{"id":895,"date":"2020-02-05T17:21:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T22:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=895"},"modified":"2020-02-05T17:21:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T22:21:51","slug":"seth-moer-city-college-of-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/seth-moer-city-college-of-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Moer, City College of NY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Seth-Moer-City-College-of-NY-storybank.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-896\" width=\"304\" height=\"251\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m majoring in political science and minoring in journalism. I\u2019m part of the 1% of students that receive the Excelsior scholarship, so I have to complete 30 credits per year, which makes college more stressful by increasing my workload. I also have to stay in New York four years after my graduation, so I plan to attend graduate school. I also am a recipient of the Pell Grant and the TAP award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I work on the weekends and have to pay for food, transportation, and books myself because I don\u2019t receive SNAP, and I am not part of any opportunity programs. If I didn\u2019t receive any financial aid, I would probably be in debt. I think that CUNY should be fully funded to help to support the growing student body that overwhelms public colleges because most people find it nearly impossible to attend private colleges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More aspects of CUNY, such as maintenance of the elevators of CCNY, should also be funded. I would also appreciate a child care center on campus to provide support for students that are also parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m majoring in political science and minoring in journalism. I\u2019m part of the 1% of students that receive the Excelsior scholarship, so I have to complete 30 credits per year, which makes college more stressful by increasing my workload. I also have to stay in New York four years after my graduation, so I plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,210,106],"tags":[14,187,99,16,27,184,18,28,15],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-97","category-senate-district-38","category-city-college-of-ny","tag-childcare","tag-credit-requirements","tag-excelsior-scholarship","tag-financial-aid","tag-food-costs","tag-infrastructure","tag-job","tag-pell-grant","tag-tap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","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=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}