Carlos R. A. Jones, associate dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, was invited to give the keynote address at the Pennsylvania Dance Education Organization’s 2022 Statewide Dance Education Summit, held June 21. His address centers his chapter, “My Truth, Myself, Our Way Forward,” and tied into the PaDEO summit theme, Social Justice and Dancer Wellness: Critical Intersections.
Scott Propeack, acting director of the Burchfield Penney Art Center, will be awarded "Best Arts Administrator" by Buffalo Spree magazine when the Best of WNY party returns Thursday, July 14, after a two-year hiatus. Mr. Propeack has been cited for "pushing continued innovation in the museum's exhibitions, developing new programs, building the collection, and strengthening ties to the community."
Jamie Tabone, instructional designer in Instructional Design and Distance Learning and lecturer in the Art and Design Department, coauthored the chapter “Transitioning from an OPM: The Journey of Insourcing an Online Educational Unit after the Partnership Sunsets” in the book From Grassroots to the Highly Orchestrated: Online Leaders Share Their Stories of the Evolving Online Organizational Landscape in Higher Ed (July 2022, OLC Press). The book aims to illuminate the organizational structures and leadership strategies of online education units at higher education institutions through chief online officers’ first-person stories, practices, lessons, and innovations.
Kevin Williams, associate professor of earth sciences, was recently elected a councilor in the Geosciences Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). Founded in 1978, CUR makes it its mission to support and promote high-quality mentored undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative inquiry. CUR is separated into 13 divisions that span the arts, education, engineering, humanities, mathematics, and natural and social sciences. Dr. Williams's three-year term begins July 1.
The exhibition Bonnie Gordon: Mapping Image and Word, Stumbling into Streams of Consciousness, curated by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield scholar in the Burchfield Penney Art Center, is included in New York Hotels magazine’s promotion “14 Exhibitions to Visit This Summer in Upstate New York.” The exhibition—a retrospective about the unique creativity of Buffalo State Assistant Professor Emerita Bonnie Gordon—is on view in the Burchfield Penney through November 27.
Melissa Meehan, web services director, and Mark Norris, associate director of web services, in the Marketing and Communications Office, presented the session "Marketing and Development: Building the Successful Partnership You Always Wanted" at the 2022 Northeast Annual Giving Conference, held April 25–27 in downtown Buffalo. Their presentation highlighted ways to build and extend the critical relationship between marketing and advancement, giving attendees a practical, collaborative framework to bring back to their own campuses and organizations.
Maureen Pernick Huber, associate director of the Career Development Center, presented the session “Train the Trainer: Helping Students RISE to Assist Ex-offenders in Their Job Search” at the 2022 SUNY Career Development Organization (SUNYCDO) Conference, held June 15–17 in Verona, New York. Her presentation highlighted a collaboration between S. Marlon Gayadeen, associate professor of criminal justice at Buffalo State; Peaceprints WNY; and the Career Development Center to train students to assist formerly incarcerated individuals in the job search. Ms. Huber's presentation gave colleagues in career services the opportunity to learn about this framework and bring it to their campuses.
Lynn Rogers, assistant director of employer engagement in the Career Development Center, moderated an employer panel discussion at the 2022 SUNY Career Development Organization (SUNYCDO) Conference, held June 15–17 in Verona, New York. The session focused on the skills employers are seeking as well as current recruiting strategies. Employers from Enterprise Holdings, Hayner Hoyt Corporation, and Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES served on the panel.
Ms. Rogers was also recognized with the “Heart of SUNCYCDO” President’s Award for her outstanding leadership, service, and dedication to the organization.
Kristen Mruk, associate director of student leadership and engagement, has completed her one-year appointment as vice president for professional development with CSPA-NYS (College Student Personnel Association of New York State). Over the 2021–2022 association year, Ms. Mruk and her team provided a variety of professional development programs for members of the association, including the inaugural CSPA-NYS Summit on Supervision, held on June 9.
Luke Haumesser, associate director of student leadership and engagement, co-published a chapter in the book Student Carers in Higher Education: Navigating, Resisting, and Re-inventing Academic Cultures (Routledge, 2022). The book maps the experiences of student carers in academic cultures, exploring the intersectional ways in which gender, class, race, and other social categories define who can take up a position as a student and a carer. It is framed by concerns of equity and diversity in higher education and ways that diverse people with wide-ranging care responsibilities are able to access and engage with degree-level study. The book promotes the idea of a more inclusive and equitable higher education environment and supports the emergence of more ‘care-full’ academic cultures that value and recognize care and carers.
The chapter, "Fragmented Perceptions of Institutional Support for Food-Insecure Student-Parents," draws on interviews with various stakeholders at one university to examine the delivery of institutional supports for food-insecure students and the ways in which they acknowledge or erase food insecure student-parents' multiple identities.