The Future of CCPA

The College of Community and Public Affairs is preparing for an exciting future. Created to educate future leaders in government, nonprofit and other social service organizations, and in institutions of higher education, the CCPA enters the next stage of its development with excitement and energy.

Located in the University Downtown Center, our students are close to the organizations with which we work, allowing for real-world learning through extensive internship and field-experience programs. This valuable hands-on experience better prepares our students for their chosen fields and teaches them the value of giving back to the community.

Being in the middle of downtown also allows our faculty to apply their nationally recognized research to a local setting. Working closely with nonprofit and government agencies in our region, the CCPA establishes partnerships that help our students learn while providing agencies with services they could not otherwise obtain. This innovative model is making the CCPA a benchmark institution for civic engagement and public service across the country.

In the CCPA’s future, cities and communities around the nation will access the information and solutions we develop. We will add more opportunities for our students and make concerted efforts to retain students in the area. We will work to make our region stronger and revitalize communities across the state and the country, wherever our graduates are located and our lessons applied.

Wherever they compete, Binghamton University student-athletes excel athletically while advancing their education and preparing for life after graduation.

Our mission is to continue to recruit and produce competitive teams while stressing the value of a Binghamton education and maintaining the University’s reputation as the premier public university in the Northeast and a national rising star.

Binghamton student-athletes have competed strongly against teams from other schools since the University was founded in 1946. By the mid-1990s, we had established our position as one of the top NCAA Division III programs in the nation. In 2001, we moved up to Division I, and into the America East Conference, challenging our players and programs to compete at a level befitting an institution of the highest caliber.

Today, Binghamton fields 21 Division I men’s and women’s teams in a broad-based athletic program. The 156,000-square-foot Events Center opened in 2004, demonstrating the University’s commitment to playing at the Division I level. Our soccer and lacrosse teams take the field under the lights at the new Bearcats Sports Complex.

We consistently lead the America East Conference in attendance, as an average of nearly 4,000 fans cheer on the men’s basketball team every home game — support that is unrivaled in the America East Conference. Now we need to match the loyalty of our fans with financial support of our programs so we can continue to compete as we should at the Division I level