37-credit, 12-month Doctorate

[Jonathan Whatley]

Buffalo State and SUNY Buffalo are 2 different universities. The SUNY system is reviewing Buffalo State's doctoral plan. SUNY Buffalo aka University at Buffalo already has doctoral degrees and has for years. Why are there 2 universities part of SUNY in Buffalo? If anyone ever figures it out that would be great. LOL Buffalo isn't that big of a city. It's the second largest in NY but it's not gigantic or anything unless you're talking about snow. 

My family is from Buffalo on my mother's side. My mother was the first in her working-class Polish American family to attend college or university.

There were a series of paradigm shifts for the family (a) for any of the family to go to college, (b) for that person to be a girl, and then (c) when she chose the fairly competitive admissions, academics-focused research university "UB" (SUNY Buffalo, est. 1846, $1 billion endowment today), instead of one of the smaller, less competitive admissions, more occupationally-focused colleges: the family's Roman Catholic Church operated several – my grandmother would later volunteer for Villa Maria College for decades, as bingo caller, peak Buffalo achieved! – plus there was the state college, "Buff State" (then Buffalo State College, now Buffalo State University, $52 million endowment today).

She met my father at UB, so I suppose that worked out?