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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[[File:Binghamton-university-sign.jpg|frame|Binghamton-university-sign.jpg]] <span style="font-size:medium;">Binghamton University, primarily known for being a research-based institution, is a public university located in Vestal, New York. It is home to 13,632&nbsp; undergraduate and 3,660 graduate students coming from a total of 44 states and 114 different countries. The university consists of 7 different schools including - but not limited to - Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, the Decker School of Nursing, the School of Management, etc. strongly pushing entrepreneurship. After years of development and planning, the infrastructure is in place to allow startups to thrive.&nbsp; Student engagement with these resources is low, relatively speaking. Pushing more students towards the university’s infrastructure is a cornerstone to not only the office of innovation’s mission but also the office of the president. Being one of the most cost effective educations in the northeast is pushing more qualified students into the school but somehow they are not filtering into the entrepreneurship track as well as they could be.</span></span>

== <divspan style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span class="s1">'''Engaging With Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</divspan><div/span></span><br/> == <span style="font-size: larger; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Most students on campus are not heavily involved with the surrounding community, as entreprenurship resources are underutilized. Additionally, there exists a "bubble" around the university; most students are unaware of the 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 can afford to pay more. Despite these negative circumstances, there are gradual changes being made.</div><divspan><br/font></divspan> <divspan style="font-size: larger; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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 &nbsp;</span>'''[https://www.binghamton.edu/research/innovation/ Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship]'''<span style="font-size: larger; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">, &nbsp;</span>'''[https://www.binghamton.edu/cce/ Center for Civic Engagement],&nbsp;'''<span style="font-size: larger; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">and others seek to connect the university to the surrounding area.</divspan> <divspan style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/></div><divspan 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 &nbsp;[https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/664/koffman-southern-tier-incubator-celebrates-grand-opening here].</divspan></span> ==