The International Student Organization and Global Engagement would like to invite the campus community to celebrate International Art Day with a Cultural Fiesta on Friday, April 15, at 4:00 p.m. in the Upton Hall lobby.

The celebration begins with a reception featuring a variety of ethnic foods and instrumental music by Mark Warford, associate professor of modern and classical languages. Attendees can view the Art and Design Student Exhibition in the Czurles-Nelson Gallery. Beginning at 5:00 p.m. guests will enter Warren Enters Theatre to enjoy featured performances from current students highlighting vocal, instrumental, and dance from around the world. 

Please join us as we celebrate our campus diversity and talents!

Please join us for a conversation about promoting middle school reading and building libraries, featuring books by Jason Reynolds, author of novels and poetry for young adult and middle-grade audiences, on Monday, May 2, at 4:00 p.m. in the Butler Library Curriculum Lab. The event, which is sponsored by the School of Education's Professional Development Schools Consortium (PDS), is free and open to the campus community.

During the talk, we will explore diversity and representation in texts and the importance of building libraries where all students feel welcome.

Please register on the event website. This marks the first in a series of events leading up to Reynolds’s visit to campus on May 1, 2023, as part of the Paul G. Bulger Lecture Series.

The Frederick and Marilyn Howe Community Engagement Scholarship provides up to a four-year scholarship to a student from Western New York who has done significant volunteer work to address community and social issues and who will commit to continuing to volunteer as a college student. 

Incoming freshmen and students who will have sophomore status in fall 2022 and who will be enrolled full time at Buffalo State may be eligible to apply for the Frederick and Marilyn Howe Community Engagement Scholarship.

Full eligibility requirements include the following:

• Freshman or sophomore status in fall 2022
• Enrolled full time at Buffalo State
• Resident graduate of a Western New York high school
• Grade point average (GPA) of 85 percent in high school and 2.5 in college
• Community service or leadership experience
• Completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)

Details and application information can be found on the Civic and Community Engagement website.

Please encourage students to submit their application in the Campus Application Portal for Scholarships (CAPS) for the Frederick and Marilyn Howe Community Engagement Scholarship. Applications are due Monday, June 13.

The campus community is invited to join arborist Steven Sypniewski, Buffalo State College’s assistant campus planner and arboretum manager, for a tour of some of the significant trees and landscape plantings in Buffalo State’s Maud Gordon Holmes Arboretum on Tuesday, April 26, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m.

An arboretum is a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes. Buffalo State’s campus is effectively a beautiful outdoor classroom, boasting about 1,400 trees from 85 varieties.

On the tour, participants will learn where the arboretum was dedicated nearly 60 years ago, and view the tree that Lady Bird Johnson, then first lady of the United States, planted in the mid-1960s. The group will discuss how the trees in our urban landscape can be challenged by air quality issues, drought, infestations, and the many construction projects on campus; and how the arboretum has improved in recent years with the introduction of diverse tree and shrub plantings.

Registration for the tour is encouraged, Please email Steven Sypniewski  to register, but walk-ups are also welcome.

Participants, please meet Mr. Sypniewski on April 26 at 12:15 p.m. on the front steps of Rockwell Hall. Please dress for the weather and wear comfortable footwear.

These tours are part of a series of April events sponsored by the Buffalo State College Sustainability Committee in celebration of Earth Day and Arbor Day.

Butler Library uses both SUNY resource sharing and interlibrary loan via the Illiad application to borrow materials from other libraries for our patrons.

The most recent version of Illiad incorporates new web pages. Functionally, these work just like the old web pages, but they have a new look, comply with modern web accessibility standards, and are responsive to desktop and mobile screens.

This change will go live on Thursday, April 14. A brief guide is located on the library website. 

If you have any questions, please contact Joe Riggie, head of information management for the library.

As the campus strives to improve communication between our faculty, staff, and students, we will transition current students away from Google email (Gmail) and move them to the Microsoft Office 365 (O365) email platform. Benefits to our campus colleagues and students include improved security, communication, and collaboration. Detailed benefits also include the following:

Availability and Use
Students who have their own computers can work from home and not be required to come to a campus lab to use Microsoft Office applications. Students can also work on a file together for a class project and share that file directly with the professor for review and comment. 

Calendar, Appointments, Bookings
Departments can create event calendars and share them with students and others on campus. The “Bookings” application within O365 allows departments, advisers, and others to create a calendar with open dates and times so that students and others can book appointments online. This can be used for adviser appointments, tours, auditions, interviews, etc. 

Campus Support
The campus will support one system, MS O365, rather than two systems that meet similar goals. 

Security
Students and faculty members working on the same system means students don’t have to create an un-secure MS Office account to work with faculty in a virtual class. 

We would like to get your feedback on this move. Please answer this three-question survey.

Friday, April 22, is the last day for Commencement marchers to order Commencement regalia rentals. Rush shipping charges apply; hood colors are not guaranteed. Place rental orders directly through the Barnes & Noble at Buffalo State Bookstore. Email Marybeth Keller, general merchandise manager, or call (716) 878-5509.

Marchers who have rented regalia for Honors Convocation on April 22 may also use it for Commencement and return regalia to the bookstore by Monday, May 23.

A limited inventory of doctoral and master’s gowns, caps, and hoods are available for loan through the Academic Affairs Office. Email Patricia Alessandra, commencement director for academics, by Monday, May 9, to make regalia loan requests. Marchers should include their ceremony time(s), highest degree earned, and indicate small, medium, large, or extra large. Please place loan requests early for best options.

Complete marcher registration and regalia information is provided on the Faculty and Staff section of the Commencement website.

Thank you for your dedicated service on Commencement Day.

Today, April 22, is the last day for Commencement marchers to order Commencement regalia rentals. Rush shipping charges apply; hood colors are not guaranteed. Please place rental orders directly through the Barnes & Noble at Buffalo State Bookstore: email Marybeth Keller, general merchandise manager, or call (716) 878-5509.

Marchers who have rented regalia for Honors Convocation on April 22 may also use it for Commencement and return regalia to the bookstore by Monday, May 23.

A limited inventory of doctoral and master’s gowns, caps, and hoods are available for loan through the Academic Affairs Office. Email Patricia Alessandra, commencement director for academics, by Monday, May 9, to make regalia loan requests. Marchers should include their ceremony time(s), highest degree earned, and discipline, and indicate small, medium, large, or extra large. Please place loan requests early for best options.

Complete marcher registration and regalia information is provided on the Faculty and Staff section of the Commencement website.

Thank you for your dedicated service on Commencement day.

Today, April 8, is the last day for Commencement marchers to order Commencement regalia rentals with regular shipping charges and guaranteed hood colors.

Place rental orders directly through the Barnes & Noble at Buffalo State Bookstore. Email Marybeth Keller general merchandise manager, or call (716) 878-5509 to place rental orders. Late rental orders must be placed through the bookstore by Friday, April 22, with rush shipping charges; hood colors are not guaranteed.

Marchers who have rented regalia for Honors Convocation on April 22, may use it for Commencement also and return regalia to the bookstore by Monday, May 23.

A limited inventory of doctoral and master’s gowns, caps, and hoods are available for loan through the Academic Affairs Office. Email Patricia Alessandra, commencement director for academics, by Monday, May 9, to make regalia loan requests. Marchers should include their ceremony time(s), highest degree earned, and indicate small, medium, large, or extra large. Please place loan requests early for best options.

Complete marcher registration and regalia information is provided on the Faculty and Staff section of the Commencement website.

Thank you for your dedicated service on Commencement Day.

Commencement volunteers and marchers are invited to support the Class of 2022 as they eagerly anticipate celebrating at the 150th Commencement on Saturday, May 21, in the Sports Arena. Your participation in the most auspicious campus event of the year makes it especially meaningful for our graduates and their families. Please honor them by marching in the procession or serving as a volunteer usher to help with graduate lineup or to greet and guide guests.

Ceremonies by school are as follows:

• 9:00 a.m. Baccalaureate Ceremony: School of Arts and Sciences and Individualized Studies
• 1:00 p.m. Baccalaureate Ceremony:  School of Education and School of the Professions
• 5:00 p.m. Graduate School Ceremony: Master's Degrees and Advanced Graduate Certificates

Please visit the Faculty and Staff section of the Commencement website. Registration is online.

• Volunteer ushers registration
• Marchers registration, including all platform party members and administrators, graduate ceremony hooders, marshals, and announcers
• Rehearsals

Regalia rentals are available to order through the Barnes & Noble at Buffalo State Bookstore until Friday, April 8, with regular shipping charges. A limited inventory of doctoral and master’s gowns, caps, and hoods are available for loan through the Academic Affairs Office until Monday, May 9. Please place loan requests early for best options. Rental pricing and the loan request information are provided in the Marcher Regalia Rentals and Loans section of the Commencement website.

Thank you for your dedicated service on Commencement Day.