BREAKING: Silver School of Social Work Shoots Down No Confidence Vote
Faculty of the Silver School of Social Work shot down a vote of no confidence against university president John Sexton yesterday. The motion of no confidence failed to pass after 12 faculty members...
View ArticleNYU Is Also Giving Faculty Vacation Homes With Your Tuition Money
NYU Local has reported on NYU’s tendency to give bigshot professors and administrators loans on multimillion-dollar residences, and pay that far outstrips most of the faculty. Everyone knows about the...
View ArticleSexton To Depart After 2016, NYU Backtracks On Vacation Home Loans [UPDATED]
In a university-wide email today, the Board of Trustees acknowledged for the first time that John Sexton would not continue serving as President after 2016. The Board will begin a search for a new...
View ArticleLet’s Review: No Confidence at NYU
Last year ended in a frenzy of no confidence votes but this semester is off to a quiet start. In fact, the most noticeable conversations regarding university president John Sexton’s future stem from...
View ArticleJohn Sexton’s Presidency Gets Another Look In This Week’s New Yorker
“The Imperial Presidency,” an article published in this week’s New Yorker, provides an intimate discussion of John Sexton’s presidency at NYU. As reported by Washington Square News, the author Rachel...
View ArticleSexton’s First Town Hall Was All Hugs And No Heat
Yesterday the Student Senate Council hosted President John Sexton’s first Town Hall meeting of the year at the School of Law, where all NYU students were free to submit questions. Despite the NYU 2031...
View ArticleA Day In The Life Of John Sexton As He Learns To Use Instagram
John Sexton: President, dog-owner, man of mystery. We think we know our University President from his cozy Town Hall meetings, his 1,500-word email blasts, and his intimate bear hugs. But how much do...
View Article“It’s Saturday, Study On Monday:” NYU Throws Bobst Bash During Midterms
The party was already poppin’ at 1:30. A microphone screeched on in the Bobst lobby. The eighth-floor bookshelves vibrated to the beat of Rihanna’s “We Found Love.” Dazed alumni trickled through...
View ArticleBREAKING: NYU London And Library Faculties Call Administrative Actions Into...
NYU London’s faculty approved a resolution calling into question overwhelming student debt, controversy surrounding NYU 2031, and generous loans given to administrators for secondary homes. Of London’s...
View ArticleSexton Faces The Fire (Sort Of) At Latest Town Hall
The Student Senators Council hosted John Sexton’s second and final town hall of the semester in Kimmel yesterday afternoon, the first to allow students to pose questions directly to Sexton at the...
View ArticleStudent Labor Action Movement Goes Caroling For Change
Members of the NYU Student Labor Action Movement gathered on the 12th floor of Bobst at 2:30 pm today to sing carols about workers’ rights. Likewise, they delivered a letter to John Sexton urging...
View ArticleMy Semester With Professor John Sexton
This past semester, I spent two hours every Tuesday night with 15 fellow freshman in President Sexton’s seminar, the Supreme Court and the Religious Clauses. With weekly 5 page papers to write and the...
View ArticleBREAKING: State Supreme Court Ruling Puts NYU 2031 In Jeopardy
NYU’s expansion plans hit a snag today after State Supreme Court Justice in Manhattan Donna Mills ruled that the city illegally approved construction within public parklands without New York State’s...
View ArticleWhat Re-Accreditation At NYU Really Means
A week and a half ago, John Sexton snuck an email into our inboxes with the subject, “Middle States Re-Accreditation Process.” It’s safe to say that some of us let it slip past without a proper look,...
View ArticleMartin Lipton To Step Down As Chairman Of Board Of Trustees [UPDATED]
Martin Lipton will step down as chairman of NYU’s board of trustees next year, the New York Times reports. “I am getting too old and have served too long,” Lipton told the Times this Friday. Lipton,...
View Article[PHOTOS] NYU Divest Made Noise At Sexton’s Latest Town Hall
Yesterday’s Town Hall with John Sexton was a bit more eventful than usual. Our president, rocking a casual blue hoodie and sipping from a bottle of Perrier, responded to some passionate students who...
View ArticleJohn Sexton Provided His Son With University Housing
If you’re a Tisch graduate looking to make it on Broadway, or just someone aspiring to be an actor in the Big City, you may be concerned about finding affordable housing. Finding convenient living...
View ArticleTEDxNYU Presented The School’s “Modern Mavericks”
On Saturday afternoon, Kimmel’s Rosenthal Pavilion heard a series of fascinating talks during TEDxNYU’s “Modern Mavericks” conference. The event invited 14 of our university’s most brilliant minds to...
View ArticleGetting Up Close And Personal With John Sexton’s LEGS
On a recent Saturday morning, I went for a walk around campus with John Sexton and his dog LEGS. It was a brilliant morning — bright and clear, the beginning of what would become a sunny week....
View ArticlePotential NYU Chairman Evan Chesler Talks The Past And Future Of NYU
An air of mystery surrounds the Board of Trustees. The administration and faculty work at the university and can be seen around campus on a day-to-day basis. Trustees, on the other hand, govern the...
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