Retirees
As we begin the 2000–2001 academic year, I would like to recognize the following individuals who, after years of devoted service to Buffalo State College, retired during the past academic year. Please join me in congratulating these members of our Buffalo State family who have gone on to new challenges and adventures as retirees. We thank them for their service and wish them rewarding futures.
| Lebanon L. Arrington |
Counseling Center |
| Carl B. Backman |
Sociology |
| James M. Bagley |
Campus Services |
| Charles A. Beasley |
Technology |
| Kenwyn G. Boldt |
Performing Arts |
| Robert J. Breen |
Campus Services |
| Lawrence E. Bynum |
Admissions |
| John C. Carbonara |
Philosophy and Religious Studies |
| Robert A. Clark |
Registrar's |
| Mary A. Davis |
Business |
| Ellen M. DeWind |
Enrollment Support and Retention |
| Frank P. Diulus |
Educational Foundations |
| Thomas A. Donovan |
Chemistry |
| Nuala M. Drescher |
History and Social Studies Education |
| John F. Dwyer |
English |
| Gisele C. Feal |
Foreign Language |
| Robert C. Frascatore |
Mathematics |
| Bernhard Frank |
English |
| Richard F. Frazita |
Elementary Education and Reading |
| James A. Gold |
Educational Foundations
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| Richard D. Heller |
Health and Wellness |
| June I. Hesch |
English |
| David G. Hollingworth |
Campus Services |
| Robert E. Horvat |
Earth Sciences and Science Education |
| Judith L. Janus |
Exceptional Education |
| John J. Jauquet |
Design |
| Diana M. Johnson |
EOP Admissions |
| Luella H. Johnson |
Mathematics |
| Layman H. Jones Jr. |
Art Education |
| Gary H. Kent |
Campus Services
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| Thomas G. Kinsey |
Graduate Studies and Research
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| Betty J. Krist |
Mathematics |
| Theodore W. Kury |
Geography and Planning |
| David W. Landrey |
English |
| Henry J. Lang |
History and Social Studies Education |
| Stephanie P. LoCastro |
Accounting |
| Nancy J. Lund |
Speech-Language Pathology |
| Paul D. Martin |
Fine Arts |
| Sharon R. Mendola |
Design |
| John B. Morganti |
Psychology |
| Rosemary K. Murray |
Elementary Education and Reading |
| Joseph V. Nardiello |
Foreign Language |
| Frank J. Pascarella |
Health and Wellness |
| Shirley A. Posner |
E. H. Butler Library |
| Thomas J. Quatroche |
Educational Foundations |
| Joan W. Roberts |
English |
| Neil H. Rudin |
Foreign Language |
| Marianne N. Vallet-Sandre |
Design |
| Carol A. Vohwinkel |
E. H. Butler Library |
| Joyce M. Wakefield |
Vice President for Student Affairs |
| Phillip A. Weaver |
Exceptional Education |
| James W. Wells |
Physics |
| George J. Wenner |
Elementary Education and Reading |
| Mary Virginia Wyly |
Psychology |
| Janice L. Wythe |
Fine Arts |
| Marion Y. Young |
Payroll |
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In addition, I am pleased to congratulate the following individuals, who will retire later this month:
| Shirley A. Bennett-Fenty |
C-STEP |
| Angela F. Bumbalo |
Elementary Education and Reading
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| Gordon E. Ederer |
Campus Services |
| Patricia B. Messinger |
Teaching, Learning, and Assessment |
| Josephine Pellicane |
Accounting |
| Leon Smith |
Academic Standards |
The excellence of Buffalo State College is built upon the service of people like these, who devoted their professional lives to the advancement of our educational mission in countless ways. We thank them for years of commitment and collegiality, and look forward to continued relationships with them in retirement.
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Faculty
The college is sustaining its priority of rebuilding the complement of full-time faculty. Joining us will be 33 new colleagues, supremely well prepared and dedicated to the historic Buffalo State College commitment to quality instruction, engaged scholarship, and purposeful service. Twelve searches, commenced in 1999–2000, will continue, augmented by 27 newly authorized positions: 11 in Applied Science and Education, and eight each in Arts and Humanities and Natural and Social Sciences. The general allocation principles were based on enrollment demand, staffing requirements for general education, and commitments for new programs and initiatives.
Facilities
The construction and renovation of facilities, including Moot Hall (a one-stop shop for enrollment support services for students), a new bookstore, three high-tech ("smart") classrooms, and student lounges, are on schedule. One project, to be completed for the fall semester, is of special interest in defining new beginnings: two floors in the North Wing residence hall, replete with a handsomely appointed and ample lounge complex, will be provided for students in the All College Honors Programs. Here, college honors students and international students can mix together and develop a global, cosmopolitan learning environment. The Faculty/Staff Club, which will serve as a demonstration facility for hospitality students and a convivial venue for intellectual interaction, is near the close of its planning stage, with renovations scheduled to start this fall and be completed by summer.
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Students
A simple, large message has been promulgated to clarify the multiplicity of messages delivered to students. It's called the Buffalo State College Covenant. Simply put, the college promises to provide a brilliant faculty and dedicated professional staff, powerful curricula, and an enabling learning environment. The student, in turn, commits, first and foremost, to be a student, to place academics before other competing priorities, to be prepared for classroom, laboratory, or studio. Second, the student is obliged to make progress toward a degree, and, third and finally, to graduate. An oath of matriculation is contemplated.
Academics
Other new initiatives in support of student academic development include encouraging students to abandon undeclared status and to identify with a major, and stronger support for the scholarship of teaching, for student scholarship and creativity, and for interdisciplinary studies. Programs are strongly encouraged to gain professional accreditation, with a goal of 100 percent participation of eligible curricula. A draft academic plan, actually a checklist, should be ready for senate discussion this fall.
Convocation
Please place Academic Convocation on your calendar for Thursday, September 21. It's our traditional collective reaffirmation and celebration of the life of the mind as we commence a fresh academic year. Our speaker will be Burton Raffel, distinguished scholar of the humanities, literary critic, poet, and world-class translator of great literature into modern English.
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Craft Art Western New York 2000
Craft Art Western New York 2000 will be on view at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center Saturday, September 9 through Sunday, November 26. A special members reception will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, September 9, with remarks by juror Michael W. Monroe at 6:00 p.m., followed by presentation of the purchase awards. Craft Art Western New York 2000 is the center's seventh biennial exhibition to feature works in clay, fiber, glass, metal, and wood by artists who are or have been residents of Western New York or Monroe County.
Sylvia Rosen, a respected potter and educator who taught ceramics at Buffalo State and Amherst Senior High School, created the Sylvia L. Rosen Endowment for Fine Arts in the Craft Media with her husband, Nathan, in 1987. Her endowment has made possible the Craft Art Western New York exhibitions, which include purchase awards and craft-art lectures by field specialists on alternating years.
Work in the exhibition was selected by arts adviser Michael W. Monroe, who is the former curator-in-charge of the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and former executive director of the American Craft Council in New York City. He selected 62 works created during the past two years by 46 artists. Monroe chose works on the basis of quality, uniqueness, originality, and aesthetic integrity. A piece by each artist is illustrated in the exhibition catalog, which will be available in the center's Museum Store.
One or more works will be selected to become part of the collection of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center. Up to $3,000 in purchase awards from the Sylvia L. Rosen Endowment will be presented during the preview reception, and additional purchase funds have been donated by the Floristry. An award in memory of Margaret E. Mead also will be presented.
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Artists in the Exhibition
Nancy Belfer (Buffalo), Michelle Berardi (East Amherst), Alex Gabriel Bernstein (Rochester), Dale D. Bosworth (Williamsville), Christopher L. Bretschneider (Buffalo), Juan Carlos Caballero-Pérez (Henrietta), Mary K. Cloonan (Rochester), Brett Coppins (Buffalo), Donna D'Aquino (Kent, Ohio), Laurie dill-Kocher (Rochester), Todd W. Eick (Lyndonville), Irwin M. Franco (Amherst), Paul R. Harp (Fairport), Kris Harrison (Henrietta), Tracy Haynes (Rochester), Suzanne Gray Hofmeister (Buffalo), Bryan Hopkins (Buffalo), Linda Huey (Alfred), Sue Katz (Meriden, New Hampshire), Steve Loar (Warsaw), Keng Nio Lolly Ong (Pittsford), Scott Losi (Buffalo), Elizabeth Lyons (Rochester), Ellen Markel (Buffalo), Ayesha Mayadas (Rochester), Gail McCarthy (Buffalo), Lori Mills (Brockport), Barbara J. Murak (Getzville), Richard Nickel (Churchville), John M. Paananen (Middleport), Ann Perry (Cheektowaga), Scott Place (Fredonia), Elaine Polvinen (Clarence), Kathi Roussel (Buffalo), Matthew SaGurney (Buffalo), Carlo Sammarco (Alfred), Stephen Saracino (Buffalo), Yu-ting Shih (Rochester), Gerald G. Smith (Buffalo), Lynn Szymanski (San Diego, California), Carol Townsend (Snyder), William Underhill (Wellsville), Robert L. Wood (Kenmore), Leah Woods (Layton, New Jersey), Barry R. Yavener (Buffalo), and Julie York (Alfred).
Wednesday Lectures for Craft Art Western New York 2000
September 13, 6:00 p.m.
Ceramic artist Kathi Roussel, recipient of the 1998 Sylvia L. Rosen Purchase Award (Roussel's work is available for sale in the Museum Store.)
Special Lecture Series Celebrates Canadian Craft Art
October 4, 6:00 p.m.
Representatives from the Ontario Crafts Council in Toronto and the Burlington Art Centre in Burlington, Ontario
October 25, 6:00 p.m.
Canadian craft artists who teach at the Sheridan College School of Craft and Design in Oakville, Ontario
The Canadian series is made possible by funding from the Canadian Consulate General.
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Saturday in the Sculpture Park
The Burchfield-Penney Art Center and the Ashford Hollow Foundation present "Saturday in the Sculpture Park" from noon to 5:00 p.m. September 16 at Griffis Sculpture Park in East Otto, New York. The park is 15 minutes south of Springville, off Route 219.
The event includes live music, hay rides, pumpkin painting, wine tasting, a community art project, and a landscape sculpture dedication by John L. Surra. Larry Griffis Jr. will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by Assemblyman Sam Hoyt. Food and Ellicottville Brew will be available for purchase. The event takes place rain or shine. Proceeds will benefit the Burchfield-Penney Art Center and the Ashford Hollow Foundation.
Transportation is available. A bus will leave Buffalo State College at 10:30 a.m. and return after the event. Tickets are $20 (with transportation) and $10, and are available at the Performing Arts Center box office in Rockwell Hall; call 878-3005.
For more information, contact Lisa Kane at 878-4529 or burchfld@buffalostate.edu.
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Computing Services/FAST Development Training
Schedule for September
Computing Services offers monthly computer training classes. Unless otherwise noted, all classes will be held in CyberQuad, E. H. Butler Library 318. Please bring an IBM-formatted, 3.5" disk. Contact Paul Reynolds at ext. 3361 or reynolap@buffalostate.edu to register for any of these classes. If you use e-mail, you must include your full name, e-mail username, title, department, and telephone number. Incomplete messages will not be accepted. If you register by e-mail, you will receive a confirmation by e-mail. Those with Web access are encouraged to register online at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration.
Introduction to Outlook
Tuesday, September 12
9:00 a.m.–noon
or
Monday, September 25
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Outlook and Exchange Server are the campus standards for e-mail and group activities. Learn how to set up Outlook, use e-mail, set up personal address books and mailboxes, and use the calendar. You must have an NT account and an Exchange Server account to attend this class.
Introduction to Excel
Tuesday, September
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Learn how to create and edit spreadsheets, enter and edit data, use formulas and formatting information, and create simple pie charts.
Introduction to Access
Wednesday, September 13
9:00 a.m.–noon
Learn the basic concepts of database design and things to consider when creating a database. Learn how to create tables, forms, queries, reports, and mailing labels.
Introduction to PowerPoint
Wednesday, September 13
1:00–4:00 p.m.
PowerPoint is the presentation application in the Microsoft Office suite. Learn how to create and arrange slides that include images, graphs, sounds, and animation.
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Introduction to Windows 95/98
Thursday, September 14
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Learn how to navigate Windows using Explorer to create, locate, move, and copy files and modify desktop settings.
Intermediate Access
Tuesday, September 19
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Learn how to join multiple tables, import Excel worksheets, create a payroll database, and perform basic mathematical operations.
Introduction to Web Page Design
Monday, September 25
9:00 a.m.–noon
Learn the basics of Web page design and layout, how to create and link Web pages using Claris Home Page for the PC, and basic HTML commands.
Introduction to Word
Tuesday, September 26
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Learn how to create and navigate basic Word documents, edit margins, create tables and columns, and insert and edit images. This class also will show how to convert WordPerfect files to Word.
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Intermediate Excel
Wednesday, September 27
9:00 a.m.–noon
Learn how to work with multiple worksheets, copy and cut formulas and data from one worksheet to another, export data to Word, link files, and create and use pivot tables. This class will cover topics such as grade books and department budget summaries.
Intermediate PowerPoint
Friday, September 29
9:00 a.m.–noon
Learn how to add sound and video to slides and how to convert PowerPoint presentations into Web sites.
Advanced Web Page Design
Friday, September 29
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Learn how to upload files to your own server space. You are expected to arrive in class with completed Web pages ready for posting. You must attend Introduction to Web Page Design to be eligible for this session.
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Homecoming 2000 Concert
The Buffalo State College Alumni Association, Oldies 104, and Outokumpu American Brass present The Lovin' Spoonful and The Association in concert at 7:00 p.m. Friday, September 22 in the Sports Arena. Buffalo State alumnus Tom Shannon, ’60, will be the master of ceremonies. Doors will open at 6:00 p.m. Proceeds will benefit the alumni scholarship fund.
Tickets are $16 for general admission, $25 for reserved seating, and $50 for premium seating, which includes a backstage pass to meet the artists.
Tickets are available through the Alumni Affairs Office, 878-6001, at all Tops Friendly Markets Tickets.com outlets, by phone at (888) 223-6000, or online at www.tickets.com. General admission tickets are available at the Buffalo State College Performing Arts Center box office, 878-3005, or in the Campbell Student Union Ticket Office.
The first 200 people to purchase tickets will receive vouchers to buy special presale tickets to the St. Elsewhere Reunion on Saturday, November 11 in Rockwell Hall Auditorium. Former cast members Howie Mandel, Bonnie Bartlett, William Daniels, Ed Begley Jr., Sagan Lewis, Christina Pickles, Alfre Woodard, and Rodrick Spencer will attend. The event is expected to sell out.
For more information, call the Alumni Affairs Office at 878-6001 or visit www.buffalostate.edu/depts/alumni.
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Personal-Safety Presentation
The Vice President for Student Affairs Office is pleased to invite students, faculty, and staff to a presentation on personal safety by Sanford Strong from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, September 7 in the Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall.
Strong is a nationally recognized expert on personal safety and security. He has appeared on Oprah, Today, CNN, Dateline, Good Morning America, and America's Most Wanted. The author of numerous articles and books, including Strong on Defense: Survival Rules to Protect You and Your Family from Crime, Strong has been the featured speaker for televised town-hall meetings held in a dozen cities in the United States and Canada. He has hosted two nationally syndicated television specials featuring protection against violence for women, families, and corporations. Strong has more than 20 years' experience in law enforcement with the San Diego Police Department. He is a consultant and safety adviser to corporations, schools, and colleges in the United States and abroad.
Strong will consult with the Campus Safety Forum and other groups during his campus visit Thursday, September 7 and Friday, September 8. A schedule of events will be published once finalized. To participate in discussions with Strong, please contact Phillip Santa Maria, associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students, at ext. 4618.
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Athletics Fall Schedule Begins
The 2000–2001 Buffalo State College Bengals intercollegiate athletics program opens next week with a number of home events, as follows:
Men's and Women's Cross-Country
Dan Walker Invitational
Saturday, September 2
noon (women's); 1:00 p.m. (men's)
Women's Soccer
Buffalo State vs. RIT
Wednesday, September 6
4:00 p.m.
Women's Tennis
Buffalo State vs. Brockport
Thursday, September 7
3:30 p.m.
Men's Football Home Opener
Buffalo State vs. Mansfield
Saturday, September 9
1:00 p.m.
Men's Soccer
Buffalo State vs. RIT
Saturday, September 9
1:00 p.m.
All events take place at their respective fields or courts or inside the Sports Arena.
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Homecoming 2000
Buffalo State will celebrate Homecoming 2000 September 18–23. A full schedule of the week's events will be published once finalized. Highlights include:
The Association and The Lovin' Spoonful Concert
(See details from the vice president for institutional advancement and development.
Parade and Buffalo State Walk
(Leaves from lot G, Rees Street and Rockwell Road)
11:00 a.m. Saturday, September 23
Homecoming Football Game (Buffalo State vs. Cortland)
Coyer Field
1:00 p.m. Saturday, September 23
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Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Seven members will be inducted into the Buffalo State Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday, September 23: John Mark Augustine Jr., '86, football; Raymond Haines, '57, baseball/basketball/soccer; Neil Hall, '83, track and field; David Hart, '83, basketball; Shane Johnson, '91, basketball; Tim Tolli, '85, track and field/football; Dick Marsh, honorary.
The induction ceremony will include a cash-bar cocktail reception at 4:45 p.m. in the Hall of Fame lobby of the Sports Arena, followed by the formal induction at 6:00 p.m. The event costs $15 per person. Reservations can be made until Friday, September 15. Please contact Gail F. Maloney, senior associate director of athletics, at ext. 6515.
Voter Registration
Buffalo State College encourages students, faculty, and staff to participate in the 2000 elections. Primary elections will be held Tuesday, September 12. The deadline to register to vote in the November general elections is Friday, October 13. Voter registration forms are available at the Student Union Information Desk and in the campus residence halls. The form also is printed in the undergraduate and graduate course schedules.
The Student Life Office and United Students Government will assist the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) in its Student Vote 2000 Campaign (SV2K), a statewide effort to register, educate, and mobilize students during the election season this fall.
Activities include:
- Residence-hall presentations
- Information tables in the Campbell Student Union
- Classroom presentations
- A two-day, all-campus blitz on Tuesday, October 3 and Wednesday, October 4
- Extensive campus television, radio, and newspaper advertisements and news coverage
- Phone banks to ensure registration status
- A nonpartisan educational guide to the candidates and the electoral process
This campaign will be NYPIRG's most ambitious voter-registration effort to date. Students, organizations, faculty members, or administrators who can assist should call NYPIRG at 882-1549, Vice President for Student Affairs Hal D. Payne at ext. 4704, or Director of Student Life David Milberg at ext. 4631.
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Norms Misperceptions Program
Theresa R. Stephan Hains, director of the Weigel Health Center, has received a grant from the New York State Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services under the College Norm Misperceptions Project, a statewide initiative to address and correct the substance use norm misperceptions of college students.
The grant funds a marketing media campaign that will begin this fall. The campaign will address students' attitudes and behaviors regarding drinking on and around the Buffalo State campus.
Binge drinking is defined as five or more consecutive drinks and is frequently associated with drinking-related problems. Many studies have shown that college students overestimate how much their peers drink. Prevention experts have argued that this misperception drives greater alcohol consumption. In fall 1999, 48 percent of Buffalo State freshmen surveyed reported that they had binged in the previous two weeks; however, respondents also reported a perception that 63 percent of their fellow students had binged during that time. A growing body of evidence suggests that providing information to students about accurate drinking norms is associated with decreased drinking on campus.
This media campaign will attempt to provide accurate information about campus drinking norms through posters and flyers.
NIA Mentor Program Orientation and Training
The Minority Student Services Office will hold an orientation session for the NIA (Nurturing Initiative and Achievement) Mentor Program from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Sunday, September 10 in the Campbell Student Union Fireside Lounge. This orientation is mandatory for all faculty/staff and peer mentors who wish to be a part of the fall 2000 program. All mentors will meet their new students. Participants will receive training by the Counseling Center on mentoring techniques and will participate in exercises to build group cohesion. Brunch will be served.
The NIA Mentor Program provides mentors for students and conducts workshops throughout the year to help students improve their academic performance and adjust to the demands of academic life. The combination of mentors and workshops has proven highly effective at helping students connect to the campus community.
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Welcome Back Program
The Student Life Office will hold its annual Welcome Back Program from Wednesday, August 30 to Thursday, September 14. The series of events is designed to welcome students at the start of the new academic year. All events are free unless otherwise noted and are open to students, faculty, and staff. They include:
Thursday, August 31
Community Service Event
noon–4:00 p.m.
Campbell Student Union Fireside Lounge
Games Night
8:00–11:00 p.m.
Games and prizes
Campbell Student Union lobby
Friday, September 1
Explore the "Self Help" Web page at the College Counseling Center
1:00–2:00 p.m.
Porter Hall lower level
Career Development Open House
2:00–3:00 p.m.
Cleveland Hall 306
Discover the career resources available to you
See Ya @ NIA Mentor Madness
3:00–4:00 p.m.
Campbell Student Union lobby
Meet with the Minority Student Services staff to find out more about this exciting, nationally recognized program.
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Bengal "Street Fair" and Cookout
5:30–8:00 p.m.
Student Union Quadrangle
A "roaring" good time, featuring Orengue—great live dance music in the Latin tradition (music from 15 countries represented), a chess tournament, dominoes, double Dutch, prizes, and vendors. Bring a blanket!
Saturday, September 2
Trip to Darien Lake/Six Flags
10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Student tickets $10, includes bus and park admission, available through the Residence Life Office
Video Dance Party
8:00 p.m.–midnight
Campbell Student Union Social Hall
Two large screens-sound and lights. Includes pizza, wings, "mocktails," and the "Boogie Bengal Tiger"
Sunday, September 3
Large-Screen TV Football
Buffalo Bills opening night
9:00 p.m.
Campbell Student Union Assembly Hall
Robert Channing, "World's Greatest Mentalist"
9:00 p.m.
Campbell Student Union Social Hall
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Monday, September 4
Labor Day Picnic
5:00 p.m.
Dinner in the Campbell Student Union Social Hall
Desserts in the Student Union Quadrangle
Ray Boston "Gives It Away" Mini Golf Event
4:00–8:00 p.m.
Student Union Quadrangle
(Rain location: Campbell Student Union lobby/Social Hall)
Tuesday, September 5
Alcohol 101
12:15–1:30 p.m.
A "virtual party"
Counseling Center, Porter Hall lower level
Thursday, September 7
Sanford Strong, keynote presentation on personal safety
12:15–1:30 p.m.
Rockwell Hall Auditorium
Thursday, September 14
Student Organization/Volunteer Fair
12:15–1:30 p.m.
Cosponsored by United Students Government and Student Life
Campbell Student Union lobby and Quadrangle
(Rain location: Campbell Student Union Assembly Hall
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Campus-Climate Survey
At the request of President Howard, the President's Council on Equity and Campus Diversity is conducting a survey of attitudes and perceptions of issues related to equity and diversity on the campus. During the week of September 5, all faculty and staff should receive a copy of the survey through campus mail, with a request from Dr. Howard to complete and return it in the addressed campus-mail envelope by September 25. Survey results will assist the council in developing a campus diversity plan for 2001–2004.
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Project Success: Ensuring That Students with Disabilities
Receive a Quality Higher Education
Administrators, including deans, directors, and department chairs, have been invited to participate in an eight-hour training program to improve the quality of education provided to students with disabilities. The sessions will be held Friday, September 8 and Friday, September 22. All those invited should return the response form as soon as possible.
Faculty training will be provided during the academic year and summer 2001. This project is funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
For more information, contact Marianne Savino, coordinator of services for students with disabilities, ext. 4500; Peggy Bristol, project secretary, ext. 3515; or the Equity and Campus Diversity Office, ext. 6210.
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AAUW Educational Foundation Fellowships and Grants
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) announces its University Scholar-in-Residence Award program for 2001–2002. Colleges and universities may apply for awards of up to $50,000 to
- support a woman scholar who would undertake and disseminate research on gender and equity for women and girls;
- bring a qualified scholar to the institution for a fixed period; or
- designate a scholar currently at the institution who would undertake research activities that would occur without such support.
A three-to-five-page letter of intent describing the research project and its intended outcomes must be submitted by Monday, October 16, with proposals due Friday, December 15. Additional information is available on the AAUW Web site at www.aauw.org or by e-mail at foundation@aauw.org.
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College Policy on Consensual Sexual and Amorous Relations
Students should be free to develop relationships that supplement formal classroom instruction, and employees should be free to develop friendships and engage in social contact with supervisors and fellow employees. In most cases, social interaction among supervisors and employees, between fellow employees, and among faculty and staff members and students will benefit the entire academic community by promoting the interchange of ideas, building mutual trust and respect, facilitating communication, and reducing misunderstandings.
However, when a person in a position of power and authority abuses or appears to abuse that position, mutual trust and respect are lost, and the academic environment suffers. Buffalo State faculty, staff members, and supervisors exercise power and authority over Buffalo State students, and over employees for whom they have current or potential evaluative, supervisory, instructional, or other professional responsibility. This inherent power imbalance makes consent within any sexual or amorous relationship between a supervisor and employee or between a faculty or staff member and student suspect, and may impede the real or perceived freedom of the student or employee to thereafter terminate or otherwise alter the relationship. The relationship may create real or apparent impropriety, loss of objectivity, and a conflict of interest in any evaluative, supervisory, instructional, or other professional role that the faculty or staff member may have or may develop in relation to the student or employee, and may expose the individual faculty or staff member, as well as the college, to possible legal charges and liability.
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Therefore, to avoid the breakdown of mutual trust and respect that may result within the academic community from such relationships, it is the policy of Buffalo State College that:
- Commencement, upon either person's initiative, of a sexual or amorous relationship between a Buffalo State College faculty or staff member and a student with respect to whom such faculty or staff member has current professional responsibility shall be prohibited.
Any Buffalo State faculty or staff member who, nevertheless, engages in such a relationship shall be required to remove himself or herself from any evaluation of the student and from any activity or decision that may, or may appear to, reward, penalize, or otherwise affect the student or student employee, and to otherwise take appropriate action to minimize any potential preferential or adverse consequences to the student or to other members of the college community. It also shall be the responsibility of the administrative head of the faculty or staff member's academic or administrative unit, if he or she is aware or is made aware of the relationship, to assure that the foregoing steps are taken.
In addition, any faculty or staff member who engages in a sexual or amorous relationship with a student or student employee shall be subject to counseling, reprimand, probation, suspension, discharge, or other action consistent with applicable collective bargaining agreements, contracts, and procedures.
A student shall not be subject to sanction for such a relationship. A student employee may be transferred from his or her position to a similar position, without demotion or other adverse effect on the benefits, terms, or conditions of employment, and alternative arrangements may be made, if feasible, to prevent interference with educational opportunities that give the faculty or staff member current professional responsibility for the student.
If such a relationship exists or existed before any current professional responsibility arose for the faculty or staff member in relation to the student, the faculty or staff member shall be prohibited from thereafter undertaking professional responsibility for the student with whom he or she has or has had a sexual or amorous relationship. In no case, however, shall such prohibition result in a demotion or otherwise adversely affect the benefits, terms, or conditions of employment. In the case of the student, reasonable alternative arrangements shall be made, if feasible, to prevent interference with educational opportunities.
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- Sexual or amorous relationships between faculty or staff members and students to whom the faculty or staff members do not have current professional responsibilities are strongly discouraged.
- Sexual or amorous relationships between supervisors and non-student employees to whom the supervisors have current or reasonable foreseeable professional responsibilities are strongly discouraged.
Where such a relationship exists, previously existed, or develops, it shall be the responsibility of the supervisor (and his or her supervisor) to remove himself or herself from any evaluation of the employee, and from any activity or decision that may, or may appear to, reward, penalize, or otherwise affect the employee, and to otherwise take appropriate action to minimize any potential preferential or adverse consequences to the employee or to other members of the college community. An employee shall not be subject to sanction for such a relationship, but may be removed or transferred from a position (without demotion or adverse effect on the employee's benefits, terms, or conditions of employment) that gives the supervisor the power to evaluate, reward, penalize, or otherwise affect the employee.
- If a student or employee makes a complaint of sexual harassment against a faculty or staff member or supervisor that arises from a sexual or amorous relationship between the faculty or staff member and the student or employee, the faculty or staff member or supervisor charged with sexual harassment shall have the burden of proving by preponderance of evidence that the relationship was entirely consensual and uninfluenced by the faculty or staff member's or supervisor's professional relationship with the complainant. If a sexual harassment complaint is made by a third person with respect to the sexual or amorous relationship of a faculty member or supervisor to a student or employee, consent to the relationship between the faculty member or supervisor and the student or employee shall not constitute a defense to the third person's complaint, insofar as the allegations concerning the relationship between the faculty member or supervisor and student or employee support the complaint of the third person.
Grievance Procedure
- This policy should be enforced consistently but with a high degree of flexibility and discretion, with minimal intrusion upon the personal privacy of the participants and with initial reliance upon confidential counseling with an appropriate professional. Any decision to impose sanctions should be made in light of the policy considerations set forth above as they apply to the particular circumstances being considered.
- Any person may make an inquiry or request for consultation to the Equity and Campus Diversity Office concerning an alleged violation of this policy, and any person may file a complaint alleging a violation of this policy with the Equity and Campus Diversity Office, pursuant to the Buffalo State College Grievance Procedure for Review of Allegations of Discrimination.
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