New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on June 8 that all 64 SUNY campuses will enact a chosen name and pronoun policy in order to respect and reflect the identities of transgender, gender nonconforming and nonbinary students.
Stony Brook University unveiled the preliminary details of its SUNY Excels Performance Improvement Plan on Friday, September 18 with highlights that included increasing enrollment, completions, graduation rates, research expenditures, fundraising and diversity. “They said at the board of trustees resolution…
New York is one of the 18 states added this past July to a federal act granting in-state tuition to veterans attending college under the G.I. Bill, saving veterans headaches and money. The added states will offer in-state tuition for…
The five SUNY campuses on Long Island made an appeal to the governor’s office for funding on Wednesday when a panel led by SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and the campus presidents hosted the SUNY Showcase in the Wang Center. Long…
Ahead of tomorrow’s meeting of the Board of Trustees, the State University of New York today unveiled a resolution calling for a new base tuition level of $2,635 per semester, up from $2,485. That’s an annual increase of $300, the…
While Stony Brook University President Samuel Stanley was among the most active lobbyists for the NYSUNY 2020 bill, the final version that passed the Legislature on Friday is quite different from what they called for. Most notable is the absence…
Homeland security and public education do not seemingly share the same bed. Yet according to lobbying reports acquired from opensecrets.org, SUNY has spent an undisclosed amount of money lobbying for various Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security appropriations.…
The ongoing protests in Egypt have led to the State University of New York pulling its students who were studying at the American University of Cairo, Think has learned.
Are the state’s struggles with a sluggish economy and the decades of tax cuts for the rich solely to blame, or is the university’s top-heavy administration needlessly soaking up funds?