JOHN JAY COLLEGE–After weeks of uncertainty, John Jay and Hunter Colleges’ McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Programs received their funding, securing money for stipends and programming for students interested in graduate school to conduct research.
The Grant Award Notifications (GANs), which are usually awarded from the Department of Education in late August around the beginning of the semester, were delayed due to the Trump administration withholding $660 million worth of aid from over 2,000 TRIO programs, designed to provide services to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
This freeze spurred the “McNair Day of Action” on September 16, a day dedicated to contacting Congress members and sharing stories emphasizing the importance of the McNair Program, which provides undergraduate students at the college interested in graduate school with research experience and application resources. Out of the 160 McNair programs across the country, 18 were cancelled.
The McNair program was established at John Jay in 1992, and has yielded over 50 Ph.D. and over 300 master’s students. John Jay and Hunter are the only McNair programs within CUNY.
