Another SUNY institution is shrinking its footprint to account for a precipitous decline in student enrollment and a growing budget gap, this time at SUNY Fredonia. The college, which is about 50 miles south of Buffalo along the Lake Erie coastline, has lost about 40% of its enrolled student volume in the last decade and faces many of the same structural issues faced at SUNY Potsdam, the first state school to announce program cuts earlier this year. In an announcement Wednesday, SUNY Fredonia President Stephen Kolison, Jr., announced the campus was facing a $10 million budget gap. He said the college would respond by considering ending 13 programs with very few students. The 13 programs considered for cutting have 74 students in total, out of about 3,200 students on campus.
