UAlbany is a major employer in the Capitol District with an economic impact that exceeds $1.5 Billion dollars a year. UAlbany is one of only 4 SUNY Centers. Its growth is critical to the Capitol District. Western New York has been hammering on UB's growth. UAlbany needs the same push.
UAlbany needs to expand onto the Harriman campus. They should build there what wasn't built on the original campus. They need a football stadium, shops and restaurants, and more beautiful campus amenities. I would suggest looking at Georgia Tech.
SUNY is way too over regulated. Why is everything in New York over taxed, over regulated and over controlled?
Get the legislature out of SUNY! What do these politicians know about running a competitive state university? Make SUNY a public benefit with LIMITED oversight. The politicians put impossible burdens on New York's state university. SUNY should be as strong as UNC, CAL, Virginia, Michigan, Georgia Tech or Texas but it’s not because of New York’s burdens, lack of funding and grandstanding politicians.
The four SUNY Centers (flagships) like Albany need even more flexibility to compete with other state flagships. New York does want to compete, right? Can it and will it compete is the better question.
SUNY Albany and SUNY Cobbleskill should merge into a single university with multiple campuses. SUNY should follow the University of Georgia's decision this week and merge campuses and administrations. Cut the duplicate administration and redundent programs. Add more value adding programs such as this new plant. This is what the University of Michigan has been doing and it works for them. SUNY does not need 64 separate operarting universities. Keep the campuses, cut the administration, strengthen the system!
New York needs to be competitive with the rest of the country. We are living in the information age and we need strong flagship state universities to compete with UNC, UCLA, Cal, Texas, Michigan etc. That list doesn’t even start to mention the Chinese and European universities that New York will need to keep pace with in the future.
The universities these days are economic generators and that means jobs. The Nano College will provide 5,000 HIGH PAYING jobs when fully complete. New York, especially upstate, needs a strong SUNY to survive.
I saw it written elsewhere that UAlbany is Eastern New York’s only SUNY Center. If our region doesn’t capitalize on its SUNY Center, others will. The Buffalo and Long Island (SBU) legislative contingents have been pumping their flagships for years while the Capitol Region sat on its hands. I hope the Capitol Region isn’t penny wise, pound foolish.
We better start seeing UAlbany as a UCLA, UNC, Michigan and not your daddy’s teacher’s college. Our region depends on it!
As a transplanted UCLA grad, I'd like to see D1 football catch fire here. UAlbany needs a stadium to give it that legit feel. No dobt. Still, it's an up and coming program. If you're a college football fan, you have to support them.
I'd like to see UAlbany get on par with the UC system somee day and that includes football.
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UAlbany is a major employer in the Capitol District with an economic impact that exceeds $1.5 Billion dollars a year. UAlbany is one of only 4 SUNY Centers. Its growth is critical to the Capitol District. Western New York has been hammering on UB's growth. UAlbany needs the same push.
UAlbany needs to expand onto the Harriman campus. They should build there what wasn't built on the original campus. They need a football stadium, shops and restaurants, and more beautiful campus amenities. I would suggest looking at Georgia Tech.
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