Making the Grade

Urban Investigations

Making the Grade

What Do Incarcerated Parents Need to Know About ACS?

Technical Assistance

What Do Incarcerated Parents Need to Know About ACS?

Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

Housing Court Help

Public Access Design

Housing Court Help

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

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. 

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Public Access Design

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Immigrants & NY

Making Policy Public

Immigrants & NY

Grand Army Plaza

Urban Investigations

Grand Army Plaza

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

My ID

City Studies

My ID

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Is Your Home Making You Sick?

Making Policy Public

Is Your Home Making You Sick?

Fast Trash

City Studies

Fast Trash