SUNY offers own plan for budget cuts

Facing a state budget directive to come up with $109 million in cuts, state university trustees countered yesterday with a plan that would reduce spending by about $72 million, arguing that SUNY "provides an ...

[Steve]

Its time for SUNY to come clean with the taxpayers. From reading Newsday we here about plans to build monorails,$50M for a new law school,$20M for LaValle stadium renovations, condemning and buying up private property, taking over a failed college in Southampton, opening a branch in Manhattan (where they have CUNY), renovating a mansion for the University President etc etc. And this is at Stony Brook alone!! Now the area that SUNY can think of cutting is the hospitals--is there something wrong with this picture? We don't need bread and games to pacify us. There is so much corruption. The State needs to put more money into hospitals--especially out here on Eastern Long Island and stop paying these outlandish pensions to non-workers and get its finances in order.

[Fred]

It's good that the state is re-thinking its cuts to SUNY colleges. Here on LI, the colleges like Stony Brook and Farmingdale provide the education to train the workforce and thus provide the economic stimulus that will help the state recover from its financial problems. Colleges are typically the economic engines of a region...let's not forget the important role Stony Brook and Farmingdale and others play in our area.

[Univworker]

We don't we start with cutting the pork barrell spending back and save money there instead of giving politicians money to buy votes in their community.

[Gus]

Fred wrote:

It's good that the state is re-thinking its cuts to SUNY colleges. Here on LI, the colleges like Stony Brook and Farmingdale provide the education to train the workforce and thus provide the economic stimulus that will help the state recover from its financial problems. Colleges are typically the economic engines of a region...let's not forget the important role Stony Brook and Farmingdale and others play in our area.

I agree. Every dollar spent on a university like Stony Brook returns many dollars to the State and community.

[insid]

money is spent on white elephants and boondoggle projects:
Wang Center
Journalism school
Southampton college
CEWIT
Monorail feasibility (btw not feasible $5,000,000 thank you very much!)

[concerned]

the president is a malignant narcissist who has ruined a perfectly good university