A 2646: Provides for the trustees of the state university of New York to establish a four-year college of engineering and applied sciences in the city of Yonkers within the state university system.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2646 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 21, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH, SHIMSKY, BURDICK, MIKULIN, DAVILA, HYND- MAN, LEVENBERG -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. McDONOUGH, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a SUNY four-year college of engineering and applied sciences in the city of Yonkers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 352 of the education law, as 2 amended by chapter 13 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 3. The state university shall consist of the four university centers 5 at Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo and Stony Brook, the designated colleges 6 of arts and sciences at Brockport, Buffalo, Cortland, Fredonia, Geneseo, 7 New Paltz, Old Westbury, Oneonta, Oswego, Plattsburgh, Potsdam and 8 Purchase, the college of engineering and applied sciences at Yonkers, 9 empire state college, the agricultural and technical colleges at Alfred, 10 Canton, Cobleskill, Delhi, Farmingdale and Morrisville, downstate 11 medical center, upstate medical center, the college of optometry, the 12 college of environmental science and forestry, maritime college, the 13 college of technology at Utica/Rome, the statutory or contract colleges 14 at Cornell university and Alfred university, and such additional univer- 15 sities, colleges and other institutions, facilities and research centers 16 as have been or hereafter may be acquired, established, operated or 17 contracted to be operated for the state by the state university trus- 18 tees. 19 § 2. (a) The trustees of the state university of New York are hereby 20 authorized and directed to immediately take all actions to create and 21 establish within the state university system, and subject to the juris- 22 diction of such board of trustees, a college of engineering and applied EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01363-01-5 
 A. 2646 2 1 sciences as a four-year state university of New York in the city of 2 Yonkers, county of Westchester. 3 (b) The board of trustees of the state university shall select the 4 location of such college within the city of Yonkers and provide for such 5 college to be an accessible, affordable, competitive, four-year, bach- 6 elor's level, degree-granting college of the state university. 7 (c) The purpose of this college of engineering and applied sciences 8 shall be to offer majors in industrial/manufacturing, engineering and 9 technology, transportation engineering and technology, computer engi- 10 neering and technology, telecommunications engineering and technology, 11 environmental engineering and technology, biomedical engineering and 12 technology, civil engineering and technology and the history of econom- 13 ics of science and technology. 14 (d) The board of trustees of the state university of New York shall 15 conduct all the duties required under article 8 of the education law 16 upon the establishment of the state university of New York college of 17 engineering and applied sciences at Yonkers, establish a master plan, 18 establish standards and promulgate any necessary rules and regulations 19 for the establishment of such college. 20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.