SUNY funding drops

ALBANY - State University of New York officials announced Thursday the 64-campus system's funding is $109 million less than originally expected, according to an article in the Poughkeepsie Journal.

Across-the-board spending reductions required by the recently enacted state budget will apply to revenues it collects from tuition, housing, SUNY hospitals and other services. That money is considered state revenue and has to be appropriated by the Legislature and governor, according to the report.

Gov. David Paterson has given commissioners and the schools a May 16 deadline for submitting plans on how they will change their budgets accordingly, according to the article