Prepared for SUNY’S Impact on Representative New York’s Maurice Hinchey 2006 District Congressional District 22 22 Campuses District Impact Summary Human Impact DOCTORAL DEGREE GRANTING INSTITUTIONS Students: 47,300 Binghamton University is nationally recognized for excellence, innova- Employees: 11,800 tion and effectiveness and is widely regarded as a "public ivy." Located Alumni: 298,700 (est.) in the high-tech corridor of New York’s Southern Tier, Binghamton has Degrees Since Inception: 353,100 expanded its presence in doctoral education and achieved impressive Economic Impact growth in sponsored research activity over the last decade. Total All Funds Expenditures: $1.2 billion The initial building of the university’s 21-acre Innovative Technologies – Payroll: $502.6 million Complex houses research in life sciences and enabling technologies. – Capital Construction: $45.2 million New York state’s first high technology commercialization center, The – Research: $181.8 million Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging Center, is building Royalties From Inventions: $157,000 partnerships with industries across the nation. Among the University's 2006 Appropriations intellectual strengths are the fields of electronics packaging, bioengi- – Small Scale Systems Packaging Center, neering, materials science, biomedical anthropology, psychobiology, Binghamton University, $2,000,000 chemistry and political science. – Stewardship of the Hudson River Valley & Catskill Watershed, SUNY New Paltz/Ulster County Community In addition to its liberal arts college, the University is home to four College, $750,000 professional schools in nursing, management, education and – Technology Initiative, Orange County Community College, engineering. Award winning international programs provide students $450,000 with advanced knowledge of our global society. The university also MORE THAN 24,100 DISTRICT RESIDENTS home to two exciting new academic programs, each the first of its ARE ENROLLED AT SUNY. DISTRICT kind in the nation. The graduate program in biomedical anthropology RESIDENTS ARE ENROLLED AT Plattsburgh Potsdam Clinton provides a unique interdisciplinary approach to the study of disease 59 OF THE 64 SUNY CAMPUSES. Canton North County transmission, while the evolutionary studies program provides an Jefferson integrated approach to the study of evolution, beginning with core principles and extending in all directions, from molecular biology to Oswego Adirondack Brockport Utica/Rome Niagara County Monroe Upstate Mohawk Valley Empire State art and religion. Environmental Herkimer Fulton-Montgomery Erie Genesee Onondaga Science & Forestry County U. Buffalo Cayuga Schenectady County Finger Lakes Morrisville Buffalo State Geneseo Hudson Valley Statutory Colleges at Cornell represent the creative synthesis of the Cortland Albany Tompkins Cortland Cobleskill Agriculture & Life Oneonta rigorous intellectual tradition of the Ivy League and the democratic Fredonia Alfred Sciences at Cornell Veterinary Medicine at Cornell Ceramics at Alfred Human Ecology at Cornell Industrial & Labor Relations Columbia-Greene at Cornell Delhi Jamestown Corning Broome spirit of the great public university system. The result is international Binghamton Doctoral Degree Granting Institutions Ulster County New Paltz leadership in the following four areas: Agriculture and Life Sciences, University Colleges Sullivan County Dutchess Technology Colleges Veterinary Medicine, Industrial and Labor Relations, and Human Community Colleges Orange County Rockland Ecology. Each college is consistently ranked with the best in the nation Westchester Purchase Stony Brook Maritime College Suffolk County Optometry among institutions of its kind. Fashion Institute of Technology Farmingdale Old Westbury Ulster:Ulster: 3,1223,000 Nassau HSC Brooklyn UNIVERSITY COLLEGES Sullivan:Sullivan: 1,2171,100 SUNY New Paltz provides comprehensive bachelor and master’s SUNYSUNY CampusesCampuses Outside ofof District:District: 7,800 7,664 degree programs in fine and performing arts, business, education, Orange:Orange: 3,0393,100 engineering and liberal arts and sciences. While being highly selective, NewNew Paltz: Paltz: 2,0742,100 it has a tradition of working closely with community colleges in the Binghamton: 2,800 2,370 CornellCornell Statutories: Statutories: 424390 Broome: 3,986 CONTINUES Broome: 3,900 Prepared by the Office of Federal Relations The Research Foundation of SUNY District 22 surrounding counties to provide well-articulated transfer professions with its nursing and diagnostic imaging students options for their students. Its graduate programs in education passing national license and registry tests at a level much serve hundreds of teachers in the region while the Master of higher than the national level. The college’s continuing and Business Administration and Master of Fine Arts programs draw professional education program plays a significant role in students from around the world. For 50 years the college has economic development. been a leader in international education and continues to Sullivan County Community College offers well over 30 programs expand opportunities for students to study abroad. of study ranging from traditional transfer programs to career oriented associate degree and certificate programs. Although COMMUNITY COLLEGES the college is located in the rural Catskill Mountains, approxi- Broome Community College is a comprehensive community mately 40 percent of its student body is from the metropolitan college that offers 12 transfer associate degree programs and New York/Long Island area. SCCC plays an important role in 56 occupationally oriented associate degrees and certificates. business and industry training. Its Small Business Training The college plays a significant role in the economic develop- Center offers accessible and cost-effective programs in a wide ment of the region by providing a wide variety of vocational and range of subjects. avocational non-credit courses. It has one of the largest and Ulster County Community College, a dynamic, comprehensive most comprehensive international programs among SUNY community college, located in the heart of the Hudson River community colleges. Valley, serves over 11,000 credit and noncredit students each Orange County Community College was founded in 1950 as the year. Ulster offers 42 programs leading to associate’s degrees in first county-sponsored community college in New York State. Science, Arts, or Applied Science or to certificates or diplomas. In Today OCCC has a main campus in Middletown an extension addition, Ulster offers a certificate program in Business Studies center in Newburgh and three satellite locations at the Monroe- that prepares “non-business” bachelor’s degree holders to enter Woodbury, Port Jervis, and Warwick Valley High Schools. OCCC Master of Science in Business programs at SUNY New Paltz. offers 34 degree and 10 certificate programs. Of the more than 6,000 students, 40 percent continue their study at a bachelor degree-granting institution. The college is a leader in the health Binghamton University Prepared by the Office of Foundation Relations Research Foundation of SUNY District 22 SUNY’s Impact on the Southern Tier Other SUNY Resources With unique strengths in high-tech science and engineering, the eight G Empire State College provides undergraduate degrees through SUNY campuses in the Southern Tier provide key economic regional centers and units located in the region. development resources for this region. The combined budgets of the — Binghamton campuses—Binghamton University, the College at Oneonta, the — Ithaca Statutory Colleges at Cornell (Agriculture and Life Sciences, Veterinary — Highland Medicine, Industrial and Labor Relations, and Human Ecology), Broome — Middletown Community College and Corning Community College— total more than $1.1 billion of economic activity for the region. These colleges have G Center of Excellence in Watershed Applications and Technology-Based a combined enrollment of 39,400 students and 10,500 employees on Economic Revitalization (COE in Water.) SUNY Delhi in conjunction with campuses that granted approximately 8,650 degrees in the last year. SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) will These SUNY colleges have capital construction budgets of $31.1 million work together to create a sustainable high-tech economy in the New York and they are attracting millions of dollars of research funds in the areas of watershed. The four components of the COE in WATER include: integrated electronics, engineering, bioengineering, cyber security, — Establishment of a premier, national caliber water testing laboratory social sciences, education, workforce development, small business facility at SUNY Delhi. assistance and other areas. — In partnership with the SUNY Center for Sustainable and Renewable Energy commence installation, production and energy applications for Southern Tier Impact Summary USDOE/USDA recognized SALIX energy crops for biomass feedstock on the watershed. Campuses: 5 — Establish a pilot gasification facility at SUNY Delhi to demonstrate Enrollment: 39,400 feasibility and suitability of a full-scale, biomass gasification combined Employees: 10,500 heat and power opportunities plant for the watershed. Degrees Since Inception: 312,200 — Demonstrate use of post-treatment process water for golf course Total All Funds Expenditures: $1.1 billion irrigation to enhance tourism and recreation. — Payroll: $469.6 million G The Centers for