Initiatives

Goal 1

Prepare our most vulnerable students and graduates of 2020-2023 for security and success in the post-pandemic economy

  • CUNY and the New York Jobs CEO Council Initiative The City University of New York (CUNY)

    CUNY and the New York Jobs CEO Council are addressing how to better align local New York City talent with over 20 of the fastest-growing occupations among 27 of New York City’s largest employers. The initiative is developing career- and industry-aligned curricula and work-based learning pipelines that prepare students for good jobs. The effort will connect underrepresented students to training, credentialing, and work-based learning, with a goal of hiring 100,000 students, at least 25,000 of them from CUNY, at the Council's member firms.

Goal 2

Support and partner with our communities and government in an inclusive recovery through and after COVID-19, focusing on displaced workers, adult learners, PK-12 systems, economic development, community health and COVID-19 support

  • Internship to Employment Program The City University of New York (CUNY)

    The City University of New York is poised to play a leading role in New York City's recovery. Through the Internship to Employment program, CUNY will simultaneously reinvigorate small businesses and springboard the careers of CUNY graduates.

    • CUNY serves 260,000 degree-seeking students and approximately 185,000 continuing education students annually.
    • CUNY's student body is predominately Black and Hispanic with 42% of our students coming from households earning less than $20,000 per year.
    • They are industrious, driven, and talented, yet CUNY graduates are often excluded from the professional opportunities that ought to be afforded to college graduates.
    • Internship to Employment (I2E) seeks to help graduates launch careers while fueling the recovery of NYC’s economy by connecting recent alumni to an internship with an NYC small business and supporting them through to conversion into employment.