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NYU reaches ‘confidential settlement’ with students in antisemitism suit

The agreement, which includes the creation of a new Title VI coordinator, marks an end to a nine-month-long lawsuit accusing the university of being indifferent to incidents of antisemitism on campus since the start of the war in Gaza.
Yezen Saadah, Editor-in-Chief July 9, 2024

NYU reached a confidential monetary settlement in a November lawsuit filed by three Jewish students that accused the university of being indifferent toward antisemitic incidents...

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Georgina Dopico appointed NYU’s next provost after 2 years as interim

The appointment marks the end of a seven-month international search for a new provost.
Yezen Saadah, Editor-in-Chief June 18, 2024

Georgina Dopico was named NYU’s new provost on Tuesday after holding the position in an interim capacity for nearly two years, ending a seven-month international search for a...

A woman dressed in red and holding a purple sign that reads NYU is Complicit in Genocide.

Protesters gather outside NYU Langone hospital condemning termination of labor nurse

Demonstrators called on the medical center to issue an official apology to Hesen Jabr, who was terminated last month after she spoke about the suffering of women “during the current genocide in Gaza.”
Mikaylah Du, Under the Arch Editor June 15, 2024

Around 100 protesters gathered outside NYU Langone Health’s Tisch Hospital on Friday afternoon to demand that the medical center formally apologize to labor nurse Hesen Jabr,...

The exterior of the top floor of a building with a purple N.Y.U. Langone Health sign.

NYU Langone CEO Robert Grossman and board chair Kenneth Langone to retire next year

The medical center will conduct a national search for a new CEO, who will succeed Grossman in August 2025.
Dharma Niles and Yezen Saadah June 14, 2024

NYU Langone Health CEO Robert Grossman and the medical center’s namesake Kenneth Langone, who chairs its board of trustees, will retire next year, Grossman announced Wednesday.  A...

The outside entrance of N.Y.U Langone Health’s main campus with a road sign in front of the modern building with a glass facade.

NYU Langone terminates nurse after speech about ‘current genocide in Gaza’

The labor and delivery nurse was fired after saying women in Gaza are “going through unimaginable losses” in an acceptance speech for a compassionate care award.
Yezen Saadah, Editor-in-Chief May 29, 2024

A labor nurse at NYU Langone Health was terminated earlier this month after she spoke about the suffering of women “during the current genocide in Gaza” in a speech when accepting...

A group of faculty hold hands at a pro-Palestinian demonstration.

Faculty group threatens NYU with service strike if demands are not met by fall

A representative for Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine said the university has until Aug. 1 to fulfill the group’s demands, which include the removal of police from campus and pardoning students and faculty facing disciplinary action for their involvement in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Yezen Saadah, Editor-in-Chief May 24, 2024

Some faculty and staff at NYU are threatening to withhold administrative work for the fall semester if senior leadership does not remove police from campus and pardon those facing...

A man in a black mortarboard and purple robe with a white and black scarf holds up a cardboard sign reading “Free Palestine”

Students protest war in Gaza at graduation ceremonies

Pro-Palestinian disruptions, including students chanting and waving Palestinian flags, occurred at the ceremonies for Tisch, Gallatin and NYU Law.
Aashna Miharia, Bruna Horvath and Dharma Niles May 21, 2024

Graduates across NYU’s schools wore keffiyeh scarves, carried signs and held Palestinian flags at their respective graduation ceremonies last week in protest of the war in Gaza...

This photo shows the brightly-lit exterior of N.Y.U’s Liberal Studies building. In the bottom right of the image, a pedestrian is walking by the building entrance, and a black car is parked in the foreground of the image. The shadows of the entrance are shown on the light beige walls, and a purple sign with white text that reads “Liberal Studies” is hung inside a big square window on the left of the image.

‘Not celebratory’: GLS valedictorian not permitted to deliver pro-Palestinian speech at graduation

The student told WSN they did not want to write a speech “tailored towards the sensitivities of the administration.”
Bruna Horvath, Editor-at-Large May 21, 2024

This year’s valedictorian in Global Liberal Studies was not permitted to deliver a speech at the program’s graduation ceremony — which criticized NYU’s ties to Israel,...

(Krish Dev for WSN)

Dozens walk out of Yankee Stadium as Mills gives commencement address

The walkout is the latest of several demonstrations by pro-Palestinian student protesters over the last few weeks.
Carmo Moniz, Editor-at-Large May 15, 2024

Dozens of students, many wearing keffiyeh scarves and booing in dissent, walked out of this year’s commencement ceremony at Yankee Stadium as NYU president Linda Mills gave her...

(Jason Alpert-Wisnia for WSN)

Human rights scholar Martha Minow on civil rights, race and gender at commencement

Martha Minow, the former dean of Harvard Law School, delivered this year’s commencement address, during which she highlighted the importance of fighting social injustice and inequality.
Yezen Saadah, Editor-in-Chief May 15, 2024

Human rights scholar Martha Minow addressed around 30,000 graduates and guests at NYU’s 191st commencement ceremony in Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, after receiving an honorary...

(Krish Dev for WSN)

2024 commencement exercises begin at Yankee Stadium

The ceremony comes amid heightened tensions between the university’s administration and pro-Palestinian protesters, and follows cancellations of commencement ceremonies at Columbia University and the University of Southern California.

At NYU’s 191st commencement exercises — President Linda Mills’ first as head of the university — this year’s 22,000 graduates filled the stands of Yankee Stadium as rain...