STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Applications opened Tuesday for a state scholarship program that offers free tuition to eligible City University of New York (CUNY) and State University of New York (SUNY) ...

BUFFALO N.Y. (WIVB) – “Wasteful and poorly designed,” that’s what a new report calls the Excelsior Scholarship, a program meant to give students that chance to attend college for free. The ...

The scholarship covers tuition at SUNY schools for middle-class students. Last week the scholarship website would not allow students to apply. Earlier this week, the state warned that Excelsior Awards ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is warning incoming SUNY and CUNY freshmen he may have to slash the tuition relief program for middle class families because of the fiscal crisis fueled by the coronavirus crisis — ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The application deadline is fast-approaching for a state scholarship program that offers free tuition to eligible City University of New York (CUNY) and State University of New ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — COVID-19 is affecting New York State's revenue, and potentially college aid for the 2020 high school seniors who've had an unprecedented year. Colin Gallo of Tonawanda is about ...

New York State has opened applications for the Excelsior Scholarship that allows eligible full-time students to attend a SUNY or CUNY two-year or four-year college tuition-free for the 2023-2024 ...

Alaina Hinkley, a recent political science and communications graduate at the State University of New York [SUNY] at Albany, estimates that she has accumulated $21,000 of student loan debt over the ...

(photo: Kevin P. Coughlin/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo) In January 2017, Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled the Excelsior Scholarship, New York State’s “free college” initiative. About 20,000 ...

• The Excelsior Scholarship program, which provides tuition assistance to New York state colleges and universities, shut down applications temporarily due to coronavirus concerns; it is now open again ...

Gov. Cuomo’s Excelsior Scholarship Program got a bad grade Monday from an urban think tank that said four-year and community college students at the City University of New York aren’t cashing in on ...