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This bill authorizes the creation of a four-year SUNY College of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Yonkers, New York.
Why it matters
Expands access to engineering education in downstate New York. , providing local students with an affordable public option for high-demand STEM fields without needing to relocate far from home.
Targets workforce needs by offering specialized majors. in areas like transportation, biomedical, environmental, and telecommunications engineering, directly addressing regional and state economic development priorities.
Promotes equity and diversity. by situating a new SUNY campus in Yonkers, a diverse and growing urban area, which could help broaden participation in engineering and applied sciences among underrepresented groups.
Drives potential investment and growth in Yonkers. , as a new four-year college often brings jobs, stimulates local businesses, and can attract research partnerships and innovation to the region.
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Create Yonkers Engineering College
In Senate Committee · Higher Education · Sponsor Andrea Stewart-Cousins
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2280
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. MAYER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing for a college of engineering and applied sciences within the state university of New York system; and to authorize the trustees of the state university of New York to establish a four-year SUNY college of engineering and applied sciences in the city of Yonkers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 352 of the education law, as amended by chapter 552 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
3. The state university shall consist of the four university centers at Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo and Stony Brook, the designated colleges of arts and sciences at Brockport, Buffalo, Cortland, Fredonia, Geneseo, New Paltz, Old Westbury, Oneonta, Oswego, Plattsburgh, Potsdam and Purchase, the college of engineering and applied sciences at Yonkers, empire state college, the agricultural and technical colleges at Alfred, Canton, Cobleskill, Delhi, Farmingdale and Morrisville, downstate medical center, upstate medical center, the college of optometry, the college of environmental science and forestry, maritime college, the college of technology at Utica/Rome, the statutory or contract colleges at Cornell university and Alfred university, and such additional universities, colleges and other institutions, facilities and research centers as have been or hereafter may be acquired, established, operated or contracted to be operated for the state by the state university trustees.
§ 2. (a) The trustees of the state university of New York are hereby authorized and directed to immediately take all actions to create and establish within the state university system, and subject to the jurisdiction of such board of trustees, a college of engineering and applied
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sciences as a four-year state university of New York in the city of Yonkers, county of Westchester.
(b) The board of trustees of the state university shall select the location of such college within the city of Yonkers and provide for such college to be an accessible, affordable, competitive, four-year, bachelor's level, degree-granting college of the state university.
(c) The purpose of this college of engineering and applied sciences shall be to offer majors in industrial/manufacturing, engineering and technology, transportation engineering and technology, computer engineering and technology, telecommunications engineering and technology, environmental engineering and technology, biomedical engineering and technology, civil engineering and technology and the history of economics of science and technology.
(d) The board of trustees of the state university of New York shall conduct all the duties required under article 8 of the education law upon the establishment of the state university of New York college of engineering and applied sciences at Yonkers, establish a master plan, establish standards and promulgate any necessary rules and regulations for the establishment of such college.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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