Buffalo Independent School District history

1888 To accommodate growing enrollment, a science building is constructed behind the school and connected to it by a second-floor bridge.

1910 The Household Arts Department opens with 75 applicants.

1917 The first summer session and Saturday extension classes begin for practicing teachers.

1930 The Art Education Department, the only one in the United States maintained under state auspices, is established.

Historic School Districts of Dallas County, Missouri (In development) (Even prior to reorganization in the 1940's, some smaller school districts were absorbed by neighboring school districts.

1946 The institution, now called the New York State College for Teachers at Buffalo, receives a $1 million state allotment to build a library, industrial arts building, and science building, and to enlarge the gym and convert the old industrial arts building for use by the Home Economics Department.

1948 The State University of New York is formed.

1954 The curriculum expands with the addition of bachelor of science in education programs in early secondary education, including English, French, Spanish, mathematics, social studies, and general science.

1966 The college acquires a 7.9-acre site at the foot of Porter Avenue for a freshwater field station.

1970 Students take over Rockwell Hall in early May to protest the United States invasion of Cambodia and the student deaths at Kent State.

1975 Social work program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (the first social work program in Western New York to be accredited by the Council on Social Work Education).

1987 The Festival of Five, a series of gala arts events, marks the grand reopening of a newly renovated Rockwell Hall.

1991 The $19 million Sports Arena is opened.

1993 Three commencement ceremonies in the new Sports Arena mark the first time graduation has been held on campus in 23 years.

1997 The Center for Health and Social Research is established.

1999 First women's ice hockey team joins Intercollegiate Athletics.

President Podolefsky steps down as the college’s eighth president, effective July 31, 2013.

Buffalo State College embarks on an ambitious roster of capital projects that will result in nearly $350 million of new projects and improvements to campus by 2014.

Buffalo State receives the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s 2015 Community Engagement Classification.

Buffalo State is the highest-ranked four-year college in Western New York, according to Washington Monthly magazine’s 2019 “Best Bang for the Buck Colleges in the Northeast” ratings.

Buffalo State receives the 2020 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education.