Chartwells is excited to begin another semester serving as the go-to catering choice for the Buffalo State University campus. This spring, we are placing a bigger emphasis on the use of our Catertrax website. Please follow the steps below when placing an online campus catering order through Catertrax:

1. Go to the Buffalo State Dining website.
2. Click the Catering tab.
3. Choose “How to Order with Catertrax” from the dropdown menu and watch the video describing how to use the Catertrax online ordering system.
4. Place your order using Catertrax.

Those who use the Catertrax website before March 1 will be entered into a drawing to receive a $100 credit toward their first order of $200 or more this semester.

We hope this process will help streamline your ordering and customer service experience with Buffalo State Dining and Catering. If you have any questions, please call us at (716) 878-4128.

Thank you!

Glenn Bucello, Resident District Manager
Austin Craig, Director of Catering

All students are welcome and invited to participate in the Bengal Entrepreneurship Program, sponsored by the Small Business Development Center, on Thursday, February 9, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Technology Building 160 to learn about the program and the NY Business Plan Competition. 

The NY Business Plan Competition starts with the WNY Regional Round on Tuesday, April 11, where students can win up to $1,500. The Bengal Entrepreneurship Program will host weekly meetings on Tuesdays from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Buckham Hall A107 starting on February 14 to teach students about business planning and allow them to prepare their eight-minute pitch presentations for the regional round competition.

Interested students are encouraged to contact bengalentreprogram@gmail.com or @bengalentreprogram on Instagram for more information.

Hope Dunbar, special collections archivist in E. H. Butler Library, is leaving Buffalo State University effective February 3 to become the university archivist at the University at Buffalo.

Ms. Dunbar has served Buffalo State for the last seven years by expanding online resources for Archives and Special Collections material; facilitating internships, workshops, and classes; providing outreach and access to the Monroe Fordham Regional History Center; and successfully funding several grant projects.

Please join me in heartily thanking Ms. Dunbar for her service to Buffalo State.

Classes for the spring 2023 semester begin Monday, January 30, and end Thursday, May 18. Students can continue to submit all drop/add activity directly in Banner until 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, February 7. Students can continue to add themselves to a waitlist, if available, until 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, January 31. Any students that remains on a waitlist after January 31 will have the opportunity to add themselves to the class if a seat becomes available. The deadline for waitlist adding is either 24 hours from the time the student receives notification that a seat is available or the drop/add deadline of 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, February 7, whichever comes first. All students are strongly encouraged to have their schedule of classes set no later than Friday, January 27.

Detailed information for the following can be found on the Registrar's website:

Registration

Holds

Schedule Planner

Banner Legend (PDF, 190 KB)

Banner Student Registration Guide (PDF, 135 KB)

Department Contact Information

Waitlisting

Registration Add Errors

The Newman Center offers free student dinners Thursdays at 6:00 p.m., starting February 2. Stop by the Newman Center every Thursday for a free home-cooked meal. All are welcome! Bring your friends for a relaxing night with food and games. 

The Newman Center is located at 1219 Elmwood Avenue, across the street from the Burchfield Penney Art Center.

RSVP online or by phone at (716) 882-1080.

The CCE LibGuides are helpful to students and faculty members who are interested in conducting community-engaged research. The Faculty LibGuide assists instructors incorporating community-engaged pedagogy into courses; it also contains resources that support community-engaged research and scholarship. The Student LibGuide helps students deepen their understanding of societal issues, developing civic knowledge, and expanding their capacity to be active members of their community.

Please visit Civic and Community Engagement for Faculty and Civic and Community Engagement for Students for more information. If you have resources you would like us to add or would like additional support, please contact the CCE.

From the Chair of the Senate
The first meeting of the Buffalo State Senate for spring 2023 will be held Friday, February 10, at 3:00 p.m. in Newman Lecture Hall, Bulger Communication Center 215. Kimberly Kline, professor of higher education administration, serves as chair of the Senate for the 2022–2023 academic year. Please contact Dr. Kline with questions.

We encourage everyone to visit the Senate website to catch up on Senate news, find podcasts and minutes of past meetings, review reports and resolutions, and more.

Would you like to have SUNY move your courses from Blackboard to Brightspace? Faculty members can request migration of one section of each course they have taught using Blackboard Learn. For example, if you teach the same course in different semesters, please select one section to be migrated. You must complete one form for each course migration request.

Please use the Course Migration into Brightspace Request Form to have SUNY migrate your course.

Faculty members will have access to Blackboard through Monday, April 10.

Have other questions or need assistance?

• The Buffalo State IT Knowledge Base has many articles to assist with Brightspace. Use the search bar at the top to find information on other topics.
• Please direct any questions about Brightspace functionality to SUNY Online.
• If you need on-campus assistance from Instructional Design and Distance Learning, please submit a ticket through the IT portal.
• Check for upcoming Brightspace workshops on campus in the Workshop Registration System.

Do you need a space to move your content from Blackboard and clean up and reformat your course in Brightspace? You can request a development shell for course design and development. Development shells can also be requested for faculty to work in the course design review (OSCQR) process.

This Knowledge Base article, Brightspace: Development Shell, explains the steps to take.

Have other questions or need assistance?

• The Buffalo State IT Knowledge Base has many articles to assist with Brightspace. Use the search bar at the top to find information on other topics.
• Please direct any questions about Brightspace functionality to SUNY Online.
• If you need on-campus assistance from Instructional Design and Distance Learning, please submit a ticket through the IT portal.
• Check for upcoming Brightspace workshops on campus in the Workshop Registration System.

Brightspace has a function in which rosters from multiple sections can be merged into one course site. If you find yourself posting the same materials to different course sections of the same course during a semester, you can request that your course sections be combined into a single Brightspace course site. (Courses that are cross-listed in Banner will automatically be merged in the system. These cross-listed courses are coordinated between the department and the Registrar's Office. You do not need to fill out a request with IT/IDDL for this process.)

This Knowledge Base article, Merged and Cross-Listed Rosters in Brightspace, gives an overview of the features and steps to take for merged courses.

For cross-listed courses and merged courses, the lowest CRN is the parent course. The parent course is the course you should develop content for and make active when ready. While waiting for the merger, you can develop immediately in the lowest CRN course.

Have other questions or need assistance?

• The Buffalo State IT Knowledge Base has many articles to assist with Brightspace. Use the search bar at the top to find information on other topics.
• Please direct any questions about Brightspace functionality to SUNY Online.
• If you need on-campus assistance from Instructional Design and Distance Learning, please submit a ticket through the IT portal.
• Check for upcoming Brightspace workshops on campus in the Workshop Registration System.