| UUP disappointed by SUNY campus allocation plan In a May 2 press release, United University Professions President Frederick E. Kowal said that he was disappointed by the SUNY Board of Trustees’ decision to underfund 19 financially distressed campuses in its state aid allocation to the system’s state-operated colleges and universities. For the second year in a row, the Trustees approved an allocation plan that sends the lion’s share of funding to the financially secure university centers and doles out what’s left to the rest of the campuses—including those dealing with multimillion-dollar deficits. Some of those campuses, like SUNY Potsdam and SUNY Fredonia, have announced program and staff cuts to reduce deficits of $9 million and $17 million, respectively. “Once again, SUNY leadership has been taken down the wrong road again by Chancellor John King Jr.,” said Kowal, who leads the nation’s largest higher education union. “By doing so, they continue to undermine the system they are supposed to lead. “The chancellor and the Trustees have again refused to do the right thing by funding our campuses based on need,” Kowal continued. “It’s unconscionable and it ignores nearly two decades of SUNY underfunding under the Cuomo administration.” Read more HERE. |
