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SUNY Means Business

SUNY Means Business. The Impact of the State University on the Upstate Economy. Western New York Colleges. Niagara. Erie. U. Buffalo. Empire State. Buffalo State. Alfred. Fredonia. Ceramics at Alfred. Jamestown. Total enrollment. SUNY Enrollment Fall 2003

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SUNY Means Business

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  1. SUNY Means Business The Impact of the State University on the Upstate Economy

  2. Western New York Colleges Niagara Erie U. Buffalo Empire State Buffalo State Alfred Fredonia Ceramics at Alfred Jamestown

  3. Total enrollment • SUNY Enrollment Fall 2003 Degrees Granted in 2002 • Western New York Colleges Enrollment 2003 Degrees Granted in 2002 410,725 72,413 70,211 12,861

  4. Quality of the Student Body • SAT scores of 2002 incoming freshmen class at University Centers at all-time high of 1179 • 2003 freshman applicants at state operated campuses up 3.2%. • 2003 transfer applicants at state operated campuses up 6.5% • 2003 community college applicants up 7.2% • 2003 applicants with high school average above 95.5 up 3.6% • 2003 applicants with high school average above 90.5 up 7.4% • SUNY graduation rates are above the national average • 73,600 minority students, 18.3% of student body is an all-time high.

  5. The State University of New York Alumni • Total SUNY Alumni more than • Western New York Colleges 2 million 488,223

  6. Total All Funds Budget $7.2 Billion • Total SUNY BudgetUp 44% from 1995 • Western New York Colleges Budget $1.14 Billion

  7. Number of Employees • Total SUNY Employees • Western New York Colleges Employees 75,000 12,167

  8. Capital Construction Budget • The 1998 five-year $2 billion Capital Plan has enabled the University to undertake more than 1,100 construction projects for laboratories, classrooms, art studios, stadiums, student centers and more at campuses across the state. • In the 1998 plan, the Western New York Colleges received $256.5 million. • Governor Pataki has proposed a new five-year plan with an additional $2.55 billion that would continue rebuilding the SUNY infrastructure through 2008, with as many as 1,200 new projects.

  9. Research Funding • $766.7 million in FY 2002-03 • 9% increase over last year and up 62% over five years • 9,000 research projects support 21,000 jobs in New York • Goal is to reach $1 billion annually

  10. Technology Transfer • The State University of New York is now ranked as the 8th largest producer of patents of all universities public and private according to the United States Patents and Trademarks Office, just behind the Universities of California and Texas, MIT and Stanford. • Ranked 9th of New York organizations in patents from 1997-2001, behind IBM, Kodak, General Electric, and Corning. • SUNY patents generated $17.6 million in FY 2002. • SUNY ranked 15th for royalties earned by universities nationally. • In the past 2 years, SUNY inventions have generated more licensing income than Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon, Princeton and the University of Michigan.

  11. Centers of Excellence • $1.2 billion of investment • 3 of 5 centers located on SUNY campuses • Bioinformatics at University at BuffaloHP, Dell, Veridian, Sun Microsystems • Nanoelectronics at University at AlbanyIBM, Sematech, GE, Tokyo Electron • Wireless Internet and Information Technology at Stony BrookComputer Associates, Symbol Technologies, Reuters

  12. SUNY Plays an Important Role in Homeland Defense in four Critical Areas • Cyber Security and Information Assurance • Biodefense and Biopreparedness • Infrastructure Protection/Sensors • Training

  13. Small Business Development Center • Since 1984, SUNY’s SBDCs have worked with 207,000 businesses, helping them invest more than $2.3 billion in the state’s economy. • SUNY’s Buffalo SBDC, located at Buffalo State College, has worked directly with 12,654 businesses, helping them invest $105,819,309 in the area’s economy, and helping create or save 6,417 jobs since 1984. Community College Workforce Development Training Grants • In 2003, SUNY’s 30 community colleges will train 9,300 private sector employees, create 600 new jobs and save 9,500 existing jobs with the $1.8 million Workforce Development Training Grants. • In 2003, Erie and Jamestown Community Colleges will receive $159,000 in State funding to train 1,131 workers.

  14. Coming Soon! SUNY Resources Online The 64 campuses of the State University of New York have tremendous resources. To further make these resources more available and accessible, we are now in the process of building a Web site that will put online our faculty, our programs, our graduates, our research centers and more so that business from any part of the state can reach into the SUNY system and find students to hire, professors to use as consultants and programs that you might contract with to solve your business problems. If you touch the State University anywhere, you touch the State University everywhere.

  15. SUNY Means Business The Impact of the State Universityon the Upstate Economy

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