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CUNY Joins Proactive New Jobs Partnership

CEOs from many of the area’s largest employers are partnering with CUNY to help launch the New York Jobs CEO Council, a coalition that promises career pathways for 25,000 CUNY students.

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$5.5M and Counting

​Donors step up to help thousands of CUNY students impacted by the pandemic

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CUNY vs. COVID-19

Scientists across the University are hard at work researching new ways to battle the pandemic

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Boost for CUNY

A $10 million gift from the Mellon Foundation will help expand a range of initiatives and programs

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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.

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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.

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‘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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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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