UB collected more than 22,000 items as part of a school supply drive to benefit Buffalo school children.

In all, UB faculty, staff and students donated 22,011 school supply items, including more than 600 markers, 11,800 sheets of loose-leaf paper, more than 800 pens and 1,000 pencils, plus thousands of index cards.

This year’s drive more than tripled the number of items collected, making it the biggest school supply drive UB has conducted, according to Linwood Roberts of UB’s Office of Community Relations.

Items collected were donated to schools around UB’s campus centers, including Highgate Heights Elementary and Westminster Community Charter School near the South Campus, and Futures Academy, Aloma D. Johnson Charter School and Martin Luther King Multicultural Institute near the Downtown Campus.