White Plains CitizeNetReporter - <i>Adam In Albany</i>: Bradley Shocked at 41% Tuition Hike

WPCNR ADAM IN ALBANY. Weekly report by Assemblyperson Adam Bradley of the 89th. January 17, 2003: Assemblyman Adam Bradley (D-White Plains) today slammed the governor controlled State University of New York’s Board of Trustees’ proposal to increase tuition at the state’s public colleges and universities by 41 percent – and pledged to fight the increase in the Assembly.

This gigantic tuition hike is even worse than we expected,” Bradley said. “The governor’s appointees on the Board of Trustees are attempting to balance the state’s fiscal troubles on the backs of students and Westchester families.”

Trustees stunned many on Friday when they announced a plan to hike tuition costs by 41 percent, or $1,400 a year for New York undergraduate students. The proposed increase would take effect this fall.

The total college cost for a full-time residential SUNY Purchase student – including tuition, room and board, and mandatory fees – is already $11,203. The Trustees have also recently approved increasing tuition at most of the state’s community colleges.

“If we want to prepare our kids for the future and strengthen New York’s weakened economy, we must make higher education affordable and accessible for all students,” Bradley said. “We are depriving a higher education to those who need and deserve it the most. This is essentially a tax on those who can least afford it. That’s why I will continue to fight this ill-conceived increase.”

Note: "Adam in Albany" is a syndicated column written for the media by Adam Bradley, 89th District Assemblyperson, circulated weekly on developments affecting constituents. You may contact his offices in Albany at 1-518-455-5397. Or, you may write the Assemblyman at Room 553 Legislative Office Building, Albany NY 12248.


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