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Nominations are now being accepted for the Phillip Santa Maria Award for Student Leadership in Equity and Campus Diversity. For 25 years, Dr. Phillip Santa Maria served as dean of students at Buffalo State. During his tenure, he was recognized both on campus and throughout the community for his leadership on a variety of diversity and social justice issues. The Phillip Santa Maria Award for Student Leadership in Equity and Campus Diversity has been established in his honor and is given annually to recognize students who exemplify his commitment to service, social justice, and diversity.
Students, faculty, and staff are invited to nominate student leaders who exemplify Dr. Santa Maria’s commitment to service, social justice, and diversity through promoting respect for diversity and individual differences in their activities, projects, discussions, or leadership with student organizations and groups for this purpose.
Eligibility
Undergraduate and graduate students at Buffalo State
Criteria
1. Recipients must have demonstrated leadership in the promotion of respect for diversity and individual differences through their roles in organizing discussions, curricular experiences, out-of-classroom experiences, or special projects for programming that go beyond that usually expected of a student.
2. Recipients must demonstrate leadership in encouraging their peers to embrace diversity and to appreciate the benefits of diversity on campus, in the community, and in their everyday lives.
3. Recipients must have created or played a significant leadership role in initiatives or programs that promote access, equity, or social justice in relation to the diversity of thought, diversity of experiences, diversity of values, or other aspects of diversity within the college or the broader community.
Please use the interactive online form on the Equity and Campus Diversity website to nominate a student. Nomination forms must be sumbitted to the Equity and Campus Diversity Office by the close of business Wednesday, February 17.
Please contact Janet Fehskens, secretary 1, at 878-6210 or eeoequity@buffalostate.edu with questions.
I encourage the Buffalo State community to nominate deserving colleagues for SUNY Chancellor’s Awards and Buffalo State President’s Awards for Excellence. Guidelines can be found on the Academic Affairs website. Please visit the Nomination Resources section for helpful resources and tips for assembling nomination dossiers.
President’s Awards for Excellence (first Monday of March each year)
Please submit nominations with supporting materials electronically to the provost’s office by Monday, March 7, 2016.
Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence
Adjunct Teaching
Please submit nominations with supporting materials electronically to the provost’s office by Thursday, September 15, 2016.
Distinguished Teaching Professor, Distinguished Service Professor; Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Professional Service, Librarianship, Scholarship and Creative Activities, or Faculty Service
Please submit nominations with supporting materials electronically to the provost’s office by Monday, October 17, 2016.
Please note: Nomination letters for SUNY Chancellor’s Awards should be prepared in the format of a Summary Presentation, as specified in the SUNY Award guidelines. A Buffalo State Nomination Checklist Cover Sheet (PDF) should be the first page of all nominations.
Questions may be directed to Carolyn Martino, assistant to the provost.
I am pleased to invite the campus community to the annual luncheon honoring our colleagues who are in their 25th year of service at Buffalo State College. The event will take place on Thursday, March 17, at noon in the Campbell Student Union Social Hall. Tomorrow, March 11, is the final day to RSVP.
The 13 employees crossing the 25-year mark this year:
Patricia Alessandra, Senior Staff Associate, Academic Affairs Office
Robert Baumet, Director, Accounts Payable and Travel Services
Daniel Cunningham, Professor, Mathematics
Maria Garrett, Foreign Language Assistant, Modern and Classical Languages
Marybeth Keller, General Merchandise Manager, Barnes & Noble at Buffalo State Bookstore
Rainelle McLeod, Senior Trainer, Research Foundation/CDHS
William Mitchell, Associate Professor, History and Social Studies Education
Raul Neira, Associate Professor, Modern and Classical Languages
Kevin Railey, Associate Provost; Dean, Graduate School
David Reinecke, General Mechanic, Campus Services
Jerrold Richmond, General Mechanic, Campus Services
Thomas White, Professor, Biology
Michael Zborowski, Associate Professor, Psychology
To make a reservation, please complete and return the reservation form (doc) to the President’s Office, Cleveland Hall 517, by tomorrow, March 11. If you have questions, please call Laurie Graziano, secretary 2, or Melissa Slisz, staff assistant, in the President’s Office at 878-4101.
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A memorial service for Bradley Doyley will be held today, February 24, at noon in Houston Gym. The service is open to all. Please read my latest blog post at http://kateconwayturner.tumblr.com.
SUNY has reached an agreement with Adobe for Creative Cloud software licensing. Buffalo State is participating in this SUNY agreement, which leverages the power of SUNY as a whole. Under this agreement, Buffalo State campus labs will be licensed for Creative Cloud software, providing access to the entire suite of Creative Cloud applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, etc.) for all students. A portion of faculty and staff workstations will also have access to the Creative Cloud suite. It is important to note that while campus faculty, staff, and students will have access to Adobe Creative Cloud software, the contract does not include individual subscriptions to Cloud storage. As a result, all working files must be stored on Buffalo State network folders, hard drives, or other storage media.
Information Services and Systems staff members are in the preliminary stages of planning for the rollout of Adobe Creative Cloud software. Testing is in progress, and CTS has assembled a group of faculty and staff members who will provide feedback. The planning team will begin to reach out to departments across campus over the coming weeks to verify existing CS6 installations and users, and to discuss timing and process. We expect a rollout for campus labs before the start of the fall 2016 term and will make the software available to faculty beforehand for their own testing and planning.
Faculty and staff members may purchase a yearly subscription to the software for home use at a substantially discounted rate of $9.75 a year. The software is available now through Buffalo State's Academic Software Center.
If you have questions, please contact the Computing Help Desk at 878-4357. We hope you will enjoy expanded availability of this set of software tools.
As part of our effort to clarify course delivery for students, we have adopted new instructional modality definitions for all Buffalo State courses. Beginning in spring 2017, the following definitions will be applied:
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The Buffalo State Chapter of the Student Veterans of America invites students, faculty, and staff to a free military-themed workout every Friday at 2:00 p.m. in Houston Gym 125. Get in shape for the warm weather. Space is limited, so arrive early.