As the Innovation Trail's Daniel Robison reported yesterday, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is ringing the bell for science education in schools, and urging reform of No Child Left Behind. Capital Tonight has video of Gillibrand discussing her agenda at State of Politics:
HuffPo on SUNY
The Huffington Post appears to have a campaign to support SUNY running this week. Yesterday the site republished a post by alumnus and environmentalist Kyle Rabin, who expresses concern that SUNY doesn't include sustainability in its NY SUNY 2020 plans. And Monday Selma Mustovic of the Citizens Budget Commission offered a commentary arguing for tuition autonomy for SUNY schools:
Allowing the universities to raise tuition without legislative approval could well lead to more regular tuition hikes, but the increments would be more modest and predictable than those set by the legislature. And the increases would not make SUNY and CUNY comparatively expensive. In 2010-11, average tuition and fees for resident undergraduate students charged by New York's four-year public colleges and universities was $5,790, nearly a quarter below the national average of $7,605, and half the amount charged in neighboring New Jersey. Among the 14 peer states with large public education systems, New York's four-year public schools charge the third-lowest tuition and fees behind only North Carolina and Florida.
Meanwhile, Assembly higher education committee chair Deborah Glick appeared on Capital Tonight to discuss NY SUNY 2020 (via State of Politics):
Quickly
- Onondaga Community College held an "air breaking" yesterday to mark the beginning of construction of a new student center, which will stretch over a gorge on the school's campus. Erin Clarke reports at YNN.
- The interim president at SUNY New Paltz is the last man standing in the hunt for a new president - and though he said he didn't want the job initially, Jeremiah Horrigan reports at the Times Herald-Record that he's "falling in love" with the job.
- Syracuse University's decision to leave the Association of American Universities (AAU) was a good decision according to some higher ed experts, because it allows the school to focus on its strengths, rather than the AAU's membership requirements. Libby Nelson reports at Inside Higher Ed.
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