2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8 - State University and State Financial Assistance for Higher Education › 351 - State University Mission.

§ 351. State  university  mission. The mission of the state university
  system shall be to  provide  to  the  people  of  New  York  educational
  services  of  the  highest  quality,  with the broadest possible access,
  fully representative of all segments of the  population  in  a  complete
  range  of  academic,  professional and vocational postsecondary programs
  including such additional activities in pursuit of these  objectives  as
  are  necessary  or  customary.  These  services  and activities shall be
  offered through a geographically  distributed  comprehensive  system  of
  diverse campuses which shall have differentiated and designated missions
  designed to provide a comprehensive program of higher education, to meet
  the  needs  of  both  traditional  and  non-traditional  students and to
  address local, regional and state needs and goals.  In  fulfilling  this
  mission,  the  state  university  shall  exercise  care  to  develop and
  maintain a balance of its human and physical resources that:
a.  recognizes  the  fundamental  role  of  its  responsibilities   in
  undergraduate  education  and  provides  a  full  range  of graduate and
  professional education that  reflects  the  opportunity  for  individual
  choice and the needs of society;
b.   establishes   tuition   which   most   effectively  promotes  the
  university's access goals;
c. encourages and facilitates  basic  and  applied  research  for  the
  purpose  of  the  creation  and  dissemination  of  knowledge  vital for
  continued human, scientific, technological and economic advancement;
d. strengthens its educational and research  programs  in  the  health
  sciences through the provision of high quality general comprehensive and
  specialty  health  care,  broadly  accessible at reasonable cost, in its
  hospitals, clinics and related programs and through networks  and  joint
  and  cooperative  relationships  with  other  health  care providers and
  institutions, including those on a regional basis;
e. shares the expertise of the state  university  with  the  business,
  agricultural,  governmental,  labor  and  nonprofit sectors of the state
  through a program of public service for the  purpose  of  enhancing  the
  well-being  of the people of the state of New York and in protecting our
  environmental and marine resources;
e-1. encourage, support and participate through facility planning  and
  projects, personnel policies and programs with local governments, school
  districts,  businesses  and  civic sectors of host communities regarding
  the health of local economies and quality of life;
f.   promotes   appropriate   program   articulation    between    its
  state-operated  institutions  and  its  community  colleges  as  well as
  encourages regional networks and cooperative  relationships  with  other
  educational   and  cultural  institutions  for  the  purpose  of  better
  fulfilling its mission of education, research and service.