Q&A
ASAP program and budget priorities
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Council Member Dinowitz emphasizes the City Council's support for CUNY's ASAP program and other initiatives that help students graduate in a timely manner. CUNY representatives briefly mention ongoing efforts to expand peer mentoring programs.
- The City Council named ASAP as a critical component of CUNY's budget in the previous fiscal year
- The Council is fighting against cuts to these programs during current budget negotiations
- CUNY is working on expanding peer mentoring programs to supplement academic advising
- A pilot program at Queens College yielded successful retention rates
Eric Dinowitz
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Yeah.
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I I would just add that this council In last year's fiscal budget, I think, for the first time named a an ASAP as critical components of your budget this year where fighting during during a budget negotiations, fighting cuts to those those very programs.
0:29:52
And so in our budget response, we've made very clear those programs who help student that that helps students graduate and graduate in a timely fashion have shown to double graduation rates within within a timely fashion are priorities of this council.
Alicia Alvero
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I also wanna add that the manpower needed.
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We are working on the peer human powers.
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Important.
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Human power.
Eric Dinowitz
0:30:13
There you go.
Alicia Alvero
0:30:13
Did I It's okay.
Wendy Hensel
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It was mine for the human power.
Alicia Alvero
0:30:16
Yeah.
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You started it.
0:30:18
The the human power necessary.
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Embedding transfer mentors within academic advisement, and Queens College launched a pilot program, yielded very successful retention rates, and we can get you information on that.
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And so we are expanding a pilot now to 2 community colleges and another senior College to help alleviate some of that burden of the academic advisers and work in coordination with them.
Eric Dinowitz
0:30:42
When did they launch that?
Alicia Alvero
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They did it this past academic year.
Eric Dinowitz
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The okay.
0:30:48
So is there there is there is not data available?
Alicia Alvero
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You have some data.
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Yep.
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On retention.
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Not graduation yet because if they just started, but
Eric Dinowitz
0:30:54
Can you share it?
Alicia Alvero
0:30:55
I I will.
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I didn't bring it with me, but I just thought about it now.
Wendy Hensel
0:30:59
One of the most effective ways to add that person to and advisement is actually through peers, which our data tells us peer that students actually respond to in some cases quite a bit better.
0:31:09
When they get advice from their peers.
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So we it's cost effective and it allows us to both provide work for our students and additional advising.
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For the younger students.