The summer and fall semester course shells have been created in Blackboard for instructors' use.

Are you trying to transfer 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 Instructional Design and Training website.

Please visit these links for answers to the three most frequently asked questions:

• Merge Course Rosters
• Copying a Course in Blackboard (new simplified process)
• Make Your Course Available in Blackboard

If you need further assistance, please contact Open SUNY Support.

CSEA Local 640 members are reminded to have their CSEA member ID numbers handy. The petitioning period for the positions of president, vice president, recording secretary, and treasurer is now under way. It is not too late to nominate someone or yourself by requesting candidate eligibility forms, individual and slate petition requests, and petitions, but you will want to do so quickly to take advantage of the full petitioning period. Petitions are due back to an election committee member by 5:00 p.m. Monday, May 15.

CSEA members, please have your CSEA member cards available. If you are asked and agree to sign a petition for a potential candidate, your CSEA ID number is required on the petition at the time of signing. If you don’t know or don’t have your CSEA ID number, you can call the membership department at (800) 342-4146 ext. 1334 or ext. 1329, or (518) 257-1334 or (518) 257-1329. You can also visit the CSEA website and get it instantly. Simply enter the last four digits of your NYS employee ID number (which starts with the letter N and can be found on your pay stub), first and last name, and zip code and click “Look Up CSEA ID” to retrieve it. If you have questions about the election 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

The Arthur O. Eve Educational Opportunity Program will celebrate the academic performance of its exemplary students at the 50th Anniversary Honors Convocation on Thursday, May 4, at 3:30 p.m. in Rockwell Hall Auditorium. This year's theme is Imagine, Believe, Achieve: #BecauseofBuffaloStateEOP, the Legacy Continues….

The program will begin with a celebratory performance by theater and dance students, choreographed by Naila Ansari, lecturer of theater. Highlights include the presentation of special awards to students, staff, and faculty. A Distinguished Alumnus Award will be presented to Miguel Calderon, '75, managing director with J. P. Morgan. Recognition is given to students who have obtained a 3.0 semester or cumulative GPA during the 2016 calendar year. In addition, we will be selling T- shirts to raise funds for the EOP Jaelah Yannis Jenkins fund. The campus community is invited to attend and stay for a wonderfully catered reception.

RSVP to Cathy McCoy, 878-4426.

Special thanks to program sponsors University College, the School of Natural and Social Sciences, the School of the Professions, the School of Arts and Humanities, the School of Education, the Graduate School, Student Affairs, UUP, PSC, FSA, and Chartwells.

Campus departments and offices are invited to add fliers and other information about their areas to the new student welcome bags that will be distributed during fall Orientation sessions. All materials must be dropped off at the New Student and Family Programs Office, Porter Hall 14K, no later than Friday, May 5. Please supply at least 2,800 copies.

If you need further information or have questions, please contact the New Student and Family Programs Office, 878-5336.

Please join the Biology Department, the Great Lakes Center, and the Great Lakes ecosystem science program today, April 24, for the seminar "Linking Physiology to Biogeography: From Individuals to Populations," presented by Lacy Chick, postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Biology at Case Western Reserve University, from 4:00 to 5:15 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center East 2. All students, staff, and faculty members are welcome.

Please join the Biology Department, the Great Lakes Center, and the Great Lakes ecosystem science program for the seminar "Linking Physiology to Biogeography: From Individuals to Populations," presented by Lacy Chick, postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Biology at Case Western Reserve University, on Monday, April 24, from 4:00 to 5:15 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center East 2. All students, staff, and faculty members are welcome.

Yola Monakhov Stockton, assistant professor of photography, will discuss Hawaiian identity and tourism in relation to photography during today's final Artists on the Road: Travel As a Source of Inspiration lecture, "The Atlas of Aloha 'Aina: Mapping the Love of the Land," from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m.  in Science and Mathematics Complex 170.

Ms. Stockton will share stories from her travels, including immigrating from the former Soviet Union; undergraduate study abroad in Bologna, Italy; work in photojournalism in the Middle East and Central Asia; and other travel made possible by her work as a photographer and artist. The second part of her talk will cover more recent work in Hawaii, where marketing images of a tourists' paradise mask a colonial history and erasure of native rights. She will speak about how her work seeks to engage these dueling realities, and how photographs constitute cultural memory.

The Artists on the Road series is co-sponsored by the Design Department and the International and Exchange Programs Office. For more information on the series, please contact Carol Townsend, associate professor of design and coordinator of design foundations, 878-4986.

Buffalo State alumnus Kay Youn, assistant professor of graphic design at Seton Hill University, will present a lecture on his interactive design work in Korea and America on Thursday, April 20, during Bengal Pause (12:15–1:30 p.m.) in Upton Hall 211 and a workshop on "pop-up" paper construction from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Upton Hall 306.

Workshop participants must bring the following supplies:

X-acto knife + extra #11 blades
Glue (Elmer's or Super Glue)
Ruler (metal or plastic)
Scissors
Bone-folder
Cutting board

What exactly is the Internet of Things (IoT)? How does it affect me? Please read “IoT Security Basics Every Device Owner Needs Now” and share this information with your family and acquaintances, especially with students who have lots of IoT in their dorm rooms. This article is chock-full of information you need now.

As of Monday, April 17, 10:30 a.m.: 575 invitations to campus personnel, 139 completed, 12 in-process, 424 not-started. Please log in and complete your training. If you are unsure how to do this, please contact Melissa Miszkiewicz, or see the RITE Information Security page.