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                                  5361

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 13, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. SPANO, PRETLOW, BRODSKY -- read once and referred
  to the Committee on Higher Education

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law,  in relation to providing for a
  college of engineering and applied sciences within the state universi-
  ty of New York system; and to authorize  the  trustees  of  the  state
  university  of New York to establish a four-year SUNY college of engi-
  neering and applied sciences in the city of Yonkers

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  352 of the education law, as
amended by chapter 552 of the laws  of  1985,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  3.  The  state university shall consist of the four university centers
at Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo and Stony Brook, the designated  colleges
of arts and sciences at Brockport, Buffalo, Cortland, Fredonia, Geneseo,
New  Paltz,  Old  Westbury,  Oneonta,  Oswego,  Plattsburgh, Potsdam and
Purchase, THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED  SCIENCES  AT  YONKERS,
empire state college, the agricultural and technical colleges at Alfred,
Canton,   Cobleskill,  Delhi,  Farmingdale  and  Morrisville,  downstate
medical center, upstate medical center, the college  of  optometry,  the
college  of  environmental  science  and forestry, maritime college, the
college of technology at Utica/Rome, the statutory or contract  colleges
at Cornell university and Alfred university, and such additional univer-
sities, colleges and other institutions, facilities and research centers
as  have  been  or  hereafter  may be acquired, established, operated or
contracted to be operated for the state by the  state  university  trus-
tees.
  S  2.  (a) The trustees of the state university of New York are hereby
authorized and directed to immediately take all actions  to  create  and
establish  within the state university system, and subject to the juris-
diction of such board of trustees, a college of engineering and  applied

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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sciences  as  a  four-year  state  university of New York in the city of
Yonkers, county of Westchester.
  (b)  The  board  of  trustees of the state university shall select the
location of such college within the city of Yonkers and provide for such
college to be an accessible, affordable, competitive,  four-year,  bach-
elor's level, degree-granting college of the state university.
  (c)  The  purpose  of this college of engineering and applied sciences
shall be to offer majors in  industrial/manufacturing,  engineering  and
technology,  transportation  engineering  and technology, computer engi-
neering and technology, telecommunications engineering  and  technology,
environmental  engineering  and  technology,  biomedical engineering and
technology, civil engineering and technology and the history of  econom-
ics of science and technology.
  (d)  The  board  of trustees of the state university of New York shall
conduct all the duties required under article 8  of  the  education  law
upon  the  establishment  of the state university of New York college of
engineering and applied sciences at Yonkers, establish  a  master  plan,
establish  standards  and promulgate any necessary rules and regulations
for the establishment of such college.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.