Buffalo State College’s Honors 301 Values and Ethics class is sponsoring a warm clothing drive. The gently used clothes we collect on campus will be donated to Journey’s End Refugee Services and Vive, both of which are charities that help refugees adjust to their new lives here in the United States.
In the average U.S. home, 40 percent of electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off.* Help to conserve energy by unplugging your electronics (including appliances) when not in use. The energy that harms the environment the least is the energy that doesn't need to be generated.
The College Budget Office is offering budget workshops on November 13. These workshops are appropriate for department chairs, directors, and designated assistants whether new to campus or interested in a “refresher” class. Advance registration required. Additional information and registration specifics can be found online.
The Accounting Office would like to inform all faculty and staff that the Copy Center is now using a three-part request form. If you have any of the two-part forms in stock, please discard them and obtain the new three-part forms from the Copy Center.
There is a new Web page—Registration Central—to assist both students and advisers. It is a comprehensive site that contains registration-related information including Banner, course-related information (master schedule, prefixes, addendum, legend, inter-semester, CEP, trial schedule, and online courses), and Degree Navigator. This Web page also contains more than 40 links to additional information. To view, click here.
Join the Burchfield-Penney Art Center for a family workshop on Sunday, November 4, at 2:00 p.m., featuring Beyond/In Western New York sound artist Jax Deluca. Children will work together while learning to record and affect music. Techniques like ‘looping’ are fun and easy to do. We will have traditional instruments to use as well as a lot of non-traditional objects with which to create and capture sound.
In association with the Chemistry Department, the Women in Science and Mathematics Speaker Series presents Dr. Penny Brothers of the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Professor Brothers will present Diboron porphyrins and corroles: Unexpected chemistry for both boron and the ligands at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 1, in Science Building 272.
Planning to use ANGEL for the spring semester? Please submit course site requests online. Instructors new to ANGEL are required to participate in an introduction training class. We are also offering trainings for instructors who have used ANGEL in previous semesters and would like to explore it more in depth. For dates and times of the trainings, click here.
The Career Development Center is pleased to be a sponsor of Job Quest 2007 on Thursday, November 1, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the HSBC Arena in downtown Buffalo. This event will allow students from all majors and year levels to meet with more than 60 local, regional, and national employers about full-time, part-time, and internship opportunities. Students are strongly encouraged to dress in professional interviewing attire and bring multiple copies of their resumes to leave with prospective employers. A list of employers attending can be found at Job Quest's Web site.
The Speech-Language Pathology Department is sponsoring a daylong conference on supervision on Saturday, November 3. The conference is designed for those supervising students in on- or off-campus placements. Topics will include understanding today’s student, stimulating critical thinking in students, multicultural issues in supervision, establishing productive supervisory relationships, and supervision of the marginal student. For additional information contact Continuing Professional Studies at ncprog@buffalostate.edu or register online.