Enough About Harvard. Let’s Talk About CUNY.

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Enough about Harvard. If we want to improve education for the 99 percent in this country, we should talk a lot less about the Ivy League and a lot more about great public colleges like the City University of New York (CUNY).

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Eighty percent of undergraduates are students of color. The system, which includes two-year, four-year, and graduate programs, as well as professional training and continuing education classes, serves over 261,000 students.

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elping working-class students to improve their material well-being after graduation. Every time colleges are ranked on “social mobility,” that is, the ability to help low-income students boost their economic fortunes, CUNY dominates.

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CUNY suffered $155millionincuts,losing235facultyandstaffpositions.Themayor’sbudget,releasedlastApril,made$41 million annually in permanent cuts to CUNY from 2024 to 2026.

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CUNY had a storied intellectual reputation as the “Harvard of the proletariat.” Until 1976, it was even tuition-free.

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It’s impressive that CUNY does so well on college rankings and serves so many students as well as it does, with so little resources

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