Union: cuts may force SUNY to turn away students
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- August
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  United University Professions, a union of 35,000 professional and academic faculty, says Gov. David Paterson’s call for more state-budget cuts will take another $96 million away from the State University of New York and “will irrevocably damage the university’s ability to fulfill its core mission.”
  “This reduction—on top of the earlier $52 million cut from the general fund—will make it impossible to fulfill that mission and could result in tens of thousands of students being turned away, or closed out of courses needed for graduation,” UUP President Phillip Smith said in a statement. “An education delayed is an education denied.”
  “It is inconceivable that SUNY is being directed to absorb an overall cut of $148 million in anticipated state aid, just weeks before classes are scheduled to resume,” Smith said.
  SUNY is already under orders to reduce non-general fund spending by $109 million, which affects residence halls, food service and other operations.
  Paterson, the Legislature and the leadership of SUNY should take steps to protect SUNY and avoid the need to turn students away.
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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. 
