Panel Discussion
Sharon Cramer, SABRE Project executive director,
will host the panel discussion "Been There, Done That: The
Voices of Experience" from 11:00 a.m. to noon Tuesday, February 11 and
Wednesday, February 12 in E. H. Butler Library 210.
Blair Foster, registrar at Canisius College; Kevin Smith, associate comptroller for student
accounts at Canisius College; and John DeNisco, associate professor of business at Buffalo State,
will share their perspectives on the move to
online registration and their experiences with Web-based student
services. Foster and Smith will participate in Tuesday's discussion, and
Foster and DeNisco in Wednesday's session. Cramer will provide a SABRE update at each, including information
about "how to" sessions, which will be held in CyberQuad
beginning Monday, March 17. Light refreshments will be served.
A final announcement regarding online registration will be
made Monday, March 17. A series of SABRE-related events open
to the campus community will take place throughout the semester. Please check
the Bulletin for regular SABRE updates.
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McNair Scholars Program Open House
The Buffalo State McNair Scholars Program will hold an open house from noon to 2:00
p.m. Tuesday, February 11 in Science Building 253. Faculty and staff interested
in mentoring McNair scholars and teaching in the program are invited to attend, as are
freshmen and sophomores interested in pursuing graduate degrees.
For more information, call Sandra Washington at ext. 3411.
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President's Awards for Excellence
Monday, March 3 is the last day to submit nominations and supporting materials for
President's Awards for Excellence in Teaching; Research, Scholarship, and Creativity;
Librarianship; Academic Advisement; Service to the College; or the Advancement of
Equity and Campus Diversity. Guidelines are available from the Academic Affairs
Office, Cleveland Hall 519, ext. 5903.
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2003 Honors Convocation
Honors Convocation will be held at 12:15 p.m. Thursday, April 24 in Rockwell Hall
Auditorium. Please join us as we recognize those students who have achieved academic
excellence. This year's speaker will be Kimberly Bagley, associate professor of
chemistry.
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Computer Training,
SkillSoft E-Learning,
and Webmaster 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. Contact Debbie
Riservato at ext. 4060 or risedl78@buffalostate.edu with
questions.
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
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SkillSoft E-Learning
Employees also may participate in SkillSoft, an online learning program that offers 106
courses and a variety of certificate
programs that allow employees to demonstrate mastery of a set of skills.
More information about the SkillSoft E-Learning Program is available from the Human
Resource Management Web site,
www.buffalostate.edu/offices/hr.
Employees also may register for courses on the site.
This month's SkillSoft courses may be taken in CyberQuad's Faculty/Staff Workroom, E.
H. Butler Library 310,
by appointment only; call Debbie Riservato at ext. 4060. Please check in at E. H. Butler
Library 315 (CyberQuad) before starting.
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Webmaster Training
The FAST Development Center and the College Relations Office offer a sequential
training program especially for campus Web developers. Faculty and staff are welcome
to take any or all of the 10 courses offered. More information about the Webmaster
Training Program is available from the College Relations Web site,
www.buffalostate.edu/offices/collegerelations/webtools/index.asp?sub=campusrt&subint
=webtrain. Employees may register for courses at http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration.
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2003 Mildred Campbell Leadership Award
Mildred Keller Campbell, a significant benefactor of Buffalo State, dedicated years of service to
the College Council, the Alumni Association, and the College Foundation. After graduating from
Buffalo State in 1928, Campbell went on to teach with the Buffalo Public Schools, the Buffalo
Seminary, and the University at Buffalo.
In her honor, the Student Life Office created the Mildred Campbell Leadership Award. This award
is given annually to an undergraduate student who has a strong record of leadership at Buffalo
State, demonstrated through personal development, organizational leadership, citizenship, and
community building.
Undergraduate students who have completed at least 24 credit hours at Buffalo State and have
maintained a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.5 are encouraged to apply.
The award will be presented at the Student Affairs Leadership Award Reception on Tuesday, April 22.
Award applications are available in the Student Life Office, Campbell Student Union 400; the
United Students Government Office, Campbell Student Union 402; the Student Union Information Desk; the
Residence Life Office, Porter Hall; the Vice President for Student Affairs Office, Cleveland Hall
513; the Career Development Center, Cleveland Hall 306; the Weigel Health Center; the
Intercollegiate Athletics Office, Houston Gym 103; and online at www.buffalostate.edu/depts/studentlife/awards.html.
Applications are due Friday, February 28.
To nominate an outstanding student or for more information about this award, call Hector Gil,
assistant director of student life, at ext. 4631.
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Who's Who among Students in American
Universities and Colleges
Who's Who among Students in American Universities and Colleges has a 68-year-old tradition of
furthering the aims of higher education by recognizing and rewarding academic excellence on a
national level. Buffalo State is one of more than 1,900 institutions that participate in the program.
Students selected for inclusion in Who's Who are entitled to a free lifetime reference/placement
service when seeking postgraduate employment or fellowships.
The campus selection committee—composed of faculty, staff, and students—needs your help in
encouraging students to apply for this honor. Matriculated juniors, seniors, and graduate students
are eligible. Undergraduate students must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of
3.0. The minimum cumulative grade point average for graduate students is 3.5.
The selection committee evaluates candidates based on their scholastic achievements,
participation and leadership in extracurricular activities, and service to the college and
community.
Students may self-nominate or be nominated by a faculty or staff member. To nominate
an outstanding student, call the Student Life Office at ext. 4631. A letter acknowledging
the nominator and an application form will be sent to the student.
Applications are available at the Campbell Student Union Information Desk; the
Student Life Office, Campbell Student Union 400; or online at www.buffalostate.edu/depts/studentlife/awards.html.
Submit applications to the Student Life Office by Friday, February 28.
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Workforce Recruitment Program
The U.S. Department of Labor's Workforce Recruitment Program will hold student
interviews on campus on Friday, February 14. This program is designed to give students
with disabilities greater access to summer and full-time employment with government
agencies and private-sector organizations. It is sponsored by the Career Development Center
and the Services for Students with Disabilities Office. More information is available on the
CDC Web site at www.buffalostate.edu/offices/cdc/wrp.html. Call Lisa August, associate
director, Career Development Center, at ext. 5811 with questions.
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Equity and Campus Diversity Minigrant Approval
Upon the recommendation of the President's Council on Equity and Campus Diversity,
President Muriel Howard has approved funding for the following Equity and Campus Diversity
Minigrant for spring 2003:
Buffalo Creek Reservation Revisited
Submitted by Cynthia Conides, assistant professor, History and Social Studies Education
Department
The grant supports an exhibition of early-nineteenth-century artifacts and historical
documents that catalog the Buffalo Creek Reservation Treaty, which precipitated the
steady land shrinkage of the Seneca Nation in Western New York. Native American
artists and historians will conduct lectures and seminars explaining the significance of
Native American history to Western New York and how it influenced their personal
artistic expression.
For questions about the minigrant program, contact Dolores E. Battle, senior adviser to the president
for equity and campus diversity, at ext. 6210 or battlede@buffalostate.edu.
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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 reasonably
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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College Senate Meetings
College Senate meetings will be held at 3:00 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library 210 on the following
Fridays during the spring 2003 semester:
February 14
March 14
April 11
May 2
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Curricular Proposal Deadline
Curricular proposals should reach the Senate Office, Cleveland Hall 211, by
Tuesday, March 11 to allow sufficient time for spring-semester processing.
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Curricular Items
The following have been approved by the College Senate Curriculum Committee
and will be forwarded to the president for final review and approval:
Course Revision:
EDU 416 Teaching Literacy in the Middle and Secondary School
Course Revision and Non-Western Civilization:
HIS 204 Global History of the Twentieth Century
HIS 230 World Civilizations to 1600
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