CUNY is one of the most important institutions in New York. Instead of stupid articles about elite schools, I wish the NYTimes had cared about these colleges instead. I’ve seen first hand how they help young ppl move up in life (myself as a grad student at the GC included)!

There are currently 225,000 students in all of CUNY. To contrast, Columbia University has 36,649. I'd say CUNY is the most important institution by a healthy amount, certainly in higher ed.

This. We need a new movement across the country to push states to fully fund our public institutions of higher education instead of constant hyperventilating over what the Ivies are doing.

The family of the owners in the NYT likely do not go to CUNY. They are that blinkered, astounding but true.

Absolutely right! A jewel in higher education! A tradition of educating working class kids and minorities. Can someone tell me why the CUNY Engineering School was excluded from Bloomberg’s Cornell & Technicon “gift” of a Roosevelt Island campus? Anything in the NYT?! Nada.