What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Making Policy Public

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Urban Investigations

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

What the Cell?

Urban Investigations

What the Cell?

Air Fair?

City Studies

Air Fair?

Immigrants & NY

Making Policy Public

Immigrants & NY

Voice Recognition

Urban Investigations

Voice Recognition

Print Free For All?

On April 12, 2017, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a free college tuition bill into law. The Excelsior Scholarship makes the City and State Universities of New York tuition-free, but only for qualifying students. Students that are part time, undocumented, or whose families make over $125,000 per year are not eligible. Should college be free for everyone? 

In the winter of 2018, CUP collaborated with Teaching Artist Gabe Gordon and Yadira Echevarria’s internship class at the international Community High School (ICHS) in the Bronx to find out. To investigate, students got out of the classroom and into the realm of higher education to survey educators and school staff on the value of a degree and the possible hidden costs of education. What are the different types of academic degrees? How much does higher education actually cost? Who decides?

Students created the newspaper Free For All? to teach others what they learned and to help students navigate their higher education options. 

A Bet on Debt

City Studies

A Bet on Debt

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Sign Up!

Public Access Design

Sign Up!

Who Benefits from Community Benefit Agreements?

Urban Investigations

Who Benefits from Community Benefit Agreements?

Pay Up!

City Studies

Pay Up!

Puff Puff Passed

Urban Investigations

Puff Puff Passed

Is Justice For All?

City Studies

Is Justice For All?