The Academic Calendar Committee, in partnership with Provost Mayrose, is pleased to announce the expansion of the Drop/Add period for the fall and spring semesters. Starting fall 2021, the Drop/Add window will close at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, September 7, rather than on Labor Day, Monday, September 6. Similarly, the Drop/Add window for spring 2022 will close Tuesday, February 8, rather than Sunday, February 6. Moving the deadline to Tuesday for these and all future semesters will ensure that students will have at least one business day to interact with their advisers or faculty members while they continue to update their class schedules before the deadline.

The Equity and Campus Diversity Office invites the campus community to the webinar "Ensuring the Success of Women in Male-Dominated Fields: A Conversation with Tiffany Cross," the first event in the Let's Talk About It series, on Tuesday March 23, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.  

Tiffany D. Cross is an on-air political analyst and cable newsroom veteran. She is the author of Say It Louder: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy (Amistad/HarperCollins) and a resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (Spring 2020). Her broad experience across media, politics, and policy includes more than two decades of navigating newsrooms and campaigns while engaging different constituencies on the ground. Currently, Ms. Cross hosts The Cross Connection on MSNBC, airing on Saturdays.

Buffalo State College Chief Diversity Officer Crystal Rodriguez-Dabney will be the moderator for this event. 

All are welcome to attend. Registration is required. 

For more information, please visit the Equity and Campus Diversity website or social media pages: Facebook and Instagram.

Banner will be unavailable from approximately 1:00 a.m. Saturday, March 20, until the start of business Monday, March 22, while a database upgrade is performed. Employees using special accounts should change their passwords before the upgrade. Please contact Patrick DeWind, senior database administrator, or Molly Prell, lead database specialist, for assistance or with questions related to those accounts.

Please join us for the panel discussion "Governance, Policies, and Management during Pandemics in Developed and Developing Countries" on Thursday, March 25, via Zoom. Distinguished panelists will be Shouvik Mitra, consultant with the World Bank and community development specialist with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, India; and Peter Yacobucci, associate professor of political science and public administration, and coordinator of the American Democracy Project and the conflict analysis and resolution program at Buffalo State College.

Check-in time is 8:00 to 8:30 p.m.; the panel discussion will run from 8:30 to 10:00 p.m. This event is part of the 10th annual Southeast Asia Week celebration March 22–26.

This panel will discuss government’s efforts in developed and developing countries in dealing with the pandemic by examining country-level experiences, challenges, strategies, plans, and predictions for the future.

Please register in advance for this meeting.

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Sponsors and partners include Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) and the Buffalo State College Equity and Campus Diversity Office, Geography and Planning Department, and Political Science and Public Administration Department.

Please join us for exciting student research presentations on the COVID-19 impacts in Vietnam, Laos, and the Philippines on Friday, March 26, via Zoom.

Check-in time is 9:30 to 10:00 a.m.; the program will run from 10:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. This event is part of the 10th annual Southeast Asia Week celebration March 22–26.

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Sponsors and partners include Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) and the Buffalo State College Equity and Campus Diversity Office, Geography and Planning Department, and Political Science and Public Administration Department.

Please join us for exciting student research presentations on the COVID-19 impacts in Thailand and Myanmar on Thursday, March 25, via Zoom.

Check-in time is 11:30 a.m. to noon; the program will run from noon to 1:30 p.m. This event is part of the 10th annual Southeast Asia Week celebration March 22–26.

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Sponsors and partners include Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) and the Buffalo State College Equity and Campus Diversity Office, Geography and Planning Department, and Political Science and Public Administration Department.

Please join us for "Microenterprises and Poverty Reduction: Case Studies from Cambodia and India," presented by Suparna Soni, assistant professor of political science and public administration, and Vida Vanchan, associate professor of geography and planning, on Tuesday, March 23, via Zoom.

Check-in time is 7:30 to 8:00 p.m.; the program will run from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. This event is part of the 10th annual Southeast Asia Week celebration March 22–26.

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This talk represents a multi-country study aiming at poverty reduction by assessing the knowledge of women entrepreneurs in developing countries about their markets and their effects on the growth and turnover of microenterprises.

Sponsors and partners include Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) and the Buffalo State College Equity and Campus Diversity Office, Geography and Planning Department, and Political Science and Public Administration Department.

Please join us for the panel discussion "COVID-19 Impacts on Education: Challenges, Strategies, and Education Reforms" on Monday, March 22, via Zoom. Distinguished panelists will be Sok Soth, dean of the Faculty of Education in Higher Education at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Keo Sarath, national management and technical adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sport for the Secondary Education Improvement Project (SEIP), Cambodia; and Rumki Basu, professor of public administration in the Department of Political Science at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, India.

Check-in time is 7:30 to 8:00 p.m.; the panel discussion will run from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. This event is part of the 10th annual Southeast Asia Week celebration March 22–26.

This panel will focus on the impacts of COVID-19 on education and will include a discussion on the challenges, strategies (current and future, including information on adaptation and resilience), and future trajectories. Education has been changed forever. What are the plans for the future? What will future education and learning models look like? How prepared are we to deal with the next pandemic?

Please register in advance for this meeting.

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Sponsors and partners include Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) and the Buffalo State College Equity and Campus Diversity Office, Geography and Planning Department, and Political Science and Public Administration Department.

Please join us for "Healthy, Tasty, and Wise," facilitated by Lana Jayatilleke, on Thursday, March 25, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. via Zoom.

Lana Jayatilleke is a mother, wife, and caregiver who enjoys her time preparing South Eastern and Western culinary delights. She has presented ways to maximize healthful, tasty food preparation with minimum resources. A demo will show how you can enjoy cooking of meals in a short time and make variations with simple and similar ingredients stress free.

Please register through the Workshop Registration System. 

This workshop is co-sponsored by the Buffalo State Chapter of United University Professions (UUP) and the Professional Development Center. 

Staff members from Buffalo State College's Student Conduct and Community Standards Office will present a virtual session on Restorative Community Circles on Friday, April 9, for the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities' Learning and Sharing Virtual Series 2021. Registration for the ongoing series began Monday, March 15; sessions run from March 23 to May 14. Please register online for upcoming sessions, or visit the Student Conduct website for more information.