The CUNY system educates hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers a year and serving as a major social economic engine for the city. Managing the budgets of its 26 colleges is, thus, complex. ISLG’s Financial Planning Fellowship for Higher Education gives CUNY college leaders to the tools to balance budgets while advancing academic innovation.

A snapshot of the work we’ve done this past month.

Last year, around 2,000 people entered and were released from NYC’s jails every month. Tens of thousands more were redirected to community programs. The breadth of these systems ask: How do public systems and services ensure responses to crime hold people accountable, without adding to cycles of incarceration? Restorative justice has been used to find these answers.

A snapshot of the work we’ve done this past month.

A snapshot of the work we’ve done this past month.

A snapshot of the work we’ve done this past month.

The 2026 Safety and Justice Challenge Research Symposium was an opportunity to reflect on the meaningful efforts and results of participating cities and counties, and dug into the expansive knowledge of what worked, what didn’t, and what should come next.

In March 2026, ISLG partnered with the CUNY Graduate Center to convene leading researchers and practitioners to discuss how the police can us everyday interactions to strengthen trust and enhance public safety.

Studying real, case-level data from cities and counties reducing their jail populations has led researchers to a conclusion: pretrial reforms made through the Safety and Justice Challenge did not lead to rising rates of crime, violent of otherwise. Two new analyses show this trend on both a initiative-wide and county-specific level.

A snapshot of the work we’ve done this past month.