The Bacon Hall northwest entrance will close on Friday, August 9, and will remain closed for approximately two weeks. The building’s northeast entrance will be closed from Saturday, August 10, through Monday, August 12; however, the northeast doorway will continue to serve as an accessible entrance during this period. Contractors will pause their work to accommodate those requiring accessible entry.

Bacon Hall’s two south entrances will reopen on August 9, along with entrances to Rockwell Hall and the Donald Savage Building, as well as nearby sidewalks that have been closed to accommodate the rehabilitation of underground utilities.

Questions about this work may be e-mailed to vpfm@buffalostate.edu. For more information about Buffalo State capital projects, please visit the campus construction website.

Your patience and understanding are greatly appreciated.

The 2013 Making Strides against Breast Cancer walk will take place on Saturday, October 19. This is the second year we have formed a team, the Buffalo State Striders (UUP). We are looking for a minimum of 10 new walkers to join our team. The walk is 2.3 miles, and our fundraising goal is $1,500.

There are three ways you can get involved:

1. PARTICIPATE in the walk:

? Sign up today.
? Watch the how-to video.
? Specifics:

• ?2.3-mile walk.
• Saturday, October 19, 10:00 a.m., ?65 Niagara Square, downtown Buffalo.
• Anyone can join the team, so sign up with your friends.

2. DONATE to the team or a specific walker:

• Donate today.
• Watch the how-to video.
• Your pledge money stays local. See "How Donations Save Lives."

3. PROMOTE: Can’t participate in the walk, but want to stay involved? Get your department to host dress-down days to promote the event. I have the “swag” to help you get started.

Just get involved! Contact Ramona Santa Maria, assistant professor of computer information systems and UUP academic delegate and part-time contingents officer, for more information.

In each main department, copy room, and mail room, red bins are available for the recycling of electronic media, such as printer and toner cartridges, VHS and cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, and batteries.

Custodians empty full red bins into a larger yellow bin in each building. When yellow bins are full, Business Services replaces them with empty yellow bins. This program has been in place since 2006, and the campus has seen a steady growth in the program as participation has become habit within the departments.

In 2011, 5,957 pounds of electronic media were collected. This increased in 2012 to 9,964 pounds, and so far in 2013, a total of 4,262 pounds has been collected and recycled.

Check out the totals for the last year at www.buffalostate.edu/orgs/evergreen/cartrecycle.htm; select "Electronic Media Recycling Totals Chart."

Semester-long passes to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery for Buffalo State students are on sale now at the Rockwell Hall and Student Union box offices. The pass allows for unlimited visits to the gallery's permanent collection for the entire semester for only $6.

The Rockwell Hall Box Office is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. The Student Union Box Office is open from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Join a nationally recognized panel of experts as they present important highlights of recent cases, discuss campus obligations for accessibility in online environments, and outline concrete steps to review, plan, and refine campus online access policies and delivery methods. The Department of Justice announced a settlement agreement with Louisiana Tech University on July 23, 2013, resolving a complaint about inaccessible course materials. This is the latest in a series of recent collaborative efforts of regulatory and enforcement agencies as they interpret colleges’ obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The presentation will be aired on Thursday, August 29, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. in the Professional Development Center, E. H. Butler Library 181B.

The time is now to evaluate the accessibility of online and electronic instruction and services and to begin to remove barriers.

Register at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration/classdetails.asp?class=3238.

Learn to record video of all actions that take place while working on a Smart Technologies interactive white board. See how to add audio with a microphone so the video is ready to be shared with colleagues and students. This is a convenient way to record solutions to homework problems in a fully accessible format. Presented by Sue McMillen on Thursday, August 15, from 9:45 to 10:30 a.m. in the Professional Development Center, E. H. Butler Library 181B.

Register at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration/classdetails.asp?class=3240.

Learn to save annotations and images created while teaching with a Smart Technologies interactive white board. Insert your drawing or writing as an image into a Microsoft Office document or save it as a screen capture in SMART Notebook software. See how to convert your writing into typed text in a Word or Excel document. Presented by Sue McMillen on Thursday, August 15, from 9:00 to 9:45 a.m. in the Professional Development Center, E. H. Butler Library 181B.

Register at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration/classdetails.asp?class=3239.

If your department has new employees who will be authorized to sign purchase requisitions, you must complete a new Record of Authorized Signatures form for each department account to be changed.

The form can be found on the Procurement Services website. Please complete the form and forward the original signed copy to Procurement Services, Cleveland Hall 406, as soon as possible.

In an effort to better serve the campus community, Parking Services is now filling faculty and staff requests for parking permit stickers online at www.buffalostate.edu/parkingservices. Employees may log on to the system with their campus user names and passwords. Permits may be sent via U.S. mail to the employee’s address of record or picked up in the Parking Services Office, Chase Hall 126. Employees must show a valid form of photo ID when picking up a parking permit.

Staff members who do not have a campus user name and password will be required to apply in person for their parking permit in the Parking Services Office. Permits are no longer available from the Student Accounts Office.

All permits will be required to be paid by debit or credit card at the time of the request.

University Police will begin ticketing for no-permit violations Tuesday, September 3. If you have elected to have your permit mailed to you and have not yet received it by this date, please stop at University Police or Parking Services to obtain a temporary permit for the day.

We look forward to providing this opportunity to go green and help create a smoother transition for the upcoming semester.

If you have any questions, please contact the Parking Services Office at parkingservices@buffalostate.edu or ext. 3041.

Summer Office Hours:
Monday–Friday 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Fall Office Hours:
Monday–Friday 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Thursday 8:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m.

Please take a moment to review the newly updated and revised Banner Student Registration Guide (dated 7/25/13). A color brochure was mailed to all faculty and staff members via intercampus mail. This document is available online as a PDF on both the Registrar's Office website and the Banner website. Color brochures are also always available in the lobby of Moot Hall 210. If your office or department would like additional copies to have on hand for students, please call the Registrar's Office at ext. 4811. Please discard all outdated copies of this document.