SUNY Budget Cut by Nearly $300 million

by E Wayne Ross on March 31, 2011

The Chronicle: N.Y. Budget Takes Another Bite Out of SUNY and Omits Most Regulatory Freedoms

New York’s Legislature on Wednesday passed a budget on time for the first time in five years, but lawmakers got little appreciation for their promptness from higher education.

The lawmakers cut an estimated $289-million from the operating budget of the State University of New York. bringing total reductions in the system’s state appropriations to more than $1.4-billion over the past four years, according to system figures.