The Times Union today says UAlbany may "drop a rung" in the SUNY hierarchy, if and when a plan to upgrade UBuffalo goes ahead. Albany County state Sen. Neil Breslin is resisting, but UAlbany cooked its own goose last fall with an extraordinary act of academic vandalism (which it now may partially reverse).
The Breslin star seems on the wane with the Democrats now in the Senate minority and brother Mike not running for re-election as county executive. Buffalo, meanwhile, lost 10 percent of its population in the last decade, and the university plan there, which shifts resources downtown, has bipartisan support and looks like a winner. If Gov. Cuomo aims to help Albany, too, he should back the plan of his old ally and Breslin rival Mayor Jerry Jennings to build a downtown convention center.
This nomenclature (UAlbany, UBuffalo) is new to me, but it's all SUNY, isn't it? UAlbany's elimination of languages was an atrocity.
Posted by: Johannah | April 25, 2011 at 03:02 PM
Tis all SUNY, where money flows uphill:
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/SUNY-pay-hikes-draw-hearing-663739.php
Posted by: Bob Conner | April 25, 2011 at 03:52 PM