Bill Text: NY S05551 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the trustees of the state university of New York to establish a four-year college of engineering and applied sciences in the city of Yonkers within the state university system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S05551 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05551-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5551
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 6, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  STEWART-COUSINS -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed 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 universi-
          ty  of  New  York  system;  and to authorize the trustees of the state
          university of New York to establish a four-year SUNY college of  engi-
          neering and applied sciences in the city of Yonkers
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section  352  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  552  of  the  laws  of 1985, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3. The state university shall consist of the four  university  centers
     5  at  Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo and Stony Brook, the designated colleges
     6  of arts and sciences at Brockport, Buffalo, Cortland, Fredonia, Geneseo,
     7  New Paltz, Old  Westbury,  Oneonta,  Oswego,  Plattsburgh,  Potsdam  and
     8  Purchase,  the  college  of engineering and applied sciences at Yonkers,
     9  empire state college, the agricultural and technical colleges at Alfred,
    10  Canton,  Cobleskill,  Delhi,  Farmingdale  and  Morrisville,   downstate
    11  medical  center,  upstate  medical center, the college of optometry, the
    12  college of environmental science and  forestry,  maritime  college,  the
    13  college  of technology at Utica/Rome, the statutory or contract colleges
    14  at Cornell university and Alfred university, and such additional univer-
    15  sities, colleges and other institutions, facilities and research centers
    16  as have been or hereafter may  be  acquired,  established,  operated  or
    17  contracted  to  be  operated for the state by the state university trus-
    18  tees.
    19    § 2. (a) The trustees of the state university of New York  are  hereby
    20  authorized  and  directed  to immediately take all actions to create and
    21  establish within the state university system, and subject to the  juris-
    22  diction  of such board of trustees, a college of engineering and applied
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  sciences as a four-year state university of New  York  in  the  city  of
     2  Yonkers, county of Westchester.
     3    (b)  The  board  of  trustees of the state university shall select the
     4  location of such college within the city of Yonkers and provide for such
     5  college to be an accessible, affordable, competitive,  four-year,  bach-
     6  elor's level, degree-granting college of the state university.
     7    (c)  The  purpose  of this college of engineering and applied sciences
     8  shall be to offer majors in  industrial/manufacturing,  engineering  and
     9  technology,  transportation  engineering  and technology, computer engi-
    10  neering and technology, telecommunications engineering  and  technology,
    11  environmental  engineering  and  technology,  biomedical engineering and
    12  technology, civil engineering and technology and the history of  econom-
    13  ics of science and technology.
    14    (d)  The  board  of trustees of the state university of New York shall
    15  conduct all the duties required under article 8  of  the  education  law
    16  upon  the  establishment  of the state university of New York college of
    17  engineering and applied sciences at Yonkers, establish  a  master  plan,
    18  establish  standards  and promulgate any necessary rules and regulations
    19  for the establishment of such college.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.