SUNY Tuition Plan Needed
February 23, 2011
Press Republican Editorial
Feb. 20, 2011
When families sit down to work out their budgets for the coming year, it's helpful to know what their bills will be. Will their costs remain the same or will some rise? The State University of New York needs that kind of stability, as far as tuition is concerned, and so do the students attending the system's colleges.
SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher recently proposed reform of the tuition system. It's not something new; she has talked about it in the past with the Press-Republican Editorial Board. She thinks that both SUNY and its students need to know what is coming over the next five years — and that tuition increases should occur incrementally, not when the state is in panic mode.
Being the youngest of 10 children from Cortland NY I was the only one to receive a college degree. I made my parents, a coal truck driver and my mother a fishline worker, proud when I graduated from Alfred State in 1958. My education moved me from accounting at Smith Corona to President of Overhead Door Co of Cortland. I worked vacations and summers delivering coal with my dad, Grand Union and NYS DOT to pay my way through college. SUNY's 2 year degrees are great and must continue. I support the 5 year tuition plan.
John Adams
Ormond Beach FL
Posted by: John Adams | March 04, 2011 at 04:37 PM