The G.I. Bill for education in the United Sates resulted in a massive increase in the demand for tertiary education amongst World War II veterans – a demand that increased with the arrival of the ‘baby- boomers’ on the American scene. During the 1960s, SUNY expanded rapidly in various locations in New York State, including Albany, its capital. Being a public institution the development of SUNY was very much affected by political infighting in the state legislature. It was a Republican Governor of the state, Nelson Rockefeller, who had the ini- tiative and energy to shape the develop- ment of the state’s university system. When he came to power, the state college system was in disarray with a poor academic reputation and various departments andschools scattered across the state. Past decisions had been made for political rather than academic reasons. Rockefeller and his family had a long-held interest in the physical development of cities and their architecture. He put his interests in educa- tion and in architecture to work for the state. The first step in Rockefeller’s plan was to establish a fund – the State University Construction Fund (SUCF) – to pay for new facilities that would attract more and higher-quality students to the state system. Raising the status of the university would, in turn, act as a catalyst enabling better facilities to be built. Parallel to this step was the establishment of a scholarship fund to provide educational opportunities for financially disadvantaged students
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