Today is the last day to submit applications for the SUNY B-140W Tuition Assistance Program for Summer Session 2016.

Staff members may apply for tuition assistance after six months of service; faculty members may apply after one semester of service. The following employees are eligible:

• Full-time Buffalo State faculty members and professional or classified employees.
• Part-time or temporary Buffalo State faculty members and professional or classified employees who are employed at least half time (faculty must teach at least two courses in the semester).
• Full-time Research Foundation employees, provided they work on the Buffalo State campus.

Program funds may be used for courses at SUNY campuses only. Eligible employees may apply for a 50 percent waiver of SUNY tuition for up to two courses a semester, to a maximum of 15 credit hours an academic year. Tuition assistance is limited to regular in-state undergraduate or graduate tuition rates. The level of support may be adjusted when necessary if funding is not adequate to cover applications received.

After submitting an application, employees who decide to drop a class or find it has been covered by another source are asked to please notify Human Resource Management immediately to update their applications.

Please contact Human Resource Management, 878-4821, for applications and program guidelines.

Monday, August 1, is the deadline to submit applications for the SUNY B-140W Tuition Assistance Program for Summer Session 2016.

Staff members may apply for tuition assistance after six months of service; faculty members may apply after one semester of service. The following employees are eligible:

• Full-time Buffalo State faculty members and professional or classified employees.

• Part-time or temporary Buffalo State faculty members and professional or classified employees who are employed at least half time (faculty must teach at least two courses in the semester).

• Full-time Research Foundation employees, provided they work on the Buffalo State campus.

Program funds may be used for courses at SUNY campuses only. Eligible employees may apply for a 50 percent waiver of SUNY tuition for up to two courses a semester, to a maximum of 15 credit hours an academic year. Tuition assistance is limited to regular in-state undergraduate or graduate tuition rates. The level of support may be adjusted when necessary if funding is not adequate to cover applications received.

After submitting an application, employees who decide to drop a class or find it has been covered by another source are asked to please notify Human Resource Management immediately to update their applications.

Please contact Human Resource Management, 878-4821, for applications and program guidelines.

Buffalo State will implement electronic timesheets for the student workforce starting in fall 2016. One-hour training sessions will be offered August 8–12 between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. If you supervise a student or work-study employee, please call the Payroll Office at 878-4124 to sign up for a one-hour session.

By popular demand, the Buffalo State Alumni Association has again teamed up with Liberty Mutual Insurance Company to offer a defensive driving course to Buffalo State faculty, staff, alumni, and students on Saturday, October 1, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Ketchum Hall 113.

Save money on your auto insurance by taking this class offered through Liberty Mutual. Friends and relatives are also welcome if accompanied by a faculty or staff member, alumnus, or student. The discount is 10 percent off liability insurance in New York State, regardless of one’s auto insurance provider; this course will also remove points from your driver’s license. The cost of the class is $22 per person.

Attendees should park in Lot R-2 or along Rockwell Road and enter Ketchum Hall through the door on the west side of the building (across from Moot Hall).

To enroll, please call Mike DiCioccio, Buffalo State’s local representative, at (716) 997-5312. The registration deadline for this class is Monday, September 19.

AFP 2016: Engage. Lead. Improve the World is the Anne Frank Project's eighth annual social justice festival, held this year on September 28 and 29 in the Campbell Student Union Social Hall. AFP 2016 is free and open to students, faculty, staff, and the community.

Take a sneak peek (PDF, 1.8 MB) at this year's events, register as an individual or a class, and sign up to volunteer on the AFP 2016 website.

If you have questions, please call 878-5559 or contact Eve Everette, festival curator and assistant director.

Follow AFP: @annefrankprjct - Twitter | annefrankproject - Instagram | AFP on Facebook

Please be sure to print this page or bookmark this link for updated information on course prefixes and corresponding departments (PDF, 64 KB).

Bengals Dare to Care Day is Saturday, September 17, from 8:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., and we need your help! Each of the 20–25 community service projects throughout the city of Buffalo needs a site coordinator to assist with logistics. Please consider signing up for this important but very simple job.

Responsibilities include signing students into the project, greeting and communicating with the community partner on the day of the event, keeping volunteers motivated and safe, facilitating a reflection discussion after the project is complete, and being a point of contact with the VSLC throughout the morning. In return, site coordinators get to know a great group of community-minded students, meet incredible community members doing great work throughout the city, and receive a delicious lunch when they return.

Volunteers must be available for one of the following training dates:

• Tuesday, September 13, 12:15–1:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, September 14, 6:00–7:00 p.m.

Please complete the site coordinator registration form to let us know your interest. Questions can be directed to Aurora Schunk, VSLC assistant coordinator, 878-5811.

Thank you!

Blackboard has announced scheduled maintenance for Blackboard Mobile Learn and Bb Student mobile apps from 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 23, to 2:00 a.m. Sunday, July 24 (EDT). Users should access Blackboard Learn from a desktop browser during this scheduled maintenance period.

Central Stores still has an abundance of free items. All items have the old college logo and are not to be used for official business but may be used for interoffice mail.

10 x 13 manila envelopes

6½ x 9½ manila envelopes

9½ x 4 #10 white business envelopes

Please call Campus Services at 878-5729 for assistance.

Members of the campus community are invited to participate in a research study on stress reduction conducted by adjunct faculty members Diane Marra and Shannon Hockwater in the Health, Nutrition, and Dietetics Department. Participation in the study consists of a stress reduction class that involves either a guided session in mindful meditation or “rolling out” areas of your body known to respond to stress using rubber therapy balls. Measurements will be recorded at the beginning and end of the session (questionnaires, heart rate, blood pressure, shoulder position). The total session time is 75 minutes.

All participants will receive free admission to a self-myofascial release class (held in August) and a set of Yoga Tune-Up therapy balls to take home.

To be eligible, participants must complete and return the PAR-Q form by Wednesday, July 20. The 75-minute research session will be held on Tuesday, July 26, or Thursday, July 28, in the Physiology Lab in Houston Gym 104.

Study participants MUST NOT

• be pregnant,
• be allergic to latex,
• have had surgery in the past 12 months,
• be taking any drugs that alter heart rate (pseudoephedrine, blood pressure drugs, etc.),
• use massage therapy technique regularly or in the past three months,
• have participated in a self-myofascial release class or yoga class for the last three months,
• have been engaged in regular musculoskeletal treatment for the last three months.

Study participants MUST

• be between 18 and 35 years of age,
• be apparently healthy (qualified by a health screening questionnaire).