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viii, 305 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.
The largest comprehensive public university system in the country, the State University of New York has played a critical role in that dramatic tale. Educating more than half a million students through sixty-four campuses spread across the Empire State, SUNY's incredibly diverse system offers degree and certificate programs for every postsecondary need through its network of thirty community colleges, seven colleges of technology, thirteen comprehensive (master's level) colleges, seven specialized and contract colleges and eight doctoral institutions. SUNY's remarkable history is not one story, but sixty-five, the sagas of sixty-four separate campuses partnering within one university system, and the whole has truly been greater than the sum of its parts. The book's organization around New York's ten economic development regions reflects SUNY's critical role in the state's society and economy. The stories of the various campuses are told through essays and photographs that focus on each institution's history and its continuing relation to its region and its residents. What emerges from this volume is a deeper understanding of the extraordinary variety of needs met by public higher education in New York. This is the complex and fascinating history of the State University of New York, sixty-four campuses, one university.
W. Bruce Leslie and Kenneth P. O'Brien with Kimberly Schutte ; foreword by Nancy L. Zimpher.