This page was created with the intention to reunite all current Lehman College SEEK students and alumni together as a community.
Today, SEEK has grown to eleven S.E.E.K Programs across the University, one program in each of the seven senior and four comprehensive colleges. Currently, CUNY’s various SEEK Programs have a combined enrollment of approximately 8,000 students. The SEEK Program at Lehman opened its doors in 1968 and currently has an enrollment of about nine hundred students. SEEK students account for a significant portion of the University's graduates who go on to contribute to the graduate school enrollment and work forces of New York City and the State as well as the region and the nation.
In February 2010, the New York State Assembly unanimously passed legislation renaming the SEEK Program as The Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Program in honor of the late Percy Sutton, multifaceted leader in the fields of law, communications, business, and civil rights. Mr. Sutton, along with Charles B. Rangel, Basil A. Paterson, and Allen B. Ballard, was instrumental in the creation of the Program as a New York State Assemblyman in 1966 when he sponsored and became the leading advocate of the establishment of the SEEK Program at CUNY. As of May 2010, the NYS Senate's Higher Education committee is considering the Senate version of the bill.
The SEEK Program promotes the academic, personal, and vocational development of SEEK students at Lehman College. SEEK fulfills this mission by admitting a previously under served population and providing an array of specialized support and enrichment programs and activities dedicated to encouraging SEEK student learning, performance, persistence, and graduation.
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