The CUNY Network for College Success (N4CS) creates and sustains the ecosystem of community stakeholders and CUNY campuses that are critical for the college success of New York City’s young people.
The Challenge
Over the past decade, dozens of community-based organizations (CBOs) have shifted focus from helping low-income students gain access to higher education to supporting them “to and through” college, with a growing emphasis on college success.
While these CBOs share the same objective—helping their students persist in and graduate from college—they often operate in isolation. The result is that their limited financial and human resources are used inefficiently: services are duplicated, information is unevenly disseminated, and students suffer from a lack of coordinated support. The fact that very few CBOs have been able to establish productive partnerships with CUNY colleges compounds the situation further.
The Opportunity
- Sharing student-level data with CBOs and providing professional development around using data
- Convening a professional learning community that hosts CBO staff for quarterly in-person meetings on CUNY programs and policies, new initiatives, timely research, trainings, and resources and that impact organizational practice
- Promoting campus-based knowledge sharing in order to connect CBO and CUNY staff and strengthen communication among providing academic, financial, or other support to students
- Disseminating important campus-based and CUNY-wide updates, as well as curated information regarding internships, scholarships, and other opportunities through listserv emails and monthly newsletters
- Providing case-by-case support to CBO staff and students to combat challenges and bottlenecks
Community Based Organizations and Campus Breakdowns
Use the sidebar links to view each school's CBO breakdown
2019-2020 Knowledge Institute Events
December 5, 2019: Supporting Undocumented Students
- NYS Dream Act, presented by UAspire
- LEAD Coalition website
- CUNY Citizenship Now! website
- John Jay College Immigrant Student Success Center website and Socio-Emotional Support of Undocumented Students, presented by Yesenia Moreno and Luz Bertadillo Rodriguez
- Becoming an UndocuAlly flyer
October 17, 2019: Community College: A Springboard to Success
- Agenda
- One Step Closer film and viewing guide
- What We Are Learning About Whole-College Redesign Through Guided Pathways, presented by Hana Lahr
- Redesigning Your College Through Guided Pathways: Lessons on Managing Whole-College Reform from the AACC Pathways Project
- Kingsborough Flex information
- Options for Developmental Students at Queensborough Community College, presented by Michael Pullin, Beth Counihan, Bonnie Flaherty, and Elizabeth Nercessian
- CUNY Career Success Initiatives: Career Development & Internships
- Braven model and impact
- Braven one-pager
August 26, 2019: CUNY Updated Remediation Reform Event
Materials from 2018-2019 Knowledge Institute Events
Remediation Event – October 11
- Agenda
- Changes in CUNY Remediation for Spring 2020
- CUNY Developmental Reform Plans, presented by Sarah Truelsch
- Faculty & Student Experiences Across Redesigned Developmental Math Course Models, presented by Maggie P. Fay
- Effects of Corequisite Remediation with Statistics, presented by Alexandra W. Logue
CUNY Application Webinar – November 5
BKON Campus-Based Meeting at Kingsborough Community College – November 15
Transfer Student Event – December 6
- The Integration and Success of Two-to-Four-Year Transfer Students: A Study of Three CUNY Colleges, presented by Christina Ciocca Eller
- Increasing Success for Two-to-Four-Year Transfer Students Within The City University of New York one-pager
Healthy CUNY – April 3
John Jay Campus-Based Meeting – May 7