The Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Unit will host its second annual Research Symposium on Friday, March 12, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in E. H. Butler 210.

Papers and roundtable sessions will showcase work from students, faculty, and staff in the departments of Anthropology, English, Psychology, Sociology, Student Personnel Administration, and Technology, as well as the Burchfield Penney Art Center, E. H. Butler Library, the Counseling Center, and University College. The keynote presentation will be given by Barbara Wejnert, associate professor and chair of the Department of Global Gender Studies at the University at Buffalo. The symposium schedule is available online.

A continental breakfast and lunch will be served. If you plan to attend any of the day’s events, please R.S.V.P. by completing this brief survey.

The symposium is sponsored by the Graduate School, the Research Foundation, Equity and Campus Diversity, and the Faculty-Student Association. Please contactJennifer Ryan, assistant professor of English, 878-5415, for more information.

By Tony Astran

Susan Leist is living proof that the concept of an office as a stationary place is over. She brought her work on the road last fall during a cross-country trip and, surprisingly, felt incredibly productive.

Leist, a professor of English, embarked on the second sabbatical in her teaching career during fall 2008. With the help of a reliable RV and her husband’s ability to spend nights on military bases, Leist made her way from Buffalo to Beverly Hills to spend time with her children. Along the way, she visited the Grand Canyon, swam with porpoises in San Diego, and later boarded an Alaskan cruise from Seattle.

But Leist set a daily routine and found herself even more immersed in her work than in her surroundings. Equipped with a Blackberry and a computer desk with broadband access in the RV, she was determined to accomplish two major projects during her time away from campus.

Before leaving, Leist developed and distributed a survey for college writing programs within the SUNY and CUNY systems. She then traveled to various schools across the state to investigate each program’s successes and challenges, and later published the results from 15 schools for last year’s SUNY Council on Writing (SUNYCOW) Conference. Leist found that the programs universally reported challenges with delivering ESL services to the right students, making full use of a portfolio system for students, and keeping class sizes small.

Leist’s other major project had been started 20 years ago. Taking recent advice from her colleague Paul Theobald, interim dean of the Graduate School and Woods-Beals Endowed Chair of CEURE, Leist revised her dissertation on one-room schools in Virginia for publication. The work during the sabbatical paid off: the University Press of America will publish the work in April.

“I had been fascinated with studying different types of education and wondered how the experiences in one-room schools could inform modern education,” she said. “One-room schools fostered independent scholarship. There was no ‘failure,’ and no division of time periods during the day. Teachers had to instruct children of different ages, and the classroom focused more on speaking and listening.”

Looking back, Leist said the sabbatical not only added to Buffalo State’s body of knowledge about education but also helped her greatly improve her own technology skills. “We’re becoming an ‘office-less’ society,” she said. “This sabbatical was a completely new and meaningful experience of taking the workplace on the road.”

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Read previous Focus on Sabbatical stories:

Felix Armfield
Betty Cappella
Ann Colley
Daniel Cunningham
Michael De Marco
Rob Delprino
Mark Fulk
Musa Abdul Hakim
Katherine Hartman
David Henry
Andrew Nicholls
Wendy Paterson
M. Stephen Pendleton
Stephen Phelps
John Song
Carol Townsend
Jonathan Thornton
Mark Warford
Michael Zborowski

Campus Life and Student Affairs have announced the final schedule for this spring’s Leadership Lecture Series. The series brings renowned national and local business leaders, authors, political activists, and alumni to campus to support Buffalo State’s mission of preparing students for leadership roles and responsibilities.

All lectures are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. For more information about the speakers, visit the Campus Life Web site or call 878-5937.

The 2010 Leadership Lecture Series is sponsored by Student Affairs, Campus Life, United Students Government, the Weigel Health Center, and the Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Unit with funding support from the mandatory student activity fee, the Auxiliary Services Grant Allocation Committee, the Equity and Campus Diversity Office, and the Faculty-Student Association.

Karen Stanley Fleming
Director of Urban Affairs for the City of Buffalo
Wednesday, March 17
4:00–5:00 p.m.
E. H. Butler Library 210

Mark Sterner
Alcohol-awareness advocate who faced felony manslaughter charges for the drunk-driving accident that killed three of his fraternity brothers
Monday, March 22
7:00–8:00 p.m.
Campbell Student Union Social Hall

Lynn Peril
Author of College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds
Tuesday, March 23
12:15–1:30 p.m.
Bulger Communication Center North

Tom Calderone, ’86
President of VH1
Wednesday, March 24
4:00–5:00 p.m.
E. H. Butler Library 210

Lisa Ling
Special correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show,contributor to CNN and National Geographic, and former cohost of ABC’s hit daytime talk show The View
Free to Buffalo State students with ticket; $5 for all others (general admission). Tickets available at the Campbell Student Union and Rockwell Hall box offices.
Thursday, April 8
7:00–8:00 p.m.
Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall

Everett Glenn
CEO and president of Entertainment & Sports Plus, a Southern California–based athlete and entertainer management firm with offices in Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Cleveland
Wednesday, April 28
4:00–5:00 p.m.
E. H. Butler Library 210

Ofield Dukes, an award-winning public relations practitioner in Washington, D.C., whose clients have included General Motors, Motown Records, AT&T, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, will present “Communicating with Diverse Audiences” on Thursday, April 8, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center South 2. The presentation is free and open to Buffalo State students, faculty, and staff.

Dukes will discuss the implications of America’s increasing racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity for businesses and nonprofit organizations, particularly for graduating college seniors and professional communicators. “The American marketplace is now more racially and culturally diverse than ever before,” he noted. “Therefore, companies are aggressively developing policies and practices of diversity as smart business strategies.”

Dukes, who is president of the public relations firm of Ofield Dukes & Associates, currently serves the national board of the Public Relations Society of America as a special counsel on diversity issues, a major focus for PRSA this year.

A 1958 journalism graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit, Dukes captured three National Newspaper Publishers Association awards for editorial, column, and feature writing for the Michigan Chronicle in 1964. He relocated to Washington, D.C., in 1964 to join the Johnson-Humphrey administration as deputy director of information for the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, chaired by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

In 1966, he was appointed to the staff of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. He started his own public relations firm in 1969, with specialized expertise in African American, African, and political affairs. Motown Records and Lever Brothers were his first clients, followed by corporations such as AT&T and RJR Nabisco; nonprofit associations, including the American Lung Association and the National Education Association; entertainers such as Aretha Franklin and Prince; entertainment companies such as CBS Records, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Brothers Records; and federal agencies, including the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Health and Human Services, Labor, Navy, and Treasury.

Dukes helped organize the first Congressional Black Caucus dinner and served on the boards of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Change. He also has been a communication consultant for every Democratic presidential campaign since 1972. In 1993, he founded the Black Public Relations Society of Washington.

At Howard University, where he taught as an adjunct professor for 17 years, Dukes was instrumental in formulating the public relations curriculum. He also served as an adjunct professor in the School of Communications at the American University for eight years.

He has received numerous awards, including PRSA’s Gold Anvil Award (2001) and Silver Anvil Award (1975), and was named in 2005 by PRWeek, a major publication in the public relations industry, as one of the five most effective communicators of the year.

For more information, contact Deborah Silverman, 878-3606. This event is sponsored by the college’s Equity and Campus Diversity Office, the Communication Department, and the campus chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America.

By Tony Astran

Lisa Berglund never knew how exhausting sitting in a library for eight to 12 hours a day could be—or how rewarding. A spring 2009 sabbatical gave her the opportunity to travel to two renowned libraries and tackle three major projects.

Berglund, an associate professor of English, has long enjoyed studying eighteenth-century works to examine their influence on modern-day reading and trace the historical development of people’s engagement with books as objects. She first traveled to the Houghton Library at Harvard University for five weeks, and later to the John Rylands University Library in Manchester, England, for three weeks.

Having received the Donald and Mary Hyde Fellowship for the Study of Dr. Samuel Johnson and His Circle shortly before her sabbatical, Berglund was able to direct funds for her travel to research at both libraries. During her stays, she gathered the materials needed to prepare a forthcoming book from Valancourt Books, an edition of Hester Lynch Piozzi’s 1789 Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany.

Two years before her death in 1821, Piozzi, formerly Mrs. Thrale, the friend of Dr. Johnson’s, revisited her work and made notes in the margins of a copy for a protégé to read. Berglund’s book will be the first to include Piozzi’s notes in print.

“Piozzi was a compulsive annotator,” she said. “From the time she first wrote Observations to the time she went back and made notes, the world had drastically changed. Piozzi’s notes help us understand how people read books back in that era and how major events, such as revolutions, affected people. She’s an undervalued, important writer of late-eighteenth-century nonfiction.”

Berglund also spent time developing an analysis of what people wrote in dictionaries between 1785 and 1840, around the time that Noah Webster first published An American Dictionary of the English Language.

“People wrote many different things inside their dictionaries,” Berglund said. “Sometimes, the dictionary was the only paper a family had available, so inside you’d find grocery lists, family histories, and even areas where children practiced handwriting.” Berglund is using the information gathered at the two libraries to contribute to her planned database of marginalia from 100 American dictionaries during the period.

Finally, Berglund also developed a graduate-level course in lexicography during her sabbatical. Upon return to campus in the fall, she taught her first section of ENG 670: Advanced Linguistics.

“I developed the class to help students learn how dictionaries are written and see how they function as tools and reflections of cultures,” she said. “Together, we worked on how to improve the way dictionaries are presented to secondary school and college students, making them more exciting to read and have more of a ‘book’ feel.”

Berglund said the experience of having to maximize limited time in libraries helped her become a better teacher and mentor. “It was eye-opening to spend days on end in research libraries,” she said. “I’m now able to share real experiences with my students and guide them effectively when they need to work with reference materials.”

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Read previous Focus on Sabbatical stories:

Felix Armfield
Betty Cappella
Ann Colley
Daniel Cunningham
Michael De Marco
Rob Delprino
Mark Fulk
Musa Abdul Hakim
Katherine Hartman
David Henry
Susan Leist
Andrew Nicholls
Wendy Paterson
M. Stephen Pendleton
Stephen Phelps
John Song
Carol Townsend
Jonathan Thornton
Mark Warford
Michael Zborowski

From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee

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 Program:
Minor in Asian Studies

Program Revisions:
B.A. Political Science (0722), BA-NS-PSC
B.S. Health and Wellness, BS-NS-HEW
M.S.Ed. Literacy Specialist (Birth–Grade 12) (formerly Literacy Specialist [Birth–Grade 6]) (6261), LTB

New Courses:
ADE 582 Introduction to Adult Literacy Education in the U.S. Prerequisites: Graduate status and admission to the adult education master’s degree program.Examination of the adult literacy education system in the United States from historical and modern perspectives; exploration of research, theory, and professional wisdom of the field; reflection on, discussion of, and critique of the current policy, instructional, philosophical, and social issues that affect the adult literacy education field.

ADE 645 Design Teams in Training and Development. Prerequisites: Graduate status and admission to the adult education master’s degree program or multidisciplinary master’s degree program, or instructor permission; ADE 608; and ADE 610. A practical approach using a design team in training and development integrating adult learning and instructional design theories for the analysis, design, and development of employee/volunteer programs for targeted organizational learners; use of authentic evaluation and assessment concepts to design programs and workforce learner evaluations. Students work in a virtual, simulated environment to experience the challenges of practicing the critical competencies of program design, development, and evaluation.

PAD 501 Comparative Public Administration. Prerequisite: Graduate status or instructor permission.Cross-cultural, cross-national, and cross-institutional survey of public administration organizations and practices around the world. Administrative systems of northern nation-states and the processes of administrative change in post-Communist and southern nation-states. Evolution of administration; structure of administrative systems; personnel; budgeting; ethics and legal frameworks; role of administration in economic development; transfer of administrative skills; regional and international administrative organizations; theoretical approaches and methodological issues in understanding similarities and differences in administrative behavior.

PSY 330 The Psychological Power of Language. Prerequisite: PSY 101. Study of language from a psychological-science standpoint. Properties of human languages; how language is represented in mind and brain; how it is acquired; whether it is specific to humans; relationship between language and culture; verbal and nonverbal aspects of how language is used to communicate.

New Courses and Intellectual Foundations Designations:

AMERICAN HISTORY
ANT 250 Historical Archaeology. Prerequisite: ANT 100 or instructor permission. Archaeology of the United States from 1500 through the American Civil War. Material life and diversity of sociocultural experiences in the United States during this period.

DIVERSITY
PSC 390 The Italian American Experience: Politics, Society, and Identity. Examination of the experience of Italians in the United States from an interdisciplinary perspective beginning with the peak years of emigration (1870–1920) including the culture, society, economy, and government of Italy (push factors) and the promise of America (pull factors). Identity, citizenship, worldview, family structure, expressive culture, politics, economics, crime, and social relations in the Italian American community.

Course Revisions:
CNS 600 Examination/Documentation I. Corequisite: CNS 601. Methods and techniques used to determine and document the condition of artifacts. Development of theoretical understanding and advanced practical skills in scientific photography, conservation photodocumentation, and studio photography. Development of advanced skills in digital photography using standard- and large-format cameras and emphasizing precision, standardization, and color accuracy.

CNS 601 Examination/Documentation I Lab. Corequisite: CNS 600. Laboratory component of CNS 600. Supervised applied practice in use of environmental light, UV, and relative humidity meters and recorders; digital conservation photodocumentation of paintings, paper, and objects using view camera with scanning back and DSLR cameras; specialized conservation and studio lighting techniques; close-up photography and photomacrography. Emphasis on individual supervision for the rapid development of skills sufficient for independent mastery of techniques presented.

CNS 602 Examination/Documentation II. Corequisite: CNS 603. Continuation of CNS 600. Ultraviolet, infrared, and other specialized techniques used to examine and document the structure and condition of artworks and cultural artifacts using visible and nonvisible radiations; emphasizes theoretical understanding and development of advanced practical skills using digital cameras and electronic imagers. Proper techniques for planning, producing, and delivering professional illustrated presentations.

CNS 603 Examination/Documentation II Lab. Corequisite: CNS 602. Laboratory component of CNS 602. Supervised applied practice in ultraviolet examination and digital photodocumentation (reflected UV and UV-induced fluorescence methods); infrared examination and digital photodocumentation using digital cameras and infrared imagers; reflectance transform imaging; 3-D scanning; oral presentation techniques. Emphasis on individual supervision for the rapid development of skills sufficient for independent mastery of techniques presented.

CNS 604 Examination/Documentation III. Corequisite: CNS 605. Continuation of CNS 602. Radiographic techniques; emphasis on theoretical understanding and acquisition of advanced skills in film and digital radiographic techniques for museum artifacts; radiation safety. Use of scanners in the digitization of artifacts. Color management in digital photography; profiling of capture and output devices. Applications of image processing and Adobe Photoshop for artifact analysis and attribution studies and virtual and actual restoration. Basics of color film photography; use of color temperature meters and filters. Color perception.

CNS 605 Examination/Documentation III Lab. Corequisite: CNS 604. Laboratory component of CNS 604. Supervised applied practice in use of flatbed and film scanners; profiling of digital cameras, scanners, monitors, and printers; film-based and computed radiography of museum artifacts; Adobe Photoshop restoration techniques; use of color temperature meters. Emphasis on individual supervision for the rapid development of skills sufficient for independent mastery of techniques presented.

CNS 606 Examination/Documentation IV. Corequisite: CNS 607. Continuation of CNS 604. Advanced studies in examination and documentation and in radiography, ultraviolet, infrared, and other imaging techniques appropriate to a student’s areas of conservation specialization and to their specialization research project. May include advanced-level readings in conservation literature, as well as in the fields of imaging science and nondestructive testing; research into the application of newly developed examination methods and new applications of existing methods; individual supervision of applications of all techniques to the treatment or analysis of artifacts assigned in advanced courses in painting, paper, and objects conservation.

CNS 607 Examination/Documentation IV Lab. Corequisite: CNS 606. Laboratory component of CNS 606. Supervised applied practice in examination and documentation and in radiography, ultraviolet, infrared, and other imaging techniques appropriate to a student’s areas of conservation specialization and to their specialization research project. Emphasis on individual supervision for the rapid development of skills sufficient for independent mastery of techniques presented.

PSY 430 Psycholinguistics. Prerequisite: PSY 330 or PSY 340. Empirical approach to how we produce and understand language. Major theories, looking at language sounds, words, sentences, conversation, discourse, and language acquisition. Integrates language representation and processing into the general framework of cognitive science. Includes laboratory exercises and final project.

Course Revisions and Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Designations:

PSC 309 International Political Economy (WAC). Prerequisite: PSC 101 or PSC 102. A political perspective of dynamic global economy. Emphasis on analyzing and examining theoretical traditions of international political economy to study contemporary international economic issues such as international trade, international monetary policy, foreign aid, energy crises, and the impact of international financial organizations.

PSC 317 U.S. Constitutional Law (WAC). Prerequisite: Junior or senior status, or instructor permission. Foundations of American Constitutionalism; judicial review and its use throughout history; the Supreme Court’s interaction with Congress, the president, and the states; evolving concepts of federalism; development of governmental regulation of private property and contracts; the evolution of the principles of constitutional due process and equal protection.

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

Program Revisions:
M.S.Ed. Early Childhood Special Education (6340),EXC MSED-ED
M.S.Ed. Childhood Special Education (6341), XCE MSED-ED
M.S.Ed. Adolescence Special Education (6342),EXA MSED-ED

New Courses:
PAD 689 Research Methods in Public Administration
PAD 699 Data Analysis and Presentation
PAD 735 Management Practices in Public and Nonprofit Sectors
PSC 342 Russian Politics

Course Revision:
PSC 317 U.S. Constitutional Law: Power, Institutions, and Accountability

Course Revisions and Intellectual Foundations Designations:
HUMANITIES and DIVERSITY
AAS 100 Introduction to Africana Studies

ORAL COMMUNICATION
MED 408 Student Teaching of Mathematics in High School

From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee
All course and program submissions made from March 11 to 15 appear below or will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Bulletin. Because of the overwhelming number of submissions, please allow time for them to be processed and published. They will be reviewed by the Senate Curriculum Committee this semester.

Curriculum course archival folders will be added to SharePoint (by Neil Palmer) for all departments. These folders are strictly for old or current courses, not for newly submitted courses. This will begin the archival process that the Senate Curriculum Committee has brought forth as a resolution to the College Senate, and also will eliminate these documents as TASK items.

From the Chair of the College Senate
One University Faculty senator, one alternate faculty senator, and two at-large College Senate positions will become vacant on August 23. The University Faculty senator is a senator within both the Buffalo State College Senate and the SUNY University Faculty Senate. The alternate faculty senator attends the SUNY University Faculty Senate meetings only when one of the two University Faculty senators is absent.

The call for nominations begins Monday, March 22, and continues until 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 5. Elections will begin on Monday, April 12, and continue through Friday, April 16.

A call for nominations and information about candidates' statements can be found atwww.buffalostate.edu/collegesenate.

Faculty members, faculty librarians, and professional and support staff whose total service in the College Senate would not exceed six consecutive years by the end of this term (September 2010–August 2013) are eligible to run for each office. Nominees are asked to provide a short statement about their interest to be posted on the Senate electronic voting site.

Individuals running for a senator position in another election may not also run for an at-large senator or university senator position while the other election is being conducted. If the other election concludes during the period when nominations for at-large or university senator are still being accepted, eligible individuals may self-nominate for either position.

If you are interested in being a candidate, please contact Vince Masci at 878-5139 orcollegesenate@buffalostate.edu. We look forward to your participation in the vital process of campus governance.

From the Vice President for Finance and Management
Requisitions for supplies, materials, services, and equipment from fiscal year 2009–2010 funds must be received in the Procurement Office by the close of business on the following dates:

$20,000 or more (noncontract)
Monday, May 3

$20,000 or more (contract)
Friday, May 28

Less than $20,000
Friday, June 4

Furniture orders (all)
Friday, May 28

Purchase requisitions for computer equipment and equipment replacement requirements, as well as purchases through OfficeMax for office supplies, also must adhere to these deadlines.

Important note: It is the responsibility of departments to ensure that all requisitions for fiscal year 2009–2010 are received in the Procurement Office by the above deadlines. Late requisitions will not be processed. Requests received through campus mail after the deadlines will be returned.

Call Terri Locher in the Procurement Office at 878-4113 with questions.

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

New Course:
PSC 308 International Organizations and International Law