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Under Scrutiny, Official at SUNY Resigns

The New York Times: Under Scrutiny, Official at State University Resigns

A top official at the State University of New York accused of giving a no-show job to the daughter of the former Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, has resigned amid mounting scrutiny of his conduct.

The university’s board of trustees voted unanimously at a meeting on Friday to accept the resignation of the official, John J. O’Connor, the secretary and a senior vice chancellor of the university system and the president of its research foundation.

SUNY Budget Cut by Nearly $300 million

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.

Program Cuts Loom at 4 Public Universities – SUNY, Missouri, Illinois, Louisiana

The Chronicle: Program Cuts Loom at 4 Public Universities

Financially strapped public colleges and universities are living in the shadow of the ax this semester, enduring a renewed stream of announcements of potential or actual faculty layoffs and program closures.

SUNY Binghamton reinstates lecturer; Inquiry to be conducted by SUNY Central not campus

The New York Times: SUNY Board to Oversee an Audit of Binghamton

The fallout from the implosion of the Binghamton basketball program continued Friday, when the SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher announced that the university would not oversee an independent audit of its athletic department.

Binghamton also reversed the firing of Sally Dear, the adjunct lecturer who taught human development for 11 years before being dismissed earlier this week. Dear believed she was dismissed because she spoke out against the basketball program. The university had cited fiscal reasons. But Dear received a letter Friday saying she would remain an adjunct, althoug

Zimpher’s early take on SUNY

Inside Higher Ed: An Early Take on SUNY

Nancy L. Zimpher, who became chancellor of the State University of New York on June 1, pledged to visit each of the 64 campuses within her first 100 days in office. She’s approaching the halfway mark of campuses — and took a brief detour to Washington this week to attend a meeting of the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities, a group she chairs.

Not So Warm Welcome for New York Private College Chief

Inside Higher Ed: Not So Warm Welcome for New York Private College Chief

Last month, the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities in New York named Laura L. Anglin — New York State’s budget director — as its next president. Anglin takes office in July at CICU, which has historically been an influential player in Albany with work on behalf of the state’s private colleges. On Monday, the Student Assembly of the State University of New York offered a welcome of sorts to Anglin — in the form of an ethics complaint filed with the state public integrity division. The SUNY student group argues that holding the job of budget director while interviewing for the CICU job was a conflict of interest because the state has programs that assist private colleges and their students. Anglin, in a statement, responded: “The complaint filed by the Student Assembly of the State University of New York has no basis in fact. As a public servant for many years, I am clearly aware of my responsibilities under the state ethics laws. Throughout the budget process, I took the utmost precautions to ensure that I had met the requirements of the public officers law, both in spirit and in letter.”