The governor’s Executive Budget doesn’t bode well for the University. If enacted as proposed:

• SUNY would be asked to absorb a cut of nearly $153 million, bringing the total cut in two years to $562 million—at a time when enrollment has grown by 40,000 students since 1990. The $153 million cut represents 25% of the total state agency cutback in the 2010-11 Executive Budget.

• State funding for SUNY would be $85 million less than it was in 1990-91.

UUP opposes plans to:

• Eliminate an additional $152.4 million from SUNY’s operating budget.

• Cut $1.8 million in funding for NYSTI.

• Reduce Medicaid funding to SUNY teaching hospitals and health science centers, and double the “sick tax” from .35% to .75%.

• Require SUNY hospitals and HSCs to make an extra $20.5 million payment to ERS to make up for losses.

• Ask unions to re-negotiate contractual pay raises or to consider a payroll lag.

• Grant SUNY the full authority to raise tuition without legislative approval.

• Grant SUNY the full authority to impose differential tuition, which is prohibited under current law.

• Eliminate state appropriations for SUNY’s expenditure of tuition, fees and other campus revenues.

• Permit SUNY to lease campus property, and to enter into contracts and variations of public/private partnerships with limited oversight. Grant SUNY the full authority to raise tuition without legislative approval.

• Grant SUNY the full authority to impose differential tuition, which is prohibited under current law.

• Eliminate state appropriations for SUNY’s expenditure of tuition, fees and other campus revenues.

• Permit SUNY to lease campus property, and to enter into contracts and variations of public/private partnerships with limited oversight.