with the tools and resources to prepare for emergencies and disasters, respond to emergencies and disasters, and recover as quickly as possible. 

This training is open to everyone, but you MUST register in advance. All registered participants who complete the training will receive a free NYS Disaster Preparedness Response Kit.

Space is limited, so please register early.

Contact Rick Myers, university police officer 2, 878-6921, with questions.