The Computing Help Desk will be remodeling beginning Thursday, October 20, through Friday, October 21. We will have limited service during this time. A temporary Help Desk area will be set up in E. H. Butler Library 315 near CyberQuad.
Spring 2006 course listings are now posted at www.buffalostate.edu/registrar/spring.xml. Printed class schedules will be available the week of October 17.
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sunset on Monday, October 3, and ends at sunset on Wednesday, October 5.
Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, begins at sunset on Wednesday, October 12, and ends at sunset Thursday, October 13.
College policy prohibits the administration of evaluative examinations on these dates. SUNY policy prohibits required attendance, examinations, or study or work requirements on these days.
College policy does not allow examinations or require attendance in classes on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur. October 4 is Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish New Year. The period of renewal begins at sunset the night before and ends 10 days later with Yom Kippur on October 13.
October 4 is also the beginning of Ramadan, the ninth and holiest month of the Islamic year. Fasting from sunrise to sunset during the month is one of the fundamental religious duties of Islam.
Effective October 8, 2005, Computing and Technology Services will be implementing an automated procedure to clean up old messages in your Deleted Items folder (in Outlook) and your Barracuda quarantine folder.
Messages in your Deleted Items folder that are more than 90 days old (based on date received) will be permanently removed from the mail server.
Messages in your Barracuda spam quarantine inbox that are more than 90 days old (also based on date received) will be permanently removed from the Barracuda inbox.
The bulk of old messages will be deleted when the process is initiated on Saturday, October 8. Messages that become 90 days old after that date will be removed on a nightly basis.
Please call the Computing Help Desk at ext. 4357 if you have any questions.
If you’re using Blackboard, sign up now for the Course Migration training session at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration/classlist.asp. The first item on the session’s agenda is migrating your course material from Blackboard to ANGEL, the college’s new learning management software package. ANGEL was the overwhelming favorite of the task force that selected Blackboard’s successor because of ANGEL’s easy-to-use, up-to-date features in a Web environment.
The SABRE system will be unavailable from September 26 through October 13 to facilitate an upgrade to the software and to prepare data for registration. Please contact SABRE Support at ext. 3434 if you have any questions.
The Daily inadvertently omitted the Center for China Studies as one of the primary hosts of the China Ministry of Civil Affairs delegation currently visiting Buffalo State and Western New York to study how health and human services agencies operate in the United States. We apologize for the error. The Center for China Studies is now part of the International and Exchange Programs unit of University College. The center is located in South Wing 430.
Computing and Technology Services will take the Buffalo State Web site offline Sunday, September 18 from 9:00-9:10 a.m. to perform server maintenance. Although the campus homepage (with links to important applications and online services) should be available by 9:10 a.m., complete restoration of the server and all subsites may take several hours. This means some subsites under www.buffalostate.edu may not be available until approximately 2:00 p.m.
Please note that many mission-critical applications and services (e-mail, SABRE, Degree Navigator, Blackboard, etc.) remain available whenever the main site is down.
A list of critical URLs is available at www.buffalostate.edu/documents/importantlinks.pdf (PDF, 24KB). Please bookmark these URLs, print out the list, or store the PDF on your hard drive for future reference.
When a new issue of the Bulletin is published, a Bulletin banner will appear in the Daily (see left). Click on the Bulletin banner and you will be linked to the online version of the Bulletin. College Relations will no longer send a separate e-mail announcing its publication. The Bulletin contains official announcements and other information of importance to the college community and is published most Thursdays during the academic year. Copy deadline is 4:30 p.m. Monday of publication week. Articles must be approved by the president, provost, senior adviser to the president for equity and campus diversity, College Senate chair, or a vice president.