Bill Text: NY A08870 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the board of trustees of the state university of New York to establish and operate a college of military and applied sciences at Putnam.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-08 - held for consideration in higher education [A08870 Detail]
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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8870
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
June 12, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. BALL, BURLING, WALKER -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing the
college of military and applied sciences at Putnam of the state
university of New York
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 352 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 552 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. The state university shall consist of the four university centers
5 at Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo and Stony Brook[,]; the designated
6 colleges of arts and sciences at Brockport, Buffalo, Cortland, Fredonia,
7 Geneseo, New Paltz, Old Westbury, Oneonta, Oswego, Plattsburgh, Potsdam
8 and Purchase[,]; THE COLLEGE OF MILITARY AND APPLIED SCIENCES AT
9 PUTNAM; empire state college[,]; the agricultural and technical colleges
10 at Alfred, Canton, Cobleskill, Delhi, Farmingdale and Morrisville[,];
11 downstate medical center[,]; upstate medical center[,]; the college of
12 optometry[,]; the college of environmental science and forestry[,];
13 maritime college[,]; the college of technology at Utica/Rome[,]; the
14 statutory or contract colleges at Cornell university and Alfred univer-
15 sity[,]; and such additional universities, colleges and other insti-
16 tutions, facilities and research centers as have been or hereafter may
17 be acquired, established, operated or contracted to be operated for the
18 state by the state university trustees.
19 S 2. (a) The board of trustees of the state university of New York are
20 authorized and directed to take all actions necessary pursuant to arti-
21 cle 8 of the education law to establish and operate, within the state
22 university, the college of military and applied sciences at Putnam, as a
23 four year college granting bachelor's degrees.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (b) The board of trustees shall select and designate a site within the
2 county of Putnam for the construction and operation of such college of
3 military and applied sciences. The college shall be established as an
4 accessible, affordable, competitive college of the state university.
5 (c) The purpose of the college of military and applied sciences at
6 Putnam shall be to offer degrees in the disciplines of military science,
7 intelligence and terrorism studies; business administration; computer
8 engineering and technology; telecommunications engineering and technolo-
9 gy; civil engineering and technology; environmental engineering and
10 technology; biomedical engineering and technology; management informa-
11 tion systems and information technology; mathematics; public adminis-
12 tration; information assurance and technology; nursing; military histo-
13 ry; and history of the economics of science and technology.
14 (d) The board of trustees shall provide for the establishment and
15 operation of a program at the college of military and applied sciences
16 at Putnam for online and distance learning classes. Such program shall
17 include, but not be limited to, course conversation, hardware, and soft-
18 ware and networking with other institutions of higher education, as
19 defined in section 2 of the education law, that have similar programs.
20 The goal of the program shall be to provide instruction in all courses
21 necessary for all degree programs in which a bachelor's degree is
22 awarded by such college.
23 (e) The board of trustees shall contract with the Department of the
24 Army, the Department of the Navy and/or the Department of the Air Force
25 for the establishment of Reserve Officer Training Corps programs at the
26 college of military and applied sciences at Putnam.
27 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
