Last week, SUNY’s Board of Trustees announced details regarding New York’s investment in public higher education provided by the 2024–25 New York State budget. Geneseo is slated to receive an increase of about $1.6 million in ongoing State support. Including the increase the campus received this year, the campus has received nearly $4.2 million in State support over the past two years.
"We are deeply grateful to Governor Hochul, our elected officials, and Chancellor King for their dedication and support of SUNY," said SUNY Geneseo President Denise A. Battles. "At Geneseo, we punch above our weight and deliver strong outcomes for our students, and this additional funding helps us to build on our efforts to improve student success."
The increase in operating aid will help offset annual cost increases, such as the well-deserved negotiated salary increases for faculty and staff and additional rising costs due to inflation and other factors.
SUNY Geneseo is also benefiting from one-time Transformational Investment Funding (2023-24), which is helping to support multicultural student success, additional scholarships and increased tutoring services, recruitment, business career counseling, and pre-health advisement, among other initiatives.
The State is also providing ongoing support for specific initiatives and activities, including:
- additional student internship experiences to improve student success
- faculty and student research
- students with disabilities
- student mental health
- student food insecurity
- reduction of mandatory fees for graduate student workers
The State’s aggregate investments bolster Geneseo’s status as New York’s public honors college.
The "announcement marks a historic investment in our nation-leading statewide public higher education system and will inject critical funding to support our students and faculty," said SUNY Chancellor John B. King Jr. "Governor Hochul and the State Legislature’s commitment to public higher education is clear in this year’s budget."