Any student requesting to take a final exam in the Disability Services Office should have provided you with a disability accommodation letter from our office. Additionally, the student should request that you fill out a test cover sheet outlining your specific directions for the exam. If you have any questions regarding final exams and disability accommodations, please call the Disability Services Office at ext. 4500.

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Please join the director of the College Writing Program, Michele Ninacs, to discuss post-process pedagogy, the pedagogical stance advocated by the College Writing Program as a means to assist students in the development of their writing skills and processes. The workshop will be held on Wednesday, May 16, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in Bacon Hall 117 as part of the Pedagogical Institute.

To register for this workshop, please visit http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration/classdetails.asp?class=2835.

Today is the last day to submit work to the Burchfield Penney members' exhibition, The Artists Among Us. Work in all media will be accepted today until 9:00 p.m. For the complete prospectus, visit www.burchfieldpenney.org.

Check out this year’s exciting program for the SUNY Conference on Instruction and Technology! Full abstracts for all CIT sessions are now available on the CIT 2012 website. Full session abstracts can be found under the Session and Program Information tab (left sidebar, bottom).
 
And don’t forget: less than two weeks remains for you to take advantage of the early registration rate of $200! After Sunday, May 13, the cost to register will increase to $250.
 
CIT runs May 29 through June 1 on the campus of Stony Brook University.

This workshop is intended for faculty members who will be teaching IF Oral Communication courses or a public speaking or oral communication component in their departmental courses. A basic overview of the fundamentals of public speaking and oral communication will be presented. Topics will include how to deliver and organize speeches, overcoming speech anxiety or nervousness, different types of speeches and group presentations, and how to grade and evaluate oral presentations. Sample video of student speeches and panel presentations will be viewed and discussed throughout the workshop. The workshop will be held on Friday, May 18, from 10:00 a.m. to noon in E. H. Butler Library 181B as part of the Pedagogical Institute.

To register for this event, please visit the Professional Development website.

Critical thinking is something we all want from our students, but what is it, exactly? How does it change from field to field, and what role might it play in the general education classroom—or in any classroom, for that matter? How will Buffalo State infuse critical thinking into the curriculum? This workshop will ask participants to explore these questions in the context of their own teaching, with the goals of constructing assignments that will assess the extent to which students have acquired this skill and developing pedagogical techniques that will help students achieve these ends. Faculty members should show up with a particular course in mind so that they can end the workshop with assignments and pedagogies that will aid their particular students in the development of this most important skill. This workshop will take place on Thursday, May 17, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. as the showcase event of the Pedagogical Institute. Lunch will be provided. Participants will be contacted to confirm the location before the workshop.

To register for this event, please visit http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration/classdetails.asp?class=2838.

The SUNY Learning Network has officially announced a hold on migrations from ANGEL to Blackboard for all ITEC-hosted campuses; therefore, it is necessary for Buffalo State to upgrade ANGEL to its current version. ANGEL will be unavailable from 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, August 15, until 11:59 p.m. Thursday, August 16.

During these two days, ANGEL will be completely unavailable. No one will be able to log in to ANGEL. Faculty and students will not be able to enter, view, retrieve, or download grades. There will be no access to drop boxes or submitted papers, projects, or exams. Students will not be able to submit papers, projects, or exams to drop boxes or to take assessments, exams, or course evaluation surveys through ANGEL during this time.

Faculty who use ANGEL can prepare now by reviewing syllabi and taking note of dates that require students to use ANGEL between August 15 and August 16.

Student paper and assignment submissions: Tell students to submit papers to you directly via Buffalo State e-mail.

Faculty grading: Before Wednesday, August 15, print out a copy of your ANGEL grade book and export a copy to Excel, so that you have access to grades outside of ANGEL.

Faculty accessing assignments stored in ANGEL: Before Wednesday, August 15, export all drop box submissions and save them to a flash drive or your computer's hard drive.

ANGEL v.8 will provide support for both Safari and Chrome web browsers. Users will not see a change in their daily use of ANGEL; the interface remains the same. This version also provides new feature enhancements.

When you’re studying for finals, good nutrition often falls last on the priority list. It’s easy to get into the habit of drinking lots of coffee and eating too much take-out. To succeed in your studies, you must feed your brain to think clearly. Brains use a lot of energy and need a constant supply of fuel. Find out what foods you should be eating more of during finals week at Buffalo State Dining’s Balanced U event, today from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Resident Dining, located in the Campbell Student Union. Meet with our dietitian and enjoy delicious food that is guaranteed to boost your brain!

Enter with a meal swipe or lunch door price $8.39.

For more information on Buffalo State Dining’s Balance U program, log on to www.dineoncampus.com/bsc.

Graduate-level teacher candidates in the Exceptional Education Department will showcase their master's research projects and share effective practices with colleagues and community educators during the Dr. Horace “Hank” Mann Graduate Research Symposium on Saturday, May 5, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the Bulger Communication Center.

This year, to extend the incredible legacy of Dr. Horace “Hank” Mann, the sixth annual symposium will officially be named in his honor. Mann joined Buffalo State in 1953 as the director of the Exceptional Children Education Division. Under his leadership, the college’s exceptional education undergraduate and graduate programs rose to national prominence and became among the largest in the United States. Mann passed away in November 2010 at the age of 88.

Michael S. Rosenberg, '75, '79, professor of special education and associate dean for research at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Education, will deliver the keynote address, "Developing, Implementing, and Sustaining Comprehensive Culturally Responsive Behavior Management Systems: Using Data to Bridge the Research-to-Practice Gap."

The event is free and open to educators in the community. Attendees are encouraged to register in advance for the event, although walk-ins will be welcome.

Laura Crandall, a master's degree candidate in the forensic chemistry program at Buffalo State, will present her thesis seminar, "Macrocyclic Complexes of Boron: Subphthalocyanines," on Thursday, May 3, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Science Building 220. Crandall graduated from D'Youville College with a B.S. in chemistry and joined the Buffalo State program in fall 2010. Her research has been carried out under the direction of Bill Durfee, professor of chemistry.

This seminar is part of the spring 2012 Chemistry/Physics Seminar Series, sponsored by the Auxiliary Services Grant Allocation Committee, the Vice President for Student Affairs Office, and the Faculty-Student Association.