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CUNY ASAP
CUNY’s Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) is an academic support program offered at nine CUNY colleges.
ASAP helps students stay on track and graduate by providing a range of financial, academic, and personal supports. Read more about all of ASAP’s comprehensive program benefits.
As students approach graduation, they receive special supports to help them transfer to 4-year colleges or transition into the workforce, depending on their goals. Accelerate, Complete, Engage (ACE), an adaptation of the ASAP model that supports baccalaureate students, is available at John Jay College and Lehman College.
CUNY ASAP Recognition
2020 Innovations in American Government Award
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government
“Model Plus” Certified Intervention That Has Demonstrated Efficacy and Is Ready for Scale
Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development
Recognized as an Evidence-based Intervention That Improves Post-secondary Outcomes
Results for America



Moving the completion needle at community colleges.
Improving Student Outcomes via Comprehensive Supports: Three-Year Outcomes…
ASAP’s effects are the largest MDRC has found in any of its evaluations of community college reforms.
The New York Times cites ASAP as an innovative program that “shows enormous promise.”
New York Times lauds ASAP as remarkable program realizing impressive associate degree graduation rates. 
