Buffalo State is considering a change to its smoking policy. Is this issue important to you? Do you support a tobacco-free campus? Do you think that people should be allowed to smoke on campus? Please participate in the survey and have your voice heard! 

http://studentvoice.com/bstate/smokingpolicysp11

If you have questions about the survey, please e-mail weigel@buffalostate.edu or call Kim Jablonski at ext. 5218.

Thank you in advance for your time.

In order to claim Method II travel reimbursement, an original itemized hotel receipt in the employee's name must be provided. The hotel receipt will need to show check-in and check-out dates, name registered, the room rate, taxes, other charges, amount paid, and a zero balance.

A word of caution when booking online through a third party: It is oftentimes very difficult to use the college’s NYS tax exempt status when booking a hotel through a third party. It is also not always possible to receive an itemized receipt from the third party. Before booking with a third party, please confirm that an itemized receipt as mentioned above will be available. Because of these possible scenarios, we recommend booking the room directly with the hotel and requesting that a government rate be honored.

If you share a room with another employee, one-half of the double room charge should be claimed by each person. Separate itemized receipts should be requested to the hotel upon check in order to claim per diem rates using Method II. Again, this may not be possible if booking through a third party. It is, however, required documentation when claiming Method II reimbursement.

If you have any questions, please contact the college’s Travel Office at ext. 4117.
 

What's the deal with the asbestos cleanups across the campus? Workplace safety, health, and environmental policies and procedures work to protect Buffalo State's most important assets: students, faculty, staff, and visitors. Environmental Health and Safety staff will present this workshop, particularly the facts behind the work being done on our campus. Come and join this informative session on Wednesday, November 16, from noon to 2:00 p.m. in the Professional Development Center (E. H. Butler Library 181B). A light lunch will be served.

R.S.V.P. by Monday, November 14.

To celebrate Geography Awareness Week, the Geography and Planning Department and the Center for Health and Social Research are sponsoring a pin map competition. First-, second-, and third-place prizes will be awarded at the GAW luncheon during Bengal Pause on Thursday, November 17, in Classroom Building A209. You will find more information, competition clues, and help on creating a pin map using Google at www.buffalostate.edu/geography/x985.xml.

The competition is open to all Buffalo State faculty, staff, and students. Contact Wende Mix, associate professor of geography and planning, for more information. Happy Adventure in Your Community!

On Friday, April 29, Michele Ninacs, assistant professor of English and director of the College Writing Program, will present “Engaging Ideological Infrastructures: Multimodality and Curricular Innovation.”  The talk will be held from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. in Ketchum Hall 320. Colleagues, friends, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students are welcome.

This special exhibition is now on display in E. H. Butler Library’s lower lobby. It is a sample of the images and articles contained in the Courier-Express collection.

After 56 years as one of Buffalo's major newspapers and a history dating back to the 1800s, the Buffalo Courier-Express printed its last issue on September 19, 1982. The newspaper's archives, consisting of approximately 1 million news clippings and 100,000 photographs were donated to the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society and Buffalo State College. The files are now housed in the Butler Library Archives.

The photographs mostly cover the late 1950s through the date the newspaper closed. This special collection is heavily used and receives over 100 requests each year. As a result of this heavy usage, it has become apparent that digitizing the collection would be of great value. Digitizing the photographs will assist in the preservation process by reducing direct handling of the photographs. It will also expedite the archivist's task of searching for requested photographs, even allowing the general public to search for photographs themselves. The sharing of the photographs with the public will be done through the online photo management and sharing application, Flickr, the choice of the Library of Congress for their photographs. Through this site, viewing and downloading of the images will be available. The digitized images will be available on Flickr later in the year.

Join the Burchfield Penney on Thursday, April 28, for two events commemorating Arbor Day. From 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Studio Classroom, the museum will host a Trash Origami Workshop led by Dennis Piatkowski of Buffalo State. All supplies will be provided.

At 7:00 p.m., the Burchfield Penney Art Center and the Western New York Land Conservancy invite you to attend a community discussion with panelists Darren Kempner, deputy commissioner, Erie County Department of Environment and Planning; Loren Smith, executive director, Buffalo Audubon Society; Joseph Territo, arborist; Olmsted Parks Conservancy; Sharon Webber, board president, Grassroots Gardens; and Margaret Wooster, author and habitat planner for Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper.

Both events are free and open to the public.
 

The campus community is invited to celebrate the life and work of Milton Rogovin (1909-2011), Saturday, May 21, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. in Warren Enters Theatre.

An exhibit of Rogovin's photography, curated by the Burchfield Penney Art Center, will be shown in the Czurles-Nelson Gallery throughout the day.

Rogovin's lens has illuminated prominent social issues of the day: the plight of the miner in ten nations; the decline of the steel industry in Buffalo; the common struggle of the poor and working people living in Buffalo's Lower West Side; the celebration of spirit in the storefront churches of Buffalo; and the pride of the people of Chile and the voice of its native son Pablo Neruda.

For more information about Milton Rogovin please visit: http://miltonrogovin.com/#

Attention, media artists: Information sessions for two statewide grant programs in electronic media and film will be held on Saturday, October 22, at 11:00 a.m. at the Burchfield Penney Art Center. More information is available online.

Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., a widely published author from San Diego State University, will speak about formative assessments, Monday, May 2, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Campus West School auditorium (on the Buffalo State Campus). The title of his presentation is "Feed Forward: Taking Action on Formative Assessments." There is no charge for this event. Please feel free to bring your classes, advertise to students, educators, or any other interested parties. Light refreshments will be served. All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance.

Faculty are invited to join Fisher for an intimate discussion on formative assessments—how we can use them and teach about them in teacher education courses—Tuesday, May 3, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Bacon Hall 116 (basement). Please join us!

This event is sponsored by Buffalo State College Auxiliary Service Grant Allocation Committee, Buffalo State College Professional Development Schools Consortium, the Buffalo State College Literacy Center, Buffalo State College's chapter of Alpha Upsilon Alpha Honor Society, Buffalo State College Education Alumni Chapter, and the Literacy Leaders Group - Professional Development Committee of the Niagara Frontier Reading Council.