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Economics & Finance has a partnership with the Universidad de Quintana Roo on the Yucatan Peninsula in Chetumal, Mexico. Over the next year they will engage in faculty exchanges, joint research, several faculty will participate in a week-long colloquium on small business financing in spring 2007, and they will jointly submit a USAID Training, Internship, Exchange and Scholarship (TIES) grant next June. They will explore possibilities of a dual diploma MA program and distance learning. The focus of the grant is on organizing small businesses in the state of Quintana Roo (especially those in the poorer communities) into credit cooperatives to reduce risk and improve their ability to finance growth. This project includes the Buffalo State College Small Business Development Center.
Through Cynthia Conides, associate professor of History and director of Museum Studies, the Department of History and Social Studies Education has a partnership with the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum. Since 2001, the Porter Hall location has provided a dedicated gallery and workspace where students in museum studies design, prepare and install exhibitions as part of their curatorial training. Several major exhibitions held at Porter Hall, including Buffalo Creek Revisited (2003) and Ann Colley: Bright Passage (2006) were well attended by the Buffalo community. The North Hall location will provide additional space for future museum studies exhibits and related programs.
Through the efforts of Jill M. Gradwell, Coordinator of Social Studies Education, the Department of History and Social Studies Education established a partnership with the Albion Central School District in an U.S. Department of Education funded Teaching American History Grant Initiative. Over the course of a three-year period (Fall 2006-Fall 2009) the department will provide intensive, content-based professional development to middle and high school teachers in Orleans and Niagara counties that will cover African-American, Native American, Immigration, and Women's history as well as sessions on historical methods and tools.
Ron Smith, chair of the Communication Department, has a partnership with the National Museum of the American Indian, a part of the Smithsonian, to work together on a case statement for fund raising from tribes, and a strategic plan for civic engagement. This collaboration benefits the department with the potential for student involvement and a relationship of diversity and professionalism.
Kim Irvine, chair of Geography and Planning, has several partnerships: A two year project with Buffalo Niagara Riverkeepers providing external funding for students to evaluate ten sites for habitat improvement; another directed by Wende Mix in which students experience the challenges faced by professional planners while working with a community partner to address specific needs associated with revitalization and economic development in the city.
"Empty Bowls" raised $5,000 for the hungry in its third year this past May. It is a collaboration between the BSC Art Education Department, CEURE, local Art teachers and art students, artists, the Food Bank of Western NY, Friends of the Night People, the School of Arts & Humanities, and the Western NY Association of Realtors. Art Education students mailed and posted lesson plans on the AED web site for art teachers to teach students to make bowls to be donated for sale. At the sale in May, the public is invited to purchase these bowls and other donated bowls created by area artists. In return for purchasing a bowl, donors are served free lunch donated by area restaurants. AED students Tullis Johnson and Craig Puffer made presentations about "Empty Bowls" at the National Art Education Conference and "Scholarship and Creativity Day." This project is part of a national "Empty Bowls" project that can be accessed on the web. See the BSC AED website under "Programs."
The Art Conservation Department has several partnerships with local cultural institutions, including one with the Buffalo Museum of Science. Through this partnership, conservation students conduct research and treatment on objects from the museum’s extensive collection. The Art Conservation Department and the Museum collaborate on an annual exhibit, “Collections and Conservation,” that highlights these projects.
Perhaps the most extensive partnership on campus, the Department of Elementary Education and Reading has developed an extensive network of partner schools in its Professional Development School Consortium. The Department of Exceptional Education and Educational Foundations are also represented in the Consortium. The PDS, as it is generally known, has grown from 4 member schools to over 46 member schools. It includes urban, suburban and rural school partners who engage in professional development activities with Buffalo State students and faculty on multiple contractual levels. The highest level of partnership involves students, faculty and teachers in action-based research projects for the improvement of education in partner schools. An advisory council of principals and teachers along with Buffalo State faculty guides the PDS and sets the agenda for monthly meetings attended by principals, teachers and Buffalo State faculty where issues of interest and professional development are presented and discussed. The PDS Consortium has won 3 significant awards as a model partnership. Director Leslie Day and her student assistants travel to national conferences to share the results of impact studies on academic achievement in PDS schools.
