Your School, Your Choice!

Making Policy Public

Your School, Your Choice!

Let's Hang Out

Urban Investigations

Let's Hang Out

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Social Security Risk Machine

Making Policy Public

Social Security Risk Machine

Share, Where?

Urban Investigations

Share, Where?

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

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?

Mean Streets

City Studies

Mean Streets

From Shelter to Apartment

Making Policy Public

From Shelter to Apartment

Bottled Up

City Studies

Bottled Up

Predatory Equity

Making Policy Public

Predatory Equity

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Making Policy Public

What Does It Mean To Live In My Own Place?

Our Voice, Our Choice

Urban Investigations

Our Voice, Our Choice

Snack Attack

City Studies

Snack Attack