2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › 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.