Back to school bookbag drive brings relief to East New York parents
BY KIM GILL In a long line that stretched nearly half the block of Vermont Ave, over 100 parents from all over East New …[read more]
Education
‘CUNY By Students’ at the Forefront of University Ads
BY SERIN SARSOUR Through a student-led Instagram account profile called ‘CUNY By Students,’ interns are heavily pushing out content that appeals to other students in …[read more]
CUNY Introduces New Assessment To Reduce Obstacles for Students
BY SERIN SARSOUR CUNY is partnering with a national institute to diagnose the challenges students face in an effort to increase graduation rates. The results …[read more]
CUNY Sees Turnaround in Enrollment
BY SERIN SARSOUR The City University of New York is seeing a rise in enrollment across its campuses following the COVID-19 pandemic. The initial launch …[read more]
Administrators learn how to comfortably teach students about sexual health
BY JADA SIMON On Wednesday, October 18, New York City Teens Connection conducted a training, educating teachers on how to inform students about healthy and …[read more]
Banned Book Week Kicks off in Brooklyn.
BY GISSELLE BAEZ To kick off National Banned Book Week, the Cortelyou Brooklyn Public Library hosted a Books Unbanned Storytime on Oct 4. This was …[read more]
Panel at Columbia University Discusses Technology Biases in Incarceration
BY ANDRE RICKMAN Technology has served to be a useful tool, but in some cases, the computing world can leave certain communities vulnerable to implicit biases. …[read more]
Workload, Money, Socialization: What Causes College Students’ Depression
By SHIRLEY ALVAREZ “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world,” former South African President Nelson Mandela once said. But …[read more]
PSAL Basketball Championships Played at Barclays Center
By ELSA AMAYA New York City’s best high school girls’ and boys’ basketball teams battled for their respective championships at Barclays Center on Thursday, March …[read more]
Despite New Law, Brooklyn College Keeps Masks On
By ENRICO DENARD Although masks were once mostly linked to extreme and toxic environments— bloody surgical rooms, germy sanitation sites, and bank heists—now they are …[read more]