University News
NYU faculty recount the Sept. 11 attacks 20 years later
Professors share their personal accounts of the attack on the World Trade Center and offer advice to current NYU students.
NYU students return to campus, but clubs remain online
Despite new university guidelines for in-person gatherings, clubs report that their events and meetings will again be primarily remote this academic year.
Students report a smooth dorm move-in experience after a peculiar year
After a year of remote and hybrid learning, students reflect on an uneventful transition to residence hall life.
NYU YDSA halts fall 2021 tuition strike, plans instead for Spring 2022
After calling off its original fall 2021 tuition strike, the NYU chapter of the Young Democratic Socialists of America is encouraging students to stop paying tuition for the spring 2022 semester.
NYU Classes is dead
After eight years with NYU Classes as the university’s learning management system, NYU expects to fully transition to Brightspace by December 2021.
Students concerned as NYU reports three gropings in two days
On Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, the NYU Department of Campus Safety informed students of three sexual assault incidents.
NYU Welcome brings festive atmosphere back to campus
After a year of virtual learning, students and staff have organized online and in-person events, returning the Washington Square campus to its pre-pandemic spirit.
Masking, testing, reopening: A guide to the fall 2021 semester
Learn about NYU’s plan to return to near-normal operations and all the guidelines and requirements you should know about this fall.
‘A propagandist’: NYU trustee Maria Bartiromo peddles pro-Trump lies on Fox shows
Once a journalism student at NYU, Maria Bartiromo has recently turned to amplifying baseless right-wing claims about the 2020 election and Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — all while serving as a voting member of NYU’s Board of Trustees.
‘Large knife resembling a machete’: NYU dorm stabbing followed argument about COVID-19 protocol
Frantz Arestyl, the NYU employee accused of stabbing his supervisor at the Broome Street dormitory on July 24, has been charged with attempted murder. He was previously named a recipient of NYU’s Service Award for his 15 years as a Public Safety employee.
Student government issues statement calling for Cuomo to resign
Shortly after the New York attorney general published a report finding that N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women, members of the NYU community, including the Student Government Assembly, called for his resignation.
International students may be required to ‘mix’ COVID-19 vaccines, despite NYU assurances
Some international students remain hesitant to be re-vaccinated, while others see it as their only path to an in-person education and a post-pandemic college experience.
