Rep. Suozzi Announces Over $444 million for Local Colleges, Universities, and Students Across Long Island and Queens

Press Release 

Funds from the American Rescue Plan are on the way for local institutions; At least half of the funding will be distributed to students as emergency financial aid

Today, Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-Long Island, Queens) announced more than $444 million in emergency funding for colleges, universities, and students across Long Island and Queens. The funding will help local institutions and students cope with the severe financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. At least half of the funding each public and private non-profit institution receives, and all funding received by for-profit institutions, must be spent on emergency cash assistance grants to students who are facing financial difficulty, hunger, and other hardship.

Funding will also help colleges and universities re-open safely, in turn boosting local businesses that rely on the student and faculty population.

“The pandemic has made financial uncertainty for students much worse,” said Suozzi.“This plan requires that most of this funding must be used to assist college students facing financial difficulties. Help is on the way.”

The colleges and universities on Long Island and in Queens receiving funding under the American Rescue Plan are found below. School’s in Suozzi districts have an asterisk next to their funding total.

Long Island:

Long Island University: $21,809,870*

SUNY College at Old Westbury: $16,804,964*

New York Institute of Technology: $12,170,280*

New York College of Health Professions: $1,640,624*

United States Merchant Marine Academy: $1,388,228*

VEEB Nassau County School of Practical Nursing: $1,010,811*

Webb Institute: $88,362*

State University of New York at Stony Brook: $53,830,978

Suffolk County Community College: $45,320,205

Nassau Community College: $38,449,409

State University of New York at Farmingdale: $22,254,442

Hofstra: $16,107,212

Adelphi University: $14,720,577

Saint Joseph's College: $10,975,629

Molloy College: $8,959,688

Western Suffolk BOCES: $1,133,708

Rabbinical College of Long Island: $454,931

New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine: $189,202

Shor Yoshuv Rabbinical College: $184,610

Total: $267,493,730

 

Queens:

CUNY Queens College: $51,931,565

CUNY LaGuardia Community College: $48,792,766

Queensborough Community College‐CUNY: $41,670,718

CUNY York College: $24,529,339

Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology: $6,344,498

Metropolitan Learning Institute: $2,437,292

Rabbinical Seminary of America: $637,111

CUNY School of Law: $417,451

Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid: $243,820

Yeshiva Shaar Hatorah-Grodno: $110,014

Yeshiva of Far Rockaway Derech Ayson: $58,297

Yeshiva Zichron Aryeh: $32,582

Total: $177,205,453

[A full list of funds released for colleges and universities across New York is found here]

Students should contact their institutions for more information about how they can apply for an emergency grant. The Department of Education released Updated guidance and a final rule that clarifies how funds can be used and specifies that all students enrolled on or after March 13, 2020 (the date of declaration of the national emergency) are eligible to receive emergency grants.

Nationally, the American Rescue Plan provides $36 billion for nearly 3,500 public and private, nonprofit colleges and universities. 

To read more about emergency education funding under the American Rescue Plan, click here.