New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani with members of CUNY’s Professional Staff Congress before the 2025 NYC Labor Day Parade on Sept. 6, 2025.

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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has promised to bring sweeping changes to New York City after a campaign that claimed national attention and rallied youth voters. Now college and university leaders, scholars, and students are speculating about what his win might mean for the city’s more than 120 higher education institutions.

The answer? It’s unclear.

Mamdani was sparse on details about his plans for higher ed on the campaign trail. But his platform, and some of his recent comments and priorities as a New York state assemblymember, may offer a glimpse into his goals for postsecondary education.

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