For Faculty

SUNY Faculty and Staff Awards Opportunities
Fulbright Scholar Program
Award Recipients

Submit two copies of File A. One copy is retained in the Provost’s Office and the other in the Dean’s office. File A is to contain only the items listed below. Originals are to be placed in a file folder with no dividers or cover sheets. One copy is to be organized in a three-ring binder with dividers separating the sections.

1. Request for Faculty Personnel Action form (gray paper)
2. Letter of Expectations
3. Candidate Statement
4. Curriculum vitae
5. Personnel Committee letter (if there are multiple authors, this should not be apparent to the reader; format and style of PWC report should be consistent across member write-ups)
6. Chair’s letter

Send Dean electronic copies of:

• Chair’s letter
• Personnel Committee letter
• Candidate Statement
• CV

Refer to DOPS Section VI regarding:

• Teaching Effectiveness
• Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity
• Public, University and Professional Service

Things to Include:

• List of courses and evaluations for them
  • Prefer range of scores over review period
  • If not norm, explanation of circumstances and/or what faculty did to address it
• Quotes from letters of support
• Dates faculty were observed; write-ups of observations should not be included in letters of support—these are separate artifacts.

For Lecturers:

• Explain how their work is essential to program
• Show they have a full teaching load and, if applicable, detail how student teacher supervision is loaded
• Refer to DOPS Teaching Effectiveness (same as tenure track)
• Discuss advisement responsibilities and service contributions to department, school, college, profession

Students of Concern - Care Team
Course Listings
Intellectual Foundations
Direct students with technology needs to email Jeffery Ventura at venturjm@buffalostate.edu

Personnel

Payroll
Faculty Handbook
Promotion & Reclassification of Faculty

Policies 

SUNY Human Resources Policies
Buffalo State Human Resources Policies and Guides
University-wide Policies and Procedures
Directory of Policy Statements (DOPS)

Structure

SUNY Buffalo State Strategic Plan

Procedures

Employees requesting support for university-related travel must obtain approval from their department chair prior to making travel arrangements. Follow the directions listed in the SEP Employee Travel Guidelines document (below). 

Directions

• School of Education and Applied Professions EMPLOYEE Travel Guidelines
• School of Education and Applied Professions NON-EMPLOYEE Travel Guidelines
• Bengal Buy Guide for Employee Travel Reimbursement

Forms

• SEP Travel Authorization and Estimated Expense Form (Excel)
• NYS Travel Voucher (Excel)
• NYS Standard Voucher (PDF)
• Foundation Travel Services Payment Request Form (PDF)

Resources 

The following are found on the Accounts Payable and Travel Services homepage.   

• Current Per Diem Rates 
• Travel booking websites 
• State Travel Guidelines for transportation, lodging, meals, conferences, foreign travel, travel cards, and miscellaneous expenses. 
• NYS Mileage Form
• NYS Hotel Tax Exemption Form
• Over-the-Max form for Lodging

Foreign Travel

• The Foreign Travel Disclosure Form (Word) is required two weeks prior to traveling outside of the United States. 
• Consult the U.S. Department of State website for Travel Advisories and Foreign Per Diem Rates