New York Laws
Article 8 - State University and State Financial Assistance for Higher Education
354 - Powers and Duties of State University Trustees-Planning Functions.

§ 354. Powers and duties of state university trustees-planning
functions. 1. The state university trustees shall, once every four
years, formulate a long-range state university plan or general revision
thereof and make recommendations to the board of regents and the
governor for the organization, development, coordination and expansion
of the state university and for the establishment of community colleges
in areas suitable for and in need of such institutions, which plan and
recommendations shall include the following:

a. plans for new curricula;

b. plans for new facilities;

c. plans for change in policies with respect to student admissions;

d. projected student enrollments; and

e. comments upon its relationship to other colleges and universities,
public, independent and proprietary, within the state.

f. For informational purposes only, projection standards and overall
expenditure projections of capital and operating costs. Prior to
transmitting their long-range state university plan or general revision
thereof to the board of regents and the governor the state university
trustees may, after giving due notice, conduct one or more hearings on
such plan.

1-a. The state university trustees shall organize or cause to be
organized at a university or college of the state university an annual
conference on the role of the universities, colleges and other
facilities on the local economies, social conditions and quality of life
of host cities, towns and villages. Such conference shall rotate amongst
the individual universities and colleges and shall include but not be
limited to:

a. a review of significant partnering between universities, colleges
and other institutions of the state university with their host
communities;

b. presentations utilizing the expertise of the state university on
types of projects, programs and administrative actions that could
support the state university's mission stated in subdivision e-1 of
section three hundred fifty-one of this article; and

c. roundtable discussions between state university trustees, officers
and faculty with county, city, town and local officials, business and
civic leaders relating to the purposes of the annual conference.

Each sponsoring university or college shall prepare and distribute a
report on the annual conference.

2. During the calendar year nineteen hundred sixty-four and each
fourth year thereafter the state university trustees shall transmit
their proposed plan or general revision thereof to the board of regents
and the governor on or before the first day of June in each such year.
Such plan shall be reviewed by the board of regents and shall be subject
to approval by such board. As approved by the board of regents and
incorporated into the regents plan or general revision thereof for the
development of higher education in the state and, upon approval
thereafter by the governor, such plan shall guide and determine the
development of the state university and its community colleges until
such plan is modified or revised in the manner provided herein.

3. By the first day of June in nineteen hundred seventy-four and every
fourth year thereafter, the state university trustees shall report in
writing to the board of regents, to the governor and to the legislature
on the progress made in carrying out their responsibilities under such
plan and their general recommendations with respect to public higher
education, including recommendations as to modifications of such plan
which the trustees deem essential to meet the then current demands upon
public higher education. The state university trustees may also at any

other time propose modifications which they then deem essential or
desirable with respect to such plan. They may, after giving due notice,
conduct one or more hearings on such modifications and shall transmit
their recommendations therefor to the board of regents and the governor.
Such modifications shall be subject to approval by the regents and
thereafter by the governor in the same manner as such plan or general
revisions thereof.