| February 20, 2008 | Vol 9. No. 10 |
College to Launch Canisius Alert System - Faculty/Staff Asked to Update Contact Information
In the coming weeks, you will hear more about our new initiative to enhance the college’s emergency communication plan. The Connect ED communication service called Canisius Alert will launch on March 17. A time-based notification system created by Connect Ed, the Canisius Alert system will enable college officials to quickly notify faculty, staff and students in the event of an emergency, college closing or class cancellations due to inclement weather, illness pandemic or an intruder. Canisius Alert will not be used for routine communication.
To ensure that everyone is notified as soon as possible about campus emergencies, all faculty, staff and students are asked to please update their contact information. The Canisius Alert system will store one phone number in addition to your Canisius E-mail address. Click here to update your information in the Canisius Alert system.
When activated, the system sends a message within minutes via:
- Voice-mail messages to home, work and cell phones
- Text messages to cell phones, PDAs and other text-based devices
- Written messages to your Canisius E-mail account
- Messages to TTY-TDD receiving devices for the hearing impaired
For more information about Canisius Alert, please contact Dr. Conley at Ext. 2130 or conley@canisius.edu.
Canisius Receives $1 Million Gift from Wendt Foundation
Canisius College has received a $1 million from The Margaret L. Wendt Foundation for A Legacy of Leadership: The Campaign for Canisius College. The gift will support the renovation and purchase of equipment for Science Hall, the college’s planned interdisciplinary science center.
“Canisius is very grateful to The Margaret L. Wendt Foundation, which has been a valued supporter of the college for many years,” said John J. Hurley, executive vice president and vice president for college relations. “Their commitment to the interdisciplinary science center constitutes an invaluable endorsement of this strategic initiative that will move Canisius in important new directions in the sciences.”
The largest fund-raising initiative in the college’s 137-year history, A Legacy of Leadership aims to raise funds for capital improvements and the college’s endowment. To date, Canisius has received commitments of nearly $57 million to the campaign. For more information about the campaign, click here.
The Margaret L. Wendt Foundation is a private philanthropic organization dedicated to the support of not-for-profit organizations in Western New York.
Canisius is Recipient of Sloan Award
Canisius College will work to expand and enhance flexible career paths for its faculty, thanks to a 2007-2008 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Faculty Career Flexibility. The $200,000 award is sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and conducted by the American Council on Education (ACE), with support from the Families and Work Institute. Boise State University, Santa Clara University, San Jose State University, Simmons College and the University of Baltimore also received awards.
“We are honored to have won this prestigious award,” said Scott A. Chadwick, PhD, vice president for academic affairs. “It will provide Canisius with the opportunity to become an even more faculty-friendly and family-friendly work place.”
The Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Faculty Career Flexibility recognize master’s colleges and universities for their leadership and accomplishments in the implementation of groundbreaking policies and practices that support career flexibility for tenured and tenure-track faculty. Canisius will use the award to investigate the implementation of several new policies and practices designed to enhance faculty career flexibility, such as the institution of a second extension of the probationary period and the establishment of a half-time or part-time appointment with proportional salary that allows faculty to count summer teaching as part of their annual course loads.
The initiative to secure the award was led by Jerome L. Neuner, PhD, associate vice president for academic affairs. Neuner will lead the Faculty Career Flexibility efforts over the two-year life of the award. For more information, click here.
Ignatian Celebration of Scholarship Day Planned
Canisius College will hold its first annual Ignatian Celebration of Scholarship Day on Wednesday, April 16 from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the second floor of the Richard E. Winter ‘42 Student Center. At the event, the college’s undergraduate and graduate students will have the opportunity to showcase their research, scholarship or performances in a conference environment. Students may submit their best works from a previous or the current semester in the following five forms of expression:
- Poster displays
- Paper presentations
- Media presentations
- Two- and three-dimensional art
- Performances (poetry, drama, vocal or instrumental music)
Burich, Cochrane Awarded Peter Canisius Professorships
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| Keith R. Burich, PhD | Mick Cochrane, PhD |
Burich, a professor of history, will use his Teaching Professorship to further develop his Native American Program, now entitled “Through Indian Eyes: Bringing History to Life.” Originally established in 2004 with support from a Peter Canisius Professorship, the program gives voice to Native Americans, and enables them to tell their history “in their own words and in their own ways.”
Students will gain new perspectives on post-Columbian history and culture not only through coursework but through a Native American speaker’s series, cultural immersion programs to Montana’s Crow Reservation and New Mexico’s and Arizona’s Navajo Reservations, and through field experiences to such places as the National Museum of the American Indian. Burich will also develop a new course entitled Historical Archeology. The course will examine Native American history from an archeological perspective and be offered to students in the Canisius All-College Honors Program.
English Professor and Writer-in-Residence Mick Cochrane will use his Peter Canisius Teaching Professorship to continue his popular Contemporary Writers Series, which was established in 1999 and was among the first Teaching Professorships awarded at Canisius. The series brings writers of national stature to campus to read from their work and to meet with students, faculty and members of the Buffalo community. It is presented in coordination with a course devoted to the study of contemporary fiction.
Faculty members are chosen for Peter Canisius Professorships through a competitive grant process that focuses on creativity and the extent to which their proposals will advance the college’s mission. To learn more, click here.
Canisius is New Home to Crime Prevention Association
Canisius College is the new home of The Crime Prevention Association of Western New York (CPAWNY), an organization that for the past 20 years has educated community members about crime prevention. Canisius College Public Safety Lieutenant James Murphy, III, led the initiative to provide CPAWNY with an office on the college’s Main Street campus. Murphy also serves as CPAWNY president.
“It is an honor to welcome The Crime Prevention Association of Western New York to the Canisius campus,” said Gary Everett, director of public safety. “We look forward to hosting the meetings and sharing information with association members from across Erie County. We also look forward to highlighting our Canisius College access system, central monitoring station, CCTV and other efforts we make to keep our campus safe.”
Everett also noted that this year marks the 20th anniversary of the Canisius College Crime Prevention Unit, one of the first established in Erie County.
The CPAWNY provides quarterly training for law enforcement, educators and crime prevention practitioners across Western New York and is the lead organizer for National Night Out. CPAWNY is proud of its 20-year record of placing in the top 15 communities each year for its National Night Out activities.