This time each year, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at UB delves into the process of sorting through thousands of applications from students hoping to be accepted to the university. And compared to this time last year, there has already been a jump in the number of applicants who are applying to UB.
He said the role of treasurer requires for him to synthesize a lot of information and make prudent decisions, rather than have a background in economics.
All information according to University Police.
The effort was designed to “train trainers” in fair and impartial policing perspectives, according to Fair and Impartial Policing (FIP), an organization designed to tackle issues of bias and interactions with the public that officers sometimes do not notice. The training is based on the “science” of bias, according to UB Chief of Police and president of the SUNY Police Chiefs Association, Gerald Schoenle.
B’s law school went from having 54 full-time faculty members teaching in the fall of 2010 to just 27 last fall, according to the American Bar Association’s annual 509 information reports. That includes a drop off from 48 full-time faculty members who taught in the fall of 2014.
Winter Storm Jonas covered the Northeast in a snow blanket this past weekend, leaving many students stranded outside of Buffalo and concerned about not getting to campus in time for the start of the semester.
All on-campus dorms and apartments were not supposed to open until Sunday, but will now open Friday at 9 a.m. to accommodate students traveling from the New York City and metropolitan area.
Buffalo Police is investigating the burglary in Truesdell’s apartment early Thursday morning - just one of many burglaries that have occurred in the University Heights neighborhood over the past month.
The Spectrum has compiled a list of this semester’s most noteworthy news stories.
Two suspects robbed a UB student of his cell phone and wallet while the student was walking down Winspear Avenue, located right off of South Campus, with a friend at around 10:35 p.m. Sunday. The victim said the two suspects, male teenagers wearing dark clothing, approached him asking to use his cell phone, then one suspect pointed a black handgun at him while the other struck him in the head.
The SA Assembly will ask the Faculty Senate to require that professors include information on sexual assault and Title IX polices on all course syllabi.
The collaborative assembled in Glora J. Parks Community Center to provide updates on developments within the Heights neighborhood. Mickey Vertino, president of the University Heights Collaborative, spoke about the new student housing complex, Axis 360, which will be located on LaSalle Avenue off of Main Street.
The policy will require that art projects outside the Center for the Arts have some kind of note or explanation to identify it as a work of art.
College students are notorious for pulling all-nighters during finals week. The extra hours spent awake are seen as a productive time to study for finals.
Students often have grievances about how professors decide to calculate their final grade and the dreaded finals week, which runs from Dec. 14 until Dec. 21 this semester, as a whole. Professors across different departments have their own methods for breaking down students’ grades, and some even adjust their class structure to fit student preferences.
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UPD Lieutenant Scott Marciszewski, Officer John Sindoni and Communications Officer Robert Adamski all received awards for professionalism on campus. The SUNY Chiefs Association Awards are held annually in Albany, New York to recognize the work university police departments within the SUNY system. The event presents officers with awards for heroism and professionalism.
The letter uses racial slurs and accuses several organizations, like the NAACP and the Black Lives Matters movement of being racist. Although UPD says the letter does not pose a direct threat to Oliver, it has run a number of assessments regarding the text of the letter, fingerprints and the physical letter itself. And as a precaution and per protocol, UB has shared the letter with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
UB has created a former foster youth program to help transition these youth through college. The program was initiated about a year ago and is through the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) and Student Support Services (SSS) and works with the UB School of Social Work.
The Student Association Senate held its final meeting of the fall semester on Friday.
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