The SUNY Remote Teaching Institute is designed to help faculty members prepare for a fall 2020 semester that may present unique challenges to course design and delivery.

Registration is available for individual webinars or the entire series. Topics include lecture strategies (synchronous and asynchronous), communicating with students, assessment and feedback, and opportunities to work with other SUNY faculty members within a discipline. These webinars are free to SUNY campuses and will be recorded for your viewing convenience. Recordings will be posted on the SUNY RTI Playlist tab.

Register now.

Faculty and staff parking permit stickers for the 2020–2021 academic year are available to purchase online beginning today, Monday, August 3. Employees may log in to the parking permit system using their campus usernames and passwords.

To limit physical contact and protect the health and safety of our campus community, all faculty and staff parking passes for 2020–2021 will be purchased online and delivered via U.S. mail to employees’ address of record.

Faculty and staff members are encouraged to register for the permit early to allow ample time for it to arrive in the mail.

Questions about this process may be e-mailed to parkingservices@buffalostate.edu.

The Speech-Language Pathology Department would like to wish Karen Bailey-Jones a wonderful and well-deserved retirement, effective August 15. Ms. Bailey-Jones joined the SLP Department as a clinical supervisor in 1992 and became the clinical director in our on-site Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic in 1994. She served in that position until 2017, when she assumed the role of graduate program director. Please join us in extending our best wishes to Ms. Bailey-Jones as she transitions to this new phase in her life and career.

As we prepare for fall 2020, Instructional Design and Training and the Teaching and Learning Center are pleased to announce our August webinar schedule (PDF, 212 KB). You can also search and register for sessions using the Workshop Registration System.

There are also self-paced options, including an Online Course Development Series, and a growing repository of resources.

We ask that you complete a short survey to help us better understand the software being used in your courses.

If you have questions, please e-mail the Teaching and Learning Center.

Bengals Dare to Care is traditionally a day of service for the Buffalo State community in partnership with local organizations, hosted by President Conway-Turner. To keep our students and community safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bengals Dare to Care has been reformatted. Bengals Dare to Care 2020 will be a monthlong experience to demonstrate Buffalo State’s commitment to social responsibility, community building, and social justice.  

Members of the campus community are invited to join President Conway-Turner in Bengals Dare to Care 2020 to learn, engage, and take action on racial justice.

Each week will focus on a topic, feature a virtual speaker event, provide additional resources for engaging in the issue on a local level, and list ways in which individuals can take action.

• October 26–November 1: Education and Racial Equity
• November 2–8: Voting, Civil Rights, and Racial Justice
• November 9–15: Diverse Perspectives within Racial Justice: LGBTQ+ and Differently Abled 
• November 16–22:  Hunger, Homelessness, and Race

Faculty members are welcome to include Bengals Dare to Care 2020 virtual events, resources, and action items in their syllabi for student participation. The dates and times of the weekly virtual speaker event will be finalized and shared the week of August 17.

More information and a link to register can be found on the Civic and Community Engagement Office website. 

As we prepare for fall 2020, please join us for the webinar "Interaction, Communication, and Collaboration," presented by Brooke Winckelmann, instructional designer, on Monday, August 10, from 9:00 to 9:50 a.m.

This discussion-centered session will complement module 6 (Designing and Evaluating Assessments) of the self-paced Online Course Development series. We will recap important ideas from this module and expand on the discussion questions. 

Please come prepared to share your discussion responses for module 6 of the self-paced Online Course Development series.

Before attending this session, we ask that you self-enroll in the “Online Course Development Series – Self-Paced" organization in Blackboard Learn and review the materials found within module 6. The series provides best practices for online teaching and learning, as well as guidance with educational technology.

Please register through the Workshop Registration System.

Repairs to the roof of Tower 1 student residence will begin Monday, August 3, and conclude on or near Friday, August 21. To facilitate this work, which will repair active leaks, contractors will use a crane to hoist materials to and from the roof. Site precautions will be in place for the safety of students and staff members entering and exiting the building during these activities. 

Thank you for your patience as these important repairs proceed. Questions may be e-mailed to vpfm@buffalostate.edu.

The second and final phase of the reconstruction of Iroquois Drive is scheduled to begin Monday, August 3, and continue through the fall semester. The work will be confined to the ends of Iroquois Drive, at Elmwood Avenue and at Grant Street.

Work will begin near the intersection of Iroquois Drive and Elmwood Avenue. While all parking lots accessed from Iroquois Drive will remain open during construction and will be accessible from either Grant Street or Elmwood Avenue, temporary road closures will occur. Drivers may need to revise their traffic patterns during these periods. 

During times when through traffic on Iroquois Drive cannot be maintained, drivers will be directed to use Rockwell Road. A two-way detour to Rockwell Road will be posted. About 200 student parking spaces will be off-line in the northern portion of Lot I-39 while this project is underway. 

The Iroquois Drive reconstruction project will replace the deteriorated roadway and drainage system, and provide additional sidewalks for pedestrian use. High-visibility crosswalks and LED site lighting will be added.

Thank you for your patience as this important construction project resumes. Questions may be e-mailed to vpfm@buffalostate.edu.

2019–2020 was a transformative year for the Buffalo State dietitian education program (DEP). Please take a few minutes to read the July 2020 issue of our DEP newsletter to learn more about the latest developments, including our new reorganization accreditation plan, approved by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics, and our alternative learning activities for supervised clinical practice during the pandemic. The DEP also made a sweep of the Western New York Dietetic Association awards! Please read the DEP newsletter.

The Online Learning Consortium and MERLOT invite faculty and staff members to their OLC Ideate Labs for Online STEM: Innovating STEM Education 2020 Expo Wednesday, August 19, through Friday, August 21.

The free virtual expo will showcase a wide range of virtual and other technology-enabled labs offered by commercial and open educational resource providers, and provide guidance on how to best deploy the different types of virtual labs to achieve successful learning outcomes.

To register and learn more about this free event, please visit the OLC website.