N.Y. Education Law § 351: State university mission

§ 351. State university mission. The mission of the state university

system shall be to provide to the people of New York educational

services of the highest quality, with the broadest possible access,

fully representative of all segments of the population in a complete

range of academic, professional and vocational postsecondary programs

including such additional activities in pursuit of these objectives as

are necessary or customary. These services and activities shall be

offered through a geographically distributed comprehensive system of

diverse campuses which shall have differentiated and designated missions

designed to provide a comprehensive program of higher education, to meet

the needs of both traditional and non-traditional students and to

address local, regional and state needs and goals. In fulfilling this

mission, the state university shall exercise care to develop and

maintain a balance of its human and physical resources that:

a. recognizes the fundamental role of its responsibilities in

undergraduate education and provides a full range of graduate and

professional education that reflects the opportunity for individual

choice and the needs of society;

b. establishes tuition which most effectively promotes the

university's access goals;

c. encourages and facilitates basic and applied research for the

purpose of the creation and dissemination of knowledge vital for

continued human, scientific, technological and economic advancement;

d. strengthens its educational and research programs in the health

sciences through the provision of high quality general comprehensive and

specialty health care, broadly accessible at reasonable cost, in its

hospitals, clinics and related programs and through networks and joint

and cooperative relationships with other health care providers and

institutions, including those on a regional basis;

e. shares the expertise of the state university with the business,

agricultural, governmental, labor and nonprofit sectors of the state

through a program of public service for the purpose of enhancing the

well-being of the people of the state of New York and in protecting our

environmental and marine resources;

e-1. encourage, support and participate through facility planning and

projects, personnel policies and programs with local governments, school

districts, businesses and civic sectors of host communities regarding

the health of local economies and quality of life;

f. promotes appropriate program articulation between its

state-operated institutions and its community colleges as well as

encourages regional networks and cooperative relationships with other

educational and cultural institutions for the purpose of better

fulfilling its mission of education, research and service.