Free menstrual care products program
In fall 2018, the Binghamton University Faculty Senate voted to support a University Faculty Senate (SUNY-wide) resolution that called for campuses to develop and fund programs to provide access to free menstrual care products in campus restrooms.
A cooperative initiative between Binghamton University’s administration and the Student Association at Binghamton University in spring 2019 resulted in such a program. This pilot program to provide free menstrual care products to students who might not otherwise be able to afford them began with making products available to students through an online ordering system and by picking products up at a few locations.
In summer 2019, dispensing machines were installed in many campus restrooms, and now, in addition to online ordering and pick-up locations on campus, the program includes free product-dispensing machines in designated public restrooms on campus at the following locations:
- Menstrual product locations on-campus
- Anderson Center, Room B15
- Anderson Center, Room B30
- Appalachian Dining Hall, Room 106
- Bartle Library in Library South Ground 500 (LS-G500)
- Chenango Champlain Collegiate Center (C4), Room G13
- Center of Excellence, Room 1002
- CIW Dining Hall (Tuscarora), Room 217
- Decker Student Health Services Center, Room 213
- Downtown Campus, Women's restroom
- East Gym, Room 104
- Fine Arts Building, Room 162
- Food pantry in Iroquois Commons
- Health Sciences Building, Room 108
- Lecture Hall, Room B27B
- Glenn G. Bartle Library, Room 1208A
- Multicultural Resource Center
- Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, Room 158
- Old O'Connor, Ground and third floor
- School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Room 103B
- Q-Center
- University Downtown Center, Room 418
- University Union, Room 106
- West Gym, Room 126 and women's restroom and locker room
Order online
Products also remain available at the Bear Necessities Food Pantry in Room 168 of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center and at the Decker Student Health Services Center.
For more information about the program, contact JoAnn Navarro, vice president for operations, at jnavarro@binghamton.edu or Johann Fiore Conte, Chief Health and Wellness Officer, at jmfconte@binghamton.edu.
To report no product in a bathroom, contact Facilities Management Customer Service at 607-777-2226 or pfcsc@binghamton.edu.
To report an issue with an online order, contact bhealthy@binghamton.edu
