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Aldebol asks about expanding academic institution partnerships

New York City Council · Oct 16, 2026 · starts 1:09:19 · 51 sec

Aldebol asks whether DCAS is expanding scholarship partnerships with other schools; Outar describes cold calls, information sessions, and school resource fairs to connect employees with programs.

Shirley Aldebol

And are there any discussions to expand partnerships with other academic institutions to offer a scholarship program?

Kadian Outar

Yes, one of the things that we're doing with both the graduate and undergraduate programs is to do extensive outreach to some of the schools that are not already participating.

Kadian Outar

And so we, the team does, you know, cold calls to reach out to different schools to really give them an overview.

Kadian Outar

We do information sessions to give an overview of the opportunity that's available.

Kadian Outar

And then once we have a selection of schools, we do what we call our school resource fairs.

Kadian Outar

So that way students can, employees can get a little bit more familiar with the programs that are available at the different schools.

Kadian Outar

So we try to make sure that there's a connection between the schools and the employees before application period closes.