Why is Binghamton University collecting this data? Why should faculty, staff and students share their activities?
Community engagement is a key piece of the University’s mission and a strategy through which we can achieve our goals. Through Collaboratory, we can explore and showcase our story of engagement and impact in local, regional, national and international communities.
Telling this story recognizes and highlights the important work of community partners, faculty, staff and students at Binghamton University, and provides opportunities for new or improved connections and collaborations. Your voice and your story are a part of Binghamton University’s engagement story — a part that should be shared and recognized!
We encourage you to further explore the benefits of Collaboratory below.
I am a(n)...
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Faculty member
Collaboratory helps me:
- Easily share the details of my community engagement and public service activities
- Highlight scholarly artifacts of community-engaged teaching and research
- Showcase my expertise, background and community-based interests
- Share my research and service with potential funders, donors and partners
- Discover who else on campus is doing community engagement work
- Identify both course- and non-course-based community engagement and public service opportunities for student involvement
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Student, prospective student
Collaboratory helps me:
- Learn how Binghamton University is addressing pressing social issues in Broome County, New York state and beyond
- Discover what faculty and staff are doing in the community
- Explore what classes faculty teach that are involved in the community
- Learn what community organizations are partnering with Binghamton University
- Work with faculty and staff to showcase my community engagement and public service activities through Binghamton’s accessible, searchable, public portal
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Community member
Collaboratory helps me:
- Understand all of the ways Binghamton University faculty, staff and students are working with community partners in a geographic area and the diverse activities they are involved in
- Identify potential collaborators from Binghamton University by using the accessible, searchable, public portal
- Consider how I and/or my organization can make connections with students, faculty and staff at Binghamton University
- See evidence that a partnership with Binghamton University can be mutually beneficial
- Feel comfortable investing in campus-community partnerships
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Dean, department head
Collaboratory helps me:
- Evaluate a faculty member’s engagement for promotion or tenure and encourage community-engaged scholarship and teaching for positive student learning outcomes
- Explore the connections between community partnerships, experiential learning, internships and career/placement outcomes for graduates by using Collaboratory data in conjunction with existing data
- Identify strategic/sustained partnerships to inform department planning, examine high impact practices across the curriculum and scaffold engagement into the learning experience for students
- Request data and reports to assess and evaluate departmental/school participation in community-engaged teaching and learning
- Utilize stories of engagement to attract and recruit community-engaged scholars and faculty applicants
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Student recruiter, admissions counselor
Collaboratory helps me:
- Promote Binghamton University as an engaged institution with prospective students, faculty, staff and the community
- Share examples of community-University activities to showcase Binghamton University’s impact
- Help prospective students become aware of the full scope of community-engaged learning courses and other community-based engagement
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Diversity, equity and inclusion staff member
Collaboratory helps me:
- Explore the scope of community engagement and public service activities being facilitated by Binghamton University faculty, staff and students to determine their alignment with institutional diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
- Identify community-engaged units, faculty and staff to potentially partner with on future projects
- Discover the community partners who are doing engaged work with Binghamton University faculty, staff and students
- Determine if there are key partners or priority issues not currently being addressed and/or reported
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Student services and support staff member
Collaboratory helps me:
- Easily share the details of community engagement and public service activities done by my office and/or with our students
- Identify and showcase both course- and non-course-based community engagement and public service opportunities for students
- Discover the community partners who are doing engaged work with Binghamton University faculty, staff and students
- Explore potential locations and priority issues with which to align practices and activities
- Determine if there are key partners or priority issues not currently being addressed and/or reported
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Advancement/development staff member
Collaboratory helps me:
- Use data to match internal initiatives with interests of donors
- Reinforce key Binghamton University messages by leveraging data for strategic communication
- Access reliable and current data to respond to external stakeholders, showcase Binghamton University’s impact and reinforce key institutional messages
- Access data to showcase University-community partnerships that encourage investment and funding opportunities
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Alumni engagement staff member
Collaboratory helps me:
- Discover community-engaged units, faculty and staff and the community members and organizations that they partner with
- Encourage alumni investment in Binghamton University by demonstrating Binghamton’s ongoing impact and its alignment with alumni goals, values and interests
- Report on activities that involve alumni in community engagement and public service activities, such as the Global Days of Service, so that these are represented in Binghamton University’s story of engagement
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Communications and marketing staff member
Collaboratory helps me:
- Discover community-engaged units, faculty and staff and the community members and organizations that they partner with
- Explore the stories of engagement at Binghamton University in order to highlight individual efforts or promote Binghamton University’s engagement as a whole
- Access reliable and current data to respond to external stakeholders, showcase Binghamton University’s impact and reinforce key institutional messages
- Grow awareness of Binghamton University’s connections and work across communities in order to advance support for these initiatives
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Institutional research, accreditation and/or assessment staff member
Collaboratory helps me:
- Create a sustained, systematic process for reporting community engagement data that supports Binghamton University’s mission
- Contribute quality data to inform strategic decision-making and respond to requests for internal and external reports
- Discover community-engaged units, faculty and staff and the community members and organizations that they partner with
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Division of research staff member
Collaboratory helps me:
- Identify potential community partners, geographic areas and public and priority issues for community-engaged research
- Demonstrate Binghamton University’s commitment to the community and access evidence that a partnership with the institution can be mutually beneficial
- Entice external organizations to approach Binghamton University for potential partnerships and/or funding opportunities
- Connect the work of centers and institutes to relevant faculty projects/research and department activities and engage community partners as experts in the center and/or institute work
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Binghamton Foundation staff member
Collaboratory helps me:
- Use data to match internal initiatives with interests of donors
- Access reliable and current data to respond to external stakeholders, showcase Binghamton University’s impact and reinforce key institutional messages
- Explore and share stories of community engagement and Binghamton University’s impact in order to encourage donation and funding opportunities
