Mean Streets

City Studies

Mean Streets

Store Stories

City Studies

Store Stories

Stand Up to Clean Up!

Public Access Design

Stand Up to Clean Up!

Mean Streets

City Studies

Mean Streets

Shelter Skelter

Urban Investigations

Shelter Skelter

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. 

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Common Cents

City Studies

Common Cents

¡El poder de prepararse!

Public Access Design

¡El poder de prepararse!

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

Pass It On!

Making Policy Public

Pass It On!

Not on Our Watch!

Making Policy Public

Not on Our Watch!

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting