Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Making Policy Public

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Don't Get Iced

Public Access Design

Don't Get Iced

Free For All?

City Studies

Free For All?

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Making Policy Public

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

Public Access Design

Trouble With Your Water Bill?

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. 

Ready, Set, Apply!

Technical Assistance

Ready, Set, Apply!

¡No me han pagado!

Public Access Design

¡No me han pagado!

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

Education Rights for Families

Technical Assistance

Education Rights for Families

What Is Affordable Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Affordable Housing?

We Own It

Making Policy Public

We Own It

Our Voice, Our Choice

Urban Investigations

Our Voice, Our Choice

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Making Policy Public

Figuring Out Health Insurance