In collaboration with UB Libraries, the Honors College, and other campus partners, OIX presents an exhibition highlighting influential civil rights leaders who visited UB during the 1960s and 70s.
Designed to encourage participants to lean into discomfort and to create a culture of dialogue on campus, DIFCON brings UB students, faculty and staff together to address important issues and explore different viewpoints.
UB is committed to integrating inclusive excellence in all aspects of its operations, fostering a sense of shared responsibility, better monitoring progress to goals, and coordinating campus diversity and inclusion-related efforts.
UB’s Inclusive Excellence Summit (May 3-4, 2018) offered a unique opportunity for our campus to come together as a community to promote understanding and explore new ways to increase diversity, equity and inclusion at UB.
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."
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.
