SUNY Poly in Utica has become, not only to Oneida County, but to Central New York, an asset essential to the attraction and support of the semiconductor industry. And our workforce development efforts are best exemplified through Wolfspeed’s (Cree) commitment of a $2 million scholarship program over 10 years to help students from historically underserved or marginalized communities, and those with significant financial hardship. The Computer Chip Commercialization Center, known as Quad C, a shared-use colocation facility at SUNY Poly’s Utica site, is enabling next-generation device processing and packaging, information technology and supply chain support. Ranked 14th nationally in US News and World Report, SUNY Poly is both a research asset for the industry and increasingly a center for talent recruitment and workforce development. The notion of stripping Oneida County and our region of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, a world-class research institution, and the only one in our region, is an insult to the students, professors, companies and the organizations that have invested in its spectacular success. In her State of the State, Governor Hochul advanced a proposal that is devastating to the community I lead and perplexing given the state’s overall effort to attract the semiconductor industry. The same divestment of hope and opportunity that we endured at the hands of corporate America, and I won’t stand for it. Yet incredibly, today, it is our state government that is contemplating the same kind of abandonment. And despite those setbacks, we are on the road to recovery. But those were the decisions of private sector companies beyond our control. Upstate has endured much economic hardship over the years, having suffered under a tax and regulatory structure dictated by downstate leaders.
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