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WELCOME TO BUFFALO STATE'S 2020 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES!
Congratulations! The completion of your degree marks
an important achievement in your academic career and
the beginning of a new chapter in your life.

Although the pandemic prevented us from convening in person
in May as scheduled, we have employed a little technological
creativity in order to celebrate this truly significant milestone
together today. Through fortitude and perseverance, each
member of the Class of 2020 has earned a degree from this
great college and we are proud to honor the individual and
collective accomplishments of this year's graduating class.
We also recognize that life's greatest successes are realized
with the assistance of others. We take time to thank family
and friends who have helped encourage their sons, daughters,
husbands, wives, partners, and loved ones to earn a degree.
Please know that your support is a vital part of the educational
process. We also thank our devoted faculty and staff. Buffalo
State is dedicated to student success and our faculty and

staff play a pivotal role in preparing our students to reach
their full potential.
My greatest wish is that each graduate finds personal happiness,
contributes positively to his or her community, and pursues a
career doing what he or she loves.
Finally, I encourage every graduate to stay connected-in
person or online-with Buffalo State. You are a member of
the Buffalo State alumni family and will forever be welcome
here. We know that the best is yet to come, so please keep us
informed about the milestones in your life!
Sincerely,

Katherine S. Conway-Turner, Ph.D.
President

CONFERRING OF DEGREES
Katherine S. Conway-Turner, Ph.D.

Katherine S. Conway-Turner, Ph.D., began her tenure as the
ninth president of Buffalo State College on August 3, 2014.
As president of SUNY's largest and only comprehensive college
located in an urban setting, Dr. Conway-Turner oversees and
manages more than 1,500 faculty, staff, and administrators who
provide more than 200 academic degree and certificate programs
to 8,500 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate students each year.
President Conway-Turner's vision for Buffalo State to
become "Buffalo's College" through engagement, excellence,
and social responsibility has been embraced and is paying off
in dividends for both the college and the community. The
college's commitment to service has been recognized nationally
under President Conway-Turner's leadership. In 2016, Buffalo
State was among five colleges and universities from across the
country chosen to share in the Washington Center's annual
Higher Education Civic Engagement Awards. The college has
also earned the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching's Community Engagement Classification under
President Conway-Turner, as well as accolades from the
President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
President Conway-Turner earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in
social psychology, and her B.A. in microbiology, all from the
University of Kansas.

Before coming to Buffalo State, President Conway-Turner
was provost and vice president for academic affairs at Hood
College in Frederick, Maryland, from July 2010 until July
2014. From 2004 to 2009, she was provost and vice president
for academic affairs at SUNY Geneseo. She was the dean of
the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Georgia
Southern University and associate dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences at the University of Delaware, where she also
served as director of the women's studies program and graduate
program coordinator. She was an American Council on Education
(ACE) fellow at the College of New Jersey, and she has held
teaching positions at Santa Clara University and California
State University, Long Beach.
President Conway-Turner is married to Dr. Alvin L. Turner,
a psychologist licensed in New York and Delaware, who is
engaged in the independent practice of psychotherapy,
supervision, training, and forensic psychological services.
They have three adult daughters, and in 2016 they became
first-time grandparents.



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