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CUNY dormitory situation
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Council Member Brewer inquires about the current status and future plans for CUNY dormitories. CUNY officials provide information on recent acquisitions and initiatives to create affordable dorm spaces.
- CUNY has acquired additional dorms through the Spark project
- Hunter College has sufficient dorms to accommodate students at Brookdale and future growth
- CUNY is allocating some dorms at below-market rates for Pell Grant students
- Officials will look into dorm needs for Macaulay Honors College
Gale A. Brewer
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Okay.
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Another one, dorms.
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The students need dorms.
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I teach at Hunter, as you know.
0:54:11
They need dorms.
0:54:12
What's the status?
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How many dorms does CUNY have now and how many do you need?
Hector Batista
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Yeah.
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I'm gonna have to get you that number because we have we've actually acquired some some more dorms in connection with the with the project that you and I have spoken about which is the the Spark project.
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But right now Hunter has enough dorms to not only accommodate all the students at Brookdale, but accommodate sort of their future growth.
Gale A. Brewer
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McAuley wants dorms.
Hector Batista
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We we also we we also have one of the chancellor's initiative is to try to create affordable dorms.
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I'm happy to report as part of that part of the initiative connected to to the Brookdale to the Brookdale project, we are allocating some dorms that are really way below market to accommodate those students that are Pell students that that that really are in need of of dorm space.
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With regards to McAuley, this is the the first time I'm hearing about it.
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So I obviously will talk to the dean and see what her need is.
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And and obviously, we'll have a further discussion with you about And