Buffalo State College will hold its first Armed Services Reunion to honor Buffalo State graduates, students, emeriti, faculty, and staff who have served or are serving in any branch of the United States or Allied military services. The reunion, which will include numerous events both on and off campus, will take place Friday, November 4, through Sunday, November 6.
Learn more about the Information Commons at an open house on Tuesday, November 1, during Bengal Pause (beginning at 12:15 p.m.) on the second floor of E. H. Butler Library. What is the Information Commons? Visit our Web page: www.buffalostate.edu/library/ic/information.asp.
You can begin to request ANGEL course sites for the spring 2006 semester on Monday, October 31. Go to http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/AngelRequest and complete the form for each course you are teaching. If you are teaching multiple sections of one course and want a separate course site for each section, fill out a request form for each one.
The associate deans of the four academic schools will present the second in a series of information sessions about academic advisement today, October 27, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center West 2. The content is based on a faculty survey about common advisement problems. Topics will include the "two-prefix rule," double-dipping, the G.E.T.A., and many others. Get all your advisement questions answered today!
Thursday November 3, 12:15–1:30, Ketchum Hall 320. Find out about teaching the course required of all entering students as of fall 2006. Send queries to koritzdg@buffalostate.edu or call ext. 6640. Also see www.buffalostate.edu/intellectualfoundations/x570.xml.
Hybrid courses—courses that combine classroom and online learning—are growing in popularity among faculty members as well as students. If you have attended Introduction to ANGEL training, learn how to use even more of ANGEL’s features. Link to journal articles, enable your students to collaborate online, manage your own content, create custom tabs, and find out what’s happened since your last visit by clicking “What’s New.” Register now for ANGEL training at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration/classlist.asp.
A campus memorial celebrating the life of Phillip Santa Maria, former associate vice president and dean of students, will be held during Bengal Pause (12:15 p.m.) on Thursday, November 17, in Rockwell Hall. Dean Santa Maria died June 29 after suffering for many months with cancer. Please feel free to invite friends and colleagues of Phil's who may wish to attend.
The Buffalo State Committee for the Study of Understanding Community and Peace proudly announces its fourth annual peace conference, to be held Monday, October 24, United Nations Day, in Rockwell Hall Auditorium. The theme for this year's conference is "Innovative Strategies for Understanding Community and Peace." It should be noted that the committee was established in the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001, with the encouragement of President Muriel Howard. The makeup of the committee represents considerable diversity and includes faculty, staff, students, and members of the Western New York community.
The following programs have been announced through the EAP regional office and are open to all Buffalo State faculty and staff members:
Myung Mi Kim, professor of English and member of the faculty of the poetics program at the University at Buffalo, will read from her poetry at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, October 23, in the Burchfield-Penney Art Center. Kim was born in 1957 in Seoul, South Korea. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was 9.