Chancellor Zimpher said SUNY’s top priority is to make sure students graduate.

She added said SUNY will funnel more money to top-performing schools, based on metrics like graduation rates.

Zimpher also repeatedly called for the 64 campuses to become more integrated, and embrace a word that can’t be found in the dictionary: systemness.

So for a university like SUNY that means bringing together and orchestrating our system of stakeholders: students, faculty, staff, boards, councils, campuses.
 
Zimpher also called for the need for accountability, and said SUNY will continue to do self-evaluations through its new annual report cards.