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The City College of New York’s excellence for social mobility continues to earn recognition nationally. In the 2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings published today, CCNY is ranked #10 for social mobility in the National Universities category. Overall, CCNY is ranked #121 out of 436 National Universities. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence. Click here to read how U.S. News ranks schools. CCNY earned multiple spots on the badge-eligible list of 2025 Best Colleges because of its other high rankings: • Top

The 7th Annual Halloween CCNY Scarefest: Evil’s Embrace is back this Thursday, Oct. 31 from 4-10 p.m. Join the Harlem community for a spooky and fun time. The event is free and open to the public on a first come, first served basis. Adults and kids are welcome, and family-friendly hour takes place from 4-5 p.m. The entrance and ADA entrance are located at the North Academic Center (NAC) Building ground floor Plaza at 160 Convent Avenue (near 138th Street).

A memorial service for Alma E. Rangel, the beloved wife of the distinguished Charles B. Rangel, former United States Representative and Statesman-in-Residence at The City College of New York, is set for 10 a.m., Oct. 19, 2024, at St. Aloysius Catholic Church, located at 219 West 132nd Street in Manhattan. Mrs. Rangel, a long-time activist and social worker, passed away last week. In his statement Congressman Rangel said: “To those who had the pleasure of knowing my beautiful wife, Alma, let me take this time to thank you for sharing your condolences and sympathy for our family’s loss this week

Keith Gandal, professor of English in the Division of Humanities and the Arts at The City College of New York, and his brother Neil Gandal, professor of economics at Tel Aviv University, examined U.S. COVID-19 deaths by day of the week during the first several months of the pandemic, from March to August 2020. Using data from the two largest U.S. states that reported fatalities by day of actual death from the beginning of the pandemic, they show that daily deaths in Florida and Texas during the week were seven to eight percent higher than daily deaths on the weekend in those states. Even in

A trailblazing fluid mechanics project led by City College of New York Grove School of Engineering Professor T aehun Lee is one of 16 initiatives nationally awarded supercomputing time at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DoE) Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC). They will pursue advances in areas ranging from quantum chemistry to clean energy technologies to AI for science. The Lee project, “High-Fidelity Simulations of Helium-Air Mixing in High-Temperature Gas Reactor Cavities,” will use the

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York’s Santander Finance Fellowship has been extended for an additional three years, through 2028, with a grant of $450,000, a 50 percent increase from the initial three-year grant of $300,000 in 2021. This Fellowship was developed to dismantle barriers and level the playing field for students from underrepresented backgrounds who are pursuing careers in banking and financial services. The program equips students with the skills, knowledge, and industry connections needed to thrive in this industry; they receive

The City College of New York is one of The Wall Street Journal and College Pulse’s 2025 Best Colleges in the U.S. and also ranked #4 in best value. The best college rankings rate the top 500 universities in the country and was developed in collaboration with WSJ’s research partners College Pulse and Statista. The rankings also include #21 in social mobility, #163 in student experience and #187 in best salaries. City College ranked #225 in the best college category. The ranking aims to guide prospective students across the nation while recognizing the colleges doing an outstanding job in higher

Fairuz Omar Raya, Class of 2027 at The City College of New York, is a member of the third cohort of The New York Times Corps, a talent-mentorship program for undergraduates to develop relationships with and receive career-building advice from Times journalists. Raya, a graduate of Bronx High School of Science, is a political science major in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and a journalism minor in the Division of Humanities and the Arts. She has interned with the NBCU Academy. At the Times, she has been matched with Jeanna Smialek, who covers the Federal Reserve and

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York has announced its inaugural cohort of Social Mobility Lab research grantees. Launched on April 15 with a panel discussion on The How and Why of Social Mobility, the Social Mobility Lab’s mission is to discover new ways to accelerate and expand opportunity for students and the communities they represent. Its approach is to learn more about what is driving social mobility, translate that knowledge into programs and practices to help students move up in life, and to engage the people and communities who can

The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York is launching a one-year program to bring new art mural projects to Washington Heights. CUNY DSI aims to create vibrant, visually appealing spaces in areas greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, fostering community pride and contributing to revitalizing the urban environment. The mural project is funded by a grant of nearly $400,000 from NewYork-Presbyterian’s Northern Manhattan Recovery Fund, which was established in 2020 in collaboration with U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) to help the community recover from the