SUNY Board of Trustees Statement on Governor Hochul’s State of the State Address
January 5, 2022
"Today, Governor Hochul outlined a bold and ambitious plan for the State University of New York and for all who are pursuing a high-quality, affordable, and accessible college education. By investing in and promoting the unique strengths of our campuses and research institutions; expanding tuition assistance programs to students most in need; increasing enrollment by attracting nontraditional students from any adult age group and income while streamlining our application process; diversifying our faculty; and providing childcare support for working students, the Governor is building a national model for how public higher education should meet the needs of our society and today’s learners. We strongly support and applaud the Governor’s visionary agenda to move our higher education system to new heights—to attract the best and the brightest minds to our world-renowned campuses and universities, educate and train our future workers and leaders, and to continue to provide opportunity and access that our university system was built on decades ago."
About the State University of New York
The State University of New York is the largest comprehensive system of higher education in the United States, and more than 95 percent of all New Yorkers live within 30 miles of any one of SUNY’s 64 colleges and universities. Across the system, SUNY has four academic health centers, five hospitals, four medical schools, two dental schools, a law school, the country’s oldest school of maritime, the state’s only college of optometry, and manages one US Department of Energy National Laboratory. In total, SUNY serves about 1.4 million students amongst its entire portfolio of credit- and non-credit-bearing courses and programs, continuing education, and community outreach programs. SUNY oversees nearly a quarter of academic research in New York. Research expenditures system-wide are nearly $1.1 billion in fiscal year 2023, including significant contributions from students and faculty. There are more than three million SUNY alumni worldwide, and one in three New Yorkers with a college degree is a SUNY alum. To learn more about how SUNY creates opportunities, visit suny.edu.
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