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Council member emphasizes importance of supporting CUNY enrollment amid federal challenges
2:39:18
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Council Member Eric Dinowitz emphasizes the importance of investing in CUNY programs to counteract federal policies that may reduce enrollment of international and immigrant students. He argues for the city's role in ensuring access to college education.
- Dinowitz stresses that funding for CUNY programs should be seen as investments rather than expenditures.
- He highlights the need to recruit students and provide opportunities for college education in the face of restrictive federal policies.
- Dinowitz argues that supporting CUNY is crucial for pushing back against harmful federal policies affecting the city and its public colleges.
Eric Dinowitz
2:39:18
About and important to recognize that these aren't expenditures.
2:39:22
These aren't investments.
2:39:23
And I would just add as it relates to CUNY Reconnect that at a time when we have a federal government that is doing everything they can to reduce the enrollment of international students and immigrant students at CUNY, we should be doing everything we can in this city to be recruiting people to ensure that they have a shot at a college education.
2:39:44
That is our job here in the city and we should be doing everything we can to push back against these policies of the federal government that are harming our students here, that are harming our city, and harming our public colleges.
2:39:57
Thank you, chair.