New N.Y. Governor, a Friend to Colleges, May Continue Spitzer's Efforts

New York's higher-education leaders started off the year with good news from their governor, Eliot Spitzer, who used his annual address to lawmakers to propose adding 2,000 faculty members to the state's public universities and creating a $4-billion endowment for the institutions.

Just this month, the Democratic governor touted the endowment plan during a conference call with presidents and trustees from the state's two public-university systems, the State University of New York and

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