From the Interim Provost

Kevin Mulcahy, associate professor, assumed the role of interim dean of the School of the Professions on August 11. Mulcahy has served as chair of the Hospitality and Tourism Department for the past nine years, and oversaw the successful opening of Campus House in 2002. He has served Buffalo State in various other capacities since coming to Buffalo State in 1992 as an associate professor of business, including chairing the Business Department from 2006 to 2008.

Previously, Mulcahy spent 11 years at California State University, Northridge, where he served as director of graduate programs and chair of the Department of Office Systems and Business Education for the College of Business Administration and Economics.

He also served as visiting professor for the University of Helsinki’s School of Economics and Business Administration’s international M.B.A. program (1998 to 2000), as well as adjunct professor for Niagara University’s College of Business Administration (1999).

Mulcahy holds a doctorate in business-economic education from the University of California, Los Angeles, along with a master of science in vocational technical education and a bachelor of science in distributive education from Buffalo State College.

I hope you will join me in supporting Dr. Mulcahy in his new role. We look forward to the leadership he will bring to the School of the Professions.

From the Interim President
I have approved the following curricular items, which have been recommended by the appropriate dean, the College Senate, and the interim provost:

New Program:
M.S.Ed. Science Education with Initial Teaching Certification

New Course:
SLP 400 Language and Literacy for Speech-Language Pathologists

From the Interim President
I am pleased to announce the following staff liaisons and presidential appointees to the College Senate for 2009–2010:

Academic Plan, Kevin Railey
Budget and Staff Allocation, Rebecca Schenk
Bylaws and Elections, Benjamin Christy
Curriculum, Rosalyn Lindner
Instruction and Research, Scott Johnson
Faculty and Staff Welfare, Yves Gachette
Standards for Students, Charles Kenyon
Student Welfare, Timothy Ecklund
Presidential Appointee, Mark Severson
Presidential Appointee, Susanne Bair

From the Chair of the Presidential Search Advisory Committee
The Presidential Search Advisory Committee has designed a two-day schedule of meetings with our search consultant, Jessica Kozloff, during her visit to Buffalo State College on September 10 and 11. The goals of the visit are to give Dr. Kozloff broad exposure to the Buffalo State College community, to give her diverse input with respect to our aspirations regarding our next president, and to make certain that she and our consulting firm,Academic Search Inc., have a thorough understanding of our college.

The schedule for Dr. Kozloff’s visit can be found on the president’s Web site. Invitations for individual and group meetings will be distributed soon. All members of the campus community are invited to take advantage of these opportunities. You may also provide input via e-mail at presidentsearch@buffalostate.edu.

Thank you for your participation and your hospitality. Based on my own experiences in similar meetings on campus this spring, your participation and candor are both educational and helpful and also very encouraging.

Howard Zemsky
Chair, Presidential Search Advisory Committee

From the College and Community Partnerships Office
The College and Community Partnerships Office has awarded minigrants to the following 11 Buffalo State faculty members. The grant offers unique scholarship opportunities for tenured and tenure-track faculty in partnership with the community. The 2009 awards gave special consideration to partnerships on Buffalo’s West Side. The awards range from $1,000 to $2,500 for a total of $17,200.

2009 Award Recipients and Community Partners

Kelly Frothingham, Chair and Associate Professor, Geography and Planning
Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper
$2,000

Chaitali Ghosh, Associate Professor, Mathematics
Family Justice Center of Erie County
$1,000

Robin Harris, Associate Professor, Earth Sciences and Science Education
Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper
$2,000

Chenchen Huang, Assistant Professor, Hospitality and Tourism, and KeunYoung Oh, Assistant Professor, Technology
Buffalo Niagara Convention and Visitors Bureau
$1,500

Candace Keegan, Assistant Professor, Art Education|
Asarese Matters Community Center
$1,500

Patricia Medina, Assistant Professor, Educational Foundations
West Side Community Services
$1,300

Christine Scott, Assistant Professor, Speech-Language Pathology
Buffalo Public Schools
$1,400 

Gary Welborn, Associate Professor, Sociology
The Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, Hope Refugee Services, Journey’s End Refugee Services, and the International Institute of Buffalo
$2,000

William Wieczorek, Director, Center for Health and Social Research
West Side Community Services
$2,000

David Wilson, Chair and Associate Professor, Mathematics
Making Fishers of Men and Women
$2,500

From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee

CORRECTION APPENDED

Correction
FLE 340, listed in the April 2, May 21, and June 18, 2009, issues of the Bulletin as a course revision, is in fact a new course.

Advanced to the President
The following have been approved by the Senate Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the president for review and approval:

New Program:
B.F.A. Interior Design (BFA-AH-INT)

New Courses:
EDC 603 Instructional Design and Problem Solving with Technology
EDC 607 Networking for Educators
EDC 610 Integrating Digital Video Technology into the Classroom
EDC 612 Educational Models, Simulations, and Games
EDC 614 Educational Graphics and Animation

Course Revisions and Intellectual Foundations Designations:
ARTS
FAR 251 Art History II

MATHEMATICS AND QUANTITATIVE REASONING
MAT 124 Functions and Modeling II

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Advanced to the Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the Senate Curriculum Committee for review and approval:

New Courses:

CHE 626 Symmetry, Group Theory, and Vibrational Spectroscopy. Prerequisites: CHE 202/204 or equivalent. Symmetry, point groups, and simple applications of group theory, with special emphasis on the vibrational spectroscopy of small molecules.

CHE 627 X-ray Crystallography. Prerequisites: CHE 202/204 or equivalent. The seven crystal systems, 14 Bravais lattices, 32 crystallographic point groups, 230 space groups, the theory of x-ray diffraction, and the methods of crystal structure determination. Data mining using structural databases (Brookhaven Protein Data Bank and Cambridge Structural Database) for various applications in organic, coordination, pharmaceutical, and forensic chemistry. Collecting powder and/or single crystal diffraction data on the department’s x-ray diffractometers; solving and refining a crystal structure using the appropriate software packages.

CHE 628 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Prerequisites: CHE 202/204 or equivalent. Theory and practice of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, including pulse and two-dimensional methods. Use of the department’s NMR spectrometer.

CHE 629 Mass Spectrometry. Prerequisites: CHE 202/204 or equivalent. Theory and practice of mass spectrometry. Basic physics of mass spectrometry and ionization methods. Gas phase chemistry, rearrangements, and ion molecule reactions. Use of the department’s electron impact ionization and electrospray mass spectrometers.

ECO 407 Political Economy Classics. Prerequisite: ECO 201 or ECO 202. In-depth study of classic political economic thought, including Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations; David Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy and Taxation; Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, Volume I; and John Maynard Keynes’s General Theory. Relationships between these classics and modern economic thought and socioeconomic phenomena.

New Courses and Intellectual Foundations Designations:

TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
ANT 385 Visual Anthropology. Prerequisites: ANT 101 or SOC 100 and upper-division status. How technology of the still camera transformed relationship to imagery, perception of time and movement through splitting and flattening of representations into “realistic” images. Basics of still cameras as a research tool; how to collect informants’ images as data. Meaning, use of images, representations, and power of visual data.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE
ARA 101 Beginning Arabic I. Rudimentary fundamentals of Arabic with emphasis on the spoken and written language.

ARA 102 Beginning Arabic II. Basic fundamentals of Arabic with emphasis on the spoken and written language.

Course Revision and Intellectual Foundations Designation:

ORAL COMMUNICATION
CHE 471 Biochemical Techniques. Prerequisites: CHE 204 and CHE 301. Prerequisite or corequisite: CHE 470.Techniques used in the collection and analysis of experimental data on biochemical systems. Participation in laboratory experiments illustrating biochemical techniques and general biochemical principles. Practice in recording and disseminating data collected in a modern biochemistry laboratory, including record keeping via a laboratory notebook, organizing and writing a scientific report, and giving an oral presentation on scientific results.

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Correction: August 20, 2009
The original version of this announcement, published July 16, incorrectly recorded EDC 603 as EDC 604.

From the Chair of the College Senate
Please consider membership on a standing committee of the College Senate. A committee member’s term is two years, renewable upon request. The application form is available on the Committees page of the Senate Web site, along with instructions for completion. Chairs of the College Senate standing committees will establish committees, in most cases prior to the first meeting of the College Senate in September. Final reports of last year’s standing committees are now posted on the College Senate Web site.

From the Senior Adviser to the President for Equity and Campus Diversity

1. No person shall be expelled from or be refused admission as a student to an institution of higher education for the reason that he or she is unable, because of his or her religious beliefs, to register for or attend classes or to participate in any examination, study, or work requirements on a particular day or days.

2. Any student in an institution of higher education who is unable because of his or her religious beliefs to attend classes on a particular day or days shall, because of such absence on the particular day or days, be excused from any examination or any study or work requirements.

3. It shall be the responsibility of the faculty and of the administrative officials of each institution of higher education to make available to each student who is absent from school because of his or her religious beliefs an equivalent opportunity to register for classes or make up any examination, study, or work requirements that he or she may have missed because of such absence on any particular day or days. No fees of any kind shall be charged by the institution for making available to the said student such equivalent opportunity.

4. If registration, classes, examinations, or study or work requirements are held on Friday after 4:00 p.m. or on Saturday, similar or makeup classes, examinations, or study or work requirements shall be made available on other days, where it is possible and practical to do so. No special fees shall be charged to the student for these classes, examinations, or study or work requirements held on other days.

5. In effectuating the provisions of the Education Law, it is expected that faculty and administrative officials will exercise the fullest measure of good faith. No adverse or prejudicial effects shall result to any student for availing himself or herself of the provisions of this section.

6. Any student who is aggrieved by the alleged failure of any faculty or administrative official to comply in good faith with the provisions of this section shall be entitled to maintain an action or proceeding in the supreme court of the county in which such institutions of higher education is located for the enforcement of his or her rights under this section.

7. The term “religious belief” shall mean beliefs associated with any corporation organized and operated exclusively for religious purposes that is not disqualified for tax exemption under Section 501 of the United States Code.

8. At Buffalo State College, we sharpen the mandate of the state and endorse the policy that the administering of evaluative examinations on Rosh Hashanah (September 19–20, 2009), Yom Kippur (September 28, 2009, or Good Friday (April 2, 2010) will not be permitted.

In addition, faculty and staff should be aware thatRamadan will be observed Saturday, August 22, to Sunday, September 20, 2009. During Ramadan, there are special obligations for fasting, prayer, and other religious observances for people practicing Islam.

From the Vice President for Student Affairs
Theresa Stephan Hains, M.D., director of the Weigel Health Center, began a temporary leave of absence effective July 9. During the period of her leave, Angie Price, associate director, is serving as acting director of the health center, responsible for overall supervision and day-to-day management of the center. Margaret McAloon, M.D., is serving as interim medical director responsible for clinical medical care.

Price has a long and proven record of leadership at the health center and is the officer in charge when Stephan Hains is absent. As acting director, Price will represent the center at meetings of Student Affairs directors, on the Student Health Advisory Committee, on the Emergency Planning Committee, and at other meetings as required. She will also serve as the college’s contact with the Erie County Department of Health for medical alerts and advisories, especially those associated with the ongoing H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic.

McAloon has served since September 2007 as one of the health center’s staff physicians, along with Dr. Lester Sielski, working under the center’s partnership agreement with the University at Buffalo’s Academic Medical Services Corporation. She is experienced with providing physician care to Buffalo State students and is known and respected by members of the center staff. McAloon supervises the nurse practitioners and is responsible for all clinical issues and patient care at the center.

Faculty and staff who wish to refer students for health-related issues should call the Weigel Health Center at 878-6711. For more information, contact Charles Kenyon, associate vice president and dean of students, 878-4618.

From the President
I have approved the following curricular items, which have been recommended by the appropriate dean, the College Senate, and the provost:

Program Revisions:
B.A. Journalism (BA-AH-JBS)
B.A. Media Production (BA-AH-MDP)

New Course:
MUS 110 Accompanist/Coaching Session

Course Revision:
COM 317 Media Management