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Staff members of the CUNY SPS Office of Faculty Development and Instructional Technology (OFDIT) Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiative team, will be presenting at the North East OER Summit on April 4-5. Their talk describes the creation of a CUNY Pressbooks version of Concepts in Statistics. Sarah Kresh will also be presenting the keynote address at the summit.

Dr. Jennifer McIntosh, adjunct assistant professor of Nursing at CUNY SPS, was one of the faculty leads at Yale University School of Nursing for a student-focused global health program which included the 26th East Asian Forum of Nursing Scholars (EAFONS) 2023 and the Global Nursing Research Center Spring International Program at the University of Tokyo, Japan. This experience provided students with opportunities for international collaboration and learning while to sharing innovative approaches and methodologies in nursing science.

In February 2023, students from the CUNY SPS MA in Youth Studies program participated in an annual breakfast designed to help shape New York City’s youth policy agenda. Two students who attended, Rachel Castillo and LaTroya Lovell, shared their thoughts on the event and the impact it may have on the work being done by youth workers and advocates going forward.

CUNY SPS works hard to help our students at all stages of their educational journey. But for many of our working adults returning to school, paying for school is often one of the biggest hurdles to success. Through the work of the CUNY SPS Foundation Board, a nonprofit organization founded in 2011 to support adult learners while they complete their degrees, we have been able to provide a wide range of scholarships, grants, and awards that help our students overcome these financial obstacles. Blake Foote, the chair of the CUNY SPS Foundation Board since 2019, discusses the Board’s efforts to support CUNY SPS students and how we can all help..

The ACE (Achieve Your College Education) Scholarship is a unique program at CUNY SPS offered to high-achieving undergraduate students who are close to graduating. Endowed by the generous support of founding donor Alan Fishman, the scholarship underwrites 100% of tuition and follows recipients through degree completion. Kate De Luca, (Health Information Management, BS ‘23), and Intisar Alwahaib (Psychology BA ’24). share their experience with the program.