News from The City University of New York

The City University of New York has been named to a prestigious new national consortium that aims to improve academic opportunities for Latinx scholars in the humanities. The consortium, directed by the University of Illinois Chicago and funded by a three-year, $5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will prepare, support and mentor Latinx students who are pursuing advanced degrees and faculty positions in these disciplines.

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 The New York State Education Department (NYSED) awarded $5.4 million in My Brother’s Keeper Teacher Opportunity Corps II (TOC II) grants to four senior colleges in The City University of New York system to increase the number of racial and ethnic minorities in teaching careers, especially in high-need school districts with teacher shortages.

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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and the City University of New York (CUNY) announce the opening of the DNA Learning Center NYC (DNALC NYC) at the New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn, New York. The 18,000 square-foot facility expands CSHL’s lab-based STEM learning program in biology and genetics to 30,000 New York City middle and high school students annually, with a focus on engaging underrepresented communities.

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Two senior colleges of the City University of New York deliver the best value among the nation’s top 250 schools in the latest Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education rankings, which also named five CUNY colleges among the best colleges in the U.S. CUNY colleges also stand among the nation’s strongest in a category that considers student diversity and inclusion.

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The City University of New York is commemorating National Hispanic Heritage Month with a series of events highlighting CUNY’s historic relationship with the Latino communities of New York, defined by a mutual longstanding commitment to success.

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Four colleges of The City University of New York have been named among “America’s Top Colleges” by Forbes in the magazine’s 2021 ranking of 600 top public and private four-year institutions.

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Six senior colleges of The City University of New York are among the top 20 public universities in the northern United States, according to U.S. News & World Report’s latest rankings released today. The magazine also named eight CUNY colleges among the best for social mobility, and cited eight schools for their strong ethnic diversity, offering yet more proof that the University continues to provide access to a middle-class life for first-generation college students, immigrants, students from communities of color and other historically underserved groups.

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The trauma of September 11, 2001 is seared in the collective memory of Borough of Manhattan Community College, a campus just blocks from the World Trade Center.  “The day is still vivid to me,” said Caroline Pari-Pfisterer, a professor of English who emerged from the subway that morning to see the outline of an airplane on the side of the north tower. Running from the scene moments later, she turned to see the tower collapsing in an enormous plume of dust. “It still conjures up immense sadness, terror and pain, every year on 9/11. We cannot forget, even if we tried.”

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Another 18,000 Students are Eligible to Apply for Debt Forgiveness Based on Financial Hardship Starting This Week

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“Dean Sarah Bartlett has guided the growth of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY into one of the nation’s leading journalism schools.

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