From the President
The next meeting of the Buffalo State College Council will be held at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 14, in Cleveland Hall 518.
Agenda
Call to Order
Action Items
-- Approval of Minutes: April 27, 2010
-- Approval of Annual Report for 2009–2010
President’s Report
Committee Reports
Announcements
Adjournment
Faculty and staff are invited to attend our 23rd annual Academic Convocation on Thursday, September 16, at 12:15 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall. The year’s convocation address will be given by Immaculée Ilibagiza, a miraculous survivor of the Rwandan genocide of 1994. We will also recognize colleagues who are recipients of SUNY and President's awards. If you would like to participate in the academic processional, please complete and return the response form, which can be found on the Academic Affairs Web site. All respondents will be contacted with directions for the formation of the academic processional. A reception will immediately follow.
As utility installation continues on the north side of campus, the entrance to Lot R—off Iroquois Drive—will be unavailable for up to two days, starting this morning.
To maintain access to Lot R, an alternate entrance/exit has been established. Drivers will be directed by local signage onto west Tower Dormitory Road between Lot R and Tower 4. Students, faculty, and staff are urged to use caution when driving on Iroquois Drive on Tuesday and Wednesday.
As always, your patience is appreciated as we undertake this important project.
Questions about this project can be e-mailed to VPFM@buffalostate.edu. Please refer to www.buffalostate.edu/construction for the latest information about campus construction.
From the Chair of the College Senate
The first meeting of the College Senate will be held on Friday, September 17, at 3:00 p.m. in Classroom Building C122. The complete schedule is available on the College Senate Web site.
As work on the Student Union Quad project continues, the southwest entrance of Caudell Hall will be temporarily closed beginning Monday, July 26. Because the stairs and sidewalk outside this entrance will be removed and replaced, there will be some noise associated with this work, which is expected to last a few weeks.
Caudell Hall’s northwest and northeast entrances will be available as usual.
Please visit www.buffalostate.edu/construction for more information about the Quad renovation project, and e-mail questions to VPFM@buffalostate.edu.
Faculty and staff are invited to attend our 23rd annual Academic Convocation on Thursday, September 16, 2010, at 12:15 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall. The year’s convocation address will be given by Immaculée Ilibagiza, a miraculous survivor of the Rwandan genocide of 1994. We will also recognize colleagues who are recipients of SUNY and Buffalo State awards.
If you would like to participate in the academic processional, please complete and return the response form which can be found on the Academic Affairs Web site at www.buffalostate.edu/academicaffairs/x645.xml. All respondents will be contacted with directions for the formation of the academic processional. A reception will immediately follow the convocation.
The following grants were awarded through the Research Foundation at Buffalo State College from July 1 to September 30. For more information, contact the principal investigator or the Research Foundation at Buffalo State College.
July 2010
Lisa Anselmi, Chair and Associate Professor, Anthropology
$ 1,500
Native American SUNY: Western Consortium
“Enhancement of Services to Native American Students at Buffalo State”
Darryl Carter, Program Director, Precollegiate Programs
$172,624
New York State Education Department
“STEP”
Naomi Diaz, Program Director, C-STEP
$ 109,309
New York State Education Department
“C-STEP”
Steve Macho, Assistant Professor, Technology
$7,000
SolidWorks Corporation
“Beijing Technology Workshop - October 2010”
Stephen Vermette, Professor, Geography and Planning
$ 8,956
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
“A Cold Pool Microscale Effect Resulting from Nocturnal Winter Season Radiation Cooling”
August 2010
Yolanda Belle, Director, Talent Search Program, Precollegiate Programs
$ 298,275 (Continuation)
U.S. Department of Education
“Talent Search”
Laurie Buonanno, Chair and Professor, Political Science
$ 47,500 (Continuation)
U.S. Department of Education
“Mobility Project: Transatlantic Public Administration”
Patrice Cathey, Program Director, Precollegiate Programs
$ 322,452 (Continuation)
New York State Education Department
“Liberty Partnerships Program”
Stephani Foraker, Assistant Professor, Psychology
$ 42,070
National Science Foundation
“MRI: Acquisition of Eye-tracking for Research and Education in Cognitive, Developmental and Psychology”
Mike Incorvia, Interim Project Director, Center for Development of Human Services
$ 279,936 (Continuation)
Erie County Department of Social Services
“Erie County Components 1 & 2”
Mike Incorvia, Interim Project Director, Center for Development of Human Services
$ 537,344 (Continuation)
Erie County Department of Social Services
“Erie County Component 4”
Florence Johnson, Director, Student Support Services Program
$ 322,452 (Year one of five)
U.S. Department of Education
“Student Support Services Program”
Kelly Marczynski, Assistant Director, Center for Health and Social Research
$ 24,900 (Continuation)
Preventionfocus
“Preventionfocus, Inc., Evaluation Work Plan 2010”
Don Patterson, Director, Upward Bound, Precollegiate Programs
$ 402,047 (Continuation)
U.S. Department of Education
“Upward Bound”
On Wednesday, January 5, between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and noon, the college's web servers will be turned into "virtual machines." This move is designed to consolidate resources and enhance hardware support. During this seven-hour window it is requested that no updates be made to any website residing under the www.buffalostate.edu domain (this includes department and office sites, self-published web pages, and any web destination residing on the main college server). Site updates made during this time may be lost.
The college website and sub-sites will still be viewable to users during this period, with the exception of a 10-minute window when the actual cutover to the virtual machines is done. Note that this brief downtime may happen at any point during the seven-hour period. After the virtualization, publishers should notice no difference in how they access their sites or make edits.
The Daily will take a brief hiatus during the holidays—it will not be published from December 24 through January 2. During that time, users will be able to submit items for January 3 and beyond. Happy holidays!
From the President
At the November 12, 2010, meeting of the College Senate, the following Motion to Revise Policies related to Undergraduate Academic Standing was approved and forwarded to the president for review and final action:
Motion to Revise Policies related to Undergraduate Academic Standing
Introduced by the Standards for Students Committee in November 2010
(Please refer to the current college policy on page 29 of the 2009-2011 undergraduate catalog)
Whereas, the Standards for Student committee has been reviewing Buffalo State’s good academic standing policy (and related policies of academic probation and dismissal) for the past two years based on the request of campus constituents,
Whereas, conversations in the College Senate during the 2009-2010 academic year highlighted the campus commitment (and conventional wisdom) to a 2.0 cumulative grade point average (GPA) being the minimum GPA required for good academic standing at Buffalo State,
Whereas, students are required to have a minimum 2.0 cumulative GPA in order to graduate from Buffalo State (with some majors requiring higher GPAs),
Whereas, federal financial aid eligibility requires students to maintain a 2.0 cumulative GPA after the first semester of attendance to receive federal aid (including student loans) and state financial aid eligibility requires student to maintain a 2.0 cumulative GPA after the third semester of attendance (based on the TAP eligibility chart to be implemented in fall 2011) to receive state aid,
Whereas, the current Buffalo State strategic and academic plans have multiple references to increased academic rigor and student performance,
Whereas, although having an identified cumulative GPA standard of good academic standing will send a clear and consistent message that will assist in student graduation, aid eligibility, and academic performance, it should be noted that college student development research indicates the struggles some students experience during their transition semesters as either first-time college students or first-semester transfer students; thus, Buffalo State should be responsive to these issues in order assist our students in achieving their graduation goals.
Therefore:
BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate recommend the following attached revisions to the undergraduate Academic Standing policies, effective fall 2011.