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Council Member Dinowitz questions CUNY officials on high school programs and disability services funding
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Council Member Eric Dinowitz engages in a Q&A session with CUNY officials, focusing on funding and enrollment details for various CUNY programs. The discussion covers the College Pathways program, CUNY Unlimited, and disability services funding. CUNY representatives, including Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez and CFO Sherif Soliman, provide some information but frequently need to defer full answers for later follow-up.
- CUNY officials struggle to provide immediate, detailed answers to many of Dinowitz's questions, promising to follow up with more information later.
- The College Pathways program is allocated $14,800,000 in fiscal year 2025, but total budget and per-student costs are not immediately available.
- Enrollment numbers for programs like CUNY Unlimited are not readily available during the hearing.
Eric Dinowitz
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I wanna ask about high school programs and disability service funding.
0:52:27
The plan includes $14,800,000 in fiscal twenty five only for CUNY's College Pathways program which provides college courses to high school students to allow them to earn college credits early.
0:52:43
What's the total budget for this program and how much does it cost per student?
0:53:16
get you that number.
0:53:18
Thank you.
0:53:20
And and you know how many high school students are enrolled in any of these programs?
0:53:31
By the way, I don't think everyone, like, who's maybe watching now could see.
0:53:35
I love all the turning heads.
0:53:36
You have, like, 500 CUNY employees here.
0:53:38
Like, someone's gotta have the answer.
0:53:42
So so if I asked what would the actual full funding amount needed be for fiscal twenty six, would you know the answer to that?
0:53:54
I saw a note passed.
0:54:10
Okay.
0:54:11
And you've proven that in this class it is okay to pass notes.
0:54:14
Very helpful.
0:54:16
And there are a couple of programs I want to ask about.
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CUNY Unlimited provides students with intellectual disabilities the chance to experience college through a non credit credential program.
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How many students are enrolled in this program, and what does outreach for this program look like?
0:54:49
I looked at about half dozen different heads, and they
Félix Matos Rodríguez
0:52:49
You have the we'll have to sort of find that.
0:52:52
Do you have the data for that?
0:52:53
I don't have Kathy?
0:53:25
We have to get you that if don't think we have that handy.
0:53:28
Don't know.
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Nope.
0:53:52
No.
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But we can get that to you.
0:53:56
Yes.
0:54:51
all went like We'll get you the number.
0:54:52
I don't think that I don't wanna give you the wrong the wrong information.
Sherif Soliman
0:52:58
It is an intra city program, which means that we have through the agencies that come through total, we have about a 50,000,000 in those intercity programs for pathways specifically.
0:53:16
We can
0:53:57
Okay.
0:53:59
So the current is for college pathways, $14,800,000 is the current.
0:54:05
In terms of the ramp up to cover more, we'd have to we'd have to model that and get back to you.
Alicia Alvero
0:54:38
We will have to get you that information.
0:54:40
I do not have enrollment.
0:54:42
No.