by browkaa | Feb 26, 2021 | Faculty
The New Student Orientation Team is seeking your help in finding our next group of student leaders for the fall 2021 New Student Orientation program. In order to get a strong and diverse applicant pool, we are asking faculty and staff to identify students and nominate them to apply for this wonderful leadership opportunity!
We encourage you to submit students through this nomination form. The student will then receive an Email from our hiring committee, letting them know they were nominated to apply for the position of Orientation Leader. We are accepting nominations up until Monday, March 15 as this will give the students enough time to submit their applications by the deadline of Monday, March 22.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at orientation@canisius.edu.
Thank you for helping the New Student Orientation Team!
Submitted by: Kathleen Farley, associate dean of students & Title IX Coordinator
by browkaa | Feb 26, 2021 | Faculty
Balanced Body Foods, proud partner of Canisius College Athletics, has a new location. The store is located at 969 Ellicott Street in downtown Buffalo, in the heart of the medical corridor, and will be open Monday – Friday. Pick up online orders, purchase fresh meals out of their retail coolers and enjoy a full-service shake bar!
There is a soft opening special. Buy 5 meals get 1 meal or protein shake for free!!
Submitted by: Nick Wojcicki, senior marketing coordinator, Canisius College Athletics
by browkaa | Feb 26, 2021 | Faculty
A few updates concerning the Canisius College wiki:
- After March 1, 2021, the gray lefthand sidebar will be minimized by default. Although still available, it will not automatically appear to users on desktop or laptop computers. While the sidebar appears to provide a navigation menu, it does not always do this in the most efficient way. More importantly, the sidebar does not appear on mobile devices so it should not be relied upon to assist users in navigating wiki pages and spaces. You can provide much better navigation within your own pages, using tools outlined here.
- Revisit your wiki pages and update the materials there. This includes files attached to pages. If your pages are available to anyone, so is any out-of-date information posted there or in attached files, even if they are not linked on visible pages.
- As part of an effort to assist offices and departments across the college, the Center for Online Learning and Innovation has updated and augmented our guide to using the Canisius College Wiki. The guide provides information on how to improve wiki pages, as well as some time-saving tools and tips. Access the guide here.
If you don’t have a wiki page yet, you can request that COLI create you a page. Follow the guide and add content, create subsequent pages and manage access.
With the overwhelming volume of Emails crowding into faculty, staff and student inboxes, information distributed solely through Email will likely get buried and users will later struggle to find it. Trying to distribute important information by email could be problematic. Consider including it in the wiki where users can continually refer back to it. Save time and Email links to wiki pages that users can bookmark in browsers.
Email helpdesk@canisius.edu for any questions concerning the wiki.
Submitted by: Tyler Kron-Piatek, academic technologist, COLI
by browkaa | Feb 24, 2021 | Faculty
WGN-Radio 720AM out of Chicago, IL, interviewed Christy L. Hoffman, PhD, about her latest study, titled “The Experience of Teleworking with Dogs and Cats in the United States During Covid-19.” Hoffman is an associate professor of animal behavior, ecology and conservation. Her study was recently published in the journal Animals.
Click here to listen to Hoffman’s full interview.
Submitted by: College Communications
by Lauryn Saldana | Feb 24, 2021 | Faculty
The college’s Physician Assistant (PA) Studies program received a $767,500 grant from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation. The grant will support the program’s development and provide scholarships for underserved minority groups.
Congratulations to Sandy Miller for her great work on this grant with Aimee Larson!
Canisius welcomed its first cohort of 30 students to the PA program for the spring 2021 semester this January. A new cohort of 30 students will enter the 27-month master’s degree program each fall thereafter.
The PA program builds on the strong foundation of the college’s pre-medical and general science programming and leverages partnerships with local hospitals and health systems. This first-rate program prepares practitioners to become nationally certified and state-licensed medical professionals, who practice medicine and deliver medical services with physician supervision.
Read more here.
Submitted by: College Communications
