Bulletin for July 9, 2008

DONATED LEAVE NEEDED
As you may know, Susan Sorbera from the Health Center has been out on medical leave since the end of May. She is not expected to return to work until at least the middle of August. Sue has exhausted all of her sick and vacation leave and is need of some donated time. Donors’ identities are kept confidential and forms for donating leave are available from Human Resources. Thanking you all in advance.

CIVIL SERVICE SECRETARIAL EXAMS
The New York State Department of Civil Service has announced that the Secretary 1 and Secretary 2 exams will be held on September 6, with an application deadline of July 14. A copy of this test announcement has been sent to all candidates currently in titles eligible to take the exam. To prepare for the exam, CSEA members can go to www.csealocal1000.org to download examination preparation booklets. If you did not receive an exam announcement, but think you may be eligible to take the exam, contact the Office of Human Resources.

NEW NYS PROGRAM FOR EMPLOYEES
To all state employees: The Governor’s Office of Employee Relations is announcing a new program to allow New York State employees to pay for certain work-related transportation expenses on a pre-tax basis. In an effort to support a greener New York and to help state employees save money, beginning July 2, 2008 for the October 2008 benefit month, NYS-Ride is being expanded to all New York State employees. This program does not reimburse your public transportation costs but does allow for qualifying expenses to be deducted from your paycheck on a pretax basis. Some carriers in this area include Oneonta Public Transport (OPT), Broome County Transit, Chenango County Public Transit, T-Tran, Adirondack Trailways, and Amtrak North East. Online enrollment begins July 2, 2008. Check your campus mail for an informational flyer and an optional NYS-Ride Employee Information Meeting Schedule. If you have any questions, please contact WageWorks at www.worklife.state.ny.us or contact Human Resources at x2509.

MILNE LIBRARY HOURS FOR JULY

• Through Friday, August 8

• Monday, July 7-
  Friday, August 8

• Sunday-Tuesday,
  August 24-26

• Wednesday, August 27

• Monday-Friday, July 14-18

• Tuesday, July 1–
  Thursday, July 31

• Monday, July 28-
  Thursday, July 31

• Monday-Friday,
  August 4-8

SUNY-ONEONTA OPPORTUNITIES
Assistant Director For Occupancy Management (Assistant Director Of College Housing): The Department of Residential Community Life at SUNY Oneonta invites applications for the Assistant Director for Occupancy Management. This is a one-year appointment with potential to be continued. Responsibilities: Direct the student occupancy program for both on and off campus students; maintain the departmental website; supervise professional staff; conduct hearing adjudications; campus-wide duty responsibilities; organize Resident Advisor selection process; create and implement “parents as partners” program; coordinate departmental night host program; advise department student organizations; present training sessions to various groups; support the development of a positive community for a diverse student population. This is a live-out 12-month position. Qualifications Required: Bachelor’s degree and three (3) years full- time professional experience in residence life OR Master’s degree and two (2) years full-time professional experience in residence life; supervisory experience; demonstrated familiarity with Banner database. Preferred: Master’s degree; group advisement experience; demonstrated leadership roles in departmental committees. Remuneration: $40,000 plus benefits. To Apply: Send letter of interest, resume and names, addresses, and telephone numbers of three professional references to: Residential Community Life, Wilsbach 106, Box BU, SUNY College at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY 13820. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until position is filled. For other employment and regional opportunities, please visit our website at: http://www.oneonta.edu/admin/humres/employment. SUNY Oneonta values a diverse college community. Please visit our website on diversity at: www.oneonta.edu/navigation/diversity.asp. Moreover, the College is an EEO/AA/ADA employer. Women, persons of color, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

• Izabella Lokshina, Management, Marketing and Information Systems, presented a research paper titled MODELING AND SIMULATION OF traffic with compression at media gateways for Next generation networks at the Industrial Simulation Conference, ISC 2008 on June 10, 2008 in Lyon, France. This event was organized by the European Technology Institute (ETI); sponsored by the European Simulation Society (EUROSIS) together with ADICTEL, AEKI, CREAX, ENSAIT, Delft University of Technology, Ghent University and IPK Fraunhofer; and hosted by the University of Lyon. In her paper, Dr. Lokshina discussed modeling and simulation of traffic with compression at media gateway nodes for the next generation networks based on Markov Reward Models (MRM). The bandwidth sharing policy with partial overlapped transmission link was considered. Calls arriving to the link that belong to adaptive (VBR) and elastic (ABR) traffic classes, were presented as independent Poisson processes and Markov processes with constant intensity or random input stream, and exponential service delay time. Service delay time was defined according to MRM. Traffic compression was calculated using clustering and self-organizing maps. Dr. Lokshina discussed simulation and analyzed the numerical results. The paper was published in the ISC 2008 refereed proceedings.

SUMMER BULLETIN INFORMATION
Email your items and attachments to Mona Hughes at hughesml@oneonta.edu. Do not send items or attachments in Publisher. Items that come after the noon deadline will be held over for the next available edition. Submission/Publication dates are as follows:

The first Fall 2008 edition will be published on the first day of classes, Wednesday, August 27. Deadline for this edition is noon on Thursday, August 21. You may send items earmarked for this edition up to the deadline.

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