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President Horowitz Calls For CUNY to Contact State Legislators
Open letter from Frances Degen Horowitz, GC President:

The Assembly and the Senate conference committees are currently engaged in discussion of the State budget. Now is the time when it would be especially helpful for you to be in contact with your elected representatives on behalf of CUNY's budget needs. CUNY has made contacting your legislative representatives especially convenient by establishing a web site: http://www.supportcuny.org that enables you to locate with ease the e-mail address of your state senator and assembly member, to review sample letters, and to send your own message to your legislative representatives.

As you know, among the items of most concern related to CUNY's budget is the projected shortfall in operating funds for next year which would put further pressure on our already very strained resources, our request for doctoral student tuition fellowships, the proposals for a tuition increases and changes in the TAP financial aid program. Indeed, it would especially helpful if in any letter you send by way of the web site you make special mention of CUNY's specific request for $5.4 million in state support for Doctoral Student Fellowships while also emphasizing CUNY's operating budget needs.