Education
Guest Essay: The United Auto Workers needs reform. Here’s how we do it.
Three members of academic worker unions from three New York City colleges argue for their parent union to take on a sectoral organizing strategy.
Opinion: Bring the old Bobst 8th floor back
The old configuration of the eighth floor north reading room was unique and inspiring. Put it back.
Opinion: It’s time to embrace midterm exams
As much as you may hate them, your midterm exams can help you in the long run.
Opinion: NYU’s nutrition curriculum should not promote diet culture
For a class titled “Nutrition and Health,” the professor and the syllabus promote rather unsettling, unhealthy eating attitudes.
Opinion: NYU should reduce students’ out-of-pocket costs
Students pay thousands of dollars out of pocket on top of already expensive tuition. It’s time the university helped bring down those costs.
Opinion: There are better study spots than Bobst
NYU’s beloved library is not all that it is hyped up to be.
Opinion: Handshake is not letting NYU students shake any hands
The highly promoted Handshake has incredibly low response rates. NYU students should abandon the site and start applying to jobs elsewhere.
Off-Third: Liberal Studies is the best major
Everyone in Liberal Studies, like myself, should have some pride for the best school on campus.
Opinion: Adjuncts need better pay now, but NYU is dragging its feet
NYU should meet the proposals of the adjunct union, ACT-UAW Local 7902 — if not in support of worker's rights, then in the name of its students.
Opinion: NYU should drop its facade of Pacific Island inclusion
Despite housing the Asian/Pacific/American Institute and an associated major, NYU is failing to provide enough courses on Pacific Island Studies.
Editorial: Do no harm, Grossman. Reject Sabatini.
Hiring biologist David Sabatini would display a gross disregard for sexual assault survivors on the part of NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine.
Opinion: Affirmative action is the best tool for increasing diversity
The Supreme Court will likely strike down affirmative action in October. But no alternative is as effective for increasing racial diversity at universities.
