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Chair Lee on CUNY Beyond expansion schools and student counts

New York City Council · Jun 8, 2026 · starts 0:30:32 · 2 min 8 sec

Lee asks which schools are included in CUNY Beyond and how many students are impacted. The Chancellor lists the first four schools and five expansion schools, providing student projection numbers for each campus.

Linda Lee

And how many, because I know that you said there was an extra 6.8 million in FY27 for CUNY Beyond, which would allow you to expand to five schools.

Linda Lee

So can you list which schools are included in CUNY Beyond?

Félix Matos Rodríguez

So the first four were Lehman, BMCC, Hunter, and LaGuardia.

Félix Matos Rodríguez

We are expanding to...

Félix Matos Rodríguez

City College, and I think Queensborough, Kingsborough, and York, and those other ones, and Baruch.

Rita C. Joseph

And Baruch.

Félix Matos Rodríguez

Yeah.

Félix Matos Rodríguez

And Baruch, yeah.

Félix Matos Rodríguez

So the new ones are City, Baruch, York, QCC, and QCC.

Félix Matos Rodríguez

Queensborough and Kingsborough.

Linda Lee

Okay, perfect.

Félix Matos Rodríguez

And we would love additional support to be able to bring in two more community colleges from the council.

Linda Lee

That would be great.

Linda Lee

We gotta look at that.

Linda Lee

Okay, and how many students does the program currently impact?

Linda Lee

And then I guess with the additional five, what does it expand to?

Félix Matos Rodríguez

So, we have the numbers for BMCC is 15,126,

Félix Matos Rodríguez

at Hunter 12,194, at LaGuardia 8,936, Lehman 7,990, and the projections for

Félix Matos Rodríguez

Baruch is 4,000.

Félix Matos Rodríguez

1,090 for CCNY, 3,259 for Queensborough, 1,969 and Queensborough, 2,270.

Félix Matos Rodríguez

Oh, sorry.

Félix Matos Rodríguez

Kingsborough is 1,969 and Queensborough 2,270.

Félix Matos Rodríguez

Thank you.

Rita C. Joseph

Okay.

Félix Matos Rodríguez

And then York is in the next page.

Félix Matos Rodríguez

York has 1,062.

Rita C. Joseph

Perfect.

Rita C. Joseph

Okay, great.

Linda Lee

Okay, perfect.