SUNY wants bigger state check
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- January
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The State University of New York’s interim chancellor told lawmakers today that he likes Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s plan to privatize part of the State Lottery to generate a $4 billion higher-education endowment. But John Clark is not happy that the governor’s proposed budget has “some significant challenges” because it does not include full funding for a number of initiatives, including:
—$34.2 million SUNY needs for operating support;
—$29 million to cover enrollment growth;
—$12 million to hire more research faculty as part of the Empire Innovation Program;
—$32.1 million to cover salary and fringe benefits at SUNY’s three hospitals;
—$20.4 million for additional campus safety programs.
SUNY wants the Legislature to add $33.3 million to restore $50 of the state’s share of community-college tuition that Spitzer’s budget cut and add another $200 per student, to assist smaller community colleges with fixed costs, and to cover mandatory fringe benefits.Â
SUNY announced this week that its student enrollment increased for the 10th consecutive year. Fall enrollment went up 2.4 percent to 427,398 students on SUNY’s 64 campuses.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
