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New Deal for CUNY

Where We’ve Been

  • COVID Disruptions in 2020
    • The pandemic forced classes online, enrollment dropped, and mid-year budget cuts led to mass layoffs of adjuncts. 
  • New Deal for CUNY Introduced in 2021
    • Senator Andrew Gounardes and Assemblymember Karines Reyes introduced the New Deal for CUNY to expand the number of full-time faculty, academic advisors, and mental health counselors, fix broken campuses, and make CUNY tuition-free. Nearly 80 legislators have signed on. 
  • State Budget Gains for CUNY in FY 2023 – FY 2025
    • Governor Hochul pledged significant new investments in CUNY and delivered two strong executive budgets, including +$53 million to hire more than 500 new full-time faculty. The governor’s budgets added +$122M in FY2023 and +$100M in FY2024. Legislative champions added +40M in additional funds to an essentially flat executive budget for FY2025.
  • Deep College-Level Cuts in FY 2024
    • State investments were undermined by the end of federal stimulus, NYC budget cuts, and lagging tuition revenue. CUNY responded to a system-wide deficit of $128 million by canceling classes, reshuffling students, and eliminating contingent positions. Vacancies left by retiring and departing faculty and staff went largely unfilled. After more than 500 state-funded new faculty hires, CUNY netted an increase of only a few dozen faculty lines.
  • CUNY Enrollment Rebounds in Fall 2023 – Fall 2024
    • Targeted recruitment, waived fees, streamlined application processes and re-enrollment programs such as CUNY Reconnect are working. CUNY enrollment is up for the second straight year, with an increase of 3.1% full-time equivalent undergraduates from 2023-2024.

The Time is Now for a New Deal for CUNY!

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CUNY's Microsoft email has a security block for mass mailings that has held up some of our emails. A few thousand members have already voted, and we will all have the chance to vote. AAA believes they have a workaround, and they will again send out the message to all eligible members who have not yet voted. The emails will begin to go out in batches tonight, Monday, December 23rd. It may take a while to land in your inbox, (spam, or junk mail.)