QUESTION
What are the completion rates for New York City public school graduates at CUNY, and is there data on SUNY letter offers?
1:23:04
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4 min
Council Member Jennifer Gutiérrez inquires about the completion rates of New York City public school students who enroll in CUNY and the collection of data on SUNY letter offers.
- Gutiérrez requests data on the percentage of New York City public school graduates who enroll in CUNY and complete their programs.
- She questions if there will be data collection for students offered letters by SUNY, expressing interest in the collaboration between CUNY and SUNY.
- Melanie Mac and Reine Sarmiento respond by highlighting ongoing collaborations and data collection efforts between New York City public schools, CUNY, and SUNY.
- Plans to deepen the partnership and support student transitions from New York City public schools to CUNY and SUNY are discussed, including early engagement programs for students starting in middle school.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
1:23:04
Can you share what data you have CUNY from New York City public school students that enroll in CUNY, how many of them finished their programs?
1:23:13
And I know it's nuance because they transfer, and there's 2 years 4 year institute institutions.
1:23:18
But if you can share what percentage of New York City public graduates enroll in CUNY ultimately complete their their program.
1:23:27
And if there are any other plan for data collection for this year?
1:23:32
Are you also looking at data of which students that got offered letters ultimately either apply or get accepted into SUNY.
1:23:40
I'm very curious.
1:23:41
I'm we're both SUNY graduates, and we're here for we're here for SUNY as well, but very encouraged by some of the conversations that are happening between CUNY and SUNY, particular BMCC and SUNY Albany this year.
1:23:53
So just wondering if that's the data that you all will look to collect, and if there are any other conversations about CUNY to Soody.
1:24:01
That's it.
1:24:01
Thank you, guys.
Reine Sarmiento
1:24:10
What is that for?
Melanie Mac
1:24:11
We I mean, we can we can start an impastique uni that in terms of a New York City Public Schools collaboration with SUNY, the parallel welcome letter initiative.
1:24:19
We would love to share more data on the impact of that as go through this application cycle.
1:24:25
And we're really interested to see that more of our students understand their options at SUNY, and the opportunity programs, the the career pathways.
1:24:34
There's a lot of really aligned work between Chancellor Banks And Chancellor King.
1:24:38
And so we invite opportunity to share more on what that looks like.
1:24:42
We're also working in closer partnership between our future ready NYC schools and SUNY campuses that offer degree and career pathways that are very aligned in looking to the types of opportunities that'll provide students starting his early 9th grade with exploration opportunities at SUNY all the way up to 11th and 12th grade college coursework.
Reine Sarmiento
1:25:06
Provided that 80% of our incoming freshmen are NY CPS, we could get the data for you.
1:25:16
I would say the majority of our graduates are from the public school system, but when we report it out, it.
1:25:22
It's an aggregate.
1:25:23
So I note that, and we'll get back to the committee with that data.
1:25:28
But I did wanna address your one question about students that are not just in high school but in the earlier years and have Dean Sune Chan talk about some of the programs that start even as early as elementary school.
UNKNOWN
1:25:46
Oh, sure.
1:25:46
I can touch briefly on that.
1:25:49
The work that was highlighted at Fresno really emphasized the importance of building that sense of belonging early on for students and that sense of what's possible for them.
1:25:59
Which is just as important as sort of understanding the nuts and bolts of of of application or a financial aid application.
1:26:05
And that's work that we've been deeply invested in for a long time.
1:26:09
Our CUNY Explorers program engages 8th graders and coming on to campus.
1:26:14
All of our dual enrollment programs are serve over 20,000 public school students annually provide students with that college ID and that access to the library and the campus facilities because we know that experience of becoming a college student is really core to the impact of these programs.
1:26:32
We have a network of 20 early college high schools that deeply immersed high school students starting in 9th grade in that sense of I'm a college student while I'm starting my high school career.
1:26:42
So that's work that we are doing and having to grow a long time across many, many programs serving tens of 1000.
1:26:49
Of students.
1:26:50
I think Melanie spoke to many of the ways that we hope to continue to deepen that and think about the ways that we can expand that access, but I think I just want to emphasize that there are many students already being engaged in starting in Middle school in addition to the work that was mentioned.