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Governor Kathy Hochul announced last month that CUNY will receive $75 million from the Simons Foundation to improve the computational science programs and incorporate CUNY into the governor’s proposed Empire AI project. The donation is the largest in CUNY history. The funds will be split with $50 million going toward […]
Hunter students joined staff on Feb. 29 to demonstrate outside the Hunter West Building over union contract negotiations that have dragged on for a year. Members of the Professional Staff Congress, or PSC CUNY, attended a contract bargaining session, while others led informational pickets at various CUNY campuses. The union […]
At a public academic institution like Hunter College, experiencing a foreign exchange program isn’t as much of a given as it might be in less economically diverse, private liberal arts schools. In the 2022-20223 academic year, 250 Hunter students studied abroad. That’s roughly 2% of the undergraduate population, at the […]
Student-led clubs have gotten creative in fostering a sense of community on Hunter College campus, a major commuter school. As the school welcomed its largest incoming freshman class in Hunter’s history in the fall of 2023, the majority of the students were commuters, according to the Student Affairs Department. Most […]
As more students and professors opt for digital course materials over physical textbooks, students’ backpacks are lighter and their wallets are fuller. While professors continue their pandemic practices of providing students with online reading materials and coursework, bookstore Shakespeare & Co. may be feeling the burden of a lost revenue […]
