Please join the Civic and Community Engagement Office for the webinar "Addressing Basic Needs Insecurity in College and University Students," presented by Rashida Crutchfield from California State University, Long Beach, on Tuesday, December 14, at 1:00 p.m. This event is presented by the CUMU Learning and Sharing Virtual Series and is free to members of the Buffalo State community.

Food insecurity, housing insecurity, and homelessness are widespread among college and university students yet not always recognized or comprehensively addressed. Basic needs insecurity affects student health and well-being, academic achievement, and degree completion.                          

In this talk, Rashida Crutchfield will discuss strategies for understanding and addressing these issues at your own institution. Dr. Crutchfield is a nationally recognized expert on student basic needs. She led the California State University systems’ groundbreaking research on student basic needs and continues research in assessment and evaluation of emerging campus and community student supports.

This event is presented by the CUMU Learning and Sharing Virtual Series and is free to members of the Buffalo State community. Please register online for this final webinar in the series.

Please join the Civic and Community Engagement Office for the webinar "Establishing a Fund for Anchor Institutions and National Work Initiative: Pursuing Just and Equitable Communities in Light of COVID-19," presented by David Maurrassee from Marga Incorporated; Nancy Cantor, chancellor of Rutgers University–Newark; and Paul Pribbenow, president of Augsburg University, on Monday, December 13, at 1:00 p.m. This event is presented by the CUMU Learning and Sharing Virtual Series and is free to members of the Buffalo State community.

The Anchor Institutions Task Force (AITF) has been circulating a policy brief calling for a Fund for Anchor Institutions and a Work Initiative, both of which would create greater alignment between government at all levels and anchor institutions toward rebuilding and reimagining communities in the years to come. AITF director David Maurrasse and leaders of anchor institutions from AITF’s membership—Nancy Cantor and Paul Pribbenow—will discuss the policy brief, the need to strengthen and expand the democratic engagement of anchor institutions in their communities, and the experiences of anchor institutions in partnerships that are confronting the most pressing issues facing localities.

This event is presented by the CUMU Learning and Sharing Virtual Series and is free to members of the Buffalo State community. Please register online for this webinar and any others in the series that may interest you.

Buffalo State College will host the 35th annual SUNY Model European Union, a simulation of a European Union Council meeting, April 7–9, 2022. SUNYMEU 2022 is a free event open to Buffalo State undergraduate and graduate students and faculty members. The Political Science and Public Administration Department will facilitate a virtual information session about the event today, December 9, from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m.

Join the Zoom meeting.
Meeting ID: 865 5542 8591
Passcode: 769100

To learn more about SUNYMEU and its sponsor, the Institute for European Union Studies at SUNY, please visit the IEUSS website.

SUNY and WestEd/Carnegie Math Pathways are offering four free online workshops for faculty and staff members. The workshops are not only for mathematics faculty. Please click on the title link below for more information and to register for each workshop.

1. An Introduction to Productive Persistence
   Thursday, December 16,  Noon–1:00 p.m.
2. Developing a Growth Mindset
   Thursday, January 6, 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
3. Collaborative Learning and Belonging
   Tuesday, January 11, 11:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
4. Student Learning Strategies
   Thursday, January 13, 11:00 a.m.–Noon

Bengal Study Nights: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, December 6, 7, and 8, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in Butler Library.

Get ready for finals academically, emotionally, and physically. This three-night event includes final exam reviews, extended tutoring, relaxation activities, yoga, meditation, therapy dogs, games, FREE pizza each night, prizes, and finals survival kits for the entire student body!

For more details and for the Bengal Study Nights flier, visit the Bengal Study Nights website.

Please contact Lauren Copeland, coordinator of tutoring services, with questions.

The Theater Department will host a discussion of Sean O’Casey’s classic 1924 play, Juno and the Paycock, this evening, December 6, at 7:00 p.m. in the Savage Theater and Communication Building's Flexible Theatre. Students will read scenes from the play, directed by Kate LoConti Alcocer, artistic director of the Irish Classical Theatre Company in Buffalo. Actress Josephine Hogan will join the discussion. Originally from Dublin, Ireland, Ms. Hogan is cofounder of the Irish Classical Theatre and is celebrated for her performance as Juno and other major roles in the Irish repertoire. Students in the reading and discussion include Lissette DeJesus as Juno, Ezra Bedoya as Captain Jack Boyle, Kennedy Lee as Mary, Bobbi Clarkson as Johnny, Mohamed Abdi as Jerry Devine, Link Hagerty as Joxer, and Nathaniel Schumacher as Mr. Bentham. The event is free.

The SUNY Center for Professional Development is offering a series of free webinars during SUNY Professional Development Week—an awareness campaign highlighting the important connection between lifelong learning, personal growth, and transformative organizational success—December 6–10. Webinar topics encompass areas of personal, professional, and technical development as well as executive leadership. Presentation descriptions and registration information can be found on the SUNY CPD website.

Weigel Health Promotions is now collecting used eyeglasses, hearing aids, and cell phones in the vestibule of the Weigel Wellness Center from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.  

Eyeglasses will be donated to the Lions Club International Foundation’s recycling center to benefit LCI’s vision programs.

Hearing aids will be donated to the Hearing Aid Project.  

Cell phones will be donated in collaboration with the Dean of Students Office to benefit Verizon’s efforts to aid victims of domestic violence.

Please contact?Paula Madrigal, assistant director of prevention and health promotions, with questions.

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Please join the Civic and Community Engagement Office for the webinar "Utilizing Diverse Sources of Community Data to Prioritize Outcomes in a Collective Impact Partnership," presented by Jennifer Lucarelli and Charita Little from Oakland University, on Friday, December 10, at 1:30 p.m. This event is presented by the CUMU Learning and Sharing Virtual Series and is free to members of the Buffalo State community.

The Pontiac Collective Impact Partnership was launched in 2020 to bring organizational leaders and community partners together utilizing a collective impact framework. Oakland University is leading the development of a Community Data Hub to support the group in selecting and evaluating outcomes. The Data Hub facilitated collection and exploration of multiple types and sources of data to aid the group in selecting priority outcome areas. This session will describe the process and use of conceptual frameworks, secondary data, a quantitative leadership survey, and a qualitative community survey in selecting outcome areas to prioritize the partnership’s work. Details about the development, collection, and analysis of data from the leadership survey and the community survey will be shared.

Key takeaways: Participants will understand at least three types of data that campus community partnerships can examine when prioritizing areas in which to work.

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Immediately following will be "What a Trip: Social Justice, Virtual Field Trips, and Lessons Learned from Pandemic Pedagogy," presented by Rachael Zeleny from the University of Baltimore. 

This presentation details the evolution of an interdisciplinary course at University of Baltimore. The original course relied entirely on experiential learning to museums via field trips. During these trips, students conducted analyses of museums as rhetorical and political spaces. As a result of the pandemic, the course evolved into a course that relied entirely on students making virtual field trips for these cultural organizations and for those at home. In both courses, students focus on issues of social justice as they pertain to museums: issues of access (who is able or encouraged to visit the museum?), issues of diversity (which artists and works of art are featured, and who is offered positions of power within the organization?), and issues of engagement (does the museum offer exhibits and programming that are relevant to the public they serve?).

In the revised class, students (1) met virtually with museum representatives to discuss their needs; (2) researched the types of resources, events, and objects that can be found in the different locations; (3) learned how to use technology such as Nearpod as multimodal composing platforms; and (4) created a virtual field trip to be used by that organization for educational and promotional purposes. By creating material for specific audiences, students not only learned the rhetorical skills of composing for diverse groups but also grappled with issues of equity, access, and engagement. Participants will have the opportunity to experience a virtual field trip and will receive all related materials and prompts.

This hour-long event is presented by the CUMU Learning and Sharing Virtual Series and is free to members of the Buffalo State community. Please register online for this webinar and any others in the series you may be interested in.

The Teacher Education Council (TEC) will meet for the last time this fall semester on Friday, December 10, from noon to 1:30 p.m. by Zoom. Please note the earlier meeting time. TEC representatives will receive a meeting invitation and link via e-mail. All TEC representatives and Teacher Education Unit members are encouraged to attend. Non-members who would like to attend remotely may contact their TEC representative for the Zoom log-in information, or contact Kathy Doody, associate professor of exceptional education, for more information.