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Amnesty reports heightened concern over Abu Dhabi campus

The human rights group detailed the deportation of an instructor and threats of prosecution under Emirati law.
Dharma Niles and Krish Dev August 29, 2024

Human rights nonprofit Amnesty International reported escalated restrictions at NYU’s Abu Dhabi campus, alleging that faculty were told criticism of university leadership could...

Linda Mills in a black gown with silver trim stands behind a clear podium with a reflector in front of it. The silhouettes of the back of people’s heads are in front of her.

Mills calls for ‘community’ in start-of-semester email

In her first universitywide letter of the academic year, President Linda Mills urged students to “come together” with “empathy and grace.”
Krish Dev, Director of Creative & Digital Strategy August 28, 2024

NYU president Linda Mills encouraged students to be a “model for others” in a Wednesday email as the university nears the start of a new academic year amid a “drumbeat of...

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the Paulson Center hours after a police sweep of the second Gaza Solidarity Encampment. (Krish Dev for WSN)

Meta suspends NYU PSC’s Instagram account

A university spokesperson said that while NYU did not request the suspension of the account, it did alert Instagram of a post by the People’s Solidarity Coalition which listed armed struggle as an anti-colonial tactic.
Krish Dev and Yezen Saadah August 27, 2024

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, suspended the NYU People’s Solidarity Coalition’s Instagram account on Tuesday — an action the group claimed to be “strategic...

Student protesters stand in front of a building with a sign that reads "NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING."

Students protest US military defense recruitment, Tandon ties to Israel

As first-year students arrive on campus, demonstrators at the Tandon School of Engineering called for the university to halt investments in and recruiting offers at companies with ties to Israel, including the U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin.
Dharma Niles, News Editor August 27, 2024

Around a dozen students gathered outside the Tandon School of Engineering on Monday to demand that NYU cut ties with the U.S. Navy, Lockheed Martin and other military defense companies...

A protester holds a cardboard sign reading "Faculty for Justice in Palestine" above a crowd in a park.

Faculty group to begin service strike on Labor Day

Members of NYU’s Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine will “refuse various forms of labor” until the university fulfills the group’s demands — an ultimatum an NYU spokesperson called “unproductive.”
Yezen Saadah, Editor-in-Chief August 26, 2024

A group of faculty and staff at NYU will withhold administrative tasks for the fall semester starting Labor Day until senior leadership removes police from campus and pardons those...

A sign attached to a barricade read “We do not engage with Zionists!”

NYU cites ‘code words, like ‘Zionist’’ as discriminatory in updated student conduct policy

In response to listening sessions over the summer, NYU changed its student conduct policy to further define protest regulations and non-discrimination policies ahead of the fall semester.
Aashna Miharia, News Editor August 26, 2024

NYU updated its student conduct guidelines to include “code words, like ‘Zionist,’” as examples of speech that could violate the university’s Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment...

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Welcome home, class of 2028

A guide to your first semester at college from WSN.
August 7, 2024

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PSC claims NYU ‘intentionally misread’ statement referencing armed struggle as an anti-colonial tactic

The university said it condemned the group’s message, claiming it embraced armed struggle as a “valid ‘tactic’ in achieving its aims on campus” — a sentiment the group said was misinterpreted.
Dharma Niles, News Editor July 29, 2024

NYU condemned a message from the People’s Solidarity Coalition which the university claims to have included “a deplorable ‘embrace’ of ‘armed struggle’” in a public...

A purple N.Y.U. flag hangs on a building.

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...

A woman with brown hair and a blue shirt.

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...