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Since New York passed the Jose Peralta DREAM Act in 2019, making immigrant students eligible for state-administered financial aid they were previously cut off from, more colleges and organizations have…

ByDaniel Parra 3Comments

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Nov 2022

Government Opinion Politics

Opinion: How NY Democrats and Gov. Hochul Can Win Back Young Voters

“While record youth turnout across the country enabled Democrats to hold the U.S. Senate and make gains in swing districts barely won by President Joe Biden, the New York vote…

ByRobb Friedlander 0Comments

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Dec 2021

Education Government Opinion

Opinion: A Tuition-Free CUNY is an Investment in New York’s Recovery

‘Winning a New Deal for CUNY would benefit literally hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers—an affordable high quality education right here in NYC can lift up families while creating a…

ByAndrew Gounardes 2Comments

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Oct 2021

Education Health Opinion

Opinion: Urban Planning Students Discontent with Hunter College’s COVID Reopening Policy

‘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.’

ByMiranda Bellizia

ByCara Corrigan

ByJennifer Hendricks 3Comments

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Aug 2021

Education Opinion

Opinion: As College Classes Resume, New York Must Invest in Ending Student Hunger

‘College campus food pantries have short hours of operation, lack physical space, and regularly run out of food. Already strained, many have been stretched to a breaking point under the…

ByHaley Schusterman 0Comments

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Jul 2021

Education Housing and Homelessness

Nonprofit’s Proposal Would Provide Apartments to Homeless CUNY Students

A 2019 survey of CUNY undergraduates found that 14 percent had been homeless over the previous year—including 18 percent of community college students—while 55 percent said they experienced housing insecurity.

ByDavid Brand 0Comments

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Apr 2021

Education Opinion

Opinion: Why Public Education Advocates Must Stand With NYC’s Grad Student Workers

‘At every level of our education system, and at every school in New York City, educators and school workers must be guaranteed a fair wage and decent working conditions.’

ByAlexa Avilés 0Comments

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Sep 2020

Opinion

Opinion: New York’s Billionaires Can Afford to Help Save CUNY

‘While I and many other CUNY employees are enraged at the chancellor’s handling of the crisis, he is also administering a system that was slashed in 1975 and gradually bled…

ByLuke Elliott-Negri 1Comment

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Jul 2020

Education

CUNY Dorm Refund—and Answers—Can be Hard to Get

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…

ByNicole Javorsky 6Comments

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Jul 2020

Opinion

Opinion: Dismantle ICE and Reimagine an Inclusive Immigration System

‘We joined in a collective exhale when the Supreme Court temporarily stopped Trump’s rescinding of DACA. But the celebration didn’t last very long.’

ByNermeen Arastu 0Comments

Need to Know: How Can Undocumented Students Study at a NY College or University?