Senate Republicans have been open to increasing tuition as Mr. Cuomo suggested, and they responded positively to his proposal.
The strike began last April as a limited student protest seeking to preserve free tuition and open admissions.
Community colleges have been especially vulnerable to fraud rings, because of their open enrollment and low tuition, which leaves room for substantial excess aid.
Although their figures showed that they are not in the majority, the strikers said they would not release the campus until they win acceptance of all of their platform calling for free tuition and open admissions from certain high schools.
The much deferred announcement is due at the end of the month, but some senior vice chancellors last month infuriated the Labour front bench by issuing an open letter opposing the tuition fee cut only days after meeting the shadow higher education minister, Liam Byrne.
The bill would open up several state tuition-assistance programs to illegal immigrants and create a private scholarship fund to help pay for their higher education.
And the analysis of Oxford colleges' accounts suggests there is some scope to absorb lower funding by cutting costs.The government's decision to start charging university students £1,000 a year for their tuition also opens a potential escape route for Oxbridge.
The report, called "The New York Dream Act: A Preliminary Estimate of Costs and Benefits," estimates that opening the state's Tuition Assistance Program to all students who meet the funding criteria, regardless of immigration status, would increase tuition assistance expenditures by about $17 million per year, or 2 percent.
"The Phoenix model of recruiting through open access just to generate tuition fees wouldn't work here.
The College Board, made up of 5,000 institutions and best known for its SAT college admission tests, released a report that cited a need for federal legislation that would open up in-state college tuition, financial aid and legal status to many illegal immigrants.
