LaGuardia Community College

And my dream is that several years from now, nobody will be talking about CUNY Beyond because it's just the way that CUNY does our teaching, our engagement with our students.

But so we began with four of our colleges, Lehman, Hunter, Borough of Manhattan Community College and LaGuardia Community College.

We wanted two two-year schools, two four-year schools.

The funding from the governor allows us to do five more.

And so theater, which is very expensive of course, as you know, and is not a real money maker, so it's suffering.

And so a lot of these, uh, uh, stages, whether it's John Jay where I just was, we're discussing a project for next year, or Aaron Davis Hall in Harlem, Staten Island, LaGuardia Community College, uh, Brooklyn College, Borough of Manhattan Community College.

It's a very long list.

So they all do fantastic programming, and we thought, "Let's just, uh, select what they think is their most interesting one for October." So each college selected, uh, one performance.

Hello, my name is Paisley Demby.

I serve as the Business Services Director at Director of Outreach and Recruitment for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program at LaGuardia Community College.

We train businesses to grow their businesses, grow their profitability, and we establish extensive networks to connect them with for them to achieve only their dreams that they can imagine for their business.

Beautifully done.

So what is the class, I guess, look like the program look like? How long is it? How long are classes? Give us some of those details.

So we offer the program in three different modalities.

So right now we have a in-person program that's operating at LaGuardia Community College.

That's 14 weeks.

Good old New York.

It was LaGuardia Community College, and so humbled of the experience there because I had the opportunity to work and go to school in the evening and give back on the-

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... weekends, right? So that's where it all started.