News

Aug. 11, 2010

SUNY Strategic Plan Falls in Step with President Obama's Higher Education Initiatives (SUNY news release)


Aug. 9, 2010

Zimpher takes responsibility for SUNY Empowerment setback (YNN Capital Tonight)


Aug. 5, 2010

SUNY Autonomy Bill Deserves Another Look (Newsday editorial)

Aug. 2, 2010

First SUNY; then a budget (Albany Times-Union editorial)

Money for nothing: SUNY and CUNY need to be set free from Albany meddling (New York Daily News editorial)

Empowering SUNY would spur economic development (Democrat & Chronicle editorial)


Aug. 1, 2010

Alan Chartock: Doing something wrong? Who, us? (Hudson Valley Daily Freeman column)

July 30, 2010

SUNY overhaul compromise rejected by Paterson (Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin)

Deal takes shape to revise SUNY financing (Buffalo News)

July 27, 2010
Stop Raiding the Ivory Tower (New York Times op-ed)

July 25, 2010
SUNY must be saved: State's public colleges have to be pried from Albany's grip (New York Daily News editorial)

Albany Should Proceed With SUNY Reforms (New York Times letter to editor)


July 19, 2010
The Accidental Giant of Higher Education (New York Times)


July 14, 2010

Lawmakers debate letting SUNY schools set tuition (Newsday)


July 12, 2010
Simons Links SUNY Gift to Tuition Flexibility (New York Times)

Pledge to Stony Brook comes with demand (Long Island Business News)


July 11, 2010
In Albany, Last Political Hurdle (Crain's New York Business)


June 30, 2010

Democrats say SUNY plan is still alive (Buffalo News)

A setback for UB (Buffalo News editorial)

Ugly budget -- but a pretty precedent (New York Post op-edl)

Empower SUNY to raise tuition (Albany Times-Union letter)

June 29, 2010

Paterson defies Legislature on education aid (Buffalo News)

SUNY students support differential tuition plan (Buffalo News op-ed)


June 23, 2010

New York Budget Talks Stall on University Proposal (New York Times)

Let students speak for themselves on tuition (Buffalo News op-ed)

 

June 21, 2010

Autonomy would make SUNY better (Newsday editorial)

June 18, 2010

SUNY's Zimpher sees economic power (Buffalo Business First)

Shift SUNY tuition control (Greater Binghamton Press Connects)


June 14, 2010

Pass SUNY Reform (Buffalo News editorial)

June 13, 2010

SUNY's fate hinges on votes in Assembly (Buffalo News)

May 16, 2010

Legislature should let SUNY power up (Newsday editorial)

May 13, 2010

SBU President Says Public Colleges and Universities Need the Reforms Included in Governor’s Budget Proposal (Stony Brook news release)

Closer to help for SUNY (Elmira Star-Gazette editorial)


May 12, 2010

Governor joined by higher education officials to push for SUNY reforms (WBFO Radio)

Lazio, Paterson find common ground (Long Island Examiner)


May 11, 2010

Governor Paterson Calls for the Passage of the Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act (Office of the Governor news release)

Paterson, education administrators call for reform (Albany Times-Union)

Governor seeks Legislature's support of SUNY 'empowerment' bill (Ithaca Journal)

President Simpson Joins Gov. Paterson at Rally to Urge Passage of SUNY Reforms (University at Buffalo news release)


April 27, 2010

NYS Business, Government, Industry Leaders Urge Legislature to Pass Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act (SUNY news release)

April 14, 2010

Poll shows strong support for PHEEIA legislation among Stony Brook faculty (Stony Brook news release)


March 24, 2010

Statement from SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher on Student Support of Empowerment and Innovation Act (SUNY news release)


March 22, 2010

Senate endorses SUNY setting tuitions (Long Island Business News)

Students Declare Support for Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act (Student Assembly of SUNY press release)


March 19, 2010

It's time to free SUNY from the Albany budget process (op-ed by SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher, Newsday)

March 11, 2010

LIA Board Supports Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act (Long Island Association news release)


March 5, 2010

Aiding SUNY can revive New York (op-ed by SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher, Albany Times Union)

Empowering SUNY would benefit economy (Rochester Business Journal)


March 4, 2010

SUNY schools must have greater fiscal autonomy (editorial in Lamron, the student newspaper of SUNY-Geneseo)

Feb. 20, 2010

Time to let SUNY soar (Newsday editorial)


Feb. 15, 2010

Remnants of Spitzer's Plans for Universities Are in Peril (New York Times)

Feb. 2, 2010

State lawmakers should give SUNY trustees power to set tuition hikes (Rochester Democrat & Chronicle editorial)

State could keep bigger share of tuition hike in 2010 budget (Binghamton University Pipe Dream)


Feb. 1, 2010

GCC president supports proposed college legislation (The Batavian)


Jan. 31, 2010

SUNY tuition policy needs change (Letter from SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher to the editor of the Auburn Citizen)


Jan. 27, 1010

SUNY embraces governor's deregulation plan but opposes proposed spending cuts (Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin)

Statement from SUNY Chancellor Zimpher and CUNY Chancellor Goldstein (SUNY/CUNY news release)

Testimony of SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher before Senate Finance and Assembly Ways & Means Committees


Jan. 25, 2010

Gov's education act gets warm reception from SUNY presidents (Legislative Gazette)


Jan. 23, 2010

Education plans: Paterson showing leadership (Watertown Daily Times editorial)


Jan. 22, 2010

Purchase College Supports Governor''s Higher Ed. Act (Westchester.com)

SUNY autonomy: Paterson proposal allows colleges to determine tuition (UB Spectrum editorial)

Lessons learned should help SUNY reforms (UB Reporter)


Jan 21, 2010

SUNY, Empowered: Governor's plan puts decision-making where it belongs (Syracuse Post-Standard editorial)

NCCC president supports SUNY reform package (Adirondack Daily Enterprise)


Jan. 20, 2010

Empowering Public Higher Education (Stony Brook Happenings)

Campus management budget proposal is a good and needed move by governor (Buffalo News editorial)

SUNY presidents like new flexibility (Times Herald-Record)

ASC president backs changes for SUNY (Hornell Evening Tribune)


Jan. 19, 2010

SUNY Chancellor applauding Paterson budget (News-10)


Jan. 18, 2010

SUNY Schools Hailing Reform (Watertown Daily Times)


Jan. 17, 2010

Paterson unveils higher education reform plan (Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin)

SUNY Chancellors urge passage of education legislation (WSYR-TV, Syracuse)


Jan. 16, 2010

Gov. David Paterson wants SUNY and CUNY to set their tuition, not state (New York Daily News)


Jan. 15, 2010

Stony Brook University President "Tremendously Excited" about Governor's Executive Budget Proposal (Stony Brook University News Release)

Plan Would Allow SUNY and CUNY to Set Tuition (New York Times)

Paterson to propose major changes in SUNY funding methods (Newsday, subscription required)

Paterson wants to let SUNY control tuition (Buffalo News)

Central New York SUNY presidents laud governor's call to empower public higher education (SUNY Oswego News Release)

SUNY may receive tuition flexibility (Business First)

Gov. Paterson's 'Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act' Will Benefit UB, SUNY and Western New York (University at Buffalo News Release)