Graduate Student Association

SUNY SA Statement on Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Immediate Release: Sept. 10, 2016

Contact: Tyler McNeil, Tyler.McNeil@sunysa.org

Five months ago, the Student Assembly of the State University of New York passed with an overwhelming majority, a resolution calling for the State University of New York to recognize the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Today, we stand by that decision.

The State University of New York is an institution of higher education dedicated to the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Student Assembly of the State University of New York (SUNYSA) seeks a continued commitment to those values through the celebration and education of our students and communities about the rich history and culture of the Native Peoples whose ancestral homelands SUNY campuses now reside upon. In doing so, SUNYSA joins countless other institutions of higher education nation-wide in adopting and advocating for Indigenous Peoples’ Day as a day of recognition, celebration, and education of indigenous history and culture.

While this brief statement can only represent a limited perspective of the complex history and culture of Native Peoples, it reinforces the responsibility the State University of New York to consider where we stand within that complex history.

About the Student Assembly of the State University of New York

The Student Assembly of the State University of New York (SUNY SA) is an organization comprised of student leaders elected by their peers from across SUNY’s 64 campuses. Empowering students throughout the state, the SUNY SA is committed to student life and ensuring the representation of its members on the state and national level as well as throughout the SUNY system.

According to the most recent UB police report, there were twenty incidents of reported sexual and dating violence on our campus last year.

It’s On Us: The Student Assembly has partnered with It’s On Us, an organization which works to combat sexual assault and violence. Please go to sunysa.org/itsonus ASAP and click “take the pledge.” We want all of our SGA Presidents signed on to the pledge and need your help to do it. Once you’ve signed on, get your entire leadership team (including Senators and Executive Board Members) signed on as well. We set a goal of 10,000 signatures!

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is a merit-based graduate school fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants who are 30 or younger as of the application deadline: November 1, 2016. Every year the program selects 30 Fellows, each of whom receives up to $90,000 over one to two years for full-time graduate study in any discipline or profession at a US graduate institution. Fellows also join an extraordinary community of past recipients that includes over 550 New Americans working at the tops of their respective fields. If born abroad, an applicant must be a naturalized citizen, a green card holder, or a DACA recipient. If born in the United States, an applicant’s parents must have been born abroad as non-US citizens. Applicants must be applying to graduate school or in the first two years of their graduate program as of the application deadline. More information and a link to the online application can be found at www.pdsoros.org.

The Office of Fellowships & Scholarships would be happy to assist you in applying for this fellowship.

Volume 7, Spring 2017

Chronika is an interdisciplinary, open access journal for graduate students studying the art and archaeology of the Mediterranean world. Chronika, like its parent organization the Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology (www.iema.buffalo.edu), encourages interdisciplinary dialogues and innovative approaches to the study of the past.

Call for Submissions

Chronika welcomes submissions from graduate students that address topics relevant to European and Mediterranean archaeology. Articles must be 3,000 to 4,000 words in length, should detail research at or above the Masters level, and may include up to ten images. To have your article considered for this year’s publication, please submit a 100 to 200 word abstract to chronika@buffalo.edu by Monday, October 31, 2016. You will be notified if your article is selected by November 7. The publication schedule will proceed as follows:

December 23     First draft of full article is due.

January 13        Article is returned to author with comments.

February 10     Revised article is due.

April 8             Chronika launches in print and online.

A hard copy is mailed to each author shortly after this time.

Thank you for your interest in Chronika, and we look forward to receiving your submission. Please direct any inquiries to chronika@buffalo.edu.

Britta Spaulding

Editor in Chief

Please visit Chronika on the web at www.chronikajournal.com

Fall 2016 SBI Programming Grant applications are due Thursday, October 20th!

All grant applications must include the signature of the GSA Treasurer in order to be considered, so please make sure to bring all applications to the GSA office (310 Student Union) by WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19TH at 4:30pm in order for them to be signed.

“The primary function of the Programming Grant is to fund programs that further the quality of student life, and enrich the educational, cultural and social experiences at the University at Buffalo. In light of these goals, organizations that receive awards are to use them to expand existing programs or to help launch new projects.”

Grants of up to $3,000.00 can be awarded to any recognized university affiliated student organization.

The application is attached here, and hard copies can be picked up from the GSA Office (310 Student Union) or the SBI Office (341 Student Union). The deadline for submission is Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 4:30 p.m. Please note that this is a rigid deadline, after which grant applications will not be accepted.

SBI Programming Grant Notifications will be distributed to the grant applicants by Friday, October 28, 2016.

Ban the Box is now policy for the State University of New York. The Student Assembly passed a resolution calling for SUNY to ban the box on admission applications asking for prior convictions. The SUNY Board took up this measure (following our leadership) and it passed overwhelmingly.

The Slow Roll Buffalo bicycle ride will be coming this Monday, September 5 from approximately 6:30-8:30 through neighborhoods in North Park, Parkside, University Heights, and Kensington-Bailey. The ride starts as LaSalle Station, and will go along major streets including Delaware Ave., Kenmore Ave., Main St., Bailey Ave. and Kensington Ave.

Slow Roll is a community event, and we want residents of the route’s neighborhoods to join us! Please visit our Facebook event page for more information and to register for the ride: https://www.facebook.com/events/321298888211361/

The ride will have a Buffalo Police Department escort, and we will stop car traffic at intersections to allow the ride to pass. This can take 10-15 minutes. We’ll work with drivers to guide them to alternate routes.

If you have any questions, please contact Lisa Kenney, Community Outreach Volunteer atlisakenney0@gmail.com