The enrollment for the weight management study that was sponsored this summer by the Office of Undergraduate Research and the Dietetics and Nutrition Department ended in August. Given the size of the interest in the study, we will not be able to respond individually to those who expressed interest in participating after the enrollment target was achieved. The research team would like to express appreciation for your interest would like to encourage your participation in future weight management studies.

Faculty, staff and students are invited to participate in a two-hour workshop on Friday, September 17, 8:30-10:30 a.m., in Butler Library, Room 210, that will provide an opportunity to reflect on and reframe how you think about and respond to challenges in your personal and professional life. Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal's work, Reframing Organizations, will be introduced as a model for considering leadership and change issues. Register today at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration. For additional information: www.buffalostate.edu/strategicplanning

Please join the Women's Studies Committee for a general meeting at 12:15 pm on Thursday, September 30, to discuss women-related issues in Butler Library Room 212. The Women's Studies Committee would like to put out an all-points call for a fresh new perspective from some of the newer female faculty and/or staff members who have come to Buffalo State in the last several years to assume leadership positions for this committee. Meeting dates for fall 2004 are: 9/30, 10/28, 11/23.

The SUNY Office of International Programs announces a new opportunity for interested SUNY faculty to use online learning to extend the boundries of your classes internationally. The initiative is intended to promote innovative courses and academic projects that bring SUNY and international faculty and students together. The CNP activities will naturally make extensive use of new instructional technologies (SUNY Learning Network), as well as other kinds of activities with colleagues and students abroad. Contact John Ryder(ryderjo@sysadm.suny.edu.)or Richard Herdlein (herdlerj@buffalostate)

The Academic Theme CD, a collection of written and spoken words, visual images and music, will be mailed this week to first-year students and distributed in campus mailboxes of full-time faculty, teaching professional staff and adjunct professors in the Writing Program.
The CD is meant to be a common "text" prompting discussion and reflection on the academic theme, 20th Century Americans Who Changed Out Minds and Our Lives. To download a printable version of the CD Notes, see www.buffalostate.edu/orientation.

Get the Homecoming spirit and win lunch for your office in the first-ever Homecoming Miniature Shopping Cart Float Competition. Here's how it works: The first 15 offices to call Tom Koller's office at x6514 or reply to Tom's e-mail will receive a miniature shopping cart. It's your job to decorate the cart. The category this year is Best Use of Theme (Paws to Roar). We'll be at offices on Sept. 16 to judge the carts. The winning office receives lunch from Mister Pizza (pizza, salads, subs, tacos and more!). Get your colleagues together and call now!

The staff at the Information Technology Exchange Center (ITEC) recently established a scholarship and we would appreciate your assistance in getting the word out to students. The first award will be given in November to a currently enrolled student who shows promise in the study of computing and technology. Additional information and the application are available at www.itec.suny.edu.

The main page of the college's new Web site is designed primarily for prospective and current students. Faculty and staff are encouraged to follow the "For Faculty/Staff" link found at the upper right-hand corner of the main site above the "search" box. Faculty and staff can log on directly to SABRE and Degree Navigator from this sub-site. Please send suggestions for the faculty/staff site to webadmin@buffalostate.edu.

Because of the demand, three more sessions of the Introduction to Outlook 2003 workshop have been added to the training schedule. October 29th at 1 p.m.; November 23rd at 9 a.m.; and December 10th at 1 p.m. Go to http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration to sign up for one of these workshops.

The VSLC, Project Flight, and Financial Aid Office have partnered to identify off-campus work-study jobs for ALL MAJORS with non-profit agencies in Buffalo. Examples of career building positions available include tutoring in Buffalo Public Schools, after-school program assistance in community centers, and office assistance in area agencies. Please direct students to the Financial Aid website http://www.buffalostate.edu/offices/finaid/ for an up to date list of positions. Students may also call or stop by the VSLC in the Career Development Center at 878-5811, GC 306 for more information.