Mission
Strategically deploy university purchasing power to maximize opportunities for small, local, and diverse businesses and to positively drive Cornell's economic impact.
Vision
Create a successful program which incorporates the following key elements:
- Support and review from university senior leadership
- Ensure goals and objectives are tied to the university's mission
- Focus program resources on continuous improvement of the program
- Garner participation from the campus community
- Monitoring of goals and accomplishments
- Creating and implementing a communication strategy
- Obtaining recognition as a higher education "program of excellence" within five years
Strategies
- Educate vendors regarding how to conduct business with the university
- Give reasonable business opportunity to minority-owned; women-owned; small disadvantaged; HUBZone; veteran-owned; and service-disabled, veteran-owned businesses
- Encourage purchases of goods and services from such concerns to the fullest extent possible, consistent with this policy and the efficient performance of operations
