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Reporter resumes weekly print publication
Beginning with this issue, the Reporter resumes publishing a print edition weekly during the academic year. The quality of the paper has been upgraded and, for the first time, the Reporter is being published weekly in full color. The reinvestment in UB's faculty and staff newspaper, which will include more content developed specifically for the Reporter, underscores the commitment of the Office of News Services and Periodicals to supporting academic excellence and improved internal communications. The weekly online edition of the Reporter will continue to offer expanded coverage.
Figure-drawing sessions to be held
The Department of Art will hold open figure-drawing sessions on Wednesdays, starting Sept. 7 and running through Dec. 7.
All sessions will be held from 7-9:30 p.m. in Studio 218 in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The sessions, which are sponsored by the UB Student Visual Arts Organization, are open to the public. The fee is $5 per session.
For more information, call 645-6878, ext.1369.
Forbes includes SOM in top rankings
Forbes magazine has again included the School of Management in its ranking of top business schools for providing MBA students with the best return on their investment.
Forbes ranked the SOM No. 48 in a survey of 111 business schools. This is the third consecutive time that the UB management school was selected for the ranking, which is released every two years. And, in a first-time ranking of part-time MBA programs, the SOM was ranked No. 22.
According to Forbes, the rankings show which business schools offer the "best return on investment" by comparing the cost of attaining an MBA—tuition, plus forgone income—to salaries earned by MBA graduates upon graduation and five years after graduation. Results will be published in the magazine's Sept. 5 issue.
The results were based on a survey of 25,000 MBA graduates worldwide from the Class of 2000. The graduates were selected from 111 business schools.
According to the ranking, the average Class of 2000 UB MBA full-time graduate had a five-year gain in compensation of $60,000, after subtracting the cost of tuition and forgone salary. In 2005, their salaries rose to an average of $70,000, a 192 percent increase from their pre-MBA average salary.
When measuring the five-year gain as percentage of expenses (MBA profits divided by the sum of tuition and forgone compensation) the SOM showed a 95 percent gain, with only three of the top 50 schools showing higher percentages.
Acer colloquium set
Christine Sleeter, professor emeritus at California State University, Monterey Bay, will discuss "Urban Teaching and Democracy in an Era of Accountability" during the Fall 2005 Charlotte Acer Colloquium on Urban Education.
The lecture will be held from 4-6 p.m. Sept. 15 in 105 Harriman Hall, South Campus. It will be free and open to the public.
In her talk, Sleeter will examine how urban teachers carve out space to teach for democracy and equity in historically underserved communities during a time of high-stakes testing and accountability. Based on her case-study research in eight urban classrooms, she will show that while the current accountability movement blunts political critique in classrooms, some teachers continue to engage students in authentic learning and teach democratically. Sleeter will argue that the current political climate requires educators to keep alive a vision of participatory democracy and sharpen the political analysis of the accountability movement.
The Acer colloquium is presented by Graduate School of Education and the Charlotte C. Acer Endowment.
Newman liturgy set
The Newman Centers will mark the opening of the 2005-06 academic year with the Annual Convocation and Liturgy of the Holy Spirit, to be held at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 18 in St. Joseph University Church, 3629 Main St., adjacent to the South Campus.
Barbara J. Ricotta, associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students, will receive the Newman Award, the highest recognition made by the Newman Centers, during the liturgy. Ricotta will be recognized for her efforts on behalf of UB students during many years of distinguished and unselfish service at the university.
All members of the campus community are invited to attend.
Gallery to host event
The UB Art Gallery will host a musical performance by the Open Music Ensemble at 5 p.m. Sept. 15 in the gallery in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The performance, entitled "Sound and Text," will feature the work of experimental composers with connections to Western New York.
In addition, an installation of graphic scores, sound poetry and text scores from the UB Music Library's Treasure Room, which will be on display in UB Art Gallery from Sept. 8-22, will provide a visual context for the performance by illustrating various means of recording unconventional scores.
The performance and installation will be free and open to the public.
The UB Art Gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, with hours extended to 7 p.m. on Thursdays.
For more information, call 645-6912.
The Open Music Ensemble is presented by the Open Music Foundation, which fosters the distinctly American tradition of experimentation and innovation in music through promotion of artistic musical works employing unconventional, open-form and experimental—including graphic and pictographic—means of notation, performance practice and representation.
Recent UB grads receive Fulbrights
Two recent UB graduates have received grants and scholarships from the J. William Fulbright Foundation to teach and study abroad during the 2005-06 academic year.
Meghan Fadel, a May 2005 UB graduate, has received a grant to teach English-as-a-second-language in Spain. Geoffrey Rhodes, who received a master of fine arts degree from UB in May, has been awarded a scholarship to study filmmaking in Canada.
Fadel received a bachelor of arts degree in English with a minor in Spanish. Her academic work also included a number of science courses. She currently works as a project aide in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
During her Fulbright year, Fadel will teach in the ancient city of Murcia, on Spain's Costa Blanca. Murcia is the capital of a one-province autonomous community, also called Murcia, which in antiquity was the site of powerful Carthaginian and Roman settlements. The Moors settled the region around 800 A.D. and for more than 400 years the region was part of the Moorish caliphate of Cordoba.
Murcia is noted for its splendid Baroque architecture; a variety of museums; the University of Murcia, whose precedents go back to 1248 A.D., and for the Cathedral de Santa Maria, a magnificent Baroque cathedral built in 1348 as a gothic structure on the site of a mosque, and altered in the Baroque tradition in the 16th century.
Rhodes received a bachelor's degree in Italian literature from the University of Washington in 1996, and a bachelor's degree in media production from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., in 2001.
Rhodes says he expects to spend up to three years in Canada completing a doctorate in communication and culture through a program offered jointly by Ontario's York University and Ryerson University in Toronto.
"The program employs a new model involving practicing art scholars," Rhodes says.
"My work will involve continuing studies in semiotics and media theory combined with art practice in filmmaking, installation video and other media. It is an extension of my current work, but in a large cosmopolitan city with an international population."
Fadel and Rhodes are among the more than 1,000 American students who are traveling abroad for the 2005-06 academic year through the Fulbright Program, established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of the world.