SUNY Chairman H. Carl McCall, Ambassador Carl Spielvogel to Call for State Investment
March 10, 2015
Press Conference Scheduled for Tomorrow at 10:15 a.m. at the Legislative Office Building
Albany – State University of New York Board of Trustees Chairman H. Carl McCall and Ambassador Carl Spielvogel, chair of the Board’s Communications and External Affairs Committee, today announced that instead of holding their regularly scheduled committee meeting tomorrow, they will hold a press conference in Albany to call for increased state investment in SUNY.
SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher, several campus presidents, and trustees who serve on the committee will attend.
The press conference will be held as follows:
Date: Wednesday, March 11
Time: 10:15 a.m.
Location: LCA Room
Legislative Office Building
Albany, NY
The SUNY Board of Trustees will still hold its full Board meeting tomorrow at 1 p.m. in the Boardroom at SUNY Plaza, as scheduled.
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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