Appointment
I am pleased to announce that Bernadine M. Macy has joined the Buffalo State College staff as secretarial assistant the president. She was previously employed at Cognigen Corporation in Williamsville. We welcome her to our Buffalo State College community.
President Receives Honorary Doctorate
I am pleased to announce that I was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the City University of New York (CUNY) at the May 2002 commencement exercises of New York City Technical College, where I also served as the keynote speaker.
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Prejean Visit Rescheduled
Buffalo State again welcomes Sr. Helen Prejean, outspoken death penalty opponent and author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 19 in the Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall. Her scheduled visit last year was canceled in light of September 11.
Her talk is titled "Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues." Prejean was a 1998 Nobel Peace Prize nominee; she has received numerous awards for her counseling of death row inmates.
This event is free, but tickets are required. Buffalo State faculty, staff, and students may secure tickets before they are made available to the public on August 26; call the Performing Arts Center Box Office at ext. 3005. Faculty members who wish to require their students' attendance may request blocks of tickets.
Prejean also will meet with students at 2:00 p.m. Faculty members who wish to involve their students in the afternoon discussion should contact Kelly Boos in the Natural and Social Sciences Dean's Office at ext. 6434.
Please encourage student attendance at this important event.
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Computer Training
Computing and Technology Services and the FAST Development Center offer monthly computer training classes. Unless otherwise stated, classes are held in CyberQuad, E. H. Butler Library 318. Please bring an IBM-formatted 3.5" disk. For a complete list of courses and registration information, visit http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration.
Internet Explorer 5.0 (or higher) or Netscape 4.7 (or higher) is necessary for online
registration.
Enter the following information in the required fields:
Explorer
User Name: your user name (e.g., publicjq)
Password: your password
Domain: bsclogon
Netscape
User Name: bsclogon\your user name (e.g., bsclogon\publicjq)
Password: your password
If you have trouble registering online, send e-mail to reynolap@buffalostate.edu or call ext. 3361 and leave voice mail. Please include your name; your phone number; and the name, date, and time of the class for which you wish to register.
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2002–2003 Equity and Campus Diversity Minigrants
Applications for 2002–2003 Equity and Campus Diversity Minigrants will be
available Tuesday, September 3; $12,000 is available to support programs and projects
proposed by faculty, staff, or students to strengthen excellence in diversity at
Buffalo State. The average grant award is expected to be $800, with
awards of up to $1,500 for program proposals of exceptional merit.
The deadline for applications for fall programs is Tuesday, October 1. For more
information, call Michelle Douglas, assistant director of Equity and Campus
Diversity, at ext. 6235.
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Project Success: First Friday Dialogs for Disabilities
Project Success, a federally funded project to ensure that students with
disabilities receive a quality higher education, will hold a series of information
sessions for faculty and staff on the first Friday of each month during the
academic year. The sessions will be informal and are designed to assist faculty
and staff in meeting the needs of students with disabilities.
The first session will be held from noon to 2:00 p.m. September 6 in Cleveland
Hall 418. The topic, "Understanding Documentation and Accommodation," will
cover (1) who determines if an individual is a qualified student with a disability;
(2) what documentation is required; (3) who determines "reasonable
accommodations"; and (4) what faculty and staff need to know to provide
educational access to qualified students with disabilities.
Actual cases will be presented and discussed. Lunch will be provided.
To register or for more information, call Peggy Bristol, Project Success
coordinator, at ext. 3515
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Buffalo State College General Policy against Discrimination and Harassment
Buffalo State College is committed to proper treatment of all members of the college community. The college can achieve its educational mission only in an atmosphere of mutual respect that is free from intolerance and that offers equal opportunity to all. Every member of the college community shares the responsibility for addressing incidents of disrespect for the dignity of others and acts of discrimination, racism, bigotry, harassment, exclusion, abusive language, or mistreatment of individuals or groups.
Among the goals of the college is the empowerment of a diverse population of students to succeed as citizens of a challenging world. The college is dedicated to maintaining an atmosphere of intellectual vitality, collegiality, and collaboration. It will not have attained its goal until and unless all in its midst obtain fair and equitable treatment in employment and education. For this reason, Buffalo State College condemns and pledges itself to fight against all acts of invidious discrimination, bias, intolerance, or harassment.
Racial discrimination is a particularly serious problem. The goals of the college are undermined and human dignity is offended where employment or educational benefits, opportunities, or privileges are denied or restricted on the basis of race, religion, color, or national origin, or where a racially hostile environment exists. Racial or illegal discrimination of any sort limits the opportunity for individuals to realize their potential and denies them the rigors, joys, and fulfillment of intellectual curiosity.
Therefore, it is the policy of Buffalo State College to provide an employment and educational environment free from invidious discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital or veteran status. It shall be a violation of this policy for any agent, student, or employee of Buffalo State to discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital or veteran status against any individual with respect to terms of employment, education, or benefits of any program or activity at Buffalo State.
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To implement this policy:
- All college faculty, staff, and students are expected to comport themselves in a manner that does not convey to others in the college community any disrespect, intolerance, or rude behavior based on age, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, veteran, or socioeconomic status.
- All members of the college community are expected to contribute to the college environment to move the college community in the direction of respect for all.
- All persons within the college community who perceive that they have been subjected to discrimination or harassment based on age, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, marital or veteran status, or sexual orientation are urged to present their concerns to the Equity and Campus Diversity Office, Cleveland Hall 415.
- All faculty, staff, and students who know of a member of the community who believes that he or she has been subjected to discrimination or harassment are expected to encourage that person to visit the Equity and Campus Diversity Office and, if need be, offer assistance to help that person do so.
- All supervisory and management staff have the responsibility to educate faculty, staff, and students about the value of diversity to the institution. To meet this responsibility, supervisors, department heads, and management staff are expected to:
- Regularly communicate with employees and students under their supervision about the college's policy against discrimination, its commitment to diversity, and the need for civility in the community.
- Monitor their own behavior to ensure that it offers an appropriate model for employees and students under their supervision.
- Promptly and thoroughly respond to all reports or incidents of invidious discrimination or harassment in their areas of responsibility.
- Identify and respect the needs of the victims of discrimination and attempt to restore collegiality and equity following reported incidents of discrimination.
- Confer directly with the Equity and Campus Diversity Office whenever reports or complaints of discrimination or harassment are brought to their attention in their areas of responsibility or if they have concerns about appropriate responses to complaints.
Complaints should be reported to Dolores E. Battle, senior adviser to the president for equity and campus diversity, Cleveland Hall 415, ext. 6210.
Other college policies related to equity and campus diversity are located at www.buffalostate.edu/offices/equity/contents.html .
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