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Additional funding for SUNY and CUNY ‘must start this year,’ higher education advocates say

By Isabel Song Beer Posted on February 8, 2022
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The nation’s largest higher education union, United University Professions (UUP), as well as the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY union (PSC) held a joint press conference Monday calling on New York state leaders to increase SUNY and CUNY funding. 

After what the two unions claimed was a decade of chronic underfunding, each requested $250 million in additional funding for CUNY and SUNY campuses – including the three SUNY public teaching hospitals located in Brooklyn, Stony Brook and Syracuse. 

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Additional funding for SUNY and CUNY ‘must start this year,’ higher education advocates say

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