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November 7, 2024

Increased SNAP benefits for college students

Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) and the U.S. Department of Education’s office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) announced…

October 1, 2024

Student Loans 101: Everything you need to know about student loan forgiveness

By Darren Johnson Campus News Earlier this summer, the Biden administration sent a mass email to millions with student loan debt that the President…

June 25, 2024

Chief Service Officer Laura Rog Encourages New Yorkers to ‘Shape Their Future’ through a Year of AmeriCorps

New York City Chief Service Officer Laura Rog today announced final efforts to recruit New Yorkers 18 and older to build careers in the…

November 9, 2023

Pot sales — now legal, and local

By Samantha Simmons Campus News Facing a slow roll out of dispensary licenses from the New York State Office of Cannabis Management, farmers have…

February 4, 2022

Investigation into alleged anti-Semitism at Brooklyn College

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced it has opened a formal investigation into a complaint alleging Jewish students at Brooklyn…

April 8, 2021

Canvas takes over the classroom, but can they take over the quad?

By Darren Johnson Campus News To the lay person, it would seem that Zoom has come out the big tech winner during our year…

June 16, 2020

As the Supreme Court is about to decide, CUNY reasserts its pro-DACA stance

The City University of New York is redoubling efforts to provide financial and legal support to thousands of undocumented students, whose lives would be…

April 23, 2020

Making sure students can get SNAP benefits during crisis

Today, Congressman Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), along with Congressmen Josh Harder (CA-10) and Jimmy Panetta (CA-20), introduced the Emergency Ensuring Access to SNAP (EATS) Act…

October 7, 2019

College prison program graduates first class; transforms lives

By Darren Johnson Campus News In a first-ever ceremony this past summer, 18 male inmates at Sullivan Correctional Facility received their B.S. degrees in…

September 24, 2019

NYC, CUNY announce massive census outreach effort

Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, and The City University of New York (CUNY) today announced an unprecedented $19 million investment…

July 8, 2019

COVER STORY: STEM grads optimistic; others less so

By Darren Johnson Campus News After three or four years of study, STEM majors are very optimistic about their futures. Humanities and Social Science…

May 8, 2019

Campus News 2.0 will break up the paper into regions

We’re breaking up. Well, we’re trying to. With the “death of mass media” and all, Campus News is pursuing version 2.0, where we become…

February 14, 2019

Ways to graduate with little to no debt

OneClass, the online company best known for its business model where students can buy and sell class and textbook notes, sent us numerous infographics…

January 17, 2019

SUNY student leader decries Governor’s budget

SUNY student assembly leader Mike Braun issued this statement in regards to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s higher education budget for the coming year: ”Students appreciate…