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Doing Our Part to Sustain Students
The Chancellor’s Emergency Relief Fund, established in the spring to help CUNY students facing financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic, has grown by more than 70%, surpassing $5.5 million in contributions.
History of Success
CUNY appoints accomplished, experienced leaders to serve as presidents of four colleges
Serving Up Improvement
New CUNY contract promises to boost food services on campuses across the University
Saluting CUNY’s Heroes
These students did all they could to help their fellow New Yorkers amid the pandemic
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of students – including a record 274,000 degree-credit students – choose The City University of New York for a multitude of reasons that can be summed up as one: opportunity. Providing a quality, accessible education, regardless of background or means, has been CUNY’s mission since 1847.
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Mourning Those
Lost to COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic has taken a considerable toll on the CUNY community, and each name honored on our special memorial page represents a person who is fondly remembered and deeply missed. We invite you to leave sympathy messages to celebrate and commemorate their contributions and lives.
SALUTE TO SUCCESS
CUNY Students are Winning Big
More than 50 students from the City University of New York are winners of prestigious national academic awards. Their success reflects the University’s mandate to provide a quality education to students of all backgrounds and socioeconomic circumstances.
The CUNY Story
‘The Education of Free People Is the Hope of Humanity’
Our new illustrated history traces the arc of CUNY’s evolution, from a seedling of an idea hatched in 1847 to a modern university of 25 colleges across five boroughs, serving half a million students of all ages and backgrounds.
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The Urban Food Policy Institute at @CUNYSPH won a grant to study successful strategies for expanding enrollment, benefits, access, and impact of food benefit programs such as SNAP, WIC, and School Meals in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. https://t.co/gAC6kPDgWq https://t.co/jJaGUJeQZs
The Urban Food Policy Institute at @CUNYSPH won a grant to study successful strategies for expanding enrollment, benefits, access, and impact of food benefit programs such as SNAP, WIC, and School Meals in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. https://t.co/gAC6kPDgWq https://t.co/jJaGUJeQZs
CUNY Podcasts
In Search of the Genius Behind the Brooklyn Bridge
John Jay professor Richard Haw spent 13 years on a definitive biography of John A. Roebling, the brilliant, eccentric designer of New York’s greatest landmark of 19th Century engineering. The book is just out and Haw talks about it on our Book Beat podcast.
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