Exclusive: Fine Arts Departments May Face Consolidation, Says Stanley
Stony Brook University President Samuel Stanley spoke about consolidating academic departments and reopening the Southampton campus in an exclusive interview with Think Magazine.
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President Stanley Named to Cuomo’s Transition Team
Governor elect Andrew Cuomo will be calling on Stony Brook President Sam Stanley to be a part of his transition team. Stanley has been a strong advocate of PHEEIA, a[...]
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The Closure of Southampton: A Cynical View
The Stony Brook University Council’s decision to back President Stanley in the closure of Southampton has proven to be very disheartening to Southampton students, but beyond that is an even more disappointing picture for all SUNY students.
President Stanley: Undergraduate Enrollment To Be Capped
President Stanley met with campus media today, and announced that as of the next academic year, the undergraduate student population would be capped at its current levels, putting at least[...]
Privatizing SUNY
SUNY has long been one of the best and most affordable systems of public higher education in the country. In the midst of a deepening NY state fiscal crisis, Governor Paterson has proposed a new bill—… PHEEIA—that would ostensibly revitalize SUNY, allowing for hundreds of new faculty in the next decade.
Newsday Wrong? What’s New?
In a recent email update about PHEEIA, Stanley also cites a sycophantic February Newsday editorial that basically parrots everything the SUNY administration has been saying.
Law and Order: SUNY Victims Unit
New York State leaders, lawmakers and the Governor, have continued their tradition of not passing the state’s budget on time. This puts a delay on the future of the Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act (PHEEIA). Despite the delay, the future of PHEEIA looks bright.
Volume 31, Issue 12
More PHEEIA nonsense; I-CON photo spread; USG Election Results; Wang Center kyogen plays; Repo Man Review; Mass Effect comics; Please Steal Food; Privatizing SUNY; Tony Todd Interview; Baseball Microcolumns; RIP Shawn Michaels
USG Hot n’ Heavy With PHEEIA
Undergraduate Student Government President Jasper Wilson, on behalf of the USG Senate, endorsed the Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act (PHEEIA) at a March 1 University Senate meeting.
Backbone
When Hugh Carey (who was elected Governor of New York in 1975) was courting the organized student vote, he voiced the clear moral position that, allowing for the competing needs of New York State’s other social spending priorities, SUNY tuition should be regularly reduced until it was eliminated.