CUNY SEEK

Shirley Chisholm and Percy Sutton were seen as the legislative champions of the SEEK program.

The CUNY SEEK initiative, standing for Search for Education, Elevation [orig. Enlightenment], and Knowledge, is a City University of New York scholarship program for 4-year colleges. Championed by New York State Assembly members Shirley Chisholm and Percy Sutton who led a 1966 "midnight march" in the state capital, it was incorporated into a larger CUNY spending bill that year. SEEK was conceived at the time as a policy of racial inclusion to promote greater participation of disadvantaged students from New York City high schools predominantly of African American and Puerto Rican backgrounds.

Its current full title is the Percy Ellis Sutton Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge (SEEK) Program, aligned with the 'College Discovery (CD) Program' for CUNY's community colleges, along with other state efforts such as the Higher Education Opportunity Program.

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