July 22, 2008

Higher-Education Report Wins New York Governor's Support

By Ingrid Norton

Driving to Albany, N.Y., to meet with the governor on Monday, the president of the State University of New York at Buffalo was afraid he would hear more "budgetary doom and gloom."

But after the meeting, the president, John B. Simpson, a member of the New York State Commission on Higher Education, felt optimistic.

Mr. Simpson, fellow commissioners, and Gov. David A. Paterson met to discuss an ambitious report by the commission, which concluded that New York's

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