This year marks the 41st anniversary of the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) at the State University of New York College at Buffalo. The Educational Opportunity Program combines access, academic support and supplemental financial assistance to make higher education possible for students who have the potential to succeed.

In honor of this milestone, alumni from Buffalo State College will be returning to campus May 1-3 for a reunion. This reunion celebrates the forty plus years of EOP in SUNY, establish networking, and to recognize the 2008 graduating class.

Alumni will have the chance to interact with current students, visit the campus, and renew old friendships. After sharing during the reception Thursday night, alumni will participate in a Networking Luncheon followed by a walking tour of the campus on Friday. The reunion will conclude with dinner on Saturday night.

For more information or reservations to the Friday or Saturday events, call the EOP Office at Ext. 4426!

Mos Def, regarded as one of hip hop’s most introspective, insightful, and socially aware artists, will visit Buffalo State College this Thursday, May 1 at 6:00 pm in Bulger Communication Center North for a community dialogue. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Moderator Bakari Kitwana and Mos Def will facilitate a discussion with campus and community members regarding the industry of hip hop and the impact of pop culture in the lives of individuals, particularly youth, as well as their role in community development. This dialogue will focus on the importance of community strength, individual responsibility, and collective respect within social and political activism.

Mos Def is an internationally known media figure and hip hop legend. Kitwana is the former executive editor of Source, author of The Hip Hop Generation, and director of Rap Sessions: Community Dialogues on Hip Hop. Both are known for facilitating candid discussions about contemporary race-related issues and the influence of media.

This presentation is free and open to the public.

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The A & AAS Studies Unit (SNSS) Unit invites the BSC community to a lecture by Marc Ruppel, Univ of Maryland at College Park, on Wed, April 30, 2008, in Ketchum Hall 328, 4:30-5: 45 pm. The process of cultural and medial convergence has led to the nascent development of startling new modes of narrative expression. While waiting for Nicholas Negroponte’s “black box” to arrive and collapse all media into an all-encompassing digital bitstream, there has been an opposite push, a divergence, in which narrative meaning is increasingly becoming cross-sited, where a storyworld is developed across two or more media, rather than in one single medium. This lecture will address cross-siting as a social, cultural and corporate construct with vast interdisciplinary reach. But who really controls these stories? What impact might the poorly labeled “digital divide” have on our access to them? What role does ethnicity play in the potential stratification of understanding that such narrative dispersion inevitably creates? These and other questions will be addressed as we start to theorize a potential paradigm-shifting narrative form and begin to question exactly what it means to be literate today.

EVERGREEN and Environmental Health and Safety are proud to announce the winners of last Tuesday's Environmental Fair's Raffles:
Raffle # 1-
Neuton Electric Mower: Lynne Terrana
Gift Basket: Ron Nuwer
Raffle # 2-
IPod: Stacey Ortner
IPod: Natalie Wills
Gift Basket: Mallory Kozakiewicz
We would like to thank everyone for their participation in the Environmental Information Fair and we look forward to seeing you again next year.

Susan Leist will conduct TWO 5-day workshops, one at the end of May and another at the beginning of June, designed for faculty who are using or who want to use writing as a teaching tool in Writing Across the Curriculum (W) course instruction or in any other teaching context. Lunch will be provided on all days of both workshops.
To register, please send an e-mail to
Jeanne Salisbury at salisbjm@buffalostate.edu

Workshop Leader: Susan Leist, Director of the College Writing Program
Place: To Be Announced
Day -- Workshop I: Tuesday-Friday May 27th - 30th, 12:00 - 5:00 and Saturday May 31st, 10:00 - 3:00
Day -- Workshop II: Monday-Friday June 2nd - 6th, 12:00 - 5:00 (EARLIER ANNOUNCEMENTS HAVE SAID JUNE 2-30 FOR THIS WORKSHOP. OBVIOUSLY, THAT WAS WRONG!)
Faculty who attend all five days of a "Writing to Teach, Lightening the Load" workshop will receive a $400 appreciation (travel or research funds or extra service pay). http://www.buffalostate.edu/intellectualfoundations/x643.xml

All faculty and staff are invited to attend the campus presentation by Howard Reid, candidate for dean, School of Natural and Social Sciences, on Tuesday, April 29 from 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center East 2.

On Tuesday, April 29, at 12:15 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center North 2C, students can learn about a faculty-led program on Chinese culture and business practices to be offered in Beijing January 2-17, 2009. The program will be taught in English.

The Research on Teaching Seminar scheduled for today, Thursday, April 24, has been rescheduled due to illness. Dr. S. Diane McFarland will now discuss the outcomes of her CASTL Fellowship project on Tuesday, April 29, from 12:15-1:15 p.m. in the Classroom Building A108. Apologies for any inconvenience this might cause. We hope you will still be able to join us at this rescheduled time in a discussion of this project and exploration of ways the findings might be used to facilitate learning for your students.

The African and African American Studies Interdisciplinary Unit (School of Natural and Social Sciences) invites the Buffalo State community to a lecture by Marc Ruppel, University of Maryland at College Park, on Wednesday, April 30, 4:30–5:45 p.m. in Ketchum Hall 328.

Many thanks to the many faculty and staff who have registered to march and volunteer for the 136th Commencement on Saturday, May 10. Volunteers are still needed, especially for the 6:00 p.m. master's/C.A.S. ceremony, and marchers are welcome to continue to register. Please register online where you will find further information regarding reporting times and instructions. Volunteers may contact Events Management at  ext. 6114 with questions, and marchers may contact Academic and Student Affairs at ext. 5901. Thank you for supporting the Class of 2008.