President Hitchcock Announces Freshman Enrollment For 1998 1999 Is 2,3176

1998 October 13

President Hitchcock announces freshman enrollment for 1998-1999 is 2,376 and that SAT scores had risen from 1149 to 1161. She also promised that the 12 year decline in faculty, from 629 FTE in 1987-1988, will be reversed by 20 new positions resulting in a net increase in the faculty ranks. She also announced that the new SUNY RAM, Resource Allocation Method, had added $1.7 million to UAlbany's base budget while the New York State budget has added another 3.2 percent increase to Albany's budget.

Source Details

Vinny Reda, "President: University to Reverse 12-Year Decline in Faculty Size," University Update, October 14, 1998, p. 1

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