Alumni & Supporters

Our Past : Our Progress : Our Promise

Rethinking SUNY

1995 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003

1995

• Board of Trustees respond to legislative charge with Rethinking SUNY, a multi-year system wide plan to increase:
  - academic aspirations at all State University campuses and the system as a whole
  - efficiency and reduce costs by empowering campuses to directly manage more of their academic and financial affairs
  
  
• SUNY Learning Network, the online learning network, enrolls 119 students in eight courses on two campuses in its first year.

1998

• SUNY Downstate Medical Center's Dr. Robert F. Furchgott wins the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
  
  
• SUNY adopts "zero based" and performance driven budget allocation process:
  
  
• Campuses keep all locally generated tuition revenue
  
  
• Campuses gain significant state tax levy funds for:
  
  
• instruction only as their students progress to graduation
  
  
• research only in proportion to their success in attracting and renewing external grants
  
  
• Brookhaven Science Associates, an RF affiliated corporation, assumes management of the world famous Brookhaven National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy.

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1999

• Robert L. King appointed chancellor of the State University of New York
  
  
• Chancellor King initiates a five-year plan to bring the State University of New York to new preeminence in the world of higher education:
  
  
• Spearheaded effort to raise $5 billion in new funding
  
  
• Energized the University's presence in Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Collaborated with campus presidents to devise new programs that reward campus success and improve performance at every level
  
  
• Created a new office to be the primary point of contact for business and industry
  
  
• Placed strong emphasis on international education

2000

• Office of Foundation Relations established at the Research Foundation to strengthen SUNY's ability to compete for federal funding.
  
  
• A SUNY Campaign, the first acquisition of philanthropy activity in SUNY's history, is launched to raise $1 billion by 2005.

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2001

• Governor George E. Pataki unveils $1 billion high-technology and biotechnology plan for New York that will create three of five Centers of Excellence on SUNY campuses:
  
  
• Bioinformatics at the University at Buffalo
  
  
• Nanoelectronics at the University at Albany
  
  
• Wireless and Information Technology at Stony Brook University
  
  
• Research Foundation establishes Office of Philanthropy and Alumni Affairs to work with campuses to boost philanthropic gifts and grants from alumni, friends, corporations and foundations.
  
  
• SUNY adopts A New Vision in Teacher Education - a ground-breaking initiative to improve the quality of teacher preparation, address state needs in high-needs subjects and schools, and assure continuing program quality.

2002

• SUNY research tops $700 million, a new research funding high.

2003

• SUNY enrollment exceeds 410,000 students - highest in University history.
  
  
• SUNY research grows to all time high of $766 million.
  
  
• $2 billion capital plan completed, and new five-year $2.5 billion plan proposed.

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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