This past Tuesday, March 15th, faith leaders of several different religious traditions gathered in Albany for a press conference to release the letter and urge state lawmakers to pass a final budget with more than $1 billion in increased funding for SUNY and CUNY. They were joined by Assembly members Karines Reyes and Jonathan Rivera. Student leaders and union officers of the Professional Staff Congress and United University Professions were there as well. The group urged Gov. Kathy Hochul, Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Speaker Carl Heastie to reverse decades of harmful disinvestment in our public higher education system by fully funding CUNY and SUNY in the state budget.
