Pursuing Your Bachelor’s Degree?
We Have Your Back.
CUNY’s Accelerate, Complete, Engage (ACE) is a comprehensive academic support program designed to help students complete their academic journey to a bachelor’s degree on time. Modeled on the principles of CUNY’s highly successful and nationally recognized Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP), ACE provides intensive academic advisement, career development, tuition scholarships, textbooks, and transportation assistance.
How is CUNY ACE doing?
CUNY
launched
Accelerate, Complete, and Engage (ACE)
in Fall 2015.
The first CUNY ACE
cohort realized a
4-year graduation
rate 16 percentage points higher
than the comparison group.
CUNY ACE
has served over
6,000 students
since the program launched and has expanded to serve both freshman and transfer students.
Explore the latest news and reports
Center on Poverty and Social Policy, Columbia University
The Net Benefits of Raising Bachelor’s Degree Completion Through CUNY’s ACE Program
2-Year Graduation Rate
Lehman ACE Fall 2020 Transfer Cohort
4-Year Graduation Rate
John Jay ACE Fall 2015 and Fall 2017 First-Time Freshmen Cohorts
2-Year Graduation Rate
Fall 2019 and Fall 2022 ACE Transfer Cohorts
2023
- SUNY Expands its ASAP Program
- SUNY to Expand Student Support Program
- A Life-Changing Impact: Students and researchers reflect on the striking success of the Accelerate, Complete, Engage (ACE) program
- AMNY: Ensuring All New Yorkers Can Earn a College Degree
- Center for an Urban Future: Playing New York City’s ACE Card
2022
2021
2019
- CUNY’s ‘ACE’ Program At John Jay College Exceeds Target Goals For Timely Degree Completion
- ACE Alumna Reachelle Ramirez ’19 Gets Accepted to 15 Law Schools
2018
- John Jay’s ACE Program To Welcome a Third Cohort With Support From The Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity and The Laura and John Arnold Foundation
- CUNY Expands Its Promising ‘ACE’ Program to Lehman College in Partnership with Robin Hood Foundation
2017
CUNY Colleges Offering ACE
Visit our CUNY ACE college sites to learn more about eligibility and the steps to join at each college.
College of Staten Island
Ronald J. Oliva
Director
Ronald.Oliva@csi.cuny.edu
Phone: 718.982.3200
Email: ACE@csi.cuny.edu
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
DeLandra Hunter
Director
dhunter@jjay.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.887.6136
Email: johnjayace@jjay.cuny.edu
Eligible students will be contacted by the John Jay ACE team and invited to join the program after being admitted to John Jay College.
Lehman College
Mikhail (Mike) Kaler
Director
mikhail.kaler@lehman.cuny.edu
Phone: 718-960-5640
Email: lehman.ace@lehman.cuny.edu
To Join, attend an information session.
New York City College of Technology
Kwesi Samuels
Director
ksamuels@citytech.cuny.edu
Email: JoinACE@citytech.cuny.edu
York College
Jonathan Rojas
Interim Director
jrojas12@york.cuny.edu
Phone: 718.262.2426
Email: ACE@york.cuny.edu
Eligible students will be contacted by the ACE team and invited to join the program after being admitted to YORK College.
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