Internal applications are being accepted for the following position on campus. This is an internal job posting open to employees of Buffalo State College who are currently paid from any state-appropriated-funds payroll:

Title: IT Project Manager
Department: Information Technology Services
Salary: $42,064–$80,929
Negotiating Unit: UUP

Brief Job Description
The IT project manager is responsible for overall project management, including the following:

• Maintaining project plans and reporting project statuses, issues, and related information to project stakeholders to help to ensure successful implementation of projects.
• Developing project plans; working with project team members to help analyze project requirements; and defining and developing project charter, scope, tasks, work-breakdown structures, schedule, goals, and deliverables.
• Managing overall project development and implementation by providing support to project team members; monitoring project plans, activities, schedule, and budget; tracking and reporting on project status and milestones; coordinating project sponsored events and meetings; and effectively managing project for successful completion.
• Serving as liaison between project stakeholders including vendors, academic, administrators, and technical project team members to ensure effective communication and providing project metrics and reporting on project activities.
• Preparing materials for governance boards, committees, and working groups to facilitate decision making and presenting materials to ensure project information is communicated in a consistent manner.
• Updating web-based and other project management repositories to reflect the current status of project documents and other deliverables.
• Developing and maintaining metrics, processes, custom tools and templates, and other project artifacts to promote the use of standard and consistent project management methodologies; assisting other project team members with the use of these tools and templates; researching emerging trends and best practices for project management; and reviewing and recommending project management practice to help improve processes.
• Participating in the Portfolio Management process.

This posting has a deadline date of July 22, 2022.

To view the required qualifications and to apply, please view the posting on the Buffalo State Job Opportunities website.

The deadline to submit applications for the SUNY B-140W Tuition Assistance Program for the Summer 2022 semester is Monday, August 1.

Staff members may apply for tuition assistance after six months of service; faculty members may apply after one semester of service. The following employees are eligible:

• Full-time Buffalo State College faculty members and professional or classified employees.
• Part-time or temporary Buffalo State faculty members and professional or classified employees who are employed at least half time (faculty must teach at least two courses in the semester).
• Full-time Research Foundation employees, provided they work on the Buffalo State campus.

Program funds may be used for courses at SUNY campuses only. Eligible employees may apply for up to 50 percent waiver of SUNY tuition for up to two courses a semester, to a maximum of 15 credit hours an academic year depending on available funding. Tuition assistance is limited to regular in-state undergraduate or graduate tuition rates. The level of support may be adjusted when necessary if funding is not adequate to cover applications received.

Employees who decide to drop a class or find it has been covered by another source after submitting an application are asked to please notify Human Resource Management immediately to update their applications.

Please contact Human Resource Management, (716) 878-3042, for applications or program guidelines.

From the Head of the Teacher Education Unit
The Teacher Education Unit (TEU) is pleased to announce the creation of the Urban Teaching Center, an initiative of the My Brother’s Keeper Teacher Opportunity Corps II grant. Kathy Wood, associate dean of recruitment and teacher diversity in the School of Education, will oversee the center’s operations as specified by the TOC-II grant, in combination with the activities of the Urban Teacher Academy at McKinley High School and the Buffalo Urban Teacher Pipeline Residency Program funded with a legislative grant secured by Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes. The center will connect with the Professional Development Schools Consortium of the TEU to coordinate programs that support our many urban teaching initiatives.

Wendy A. Paterson, Ph.D.
Professor and Dean, School of Education

Academic Affairs will host an Educause webinar series, “Designing Hybrid-Flexible (Hyflex) Courses to Support Multimodal Learning Environments,” during the month of July in Butler Library 134. The campus is invited to register and view the presentations from this location, as log-in credentials can be used for only one computer, from one location.

Hybrid-flexible (hyflex) courses provide an effective method to serve classroom-based students and online students in the same course with the same instructor. Hyflex courses usually allow students to choose whether they will attend scheduled classroom meetings in person or online (asynchronously or synchronously). In addition to providing students with a choice in participation mode, hyflex courses help institutions prepare for instructional continuity if classroom access is not possible. Well-designed hyflex courses can provide a rich learning environment that improves and enhances the class experience for all students, whether online or in the classroom.

Welcome
Tuesday, July 12 | 3:00–4:30 p.m.
This is a live session that will explain the details of the Learning Lab, the Canvas site, and expectations for the microcredential. There will also be time to get to know your fellow lab partners and facilitator. (Attendance necessary only if you would like to participate in the campus lab implementation project.)
 
Learning Cycle 1: The Basics of HyFlex Course Design
Thursday, July 14 | 3:00–4:30 p.m.
The hyflex course design challenges faculty and institutions to develop high-quality, effective learning opportunities for both online and classroom students who are participants in a single learning community. Hyflex courses have been used in a wide variety of classes, disciplines, and institutions since 2005 and have been shown to be effective in supporting student learning across all modes of instruction. In this learning sequence, you’ll explore the fundamental hyflex design principles, review the suggested hyflex course design process, and begin planning an approach that will work in your own course(s).
 
Learning Cycle 2: Evaluating the Impact of HyFlex Course Design
Thursday, July 21 | 3:00–4:30 p.m.
Hyflex courses are typically used to provide equitable access to high-quality educational opportunities and solve specific problems associated with course delivery format. Some important reason always motivates the use of hyflex courses, given that teaching (and potentially learning) in multiple formats is more complicated than common single-mode instruction. Is hyflex “worth it”? How can you evaluate the impact of hyflex courses on student performance, satisfaction, and other metrics of interest? In this learning sequence, we’ll explore some of the common findings in current research and begin to plan how you can measure your own hyflex success locally.

Learning Lab: Review and Reflect Session
Thursday, July 28 | 3:00–4:30 p.m.
The Learning Lab will conclude with an application or implementation project and a closing live session to review and process the learning from the lab. (Attendance necessary only if you would like to participate in the campus lab implementation project.)

Learning Outcomes

• Identify the opportunities and needs in your setting for hyflex approaches.
• Use the recommended design framework and process for building and implementing a hyflex course to create an initial high-level design plan.
• Create a plan to evaluate the impact of this approach on student learning and other metrics of interest in your context.

The campus community is encouraged to register for individual or all sessions related to this topic. A waiting list has been enabled for these webinars; should registration exceed the capacity of Butler Library 134, a new location will be identified to ensure that all who register are able to participate in this opportunity.

The Weigel Wellness Center is offering ambulatory blood pressure monitoring to interested faculty and staff members now through Monday, August 15.

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is a technique used to estimate true blood pressure over a 24-hour period. The monitor can be worn on a belt or in a pouch, but the blood pressure cuff must be worn on the participant’s nondominant arm for a full 24 hours. The monitor is programmed to take readings every 20 minutes when the wearer is awake and every 60 minutes when the wearer is asleep. While wearing the cuff, participants must keep their arm relatively still each time the cuff is inflating. Participants are also unable to shower or exercise while wearing the monitor. At the end of testing, results are downloaded and printed for the participant. The readings are very reliable, accurate to within 5 mmHg of readings taken with a manual blood pressure cuff.

The Weigel Wellness Center is not responsible for treatment or follow-through on results but asks participants to follow up with their doctors accordingly. Weigel will not use the results of any tests performed for any purpose.

If you are interested in ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, please call Julie Mondanaro, nurse practitioner in the Weigel Wellness Center, at 878-6711. Please wear loose-fitting clothing the day of your appointment. The cuff will be placed on your nondominant arm.

We look forward to seeing you.

The Daily Bulletin will take a holiday break from Monday, July 4, to Friday, July 8. The submission deadline for the July 11 issue is 2:00 p.m. Friday, July 1. During the break, users may submit items for Tuesday, July 12, and beyond. Thank you.

If you are interested in serving on one or more of the eight College Senate standing committees for the 2022–2023 academic year, please complete and submit the College Senate Standing Committee Member Interest Form by Friday, July 29.

Committee functions and charges are available on the College Senate website.

Please note that not all committees may need members. Standing committee chairs for the 2022–2023 academic year are listed below. Please contact them for further information.

Academic Plan Committee - Jason Grinnell
Budget and Staff Allocations Committee - M. Scott Goodman
Bylaws and Elections Committee - Julian Cole
Curriculum Committee - Dianne McCarthy
Faculty and Staff Welfare Committee - Kelly Boos
Instruction and Research Committee - Gregory Wadsworth
Standards for Students Committee - Ken Fujiuchi
Student Welfare Committee (Vice Chair) - Raquel Schmidt

Come and celebrate the First Friday of each month with the Newman Center at 12:05 p.m. in Butler Library 210. We gather for Mass and start the month with a renewed perspective. Our next First Friday Mass will take place this Friday, July 1. Everyone is welcome!

The Buffalo State College community is saddened by the death of Annette Stein, associate professor emerita of education, who died June 21, 2022. Dr. Stein joined the college in 1972 and retired in 1987. She is survived by a daughter, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held June 26. More information is available online.

The campus community is invited to attend the WellNYS Everyday monthly webinar “The Top 10 Reasons to Work Out with a Friend!” on Thursday, June 30, from noon to 12:30 p.m.

Are you planning to be more physically active this summer? Instead of doing it alone, reach out to a friend to join you. The monthly challenge is to form a team of two and make plans to be active together. This 30-minute wellness webinar will share the reasons and benefits you will gain when working out with a friend. This seminar will be presented by Linda Carignan-Everts, EAP wellness coordinator, NYS Work-Life Services and the Employee Assistance Program.

Please register through the WebEx meeting registration page. You will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the seminar.