Three hundred twenty-one individuals have completed training, and 27 are in progress, but 236 have not yet started training! Please complete your training. Completion reports will be shared with vice presidents and deans. Thank you.

Three hundred twenty-one individuals have completed training, and 27 are in progress, but 236 have not yet started training! Please complete your training. Completion reports will be shared with vice presidents and deans. Thank you.

The final approved 2017–2018 Academic Calendar is now available online. Please update any websites or documentation you might have with this information. Work will begin shortly on constructing and reviewing calendars up to five years into the future, which will be updated when available.

A ballot box election of CSEA Local 640 officers will be held for the positions of president and vice president on Wednesday, June 14, from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in Chase Hall 209. Please bring a valid form of ID with you to the polling location, such as your CSEA ID card, SUNY ID card, driver’s license, or pay stub. Also, please have your CSEA member ID number with you at the time of voting.

Candidates for president are Earl Morris, highway equipment operator, and Jason Sammarco, plant utilities engineer 1, both with Campus Services. Candidates for vice president are Helen Kucharczak, agency program aide in Financial Aid, and Brian Marshall, plant utilities engineer 2 in Campus Services. The positions of recording secretary and treasurer each had only one candidate, who are hereby considered unopposed and elected. Thanyania Morris, janitor with Custodial Sevices, will continue as recording secretary, and Timothy Reiter, motor vehicle operator with Campus Services, will be our new treasurer.

If you are unable to vote in person, an absentee ballot may be obtained by contacting Kathy Mills, secretary 1 in Career and Technical Education, beginning Tuesday, May 30. The deadline for receipt of completed absentee ballots is 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 14, at the CSEA Local 640 Election P.O. Box. Please return absentee ballots in the pre-labeled envelope.

To be eligible to vote, a member must be in good standing as of April 1, 2017.

If you have questions about the election forms or process, please call one of the CSEA Local 640 Election Committee members, listed below.

Mary Codick, Committee Chair; Secretary 1, Teacher Certification Office
Chase Hall 222, 878-6121, M–F Days

Amy Kline, Agency Program Aide, Admissions Office
Moot Hall 110, 878-5713, M–F Days

Koleen Greenawalt, Supervising Janitor, Custodial Services
Moore Hall 125, 878-3406, S–T Nights

Kathleen Mills, Secretary 1, Career and Technical Education
Bacon Hall 122, 878-4303, M–F Days

If you missed a Senate meeting and want to catch up, podcasts of each meeting are now posted to the Senate's podcast web page. Senate meeting minutes and summaries are also posted to the website and distributed to Senate members with the monthly Senate packet.

Buffalo State is looking for a new team adviser to help with the men's and women's rugby clubs this upcoming year. A 44-year-old multicultural USG organization with over 100 members between the men's and women's, the rugby club allows anyone to join, whether he or she is new to the game or has years of experience. This club allows anyone to become involved with campus life, gain new friends, and eventually gain a family for a lifetime.

If you are interested, please contact one of the team presidents: Teresa Tokasz or T. J. Courtney.

Buffalo State’s Writing Help Center, located on the first floor of Butler Library, will be open this summer to provide writing support for students taking summer courses. The center will offer both face-to-face and online consultation options and will be open Monday through Thursday, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. through August 11. Students can stop by or make an appointment online.

Please contact Maggie Herb, assistant professor of English and director of the Writing Help Center, with questions about the center or its services.

Pixita del Prado Hill, professor in the Elementary Education and Reading Department, and Angela Patti, assistant professor, and Raquel Schmidt, associate professor, of the Exceptional Education Department, will travel to Santiago, Chile, this weekend along with nine Buffalo State students for the International Professional Development Schools (IPDS) Chile program. The students participating in this three-week travel and service-learning program are a combination of exceptional education, childhood education, and speech-language pathology majors. While in Chile, program participants will study the Spanish language in an immersion program, live with host families, conduct educational research, participate in field experience in Chilean schools, and engage in a variety of cultural activities. The IPDS Chile program was developed by Dr. del Prado Hill and is founded on a strong relationship and exchange between Buffalo State and Universidad Mayor in Santiago, Chile, from which the Buffalo State community hosted visitors in January 2017. Please wish this year’s IPDS travelers well and follow their travel blogs at buffalostateipdschile.weebly.com.

Waitlists for 2017 Summer Session will be turned off at 11:59 p.m. on the following dates:

Session ES - Tuesday, May 16

Session SM - Tuesday, May 16

Session A - Wednesday, May 31

Session I - Sunday, June 4

Session II - Sunday, June 4

Session B - Tuesday, June 27

Session C - Tuesday, July 25

Students can continue to request to add a class after the established deadlines by following the late add process in SSB and adhering to the late add deadlines (PDF, 91 KB). For a complete listing of Summer Session 2017 deadline information, please see the deadline calendar (PDF, 258 KB). Printed copies are also available in the lobby of Moot Hall 210.

The Payroll Office will offer training on the NYS online payroll system for any employee who is interested. Please call the Payroll Office at 878-4124 to make an appointment.