Applications are currently being accepted for the chief of staff position.

Title: Executive Assistant to the President/Chief of Staff
Department: President’s Office
Salary: Competitive
Negotiating Unit: M/C

Brief Job Description
The chief of staff is an integral member of the President’s Office and senior leadership team, reporting directly to the president. The chief of staff provides leadership and operational oversight to the President's Office in fulfilling the college’s mission and goals. Under direction of the president, the chief of staff plans key meetings and projects, serves as a liaison between the president and key internal and external groups, oversees presidential special events, conducts project management, including budget oversight, and oversees significant communication with campus constituents and key stakeholders.

• Promotes a positive image of the college at all times to all internal and external audiences
• Serves as a liaison between the president and other campus administrators
• Serves as the primary contact between the college and campus administrators, College Council members, SUNY trustees, and SUNY staff
• Supports the president, as needed, on national and regional commitments
• Develops, coordinates, and represents the president on key campuswide events or special presidential events
• Coordinates with campus communication offices as needed
• Coordinates and interprets policy decisions and documents that serve the public mission of the college
• Safeguards the confidentiality of the institution and exercises appropriate discretion in handling matters, records, and information of a confidential nature
• Facilitates and coordinates College Council meetings and key committee meetings
• Coordinates, oversees, and manages the flow of incoming and outgoing communications, including prioritizing requests to the president for engagement, presentations, and participation
• Effectively plans meetings with the president and works collaboratively with the assistant to the president to schedule meetings and events
• Attends all board, cabinet, and special meetings (as assigned) to record, document, and maintain a record of essential elements of such meeting
• Handles the financial records for the Office of the President and ensures on-time payment of bills
• Composes, edits, and proofreads a wide variety of materials required by the president
• Represents the president, as needed, for a wide variety of programs, projects, and ceremonies

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

This posting has a priority review date of Tuesday, April 19, 2022.

Submitted by: Carey L. Seneca

The spring 2022 Critique and Evaluation Period (CEP) schedule with block exams is posted on the Registrar's Office Courses web page.

Applications are currently being accepted for the chief of staff position.

Title: Executive Assistant to the President/Chief of Staff
Department: President’s Office
Salary: Competitive
Negotiating Unit: M/C

Brief Job Description
The chief of staff is an integral member of the President’s Office and senior leadership team, reporting directly to the president. The chief of staff provides leadership and operational oversight to the President's Office in fulfilling the college’s mission and goals. Under direction of the president, the chief of staff plans key meetings and projects, serves as a liaison between the president and key internal and external groups, oversees presidential special events, conducts project management, including budget oversight, and oversees significant communication with campus constituents and key stakeholders.

• Promotes a positive image of the college at all times to all internal and external audiences
• Serves as a liaison between the president and other campus administrators
• Serves as the primary contact between the college and campus administrators, College Council members, SUNY trustees, and SUNY staff
• Supports the president, as needed, on national and regional commitments
• Develops, coordinates, and represents the president on key campuswide events or special presidential events
• Coordinates with campus communication offices as needed
• Coordinates and interprets policy decisions and documents that serve the public mission of the college
• Safeguards the confidentiality of the institution and exercises appropriate discretion in handling matters, records, and information of a confidential nature
• Facilitates and coordinates College Council meetings and key committee meetings
• Coordinates, oversees, and manages the flow of incoming and outgoing communications, including prioritizing requests to the president for engagement, presentations, and participation
• Effectively plans meetings with the president and works collaboratively with the assistant to the president to schedule meetings and events
• Attends all board, cabinet, and special meetings (as assigned) to record, document, and maintain a record of essential elements of such meeting
• Handles the financial records for the Office of the President and ensures on-time payment of bills
• Composes, edits, and proofreads a wide variety of materials required by the president
• Represents the president, as needed, for a wide variety of programs, projects, and ceremonies

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

This posting has a priority review date of Tuesday, April 19, 2022.

Celebrate National Walking Day with Weigel Health Promotion as we hang ribbons around trees on campus to support the Dean of Students Office and the launch of Take Back the Night. At the same time, we will kick off a series of Arbor Day and Earth Day celebration events created by the Buffalo State College Sustainability Committee.

We will meet on Wednesday, April 6, at 11:00 a.m. in the Campbell Student Union Fireside Lounge to distribute supplies and assign locations to hang the ribbons and paint the campus teal in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Fliers can be downloaded from our web page, newsletter, or Outlook calendar or through our social media channels. The ribbons will have QR codes on them that can be scanned for those who want more information about sexual assault services on campus, as well as the link to the sustainability website.

Keep an eye on the Daily Bulletin for additional events in April sponsored by the Sustainability Committee to raise awareness of different ways to be mindful of the campus, environment, energy usage, and more.

With questions regarding the walking event, please contact Paula Madrigal, assistant director of prevention and health promotion. With questions regarding the Arbor Day and Earth Day events, please contact Steven Sypniewski, manager of Buffalo State’s Maud Gordon Holmes Arboretum.

The best way to find information is to follow us on social media. We will post any last-minute additions, updates or cancellations as necessary.

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The Fashion and Textile Technology Department welcomes sustainable fashion designer Bridgett Artise as a guest speaker on Thursday, April 7, at 12:15 p.m. in Technology Building 160. 

The focus of Buffalo State College’s 2022 Runway, “Push for Progress,” looks to those who are building a new foundation for inclusivity in the fashion industry—the forward-thinkers and leaders who are creating change. Runway brings these conversations to life on and off the stage, highlighting designers, organizations, and causes that are pushing for progress.

Ms. Artise is a sustainable fashion guru, boutique owner, and designer of Born Again Vintage. A professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), she is an event planner, sustainability mentor, founder of “New York Sustainable Fashion Week,” and author of Born Again Vintage: 25 Ways to Deconstruct, Reinvent, and Recycle Your Wardrobe. Ms. Artise is also a successful woman of color in the fashion industry and is “pushing for progress” in both racial justice and climate activism through her work. 

Join us to be inspired and learn more about reducing your carbon footprint by reusing and repairing your clothing. Bring an item to "mend" at our mending station. 

This event is funded by the college’s Grant Allocation Committee. For more information, please visit the Runway website.

If a student has requested a letter of recommendation from you for a scholarship, please submit it by Monday, April 11. If you will not be able to submit a letter, you may want to make the student aware so that he or she can secure another reference.

We will begin reviewing scholarship applications in the Campus Application Portal for Scholarships (CAPS) on Tuesday, April 12. In most cases, if a student requests a letter of recommendation, the letter is required to complete his or her application and be reviewed. Please email the scholarship division of the Financial Aid Office with questions.

Please join us for an information session on using BizLibrary, facilitated by Meghan Pereira, director of instructional design and distance learning, and Rebecca Eggleston, professional development assistant, on Wednesday, April 13, from noon to 1:00 p.m. in Butler Library 318.

BizLibrary is 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 our Sexual Harassment Prevention Training, and we plan to use this software for other compliance trainings, as well as leadership and organizational development and training.

In this session, we will

• discuss the platform and how it can be used for you and your team,
• illustrate how to search for content,
• provide access for managers to assign trainings to their staff members.

To register, please visit the Workshop Registration System.

Please let your students know that this is the last week to apply for more than 100 fall 2022 scholarship that can be found in the Campus Application Portal for Scholarships (CAPS). Applications will be open through Sunday, April 10.

If you have questions, please email the scholarship division of the Financial Aid Office.

The campus community is invited to hear Shomari James, ’01, deliver the talk “Expediting Change: Maximizing Positivity and Productivity in Organizations and Teams” today, April 5, from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in the LoRusso Alumni and Visitor Center. A question-and-answer session will follow.

Mr. James, who was the keynote speaker at First-Year Convocation last fall, is the executive director of strategy deployment and business transformation at Howard University, a six sigma-certified professional, and co-founder and CEO of Equity Now Inc. and Legends Charter School. He studied industrial engineering and co-founded the Buffalo State chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).

The event will includes complimentary refreshments and is sponsored by the Technology Department and the Buffalo State chapter of NSBE. 

Registration is encouraged because of space considerations.

Please contact Farhad Mustafa, major gift officer for the School of the Professions, with questions.

The Buffalo State College Chemistry Department will host the 14th annual Western New York Section of  the American Chemical Society Undergraduate Research Symposium on Saturday, April 9, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Science and Mathematics Complex atrium. 

More than two dozen undergraduate students from colleges and universities in Western New York will present their scientific research through oral and poster presentations.

Mary Kay Pflum, professor of chemistry at Wayne State University, will present the keynote address at 9:00 a.m. Dr. Pflum received her doctorate from Yale University and completed a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. She joined the faculty of Wayne State in 2001, where she mainly focused her research on enzymes governing protein post-translational modifications, including kinase, phosphatase, and histone deacetylase (HDAC). Dr. Pflum was promoted to the rank of full professor in 2017 and has been a scientific member of Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. 

Sponsors of the program include ThermoFisher Scientific in Grand Island, New York; VWR International, a part of Avantor; and the WNY-ACS Committee.