Joanie Mahoney has served as president of SUNY ESF since November 2020. She served as Onondaga County’s executive for 11 years.

To the editor:

The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) offers a unique, essential, and mission-driven education that few colleges in the nation are equipped to deliver. I’ve seen firsthand, both as ESF president and as Onondaga County executive, the incredible benefits ESF provides, not only to its students, but to our local economy and, through its graduates and groundbreaking research, to New York state and the world beyond.

Fortunately, demand for an ESF education remains strong, as evidenced by the recent enrollment of our fourth largest class since 2002. ESF is an academically rigorous college, and it attracts the best and brightest st

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