UB remained open on Nov. 18 after a snowstorm hit several Buffalo areas. It left many UB commuter students in Lancaster, Orchard Park and West Seneca unable to drive to school with unplowed roads and buried cars.
On Monday, UB is sending out its new campus-wide course evaluation to students that will be available online.
UB is more than $500 million short of what it needs to finish its original construction and renovation plans across all three campuses. The university has hit its spending cap for capital projects and recently presented a new plan with revised expenditures. The original Five-Year Capital Plan allocated $404 million for projects on North Campus, $136 million for South Campus and $24 million for the downtown campus.
On Thursday, SUNY trustees approved an increase SUNY tuition by $300 for the final year in the NYSUNY 2020 Tuition Plan.
Jason Berger, founder of UB Skydiving, jumps with former student Jillian Schuppenhauer. On Saturday, Berger will dive into UB Stadium to deliver the football team's game ball. Courtesy of Jason Berger Jason Berger will be getting high and dropping out before
On Wednesday, the Faculty Senate Executive Committee voted not to pass making the Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage into a department.
Wednesday evening, author, Army combat veteran and youth advocate Wes Moore spoke to UB students as the second guest in UB?s Distinguished Speaker Series about taking advantage of higher education and using it to help those in need.
UB students without cars will often use the NFTA metro system, but also find the rail inconvenient to use.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he will be implementing a new SUNY policy about sexual assault that will apply to all 64 campuses.
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Graphic by Jenna Bower and Chad Cooper By 2016, students entering UB may not be puzzled by phrases like ?integrated clusters? and ?e-portfolios? ? the terms are the key to UB?s proposed general education overhaul. The majority of students aren?t satisfied with UB?s current general education requirements ? a UB survey showed 68 percent of students surveyed thought the required classes were just something to ?get out of the way.? On Friday, the General Education committee ? which is leading the charge for a new curriculum ? hosted its second open forum about the suggested new program, which emphasizes critical thinking and communication skills as well as capstone projects and studying aboard.
Kaitlin Ahern, a third year Ph.D. student of anthropology and TA for world civilizations, teaches a class in Knox 104.
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The Student Association had an eventful 2013-14. From multiple resignations to constitutional amendments, SA has implemented structural changes and gone through controversy that started almost immediately.
Every year, graduating seniors debate between two options as a stepping-stone into their futures: going straight to graduate school or pursuing a job. Questions of finances and potential unemployment weigh heavily in the minds of many soon-to-be UB graduates as they debate lunging into the professional world or continuing higher education.
On Wednesday, the Student Association Assembly voted to change election guidelines to have presidential and vice presidential candidates running on separate ballots. During an impromptu Senate meeting on the same night, the SA Senate passed an amendment allowing the SA president to appoint the SUNY delegates. The Assembly also voted Melissa Kathan, a sophomore political science major, to be speaker of the Assembly for the second year in a row. The previous election system required the presidential and vice presidential candidate to be elected together.
If Facebook were a country, it would be the second most populated one. Every second, 9,100 tweets are sent - which is 1 billion tweets in fewer than five days.
From now until March 29, UB students could find themselves rewarded for simple acts of recycling. UB is once again participating in RecycleMania - a national competition held each spring that compares the amount of waste reduction between universities.
Students have portable toilets on South Campus, but many feel the addition is not a solution to a bigger problem. After hearing community members' complaints about students urinating on South Campus property, UB placed Porta Potties near the Main Street bus stop.
When Student Association Treasurer Siddhant Chhabria came to UB from his native India, he was expecting a crazy experience like the one he saw in American Pie. He soon realized college in America is completely different from what he imagined. Throughout his college career, Chhabria has taken steps to transition from his wild perception to a matured approach.
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