Faculty and staff parking permit stickers for the 2022–2023 academic year are available to purchase online. Employees may log on to the system with their campus username and password. Permits can be sent via U.S. mail to the employee’s address of record or picked up in the Parking Services Office, Moot Hall. Parking Services is open Monday–Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. A valid photo ID must be shown when picking up a parking permit.

University Police will ticket for No Permit violations beginning Tuesday, September 6. If you have elected to have your permit mailed to you and have not received it by this date, you must obtain a temporary permit from Parking Services. To avoid the long lines at Moot Hall, please order your permit online now.

Would you like to be part of a conversation about rebuilding groups and programs around mental health and wellness on campus? Sign up to participate in an online Teams meeting to discuss several possible initiatives. Please complete this poll to provide your preferred days and times to meet in early August. Open to all faculty, staff, and students, the poll will close Thursday, August 4. Participants will be sent the final date and time along with the Teams link.

Active Minds was founded by Alison Malmon when she was a junior at the University of Pennsylvania following the suicide of her older brother and only sibling, Brian. Alison recognized that Brian’s story is the story of thousands of young people who suffer in silence, young people who, despite their large numbers, think they are totally alone. A majority of mental illnesses start between the ages of 14 and 24, when teens and young adults are in school. Suicide is the second leading cause of death for college students.

Send Silence Packing is part of Active Minds and was once here at Buffalo State (in 2013). While this requires funding, we can discuss possible grants and collaboration opportunities.

Fresh Check Day, the signature program of the Jordan Porco Foundation, is an uplifting mental health promotion and suicide prevention event for colleges that includes interactive expo booths, peer-to-peer messaging, support of multiple campus departments and groups, free food, entertainment, and exciting prizes and giveaways. Fresh Check Day aims to create an approachable and hopeful atmosphere where students are encouraged to engage in dialogue about mental health and to build a bridge between students and the mental health resources available on campus, in the community, and nationally.

We will also discuss current campus programs and resources available to students. 

If you are unable to attend but would still like to participate in future conversations or share your thoughts, resources, or suggestions, please email Paula Madrigal, assistant director of prevention and health promotion for the Weigel Wellness Center. Thank you.

The NYS Employee Assistance Program continues to host the very popular WellNYS Daily To-Do email. This program sends a daily email with a tip that encourages a healthful behavior. Sign up to receive the WellNYS Daily To-Do email every morning.

The WellNYS Everyday Monthly Challenge Program is another option that promotes practicing a healthful behavior for 20 days out of the month, which hopefully develops into a habit. Sign up for the WellNYS Everyday Monthly Challenge Program.

August Monthly Challenge: Stay hydrated throughout the day.

In accordance with our department mission and the Buffalo State College Strategic Plan, the University Police Department is seeking to diversify and be more reflective of the community we serve and protect.

Would you like to join our Buffalo State College Police Department team? Or do you know someone who wants to become a police officer?

New York State Civil Service is now accepting applications for the next University Police Officer 1 exam. The exam will be held on or around September 17, 2022. Applications must be submitted before 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, August 10. 

The NYS Department of Civil Service has created a recruitment video that shows the different divisions that require this exam, which is offered only every three or four years.

Please see our recruitment flier for more information (PDF, 1.2 MB).

More information about the application process can be found at the NYS Civil Service Police website.

The Employee Assistance Program, Weigel Health Promotion, and the Professional Development Center are hosting a Buffalo State Wellness Challenge open to all students, faculty, staff, and administrators at Buffalo State now through Sunday, November 20.

Get engaged with the Buffalo State campus and community while practicing self-care, outdoor activities, at-home activities, Buffalo activities, and various suggested acts of kindness.

Please register online for the challenge.

To participate, please complete at least 10 activities from the Fall 2022 Challenge list. While taking part in each listed item on the flier, please take a picture to capture the activity. You must either be in the picture or put your student or faculty/staff Bengal ID card in the picture.

Submit these pictures when you have completed all 10 activities. Please submit your pictures, along with each activity you completed from the list, via email by midnight Sunday, November 20.

We will randomly raffle off three $25 Amazon gift cards to students and three $25 Amazon gift cards to faculty, staff, or administrators. Winners will be notified the week of December 5.

The Employee Assistance Program, Health Promotions, and the Professional Development Center are hosting a Buffalo State Wellness Challenge open to all students, faculty, staff, and administrators at Buffalo State College now through Sunday, November 20.

Get engaged with the Buffalo State campus and community while practicing self-care, outdoor activities, at-home activities, Buffalo activities, and various suggested acts of kindness.

Please register online for the challenge.

To participate, please complete at least 10 activities from the Fall 2022 Challenge list. While taking part in each listed item on the flier, please take a picture to capture the activity. You must either be in the picture or put your student or faculty/staff Bengal ID card in the picture.

Submit these pictures when you have completed all 10 activities. Please submit your pictures, along with each activity you completed from the list, via email by midnight Sunday, November 20.

We will randomly raffle off three $25 Amazon gift cards to students and three $25 Amazon gift cards to faculty, staff, or administrators. Winners will be notified the week of December 5.

The Employee Assistance Program, Health Promotions, and the Professional Development Center are hosting a Buffalo State Wellness Challenge open to all students, faculty, staff, and administrators at Buffalo State College now through Sunday, November 20.

Get engaged with the Buffalo State campus and community while practicing self-care, outdoor activities, at-home activities, Buffalo activities, and various suggested acts of kindness.

Please register online for the challenge.

To participate, please complete at least 10 activities from the Fall 2022 Challenge list. While taking part in each listed item on the flier, please take a picture to capture the activity. You must either be in the picture or put your student or faculty/staff Bengal ID card in the picture.

Submit these pictures when you have completed all 10 activities. Please submit your pictures, along with each activity you completed from the list, via email by midnight Sunday, November 20.

We will randomly raffle off three $25 Amazon gift cards to students and three $25 Amazon gift cards to faculty, staff, or administrators. Winners will be notified the week of December 5.

The Employee Assistance Program, Health Promotions, and Professional Development Center are hosting a Buffalo State Wellness Challenge open to all students, faculty, staff, and administrators at Buffalo State College now through Sunday, November 20.

Get engaged with the Buffalo State campus and community while practicing self-care, outdoor activities, at-home activities, Buffalo activities, and various suggested acts of kindness.

Please register online for the challenge.

To participate, please complete at least 10 activities from the Fall 2022 Challenge list. While taking part in each listed item on the flier, please take a picture to capture the activity. You must either be in the picture or put your student or faculty/staff Bengal ID card in the picture. 

You will submit these pictures when you have completed all 10 activities. Please submit your pictures, along with each activity you completed from the flier, via email to healthpromo@buffalostate.edu by midnight Sunday, November 20. 

We will randomly raffle off three $25 Amazon gift cards to students and three $25 Amazon gift cards to faculty, staff, or administrators. Winners will be notified the week of December 5.

Buffalo State College’s annual First-Year Convocation will be held Friday, August 26, at 10:00 a.m. as part of Orientation 102.?The ceremony will be held in the Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall with overflow simulcast to Bulger Communication Center 215 (Newman Lecture Hall) and 217.

This event requires the enthusiastic participation of our campus community to succeed. All departments and offices are encouraged to allow their staff members to support this event as a work assignment for that morning by allowing personnel to march in convocation or volunteer to assist with the event. Faculty, librarians, and professional staff members are urged to process in regalia to demonstrate Buffalo State's commitment to incoming students. Please?register online?by Monday August 15, if you are available to march or volunteer for the event.

*Note regarding regalia: The Barnes & Noble at Buffalo State Bookstore will take orders for regalia rentals until Friday, August 5. The Academic Affairs Office maintains a limited inventory of gowns for loan. Limited mortarboards, tams, and hoods are also available; hood colors will not match your discipline, and caps or tams may not be to size. You are encouraged to provide your own hood and cap, either rented or owned, if possible. Please email Ann Delmont, administrative assistant 2 in Academic Affairs, to request a regalia loan. Please provide your highest degree earned, requested size (SM, MD, LG, XL), and whether you need a cap and/or hood as well. All requests must be made by Thursday, August 18. Pickup is Wednesday, August 24, and Thursday, August 25, in the Academic Affairs Office, Cleveland Hall 519, where loans are to be returned the following week.

Thank you for helping us welcome the newest members of our Buffalo State community.

Please contact Carlos Jones, associate dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, with questions.

The Speech-Language Pathology Department’s Stroke and Hope Aphasia Support Group is a proud ally of Stroke across America, a national community bike ride to raise awareness for the support and prevention of stroke. The Buffalo community event will take place Saturday, August 13, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in the Larkin Square Boardwalk area, 745 Seneca Street.

More than 800,000 people in the United States—13.7 million worldwide—experience a stroke each year. Only 38 percent of people know the warning signs of stroke; Western New York has one of the highest mortality rates for stroke in New York State. Aphasia, a communication disorder that affects about a third of people who have a stroke, impairs a person’s ability to process language. It affects over 2 million people in the U.S., putting it on a par with multiple sclerosis.

Please help raise awareness of these two debilitating illnesses by supporting the Stroke across America community event in Buffalo. Contact Deborah Insalaco, associate professor of speech-language pathology, for more information.