Student Success Navigator in Student Success and Retention

Buffalo State, State University of New York, seeks candidates for the position of Student Success Navigator in Student Success and Retention.

Reporting to the Director of Student Success & Retention Initiatives, Student Success Navigators will act as the lead transition support professional amongst a team of professional staff collectively referred to as the “student support network”. Student Success Navigators will work closely with a cohort of identified incoming students during their inaugural year at Buffalo State University. Student Success Navigators will engage with the student cohort in both group and individual settings. Their main focus will be to prepare, educate, and empower students to meet the academic rigor of college by identifying and addressing potential barriers (academic, social, financial, and career-related). For students who need a more individualized approach, these professionals will use a student-centered coaching model to develop ongoing goal-oriented success plans to avoid/minimize the impact of identified barriers. Additionally, these plans will coordinate the connection of students to important campus resources. Through the usage of predictive analytics, RMS, and studentcentered qualitative data, Student Success Navigators will regularly evaluate student progress and develop data-informed interventions as needed. Most importantly, Student Success Navigators will model professional mentorship and act as a campus “bridge builder” to encourage campus interconnectedness amongst new students and campus support departments (Academic Advising, Financial Aid, Student Accounts, the Registrar, Tutoring, Weigel Health Center, Student Leadership & Engagement, Student Conduct, Athletics, Academic Standards, UPD, CAPE, CCE, and all other relevant campus departments)

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, with experience in a higher education setting; specifically, one that required the professional to work with FY, First Gen, “at-risk”, and diverse student populations. Must be self-motivated with strong interpersonal and communication skills, flexible in approach, collaborative, open to professional development and critique, and proficient in Microsoft office, student management technologies, and social media. Should be available to work occasional “non-traditional” office hours (nights, weekends).

Interested candidates should have experience working with various college student populations such as those deemed “higherrisk”, first-year, first-generation, and diverse groups. Possess the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines. Exude strong interpersonal and communication skills (both oral and written). Have some familiarity and the ability to develop a thorough understanding of general education and programmatic requirements, college policies, and campus resources/services. Experience with college data management systems (e.g., Banner, Banner Admin pages, Starfish, and Degree Works), Microsoft Office, and social media platforms.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s degree in Higher Education Administration, Social Work, Education, Psychology, or other relevant degrees; combined with the aforementioned required qualifications.

Qualified applicants may apply online at https://jobs.buffalostate.edu/postings/6901

Meeting Of The Board Of Directors For Erienet Local Development Corporation

MEETING NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the ErieNET Local Development Corporation will hold the following meeting on Tuesday, July 18, 2023:

Board of Directors Meeting – 1:00 p.m.

The meeting will be held at the Offices of the ECIDA, 95 Perry Street, 4th Floor Conference Room, Buffalo, New York 14203. You may also join the meeting via Webex or livestream using the following links:

WebEx Link: https://erie.webex.com/ erie/j.php?MTID=m625311d9611647 ad19a27372a2924cbd

Livestream: https://www.youtube. com/@erienetldc/streams

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Melissa Hartman at: Melissa.Hartman@erienet. com

PLANTATION ACADEMIA continued from page 11 that “Colorblindness is being blind to history.”

As previously reported by many who involved with higher education, the ruling will not only curb admissions of students of color at top universities many of `which give consideration to race as a factor (among many others) when determining admissions, but also have a devastating impact that will ripple through the entire educational system. Affirmative Action and other programs that evolved from the mid-20th century were originally intended to at least acknowledge if not rectify the horrific American trajectory of slavery, Jim Crow, lynching, murder, rape etc. of Africans in the USA and other parts of the diaspora. Ms. Harris also

BLACK HISTORY continued from page 3 trade” after his death. The latest research presents a different narrative, suggesting Cort shipped his machinery – and the fully fledged innovation – to Portsmouth from a Jamaican foundry that was forcibly shut down.

The Jamaican ironworks was owned by a White enslaver, John Reeder, who in correspondence described himself as “quite ignorant” of iron manufacturing, noting that the 76 black metallurgists who ran the foundry were “perfect in every branch of the iron manufactory”, and, through their skill, could turn scrap and poor-quality metal into valuable wrought iron.

Some of these workers are named in records, and include Devonshire, Mingo, Mingo’s son, Friday, Captain Jack, Matt, George, Jemmy, Jackson, Will, Bob, Guy, Kofi and Kwasi. Their innovation came after the workers introduced the use of grooved rollers into the foundry to mechanise the formerly laborious process of hammering out impurities from low-quality iron. The same kind of grooved rollers were used in Jamaican sugar mills.

“It’s like a mechanical alchemy,” said Bulstrode. “You’re taking essentially rubbish and turning it into something of very high value through this process.”

Submitted by Modell galt, source: Hannah Devlin -Science correspondent theguardian.com

REV. HEMPHILL continued from page 3 encourages us to read Justice Ketanji Brown Jacksons dissent to the decision in which she wrote, “Deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life…”

NAACP. He was also an organizer and past president of the Minority Coalition, an organizer and board member of the Community Action Organization, a past resident of the Southern Christian Leadership conference and a board member of the Black Development Foundation and the Black Businessmen's Development Corporation. He also brought the Opportunity Development Corporation to the Buffalo Niagara region and became its first president.

“A member of the Interdenominational Ministers Association, the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Sigma Rho Sigma honorary fraternity and the Prince Hall Free and Accepted Masons. He ventured into politics briefly in 1984 when he ran unsuccessfully for Common Council in the Masten District. He made his transition on May 12, 2002 in his home after a lengthy illness. He was 73.

“[Thomas] does not dispute any historical or present fact about the origins and continued existence of race-based disparity (nor could he) yet is somehow persuaded that that these realities have no bearing on a fair assessment of “individual achievement” . She also wrote that Thomas “Ignites too many more straw men to list, or fully extinguish here.”

As a result of the dismantling of Affirmative Action, universities and colleges will now have to ascertain other, more permanent ways to ensure that they still foster diversity, without being able to take an applicant’s race into account during the admissions process. Carter Woodson tells us that we must understand history in order to understand how we got here. It’s a centuries long story but we can start by deciphering the logic by which education was made illegal and totally impermissible for slaves.

Frederick Douglas, who was born into slavery and secretly taught to read and write, simplified the reason we were to be denied education when he said, “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” Also penning the famous query, “What, to the American slave is the 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him more than any other day in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy – a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages…”

Buffalo State is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and committed to respect for diversity and individual differences.

Participants in the July1, 2023 dedication service included Rev. Loretta Lewis Brooks, the spirited Pastor of Walls Memorial AME Zion; Rev. Kevin D. Coakley, Presiding Elder of the Buffalo District & Pastor of St. Luke AME Zion Church; Bro. Frank Clark, Chairman of the Trustee Board; Melanie Hemphill , granddaughter of Rev. Hemphill; Rev. Dr. James A. Lewis Pastor of Miracle Missions Full Gospel Church; and Mrs. Elverna D. Gidney, Historian/Curator.

It is no coincidence (in the mind of this writer) that the legal setback to Affirmative Action by the US Supreme court came down in the week before the nation’s observance of “Independence Day” which as Mr. Douglas correctly pointed out, is no holiday of ours.

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Turn Around Casino & Bingo Trip

A turnaround casino and bingo trip to Turning Stone Resort & Casino will be held Saturday August 19. The bus will depart from McDonalds 262 Grider St. at 6 a.m. and arrive back to Buffalo at 1 a.m. Cost is $75 per person. Way to Pay: Zelle 716-493-9235; CashApp moneyjaz1; ApplePay 716-493-9235; or Venmo 2Lenabaker52. For more information call Lena B. at (716)440-4109.

Calendar Of Events

THURS. JULY 13

WUFO Black Radio Collective Annual 45 PARTY & Fundraiser Hosted by CEO Sheila Brown, 5 p.m. WUFO Studios, 143 Broadway, $45 per person, RSVP to LjReid@ blackradiohistory.com

SAT. JULY 15

The Black Church Food Security Network Membership Sign Beverly Gray Center, 324 East Utica 10 a.m. to 12 noon.

Larry Salter Soul Orchestra, Free Concert, Mandella's Jefferson & Ferry, 6-8 p.m.

MON. JULY 17

Hustle for Health 12pm at Gloria Parks: 3242 Main St, Buffalo. FREE for ages 55+ Visit www.HustleforHealth.com

Salsa In The Park, With Sarah Haykel and Jerome Williams 6:30, The Rose Gardens. Delaware Park, 199 Lincoln Pkwy. On Line Tickets $15 day of event 4 p.m. www.SalsaSarah. com

TUES. JULY 18

What Do You Want The Tops Massacre 5/14 Memorial To Look Like? The 5/14 Memorial Commission public meeting 5:30-7 p.m. at the Stanley Makowski Early Childhood Center, 1095 Jefferson Avenue at Best St. Residents can also take an on-line public opinion survey by going to:

African Consciousness Workshop

Every Monday 4-6 p.m., Merriweather Library, 1324 Jefferson Ave. “Where we learn About Our Glorious Past & Present African Family.” (716)400-8644 Bro. Shango or kmtflix@gmail.com