Sarah Fehskens is the recipient of the award for Outstanding First-Year Student Scholarly Achievement. She will receive $250 for textbooks or supplies during the 2007–2008 academic year.
Individual annual report forms for faculty, librarians, and professional staff are posted on the Human Resource Management Web site. Completed forms are due to directors or department chairs by Wednesday, June 13.
Please join the Communication Department as it honors and celebrates the retirement of Rik Whitaker, professor of journalism and broadcast, after 23 years of scholarship and teaching at Buffalo State College.
Share your thoughts on BSC 301. The discussion board will stay live until the end of the spring semester. The posted comments will be reviewed by an ad hoc BSC 301 I&R committee so a final recommendation can be given to the Senate at the start of the fall semester.
Please join us for a Linux Q&A presentation titled "Everything You Wanted to Know about Linux and Did Not Have an Opportunity to Ask," with Linux expert and Buffalo State alumnus David Andruczyk, today, Friday, May 4, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Science Building 219. The session will address such issues as how to get started, which release is best for you, security, maintenance and updates, backing up, networking, cool software, and much, much more.
The Non-Traditional Students Organization (NTSO) is sponsoring a trip to see Spamalot at Shea's this Saturday, May 5. NTSO is selling tickets to the show for $20, which also includes a round-trip bus ride from Cleveland Circle to Shea's. The bus will leave Cleveland Circle at 1:00 p.m. Tickets are now available for Buffalo State faculty and staff and can be purchased at the Rockwell Hall (878-3005) and Student Union box offices.
More than 15 professional development seminars for faculty and staff will be held between May 15 and May 24—workshops on teaching first-year students, critical thinking in disciplines, and much, much more. To see the schedule, visit the University College Web site.
The 2007 Faculty and Staff Appeal committee is delighted to recognize the departments that have already achieved 100 percent participation: the President's Office, the Equity and Campus Diversity Office, Institutional Advancement, the Vice President for Finance and Management's Office, the Budget Office, and Institutional Research. Well done!
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 505 of the Education Law, the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) is seeking nominations for one delegate and an alternate to the annual meeting of the NYS Teachers’ Retirement System to be held in November. Delegates would serve a two-year term to begin August 1, 2007.
With 282 replies to the 2007 Faculty and Staff Appeal received, we are over half way to reaching our goal of 135 new donors at the Anniversary Club level ($135). And responds to the appeal continue to come in.
Eighty members of the campus community have started giving to the college at the Anniversary Club level or above. These gifts will provide more than $10,800 to scholarships, department funds, and other funds at Buffalo State. Thank you!
If you haven't made your gift yet, now is the time! You can be one of the 55 donors who help us reach our goal of 135 new Anniversary Club donors. If you make your tax-deductible gift through payroll deduction, that's $5.25 per pay period.
If your current deduction is less than $5.25, this is the time to increase it. And if you're not giving through payroll deduction, now is the time to start. If you need a new appeal packet, call ext. 5536 and one will be sent to you.
Thank you for making a difference.