John Sexton
Bloomberg announces a science campus for N.Y.U. in Brooklyn
There was lots of backslapping this afternoon as Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined elected officials and academic leaders at N.Y.U.'s Polytechnic Institute in downtown Brooklyn to announce a a long-sought agreement paving the way for applied-sciences campus at an underutilized M.T.A.-occupied building nearby. More
April 23, 2012 4:12 pm
A poll finds most N.Y.U. faculty oppose big expansion plan, but are open to changing their minds
A poll of New York University faculty, the results of which were released yesterday, has found that a majority of them oppose the school's ambitious expansion plans. But there are reasons for the administration to hope they may yet move faculty to their way of thinking. More
(2)April 19, 2012 2:57 pm
N.Y.U. president hugs Scott Stringer for his OK on an expansion plan, but faculty, and some neighbors, are unmoved
“I also expect that at some point virtually all of my colleagues”—the university president, John Sexton, a professor of both law and religion, himself continues to teach—“have that moment where, as academics and people who think about the advancement of thought, and think in terms of generations, that they’ll recall that spot in themselves where it’s a worthy thing to plant a tree under which someone else will sit.” More
(2)April 12, 2012 10:14 am
N.Y.U.'s Alicia Hurley takes on intransigent neighbors, explains how they will sell faculty on the big 2031 expansion plan
"The community always said, 'we want a plan, we want a plan,'" Hurley said. "This is the only plan we can present."
"We've spent the last 20, 30 years building our facilities around the community," said Hurley. "Do I think it's right to just continue growing in the community and not try to absorb some of this on our own property? No, I don't. I think it's time to really consider more carefully how we should be expanding. We're trying to isolate it." More
(7)April 3, 2012 1:43 pm
A debate about N.Y.U.'s expansion plans gets academic, in more ways than one
"For N.Y.U. to survive, it seems to me that they do have to get the space for future education," Hack said. "You could argue that N.Y.U. is the most important institution in New York City," Gary Hack, professor of urban design at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design, told the crowd.
The audience actually laughed. But Hack persisted: "There needs to be a way for them to accomplish their objectives and the neighborhood to be okay with the way they accomplish their objectives." More
March 29, 2012 1:23 pm
At a meeting with students, N.Y.U. president John Sexton turns on the charm about his big plan
“There’s some small number of people that you can’t reach,” he said. “And some of them you can’t reach because they just are at a place where they’ve gotta be what they are and they’re not gonna be dissuaded. And even if you do what they say, they’re not going to acknowledge it.”
(2)February 29, 2012 8:03 pm
A rally against the N.Y.U. expansion plan, but this time it's students and faculty holding the signs
"This is a moment of historical importance," said N.Y.U. professor of media, culture, and communications Mark Crispin Miller at yesterday's rally. He described a 50-year history of neighborhood protests against N.Y.U. expansion plans.
"Never before has the faculty stood with the community," he said. "We're standing with the community now."
Miller is helping to lead a new group that calls itself the NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan, or NYUFASP, which was one group involved in organizing the rally. (The "Sexton Plan" is a nickname for NYU 2031, which comes from the name of its foremost proponent, university president John Sexton.) More
(1)February 22, 2012 3:18 pm
Campus colossus: N.Y.U. and Columbia pursue a global university model, hotly
In the spring of 2009, Columbia University opened two foreign outposts. There wasn't much fanfare at the time—the ribbon-cutting ceremonies garnered less coverage than, say, each of the university’s expansions into Manhattanville.
Last year, just as quietly, Columbia opened two more centers, in Mumbai and Paris. And later this year, Columbia will open a center in Istanbul, with a center in Santiago hot on its heels.
By 2012, according to Kenneth Prewitt, Columbia’s recently minted vice president for global centers, the university intends to have centers operational in Rio de Janeiro and Nairobi. This, all of this, is only Phase One. More
September 16, 2011 11:36 am
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