Why are the SUNYs ranked so low?

austinmshauri
Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:17:28 +0000

As a NYS taxpayer, I think the SUNY system needs a major overhaul, mostly due to the redundancies pointed out by @lostaccount‌…How many SUNY Podunks do we really need?

…Fewer, but larger colleges. So maybe kids have to go to college more than two hours from home. You do what you need to do. It’s incredibly inefficient as it is. I mean, why do we need Potsdam AND Plattsburgh, New Paltz AND Albany?..

@neatoburrito, I think that’s incredibly shortsighted. The purpose of our public colleges is to offer an affordable education to our state citizens. Families who can’t afford to spend $22k to dorm at Albany may live close enough to commute to New Paltz or vice versa. Why would you want to limit the educational opportunities of our young people? And who do you think is going to pick up the cost if we make it impossible for the majority of students in NYS to commute to a 4-year campus?