CUNY Urban Food Policy Director Nicholas Freudenberg testified before a hearing of the City Council Committees on Higher Education and General Welfare on February 14, 2019. This is an excerpt from his testimony: Healthy CUNY, the university-wide initiative to promote student health for academic success, has proposed that CUNY, New York City and New York [...]
In late September, members of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute had the opportunity to share current best practices and learn from others who play an active role in creating platforms that support students’ basic needs on college campuses across the United States at the #RealCollege Conference. The two-day conference connected professors, students, campus staff [...]
On November 4th, 2016, Healthy CUNY, a university-wide initiative that promotes health to increase academic success, and the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, a research action center that aims to make healthy food more accessible in cities, brought together organizations and individuals working to reduce hunger and food insecurity among CUNY students. The goal of [...]
