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Workforce Development
The Worker Education and Workforce Development (WEWD) Unit at Murphy serves as a gateway to higher education and all CUNY Colleges for adult learners. WEWD equips workers with skills and training and provides career pathway programs. It matches the educational needs of workers and union members to academic programs by developing industry-related curricula and providing…
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Urban Studies
Urban Studies offers undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs that examine the problems of city dwellers in poor, immigrant, and working-class communities and efforts to address those problems through policy innovations derived from sound research and sharpened through democratic participation. Learn more here.
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Comparative Studies in Cooperative Economies – EU and USA
By Rebecca Lurie María Pilar Alguacil Marí, Professor of Financial and Tax Law at the University of Valencia, recently spent time at the Murphy Institute for Labor and Urban Studies/CUNY, where she has carried out various academic activities and taught two seminars. The first seminar, “Academic Study of Cooperative Economics,” was held on April 2nd…
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The New York Immigration Coalition Seeks Civic Engagement Associate
The Civic Engagement Associate will work within the Advocacy Department to execute its electoral outreach, advocacy, and organizing work to increase the civic participation and inclusion of all immigrants in New York City. The ideal candidate will have experience with some combination of the following: community organizing and engagement, advocacy, and grant writing. The Civic…
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