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ASAP and ACE credited with large completion gains; CUNY asks council to scale funding and benefits
Summary
CUNY testimony and campus examples at the council hearing showed ASAP and ACE boost completion (often doubling rates); CUNY requested baseline ACE funding, continued city support for ASAP, and expansion of supports such as OmniCard and paid internships to help students stay full time and graduate sooner.
At a Committee on Higher Education hearing, CUNY officials detailed how two student‑support programs — ASAP (Accelerated Study in Associate Programs) and ACE (Accelerate, Complete, Engage) — materially increase degree completion and urged the City Council to provide sustained funding and benefits to scale them.
Christine Bronyart, CUNY’s executive director for ASAP and ACE, said ASAP has served nearly 22,554 students recently and is funded at a city baseline that supports up to 24,000 students, with an annual cost per student of about $3,391. ACE, an adaptation for senior colleges, enrolls roughly 4,400 students this academic year and has an average annual cost per student of $3,447. Bronyart told the committee the programs “have doubling…
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