The next meeting of the Buffalo State College Council will be held at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 15, in Cleveland Hall 518.
Agenda
Members of the campus community are invited to submit nominations for the third month of the President's Caring Bengal Award by 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 1. For more information about the award criteria and recipient selection process, or to submit a nomination, please visit the Professional Development website.
Award Description
Each of us knows a faculty member, staff member, or administrator who transforms the work and personal lives of their colleagues by supporting them with compassion, care, respect, and collegiality. These caring colleagues in our community can be found at every level of our institution, and although they create positive work experiences for each person they encounter, their contribution to our community sometimes goes unnoticed. To recognize these supportive colleagues in our community, each month faculty, staff, and administrators across all ranks, unions, and titles can be nominated by a colleague or student to receive the Caring Bengal Award.
The Faculty and Staff Recognition Committee, which includes faculty and staff representation from UUP, CSEA, the College Senate, and the Professional Staff Caucus, will review award nominations and select the award recipient each month. Each month, award recipients will be announced by me in the Daily Bulletin, will receive a gift, and will be invited along with their supervisor to a lunch with me at the end of the semester.
Please contact Jonathan Hulbert, director of leadership and organizational development, with questions about the President’s Caring Bengal Award.
Forms for submission of the 2017–2018 annual reports for faculty, librarians, and professional staff are posted on the Human Resource Management website. Administrative and academic departments will complete and submit their annual reports in Taskstream. Open drop-in sessions offering Taskstream support for academic department chairs and administrative unit directors will be held from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. as follows:
If your academic department has elected to pilot the electronic individual faculty annual report, you will receive a link from your department chair on Friday, May 4.
For process or content questions, please contact Brad Fuster, associate vice president for institutional effectiveness.
For technical assistance, please contact Tiffany Fuzak, research analyst in Institutional Effectiveness.
Submission of annual reports for 2017–2018 are due on or before the following dates:
I am pleased to announce that the following faculty and staff members will serve on the 2018–2019 Honorary Degree Committee:
Co-chair: Maryruth F. Glogowski, Associate Vice President, RITE
Mary-Jo Jagord, Director, Alumni Engagement Office
Drew J. Kahn, Distinguished Service Professor, Theater
Kimberly A.Kline, Chair and Professor, Higher Education Administration
Alexander J. Means, Assistant Professor, Social and Psychological Foundations of Education
John P. “Jack” Mack, Senior Counselor, Weigel Wellness Center
Gary W. Pettibone, Professor, Biology
Nancy S. Weekly, Head of Collections, Burchfield Penney Art Center; Lecturer, History and Social Studies Education Department
Kathy L, Wood, Associate Dean, School of Education
Bonita R. Durand, chief of staff in the President’s Office, will provide staff support to the committee.
The Honorary Degree Committee is charged with identifying candidates for the State University of New York honorary doctorate, SUNY’s highest academic honor, and preparing nomination portfolios. Honorary degrees are awarded to recognize excellence that exemplifies the mission and purpose of the State University of New York in the following fields: public affairs, the sciences, humanities and the arts, scholarship and education, business and philanthropy, and social services.
Honorary degrees also can honor meritorious or outstanding service to the university, the state of New York, the United States, or humanity at large, or people whose lives serve as examples of the university’s aspirations for its students.
Names of suggested nominees for SUNY honorary doctorates should be forwarded to Maryruth Glogowski, Cleveland Hall 516, or any other committee member.
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The academic obligation for 2018–2019 commences Monday, August 20, 2018, and ends Friday, May 31, 2019.
At its April 13, 2018, meeting, the Student Welfare Committee, with the support of the Budget and Staff Allocation Committee, recommended a motion to support an increase of the broad-based fee to align with enrollment and budgetary changes as follows:
WHEREAS, enrollments have declined for the past three years, causing a reduction in revenues for the broad-based fee accounts; and
WHEREAS, fringe benefit costs continue to increase expenses; and
WHEREAS, in the past years, administration has balanced the accounts by reducing administrative overhead expenses, internal reallocations, expenditure controls, and fee increases,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the College Senate support the administration’s broad-based fee increase of 2.6 percent of the HEPI* cap (or $34) for the 2018–2019 fiscal year to include the following individual changes: increases for Athletics = $6; Health = $14; and Technology = $14.
I hereby accept the recommendation of the College Senate to increase the broad-based fee by $34 for the 2018–2019 fiscal year. I charge the vice president for finance and management with the responsibility for implementing this change.
* Higher Education Price Index (HEPI)
At its April 13, 2018, meeting, the College Senate voted to recommend to the president a revision to DOPS Policy I:01:05: Transfer Students (PDF, 86 KB). The revision is included in number 4 of the “Proposed Revision” section below.
WHEREAS, students may transfer from institutions where they have been granted clemency for courses previously taken or excluded from due to course repeat policy, which means the courses are excluded from overall credit earned and not factored into their overall GPA; and
WHEREAS, courses for which students have been granted clemency or excluded from due to course repeat policy may be included on a transcript; however, they should be excluded from transfer consideration, and
WHEREAS, Buffalo State has not been accepting courses that fall under clemency or have been excluded under course repeat policy; however, the current policy does not reflect this standard practice;
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Buffalo State amend its DOPS Policy on Transfer Students to clarify current and best practice surrounding courses excluded on transferring institution transcripts and transfer credit.
DIRECTORY OF POLICY STATEMENTS
Policy Number: I:01:05
Subject: Transfer Students (section of full policy)
Current Policy
Transfer students should understand that only credit is transferable. Credit is granted only from institutions listed on the application for admission. Grades, quality points, and cumulative averages do not transfer. Credit hours previously earned will be evaluated for all transfer students upon admission to college. Most credit hours earned at other institutions will be accepted, although the college cannot guarantee how credit hours earned at two-year institutions will relate to bachelor’s degree requirements. The most common cases in which transfer credit hours are not accepted are as follows:
1. Developmental courses in mathematics, English, and learning skills
2. Courses in theology or religion with sectarian emphasis
3. Courses in programs that do not exist at Buffalo State
Proposed Revision
Transfer students should understand that only credit is transferable. Credit is granted only from institutions listed on the application for admission. Grades, quality points, and cumulative averages do not transfer. Credit hours previously earned will be evaluated for all transfer students upon admission to college. Most credit hours earned at other institutions will be accepted, although the college cannot guarantee how credit hours earned at two-year institutions will relate to bachelor’s degree requirements. The most common cases in which transfer credit hours are not accepted are as follows:
1. Developmental courses in mathematics, English, and learning skills
2. Courses in theology or religion with sectarian emphasis
3. Courses in programs that do not exist at Buffalo State
4. Courses excluded (e.g., clemency, course repeat policy) on the transcript from the transferring institution
I hereby accept the recommendation of the College Senate to revise the current transfer policy to exclude courses that are excluded on the transcript from the transferring institution. I charge the provost with the responsibility for overseeing the implementation of the policy revisions and communication to the campus community as appropriate.
This is the season for celebration! We stop our normal activities many times during the last six weeks of the spring semester as we pause to celebrate important aspects of our campus; to recognize individuals for their noteworthy accomplishments; and to appreciate the exceptional work of students, members of our campus community, and our community partners...
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On May 14 from 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., I joined Vice President Tim Gordon and other members of our Buffalo State community to serve students a late-night breakfast as they made their final push to complete exams and projects...
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