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Work by UB filmmakers to be screened
Films by a UB graduate student and three UB alumni are featured in “Channels—Stories from the Niagara Frontier,” a Squeaky Wheel film-production program that assists documentary filmmakers and grass-roots organizations to collaborate in the production of documentary films about issues important to this region.
The 2009 program will premiere at 3 p.m. Dec. 6 in the Market Arcade Film and Arts Center, 639 Main St., Buffalo. It is free of charge.
The UB films that will be screened are:
• “Unseen Tears: The Impact of Native American Residential Boarding Schools in Western New York,” by Ron Douglas, a graduate student in the Department of Media Study. Douglas worked with Native American Community Services to document how Native American communities in Western New York are trying to heal the wounds and break the cycle of inter-generational trauma that resulted from their children being forced into the controversial Native American residential boarding schools that operated in Western New York from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries.
• “Round the Clock: Buffalo’s Workers and the Fight for Jobs with Justice,” by anthropologist and independent filmmaker Christine Zinni, MA ’00, PhD ’07. Zinni worked with the Coalition for Economic Justice to produce this film about four workers whose income from full-time employment is well below the federal poverty level. The film demonstrates how people are fighting to bring about change in their economic condition.
• “Build on the Past for Our Future,” a film by Diedie Weng, MFA’09. The film chronicles the struggle of low-income communities to revitalize neglected historical Buffalo neighborhoods by valuing as assets not only the places involved, but the people who occupy them. Weng collaborated with Preservation Buffalo Niagara on the film.
• “The Ecology of Reading” (working title) by Loren Sonnenberg, MFA’09, examines the innovative and holistic approach brought to the field of literacy education by several Buffalo organizations, including the Read To Succeed coalition, with whom he collaborated.
Guitart to read in Just Buffalo series
UB faculty member Jorge Guitart will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 9 in Hallwalls Cinema, Babeville, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, as part of the Gray Hair Reading Series presented by Just Buffalo Literary Center, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and Earths Daughters magazine.
The reading, which also will feature Teresa Peipins, a Western New York writer whose chapbook, “Box of Surprises,” was published recently by Finishing Line Press, is free and open to the public
The Cuban-born Guitart, a professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, has published widely in his field. As a poet, he writes both in his native Spanish and in English. He is the author of Foreigner's Notebook (Shuffaloff Press, 1993), Film Blanc (Meow Press, 1996), and The Empress of Frozen Custard and Ninety-Nine Other Poems (BlazeVOX, 2009). His work is included in the Electronic Poetry Center at UB.
For more information, visit the Just Buffalo Web site.
PMBA program ranked by BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek has ranked UB’s Professional MBA program as one of the country’s top part-time MBA programs.
The program was ranked No. 69 nationally and No. 8 in the Northeast.
The magazine’s biennial ranking of part-time programs began in 2007 and is based on three measures: student satisfaction, academic quality and post-MBA outcomes.
Student satisfaction accounts for 40 percent of the overall ranking and is based on surveys to part-time MBA students who have recently graduated or are nearing graduation.
Academic quality is worth 30 percent of the total and is derived from equally weighted scores of six variables: average GMAT, average student work experience, the percentage of faculty who are tenured, average class size in core business classes, the number of business electives available to part-timers and the percentage of students who ultimately complete the program.
A third category, post-MBA outcomes, makes up the final 30 percent of the ranking and is based on the percentage of students who say their part-time MBA program was “completely” responsible for them achieving their success goals—advancing a career with a current employer, finding a new employer or changing careers entirely.
GSE offers new online programs
The Graduate School of Education (GSE) is offering two new online programs to make it easier for professionals to pursue additional education in gifted education and library science.
The advanced graduate certificate program in gifted education is designed for New York State certified teachers interested in developing the skills needed to address the specific needs of high-ability students. The 15-credit-hour program allows teachers to complete the required fieldwork in gifted education in the community in which they live, and includes recommendation to New York State for the gifted education extension upon successful completion.
Applications are being accepted for the spring 2010 semester that begins on Jan. 13.
The Master of Library Science program, also delivered entirely online, will give students the chance to earn a degree in the rapidly changing and dynamic world of library science. GSE’s Department of Library and Information Studies is accepting students through Feb. 1 for fall 2010 admission.
The new two-year online cohort program provides a rigorous curriculum with a focus on information access and reference services, according to Dagobert Soergel, chair of the Department of Library and Information Studies.
For more information, click here or contact Louise Lalli, GSE online program manager, at 645-6622 or lmlalli@buffalo.edu.
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