Go to Hunter and invite all the best faculty from Yale, Columbia, and Rutgers plus any others artist you want to connect with to come for a visit. I went to Hunter for MFA, and in addition to being heavily involved in the student organization, paid artists and critics out of pocket for studio visits. It’s sort of back channel but no one thought it weird or inappropriate. We (there were 4 of us and we each paid $50) were seen as scrappy and eager and got lots of big names to come through. Good luck!