The Undergraduate Experience at UB: Intentions and Goals

1. The Undergraduate Experience at UB:Intentions and Goals • Creating a distinctive undergraduate experience • Using existing strengths, resources & potentials • Responding to trends in higher education, disciplinary and students’ needs

2. Institutional Context and Incentives • Complements UB 2020 as a research-oriented framework • Emphasizes educational mission of a large public university • Feeds into efforts to further internationalize UB

3. Undergraduate Education Initiatives • Discovery Seminars • Honors College • Undergraduate Academies • Center for Undergraduate Research (CURCA) • Task Force on General Education

4. 3 Undergraduate Academies:► Civic Engagement► Global Perspectives► Reserach Exploration • 17 Norton, North Campus • Phone 716.645.8177 • http://academy.buffalo.edu • Academic side: Andreas Daum, adaum@buffalo.edu • Staff: Hadar Borden, hborden@buffalo.edu

5. Main Features ► Open to all UB Undergraduates ► Inter-Disciplinary, no degree-program ► Focus on 1st Year Experience + 2nd year activ. ► Seminar program + ► Extra-curricular activities + ► Residential component ► Governance Structure: Academy Councils

6. Academies Weekly Themes

7. Academies Excursions & Guest Speakers

8. Civic Engagement Academy Council Andreas Daum Associate Dean Professor of History Bob Granfield Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department Beteanne ( Elizabeth) Riegle Clinical Associate Professor School of Nursing Lee Dryden Director of Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Degree Programs Kathryn Bryk Friedman Deputy Director, Regional Institute Robert M. Knopf Professor and Chair Department of Theatre and Dance Peter Sobota Academic Director School of Social Work • Ellen Dussourd • Director of International Student • and Scholar Services • Michael Frisch • Professor • Department of History • Margaret R. Wells • Director, Public Services, • University Libraries • Barbara Bono • Associate Professor • English Department • Bill Wild • Director Special Student Programs • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

9. Global Perspectives Academy Council Dr. Claude Welch Academic Director Department of Political Science • Stephen Dunnett • Professor • Vice Provost of International Education • David Engel • SUNY Distinguished Service Professor • Law School • Mehrdad Hadighi • Associate Professor • Chair, Department of Architecture • Christopher Hollister • Senior Assistant Librarian • James N. Jensen • Professor and Director of • Undergraduate Studies • Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering • Munroe Eagles • Professor • Department of Political Science • Richard V. Lee • Professor of Medicine • Department of Medicine; Social and Preventive Medicine • Jeannette Ludwig • Associate Professor • Department of Romance Languages and Literatures • Donald K. Pollock • Associate Professor and Chair Anthropology • Natalie Simpson • Associate Professor • Dept. of Operations Management & Strategy • Shaun Irlam • Associate Professor • Department of Comparative Literature

10. Research Exploration Academy Council Dr. James Jensen Academic Director Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering • Diane Christian • SUNY Distinguished Professor • Department of English • Peter Nickerson • Professor of Medicine • Director, Pathology Graduate Program • Albert Titus • Associate Professor • Department of Electrical Engineering • Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen • Professor • Department of Geography • Tracy Gregg • Associate Professor • Department of Geology • Thomas A. Russo • Professor of Medicine • Janet Morrow • Professor and Associate Dean • Department of Chemistry • Doreen Wackeroth • Associate Professor • Department of Physics • H. Austin Booth • Director, Collections, • University Libraries • Krista L. Hanypsiak • Administrative Director, • University Honors College • Peter Horvath • Associate Professor • Dept. of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences