SUNY Students Protest Tuition Hikes, Funding Cuts
Channel: Aung Moe Win
Date: 2011-11-22

Rally and March to Fight Enacted Tuition Hikes and NYSUNY2020.

United under the banner of New York Students Rising, students from campuses across the SUNY system, including New Paltz, Binghamton, Geneseo and Albany, converges at the SUNY System Administration building for a brief rally. Students and allies march up to the Capitol, pushing a boulder representing the $1 trillion held nationally in student loan debt. After entering the Capitol, students present Governor Cuomowith a report card, a failing grade in reference to his unwillingness to defend New York State's system of higher education. This action is intended to highlight the unmanageable burden that the state is placing on students, raising tuition and cutting funding for SUNY while allowing the millionaires' tax to expire, giving a tax cut to the 1%. This action occurs in solidarity with a simultaneous march, led by other NYSR affiliates, on the CUNY Board of Trustees meeting in New York City. via/ http://www.saveoursuny.org