News Clips January 19-25, 2015

Buffalo State and its students, faculty, staff, and alumni are making news. The following articles appeared in the media the week of January 19-25.   Please note that links may expire or change as news outlets archive stories.

January 21

Buffalo News:  Cuomo calls for student loan forgiveness among other higher education initiatives (President Conway-Turner quoted)

Business First:  Buffalo State MOOC sign-up tops 6K, plenty more wanted

Niagara Frontier Publications:  Buffalo Chapter of Girl Develop It announces region's first all-female 'hackathon' (Barbara Sherman, Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems, quoted)

January 22

Buffalo Spree:  Q&A with President Katherine Conway-Turner

Seeking Alpha:  Guest Contribution: 'Measuring the Ongoing Changes in China's Capital Controls' (XingWang Qian, Associate Professor of Economics and Finance, quoted)

The Daily Star:  Critics blast SUCO over diversity in hires, tenure (Buffalo State mentioned)

WIVB:  More student housing planned near Buffalo State (Buffalo State Alum, Bernice Radle, quoted)

January 23

Business First:  Bona MOOC to study Francis — the saint and the pope (Buffalo State mentioned)

January 25

Buffalo News:  Where Buffalo’s Millennials work (Matthew Nagowski, Lecturer of Mathematics and Buffalo State alum, Porsha “Ari” Coaxum, mentioned)