Shelter Skelter

Urban Investigations

Shelter Skelter

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

$ Breakdown

Urban Investigations

$ Breakdown

Museumopolis

Urban Investigations

Museumopolis

Is Your Home Making You Sick?

Making Policy Public

Is Your Home Making You Sick?

Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA

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. 

It's Not Just Personal

Making Policy Public

It's Not Just Personal

Get Money

City Studies

Get Money

Swipe Out

Urban Investigations

Swipe Out

Making the Grade

Urban Investigations

Making the Grade

Power Trip

Urban Investigations

Power Trip

Your Truth, Your Rights

Public Access Design

Your Truth, Your Rights

Work Forced

Public Access Design

Work Forced

Field Guide to Federalism

City Studies

Field Guide to Federalism