We are a group of CUNY students, faculty, staff, and community members organizing to Free CUNY. We believe that free, high-quality, anti-racist higher education is a human right. In our vision, a Free CUNY is a liberating space.

We are fighting for:

The right to a free, high-quality higher education at CUNY for all New York City high school graduates and High School Equivalency (GED) holders, regardless of immigration status!

City funding for CUNY to the median level of per-student funding at private colleges in New York, so that public and private higher education will no longer be separate and unequal!

Stipends to make sure poverty doesn’t hold back any student from success!

Free metrocards!

Child care on campus or stipends for off-campus child care!

Fully funded ethnic studies across CUNY!

A functioning and fully-equipped health center on campus!

Gender Neutral bathrooms across campuses!

Free lunch! No more food insecurity for the students and the community!

Quality dorms off campus! No more housing insecurity for students and the community!

Better academic advisement and tutoring services on campus!

An open campus for the community!

Parity between public and private sector wages and salaries in higher education!

Parity between adjunct and tenured/tenureable faculty wages and salaries at CUNY!

… funded by a tax on the top 1% of income earners in New York City (those who make about $600,000 and more).

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