UTICA, N.Y. — Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. has launched a petition on change.org opposing Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal to merge SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering back into the University of Albany campus.
In her January State of the State Address, Hochul (D) announced plans to “revitalize” SUNY campuses in Albany and Binghamton into leading research and teaching universities. For Albany, this would mean consolidating the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) back at that campus. The CNSE expanded to the Utica area in 2014 and the former SUNY Institute of Technology was renamed SUNY Polytechnic Institute. . .
