Early College Initiative at CUNY

06/08/2021

05/24/2021

05/19/2021

REMINDER: The Emergency Broadband Benefit will provide a discount of up to $50 per month toward broadband service for eligible families and households who are struggling to stay connected during the pandemic. Eligible households can also receive a discount of up to $100 for the purchase of a laptop, desktop computer, or tablet from participating providers. For more info, please visit: fcc.gov/broadbandbenefit.

Congress has tasked the FCC with developing a new $3.2 billion program to help U.S. households that are struggling to pay for internet service during the pandemic. The FCC is mobilizing people and organizations to help share important consumer information about the Emergency Broadband Benefit. To pa...

05/12/2021

05/07/2021

Narissa Ganpat is beginning a great career in the legal field. The York Early College Academy graduate earned a Political Science degree from York College / CUNY and Narissa currently attends Hofstra University School of Law. Her most recent accomplishments include being named a 2021 NYC Bar Diversity Fellow and a 2021 Don H. Liu Scholar from the Asian American Bar Association. She shares this message about her accomplishment.

“I am extremely grateful to have been selected for the New York City Bar Diversity Fellowship. This achievement is an affirmation of my hard work during my first semester at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. The Office of Career Services and prior Fellows have been a tremendous support system during this competitive selection process. I am excited to start work this summer at Perkins Coie LLP where I will have the opportunity to explore my interest in Corporate law and work alongside talented individuals in the legal industry. I look forward to sharing my experiences and successes to demonstrate to other first generation law students that it is possible to rise above the socioeconomic challenges and adversities we face as diverse students.”

https://lawnews-hofstra-edu.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/lawnews.hofstra.edu/2021/03/29/3-hofstra-law-students-receive-2021-new-york-city-bar-diversity-fellowship/amp/

Three Hofstra Law students have been selected to participate in the New York City Bar’s 2021 Diversity Fellowship Program. First-year students Nancy Coulverson, Narissa Ganpat, and Twinkle Patel will have the opportunity to spend their summer working at one of the participating law firms and corpo...

04/21/2021

Earn $2,000 this summer by working for the CUNY Recovery Corps! This new program is being launched exclusively for thousands of CUNY students to aid NYC projects in education, civic engagement, and providing support for local businesses and organizations.

Apply here: https://www.cuny.edu/recovery-corps/

If students already applied to SYEP this year, no problem! Just fill out Google form below so CUNY Recovery Corps can find their application.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQP0zRXMbOaO26DWmQwUx949V17q_7hZNDE9ixD7vk6QBEPg/viewform

Join the CUNY Recovery Corps to help bring back NYC and earn $2K this summer!

04/20/2021

HERO High School Principal, Kristin Cahill, shares her appreciation for school staff and teachers.

"...We can’t lose sight of our greatest asset: educators and school staff members who have shown their willingness to go above and beyond for students.

This was made particularly clear for me the day after the Capitol riot. In one virtual classroom, I watched a third-year teacher display a carefully curated selection of images of the events of the previous day. He asked students to respond in writing and then share their thoughts and feelings. He built on their comments to explain key concepts and make connections to the theme of the class, the history of colonialism. With perfect timing, his co-teachers stepped in to ask probing questions, offer their own perspectives, and suggest transitions in a way that kept the discussion honest, but not hopeless. It was clear the lesson plan was the result of a whole season of hard work, not just one night."

Kristin Cahill is the founding principal of HERO High School, a P-Tech school on the Samuel Gompers Campus partnered with Hostos Community College and Montefiore Medical Center. A native New Yorker, she began her career as a teacher in Oakland, California. Cahill worked in school support, workforce, and research before opening her school in 2013.

Back on campus, it’s impossible not to feel grateful — and hopeful.

04/19/2021

Read about Isaac’s journey balancing high school and college and how he maintains an impressive 4.0 GPA in his Liberal Arts Associate degree program at Hostos Community College.

Isaac is one of over 10,000+ NYC public high school students enrolled in our early college programs. Students are introduced to college life as young as 6th grade and receive ongoing academic and social-emotional support from our ECI College Liaisons and high school staff. Learn more about ECI and our four early college schools models on our website: www.earlycollege.cuny.edu

ECI Student Isaac Montiel Set to Graduate with Stellar Grades, High School Diploma, and Associate De - Hostos Community College

01/20/2021

“Today at noon, our country demonstrates the strength of its ideals even in the most tumultuous and perilous times. On this unusually consequential Inauguration Day, The City University of New York welcomes the new administration of President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President Kamala Harris, and their promise of leadership committed to social justice, public education, and leading the nation out of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. Our new President is himself a graduate of public higher education. Our new Vice President today breaks barriers of gender and race and is the first graduate of an Historically Black University to take the oath of national elective office. And our First Lady is a lifelong educator who for nearly three decades has taught in community colleges and plans to continue doing so while in the White House. We look ahead to a new day of equality, justice and peace for our country.”

“Today at noon, our country demonstrates the strength of its ideals even in the most tumultuous and perilous times. On this unusually consequential Inauguration Day, The City University of New York welcomes the new administration of President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President Kamala Harris, a...

11/19/2020