Interior Design Department
A new academic department, Interior Design, was established at the start of the spring 2006 semester. This action is a culmination of ongoing discussions initiated during academic reorganization. Agreements reached include sharing of resources and facilities by two departments, Design and Interior Design, both in the School of Arts and Humanities. Faculty in Interior Design are Rebecca Geraghty, Terry Postero, Jorg Schnier, and Barry Yavener. Postero is department chair.
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College and Community Partnerships Office
Marian Deutschman, professor of communication, has been appointed interim director of the new College and Community Partnerships Office, effective January 2006. The new office is located in Cleveland Hall 512; the telephone number is 878-4132. Deutschman will provide leadership to Buffalo State's public and community outreach mission. Goals and objectives were defined in the Strategic Plan and follow-up reports. Consult the strategic planning Web site for text of the reports.
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2006–2008 Academic Theme
Academic Affairs announces Buffalo State's academic theme for 2006–2008: "Great Minds That Shaped Our Intellectual World."
A sequel to the academic theme of 2004–2006, "Think Big: Twentieth-Century Americans Who Changed Our Minds and Lives," the new theme focuses on individuals from around the world and over the centuries.
The college community went through an extensive nomination process to identify 15 individuals—some well known and others less familiar—whose lives will be featured as part of the theme, and thus become central to class discussions and special events in the coming two years. The "great minds" selected represent a variety of academic disciplines and 12 countries outside America.
Following recommendations offered by faculty, students, staff, chairs, deans, distinguished professors, the Academic Council, and the Vice Presidents Council, these "great minds" were chosen for the campus to consider and study as influential intellectuals who played a considerable role in shaping the foundations of modern thought:
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Jane Austen (England)
Ludwig van Beethoven (Germany)
Marie Curie (Poland/France)
Charles Darwin (England)
Sigmund Freud (Austria)
Mahatma Gandhi (India)
Imhotep (Egypt/Greece)
Lao-tzu (China)
Leonardo da Vinci (Italy)
Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
Karl Marx (Germany)
Maria Montessori (Italy)
Pablo Picasso (Spain)
William Shakespeare (England)
Alan Turing (England)
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Faculty and staff are also encouraged to introduce information about other international "great minds" to both classes and extracurricular activities, so the college community can consider a full variety of thinkers whose achievements altered the way today's world citizens think and live.
For the new academic theme, a CD will be produced that contains writings, art, and music from the lives, works, and times of the 15 identified "great minds." The CD will also include contemporary works derived from their intellectual achievements.
The academic theme CD will be distributed to all first-year students during orientation for fall semester 2006. It is expected that students will find the CD particularly useful and appropriate in the new Intellectual Foundations course, BSC 101: Foundations of Inquiry, since the "great minds" represented in the theme contributed to significant foundational developments in the cognate areas, as well as advances in critical thinking—both areas the curriculum of that course explores. The sourcebook now being developed for BSC 101 will include additional selections related to the academic theme.
Other first-year classes—ENG 101/102, First-Year Seminars, and courses in Learning Communities—are expected to use the academic theme CD for readings and discussion.
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Sabbatical Leaves 2006–2007
It is my pleasure to announce the following sabbatical leaves for 2006–2007:
Fall 2006
Robert Delprino, Psychology
Tom Giambrone, Mathematics
Carole Knuth, English
Wendy Paterson, Elementary Education and Reading
Jonathan Thornton, Art Conservation
Ralph Wahlstrom, English
Mary Wyrick, Art Education
Spring 2007
Richard Butz, Technology
Ann Colley, English
Dennis Gaffin, Anthropology
Carol Kirby, Modern and Classical Languages
Stephen Phelps, Elementary Education and Reading
Howard Riessen, Biology
John Song, Criminal Justice
Carol Townsend, Design
Barry Yavener, Design
Fall 2006 and Spring 2007
Musa Abdul Hakim, E. H. Butler Library
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Purchase Requisition Deadlines
Requisitions for supplies, materials, services, and equipment from fiscal year 2005–06 funds must be received in the Purchasing Office by the close of business on the following dates:
| $20,000 or more (noncontract) |
Monday, May 1 |
| $20,000 or more (contract) |
Monday, June 5 |
| Less than $20,000 |
Friday, June 16 |
Purchase requisitions for computer equipment and equipment replacement requirements, as well as purchases through OfficeMax for office supplies, also must adhere to these deadlines.
Important note: It is the responsibility of departments to ensure that all requisitions for fiscal year 2005–06 are received in the Purchasing Office by the above deadlines. Late requisitions will not be processed. Requests received through campus mail after the deadlines will be returned.
Call Terri Locher in the Purchasing Office at ext. 4113 with questions.
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Reminder: 2006–2007 Alumni Association Scholarships
Applications are now available for the 17 scholarship opportunities offered through the Buffalo State Alumni Association. Scholarships range from $250 to $1,000. To apply, students must submit a completed application form, an essay, and two reference forms to the Alumni Affairs Office, Cleveland Hall 305, by 5:00 p.m. Friday, March 10. For an application, stop by the Alumni Affairs Office in Cleveland Hall 305, call ext. 6001, or visit www.buffalostate.edu/alumnifoundation/giving/index.asp?sub=fund&sub2=scholarships.
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Curricular Proposal Deadline
Curricular proposals should reach the College Senate Office, Cleveland Hall 211, by Friday, March 10, to allow sufficient time for spring semester processing. Proposals received after that date are not guaranteed action before the end of the semester.
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Curricular Items
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the Senate Curriculum Committee for review and approval:
New Course:
COM 392 Public Relations in Sport. Sports public relations and its role in intercollegiate and professional athletics; process and practice of sports information and media relations; topics include writing formats, publications, crisis management, game management, current events, law, and ethics.
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Intellectual Foundations Courses
Revised Courses and Intellectual Foundations Designations:
HUMANITIES
ENG 130 Biblical and Classical Literature. Works selected from biblical literature and from Latin and Greek literature before Constantine.
ENG 205 History of Cinema 1. Cinema history from 1890 to 1960. Trends in cinema's aesthetic forms, technical breakthroughs, innovators, and cultural antecedents and impact.
ENG 206 History of Cinema 2. Cinema history since 1960. Representative trends in cinema's aesthetic form, technical breakthroughs, key innovators, cultural antecedents, and cultural impact.
ENG 210 British Literature I: Selected Topics. Selected topics, themes, and authors in British literature before 1700.
ENG 220 American Literature I: Special Topics. Survey of the various genres of influential American writing—including biographies, captivity and slave narratives, essays, poems, short stories, and criticism, as well as Gothic, epistolary, sentimental, and Romantic novels—produced between the late seventeenth century and the mid-nineteenth century.
ENG 221 American Literature II: Selected Topics. Topics, themes, and authors in American literature after the Civil War.
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HUMANITIES AND DIVERSITY
ENG 240 African American Literature to 1940. African American slave narratives, poetry, fiction, essays, and drama from the eighteenth century to 1940; the influence of spirituals, gospel, blues, jazz, sermons, and folktales on African American writing; the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s; and the development of African American revolutionary thought.
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Intellectual Foundations Designation:
DIVERSITY
SWK 319 Dynamics of Poverty
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