{"id":1022,"date":"2020-05-01T15:33:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T19:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2020-05-01T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T20:13:37","slug":"judley-baltazard-city-college-of-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/judley-baltazard-city-college-of-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Judley Baltazard, City College of NY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Judley-Photo-226x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1024\" width=\"199\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Judley-Photo-226x300.jpeg 226w, https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Judley-Photo.jpeg 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a junior majoring in Sociology. My future plans include graduate school to become a clinical therapist. I value all the resources available to be able to gain the skills necessary to further my career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am able to attend college through financial aid, including TAP and a Pell grant. I&#8217;m a first generation student, so furthering my education is more of a community achievement than anything else. Although I receive financial aid I have sought part-time employment to aid with my many expenses i.e food, bills, clothes, etc. I was unable, however, due to my heavy class load of 5 classes per semester. This class load is essential in order to receive the TAP and Pell grants which cap after four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fully funded CUNY is fundamental to not only the success of thousands of students but the economy as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a junior majoring in Sociology. My future plans include graduate school to become a clinical therapist. I value all the resources available to be able to gain the skills necessary to further my career. I am able to attend college through financial aid, including TAP and a Pell grant. I&#8217;m a first generation student, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,146,106],"tags":[16,62,223,28,15],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-58","category-senate-district-20","category-city-college-of-ny","tag-financial-aid","tag-first-generation-student","tag-part-time-job","tag-pell-grant","tag-tap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}