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May 14, 1999

SUNY Faculty Groups Lack Faith in Board

By PETER SCHMIDT

Leaders of both the chief faculty union and the Faculty Senate of the State University of New York have taken the unprecedented step of jointly declaring "no confidence" in the system's Board of Trustees, citing the board's actions advancing its ideologically conservative policy agenda.

At a news conference last week in Albany, the two faculty organizations said they would ask Republican Gov. George E. Pataki

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