| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.57 |
| Liaison | Derek Nichols |
| Submission Date | Sept. 16, 2015 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University at Buffalo
EN-13: Community Stakeholder Engagement
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 2.00 |
Linwood
Roberts Director Community Relations |
Has the institution adopted a framework for community stakeholder engagement in governance, strategy and operations?:
A brief description of the policies and procedures that ensure community stakeholder engagement is applied systematically and regularly across the institution’s activities:
UB 2020 is UB's plan for achieving enduring prominence. A task force was developed to enhance engagement and develop recommendations for priorities, cost, timelines, and implementation of UB 2020 engagement goals. The complete engagement report can be found online: http://www.buffalo.edu/content/www/ub2020/realizing-ub-2020/task-forces/_jcr_content/par/download_2/file.res/EngagementTaskForceFinalReport.pdf
A brief description of how the institution identifies and engages community stakeholders, including any vulnerable or underrepresented groups:
UB Community Relations works to connect community stakeholders with available university resources. Community Relations regularly sends representation to block club meetings, dinners, banquets and general events (neighborhood clean ups, block parties, etc.). Spending the time to cultivate these individual relationships has been critical in establishing trust in the urban neighborhoods surrounding UB's three campuses and has created an easily identifiable way for the university to authentically engage with the community at large.
List of identified community stakeholders:
The University at Buffalo consistently and systematically engages local, state and national agencies. A sample of community stakeholders includes: University Heights Collaborative, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, local elected officials, NYS Assembly and Senate members, elected federal officials, local chambers of commerce, local industrial development agencies, World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara, Buffalo Urban League, Buffalo Building Trades, the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, United Way, NAACP of Buffalo Niagara, Western New York Environmental Alliance.
A brief description of successful community stakeholder engagement outcomes from the previous three years:
UB 2020 has allowed UB to become a catalyst for regional economic development.
UB's Regional Institute recently served as the Regional Sustainability Team coordinating the research, planning, community engagement and technical analysis for One Region Forward (1RF). 1RF is a broad-based collaborative effort to promote more sustainable forms of development in Erie & Niagara counties- the Buffalo Niagara Region- in land use, transportation, housing, energy and climate, access to food, and more. 1RF combines research and public engagement with planning and action to help meet the combined economic, environmental, and social challenges of the 21st century. 1RF is a Regional Plan for Sustainable Development, a federally recognized document that will give our region priority status for funding opportunities today and into the future. 1RF was made possible by the Sustainable Communities Regional Planning program from the US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
In February 2015, after nearly three years of research, community engagement, partnership building and planning by over 5,000 citizens and more than 700 local organizations, One Region Forward released its Regional Plan for Sustainable Development entitled “A New Way to Plan for Buffalo Niagara”
The website URL where information about the institution’s community stakeholder engagement framework and activities is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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