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== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span class="s1">'''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts'''</span></span></span><br/> ==
<span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font color="#000000"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students do Most students on campus are not have much involvement heavily involved with the local economic development despite having the surrounding community, as entreprenurship resources available to do soare underutilized. Organizations like SUNY Best bring together Additionally, there exists a whole host "bubble" around the university; most students are unaware of local professionals downtown to create awareness, but the number food desert and detriments of gentrification. Most citizens of Binghamton are driven out of their housing as a result of spiking rental rates, because students that attend can afford to pay more. Despite these meet-ups</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arialnegative circumstances, helvetica, sans-serif;">there aregradual changes being made.</span></span><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></span>
<span style="font-size: larger; font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="#000000"><span style="fontwhite-sizespace: largerpre-wrap;"></span></font>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 </span>'''[https://www.binghamton.edu/research/innovation/ Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship]'''<span style="font-size: larger; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span>'''[https://www.binghamton.edu/cce/ Center for Civic Engagement], '''<span style="font-size: larger; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and others seek to connect the university to the surrounding area.</span></span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: larger;">Our economic programs have 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 several of the communities, many of which exist under the poverty line. The incubator seeks to collaborate with community organizations in order to promote commerce within the state. You can learn more about it [https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/664/koffman-southern-tier-incubator-celebrates-grand-opening here].</span></span>