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Vol. LII, No. 24 |
State of the College Address
This annual event provides an opportunity for the campus to hear a concise overview of plans and ongoing initiatives, as well as challenges at the college, in an interactive format. We encourage all members of the faculty and staff to attend. Refreshments will be provided in Upton Hall lobby following the presentation.
Muriel A. Howard
Policy Regarding General Education Placement of Readmitted Students
Readmitted students for fall 2007 will be appropriately placed by the Admissions Office. Readmitted students currently registered who have been placed in Intellectual Foundations may petition to be placed in General Education 2000, and their petitions (and any petitions currently pending) will be granted on the same basis.
Nominations with supporting materials for the President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Advisement; Advancement of Equity and Campus Diversity; Librarianship; Research, Scholarship, and Creativity; Service to the College; Teaching; or as an Undergraduate Research Mentor must be submitted to the provost, Cleveland Hall 519, by the following dates (the first Monday in March each year):
March 5, 2007 (academic year 2006–2007)
Nominations with supporting materials for SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor or Distinguished Service Professor awards, or for the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching; Professional Service; Librarianship; Scholarship and Creative Activities; or Faculty Service must be submitted to the provost, Cleveland Hall 519, by the following dates (the third Monday in October each year).
October 15, 2007 (academic year 2007–2008)
Research, scholarship, and creative activities should be conducted from June 1, 2007, to December 31, 2007. Hard copies of guidelines and further instructions for applying can be obtained from the College and Community Partnerships Office, Cleveland Hall 211A. For questions, please call Marian Deutschman, ext. 4132.
Workshop Day 1: “Demystifying the Grant-Writing Experience”
Workshop Day 2: “Who’s Providing the Funding?”
For reservations, please specify workshop and location, and e-mail Gina Game at gameg@rf.buffalostate.edu.
Campus Confidentiality Statement
Failure to protect personal and academic information may result in legal action against offending employees. Employees accused of failure to protect confidential information that results in harm to an individual may not be covered by Public Officer’s Law, and therefore not defended by New York State.
Examples of personal information that must be kept confidential: Social Security numbers, health information, disability status, etc. Faculty and staff must ensure that information contained on the employee change form is kept confidential.
Examples of academic information that must be kept confidential: grades, class schedules, student ID numbers, etc. Faculty and staff members may not post test scores or grades using any portion of a student’s name, Social Security number, or student ID number. Faculty and staff must refrain from providing students’ parents with information related to their student’s academic performance or other personal information unless given permission to do so by the student.
Personal and academic information should be stored on a password-protected shared network drive. Sensitive information should not be e-mailed or stored on a laptop, desktop machine, or any portable storage device. Delete any sensitive files when they are no longer needed. Laptops and flash drives should be kept in a secure area to guard against theft of the devices and the information stored on them. Personal or academic information should not be removed from campus.
For more information:
Questions regarding privacy of the employee change form, employee contracts, official employee files, etc.:
Questions regarding privacy of student information and FERPA:
Questions regarding health information and HIPAA:
Questions regarding legal liability and any legal action against the college or an employee:
Procedures, Forms, and Related Information
Program funds may be used for courses at SUNY campuses only. Eligible employees may apply for a 50 percent waiver of SUNY tuition for up to two courses per semester, to a maximum of 15 credit hours per academic year. Tuition assistance is limited to regular in-state undergraduate or graduate tuition rates. The level of support may be adjusted when necessary if funding is not adequate to cover applications received.
Contact the Human Resource Management Office, Cleveland Hall 410, ext. 4821, for applications, program guidelines, or information about other tuition assistance programs.
University policy also requires that students purchase supplies and materials necessary for credit-bearing courses at the campus store or other appropriate commercial outlet. When this is not feasible in terms of efficiency, cost containment, or method of distribution, a request may be submitted to establish a course-related fee if students will retain the end product of the laboratory course work, e.g., sculpture/ceramics, photography.
Please review your department fee schedule for compliance with university fee policy. Fees not in accordance with the above directives should be discontinued.
Contact Comptroller Gary Phillips at ext. 4312 with questions concerning this policy.
Financial Fitness Workshop: Ultimate Money Skills: Scholars, Dollars, Budgets and Bills
Curricular Proposal Deadline
Program Revision:
Course Revisions:
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the Senate Curriculum Committee for review and approval:
New Program:
New Courses:
ENG 247 Nature Writing. Students develop an understanding of the nonfiction prose genre of nature writing and improve their ability to produce original works in the genre. Class focuses on reading and analyzing nature writing for its stylistic and thematic features and emphasizes specific writing skills. Explores the connections between the natural and human worlds and various attitudes toward nature as conveyed in examples of the genre.
ENG 266 The Personal Essay. The personal essay and how it both relates to and diverges from more objective forms of essays often encountered in academic contexts. Students practice close reading of essays and compose original essays with the help of peer and instructor evaluations.
ENG 320 Autobiography and Memoir. A study of the genres of autobiography and memoir with an emphasis on developing mastery in producing written products of the forms. Students read and discuss examples of both autobiography and memoir, write informal and processed examples of the genres, and learn about the process of writing in the genres for publication.
ENG 325 Creative Nonfiction. Reading and writing creative nonfiction, an essay form that consciously uses the stylistic features of fiction and poetry.
ENG 410 Composition and Rhetorical Theory. A study of the trends in contemporary composition and rhetorical theory with an emphasis of the theory of discourse communities. Students develop skills in producing critical, theoretical, creative, and rhetorical discourse.
HIS 480 Digital Museum Collections. Digital technology enables museums to make their collections more accessible. Students investigate what is involved in digitizing museum objects through classroom instruction and a class project. To balance theory with practice, students work as a group to develop their own digital collection. Course is taught at Buffalo State College and a local cultural institution.
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