Spot Coffee will be open during the summer, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The Resident Dining Hall, located in the Campbell Student Union, will be open for breakfast from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. and lunch from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m Monday through Friday featuring an all-you-care-to-eat buffet.

For lunch today in the dining hall, enjoy beef or chicken fajitas, red beans and rice, refried beans, salsa fresca, guacamole, and taco salad.

Tomorrow, July 31, for lunch in the dining hall, enjoy General Tso's chicken, vegetable lo mein, white rice, Vietnamese tofu, sesame noodle salad, green salad, and pot stickers.

The door price is $6.69 for breakfast and $8.99 for lunch. Faculty and staff members, save 10 percent on every purchase when you use your Bengal Bucks. For information on how to sign up for a Bengal Bucks account or for a full list of summer hours of operation, please visit our website.

Monday, August 25, is the last day our office can process vendor payments and employee reimbursements for fiscal year 2013–2014 using state-appropriated funds; therefore, it is vital that all goldenrod receiving reports be forwarded to our office, Cleveland Hall 414, as soon as the goods or services are satisfactorily received. All travel vouchers for trips before June 30, 2013, must also be received by this date.

Spot Coffee will be open during the summer, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The Resident Dining Hall, located in the Campbell Student Union, will be open for breakfast from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. and lunch from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m Monday through Friday featuring an all-you-care-to-eat buffet.

For lunch today in the dining hall, enjoy turkey tetrazzini, biscuits, garlic rice, baked butternut squash, broccoli rabe, Caesar salad, and spinach salad with pecans.

Tomorrow, July 30, for lunch in the dining hall, enjoy beef or chicken fajitas, red beans and rice, refried beans, salsa fresca, guacamole, and taco salad.

The door price is $6.69 for breakfast and $8.99 for lunch. Faculty and staff members, save 10 percent on every purchase when you use your Bengal Bucks. For information on how to sign up for a Bengal Bucks account or for a full list of summer hours of operation, please visit our website.

Spot Coffee will be open during the summer, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Starting today, the Resident Dining Hall, located in the Campbell Student Union, will be open for breakfast from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. and lunch from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m featuring an all-you-care-to-eat buffet.

For lunch today in the dining hall, enjoy chicken cacciatore over spaghetti, tomato basil green beans, sautéed zucchini and squash, green salad, and pasta salad.

Tomorrow, July 29, for lunch in the dining hall, enjoy turkey tetrazzini, biscuits, garlic rice, baked butternut squash, broccoli rabe, Caesar salad, and spinach salad with pecans.

The door price is $6.69 for breakfast and $8.99 for lunch. Faculty and staff members, save 10 percent on every purchase when you use your Bengal Bucks. For information on how to sign up for a Bengal Bucks account or for a full list of summer hours of operation, please visit our website.

Please join the PDS Consortium for its 20th annual retreat on Friday, September 26, from 7:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. at the Ramada Conference Center in Getzville. All teacher education faculty, teacher candidates, mentor teachers, and school partners are welcome to attend this free event that will include a breakfast buffet, a keynote address by the NYS Teacher of the Year, a wide variety of presentations on best practices, and master teacher public lesson demonstrations. RSVP to Leslie Day, lecturer of elementary education and reading, by Monday, September 22.

Reminder: Nominations for the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching are due to the provost by Monday, September 15. Guidelines are available on the SUNY website. Electronic submissions are encouraged and may be sent to Carolyn Martino, assistant to the provost.

Buffalo State will host nationally renowned experts from Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) for the training “Community, Coalitions, and Connections: WNY Working Together” today from 9:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center.

The event is sponsored by Px21 (a group of Erie County substance-abuse prevention and mental health providers, formerly called Px20) and the West Side Youth Development Coalition (WSYDC) in partnership with Buffalo State's Center for Health and Social Research (CHSR) with support from the Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation. The goals are to build capacity, increase effectiveness, help local coalitions and community groups work more effectively on their goals, and realize the benefits of working together. The training will help align various methods of community work, and participants will learn the principles of the strategic prevention framework. While the training has some orientation toward substance-abuse prevention, the principles at the heart of the training have broad applicability to coalition work aimed at healthier communities in general.

The fee for this training is $10 to help cover the cost of food (breakfast and lunch for all participants) and training materials. Please note: no-cost scholarships are available on request.

Please call CHSR at ext. 6137 with any questions or for registration details.

The SUNY Center for Professional Development and Blackboard Collaborate will offer a three-part series, "Blackboard Collaborate: Functional Core Workshops," that comprises "Blackboard Collaborate Essentials," "Blackboard Collaborate: Beyond the Basics," and "Putting It All Together in Blackboard Collaborate." Each workshop is designed to build off the previous, so participants are encouraged to complete the entire series.

In addition to the Functional Core Workshops series, SUNY CPD will also offer an advanced Blackboard Collaborate session, "The Accessibility Imperative: Providing Access for All."

To register or to learn more about these webinars, please visit the SUNY Center for Professional Development website.

NOTE: SUNY CPD is also offering the webinar "Session Administration System (SAS) LMS Integration." Those workshops do not apply to Buffalo State faculty.

The Online Learning Consortium (previously the Sloan Consortium) will offer a webinar on designing and assessing online discussion questions on Wednesday, July 30, at 2:00 p.m. In this webinar you will learn strategies for

• designing discussion questions that encourage students to critically evaluate course materials and topics,
• fostering an environment that supports active and meaningful discussions among class members,
• communicating clear expectations to students regarding online discussion, and
• creating rubrics to assess discussion participation and provide detailed feedback to students.

This webinar is free. Register on the Online Learning Consortium’s website or, if you are interested in viewing this webinar with your colleagues, register through the CyberQuad Workshop Registration System and attend in Bulger Communication Center 120 at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 30.

Please note that Buffalo State’s practice concerning cultivation travel expenses from state-appropriated funding has recently changed. If a Buffalo State employee travels for the purpose of cultivation of potential or current Buffalo State donors for fundraising purposes, is specific to the employee’s job function, and is attested to and approved by a supervisor as necessary and beneficial to Buffalo State, it will be considered allowable as an official business purpose.

These changes apply only to the actual travel of the campus employee. All other travel-related policies outlined on the Travel Services website are still applicable.

Reasonableness and compliance with travel policies will be reviewed and verified by the Travel Services Office.

If you have any questions concerning the change in practice, please call Travel Services at ext. 4117.