President James Davis called for a $198 million increase in state funding for CUNY over and above the Governor’s executive budget for Fiscal Year 2026 as he testified alongside leaders of UUP and NYSUT at a legislative hearing about state funding for higher education. Click here for the PSC’s budget platform, which represents year one of a five-year plan to fund the New Deal for CUNY.
“Too many of our campuses are vastly understaffed, dependent on a patchwork of adjunct faculty and overworked professional staff. Students need more academic advisors and mental health counselors to help keep them on track to graduation. Older students who return to CUNY thanks to the Opportunity Promise scholarship will be in particular need of advisement and support. And we cannot improve students’ progress to completion without the full-time faculty staffing the courses students need to graduate. CUNY is short 5,000 full-time faculty. The Legislature should demand investments in faculty and staff this year and embrace the New Deal for CUNY’s five-year plan to end CUNY’s staffing crisis,” he testified.
Click here for President Davis’ full written testimony.
Published: February 25, 2025 | Last Modified: February 28, 2025
