After you have completed (submitted and saved) your fall 2016 grades, please go back in to your roster and double-check that all grades are there as you intended.

If you have any questions about grading, please call the RITE Support Desk at 878-4357 or the Registrar's Office at 878-4811. 

The fall 2016 faculty grading window opens today at 9:00 a.m. and closes Wednesday, December 21, at 9:00 p.m.

The grading window for fall 2016 is now open and will close Wednesday, December 21, at 9:00 p.m. Faculty members will enter their fall 2016 grades using Banner. Detailed documentation for entering grades (PDF, 191 KB) is available on the Banner website. Additionally, assistance is available by calling the RITE Support Desk at 878-4357 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

If you have any questions about grading, please call the Registrar's Office at 878-4811. We have provided a grading tip sheet (PDF, 617 KB) to assist you in successful grading.

Ken Woods, Fidelity director and retirement planner, will be available to meet with Buffalo State faculty and staff members on Tuesday, November 8, between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. in the Carmine Grande Conference Room, Cleveland Hall 418. Take advantage of this opportunity to review your retirement portfolio, discuss your particular retirement needs and goals, and get answers to all your pre-retirement questions.

To schedule your free one-on-one appointment, please call (844) FOR-SUNY or register online.

Fidelity can help make your future plans possible. Sign up today.

The Design Department now accepts high school Advanced Placement (AP) test scores of 4 or 5 for AP 15.2 Studio Art 2-D Design and AP 16 Studio Art 3-D Design. These scores will equate to our foundations program 3-credit DES 101: Introduction to Design Two Dimensional I and DES 103: Introduction to Design Three Dimensional I courses. Incoming students with qualifying scores on these AP exams will receive credit for these courses. Scores of 3 on either AP test will be granted elective credit status.

Please call the Design Department at 878-6032 with questions.

Faculty members will enter their fall 2016 grades using Banner. The grading window opens at 9:00 a.m. Monday, December 12, and closes at 9:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 21. In preparation, faculty members are encouraged to log on to Banner to be sure that all their courses are listed under their accounts. Detailed documentation for entering grades (PDF, 191 KB) is available on the Banner website. Additionally, assistance is available by calling the RITE Support Desk at 878-4357 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

If you have any questions about grading, please call the Registrar's Office at 878-4811. We have provided a grading tip sheet (PDF, 617 KB) to assist you in successful grading.

Faculty members will enter their fall 2016 grades using Banner. In preparation, faculty members are encouraged to log on to Banner to be sure that all their courses are listed under their accounts. Detailed documentation for entering grades (PDF, 191 KB) is available on the Banner website. Additionally, assistance is available by calling the RITE Support Desk at 878-4357 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. If you have any questions about grading, please call the Registrar's Office at 878-4811.

The fall 2016 faculty grading window opens at 9:00 a.m. Monday, December 12, and closes at 9:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 21.

Please join us for our next meeting of the Friends of the Buffalo State Maud Gordon Holmes Arboretum on Tuesday, November 15, at 12:15 p.m. in Butler Library 208. We will provide the following updates:

• Membership update
• Dig date! - Trees to be planted
• Future tours, lectures, and book club
• Winter party

Effective J-Term 2017, students in good standing will be limited to a maximum of 7 credit hours, while students who are not in good standing will be limited to 4 credit hours. This limit applies to both undergraduate and graduate students. It is important to note that students enrolled in the fall semester will not have their GPAs calculated until end-of-term processing in December. Advanced registration for J-Term opens in late October-early November; therefore, students may have already enrolled for more than the 4-credit-hour limit during the advance registration period. Departments will be notified of any student on probation who has registered for more than the 4-credit-hour limit for J-Term, just as they are for students who are over the 15-credit-hour maximum during regular semesters. Maximum credit overrides may be approved by academic departments for students in good academic standing or by deans’ offices for students not in good academic standing.

National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) will be celebrated November 7–11. During NDLW, all sectors in the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) will educate their constituents on the amazing growth in distance learning and showcase their accomplishments.

RITE's Instructional Design and Training division will host webinars during NDLW to support innovation in teaching and learning within distance education. Check out the session schedule.

The Great Lakes Center is pleased to release the fall 2016 issue of its newsletter (PDF, 5.42 MB). This issue features our work on Lake Superior this summer and an early detection protocol for invasive species in Western New York.

If you'd like to be on the mailing list for future editions of the newsletter, please send an e-mail to greatlakes@buffalostate.edu with the subject "Newsletter mailing list add."