N.Y. Education Law § 6004: College board of trustees; powers and duties

§ 6004. College board of trustees; powers and duties. The college

shall continue to be administered and maintained at Syracuse university.

Subject to the general management and supervision of and in accordance

with rules established by the state university trustees, the college

board of trustees shall exercise the following powers:

a. Recommend regarding the establishment of courses of study, the

creation of departments, the general course of instruction, research,

and experiments to be pursued in the college and the degrees to be

conferred, number and salaries of faculty, staff and all other

employees, their appointment and termination or removal, and the nature

of their duties.

b. To submit for approval all contracts necessary or appropriate for

carrying out any of the purposes or objects of the college, including

such as shall involve cooperation with any person, corporation or

association or any department of the government of the state of New York

or of the United States in laboratory, experimental, investigative or

research work, and the acceptance from such person, corporation,

association or department of the state or federal government of gifts or

contributions of money, expert service, labor, materials, apparatus,

appliances or other property in connection therewith.

c. Recommend to the state university trustees candidates for

appointment by the state university trustees as head of such

institution.

d. Review all major plans of the head of such institution for its more

effective operation and make such recommendations with respect thereto

as it deems appropriate. Such plans shall be submitted for approval by

the state university trustees, together with the recommendations of the

college trustees with respect thereto. The state university trustees

shall determine what constitutes such major plans, which are hereby

generally defined to include, among others, plans for the appraisal or

improvement of the faculty and other personnel, expansion or restriction

of student admissions, appraisal or improvement of academic programs and

of standards for the earning of degrees, expansion of institutional

plants and appraisal or improvement of student activities and housing.

e. Make regulations governing the care, custody and management of

lands, grounds, buildings and equipment.

f. Review the proposed budget requests for such institution prepared

by the head thereof and recommend to the state university trustees a

budget for such institution.

g. Foster the development of advisory citizens' committees to render

such assistance as the college trustees may request, and to appoint the

members of such citizens' committees. Members of such citizens'

committees shall receive no compensation for their services but shall be

reimbursed for the expenses actually and necessarily incurred by them in

the performance of their duties.

h. Name buildings and grounds.

i. Make regulations governing the conduct and behavior of students.

j. Make an annual report to the state university trustees on or before

September first of each year, and report to them from time to time on

any matter it believes requires their attention.

k. Perform such other powers and duties as may be authorized or

required by the state university trustees by general rules or special

directives.

1. Make and establish, and from time to time alter and amend, such

regulations pertaining to the affairs of its institution, not

inconsistent with law or the rules of the state university trustees, as

may be necessary or appropriate to carry out effectively the foregoing

powers and duties.