Buffalo State has recently announced it will consider eliminating the BSC 101 requirement from the college’s Intellectual Foundations program. BSC 101 is an introduction to Intellectual Foundations, and is designed to stress the importance of critical and creative thinking applied to interdisciplinary topics. A series of internal and external […]

Niagara Square has become a whole new community. Tents of all kinds are scattered throughout the inside of the circle. The occupants live their lives to the sounds of traffic, African drumming music and protests to corporate America. By Oct. 8, some of the more dedicated of the 99 percent […]

Thanks to a grant from the United States Department of Education, some Buffalo State students have spent the last two semesters working with various community organizations through a unique work-study program offered through the Volunteer and Service Learning Center. The Community Service Work-Study Peer Leader Program began in January, and […]

Buffalo State alumni have gone far, becoming CEOs, high-ranking officials at major movie studios and members of the House of Representatives. Even the current mayor of Buffalo, Byron Brown, graduated from Buffalo State. But despite these successes, the college’s achievements can often go unnoticed. Officials hope that showing off these […]

The designs for the $5.4 million renovation of the Campbell Student Union have been completed, and work on the project will begin in January. The project includes replacing the central concrete staircase in the union with a more modern glass design and renovating the entire third floor, including the Social […]

The shrill sound of the alarm sends hundreds of students out the doors of their dorm building, where they huddle together waiting for the fire department to arrive. The trucks are there within minutes. Usually the firefighters will look around briefly before determining that there is no emergency, allowing the […]

Buffalo State has taken another step towards simplifying metered parking by installing a new meter box outside of Grover Cleveland Hall. Different from a traditional meter head, which requires coins and only services one parking space, a meter box accepts dollar bills and credit cards while servicing the entire lot. […]

Buffalo State held a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open-house event Tuesday for the college’s Community Academic Center, bringing out local dignitaries and community members to see the new center. Byron Brown, Mayor of Buffalo, was the featured speaker at the event. Other speakers included Buffalo State President Aaron Podolefsky, Tammy Alsace, […]

Union members have come to Buffalo State twice this semester to protest what they say is unfair labor practices on the part of contractors hired by the college. The Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters has been engaged in a campaign across Western New York to protest against certain construction companies […]

The scent of onions and potatoes wafted through the air of a gray and black kitchen in the new apartment complex known as STAC as two residents prepared a meal. Jamie Mischner, a senior early childhood and childhood education major from East Meadow, and Jessica Pangerl, a junior art education […]