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Overview of CUNY programs supporting students with financial struggles
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CUNY representatives provide an overview of various programs designed to support students facing financial challenges, including those on federal assistance or below the poverty level.
- CUNY CARES program provides food vouchers for students and their families, launched in The Bronx
- Each college has a food pantry to help students with food insecurity
- Campus emergency funds are available for students who have exhausted other resources
- The university works with bursar's offices to offer more flexible payment plans for students with balances
Eric Dinowitz
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Okay.
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Okay.
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So you you mentioned some ASAP, CUNY EDGE.
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Can you talk about some of the programs CUNY has to help people who are either on federal assistance, people below the poverty level, or people with small financial struggles currently enrolled at CUNY?
Reine Sarmiento
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So the, we do have a program called CUNY CARES.
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It's launched in The Bronx.
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You may be familiar with it.
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And what we do is we provide food, food vouchers for students and their families.
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And in The Bronx we serve the borough.
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Each college has a food pantry to be able to help with students.
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There also are at the various campus emergency funds if they've depleted their reconnect funds to be able to help them.
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We have also worked with the bursar's office that if a student does have a balance and they're unable to pay or have exhausted their reconnect funds that they're more flexible payment plans for them to be able to still continue school while they're and while they're paying off in a monthly payments.