Who Makes Bail?

Urban Investigations

Who Makes Bail?

Your Truth, Your Rights

Public Access Design

Your Truth, Your Rights

Welcome to Health Care!

Making Policy Public

Welcome to Health Care!

Rent Regulation Rights

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights

Not on Our Watch!

Making Policy Public

Not on Our Watch!

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

Urban Investigations

Talking Trash: Throwing Out the Big Apple

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. 

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Engage to Change

Technical Assistance

Engage to Change

Store Stories

City Studies

Store Stories

Sign Up!

Public Access Design

Pay Up!

City Studies

Pay Up!

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Urban Investigations

Stand Clear of the Rising Fares

Language Rights are Civil Rights!

Public Access Design

Language Rights are Civil Rights!