{"id":4768,"date":"2011-09-07T12:13:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T16:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2011-09-08T10:08:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T14:08:15","slug":"ritchie-calls-for-a-president-at-every-suny-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/09\/07\/ritchie-calls-for-a-president-at-every-suny-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ritchie calls for a president at every SUNY campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

This just in from state Sen. Patty Ritchie<\/a>‘s office, re. the plan to merge presidencies at SUNY campuses in Canton and Potsdam:<\/p>\n

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RITCHIE LEGISLATION: A PRESIDENT FOR EVERY SUNY COLLEGE<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ritchie is the chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee. The legislation, which her press release says has bipartisan support in both the Senate and Assembly, would protect Canton and other SUNY schools with roots on the farm from the university system’s “shared leaders<\/a>” plan.<\/p>\n

She writes:<\/p>\n

Our SUNY campuses each are unique, and they\u2019ve been successful thanks to strong, dynamic, independent leadership. But that success is threatened by this plan which would combine colleges with little in common in terms of their mission, history and character.<\/p>\n

While I support the goal of maximizing the use of taxpayer and tuition dollars, and finding ways to share services and lower costs, combining the leadership of two colleges with vastly different missions and character goes a step too far.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ritchie’s bill goes a couple big steps\u00a0 further, too. It would give each local college council the authority to approve or reject the chancellor’s choice to lead a school.<\/p>\n

SUNY Canton President Joe Kennedy’s being forced out of his longtime post by the planned merger of the Canton and Potsdam shared presidency, which has been widely panned(here<\/a> – and here<\/a>) in both Canton and Potsdam. In an interview<\/a> airing today on NCPR, he\u00a0 said he has a hard time seeing how the shared presidency would work to the benefit of either the campus cultures or finances. He also said he expected the community and politicians weigh in on the shared presidency.<\/p>\n

And so she did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This just in from state Sen. Patty Ritchie‘s office, re. the plan to merge presidencies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6,20,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}