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"During the Depression, facing even deeper economic distress than we are now, New York found the courage to establish two new CUNY colleges and build another—all while maintaining free tuition. Queens College was established in 1937 on the campus of an existing institution, Brooklyn College was built by the federal Public Works Administration in 1935, and the four beautiful original buildings of what is now Lehman College were built in 1931 by the New York WPA. Confronted with a crisis of staggering unemployment and poverty, New York chose to invest in public higher education, betting on the power of a college education to foster both individual and collective recovery... That’s the bet we are asking of our elected officials... New York, don’t fail in this historic moment. Make educational history again; invest in our state’s future, invest in CUNY."

Barbara Bowen, PSC President to the NYS Legislature, February 2010

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