Mayor de Blasio has said the city’s college system is key to reducing income inequality. But experts say CUNY needs better coordination to connect young New Yorkers to solid careers.
The school system has made college readiness a priority. A key—and often missing—ingredient to a successful transition to college is for kids to have some guidance getting there.
William Pollard’s resignation hasn’t quelled controversy at the Crown Heights school, where some believe the search for a new leader has moved too quickly.
Outgoing Chancellor Matthew Goldstein’s contract entitled him to a year of “study leave” at his current salary. He’ll be Chancellor Emeritus for five additional years.
When Mayor Bloomberg took charge of New York’s schools, he highlighted wide racial gaps in school achievement as a rationale for reform. A new study finds those disparities persist—and suggests ways to address them.
College students are pressing the state legislature to pass a New York version of an idea that’s stalled at the federal level: Giving undocumented immigrant students a chance at a career in America.
Instructors at the Brooklyn college are divided over how to improve poor graduation numbers—and on whether the faculty on hand are qualified to operate a new science center.
CUNY thought it had a sweet deal: an exclusive city contract to distribute federal jobs dollars to training schools. But first it’s going to have to pay the bills on time.
Two years after a report commissioned by Mayor Giuliani slammed City University of New York for its low graduation rates, innovative partnerships between the city public schools and CUNY have begun to turn the system around, says a new study by Center for an Urban Future.
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