<p>I have personal experience with another underfunded state U, not a SUNY, which had similar conditions to what pseudonym describes. You can’t just cram more people into a lab room. Online courses might work for classes that are straight lecture and exam, but not so much for those that need lab and discussion.</p>
<p>I am probably sending my senior to a SUNY next year, regardless of budget cuts since it is probably all I can afford. But families who have choices might want to look carefully at how each campus is cutting back. On the SUNY website, there’s a section called “Today’s News” which posts articles from local papers about each campus and many of them refer to the very difficult decisions to be made by administrators on where to cut back.</p>