Chancellor Malatras Statement on COVID Alert NY App

October 1, 2020

"All of SUNY fully supports the COVID Alert NY app as yet another tool to utilize in our continuing fight to contain the COVID virus on our campuses. University at Albany, SUNY Oswego, and SUNY Plattsburgh were proud to participate in the development and testing of this innovative app that shares clear and concise data in real time, and will provide our students, staff, and faculty with the valuable information they need to stay informed, protected, and ultimately help keep all our campuses open. As always, SUNY stands ready to help battle COVID be it developing nation-leading saliva testing, producing tens of thousands of face shields, or graduating healthcare heroes who have worked on the frontlines in our hospitals."

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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