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SUNY Trustees Support Cuts To Stony Brook Southampton

Publication: The Southampton Press
By Will James   Nov 23, 2010 12:34 PM
State University of New York trustees last week ratified Stony Brook University’s decision to remove programs and close facilities at Stony Brook Southampton, a satellite campus located in Shinnecock Hills.

The vote on November 17 was intended to satisfy an order by a State Supreme Court justice, who ruled in August that university administrators should have consulted an advisory board, the Stony Brook University Council, before deciding more than six months ago to close the dormitories at the satellite campus and relocate its sustainability programs to the main campus.

The cuts, which were announced in April and took effect in August, are intended to help close a multimillion-dollar budget gap at Stony Brook University brought on by a drop in state funding.

The resolution by the SUNY Board of Trustees comes after the... more

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