From the Chair of the Search Committee for the Vice President for Enrollment Management

The search committee for the vice president for enrollment management invites the campus community to attend the following open forum, during which the candidate will make a short presentation on his vision for Enrollment Management at Buffalo State College and answer questions:

Candidate 3: Anthony Bourne, today, March 17, from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center 217 or via Microsoft Teams.

Attendees are invited to share feedback on the candidate with the committee via this link.

Weigel Health Promotion will offer the workshop “Bystander Intervention 101: What to Do When It’s on You” today, March 17, at 10:00 a.m. in Weigel Health Center 203. The workshop is intended to promote an open dialogue about current events and share tips, tools, information, resources, and services available to students on and off campus. Topics include

• stress management,
• alcohol and other drugs,
• healthy coping mechanisms,
• bystander intervention (Good Samaritan laws vs. failure to act),
• contacting University Police vs. Buffalo Police in an emergency,
• apps and campus alert messaging systems.

Please contact Paula Madrigal, assistant director of prevention and health promotion, for additional information or to request the workshop for your club, organization, residence hall floor, class, or other group. All workshops are facilitated by a professional social worker and are guided by the participation of attendees. Please consider encouraging students to attend for extra credit.

In partnership with the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, the Civic and Community Engagement Office will offer free self-assisted tax return preparation sessions to members of the Buffalo State and Buffalo communities, including students, alumni, and community partners, on Friday, March 25, and April 1, 8, and 15.

This Facilitated Self Assistance (FSA) tax services opportunity will allow participants to complete and file their New York state and federal taxes via video conference. Department of Taxation and Finance staff members will provide an overview of the computer software, and participants will have 90 minutes to two hours to complete their filing with small group support from volunteers.

Register on the CCE website for your 90-minute to two-hour session on March  25, April 1, 8, or 15 at 8:30 a.m. or 12:30 p.m.

Capacity is limited and advance registration is required. Participants can join sessions from their home, office, or residence hall with access to the Internet, a computer or tablet, and a webcam with a speaker and microphone to meet with the volunteers.

If you do not have access to those pieces of technology, please register for an on-campus session between March 25 and April 15 to access a reserved computer lab space. Please refrain from registering for an on-campus session if you have access to the appropriate technology. We are reserving this space for members of our Buffalo and campus communities who are most vulnerable.

After you register, a confirmation email and an email with details to join the video conference session from home or using the computer lab will be sent to you a day or two before your registered session.

For details on what to bring to your session and answers to other frequently asked questions, please visit the CCE website. Other locations in the state and Western New York community are listed on our website.

Please direct questions by email to Civic and Community Engagement or call (716) 878-3919.

Buffalo State College’s Civic and Community Engagement Office wants feedback from students to help in planning for its 2022–2023 community service and civic engagement activities.

Students are asked to complete a three-minute online survey by Friday, April 1. All participants will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a Buffalo State swag pack with $50 in gift cards.

The Civic and Community Engagement Office will be tabling in the Campbell Student Union today, March 17, between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. We will have materials for students, faculty, and staff to write letters to their elected officials about issues important to them, including the conflict in Ukraine. We also will be collecting items for the Bengals Care Collection Drive and sharing information about the President's Certificate of Recognition for Community Engagement. 

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Tuesday, April 12

• Money at Work 2: Sharpening Investment Skills
  Noon
• Looking to Turn Your Retirement Savings into a Paycheck for Life?
  3:00 p.m.

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Wednesday, April 13

• Quarterly Economic and Market Update
  Noon

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Thursday, April 14

• Inside Money: Managing Income and Debt
  Noon
• Retirement Income Diversification: What, Why, and How
  3:00 p.m.

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Wednesday, April 20

• An Introduction to Alternative Investments: Real Estate
  Noon

The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) conducted a campus site visit March 13–15, following the submission of our self-study report in June 2021.

Members of the CAEP review team conducted 18 interviews with groups of faculty, candidates, school partners, and administrators. They were impressed with our programming, stakeholder involvement, and assessment systems; thus, the team's final recommendation found no areas for improvement or stipulations for our educator preparation programs. We await a final confirmation of this decision by CAEP's Accreditation Council, but are confident in our success!

Thank you to all students, faculty, staff, and partners who contributed to this positive outcome.

In keeping with Buffalo State College’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) initiatives, Butler Library has acquired and developed several new collections that support teaching and scholarship on topics surrounding diversity and inclusion.

Access to the Adam Matthew Race Relations in America primary source collection was added last year. Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys, and analyses produced by the Race Relations Institute of Fisk University, including those of Charles S. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall.

The library has also added access to the Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940. This collection supports the knowledge of gender studies and sexuality education and enables academic scholars to make new connections in LGBTQ history, activism, and other related disciplines of research.

The library has also begun to highlight resources from our collection in our new Reading Lists. These collections of important works are browsable through a new interface embedded directly in Primo, the library’s search tool.

Collections include JEDI, climate change, and new faculty publications. If you have an idea for new collections to highlight, please email the library.

In July, the library will add a new collection of almost 5,000 diversity and ethnic studies e-books from leading university presses and academic publishers. Notable titles include

• Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race
• Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
• No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s

Please contact Joe Riggie, head of information management for the library, with questions about the collections.

The SUNY Center for Professional Development is offering a free online workshop that provides a comprehensive introduction to the universal design for learning (UDL) framework. Participants will learn why the framework is important, how to apply its principles and guidelines to their own courses, and best practices for interacting with students with disabilities. Additional modules will share strategies to dismantle ableism, incorporate an anti-racist pedagogy, promote social justice, and be more inclusive in the classroom. Participants in this workshop will apply what they learn about UDL to design a new lesson or revise an existing lesson. Choose from one of the following workshop sessions:

• Session 1: Opens Friday, March 25
• Session 2: Opens Friday, April 15
• Session 3: Open Thursday, May 19

Each session has both synchronous and asynchronous options available. For full details, visit the SUNY CPD Program page. Please direct questions to Jamie Heron, SUNY online program manager.

Please join the Geography and Planning Department, the Political Science and Public Administration Department, and the Equity and Campus Diversity Office for the book talk “Vietnam's Strategic Thinking during the Third Indochina War” on Thursday, March 24, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center 425 and virtually. This talk is part of the Buffalo State College celebration of the 11th annual Southeast Asia Week.

Kosal Path, associate professor of political science and chair of the master’s program in international affairs and global justice, Brooklyn College, CUNY, will discuss his book, which contributes to the existing scholarship in three major ways. First and most importantly, it challenges the conventional wisdom that Hanoi’s invasion and occupation of Cambodia was an irrational decision driven by the imperial ambitions of the Vietnamese political elites in Indochina, and their paranoia spiraled by Hanoi’s false belief that Beijing was instigating Khmer Rouge attacks on Vietnam. Archival evidence shows instead that the invasion and occupation were a calculated decision based on geopolitical priorities and domestic imperatives at that time.

Second, the book contributes to broader scholarship on the relationship between war and state-building by showing how Vietnam came to view war as a cure-all that would resolve its economic crisis and external threats to its territorial sovereignty and solidify alliances.

Third, the book provides new insights into why Vietnam decided to engage in a costly regime change and nation-building in Cambodia and why these efforts failed to establish a loyal client state in Cambodia in the 1980s.

For scholars who are interested in the Third Indochina War that engulfed the region after the fall of Saigon, the book provides a detailed historical account—a Vietnamese perspective—that fills a gap in the existing scholarship. More broadly, this book contributes to emerging scholarship on the shift in the Vietnamese political elites’ thinking from the doctrinal Marxist-Leninist ideology during the last decade of the Cold War to the reform and opening of the post-Cold War era.

Participants must register online by 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 23.