New York Court Blocks Closing of Stony Brook U.’s Sustainability Campus

A New York State court has ruled that Stony Brook University’s plan to severely cut programs at its sustainability campus, in Southampton, N.Y., violates state education law, reports the The East Hampton Press. A group of students had sued the State University of New York branch, which planned to close the academic programs to save money, amid severe state budget problems. According to the newspaper, Judge Paul J. Baisley Jr. said the university’s council had not reviewed the decision, as required by law. A Stony Brook spokeswoman said that the university would respond to the ruling and that its council would soon “convene to further discuss the decision to relocate the undergraduate and residential programs from Southampton to the Main Campus.”