For SUNY Oswego, the midyear budget news was relatively good as budget news goes.

When the SUNY Board of Trustees recently approved a plan for making the $90 million cut to the system necessitated by state revenue shortfalls during the current year, Oswego's share of the budget reduction worked out $1,167,700, college officials said.

President Deborah F. Stanley will convene a meeting with the Campus Budget Advisory Group this month to help advise on implementing the midyear cut.

“The campus has anticipated these reductions. We have reserves in place to mitigate their effects,” Vice President for Finance and Administration Nicholas Lyons noted.

When implementing cost savings, he added, the college’s priority will be to protect the instructional mission of the campus and the health and safety of students and staff.

Both Stanley and Lyons are members of the system-wide budget committee that SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher assembled last fall. Its first task was to propose a method to absorb the cut for the current year.

That budget group will continue to meet, Lyons said, to help prepare SUNY’s budget request for 2010-11 — a time when the state is expected to continue to face revenue shortfalls. Oswego is the only campus in the system with two representatives on the SUNY budget group.

"Once again we will need help from our alumni to support SUNY's needs in the 2010-11 budget," said Stanley. "As state support decreases, Oswego will continue to look for additional opportunities to seed pilot programs to increase revenues."

She added that Oswego will connect with alumni to assist with their continuing educational needs through online programs and extension sites to make sure the college is serving their educational and retooling needs.

-- Julie Harrison Blissert

PHOTO CAPTION:
Leah McDowell '12 and Jen Lombardo '12 sign petitions during the budget rally in the Campus Center food court and activity center.



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