SUNY is seeing increased interest from students who are looking for more affordable education. But the SUNY system faces budget cuts, like the UC system. The President of a SUNY campus says:
“Eighty-four percent of our budget is people, so when you get cuts of this magnitude, it’s difficult to imagine that we end up with the same size work force,” he said. “We’re going to have to make some very hard choices. But it’s better to do fewer things and do them well than to take many things and water them down.”