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toward its strategic goals. Construction of the Academic

of issues of race and ethnicity on campuses in our

and literature, political science, sociology, and gender

Commons, a one-stop location in the E. H. Butler

region, and the proliferation of Buffalo State student

studies. Students take the required AAS 100 course,

Library for tutoring, advising, and other academic

organizations such as the African American Students

services, is scheduled to be completed during the Spring

Organization, Black Active Minds, the Caribbean

two courses in literature, arts and language (ENG,

2020 semester and implementation of the college's

Students Organization, the campus chapter of the

five-year Title III grant to enhance the first-year

NAACP, and the Pan African Students Organization.

experience and improve retention is moving into its
second year. Assessing the impact of these initiatives,
the office overseas the development and implementation of assessment in academic and functional units and
monitors progress toward the Strategic Plan.

The Africana Studies program, approved by the New
York State Education Department in summer 2019,
will continue on the strengths of the minor program.
Buffalo State students have expressed interest in having
a degree program that focuses on Africana Studies.

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Nine SUNY schools have similar programs.

DAN, FAR, THA, or MUS), two courses in social
science and education (AAS, ANT, CRJ, HIS, PSC, or
SOC), and one African and African American Studies
general elective.
Three new faculty members will contribute in the areas
of sociology, philosophy, individualized studies, and
Africana studies. Each hire will be housed in an academic
department and will be expected to share the vision of
developing leaders for an increasing global society.
New courses will focus on relevant and current content,

The need to modernize Buffalo State's Africana
Studies program has been demonstrated by recent

The focus is Africana studies, which includes African,
African American, and Caribbean people and their

on applied learning that incorporates service learning

events including the national Black Lives Matter

impact on a broad range of disciplines, including but not

and study abroad, and on the sense of time, place,

movement, student protests for increased awareness

limited to: anthropology, art, history, culture, language

democracy, and citizenship.

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