Partnership Promotes Access to Education

New York Institute of Technology and the National Supermarket Association (NSA) have teamed up to help provide access to education to NSA members, their employees, and their families.

The related missions of the two organizations provide a strong foundation for this collaboration. The NSA is a trade association representing more than 200 members who own 400 supermarkets in New York and other cities throughout the East Coast, Mid-Atlantic region, and Florida. It was founded in 1989 by Hispanic entrepreneurs and is committed to supporting education for its members’ approximately 20,000 employees and their families. For more than 60 years, New York Tech has been guided by its mission to provide all qualified students access to opportunity to receive a career-oriented professional education and is recognized for the diversity and social mobility of its student body.

Beginning in the spring 2023 semester, the NSA began promoting information about New York Tech undergraduate programs as well as M.B.A. programs to its members, their families, and employees. Accepted students are eligible for scholarships; NSA scholarships will cover at least 25 percent of related students’ full-time tuition.

The two organizations will also work together to provide internship, experiential learning, and other career-related opportunities. The two will also collaborate on fundraising efforts in support of student scholarships, and NSA will encourage its members to support New York Tech’s Grizzly Cupboard food pantries, part of the Bear Bytes initiative, which provides students with food as well as health and wellness resources and information.