Employees who were included in the NYS Deficit Reduction Leave Program (DRL) are reminded that any remaining Deficit Reduction Leave accruals must be used no later than March 31, 2013, or be forfeited. DRL was implemented for all Management/Confidential employees and employees in the CSEA, PEF, and PBA/NYS bargaining units.

DRL is to be requested in advance and is subject to supervisory approval in the same manner as vacation and personal leave accruals. DRL credits may not be used to cover unscheduled absences such as calling in sick but may be used for planned appointments, with prior supervisory approval, including medical appointments or scheduled absences normally charged to sick leave.

The final payroll deduction for the Deficit Reduction Leave Program will be taken in paychecks dated March 27, 2013.

If you have questions regarding the Deficit Reduction Leave Program, please call Human Resource Management at ext. 4822.

Buffalo State Dining is pleased to welcome you back for another great semester! As you walk around campus, you will see that we have been busy enhancing the dining program to better serve you. With all these great dining enhancements, now is the perfect time to sign up for a Swipe & Save Meal Plan. We have designed meal plan options specifically to meet the unique dining requirements of our faculty and staff.

Meal Plans include

• Bonus Pack 20: 20 meals per semester to be used in the all-you-care-to-eat Resident Dining facility plus $150 Bengal Bucks. Only $305.
• Mini Pack 10: 10 meals per semester to be used in the all-you-care-to-eat Resident Dining facility plus $150 Bengal Bucks. Only $230.
• Forever 25: 25 meals to be used in the all-you-care-to-eat Resident Dining facility; these never expire, provided that you are a faculty or staff member at Buffalo State. Only $195.

If you don't see what you need above, you can make your own plan. Sign up for Bengal Bucks in any amount. Bengal Bucks are a declining-balance dollar account that can be used not only at any campus dining location but also at the bookstore, in the library, in vending machines, on Performing Arts Center ticket sales, and off campus at select locations. Faculty and staff save 10 percent with every purchase made at any Buffalo State Dining venue.

How to sign up:
Sign up online at www.dineoncampus.com/bsc, in person in E. H. Butler Library 108, or by phone at ext. 5152.

For more information on Buffalo State Dining, please visit www.dineoncampus.com/bsc.

Join your colleagues on Friday, February 8, for a discussion about designing writing assignments in ways that foster integrative learning. Sample assignments will be analyzed to determine their demand for critical thinking and their connections to the habits of mind that are essential for college writing. We will compare our own modifications of an assignment and discuss how various versions of an assignment allow different opportunities for integrative learning.

Bagels and coffee will be available at 8:15 a.m., and the discussion will be from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m. in the Professional Development Center, E. H. Butler Library 181B.

Register at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration/classdetails.asp?class=3090.

The Buffalo State Alumni Association has teamed up with Liberty Mutual Insurance Company to offer defensive driving classes to Buffalo State faculty, staff, alumni, and students on Saturday, February 16, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Ketchum Hall 219. Save money on your auto insurance by taking this class offered through Liberty Mutual. Friends and relatives are also welcome if accompanied by a faculty or staff member, alumnus, or student. The cost of the class is $22 per person. To enroll, contact Thomas McMorrow, Buffalo State's local representative, at (716) 677-2734, ext. 53701.

Please advise seniors who are graduating in May 2013 that the deadline to submit applications for May graduation is Friday, February 8. Students may download the form at www.buffalostate.edu/registrar/documents/degap.pdf or complete the form at the Registrar's Office in Moot Hall. The minimum number of credits for an undergraduate degree is 120; some majors require more. Students should contact their advisers with questions.

The Resident Dining Hall located in the Campbell Student Union is now open. Enjoy an all-you-care-to-eat meal today for brunch or dinner. Choose from our daily assortment of fresh greens topped with veggies and cheeses, create a delicious deli sub topped with your choice of thin-sliced meats and cheese, order from our exhibition-show cooking station, warm up with a bowl of chef's famous soup du jour, or indulge in our savory pizzas topped with a variety of cheeses and meats. Enter with a meal swipe brunch door price of $8.79 or dinner door price of $12.19.

Hours of Operation
Friday, January 25

Campbell Student Union Food Court
Train Grill: 8:00–10:30 a.m.
Subway: 11:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
2.mato: 11:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Spot Coffee: 8:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.

Resident Dining
Brunch: 10:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m.
Dinner: 4:30–8:30 p.m.

For more information on Buffalo State Dining, please visit our website.

The meditation group at Weigel Health Center held on Wednesdays from 5:30 to 6:00 p.m. will be temporarily suspended for the next several weeks. Classes should resume in the spring. Please watch the Daily Bulletin for more information.

Please join us for the online working session "Advancing a Virtual Teaching Environment" on Tuesday, February 5, and Tuesday, February 26, from noon to 1:30 p.m.

3-D worlds are potentially important tools that are likely to gain widespread adoption as colleges become populated with "digital native" students. The International Center for Studies in Creativity has conducted some initial experiments with a 3-D virtual teaching environment called Qube, which seems to offer an interesting combination of features that make it particularly appropriate for distance teaching, learning, and creative collaboration in various disciplines (below is a link to a YouTube link that describes the platform). We need your help (ideas and suggestions) to further advance the development of this platform across disciplines. In this working session, we will

• demonstrate how we facilitate and teach our graduate creativity courses by using this innovative technology;
• offer participants a chance to experiment with the platforms and its features;
• provide participants immediate access and support when using platform for their class instructions.

This working session is supported by a SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant. Thank you for your help. Please direct questions and R.S.V.P. to John Cabra, associate professor of creative studies.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk9utD_dX9c&feature=youtu.be

Buffalo State Dining will offer an all-you-care-to-eat lunch buffet in the Campbell Student Union Food Court today from 11:15 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Enjoy delicious tricolored tortellini with marinara or Alfredo sauce, grilled lemon garlic chicken finished with fresh bruchetta, meatballs, roasted veggies, and a fresh mixed green salad topped with oranges and strawberries. Purchase your lunch ticket at Spot Coffee in the Campbell Student Union food court for only $10.99. 

Thursday, January 24
Train Grill: 8:00–10:00 a.m.
A lunch buffet will be available in the Campbell Student Union food court 11:15 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Purchase your buffet ticket for only $10.99 at Spot Coffee.
2.mato: 2:00–7:00 p.m.
Spot Coffee: 8:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.

Friday, January 25
Train Grill: 8:00–10:30 a.m.
Subway: 11:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
2.mato: 11:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Spot Coffee: 8:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.

Resident Dining:
Brunch 10:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m.
Dinner 4:30–8:30 p.m.

For more information on Buffalo State Dining, please visit our website. 

For myriad reasons, it is important that we host only up-to-date web pages, images, and documents on Buffalo State websites. If you have an Ingeniux site and have deleted pages, images, or documents from your site, but you have never worked with College Relations to also have these files removed from the web servers, your files may still be found via web search. To permanently remove files, please follow the instructions below.

First step: Identify any pages, images, or documents that need to be deleted in any or all of the following ways:

1. Review your live site for “unpublished” files or files stored in the “recycle folder.”
    
2. Use Google and customized search strings to arrive at all pages hosted by your site that appear via web search (search strings for reviewing the College Relations site for xml/pdf/doc/xls files provided as examples):
   “site:www.buffalostate.edu/collegerelations filetype:xml” (enter without quotes) “site:www.buffalostate.edu/collegerelations filetype:pdf” (enter without quotes) “site:www.buffalostate.edu/collegerelations filetype:doc” (enter without quotes) “site:www.buffalostate.edu/collegerelations filetype:xls” (enter without quotes)
    
3. Review the electronic report listing all web files hosted on your Ingeniux site that is being e-mailed to directors and chairs this week.

Second step: When you identify files that need to be deleted, please collect and e-mail URLs to meehanme@buffalostate.edu. You will be notified when the files have been deleted from the campus web servers.

Thank you for your assistance in this matter. Questions may be directed to Melissa Meehan, ext. 3903.