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Led by Tamara Alsace, director of multilingual education for Buffalo Public Schools, and Mary C. Cummings, clinical professor, Elementary Education and Reading, this workshop will give teachers and teacher candidates an introduction to Sheltered Instruction for diverse English language learners in the context of the regular classroom. It will be held on Thursday, October 14, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library 210.  

If you’re like most people, you probably wish you had a larger vocabulary. The reason you don’t? It’s too difficult to memorize the meaning of every unfamiliar word. What if there were some shortcuts, some tricks that made it easier to expand a limited vocabulary and turn yourself into a veritable walking dictionary? Such shortcuts and tricks do exist, as you’ll discover if you attend the highly informative presentation Vocabulary Building: Demystifying the Mystery of Words. This seminar is the next session in the Workshops to Success series sponsored by the Academic Skills Center of University College and offered free to Buffalo State students. Instructor-tutor Anne Marie Golaszewski will show you how to crack meanings out of arcane and recondite words so you can impress your friends and complete the most difficult crossword puzzles.

The Buffalo State Employee Assistance Program (EAP) seeks volunteers to serve as EAP coordinators or EAP committee members. EAP is a free, voluntary, confidential information and referral service available to all New York State employees, their family members, and retirees.

This is the first of three, free webinars being presented by the SUNY Center for Professional Development. A revised NYS Web Accessibility Policy, effective May 2010, requires state-affiliated colleges to evaluate their web content annually. This webinar, presented on Thursday, October 7, in E. H. Butler Library 316 at 10:00 a.m., will discuss these issues. Register at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration.

On Saturday, October 23, adults and teens are invited to participate in the workshop "Making Your Mark: The Uncertainty of Control" with artist Kyle Butler at the Burchfield Penney Art Center from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Registration is $32/person for members and $48/person for non-members. Please bring your own lunch. 

Spring 2011 Banner registration PREVIEW is available as of Monday, October 4.

On Thursday, November 11, the campus NCBI Coalition Building Team will host an eight-hour "Welcoming Diversity" workshop. The highly-praised workshop will be led, this one time only, by senior leaders from NCBI International, Joyce Shabazz and Robert Dungey. More details will be forthcoming, but please save the date!

The State of New York, SUNY Central, and the college administration have long recognized that there are many legitimate reasons for faculty and staff to remove property from Buffalo State College for work-related functions. All Buffalo State property, whether recorded on the departmental inventory or not, that is removed from campus by faculty or staff for work-related functions must be identified on a Loan of College Property Form. Assets transported back and forth (such as laptop computers) on a continual basis must also be identified on a Loan of College Property Form.

Active Learning in Refugee Communities, a faculty roundtable discussion, will be held on October 14 from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library 210. Faculty members will share experiences with service-learning projects centered on refugee issues and communities. Group discussion surrounding future collaboration will follow. Faculty presenters include: Mary C. Cummings, clinical professor, Elementary Education and Reading; Gary Welborn, associate professor, Sociology; Jill Norvilitis, associate professor, Psychology; Kim Irvine, professor, Geography and Planning and Director of the Center for Southeast Asia Environment and Sustainable Development. Community partners involved in refugee supports will also participate.