Cuny 's annual budget of $ 1.7 billion has stayed largely unchanged , even as student numbers have risen .
即便学生人数增加了,该大学每年17亿美元的预算仍未能得到较大改观。
By 1997 , seven out of ten first-year students in the cuny system were failing at least one remedial test in reading , writing or maths ( meaning that they had not learnt it to high-school standard ) .
Among the rest of cuny 's students averages are lower , but they are now just breaking into the top third ( compared with the bottom third in 1997 ) .
城市大学其他学生平均分较低,但是他们即将冲进前三名(相比1997年的倒数前三名)。
Jeff jarvis , an associate professor at the cuny graduate school of journalism , whose recent book , ' public parts , ' argues that living in public opens up unprecedented personal and professional opportunities for collaboration .
By the age of 9 to 12 months , for example , babies begin to lose the ability to distinguish between sounds that are not used in their native language , said loraine obler , a neurolinguist at the cuny graduate center in new york .
All that cuny demands is that these students be diligent and clever .
城市大学唯一需要的就是这些学生必须勤奋并且聪颖。
A primary draw at cuny is a programme for particularly clever students , launched in 2001 .
城市大学主要吸引人的地方在于它为从2001年开始为聪明过人的学生所设立的培养计划。
At first , with no barrier to entry , enrolment climbed , but in 1976 the city of new york , which was then in effect bankrupt , forced cuny to impose tuition fees .
And he ascends st. peter 's dome , climbs to a choir loft , and to the high-rise apartment of steiner ( alain cuny ) , the intellectual who is his hero .