A bake sale to benefit hospitality students will be held tomorrow, Friday, April 20, from 10:30 a.m. to noon outside the Margaret Grant Lounge in Caudell Hall (next to Bulger Communication Center). Items will include focaccia, banana bread loaves, cinnamon buns, ciabatta bread, éclairs, and tartlets (cherry and chocolate cream). Prices from $1 to $6.
College Relations is updating its photo files. We need a comprehensive collection of images to adequately promote the teaching, research, and service of Buffalo State's faculty and staff. Whether you’re included in the Experts Database, interviewed by the Buffalo News or Business First, or listed for your recent achievements in the Insider, we need your photograph. New hires and longtime faculty members alike are encouraged to take advantage of the slower pace and milder temperatures of summer. Call Bruce Fox in Instructional Resources, Bulger Communication Center, to arrange for your free portrait session today: 878-4221.
The Listening Post will be set up in the Student Union today, Thursday, April 19, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for the Buffalo State community to drop by and sign a memorial book. This book will be sent to students and colleagues at Virginia Tech. There are several good resources for coping with trauma from the American Psychological Association. One is specifically about Virginia Tech. Go to the Counseling Center Web site and click on Critical Incident Support for more information. There are more self-help links on the Web page as well. Please call Counseling Center at ext. 4436 with any questions.
Why do we need your book requests so early? Well...used books save students money! It's good for our students this semester because, if you are using the same book, we can buy them back from our students and pay them 50 percent. It's good for our students next semester because, we not only buy books from our current students, but we can also get an early start on looking for used books through other distributors around the country. This way, we give our students a better chance to buy used books.
The Buffalo State Pride Alliance will host its first PRIDE Week on campus. This weeklong event will be composed of fun activities, educational workshops, and entertainment. Throughout the week, PRIDE members will be giving away black and orange T-shirts with the slogan "Gay? Fine by me." printed on them. Members of the PRIDE Alliance will also have a table display daily in the Student Union. Posters will be hung across the campus and information will be posted here daily. The week will consist of the following programs:
Summer funding is available to support the development of a new course and/or the revision of an existing course to include a substantial undergraduate research component. Awards of $1,000 will be made to support faculty during the summer. It is expected that the faculty receiving awards will complete their projects by August 31, 2007.
The Buffalo State College Pride Alliance will be participating today in the National Day of Silence, Wednesday April 18. This is a national movement in which high school and college students across the country commit to a day of silence to protest the bullying, harassment, and name-calling faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth every day. The program will run from 9:00 a.m. through 10:00 p.m. Participants will be wearing stickers and passing out speaking cards that explain why they have chosen to not speak for the day.
Safe Zone is a program designed to identify individuals who consider themselves to be open and willing to learn and become knowledgeable of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) issues. Safe Zone is open to any faculty, staff or students who are interested in educating themselves and being supportive of LGBTQ issues, as well as being a proactive member of the campus community to ensure acceptance and inclusion to all LGBTQ students, administrators, faculty, and staff.
Because of the recent change of the fourth-floor conference rooms in the Campbell Student Union to student organization office space, the rules for reserving space in this facility have changed. The new rules can be found at www.buffalostate.edu/studentlife/UnionPolicies.xml.
Registration for fall 2007 began last week in the new Banner system, and all indications are that the system is working well. The numbers of students enrolled through Banner is increasing daily. The Banner Project implementation team is still hard at work, though, configuring and testing Banner for more of its features, such as financial aid disbursements, student academic history data loading, student billing, admissions, grading, degree audit, etc.