UAlbany is looking for more faculty to staff positions in a variety of fields reports Robin Cooper at The Business Review. The school is hoping to hire in biomedicine, business, and liberal arts. The hiring is motivated by the school's plan for economic development, bolstered by state funds announced earlier this week. That's a long way from the protests that broke out at the beginning of the school year when UAlbany was cutting language classes to make ends meet.
SUNY chancellor Nancy Zimpher was at Westchester Community College on Thursday to hype the university system's role in economic development. Gary Stern reports at Gannett:
Zimpher said that many of SUNY's 64 campuses are already involved with promoting New York's four main industries of strength going forward: nanotechnology; energy; information technology and high-performance computing; and the life sciences. SUNY's five medical schools, for instance, are working together to push biomedical research and health-care solutions. Seven campuses, including West-chester and Rockland community colleges, are part of a consortium promoting clean-energy education and training. She said that SUNY's eight campuses in the Mid-Hudson Valley are developing new ways to work with their communities. "This is where things happen," she said to applause.
Still don't quite understand how NY SUNY 2020 works? Here's an explainer from the chancellor herself, courtesy of Capitol Tonight.
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