For the second time in its history, SUNY will have a female leader.
The SUNY Board of Trustees appointed Dr. Kristina Johnson as the 13th Chancellor of SUNY.
She's a former Dean of Duke's Engineering School who served as an Undersecretary
for the U.S. Department of Energy during the Obama administration.
It's move-in day. And this year's incoming class of freshmen and transfer students
is the largest in the college's history. It's also the most racially and ethnically diverse.
Governor Andrew Cuomo says more than half of SUNY and CUNY students are receiving free education this semester.
The State University of New York is offering help to students from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin
Islands. Those displaced by hurricanes Irma and Maria will be offered in-state
tuition rates for the current academic year.
Empire State VI at Maritime College is one of two vessels that has been
activated by the U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration
that will embark on a mission to support relief efforts in Texas.
Buffalo State College and the Buffalo Public School District announced plans Monday for an
Urban Teacher Academy at McKinley High School. Students who complete the 4-year
program will be accepted into the college's teacher education program with 12 credits toward their degree.
A new era begins for UB's Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
The school's new 375 million dollar facility is now open on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.
Zubairi's invention, which has been issued a patent, would eliminate the need to search for
a flight data recorder in the event of an airline crash. For SUNY Fredonia and the
undergraduate students who assisted in certain development aspects, this is a big deal.
It's technology that's making its way to the classrooms. And while it
may look like fun and games, it's helping students with their studies.
Students attending SUNY Broome Community College could see a future at Cornell University.
They signed an agreement that will allow SUNY Broome students who meet certain
academic standards to transfer to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell.
To bring their ideas to life... "the cape has, like, little velcro on it"... we joined forces with Fashion Design graduate students
from FIT... "I like the rainbow effect"... The designers spent weeks creating the perfect super suits.
The football players at Brockport are getting to experience something the
Golden Eagles haven't done in nearly two decades.
Crandall will make the move... across to Brand...
Brand comes in and out to the front, shot, score!!! Score!! There it is!!
Plattsburgh has done it! Plattsburgh becomes the first team to win four in a row!
I have come home to the Land of Oz, as they like to call it. That's right, I am here back at Oswego,
and we are going to set the world's record, the Guinness World Record for the longest conga line on ice!
We reached out to the people at Walmart, and they want to give each one of you a
four year scholarship.
Last night I was awarded with the Educational Opportunity Program
Distinguished Alumni Award out of 30,000 nominees.
And the very great thing that's very important is the Educational Opportunity Program is a program,
a scholarship, full scholarship for the State University of New York system for
distinguished scholars for people of color that don't have the money to go. I
wouldn't have been able to go to school without them, and thank you. We'll be right back.
I think the thing that I think is the
opportunity is that education has got to be the biggest investment for our
society, and so I would hope that I can bring along not only the universities
and the colleges and community colleges, but along industry and corporations and
create these public-private partnerships that will make this work. We have to
figure it out and I'm confident we will.
Please welcome SUNY's Chairman of the Board of Trustees, H. Carl McCall.
Thank you.
Good morning. On behalf of the entire State University of New York I want to
welcome you to our State of the University System address. As you can see
from the preceding video we have had one exciting year. We have gathered together
here in Albany at the new Capital Center, is this a beautiful building, wonderful,
to celebrate our accomplishments and chop the course for the next 12 months
and beyond. This is the moment we harness the power of our system we do it proudly
with my colleagues on the board of Trustees, the stalwart leaders who work
tirelessly to Stewart the State University in the right direction.
I'd like our Trustees to stand and to give them a round of applause for all that
they do for us every day.
We also do it alongside our talented cadre of college Presidents. They're the
generals ensuring the vision set forth today becomes a reality across our 64
campuses. We are exceptionally fortunate to have such commitment at the helm of
our institutions. Would the presidents all stand so we can applaud them for their
service,
and we welcome elected officials. We particularly want to thank Governor
Cuomo, Lieutenant governor Haku, Albany Mission and other legislators.
These public servants are truly champions for the campuses that serve
their districts and the students from their hometowns that attend our schools.
Would our elected officials stand so we can recognize them.
Today is exciting. After five months of phenomenal leadership today marks our
chances first opportunity to address this audience and map out her vision for
what SUNY can achieve. As we continue to navigate the uncertainty of our current
political climate I find it more important now than ever that higher
education asserts its value to the uplift and progress of our nation. we
have a responsibility to provide the high quality education that our children
and citizens need to improve their lives and those of their neighbors. That is why
today we should pause and listen to our Chancellor's strategy to strengthen our
position. I could not be more thankful for having the chance to serve as
chairman alongside such an innovative and transformative leader as Chancellor
Johnson. I know that we will accomplish great things together today is an
important moment to reflect on the road that we have traveled and the heights
that we will climb. I earnestly charge each and every one of you in this room
and those watching online to offer Chancellor Johnson your encouragement
and your support as she endeavours to elevate the State University of New
York's position on the national stage and thereby to lift up the great
workforce of the future. SUNY is tremendously fortunate to call
Dr. Johnson its Chancellor. I think she has accomplished incredible
success in almost every field of human endeavor. She is a renowned inventor,
diligent public servant, expert collegiate administrator, successful entrepreneur
and influential social architect. It is not possible to find a better Chancellor.
Please welcome the 13th Chancellor of the State University of New York Dr.
Kristina Johnson.
Thank you.
Good morning, I am thrilled you're here with me today for my very first
State of the University System address and thank you chairman McCall for that
generous introduction. Every day, you inspire me with your service to SUNY and
your deeply held beliefs about the importance of higher education and
allowing people to make the best use of their talents and to make a difference
in the world. I recently heard chairman McCall tell a group of our students,
"Education is the opportunity to change your life for the better... Take hold of
your opportunities and use them for all they're worth."
Chairman McCall, I'm grateful to you and our Board of Trustees, for appointing me
as SUNY's Chancellor- an inspiring opportunity to serve that I plan to use
for all it's worth. I'd also like to thank my other boss president, Satish
Tripathi, who recently told me that I had received tenure at the University of
Buffalo in the College of Engineering. However, it is subject to Chancellor
approval.
I'd also like to thank Governor Cuomo, Lieutenant governor Huckle and their
leadership teams for the remarkable support of SUNY. Thank you to our New
York State legislators for their dedication to higher education ensuring
the success of the next generation. Thank You Mayor Sheehan for being with me
today, being with us today and also a special thanks to Chancellor Emerita
Nancy zimpher, my predecessor, for all she accomplished in eight years to elevate
SUNY's reputation. I'd like to thank thank the Generals, I mean the Presidents
and the Admirals of our colleges and universities, their College Councils and
Trustees, the Faculty Senate, the faculty Council and the Student Assembly for the
warm welcome they have given me. I thank my fellow faculty and staff members who
have joined us, especially my Executive Leadership team - the best team in higher
education. I would also like to acknowledge SUNY's partners in industry, government,
and philanthropy, some of whom are here today. A decade from now, when we look back
on what we've accomplished together, I know your leadership will have been
instrumental to our shared success. And I'm very grateful to my wife Veronica
Meinhard, who is here with us today, for her love and support as I took on this
role. Thank You Veronica. Lastly, I want to thank the students who have joined us.
You are what today is all about. Or as Governor Cuomo recently said in his
State of the State address, "Our greatest asset is our young people, and everything
we do is for their future." When I first started as the Chancellor of SUNY, people
would often ask me, what is your vision for SUNY. And I would tell them, I needed
to first experience SUNY. So, I began traveling the state to visit
our campuses. And everywhere I went, I asked everyone who would listen,
"What makes SUNY the best?" and "What does it mean to be the best?" What have I
learned? I learned that SUNY is unlike any other university system in its scope
and range and it's up to us to define our own best model.
We are distinguished research universities and academic medical
centers, liberal arts colleges, community colleges and colleges of agriculture and
technology. Within the enormous, beautiful, and diverse geography of New York, very
few people live more than 30 miles from a SUNY campus, and we have a large online
learning network. The entire system is devoted to the opportunity and access of
students of all backgrounds. In my travels, I experience the range of SUNY
firsthand. I visited the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City,
Where our students are partnering with NFL to redesign their team logos and
graphics to attract younger fans to a century-old sport.
I visited a cleanroom where the world's smallest transistor was created - 5
nanometers thick - 16 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. This
breakthrough radically increases the potential density, performance, and power
of our computer chips - enabling technologies that I'm going to talk
about in a few minutes. I visited a culinary arts classroom at Buffalo State,
and when one of the students posted my offhand comment about how I wished I
could make pie crusts in their state-of-the-art kitchen my friends and
family quickly weighed in, asking me when they could expect their pies - and texting
me, "Oh my, Chancellor's got pie. Having met those talented Buffalo State students - I
think I'll leave the baking to them. I developed a soaring pride that SUNY is
able to offer its students so many different opportunities to build a
better world, match to their own particular talents and interests. And I
learned that each SUNY school is distinctive with its own history
legacy and future. I learned also that many of our schools are the cultural and
economic hearts of their communities - offering crucial resources for local
businesses as well as educating their workforces. Our presidents co-chairs six
of the ten regional economic development councils established by Governor Cuomo
and SUNY schools are viewed as gems by their cities and towns that host them. To
me, the challenge of leading SUNY is how campus has worked together as a
seamless 21st century educational system - while retaining and amplifying that
distinctiveness. Last summer, I gave every SUNY President a copy of a book called
The Starfish in the Spider by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom, which argues
that the most adaptable and resilient organizations are open organizations
where leadership is distributed. In other words, organizations that understand the
power of their networks - and catalyze innovation at the local level, as well as
at the center, to strengthen the entire system. This is the kind of hybrid
organization I envision for SUNY, since there are times when SUNY gains from the
most from being part of an integrated system - and other times when our students
and faculty are best served by campuses that act on their own best knowledge and
mission. And there are examples of success in between - when a handful of
SUNY schools work together and share their resources to benefit the students
on their campuses. A great example of the adaptability enabled by such a hybrid
form of leadership was our rapid response to the devastation in Puerto
Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Our faculty and students were eager to help,
to apply their knowledge, and share their education. SUNY Maritime President Rear
Admiral Michael Alphas told me that given Maritimes' resources, Puerto Rico
recovery efforts were a natural focus for their school. And in October, I had
the honor of joining SUNY Maritimes' training ship the Empire State VI, as
returned home from Puerto Rico after being activated by the federal
government for relief efforts. On board, I had the great pleasure of meeting
captain Rick Smith - as well as a Cadet named Hanna Leese, who intends to spend
her career making shipping a lot cleaner to help limit the extreme weather
provoked by climate change. Meanwhile, at the University of Albany, led by
President Dr. Havidan Rodriguez, who grew up in Puerto Rico, we have a college
focused on emergency preparedness. This College is a national leader and
research and education in the planning for, responding to,
and recovering from natural disasters, both natural and man-made. So my office
connected the dots. Last fall, I asked President Alfultis and Rodriguez
to co-chair a task force to coordinate the SUNY efforts in
Puerto Rico. And this spring, the task force will visit Puerto Rico to
determine what SUNY can help to restore its infrastructure and to add resiliency
to all of its systems. This trip will include some of our most passionately
committed students, including a group called "Acorns to Action," the brainchild
of Isabella Kaplan of our College of Environmental Science and Forestry, which
intends to ensure that rebuilding efforts are sustainable. And I'd like to
ask all those involved in the relief efforts to stand now so that we
may acknowledge their service. Such collaborations between distinct
schools make the SUNY system a force to be reckoned with in the world at large.
At the same time, ideas piloted at a single school may well be worthy of
scaling across the entire system. Within this hybrid model, I want to ask every
part of the SUNY system to focus on four themes that will position SUNY as a
national leader in higher education, positively impacting the lives of our
students and continuing to drive the economy of New York State and the nation.
The four themes of my vision for SUNY are: Innovation and Entrepreneurship;
Individualized Education; Sustainability; and Partnerships. So let's begin with
innovation entrepreneurship - particularly in the age of digitization and the Internet of
things. Competitor Nations to the United States understand that those who lead in
artificial intelligence and machine learning will own the next century. Well,
I want SUNY - and by extension New York State - to lead. As a measure of how far
and how fast the world has come in the terms of artificial intelligence -
last time I owned a car was in 2009, and self-driving
vehicles were considered pretty "Jetson" futuristic. This weekend at least an
electric vehicle that comes with a "driver assistance feature" and will soon
have a self-driving option. Autonomous vehicles are now an inevitability. But
advances like this also causes painful dislocations. Automation has already cost
the United States manufacturing jobs. According to one study, 88 percent of job
losses in manufacturing from 2000 to 2010 were due to technology-related
productivity growth - in other word,s machines allowing businesses to do more
with fewer people. And this technological unemployment is likely to accelerate as
machines become more intelligent and adaptable. On the other hand, many jobs
are about to become more interesting, as people work alongside machines that can
relieve them of routine tasks and add to their capabilities. A recent McKinsey
Global Institute study found that 60% of jobs can be partially automated. However,
resourcefulness, creativity, and social skills will only become more valuable.
The question for SUNY and the New York State is, will we simply bear witness to
the loss of not only jobs, but entire industries? Or, will we educate our
students, empower our faculty and industry partners, and lead in the new
era of augmented intelligence? Answering this question means asking if our
programs today are preparing students for the future complex social, technical
and geopolitical landscape. And to prepare our students to thrive in the
future, we have to recognize that boundaries between disciplines are
disappearing. My own career started in engineering, evolved into energy policy,
startups an academic leadership. This evolution gave me an appreciation of the
importance of persuasive oral and written skills - and the ability to draw
from history and psychology that the liberal arts provide. And the reverse is
also true. Our liberal arts students will need to know how cognitive computing can
enhance their creativity and critical thinking. For SUNY to be a leader in this
next century and realize a potential of augmented intelligence,
We will need to increase cross-disciplinary research, our
scholarly work, entrepreneurship and our outreach. I'm setting a goal for SUNY to
at least double all of these measures over the next decade. This includes
expanding opportunities we offer our students for research and emerging
disciplines - and internships with innovators and entrepreneurs and fields
that are changing our world. We will make targeted investments in research that
will advance our understanding of how artificial intelligence and machine
learning will impact every industry and academic field, including finance,
medicine, transportation, the arts, the physical sciences and social sciences,
and the humanities. And to succeed in this theme, we will need to invest in
more full time faculty, 40% of SUNY faculty are near retirement age. We have
to hire new early-career faculty now - before we lose our distinguished faculty
to retirement. We want the academic talent that we bring in to be able to
learn from our current faculty so we don't lose our institutional knowledge
and there is rich histories of our campuses that will propel the
explorations of the future. The next theme of my vision for SUNY,
individualized education, will be enabled, in part, by advances in artificial
intelligence and machine learning. Given the comprehensive nature of our system,
SUNY has the opportunity to offer an individualized education to a degree
that no other university system does. Individualized education is how we make
the case for students to come to SUNY as well as the way to
establish SUNY as the leader in the higher education landscape.That means,
first of all, helping students navigate the very complexity of SUNY - 64 campuses;
4345 undergraduate degrees; 524 degree programs online; and 58,000 distinct
classes. And we want to guide every one of our 1.3 million students to the best
programs an opportunity for them, individually. Our Empire State College,
which serves working professionals, already is a leader in offering each
student a customizable undergraduate degree program,
and the blend of on-site and online learning. Now the question is, how do we
accomplish such custom-tailoring at scale across the entire SUNY system? Data
analytics and machine learning can help us here. Of course, the key to employing
these tools is having a lot of data to learn from - which means that SUNY is
uniquely positioned to provide this kind of educational opportunity for our
students. As the distinguished computational neurabiologist and
colleague, Terry Sinofsky told me, he or she with the most data win. This gives
SUNY, what's with its huge student body an enormous alumni network, an important
strategic advantage. However, we as we use machine learning to help guide our
students - we also need to be cautious about reinforcing existing prejudices.
speaking from my own experience, the '70s were not always encouraging to women to
pursue degrees in engineering, or become professors of engineering, under
secretaries, or clean energy CEOs. our challenge is to optimize the SUNY
education, we're encouraging each individual student to chart her or his
own path - and not be constrained by the stereotypes of the past. Our faculty and
staff must also reflect the diversity of our students - and changing demographics
in the nation as a whole. We don't want a single individual to be discouraged from
entering a field because he or she sees no role models in their classrooms.
Another aspect of individualized education is helping our
students to adapt to the challenges and opportunities they will face over their
long careers. No matter what field a student decides to go into, you can bet
that social networking, communication skills, and critical thinking will be
required. So we will emphasize these adaptive skills in all we do. We will
also give them enormous advantage of entering the workplace having learned
through experiences - with internships, apprenticeships, research projects,
and other out of the classroom experiences that prepare them for their unique
futures. We must recognize, as well, that rapidly advancing technologies and the
need for new skills means that each of our students
have to continue to learn throughout his or her life. It is often said that people
become, actually people become obsolete in their fields, within five years of
graduating from college. How do we continue to refresh the knowledge gained
by our SUNY graduates? One way is to develop the architecture for a dynamic
education cloud - where our students can store and access every idea, note, lecture,
book, paper, and problem set and have it automatically updated and enhanced as
knowledge evolves, even after - and especially after - our students have
graduated. We need to create what the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega called
"just-in-time learning" where we teach our students what they need to know, when
they need to know it, not just what we know how to teach. And, by the way, four
years after getting their degrees, three out of four SUNY graduates are still
living and working in New York State. Therefore, if we at SUNY get
individualized education and lifelong learning right, it will be an enormous
benefit to our businesses and communities. An individualized education,
as I see it, is not just about helping our students chart a path through our
classrooms. It is about helping our students with different backgrounds with
different resources succeed. Thanks to the Governor's Excelsior Scholarship
program, coupled with the New York State Tuition Assistance Program, and other
state scholarships - half of our students now attend college tuition-free. Of
course, students face challenges beyond tuition - including other financial
concerns, academic barriers, and the general unpredictability of life. If we
intend all our students to stay in school and finish their degrees, we need
to be prepared to help. For example, I am so proud of a SUNY initiative, currently
being piloted on seven campuses, that addresses those family emergencies that
can force even the most dedicated student to leave school by providing
micro-funds - often as little as a $100 to students in need. We are
extremely grateful to the Gerstner Family Foundation and the Heckscher
Foundation for Children for supporting this family emergency funds pilot
program. And I'm excited to see what the results will bring.
At one similar program at SUNY New Paltz, we've already seen where emergency
funding helped a 100 students, and 87 of them are on track to finish their
degrees that might not otherwise been able to. We hope to scale this effort
across all of SUNY. We also have to address the reality of student food
insecurity. In his 2018 State of the State agenda, Governor Cuomo underscored
the need for a food pantry at every one of our 64 campuses - and we are creating a
task force to make that a reality. Our highest priority is to provide for our
students a safe environment in which they can live and learn, and SUNY is a
national leader on this front as well. We have created a sexual assault and
violence respondent resources website, or SAVR, which is a comprehensive source of
information for victims of sexual and interpersonal violence - with policies
translated into a hundred languages. At the same time, we developed the sexual
and interpersonal violence prevention and response course or SPARC, an online
course that trains students in proven prevention techniques. We have freely
shared this course with other colleges and universities across the country. The
third theme I want to talk about today is sustainability - or our shared
responsibility to preserve civilization. When we talk about climate change, some
individuals talk about saving the planet, but the planets been around for five
billion years and it's gonna be around for another five billion years. It is
human civilization - our culture, and the environment that enables it - that is
currently at risk. How many people think that we can sustain civilization for a
million years? Or, even a thousand years? If we intend to last, we have to get a
grip on our carbon emissions. And SUNY as an engine of innovation, has a
responsibility to lead. Certainly, our students, who are highly committed to
sustainability, want and expect us to break new ground on this front.
fortunately our Governor is one of the nation's most important leaders on this
issue, and a founder of the U.S. Climate Alliance - a coalition of 15 states in
Puerto Rico that is committed to reducing greenhouse gas
emissions to meet the targets set under the Paris climate Accord. Governor
Cuomo's goals for New York State are even more ambitious. This year, he issued
Executive Order 166, which calls for reducing the carbon footprint of state
agencies by 40% and sourcing 50% of New York's electricity from renewable
sources by 2030. As SUNY owns and operates 2346 buildings - or 40% of the
building infrastructure of the state of New York, it's no surprise we were
responsible for about 40 percent of compliance with Executive Order 166. So I
say, why wait until 2030? It is my pleasure to announce today that SUNY plans to
source a hundred percent of its electricity from zero-net-carbon sources,
including renewables and energy storage, as soon as possible. Last year, SUNY spent
$189 million on energy. We will use SUNY's buying power
to buy clean power. And the sooner we do this, the better, as we estimate it will
reduce our carbon footprint by 400,000 tons of co2 equivalents per year. Making
investments in renewable energy and storage aligns with the recent
initiative Governor Cuomo announced to install
energy stored regionally in order to increase the resiliency of our
communities, in case of a natural or man-made disaster. Let me be clear - when
the power is out - we plan to have SUNY campuses have power the power - to help
our communities rapidly recover. Furthermore, and starting immediately,
all new SUNY buildings will be designed to achieve zero-net-carbon emissions. And
in our existing buildings, which are on average 47 years old, we intend to invest
in deep-energy retrofits and energy efficiency when performing critical
maintenance. Now, you might be wondering - given the challenging budget times the
State of New York is experiencing - can we afford to do this? I
would submit we can't afford not to and that this is the exact time to make
these investments. The fact is energy is a commodity and commodities go through
cycles. Gas and electricity prices, interest
rates, and market volatility have been at their low over the past decade. In other
words, we're at the low-end of the commodity cycle. Market volatility,
interest rates, and demand for clean electricity are expected to increase. Now
is the time to lock in low power prices for the long-term and perform deep
energy retrofits before the cost of energy go up. Stony Brook University
offers a great example the benefits of doing that. Recently, they spend 5.7
million on up fitting a building that will reduce their energy costs by $800,000
per year. Actually $832,000 per
year. That's a seven year payback on that investment. Carbon emissions will be
reduced by 3800 tons per year. And Students, Faculty and staff will work
and live in a more comfortable energy-efficient environment. We would
like to scale this program across all our campuses. And of course, we can't do
this alone - the good news is we don't have to. I'm excited to announce today
that SUNY and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, or
NYSERDA, will be partnering with us on this effort.
NYSERDA will help our campuses develop facility plans and co-fund an on-site
energy manager each eligible SUNY campus or region to identify areas for
improvement, engage feasibility studies, and implement changes. Together, we will
work to educate and expand the clean energy workforce in the
State of New York. And we expect to see a ripple effect in terms of
entrepreneurship, as our faculty and students start new companies that can
take the best practices learned at SUNY off-campus into our local and global
communities. I'd like to thank Alicia Barton, the President and CEO of NYSERDA,
and Janet Joseph, NYSERDA Senior Vice-President for Strategy and Market
Development, for being such great collaborators. National Grid has been
another great partner in energy and in readying our students for the rapidly
expanding opportunities. In 2017 alone, National Grid hired 250 SUNY students
and graduates. During the past year it helped us launch three new academies to
train our students for jobs in the energy industry, so now our students at
SUNY Farmingdale State, Hudson Valley Community College, the SUNY
Morrisville Educational Opportunity Center, Erie Community College, and
Onondaga Community College have this option - which is soon to be joined by an
online program. And the president of the New York operations for National Grid,
Ken Daley, has committed to building on this clean energy partnership in the
future. And this leads to my final theme, which is increasing and expanding such
partnerships. SUNY benefits tremendously from its alliances with industry,
government agencies, nonprofit foundations, and international
organizations. For example, when I visited Onondaga Community College in November, I
learned the power of integrating a SUNY campus with communities K through 12
education system. Onondaga has early college and
concurrent enrollment programs at the high school level; partnerships were
tutoring and academic enrichment at middle schools; and in the elementary
school programs that begin to set expectations to attend college for those
students. Then there are partnerships at the state level. For example, we are using
our expertise in advanced materials, healthcare, information technology, and
energy to partner with for investment funds sponsored by the Empire State
Development Corporation - administering an $8 million pool of capital
that invests in high potential, high-growth, early-stage companies. This
partnership increases the number of SUNY- affiliated startups considered for
investment, and makes SUNY an even greater force within the innovation
economy and ecosystem of New York State. And our partnerships are global. We have
a thousand study-abroad programs across seven continents. But even as we have
increased students' participation in these programs, only about one in
a hundred associate degree students and 15% of our four year students will avail
of these opportunities. We need to raise these numbers, because more than ever, our
students need to be global. But to truly take advantage of the opportunities
ahead, we must expand our philanthropic partnerships - because the only limitation
SUNY truly faces and taking our ideas to scale, is resources. Many of our public
university system peers have large endowments at the system
level, to support research and education. For example, at the end of the fiscal
year 2016, the University of California system had a total of 8.3
billion in endowment funds; and the University of Texas System's endowment is
24.2 billion. While our individual colleges and universities
have some endowment, right now, the State University of New York system has zero.
How can we be competitive with zero, when our peers are working in the billions? We
need to change this - we need to create more endowed professorships, graduate
fellowships, and undergraduate financial aid to attract the very best talent to
SUNY and the state of New York. Again - it has to be a hybrid model - where we put in
place a system-wide endowment that feeds resources to our schools, but does not
compete with the philanthropic activities of the individual colleges
and universities. In my view, the best way to do this is to build a system-wide
endowment to provide matching funds when the alumni of SUNY invest in the future
of their individual alma maters. We want to encourage that loyalty among
our alumni to the unique campuses that set them on their path to a productive
career and a rewarding life. Before I end today, I want to say something about the
values at SUNY. We are an extraordinary example of a diverse, inclusive, and
tolerant organization made up of driven people. We have to have the courage as a
system and as individuals, to make clear that SUNY is a place of opportunity for
every single student seeking a great education and the desire to contribute
to our society. So it is crucial that we commit to each other, we care for one
another, we communicate, collaborate, and trust one another. I see my role at SUNY
is establishing themes upon which we will build the future, and connecting the
dots between the many magnificent ideas and people emanating from the
wonderfully distinctive colleges and universities that make up our system. The
SUNY network is truly as one of New York's most important resources -
contributing to a pride of place in major cities and rural
communities alike, fostering a high-tech economy, spurring entrepreneurship
through the state, providing our homegrown businesses with the brilliant
human capital they require, and educating young people to break the mold in a
myriad of fields. Together, our graduates show all of us a better way. I'm so proud
to serve as Chancellor of the of this organization, and to work beside all of
you, so that SUNY can lead - as not just the biggest comprehensive public
university in the country, but the very best public system of higher education
the nation and the world. And I think we're well on our way.
SUNY strong. Thank you.
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