The New York State/United University Professions Joint Labor-Management Committees (NYS/UUP JLMC) are offering free professional development through the Empire KnowledgeBank (EKB).

Expand your knowledge of Microsoft Office with this free online learning opportunity. EKB has over 10,000 resources, including books, audiobooks, courses, and videos.

Microsoft Office topics available through EKB:

• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Outlook
• Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification
• Microsoft Office 365
• SharePoint
• OneNote

To apply for an EKB license, access the EKB License Guidelines (PDF, 130 KB) and EKB License Application  (PDF, 1.8 MB) online.

For further information, contact NYS/UUP JLMC:

Email: nysuuplmc@oer.ny.gov

Phone: (518) 486-4666

U.S. Mail: 2 Empire State Plaza, 8th Floor, Albany, NY 12223

In Banner self-service, students can now do the following:

• View their registration start date or time ticket under "Registration Status." For continuing undergraduate freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, the registration start date is based on earned credit hours only. They should not count "in progress" credit hours they are taking for fall 2023. Registration begins at 6:00 a.m. on the assigned date and is then continuous. Registration start date will be from November 1 to 14 inclusive (PDF, 100 KB).
• View their holds (PDF, 90 KB), if any. Holds should be resolved at least two working days before a student intends to register. Additional hold information is available on the Registrar's Office website.
• Search for J-Term and spring 2024 courses. Students can see course listings by searching directly in Banner under "Look Up Classes."

Both the J-Term and spring 2024 Master Schedules are also available online on the Registrar's Office website under Courses. Students can hover over the advising codes on the online listing to see a window with the code definitions for that section.

Continuing students registered for fall 2023 are expected to register for spring 2024 during the registration start dates November 1–14 or within two weeks thereafter. Students should be encouraged to register early to secure their desired schedule.

Students are strongly encouraged to meet with an advisor in their major and review what courses they should take to stay on track for graduation. Department contact information can be found online. All undergraduates are encouraged to register for at least 15 credit hours each semester to assist them with graduating in four years.

Composition courses College Writing I and College Writing II are listed as CWP 101 and CWP 102 respectively. To find them in Banner, go to "Look Up Classes" and under "Subject" select "College Writing Program." In the online listing of courses, go to the undergraduate department listing "English" and scroll down to the CWP listings.

Students should be using Schedule Planner. It’s an easy-to-use online tool that makes schedule planning and registration easier!

Bookmark the Registrar's Office web page Registration Toolkit for additional information.

Need a summary of what J-Term is all about? Review this informational J-Term 2024 flyer (PDF, 176 KB).

Registration for J-Term and spring 2024 begins at 6:00 a.m. Wednesday, November 1.

The campus community is invited to attend the New York State EAP monthly webinar “Get to Know Your Community” on Wednesday, October 11, from noon to 12:30 p.m.

Your community is where you live, shop, dine, send your children to school, and vote. Do you know everything about your community? Join us as we share 25 creative ways to get to know your community. This is especially helpful if you have recently moved. This 30-minute seminar will be presented by Linda Carignan-Everts, WLS wellness coordinator, NYS Work-Life Services. 

Please register for this free 30-minute webinar through the WebEx meeting registration page. You will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the session.

The exhibition Art As Witnessing; Art As Envisioning is now open in the Czurles-Nelson Gallery through Wednesday, October 18.

A reception for the exhibition will be held today in the Upton Hall foyer (outside the Czurles-Nelson Gallery) from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served, and all are welcome!

This Anne Frank Project 2023 exhibition, part of the AFP 2023 Social Justice Festival, is a group show of artworks by campus faculty and student artists centered on responding to the world by using one of two perspectives: art focused on witnessing, showing us “this happened or is happening,” or art that incorporates envisioning, imagining that things can be otherwise. Together, these perspectives provide a foundation for teaching, learning, and making art through a social justice lens.

Please contact Marie Bogner, Czurles-Nelson Gallery coordinator, (716) 878-4390, with questions.

Please join us for a screening and discussion of the documentary film Above and Below the Ground on Monday, October 16, at 6:00 p.m. in Newman Lecture Hall, Bulger Communication Center 215. The film tells the story of Myanmar’s first and only countrywide environmental movement by Indigenous women activists and punk rock pastors to protect a sacred river from a Chinese-built mega-dam through protest, prayer, and Karaoke music videos.

The film is being simulcast at over 20 universities across North America including Cornell, Harvard, Yale, and the University of California at Berkeley. (See the full list of screening locations.) The University of Hawaii at Manoa will host the in-person portion of the event, where the film’s director, Emily Hong, and producer Maggie Lemere will hold a discussion via Zoom following the screening.

This event is sponsored by the Buffalo State Global Studies Institute and the Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA) consortium.

Please join the Global Studies Institute in welcoming Dawne Hoeg, executive director of Stitch Buffalo, for her talk on her organization and work in connecting communities by drawing from refugee and immigrants' skills in the textile arts on Thursday, October 12, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center 216.

Stitch Buffalo was founded in 2014 with the simple desire to connect communities through the textile arts. What began as a weekly embroidery workshop for refugee women on Buffalo’s West Side has blossomed into a diverse textile arts center where people gather to meet, create, and pursue economic empowerment. 

This event is sponsored by the Dr. Katherine S. Conway-Turner Civic and Community Engagement Office.

Stop by the Newman Center every Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. for a free home-cooked meal. All are welcome. Bring your friends for a delicious meal and stay for game night.

The Newman Center is located at 1219 Elmwood Avenue, across the street from the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Please call (716) 882-1080 or visit the Newman Center website for more information.

Participate each month in the Newman Center’s Service Saturdays, where we highlight social justice issues in our community. On Saturday, October 21, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., we will be helping the St. Vincent De Paul Society, serving a warm meal to those in need. Lunch will be provided. If interested, please contact the Newman Center today, (716) 882-1080.

Travel with the Newman Center as we spend an afternoon exploring a local apple orchard on Saturday, October 14, from noon to 5:00 p.m. Bring your friends for an afternoon of apples, donuts, and warm cider. Dress for the weather. We will leave the Newman Center at noon and return by 5:30 p.m. Transportation will be provided. Reservations are required; email us today to save your seat!

Please email or call the Newman center at (716)-882-1080 with questions.

A test of the Wireless Emergency Alert System is scheduled to occur nationwide between about 2:20 and 2:50 p.m. today, October 4. The test is being conducted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

A wireless emergency alert will appear on the screen of the recipient’s cell phone as a text-like message reading “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.” The alert will be accompanied by a unique attention signal and vibration, which is particularly helpful to people with hearing- or vision-related disabilities.

Read more about the nationwide test.