N.Y. Education Law § 354: Powers and duties of state university trustees-planning functions

§ 354. Powers and duties of state university trustees-planning

functions. 1. The state university trustees shall, once every four

years, formulate a long-range state university plan or general revision

thereof and make recommendations to the board of regents and the

governor for the organization, development, coordination and expansion

of the state university and for the establishment of community colleges

in areas suitable for and in need of such institutions, which plan and

recommendations shall include the following:

a. plans for new curricula;

b. plans for new facilities;

c. plans for change in policies with respect to student admissions;

d. projected student enrollments; and

e. comments upon its relationship to other colleges and universities,

public, independent and proprietary, within the state.

f. For informational purposes only, projection standards and overall

expenditure projections of capital and operating costs. Prior to

transmitting their long-range state university plan or general revision

thereof to the board of regents and the governor the state university

trustees may, after giving due notice, conduct one or more hearings on

such plan.

1-a. The state university trustees shall organize or cause to be

organized at a university or college of the state university an annual

conference on the role of the universities, colleges and other

facilities on the local economies, social conditions and quality of life

of host cities, towns and villages. Such conference shall rotate amongst

the individual universities and colleges and shall include but not be

limited to:

a. a review of significant partnering between universities, colleges

and other institutions of the state university with their host

communities;

b. presentations utilizing the expertise of the state university on

types of projects, programs and administrative actions that could

support the state university's mission stated in subdivision e-1 of

section three hundred fifty-one of this article; and

c. roundtable discussions between state university trustees, officers

and faculty with county, city, town and local officials, business and

civic leaders relating to the purposes of the annual conference.

Each sponsoring university or college shall prepare and distribute a

report on the annual conference.

2. During the calendar year nineteen hundred sixty-four and each

fourth year thereafter the state university trustees shall transmit

their proposed plan or general revision thereof to the board of regents

and the governor on or before the first day of June in each such year.

Such plan shall be reviewed by the board of regents and shall be subject

to approval by such board. As approved by the board of regents and

incorporated into the regents plan or general revision thereof for the

development of higher education in the state and, upon approval

thereafter by the governor, such plan shall guide and determine the

development of the state university and its community colleges until

such plan is modified or revised in the manner provided herein.

3. By the first day of June in nineteen hundred seventy-four and every

fourth year thereafter, the state university trustees shall report in

writing to the board of regents, to the governor and to the legislature

on the progress made in carrying out their responsibilities under such

plan and their general recommendations with respect to public higher

education, including recommendations as to modifications of such plan

which the trustees deem essential to meet the then current demands upon

public higher education. The state university trustees may also at any

other time propose modifications which they then deem essential or

desirable with respect to such plan. They may, after giving due notice,

conduct one or more hearings on such modifications and shall transmit

their recommendations therefor to the board of regents and the governor.

Such modifications shall be subject to approval by the regents and

thereafter by the governor in the same manner as such plan or general

revisions thereof.