Office of Inclusive Excellence

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At the University at Buffalo, excellence—embracing and exhibiting the highest level of quality in research, teaching and service—can be achieved only when diverse perspectives are engaged. The Office of the Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence plans, coordinates, and monitors the UB’s efforts to institutionalize the culture of equity and inclusion university-wide.

Achieving Inclusive Excellence

UClub2.0

10/10/17

The Office of the Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence occasionaly hosts UClub2.0, a twist on the monthly Faculty and Staff University Club. The event brings UB staff and faculty together to network and socialize in a family-inclusive environment.
Difficult Conversations

10/10/17

Difficult Conversations, or "DIFCON", is a platform that allows students, faculty and staff at UB to come together to address issues of critical importance to our community, and explore our different viewpoints. This website captures UB's efforts to lean into discomfort and create a culture of dialogue through videos and information related to DIFCON events.
Thanksgiving without Borders

10/11/17

Inclusive Thanksgiving was developed in collaboration with International Education to create a more inclusive campus experience for international students by facilitating their being invited into the homes of UB faculty and staff for Thanksgiving Dinner.
Strategic Plan

10/10/17

Our strategic plan provides an overview of our efforts to ensure that UB is diverse and inclusive, explores the evolution of campus demographics and environment, and presents a plan to integrate inclusive excellence in all aspects of university operations, foster a sense of shared responsibility, better monitor progress to goals, and coordinate diversity and inclusion-related efforts across campus.
Council Initiatives

10/10/17

The Inclusive Excellence Leadership Council is composed of faculty, administrators, staff, students and alumni, who support the VPIX and broaden the scope of equity and inclusive initiatives.

Announcements

Learn more about the 2017 Thanksgiving Without Borders program and sign up here (by November 3).

We've changed our name to Office of Inclusive Excellence

A Proud History

1899

2/9/15

In 1899 Helen Z. M. Rodgers and Cecil B. Weiner are the first female graduates of the Law School.
1920

10/10/17

In 1920 the University publishes the earliest known non-discrimination statement. It stated that the University was "For all Buffalo Boys and Girls - regardless of race, creed or class."
1970

2/9/15

In the fall of 1970, UB's undergraduates started the university's first student organization for gay students, the Gay Liberation Front (GLF)
1938

2/9/15

In 1938 Eva Noles became the first African American registered nurse to graduate from an area hospital. She later went on to earn a B.S. in nursing from UB in 1962.
1880

10/10/17

The first known African-American graduate of UB, J. Robert Love received his medical degree on February 25, 1880.

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