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What You Can Do

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Join the facebook group and sign the following petitions regarding the proposed cuts at UAlbany:

Protesting the deactivation of language programs

Protesting the deactivation of Theater: petition one (history of situation and option to personalize), petition two (fixed text)

 

Send a letter to your legislators through the United University Professions page, urging the Legislature to reject any further cuts to SUNY

 

Letters and e-mails (especially personalized ones) can make a big difference.  Please contact UAlbany Administrators, SUNY Administrators, and Legislators (addresses below) to voice your discontent.  We also suggest you consider submitting an op-ed to your local paper.  Please e-mail us (fight4publiceducation@gmail.coma copy of your letter or opinion piece and we'll post it to the site, adding public pressure to the campaign.  Please read our analysis for a full rationale, but we suggest that you include the following demands and arguments:

 

  • that every available effort be made to retain the full- and part-time faculty, graduate students, staff members, and indeed the suspended programs themselves.
  • that the first principle guiding any University at Albany cuts should be the preservation of the core academic mission of the research university, which means protecting academic programs at all costs.
  • that SUNY reserve funds be released (as suggested by Chancellor Zimpher in her testimony to the Senate/Assembly Budget hearings in August) and that the UAlbany Administration apply these funds to save the jobs and programs being cut.
  • that, if President Philip cannot find other money-saving strategies besides suspending academic programs, he make public a line-by-line budget that includes details about both state and all-funds accounts to all faculty, staff, and students, and open a process of participatory budgeting using the Faculty Senate as the site for deliberation. Without a comprehensive understanding of the University's financial expenditures, we cannot make informed suggestions about how to address the budget gap.
  • that SUNY administration return to the State in the upcoming legislative session and fight for the restoration of public funds necessary to provide for these essential programs.  We will join them in this effort and lobby with the full force of committed faculty, student, labor, and community groups to demand that the State meets it obligation to ensure that a comprehensive and rigorous University education remains accessible to all citizens of New York State.
  • that SUNY administrators and New York State Legislators reject the ill-conceived plans for privatization in legislation such as PHEEIA.
  • that New York State officials develop a budget that restores public funding to SUNY, CUNY and K-12 education, and that does so through a progressive taxation policy rather than by cutting other state programs.

 

Our administrators can be contacted directly at the following addresses:

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher: chancellor@suny.edu
George Philip, President: presmail@uamail.albany.edu;

Catherine Herman, Vice-President: cherman@uamail.albany.edu;  

Susan Phillips, Provost: provost@uamail.albany.edu

Edelgard Wulfert, Dean of Arts & Sciences: ewulfert@uamail.albany.edu.

 

Key State Legislators include the following:

Senator Malcolm Smith, Majority Leader:  masmith@senate.state.ny.us

Senator Toby Ann Stavisky, Chair Higher Education Committee: stavisky@senate.state.ny.us

Senator Suzi Oppenheimer, Chair Education Committee:  oppenhei@senate.state.ny.us 

Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, Speaker: Speaker@assembly.state.ny.us

Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, Chair Higher Education Committee: GlickD@assembly.state.ny.us

Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, Chair Education Committee: NolanC@assembly.state.ny.us

 

If you are a New York State Citizen, it will be very helpful to contact your own representatives, since you can speak directly as a voting member of their constituency.  You can find your Senate and Assembly reps at the following addresses:

http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/

http://www.nysenate.gov/senators

 

Paper mail may be sent to Albany Administrators at the following address:  

University Administration Building,

State University of New York,

1400 Washington Avenue,

Albany, NY 12222


Chancellor Zimpher receives paper mail at the following address:

State University of New York
State University Plaza
353 Broadway
Albany, New York 12246

 

To contact us, or to be added to our e-mail list, send a message to fight4publiceducation@gmail.com

 

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