New York's New Governor, Seen as a Friend to Higher Education, May Pick Up Where Spitzer Left Off

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 last week, 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

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