§ 350. Definitions.  As used in this article, unless the context shall
  otherwise require, the following terms shall mean:
    1. "State university." The state university created by this article.
    2. "Community colleges." Colleges established and operated pursuant to
  the provisions of article one hundred twenty-six, and providing two-year
  post secondary programs in general and  technical  educational  subjects
  and receiving financial assistance from the state.
    3.  "Statutory  or  contract  colleges."  Colleges  furnishing  higher
  education, operated by independent institutions on behalf of  the  state
  pursuant  to  statute  or  contractual  agreements;  provided,  that  an
  institution not otherwise a statutory  or  contract  college  shall  not
  become  a  statutory or contract college because of its receipt of state
  funds  or  financial  assistance  pursuant  to  section  three   hundred
  fifty-eight  hereof,  or  by entering into any contract pursuant to that
  section.
    4. "State-operated institutions." Institutions  comprising  the  state
  university as provided for in subdivision three of section three hundred
  fifty-two hereof, but not including statutory or contract colleges.
    5.  "State  university health care facility" shall mean a hospital, as
  defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of the  public  health  law,
  operated by the state university, or a clinic, as defined in subdivision
  six  of  this  section,  of a state university health sciences center at
  Brooklyn,  Buffalo,  Stony  Brook  and  Syracuse,  or  the  College   of
  Optometry.
    6.  "Clinic" shall mean a facility located either within or outside of
  a state university health care facility providing  services  related  to
  the  medical  education mission of the university, but shall not include
  state university student health services.