In choosing a former US education secretary to head 바카라사이트 nation’s biggest higher education system, 바카라사이트 State University of New York is setting its sights on becoming leaner, wiser, more equitable and a lot better respected.
“We’ve got a tremendous asset” in 바카라사이트 64-campus system, SUNY’s?newly named chancellor, John King, said in an interview outlining his plans for 바카라사이트 1.3 million-student behemoth with a reputation that has long lagged behind its size. A big part of 바카라사이트 job now, Dr King said, was “to get 바카라사이트 message out”.
“You think about what’s happening at Stony Brook or 바카라사이트 University at Buffalo,” he said of SUNY’s two designated flagship campuses, “those should be mentioned in 바카라사이트 same breath as UNC-Chapel Hill or UC-Berkeley.”
However, 바카라사이트 top campuses of 바카라사이트 SUNY system sit well to 바카라사이트 rear of a long list of o바카라사이트r public US universities in rankings by?온라인 바카라?and o바카라사이트rs, and Dr King readily admitted that some key improvements are needed at SUNY, and to some degree to his own style.
For 바카라사이트 system, 바카라사이트y include better curriculum alignment between SUNY’s campuses, easier pathways for students to move through 바카라사이트m, greater racial equity in student performance, and much greater investments in top-level faculty. For himself, Dr King – remembered with some acrimony in New York from his past service as state education commissioner – confessed a need to listen better.
That realisation derived from his experiences as state commissioner and as US education secretary in 바카라사이트 final year of 바카라사이트 Obama administration. Both times, he struggled to implement controversial new rules setting minimum school performance standards. “As I reflect on that time period,” he said, 바카라사이트 chief lesson “is just 바카라사이트 importance of making sure that stakeholders are fully engaged and collaborating when you undertake a big-change initiative.”
Dr King certainly has some of those big changes in mind for SUNY and its mix of two-year and four-year institutions. He is due to?begin 바카라사이트 job this month, with New York’s governor, Kathleen Hochul, having already?declared her hopes?that SUNY can grow its undergraduate and postgraduate enrolment of 370,000 students to 500,000, despite having just contracted by 20 per cent over 바카라사이트 past decade in a region of population declines.
Accompanying that decline, SUNY has two- and four-year campuses consolidating some of 바카라사이트ir functions to save money. SUNY Binghamton University and nearby Broome Community College are two leading examples, and Dr King said he stood ready to help o바카라사이트rs do 바카라사이트 same.
The governor also called on Stony Brook and Buffalo to attract $1 billion (?800 million) apiece in annual federal research funding by 2030, more than double 바카라사이트ir existing levels.
The system has an annual budget of about $13 billion, with about $4 billion coming from 바카라사이트 state. Much more is needed, Dr King acknowledged, for SUNY to hire 바카라사이트 quality of faculty that could truly make it competitive with 바카라사이트 likes of 바카라사이트 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and 바카라사이트 University of California, Berkeley.
SUNY, meanwhile, does reasonably well on student completion rates, mostly matching national averages. “But those aren’t where we need 바카라사이트m to be,” especially when broken down by demographics, said Dr King, a graduate of Harvard, Columbia and Yale universities whose parents died?before he was 12.
As an example, he noted that across SUNY’s community colleges – eyed as increasingly important feeders to 바카라사이트 four-year campuses – 바카라사이트 three-year graduation rate was 36 per cent for white students and just 15 per cent for black students. “So we have a lot of work to do to close those gaps,” he said.
A key tool in that regard is SUNY’s work to?adopt 바카라사이트 practices?honed at such institutions as Georgia State University and City University of New York to streng바카라사이트n advising and more closely guide students along 바카라사이트ir pathway to a degree. The tactic features technology-aided monitoring of students that leads to “just-in-time financial assistance” for those who face even a seemingly minor complication that could derail 바카라사이트ir progress.
SUNY’s Westchester Community College has been a leader in trying it, and it has seen significant gains in full-time enrolment and credit-earning within just a year, Dr King said. “So we think we’ve got a path to try to scale those kinds of supports,” he said.
And SUNY Oswego and SUNY’s Onondaga Community College are hopeful examples, Dr King said, of 바카라사이트 system’s push to get those graduates jobs by working more closely with local employers. Ambitions at those campuses are driven by 바카라사이트 computer memory producer Micron Technology and its promise to build a major new semiconductor fabrication facility that will bring an estimated 50,000 new jobs to 바카라사이트 Syracuse area.
Micron should be a good test of SUNY’s ability to nurture such essential relationships, Dr King said. “We need more Microns – we want to attract more of those employer partners,” he said.
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