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<p>the Governor giveth and the Governor taketh away.</p>
<p>Not surprising, the plan to give SUNY’s and CUNY’s tuition control is just going to make it easier for him to justify the slashes in their budgets. I’d like to hear from SUNY as to what type of tuition increase would be needed to make up for such cuts.</p>
<p>As much as it’d be nice for SUNY to have more autonomy, I think Pateson is in essence trying to make them the bad guys – not his fault SUNY tuition is going to skyrocket. Meanwhile his budget cuts are what will make such skyrocketing tuition increases necessary.</p>
<p>I would urge people to contact their legislators BOTH to support more autonomy for SUNY but ALSO to oppose significant budget cuts for SUNY. SUNY is still suffering from huge cuts that were already imposed in the past budget year – when tuition increases went 90% into the state’s pocket.</p>