Graduate Student Association

Call for Program Proposals

Living our Commitment: Inclusive Excellence Summit 2020

The University at Buffalo Office of Inclusive Excellence seeks proposals that illuminate practices, research, and initiatives within the University that support our diversity and inclusion mission. This is a unique opportunity for our campuses to come together as a community of staff, faculty, and students to promote understanding and explore new ways to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion at UB.

Please see the attached document or visit http://www.buffalo.edu/inclusion/projects/inclusion-conference.html for submission instructions. Proposals should be submitted electronically by Monday, November 25, 2019.

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UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO PRESENTS:

Living Our Commitment:

Inclusive Excellence Summit 2020

SAVE THE DATE: APRIL 30, 2020

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN OCTOBER      PROPOSALS WILL BE DUE NOV. 25, 2019

Faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to propose programs on a range of topics that address one of the following themes:

• Moving Beyond the Walls of the University
• Exploring Privilege and Bias
• Creating Cultural Competence on Campus
• Promising Practices for Diversity and Inclusion

Summit highlights include:

• Nationally renowned keynote speaker
• Engaging panels and presentations by faculty, staff and graduate students
• Creating opportunities for sustained collaborations on diversity and inclusion work among faculty, students and staff
• Networking opportunities

DATE: April 30, 2020

LOCATION: Student Union & Capen Hall, North Campus

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The University partners with Zipcar to offer car sharing services to our campus as another sustainable transportation option.  This way, students who do not own, or only need a personal vehicle occasionally, can consider using Zipcar rather than bringing a car to campus. Zipcar members can use all cars on our campus, in the local community and nationwide, anywhere in the Zipcar system for as little as $8.50 per hour (gas and insurance included).

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If you would like to offer this benefit to the members of Student Government, please share this link:

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Community-University Collaborations in Research series organized by the Workforce development and Community engagement core at the Clinical and Translational Science Institute. These workshops are open for everyone, students, fellows, faculty, staff as well as the general community of Western New York.

This series aims to increase research collaborations at UB and the WNY community to reduce health disparities and generate a more inclusive atmosphere at UB and in healthcare.

The workshop is in the Lafayette International High school. The students there are all either Refugees, Immigrants or Latinos, and they would love to have some students from UB provide mentorship if possible.

Please find attached the pdf of the series flyer as well as the flyer for inaugural workshop on the Refugee-Immigrant-Latino communities. The flyers also have registration links which are hosted on EventBrite as public events. We encourage registration but also welcome walk-ins.  We are hoping for about a 100 attendees.