Please join us for the professional development workshop "Facilitating and Structuring Effective Meetings" on Tuesday, October 24, from 9:00 a.m. to noon in Butler Library 181B.

Meetings can sometimes feel unproductive, inefficient, boring, and unorganized; however, meeting leaders can use effective facilitation skills, an actionable agenda, role clarity, and structured content to make meetings fun, productive, and meaningful. This workshop will help participants to develop and practice effective meeting facilitation and delivery strategies.

Light snacks will be provided. Please register online through the Workshop Registration System.

Please join us for the professional development workshop "Go at Your Own Pace: Buffalo State College Running and Walking Group" on Thursday, October 5, from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. and Friday, October 6, from noon to 1:00 p.m. in Houston Gym 1.

All staff, faculty, and administrators are invited to de-stress and stay active with colleagues by participating in a running and walking group held twice a week (Thursday at 9:00 a.m. and Friday at noon). We encourage employees at any fitness level to join us; multiple running and walking groups will be offered to accommodate a variety of individual preferences (distance and pace).

Anyone is welcome to sign up to participate anytime throughout the fall 2017 semester by e-mailing professionaldev@buffalostate.edu. When you sign up, you will be added to the group’s Yammer page, where we will post the meeting locations for each run and walk.

The Music Department is pleased to announce its 2017-2018 Faculty and Friends Concert Series lineup. Several concerts this year will celebrate American music:

The Buffalo Jazztet - The Birth of Bebop: Tadd, Diz, and Monk at 100
Thursday, October 5, 7:30 p.m.
Louis P. Ciminelli Recital Hall

Rhapsody in Blue with Emily Boyce, Piano, and the Buffalo State Wind Ensemble 
Thursday, October 12, 7:30 p.m.
Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall

Tres Bone
Wednesday, November 8, 7:30 p.m.
Louis P. Ciminelli Recital Hall

Buffalo State Voice Students
Thursday, November 9, 7:30 p.m.
Louis P. Ciminelli Recital Hall

Artina McCain, Piano
Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Louis P. Ciminelli Recital Hall

The Artemis String Quartet
Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Louis P. Ciminelli Recital Hall

Buffalo State Philharmonia and Choirs
Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall

World-renowned pianist Sergei Babayan will appear on Wednesday, October 11, as the Lois R. Klein guest artist. We will host the acclaimed ensemble Decoda on Thursday, February 8, 2018, as part of a collaboration among the Buffalo Public Schools and Buffalo String Works. And faculty member Holly Bewlay, soprano, will perform a recital on Wednesday, February 14, 2018.

The complete 2017–2018 concert series lineup is available on the Music Department website.

All students (any age, any institution) receive free admission. Tickets for all concerts are available through the Performing Arts Center Box Office.

Each August, Buffalo State faculty, staff, and students must download a renewed license for the Buffalo State secure wireless network. If your device won't stay connected, it's time to renew.

There are two important reasons to use the Buffalo State secure wireless network named Bengal: security and convenience.

Security: Wireless communication over this network is encrypted.
Convenience: Faculty, staff, and students can enroll their devices and log in only once a year (August). Persistent wireless connectivity is provided each time you come to campus, without the need to log in each time. Individuals can have up to five devices on the network (e.g., smartphone, tablet, laptop). Yes, you must re-enroll each August, and that means you must download the app yearly to each mobile device.

Please note: The campus has more than one wireless network. BengalOpen16 is a public network. By "public," we mean that information sent over this network is not encrypted. In addition, users are logged off after 15 minutes of inactivity and must log in again.

To recap, Bengal is the secure wireless network; BengalOpen16 is the public wireless network. To use the secure wireless network, you must download the Cloudpath application. You may link to it from the Secure Wi-Fi page on the RITE website by clicking one of the green “Enroll Your Device” boxes. Follow the instructions. You may delete the Cloudpath application once you have enrolled.

Why is the Cloudpath app so poorly rated in my app store?

If you read the reasons people give low ratings to the Cloudpath app, you will see that they are actually rating their wireless service as slow and mistaking Cloudpath as the wireless service. Cloudpath is simply the application that allows you to enroll your devices on our secure wireless network using your Buffalo State credentials. It is not the wireless technology itself, and it provides no bandwidth. Once you have enrolled your devices on the Buffalo State secure wireless network, you can uninstall Cloudpath. It has done its job. You must download it yearly to re-enroll on Buffalo State secure wireless. This occurs every August.

MTVU will cast its next MTVU VJ for the 2017–2018 school year, and one Buffalo State student could be selected! Students, join MTVU on campus as they conduct live interviews today, September 15, on the landing by Spot Coffee from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Campbell Student Union. Students who wish to audition will be required to sign a waiver. They also must be 18 years of age or older, be enrolled at Buffalo State, and be eligible to work in the United States.

Auditions will be aired on MTVU, and the winner will be announced October 31, 2017. That student will be paid for up to three projects at $500 each.

Students from all majors are invited to join the Anne Frank Project's fifth student delegation to Rwanda in June 2018. Highlights of the trip include visiting genocide memorials, refugee camps, schools, villages, and wildlife safaris. The curriculum focuses on sharing AFP’s drama-based education and story-building model with Rwandan teachers and students. AFP’s rich history in Rwanda provides for deeply meaningful experiences well beyond typical study-abroad programs.

Informational meetings covering the application process, itinerary, travel cost, and learning outcomes of the trip will be held as follows:

Thursday, September 21
12:15–1:30 p.m.
Technology Building 160

Friday, October 6
1:00–2:00 p.m.
Butler Library 210

Wednesday, October 18
2:00–3:00 p.m.
Technology Building 160

Applications are due Wednesday, November 1. For more information, please visit AFP's website.

Please contact Drew Kahn, director of the Anne Frank Project, with questions.

The Faculty-Student Association has worked with the Archives and Special Collections Department of Butler Library to make several historical documents of the FSA available to the Buffalo State College community. Included are all board of directors minutes since inception, bylaws, special meeting minutes, and the most recent certified financial audit of the corporation. These documents can be viewed on the Buffalo State Digital Commons.

On behalf of the board of directors, I thank the outstanding professional efforts of Buffalo State archivists Hope Dunbar and Dan Dilandro for bringing this project to fruition.

Please join us for the professional development workshop "Quick Tips for Wellness at Work," presented by Leah Panek-Shirley, assistant professor, and Katie Manis, lecturer, from the Health, Nutrition, and Dietetics Department on Tuesday, October 3, from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in Butler Library 181B.

Wellness at work benefits you, your employer, your family, and your community. In this session, you will learn tips, resources, and tools for improving wellness at work with just a little planning and a few minutes throughout your work day. The goal of this session is to provide nutrition, relaxation, physical activity, social tips, and connections to improve wellness for staff and faculty members.

Light snacks will be provided. Please register online through the Workshop Registration System.

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.

Since fall 2016, all reports to the College Senate have been posted to the College Senate website. The most recent reports are from the September 8, 2017, Senate meeting.