CUNY students are helping as part of the New York Stands with Puerto Rico volunteer program, El Diario La Prensa reports.

Thanks to a partnership with the NYC Administration for Children’s Services launched in 2016, dozens of parents, many of them immigrants, have graduated from CUNY’s Child Development Associate Certificate program, El Diario La Prensa reports.

More than 6,000 students have benefited from the TheDream.US project since 2013, El Diario/La Prensa reports.

The Administration of Children’s Services, in association with CUNY and other institutions, has made it possible for more students under its care to obtain higher education, El Diario/La Prensa reports.

The City and CUNY launched the DACA Education Initiative, which will offer classes to help youths meet the immigration relief’s educational requirements and be able to apply, El Diario/La Prensa reports.

Several unions and community organizations are advocating to make CUNY tuition-free again, El Diario reports.

Chinese and Chinese-American students were out in force at CUNY’s recent job fair, Sing Tao Daily reports.

Real estate development in Sunset Park is pricing working families out of the neighborhood, CUNY Professor Tarry Hum told World Journal. Hum, who grew up there, just published a book on the neighborhood’s evolution over the past 50 years.

Former and current CUNY students target NY lawmakers to get tuition assistance for undocumented college students.

“Engaging New York’s Immigrant Communities Through Ethnic Media” is but one of many panels to be sponsored by Talking Transition, a new grass-roots endeavor aimed at soliciting ideas from New Yorkers for the city’s new mayoral administration. The panel will be held November 12.

A student protest against the appointment of former CIA director David Petraeus as a CUNY visiting professor ended in a confrontation between demonstrators and the police and the arrest of six university students in front of Macaulay Honors College.

Members of a committee against the militarization of CUNY protested the retired general’s first day of teaching.

Mexican service workers will be able to obtain professional certificates through a 15 week program of study in the basics of hotel administration, math and English offered by CUNY and funded by the Mexican state of Puebla, Goya Foods and CUNY.

Undocumented college students face an uphill battle when it comes to financing their education. But a group of students from Brooklyn college are not taking their predicament lying down — they have joined student groups from across the state in pressing for a New York version of the DREAM Act.

Services on hand for immigrants seeking naturalization advice and prescription information; the 100 Filipino nurses from the shuttered Peninsula Hospital worry about their futures; a hyperlocal success story from Connecticut; a Dominican politician causes a small firestorm; and an Indian man convicted of supporting Hezbollah.