Please join us for the Garman Art Conservation Department's annual Fall Open House tomorrow, October 28, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. on the second floor of Rockwell Hall. We are excited to be back after a two-year hiatus. This event gives visitors a peek into the world of art and cultural heritage conservation. Come and see what our graduate students and faculty members have been conserving this past year and take a tour of our state-of-the-art studios and labs. This is an excellent opportunity for potential program applicants, art enthusiasts, or anyone in the community who is interested in learning more about the art conservation program and the work we do. The event is free and open to the public.

Milligan’s Food Pantry is committed to supporting the health and well-being of our guests and our community by offering healthier food choices at our pantry. We ask that you promote the Milligan's November Thanksgiving Food Drive in your departments to assist us in increasing the healthful options available to our guests. We ask that you donate what you are able; no donation is too small. Please donate only labeled cans, items that have not expired, prepackaged or commercially made items, unopened items, and non-alcoholic products.

Please contact Kristen Helling, associate director of student care and support, with questions or concerns.

From the Chair of the College Senate
The next meeting of the College Senate for fall 2022 will be held Friday, November 11, 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 College Senate for the 2022–2023 academic year. Please contact Dr. Kline with questions.

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

All faculty members are encouraged to begin training in Brightspace, the new SUNY-wide learning management system. Desire2Learn Brightspace was selected to replace Blackboard as the learning management system for the SUNY Digital Learning Environment. Starting in J-Term 2023, all courses will use Brightspace, and content and student data will begin to be archived for historical purposes.

The Brightspace Fundamentals Workshop Series is designed for instructors new to Brightspace and is suitable for instructors teaching in any modality: face-to-face, hybrid, or online.

Workshops in the series are Navigation and Interface; Communication Tools; Authoring and Publishing Content; Gradable Activities: Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes; and Gradebook.

Faculty members teaching in J-Term and spring 2023 are able to access their courses now. Log in at Buffalo State's Brightspace, and be sure to use the network log-in and your Buffalo State credentials. If you are experiencing log-in issues, please submit a ticket via the IT portal.

Training Options
Online synchronous workshops will be provided by the SUNY Center for Professional Development. Registration is open.

Online asynchronous modules are available within the Buffalo State Brightspace environment. You can log in to mylearning.buffalostate.edu using the Network Login option with your Buffalo State username and password. If you are experiencing log-in issues, please submit a ticket via the IT portal.

In-person sessions will be offered by Instructional Design and Distance Learning and the Teaching and Learning Center. These sessions will be hosted on campus in a variety of labs across campus. Registration is through the Workshop Registration System.

Please contact Jamie Tabone, instructional designer, with questions. Please see the IDDL website for more information.

The Professional Development Center is searching for faculty and staff members with an interest in serving on the 2023 Winterim Planning Committee.

Winterim is the time between the fall and spring semesters when an assortment of activities are held to support the intellectual, personal, and professional growth of faculty and staff. Winterim offers an excellent opportunity to develop professional and personal goals and achievements and to connect with colleagues at Buffalo State. 

Any faculty or staff member interested in serving on the Winterim Planning Committee should complete the short online form by Friday, November 4.

WBNY's core sports broadcasters Tanner Saunders and Evan Harrington will provide live play-by-play coverage of the Bengals matchup against the Brockport Golden Eagles in the "I-90 Bowl" on Saturday, October 29. Dan Dale will be producing the broadcast from WBNY's Campbell Student Union studios with pre-game starting at 11:45 a.m. and kickoff at noon. Listen to all the action on this radio-only coverage of Bengals football on 91.3-FM and streaming worldwide on the RadioFX app for your mobile device. From your desktop, click the Listen Now! link at https://wbny.buffalostate.edu.

Buffalo State’s Professional Development Center will offer information sessions on BizLibrary, an online employee learning and training platform that provides content on business skills, HR compliance, leadership and management skills, workplace safety, information technology, and much more. BizLibrary was initially purchased for the campus’s Sexual Harassment Prevention Training, and we plan to use this software for other compliance trainings as well as leadership and organizational development and training for faculty and staff. 

In this session, we will

• discuss the platform and how it can be used for you and your team for training and development;
• illustrate how to search for and share content and create a playlist;
• provide access for managers to assign trainings to their staff members.

Identical sessions will be offered as follows in Butler Library 314. Please use the links below to register for a session.

• Wednesday, November 2, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, November 15, 1:00–2:00 p.m.

Buffalo State will host the following events on campus:

Free Monkeypox Clinic
Today, October 27
10:00 a.m.–2:00 pm.
Campbell Student Union Social Hall

This free clinic will be administered by the Erie County Department of Health in collaboration with the Weigel Health Center. Participants under age 18 must obtain parental or guardian consent. Open to all students, faculty, staff, and community members.

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Free STI/HIV Testing for Students
These free STI/HIV clinics (for students only) will be administered by the Erie County Department of Health in collaboration with the Weigel Health Center. Scheduled by Weigel. Please call the health center at (716) 878-6711 to schedule an appointment. Walk-ins welcome if space is available.

Tuesday, November 1
11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

Thursday, December 1 (HIV/AIDS Awareness Day)
11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

(Also, save the date for 99 Red Balloons on December 1. Details TBA)

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Free COVID-19 Clinics
Weigel Health Center has added two additional COVID-19 clinics in collaboration with Wegmans to administer the Pfizer bivalent booster from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Campbell Student Union lobby. To receive a booster dose, participants must bring their vaccination cards as proof of previous Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. Use the links below to schedule an appointment. Walk-ins also welcome.

Monday, November 7
Wednesday, November 9

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Please follow our social media channels and visit the Health Promotion website for updates and fliers. Check out our other free online resources as well. Please contact?Paula Madrigal, assistant director of prevention and health promotion, with questions.

The Promotional newsletter
Self-Care Tips, Tricks, and Resources

Like us?on Facebook?(Buffalo State Health Promotions)
Follow us on Twitter?(@BSCHealthPromo)
Watch us on YouTube??(BSCHealthPromotions)
Find us on Instagram??(@Buffalostate_healthpromotions)
Follow us on Pinterest?(bschealthpromo)

Buffalo State will host the following events on campus:

Free Monkeypox Clinic
Thursday, October 27
10:00 a.m.–2:00 pm.
Campbell Student Union Social Hall

This free clinic will be administered by the Erie County Department of Health in collaboration with the Weigel Health Center. Participants under age 18 must obtain parental or guardian consent. Open to all students, faculty, staff, and community members.

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Free STI/HIV Testing for Students
These free STI/HIV clinics (for students only) will be administered by the Erie County Department of Health in collaboration with the Weigel Health Center. Scheduled by Weigel. Please call the health center at (716) 878-6711 to schedule an appointment. Walk-ins welcome if space is available.

Tuesday, November 1
11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

Thursday, December 1 (HIV/AIDS Awareness Day)
11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

(Also, save the date for 99 Red Balloons on December 1. Details TBA)

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Free COVID-19 Clinics
Weigel Health Center has added two additional COVID-19 clinics in collaboration with Wegmans to administer the Pfizer bivalent booster from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Campbell Student Union lobby. To receive a booster dose, participants must bring their vaccination cards as proof of previous Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. Please use the links below to schedule an appointment. Walk-ins also welcome.

Monday, November 7
Wednesday, November 9

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Please follow our social media channels and visit the Health Promotion website for updates and fliers. Check out our other free online resources as well. Please contact?Paula Madrigal, assistant director of prevention and health promotion, with questions.

The Promotional newsletter
Self-Care Tips, Tricks, and Resources

Like us?on Facebook?(Buffalo State Health Promotions)
Follow us on Twitter?(@BSCHealthPromo)
Watch us on YouTube??(BSCHealthPromotions)
Find us on Instagram??(@Buffalostate_healthpromotions)
Follow us on Pinterest?(bschealthpromo)

We are still looking for adoptions for the J-Term and spring 2023 semesters! Please take a moment right now to log in to our Adoption Insights Portal (AIP), found under the Faculty Resources tab in Blackboard, and submit your adoptions. With the quick turnaround between the fall and spring semesters, it is important to get adoptions in as soon as possible so we can be sure to have books available to students on the first day of the semester, if not before.

We will have to start processing our publisher returns of unsold books in November. But early adoptions let us carry over books from fall to spring if they are being used again.

Please contact textbook department manager Trista Hayes, (716) 878-5509, with questions about textbook adoptions or the AIP system.

Thank you to those who have submitted their adoptions thus far.