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Bard College Receives $165,000 Grant for Center Focused on Combating Hate

Bard College in New York received $165,000 from the GS Humane Corporation to fund five projects over the next two years aimed at combating hate. GS Humane Corporation is a charitable organization that educates communities on the humane treatment of all living things, according to Bard’s press release. The grant will go towards research under […]

September 20, 2019

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New York Follows California, Outlaws Bias Against Natural Hair

A bill adding hair styles and traits to New York’s anti-racial discrimination laws was approved Friday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and took effect immediately, days after California enacted a similar law. The measure amends the state’s human rights law and the Dignity For All Students Act with new sections on the definition of race, including […]

July 15, 2019

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Rep. Velázquez Urges DeVos To Reverse Student Loan Proposal

U.S Representative Nydia M. Velázquez D-N.Y sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Department of Education Betsy DeVos this week urging her to reverse a proposal that would make it more difficult for students deceived by colleges and universities to receive loan relief. Velázquez wrote in the letter that in the state of New […]

August 29, 2018

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Tom Wolfe, Pioneering Journalist and Novelist, Dies at 88

Tom Wolfe, the influential writer whose unconventional, exuberant prose laid the foundation for so-called New Journalism and fueled his best-sellers The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities, has died. He was 88. Lynn Nesbit, Wolfe’s agent, told the Associated Press that Wolfe died of an infection Monday in a hospital in Manhattan. Wolfe’s […]

May 16, 2018

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Report: New York For-Profit Colleges Falling Short

New York’s for-profit colleges leave students with huge debt and have little impact on earning potential, according to a report published by The Century Foundation that compares student outcomes at 427 colleges and universities.

March 25, 2018

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New York Governor Proposes Legislation to End Hunger at all Public State Schools

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo will introduce legislation this year that would require all State University and City University of New York system schools to establish food pantries or other “stigma-free” arrangements for food-insecure students to have access to food.

January 3, 2018

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Guillermo: New York Codifies an Orwellian ‘Tuition-free’ College Plan

Here’s a word of caution. When a politician uses the word “free,” have your hand on your wallet and one foot out the door.

April 16, 2017

Students

New York Set to Make State College Tuition Free for Middle Class

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York would be the first state to make tuition at public colleges and universities free for middle-class students under a state budget poised for passage in Albany. The plan crafted by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo would apply to any New York student whose family has an annual income of $125,000 or […]

April 9, 2017

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N.Y. Lawmakers Question Cost of Gov. Cuomo’s Free Tuition Plan

ALBANY, N.Y. — State lawmakers questioned the price tag of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan to make college tuition free for middle class students Tuesday, suggesting the true cost of the proposal could be far higher. The proposal has won the Democratic governor national attention and applause from education advocates, but lawmakers said during a budget […]

January 25, 2017