Michael Spogli, TIAA financial consultant, will be on campus for individual consultations with Buffalo State faculty and staff members on Wednesday, January 31, and Thursday, February 1, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. in Caudell Hall 110. Appointments are required.

Learn how to pursue your financial goals by investing in financial products such as mutual funds, brokerage, life insurance, and annuities. A detailed evaluation tells you everything you need to know and do.

Schedule an appointment today.

Michael Spogli, TIAA’s financial consultant, will be on campus to meet with Buffalo State faculty and staff members on Wednesday, January 31, and Thursday, February 1, in Caudell Hall 110 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. for your convenience. Appointments are required.

Are you saving enough for your retirement? Be sure your investments are properly allocated, that you are saving enough, and are on track to meet your particular retirement goals. Take advantage of this opportunity to confidentially speak with a professional regarding your financial situation. This is a great time to set up a supplemental retirement account if you haven’t already.

Don’t delay. Schedule an appointment today.

Intermittent impacts to parking on the south side of Lot R-1—Rockwell Road between Clinton Road and the Burchfield Penney Art Center—are expected throughout the day tomorrow, January 23, as a contractor prunes and removes trees to provide the necessary clearance for newly installed street lighting. Thank you for your patience as this important work is undertaken.

Qwickly Module
How would you like to make all your courses available from one spot? Do you wish you could e-mail multiple courses from one area? How about posting one announcement for several classes without going into each course? Now you can! The Qwickly Module accomplishes all that and more to make your life easier.

New Box View
Blackboard's Crocodoc Inline Annotation Grading Tool was decommissioned January 15. Blackboard was updated to the New Box View as a replacement for Crocodoc. New Box View offers several improvements including rendering fidelity and expanded support for new file types. Learn more about working with annotations in New Box View.

Blackboard Qwickly Jot Assignment
Expand the scope of assignments in Blackboard. Create assignments with diagrams, charts, maps, or any uploaded image. Students can write or draw directly on the image and submit the assignment for grading. Learn more about the Qwickly Jot Assignment.

Are you trying to copy content to your new section or make your course available and you just can't remember how? All you need to get ready for the new semester in Blackboard is available on the RITE Self-Service Portal.

Please visit these links (located on the Blackboard Faculty Resources tab) for answers to the four most frequently asked questions:

• Merge Course Rosters
• Copying a Course in Blackboard
• Make Your Course Available in Blackboard
• Instructor Access to Blackboard Course

If you need further assistance, please contact Open SUNY Support or open a ticket on the RITE Self-Service Portal.

Attend a Blackboard professional development workshop or earn a Blackboard Specialization Certificate.

Please join the Civic and Community Engagement Office for a webinar on engaging immigrant communities on Tuesday, April 10, from 2:00 to 3:15 p.m. in Caudell Hall 110. Immigration is a significant national issue, and relevant to us locally here in Western New York. In this webinar, members of the Cal State East Bay community will share the responsive programs they created to engage the immigrant community and develop positive relationships across differences.

Please join the Civic and Community Engagement Office for the webinar "Community or Political Engagement? Educating for Democracy in Troubled Times" on Tuesday, February 6, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. in Science and Mathematics Complex 169. This webinar will confront the current political climate and discuss the challenges and opportunities it presents for higher education, as well as how our work in community engagement might foster more effective political learning and action.

Reports to the College Senate are posted on the College Senate website. The most recent reports are from the December 8, 2017, Senate meeting.

Podcasts are now 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 podcast web page. Senate meeting summaries are also posted to the website after they are presented to the Senate.

From the Chair of the College Senate
The first College Senate meeting of the spring 2018 semester will be held at 3:00 p.m. Friday, February 9, in Butler Library 210. Senate meetings are recorded and posted as podcasts on the College Senate website. Please visit the website to catch up on past Senate news, listen to podcasts of past meetings, or review meeting summaries. The schedule (PDF, 46 KB) of all upcoming College Senate meeting dates is also posted.

The College Senate Office is located in Cleveland Hall 211. Howard Reid, professor of psychology, is chair of the College Senate for the 2017–2018 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.

We received a notice from haveibeenpwned regarding Lyrics Mania. As previously noted, we receive notices from haveibeenpwned when a Buffalo State e-mail account is in the mix of breached accounts. If you used your Buffalo State e-mail address to establish an account with Lyrics Mania, please change your passwords to both your Buffalo State account and your account with Lyrics Mania immediately. Do not use the same password for each account.

From the haveibeenpwned website: “In December 2017, the song lyrics website known as Lyrics Mania suffered a data breach. The data in the breach included 109k usernames, email addresses and plain text passwords. Numerous attempts were made to contact Lyrics Mania about the incident, however no responses were received.”