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<span style="font-size:mediumlarger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students do not have much involvement with the local economic development despite having the resources available to do so. Organizations like SUNY best Best bring together a whole host of local professionals downtown to create awareness, but the number of students that attend these meetups</span>meet-ups</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">are</span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">surprisingly low.</span></span><br/></span> <span style="backgroundfont-colorsize: transparentlarger; color">Many students are unaware of the economic situation of the surrounding area; additionally, they do not know how to engage with the surrounding community. Despite having several resources in which the community can be engaged, they are underutilized. Our '''[https: rgb(0//www.binghamton.edu/research/innovation/ Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship]''', 0'''[https://www.binghamton.edu/cce/ Center for Civic Engagement], 0)&nbsp; vertical'''and others seek to connect the university to the surrounding area.</span> <span style="font-align: baseline; white-spacesize: pre-wraplarger;">They unfortunately either Our economic programs have no awareness or are aware grown substantially in the past few years; in June of 2017, the Koffman Southern Tier Incubator opened. This incubator was created with New York state funding in order to bolster the economic conditon of the state and social issues that persist in several of the city around communities, many of which exist under the university but nothing is done to resolve these issuespoverty line. The school also does not seem incubator seeks to have dedicated staff members that take initiative collaborate with community organizations in order to bridge the gap between the university undergraduate population and promote commerce within the surrounding communitystate. This is an issue that has become evidently clear and could use the help of entrepreneurial initiatives to properly address You can learn more about it[https://www.binghamton.<edu/news/story/span><664/span>koffman-southern-tier-incubator-celebrates-grand-opening here].</span>