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A farewell to Design Works

From January 2021 to December 2022, DesignWorks served 78 students in three cohorts. Connecting underrepresented and low-income New Yorkers to the growing opportunities in New York City’s thriving tech sector, DesignWorks offered no-cost, applied skills education and training. Focused on developing real-world technical skills and competencies, DesignWorks combined classroom instruction, project-based learning, and industry expertise to better prepare people for careers as UX Designers, whether they are working as independent contractors or as employees within larger companies.

Classes included Human-Centered Design, Visual Design, Coding for Designers, UX Entrepreneurship and Capstone, where students used their technical UX Design knowledge to develop solutions to real-world problems identified by a client.

In addition to workshops and networking events, DesignWorks students received individual, job search and college enrollment support.

Program graduates now work at companies like FCB Health, JPMorgan Chase, CUNY and Skillsoft. 

CUNY Supports Students with Conviction Records

CUNY launched the Supports for Students with Conviction Records resource page to provide prospective and current students with conviction records, and those that support them, with a comprehensive repository of resources, tools, and opportunities at CUNY in an easily accessible format. The webpage outlines:

  • Frequently Asked Questions about attending CUNY with a conviction record
  • An overview of the education programs, opportunities, and services available across CUNY to support students at various points in their educational journey
  • Resources around accessing and paying for college; employment, career, and licensure information; and connections to various external communities.

The content of the webpage was developed by the CUNY Justice Learning Collaborative. The CUNY Justice Learning Collaborative is a cross-university community of faculty, staff, administrators, and students led by the John Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity. Its purpose is to create a more equitable and accessible CUNY that is inclusive of those with lived experience in the criminal legal system. To learn more about the CUNY Justice Learning Collaborative contact Tommasina Faratro, Special Projects Coordinator at : tfaratro@jjay.cuny.edu

New York Jobs CEO Council Microcredential Program

The UX Design Microcredential program at Kingsborough is part of the New York Jobs CEO Council, a coalition of CEOs from some of the region’s largest companies whose goal is to create a talent pipeline, linking underrepresented and underserved New Yorkers to gainful jobs. Partners include accenture, amazon, Goldman Sachs, Google, New York-Presbyterian, the New York Times, and others. The Jobs Council’s goal is to hire 100,000 underrepresented New Yorkers, with at least 25,000 of whom being CUNY students.

Take a look at the video below to hear about the impact this program has had New Yorkers.

CLICK HERE to learn more about our program.
You can also contact Christian Finch, Program Coordinator christian.finch@kbcc.cuny.edu * (347) 470-9837

Addressing Violence Workshop Series

Check out the flyer below for information about workshop series coming to Kingsborough in early 2022.

If you are a provider, we can develop and deliver custom CEUs for your agency. Contact Us today! 

KCC has been certified by the NYS Education Department State Board for Social Work (#SW-0613) and by the NYS Education Department’s Board for Mental Health Practitioners for licensed mental health counselors (#MHC-0191).