Long Island SUNY campuses score $17.7M in funding

Long Island campuses that are part of the State University of New York system are getting $17.7 million in new funding through an allocation of direct state tax support.

Stony Brook University will see $13.6 million, a 9% increase from last year. Farmingdale State College will get $2.6 million, a 15.9% increase from last year, and SUNY Old Westbury will receive $1.5 million, up 12.3% from last year.

The investment “will inject critical funding to support our students and faculty,” SUNY Chancellor John King, Jr. said in a news release about the funding.

That funding will contribute to salary increases for SUNY faculty and staff. It will provide additional funding for paid student internships as well as support faculty and student researchers. And it will help mandatory reduce fees for graduate student workers.

The funding comes from the 2025 enacted New York State budget and was announced Thursday by the SUNY Board of Trustees, which called the funding over the last two years a “historic investment.” The combined 2023-24 and 2024-25 budgets bring the largest two-year infusion in at least five decades with an increase of $277 million.

“There is a place at SUNY for every New Yorker, and this funding further positions SUNY as a leading academic institution that delivers on the promise of student success at an extraordinary value,” King said.

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