Despite having an undocumented student population of more than 5,000, and more than a third of undergraduate students who are born outside the mainland U.S., the entire CUNY system has only two such “immigrant student success centers.”
By training and paying students to support their peers on the path to college, not only do schools reduce their student-to-counselor ratio, they also make an investment in the student leaders themselves.
‘The department has chosen to pursue a reopening plan—decided upon in April 2021 and not revisited since—that goes against the wishes of the student body and common-sense health concerns.’
More than three months after the move-out date—and after CUNY approved refunds for graduating students—at least some CUNY families face obstacles trying to learn when students who graduated this spring will get their refunds.
The institution took in 57 students whose home universities were shut down by the storm. Now they’re being told it’s safe to go back—and that the island needs them.
There are ways to oppose the administration’s policies besides speeches and symbols. But are city and state leaders willing to pull those levers of local power?
More than half of first-time students at New York’s public colleges will not graduate in six years, a status quo that undermines the promise of equal access to higher education.
Some charters are too young to measure how their students perform. Others collect data in a spotty way. And official statistics make comprehensive comparisons difficult.
New York City is home to 67 for-profit colleges and training schools. Most charge three to four times as much as community colleges do for comparable courses.
Some New Yorkers feel they are gaining ground, others that they are slipping behind. But a new poll finds that most believe they are standing still.
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