Caribbean Corner

As 2024 ends, I am proud of a year of great progress for The City University of New York that has given us good reason to feel optimistic. In 2024, our colleges welcomed more students and implemented more programs to help guide them to careers. It was a year of record-breaking funding for the University’s research, and a year of growth with the expansion of one school. CUNY’s enrollment growth – 3% for the second year in a row – has solidified our rebound from the post-pandemic enrollment declines that impacted colleges nationwide and kept too many city students away from the transforming power of a college degree. And we’re not slowing down. This fall, more than 55,000 New York high school seniors applied to CUNY colleges during our four-week fee-waiver period – a 62% increase over last year’s inaugural fee waiver campaign. These students view college as key to their pursuit of fulfilling careers, and we are working hard to deliver on that promise. This year, we aggress...