Alumni & Supporters

Our Past : Our Progress : Our Promise

The Future of NYS Higher Education Takes Shape

1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1969

1960

• The Heald Committee established by Governor Nelson Rockefeller sets the foundation for the State University's major expansion.
  
  
• Stony Brook is designated a SUNY University Center.
  
  
• Adirondack Community College joins SUNY System.
  
  

1961

• Ulster County Community College, Jefferson Community College and Onondaga Community College are chartered as part of SUNY system.

1962

• Albany is designated a SUNY University Center.
  
  
• SUNY Buffalo becomes a public university and University Center upon merging with SUNY system.
  
  
• Sullivan County Community College is chartered as part of SUNY system.
  
  
• Niagara County Community College founded.
  
  
• A major new capital construction bonding program supported out of tuition is established to raise funds for new academic facilities.
  
  
• State University Construction Fund established.

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1963

• Based on Heald Committee recommendation, the Trustees change tuition policy by establishing standardized tuition charge for all state-operated campuses. Undergraduate tuition set at $400 per year.
  
  
• Fulton Montgomery Community College chartered.

1964

• Start of six-year run in largest percentage increases in SUNY budget history.
  
  
• Changes are initiated that shape the modern SUNY:
  
  
• Visible SUNY Chancellor position replaces presidency
  
  
• Campuses start to recruit the best faculty from around the country under new state law
  
  
• Medical schools, teaching hospitals and the four-year university centers start their rapid growth
  
  
• Teacher-training institutions and colleges of education complete their conversion into colleges of arts and science
  
  
• The agricultural and technical institutes become colleges
  
  
• Community colleges expand

1965

• College at Old Westbury becomes the youngest four-year arts and science college in the SUNY system.
  
  
• Binghamton is designated a SUNY University Center.
  
  
• Finger Lakes Community College is chartered as part of SUNY system.
  
  
• New York Network (SUNY-TV) established.

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1966

• New York State purchases the site of Purchase College for $3.9 billion, which was founded in the 1960s by Governor Rockefeller.
  
  
• SUNY approves Tompkins Cortland Community College.
  
  
• Clinton Community College chartered.
  
  
• Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC) established.

1967

• Schenectady County Community College established as SUNY campus.
  
  
• Genesee Community College opens.

1969

• Columbia-Greene Community College chartered as part of SUNY system.
  
  
• Clinton Community College joins SUNY system.

The State University of New York Office of Philanthropy and Alumni Affairs, philanthropy@suny.edu primary focus is to sustain the $3 Billion Challenge by providing support and services to the 64 campuses planning to conduct capital campaigns.

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