Stephen Ferst describes grant efforts and $69.4 million federal rescission
Ferst says study abroad offices share grant opportunities, use CUNY tools, and pursue programs like 100,000 Strong and Gilman. He says the federal government rescinded $69.4 million overnight, and CUNY is working to get that money back.
We are, those of us who run study abroad, the study abroad offices, we do talk about what grants are out there.
We do use the various.
as tools that CUNY has supplied to find grants.
I can, you know, there's 100,000 Strong is one campaign that's North and South America.
The ideas, which came out of the U.S.
State Department, is still going.
And obviously through NSF grants, through
private grant, I'm sorry, through programs like the Gilman for students.
We do work every day to do so.
I think I've applied for five of those grants this past year.
And yes, those are specifically designed to lower the cost and to allow our CUNY students to go.
I will say as of last night, the federal government rescinded some of that money.
That makes it easier for me to do my job.
That was $69.4 million gone overnight.
We're working on getting that back.
But we do.
We lobby for that money.
I go to Washington and work for that money.
And we certainly apply for as many grants as possible to do so.
It's not easy.
No, it's not, but that is the only way to do it at this point.
So thank you.