CUNY was originally established as a free university aimed at (for the time) democratizing access to higher education. They had no tuition at all until 1975, and very very low tuition–especially for NYC residents–until fairly recently. It only started charging a bunch of money when all universities started getting taken over by financial vampires in the 2000s.
CUNY was originally established as a free university aimed at (for the time) democratizing access to higher education. They had no tuition at all until 1975, and very very low tuition–especially for NYC residents–until fairly recently. It only started charging a bunch of money when all universities started getting taken over by financial vampires in the 2000s.