minutes of a stated meeting of the senate of new york university octo

__________________________________________________________

Minutes of a Stated Meeting of the Senate of New York University

October 4, 2012

A stated meeting of the Senate of New York University was held on Thursday, October 4, 2012, at 2:00 p.m., in the Colloquium Room of the Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life, 238 Thompson Street. The meeting was convened with Dr. Sexton in the chair. Faculty Senators Council Members Present: Mark Alter, Awam Amkpa, Susan Anton, Efrain Azmitia (for Hasia Diner), Pamela Cowin, Rajeev Dehjia (for Victor Rodwin), Christine Harrington, Carol Hutchins, Jim Jacobs, Warren Jelinek, Mary Anne Jones, Angela Kamer, Rebecca Karl, Wen Ling, Achiau Ludomirsky, Ted Magder (Chair), Marie Monaco, William Nelson, Laurin Raiken, Carol Sternhell, David Stokes, Arthur Tannenbaum, Paul Thompson (for Charlton McIlwain), George Thurston, Alexander Tuzhilin (for Raghu Sundaram), Jim Uleman, and Nancy Van Devanter. Student Senators Council Members Present: Christian Acevedo, Alicia Bell, Anthony Beshay, Corey Blay, John Boyd, Tai Cooper, Mariam Ehrari, Mason Dettloff, Jameson Lee, Stephanie Gent, Brian Plaut, Calaena Powder, Rhoen Pruesse-Adams, Rocco Puno, Seyyed Ali Sajjadi, Griffin Simpson, Nishant Thakkar, Patrick Ryan Totaro, Ashley Valencia, and Malina Webb (Chair). Deans Council Members Present: Charles Bertolami (Chair), Mary Brabeck, Thomas Carew, Randy Hertz (for Richard Revesz), Joanne Hvala (for Peter Blair Henry), Carol Mandel, Ellen Schall, Kenneth Tabachnick (for Mary Schmidt Campbell), Gabrielle Starr, Lynn Videka, Diann Witt (for Geeta Menon), and Susanne Wofford. Administrative Management Council Members Present: Hilarie Ashton, John De Santis, Anita Dwyer, David Vintinner, and David Vogelsang (Chair). University Administration Members Present: Mike Alfano, Bob Berne, Bonnie Brier, and David McLaughlin In Memoriam The General Counsel and Secretary of the Senate, Bonnie Brier, read the names of the members of the University community whose deaths were reported since the Senate Meeting of October 2011. After reading the names, the Senate observed a moment of silence. A list of names is attached to these minutes as Exhibit A.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Minutes, University Senate October 4, 2012 Review and Approval of the Minutes of the May 3, 2012 Meeting Upon motion duly made and seconded, the Minutes of the May 3, 2012 meeting were approved unanimously as presented.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Executive Committee Vice President of the Senate Professor Ted Magder reported that a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Senate was held on September 25, 2012, at which the University Senate officers for the 2012-2013 academic year and all committee assignments were approved, and were transmitted to all senators with the materials for this meeting. Dr. Magder noted that the Student Senators Council (SSC) requested three changes to the Senate committee assignments after the Executive Committee meeting, and that the committee unanimously approved these SSC changes by email ballot. The list of officers is attached to these minutes as Exhibit B and the list of committee assignments as revised is attached to these minutes as Exhibit C. Dr. Magder moved for the adoption of the revised 2012-2013 Senate meeting schedule, which was included in the mailing. Upon motion duly made, the schedule was approved unanimously and is attached to these minutes as Exhibit D. Public Affairs Committee Professor Arthur Tannenbaum read and asked the Senate to pass the Commencement Resolution that was included in the mailing. Upon motion duly made and seconded, the Senate unanimously adopted the following resolution:

RESOLVED, that upon the recommendation of the Public Affairs Committee, the 2013 All-University Commencement Exercises will take place on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Yankee Stadium. Accordingly, Grad Alley will take place on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The All-University Commencement Exercises are also projected to take place on Wednesday, May 21, 2014 and Wednesday, May 20, 2015 in Yankee Stadium, subject to the stadium’s availability. Grad Alley would be held the evening before Commencement each year.

COUNCIL REPORTS

Administrative Management Council Administrative Management Council (AMC) Chair David Vogelsang reported that the AMC hosted a Welcome Breakfast for all new Senators, Alternate Senators,

Minutes, University Senate October 4, 2012 Representatives, and Alternate Representatives on September 27. He advised that the first AMC general meeting was held on October 2 and Ann Kraus, Senior Director, Global Compensation & Benefits, and Trish Halley, Director, Health & Welfare Benefits, presented on the upcoming Benefits Open Enrollment. Following the Benefits presentation, Associate Vice President of the Student Health Center Carlo Ciotoli and Allison Smith, Administrator of Public Health Initiatives and Assessment, spoke about the Student Health Center’s “Live Well Initiative” for students. Mr. Vogelsang announced that this year, the AMC is celebrating its 40th anniversary by asking administrators to be proactive in learning about and engaging in the initiatives of the Global Network University. He concluded by noting two upcoming AMC activities: for the fifth year in a row, the AMC has organized an NYU team of administrators, faculty, staff, students, and alumni for the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk on October 21 in Central Park; and the AMC will continue its tradition of giving back to the community by contributing to Community Board 2’s Children’s Halloween Parade. Deans Council Deans Council Chair Charles Bertolami reported that the Deans Council met on September 19. He advised that Dean Lynn Videka led a discussion at the meeting on integrating global study into professional school curricula. He noted that Deans Videka and Schall will lead a small group of professional school deans to discuss this matter and, if appropriate, to bring recommendations back to the Deans Council. Dr. Bertolami related that Dean Tom Carew led a discussion at the meeting on global hiring and faculty appointments, which included updating the Council on efforts to assure that relevant parties at the portal campuses are consistent regarding employment offers to new and existing NYU faculty. Dr. Bertolami advised that Dean Carol Mandel provided a brief update on the University Space Priorities Working Group at the meeting. Faculty Senators Council Dr. Ted Magder, Chair of the Faculty Senators Council (FSC), related that over the summer the FSC reviewed and commented on a new Intellectual Property Policy and a new Conflict of Interest Policy for Faculty, both of which were approved by the Board of Trustees in late June. He noted that the FSC is completing its review of a proposal from the School of Medicine to create non-tenure track lines for library faculty in the School of Medicine, and is working with the administration to clarify the procedures for making revisions and amendments to the Faculty Handbook. He advised that Faculty senators also met with Matthew Santirocco, Senior Vice President for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, to discuss the FSC’s recommendation to make all course evaluations available to students. Dr. Madger concluded by reporting that the FSC urges the administration to involve faculty in its strategic overview of on-line education.

Minutes, University Senate October 4, 2012 Student Senators Council SSC Chair Malina Webb advised that the SSC and the University Committee on Student Life (UCSL) met on September 27, at which Diane Yu, Chief of Staff and Deputy to the President, and Lynne Brown, Senior Vice President for University Relations and Public Affairs, presented on the NYU Core Plan. Ms. Webb noted that this year the SSC will focus on educating the student body about University initiatives and looks forward to the inclusion of NYU Abu Dhabi’s senator at the next SSC meeting. She advised that the next UCSL meeting is scheduled for October 25, at which Linda Mills, Vice Chancellor for Global Programs and University Life, and Nancy Morrison, Vice President for Global Programs, will present on the Global Network University.

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT Dr. Sexton referred to the memorandum that was circulated to each Senator, and is attached to these minutes as Exhibit E, outlining some of the individual and collective achievements at the University since the Senate’s last meeting.

PRESIDENT’S QUESTION TIME Dr. Sexton responded to the FSC’s question about the University Space Priorities Working Group, which will work on fulfillment of the University’s space needs. The Working Group includes members appointed by the deans as well as each of the Senate councils (FSC, SSC and AMC) and Robert Berne, Executive Vice President for Health, and Diane Yu, Chief of Staff and Deputy to the President, will represent the administration. He noted that the Working Group will determine processes but he hopes that the group will be as transparent as possible. On the substantive matter before the group, Dr. Sexton advised that the University has considerable immediate space needs in its core area for which it will rent space on a temporary basis. It will be these and other pressing space needs in the core area that the Working Group will address. Answering a question on the cost of the Core Project, Dr. Sexton stated that the Working Group will have all of the relevant financial information. But, he noted that the question of the cost and financing is a highly complex one, turning on the nature and quantity of the space need that is met. For example classroom space for existing programs is a cost that must be borne fully, since we do not have plans to increase the size of existing programs as a general matter; classroom space for a new program is paid for by the introduction of additional students; lab space is paid for in part by grants; dorm space is amortized over time and paid for by the rents; and, of course, philanthropy alleviates costs. He stated that current interest rates are very low, making it a good time to engage in building projects, rather than to continue to rent space. He advised that since 2001, the University has engaged in a strategic plan to move from

Minutes, University Senate October 4, 2012 rented space into University-owned properties, resulting in more financial certainty and significant, long-term savings (as much as $600 million). He explained that because the Core Plan involves building on land that is already owned by the University, there are significant savings compared to expanding on property that would have to be purchased by the University before it could even build. Dr. Sexton noted that one of the Working Groups priorities will be to educate the community about the business plan. In response to the FSC’s question about its survey of faculty regarding the Core Plan, Dr. Sexton noted that – after a year-long community-wide survey – both the Senate and the Board in 2007 approved the Strategic Framework – the strategic academic plan for the University – which underscored the need for space to maintain academic progress. On the Core Project itself, there were 12 presentations to the Senate and its committees over the last five years. He expressed his hope that the faculty and the administration can continue to open a dialogue on how best to now implement the “spatial endowment” of the Core Project; to work together to better understand the options under the Plan; and to provide guidance on how best we may develop within the space or zoning envelope we have now been given. Dr. Sexton noted that – as universities have become ever more complex – the imperative of conducting a meaningful dialogue among stakeholders has become increasingly challenging. He remarked that – whatever one thinks of the Core Project on its merits – it is illustrative to acknowledge that much work was put into communicating with the NYU community and, still, many felt unconnected and left out. Dr. Sexton suggested that the lesson is that the present practices and vehicles for meaningful consultation are not robust enough. Given the increasing complexity of NYU (as well as other institutions), the question before us is: How can we communicate and engage with all constituencies better? Dr. Sexton has asked Diane Yu and others in his administration to initiate a dialogue with the FSC – as well as other entities – to seek new ways to improve NYU’s governance practices and institutions. Dr. Sexton responded to the FSC’s question about attempts by other universities to replicate the Global Network University, noting that both Duke University and Yale University have sought to emulate the GNU and that the globalization of higher education is a hot topic. He reported that in most provinces in China, NYU is the most searched university on the internet according to the College Board. In response to the AMC’s question about the increase in income inequality in the United States and its effect on administrator salaries, Dr. Sexton related that since 2004, the ratio of the lowest decile of administrator salaries compared to the top decile has been 1 to 4. He stated that he expects this ratio will continue to remain consistent. Dr. Sexton responded to the AMC’s question about improvements to administrative structures and whether or not these improvements include restructuring of administrative offices, new hires, or another reengineering initiative. He stated that another reengineering is probably not an option and that improvements are being made to better integrate offices and improve research, compliance, health services, human resources, family relocation services, visa application assistance, guidance on tax

Minutes, University Senate October 4, 2012 issues, and other areas to improve the faculty and student experience throughout the GNU. Dr. Sexton also noted that funds allocated to the GNU are not restricted and, as so many University offices contribute to GNU functions, these funds may be used at any of the portal sites, including at Washington Square. In response to the AMC’s question about NYU’s global corporate structure, Dr. Sexton related that there will not be any changes in the corporate structure. He noted that difficulties can occur due to cultural and other differences and that University processes must be more consultative across the GNU. For example, in Abu Dhabi, the work week starts on Sunday and their weekend is on Friday and Saturday, or in China, which is 12 hours ahead of New York. Dr. Sexton responded to the AMC’s question about how the University will continue to ensure access for all given the cost of higher education, stating that this issue is paramount for him. He related that 20% of NYU students receive Pell Grants, a measure of the most needy students, not including NYU-Poly, where 30% of students come from families living below the poverty line. Dr. Sexton emphasized that financial aid has been and will remain a top fundraising priority. Dr. Sexton replied to the SSC’s question, submitted on behalf of the Student Labor Action Movement, about the recent strike by union workers employed by HealthBridge Management, a company co-owned by Daniel E. Straus, a law school alumnus and a Law School Foundation trustee who endows the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice at the law school. He noted that the matter is hotly contested and currently before the National Labor Relations Board. Dr. Sexton emphasized that the rights of students to protest peacefully and legally is a critical value of this University. In response to the SSC’s question about international student integration, Dr. Sexton asked Marc Wais, Vice President for Global Student Affairs, to send the Senate an outline of what the University is doing to welcome international students and prepare students for study abroad, which is attached to these minutes as Exhibit E. There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:35 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Bonnie Brier Secretary

Necrology, 2011-2012

NAME TITLE AFFILIATION DATE OF DEATH

Hector R. Anton

Professor Emeritus of Accounting and Former

Director of the Vincent C. Ross Center of Accounting

Leonard N. Stern School of Business 11/22/2011

Robert Bailey Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor Emeritus of Music Faculty of Arts and Science 7/6/2012

Lauren Beam Head Women’s Swimming Coach Department of Athletics 9/10/2011

Derrick A. Bell Visiting Professor of Law School of Law 10/5/2011

Sandy Berger Assistant to the DeanSteinhardt School of

Culture, Education, and Human Development

8/8/2012

Richard J. Blood Former Clinical Associate Professor of Journalism Faculty of Arts and Science 2/17/2012

Karen BradleyFormer Assistant Vice President for Human

Resources

Office of the Executive Vice President 12/31/2011

Goodwin M. Breinin Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology School of Medicine 12/14/2011

Anna Teresa CallenFormer Adjunct Assistant

Professor, Center for Global Affairs

School of Continuing and Professional Studies 6/4/2012

Minutes/University Senate October 4, 2012 Exhibit A



Marvin Carmen Former Clinical Professor of Prosthodontics

David B. Kriser Dental Center 7/28/2012

Robert L. Carter Adjunct Professor of Law School of Law 1/3/2012

Massimiliano Chiamenti Adjunct Professor NYU in Florence 9/5/2011

Liviu CiuleiFormer Master Teacher of

Acting and Artist-in-Residence

Tisch School of the Arts 10/25/2011

Daniel E. Diamond

Dean Emeritus, Stern Undergraduate College and Vice Dean, Stern School of

Business (1985-1995); Professor Emeritus of

Economics


Paula L. Ettelbrick Adjunct Professor of Law School of Law 10/7/2011

Aaron Feinsot Former Divisional Dean,

Professional and Industry Programs


Dana Feldman Master of Laws Student School of Law 1/3/2012

Marcella FrankProfessor Emerita of English as a Second

Language





Dinu Ghezzo

Professor Emeritus of Music and Music Education,

Former Conductor of the NYU Orchestra; Founder

and Co-Director, NYU Contemporary Players

Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

12/10/2011

Raymond Goldfinger Director of Management and Fiscal Affairs


Lynn Gordon Former Visiting Associate Professor


2/9/2012

Walter W. Haines Professor Emeritus of Economics Faculty of Arts and Science 5/6/2012

H. William Harris Professor of Medicine School of Medicine 12/19/2011

Richard HelmanAdjunct Associate

Professor, Schack Institute of Real Estate


Davis Inghram Undergraduate Student Tisch School of the Arts 2/4/2012

Holleh Javidan Law Student School of Law 4/19/2012

John D. Johnston, Jr. Former Professor of Law School of Law 12/18/2011

Ralph Kaminsky Professor Emeritus of Public Administration

Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service 1/15/2012




Louise J. Kaplan Former Associate Professor of Psychology Faculty of Arts and Science 1/9/2012

Helen F. Keane Former Associate Professor of Retail Management


9/25/2011

Patricia Livingston

Former Chair, Department of Rehabilitation

Counseling, and Professor Emerita of Rehabilitation

Counseling


7/10/2012

D. Jacqueline Lopez Former Adjunct Associate Professor


2/7/2012

Michael Macari

Professor of Radiology and Surgery; Vice Chair of

Operations, Department of Radiology

School of Medicine 7/27/2012

Joseph A. Mauriello Former Professor of Accounting


William F. May Former Dean Leonard N. Stern School of Business 9/21/2011

Michael H. Nash Associate Curator and Director, Tamiment Library Division of Libraries 7/24/2012




Evdokia Nikolaidou Adjunct Assistant Professor of Foreign Language


Kenneth G. Noble Former Associate Professor of Ophthalmology School of Medicine 12/11/2011

Dermot John O’Brien

Associate Director, Academic Support in the CAS Advising Center and

Adjunct Assistant Professor in GSAS

Faculty of Arts and Science 3/3/2012

Martin Pakledinaz Adjunct Teacher, Design Tisch School of the Arts 7/8/2012

Ankit A. Patel MBA Student Leonard N. Stern School of Business 2/20/2012

Michael Perelstein Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance


Sylvia Perez-Spiess Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatric Dentistry


Sara Pessa Undergraduate Student Tisch School of the Arts 6/9/2011

Samuel Pierre Graduate Student Silver School of Social Work 5/31/2012




Bertha Rader

Former Associate Professor of Medicine; Former Chief of the Thursday night Cardiac

Clinic

School of Medicine 10/11/2011

Thomas Bingham Ray Adjunct Instructor Tisch School of the Arts 1/23/2012

Gene Redondo Former Director of Student Housing Facilities

Department of Student Housing 7/8/2012

Antonio Regalado Professor Emeritus of Spanish Faculty of Arts and Science 6/5/2012

Frank J. Remy, Jr.

Former Assistant Professor of Prosthodontic and

Comprehensive Care & Practice Administration


Clive Robbins

Founder/Director, Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy; Adjunct Clinical

Professor of Music & Music Education


12/7/2011

Sheldon J. RossClinical Professor

Periodontal and Implant Dentistry


Carl Peter Schmidt Former Professor of English Education


7/1/2012




Patricia C. Sexton Former Professor of Sociology Faculty of Arts and Science 8/11/2012

Phyllis A. Slott

Educational Coordinator, Basic Science &

Craniofacial Biology and Adjunct Assistant Professor,

Basic Science & Craniofacial Biology


George C. Stoney Paulette Goddard Professor Emeritus of Film Tisch School of the Arts 7/12/2012

Harry I. Subin Professor Emeritus of Law School of Law 9/4/2011

Lori R. Suser Clinical Instructor, Cariology and Comprehensive Care


Norma Thompson Professor Emerita of Religious Education


1/15/2012




A. Richard Turner

Director Emeritus of the Institute of Fine Arts (1979-

1982); Chairman of the Department of Art History,

College of Arts and Science; Paulette Goddard Professor

Emeritus of Arts & Humanities; Former Dean of

the Faculty of Arts and Science

Faculty of Arts and Science & Institute of Fine Arts 9/9/2011

Andrew Walsh

Former Senior Director, Business Systems

Integration Research and Application Development

Office of Budget and Planning 7/2/2012

Laura E. Wilson

Adjunct Instructor of Music and Music Education;

Former Associate Director of SCPS

Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development &

School of Continuing and Professional Studies

6/12/2012

Leland Wright Adjunct Instructor of Foreign Languages


Ilya Zhitomirskiy Undergraduate Student College of Arts and Science 11/14/2011


New York University University Senate

Senate Officers, 2012-2013

John Sexton President Ted Magder Vice President Bonnie Brier Secretary

Minutes/University Senate October 4, 2012 Exhibit B

COMPOSITION OF SENATE COMMITTEES FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2012-2013

(Names of Alternate Senators Appear in ITALICS; Changes are in BOLD.) COMMITTEES STUDENTS FACULTY AMC DEANS UNIV ADMIN

Academic Affairs Acevedo Bell* Puno

Anton* Cappell McIlwain Van Devanter

Ashton

Carew Wofford

Chamberlin Raver Yu** (for Sexton)

Executive Webb Magder Vogelsang

Bertolami Brier** Sexton*

Financial Affairs Beshay Blay Gent Plaut Powder

Gale Hutchins Karl Ludomirsky Monaco Uleman

DeSantis Kenigsberg

Revesz Starr

Berne*** Dorph** Jiga Wais** (for Mills) Sexton*, **

Organization and Governance

Ehrari Lee Totaro Webb

Harrington Jelinek* Jones Magder Nolan

Dwyer Grachan

Mandel Schwarzbach

Brier ** Chamberlin Yu ** (for Sexton)

Public Affairs Boyd Simpson Thakkar

Alter Ling Tannenbaum Tuzhilin

Drew Fry

Witt Wolff

Brown** (for Sexton) Chamberlin Kail

University Judicial Board

Cooper Dettloff Nwanko Porsha Pruesse-Adams Sajjadi

Costello Jones Ling Raiken Sternhell Sundaram

DePena Harriot West Vintinner

Abramson Benton Brabeck Campbell Schall Videka

Chamberlin** (for Sexton)

*Chair **ex-officio ***Advisor Last Revised: 10/8/12

Minutes/University Senate October 4, 2012 Exhibit C

NYU University Senate

Meeting Dates 2012-2013

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Tuesday, November 27, 2012 (Formerly November 29—

requires Senate approval at October 4 meeting)

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Thursday, April 18, 2013

NOTE: All meetings are scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. in the Colloquium Room, #566, of the Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life

Minutes/University Senate October 4, 2012 Exhibit D

Office of the President

UPDATES FROM PRESIDENT JOHN SEXTON

University Senate Meeting Thursday, October 4, 2012

As we begin the new academic year, I am pleased to update you on news and share announcements of multiple honors and grants since we last convened in May. NEWS In July, the City Council approved NYU’s proposals for the superblocks south of Washington Square by a 44-1 vote, bringing the public approvals process to a conclusion. The approved plan, the culmination of over five years of planning and hundreds of hours of meetings with our NYU and external communities, enables NYU to build on its own property to create academic space to fulfill its teaching and research missions over the next two decades while taking account of the concerns of our neighbors about NYU further spreading its footprint in Greenwich Village. At the same time, we have heard the reservations and skepticism about our proposals raised by a significant number of voices within the NYU community, particularly the faculty. As I reported at the May meeting of the Senate, a University Space Priorities Working Group – composed principally of faculty, as well as students and administrators, from across the university – will convene this semester; the working group will advise the University on the best ways to fulfill our academic space planning at the Core and city-wide. No construction on the superblocks will proceed until their report – which is expected in May 2013 – is finished. In September, NYU officially opened the Constance Milstein and Family Global Academic Center in Washington, DC – a 75,000 sq. ft. facility which will serve as the home of our newest study-away site. Located blocks away from the White House, the Center includes state-of-the-art classrooms, will ultimately house 120 students per semester, provide living and work space for faculty, serve as a center for local alumni, and host events in its 140-seat auditorium. The addition of Washington, DC, to our global network – now numbering 14 sites – enables NYU students the unrivaled opportunity to study government, policy-making, international relations, and national security close-up and in real time. This fall also marks the inaugural semester of classes at NYU Sydney, adding a sixth continent to our global network. Housed in a historic building in a central area of the city, NYU Sydney will offer a curriculum focused on anthropology (including Australia’s Aborigine cultures and rich history of immigrant communities), English, environmental studies, journalism, and communications. Cheryl G. Healton has been appointed as the inaugural Director of the Global Institute of Public Health and Dean of Global Public Health. In this capacity she will be responsible for building the Institute’s academic, service and research programs and will work to shape the Institute’s focus on domestic and international health issues with an emphasis on prevention, systems intervention and innovation in public health practice. Most recently she has served as the president and CEO of the American Legacy Foundation, an independent public health foundation which was created through the Master Settlement Agreement between the tobacco industry and the states’ attorneys generals to reduce tobacco use. Dr. Healton has served on the faculty at Columbia University’s School of Public Health, Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Georgetown University’s School of Nursing. Her academic appointment will be in the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Minutes/University Senate October 4, 2012 Exhibit E

FACULTY HONORS Danny Strong, adjunct faculty in the Undergraduate Film & Television Division of the Kanbar Institute at the Tisch School of the Arts, won a 2012 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries or Movie for the HBO film Game Change. The film won a total of five Emmys in all, including Outstanding Miniseries or Movie. In addition, 17 TSOA alumni (noted in the Alumni Honors section below) won 2012 Emmys, and 63 members of the TSOA community received nominations. Six faculty members have been awarded 2011 Guggenheim Fellowships, awarded for demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts:

• Shimon Dotan, Adjunct Associate Professor, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Alice Elliott, associate teacher in the Kanbar Institute of Film, Television, and Media, TSOA • Bruce Grant, Professor of Anthropology, FAS • Stephen Hall, Adjunct Professor, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, FAS • James Jacobs, Warren E. Burger Professor of Law, School of Law • Richard Sieburth, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, FAS

Mary McKay, the McSilver Professor of Poverty Studies and director of the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at the Silver School of Social Work, has been selected as a fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. Professor McKay, an internationally renowned specialist on families in poverty and positive youth development, joined SSSW in 2011. Mary Carruthers, professor emerita of English, has been named a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Only 15 scholars per year are elected as Corresponding Fellows, scholars outside the UK who have “attained high international standing” in the humanities or social sciences. Professor Carruthers’s areas of research are medieval literature and rhetoric, memory and mnemonic technique, and the history of spirituality. Clifford Jolly, professor emeritus of Anthropology, has received the 2012 Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes and honors distinguished senior members of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Professor Jolly, who has been at NYU for more than four decades, has conducted pioneering research on the evolution and genetics of baboons. Ted Rappaport, the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor of Electrical Engineering at NYU-Poly, has been chosen the 2012 recipient of the William E. Sayle Award for Achievement in Education by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Education Society. The award is presented annually to an IEEE Education Society member who has made significant contributions in engineering education. Professor Rappaport is the founding director of NYU WIRELESS, a new research center that combines engineering, computer science, and medical applications, and also holds faculty positions in the Department of Computer Science at the Courant Institute and in the Department of Radiology in the School of Medicine. NYU-Poly’s Robert Ubell has received the A. Frank Mayadas Leadership Award in Online Education from The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), the country’s most prominent association of academic institutions championing online higher education. Ubell is vice president of Enterprise Learning at NYU-Poly, which in November won Sloan-C’s award for the nation’s “Outstanding Online Program” for its e-learning cyber security master’s degree, and also leads NYU-Poly’s e-learning unit, delivering nearly 20 online graduate science and technology programs worldwide.


William Easterly, professor in the Department of Economics and co-director of the Development Research Institute, has won the 2013 Adam Smith Award for his research into the role of government and foreign aid in addressing poverty and underdevelopment. The highest honor bestowed by the Association of Private Enterprise Education, the award recognizes an individual who has made a lasting contribution to the perpetuation of the ideals of a free market economy. The New York Academy of Sciences has selected two NYU researchers for its 2012 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists: Assaf Naor, professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and Robert Johnston, postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Biology Professor Claude Desplan. The awards recognize innovative, impactful, and interdisciplinary accomplishments of researchers under the age of 42. The four faculty winners, who receive $25,000, and the five postdoctoral winners, who receive $15,000, were selected from more than 170 nominations. Elliot Wolfson, the Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, has won an American Academy of Religion Award for his 2011 work, A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination. In his book, recognized in the category of “Constructive-Reflective Studies,” Professor Wolfson proposes a linguistic archaeology to elucidate the nature of the dream in an array of biblical, rabbinic, philosophical, and kabbalistic texts. Cybele Raver, Vice Provost of Academic, Faculty, and Research Affairs and professor of applied psychology at Steinhardt, received the American Psychological Association’s 2012 Distinguished Contributions of Applications to Education and Training Award. The award recognizes Professor Raver’s contributions in the application of psychological principles to the study of developmental science. Tessa West, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, has been named the recipient of the 2012 Theoretical Innovation Prize, given by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. She shares the prize with the University of Connecticut’s David Kenny for an article they co-authored in 2011, “The Truth and Bias Model of Judgment.” Mary Leou, Clinical Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning and director of Steinhardt’s Wallerstein Collaborative for Urban Environmental Education, was one of 24 winners of the Audubon Society’s “Women Greening the City” award. Professor Leou, recognized for “tirelessly transforming and greening the physical landscape of New York City’s urban habitat,” oversees initiatives in environmental education that serve New York City public school children. Niyati Parekh, an assistant professor at Steinhardt’s Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, has been named a Cancer Society Research Scholar by the American Cancer Society. The lifetime designation recognizes the contributions that Parekh, a nutritional epidemiologist, has made on behalf of cancer research. STUDENT HONORS This spring, four NYU Abu Dhabi sophomores, along with an NYU alumnus, won the top prize at the finals of the Hult Global Case Challenge for their solution to providing solar lighting to one million homes in Africa by 2013. The NYUAD team -- Madhav Vaidyanathan, Songyishu Yang, Muhammad Awais Islam, Gary Chien, and Abu Dhabi-based alumnus Neil Parmar – was one of three winners from an initial field of 4,000 participating teams, and was the sole finalist in the “energy” track of the competition that did not include any graduate students. Sponsored by Hult Business School in partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative and the Innovation, Excellence and Leadership Center, the competition provides a $1 million award to partner organizations to implement the ideas of the winning teams.


Since the May Senate meeting, the U.S. Department of State announced an additional NYU student who was awarded a Fulbright grant: Nisha Giridhar (CAS ’12) will study urban planning and development in Ethiopia. Hollian Wint, a GSAS doctoral student, was also named a Fulbright Alternate. Mary J. Murphy (TSOA ’12) was one of only 15 recipients nationwide of the Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Arts Award. The award provides up to $50,000 per year for up to three years of graduate or professional study in the visual arts, performing arts, or creative writing. Two master’s students in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies have won the Boren Fellowship. Funded by the National Security Education Program, the fellowship provides graduate students with up to $30,000 to add an international and language component to their graduate studies. Katherine Edgar received a fellowship to study in Kazakhstan, and Kody Emmanuel will be a fellow in Senegal. In addition, Timothy Hampshire (CAS ’14) was named an alternate for the Boren Scholarship, which provides undergraduate students with up to $20,000 to fund study abroad. Fifteen NYU undergraduates have been named Fellows by the organization New York Needs You (NYNY), which provides mentorship and advisement to first-generation college students. Our recipients this year are: Giovanni Barcenes (CAS ‘14), Philip Chan (Stern ‘14), Donato Cruz (CAS ‘15), Jesslyn Guntur (CAS ‘15), Andrea Gutierrez (CAS ’15), Doris Hu (Stern ’14), Themasap Khan (CAS ’15), Fanny Mei (GLS ’15), Casandra Pinamonti (Stern ’14), Victoria Salazar (GLS ’15), Dupinder Singh (Stern ’14), Mariam Tunkara (Nursing ’15), Vanessa Wang (CAS ’15), Yiyi Zhang (Stern ’14), and Stephanie Zhou (GLS ‘15). Seven NYU undergraduates have received Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships, which are funded by the State Department and support study abroad. The recipients are: Sarah Aly (CAS ’14), Natasha Babazadeh (GLS ’14), Wennie Chin (CAS ’14), Stephan Giordani (Stern ’15), Sabeeh Jameel (CAS ’14), Natalia Lassalle (Tisch ’13), and Deria Matthews (Gallatin ’14). Dom Fera, a sophomore in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts, won the jury award for Best Short Film at the 2012 National Film Festival for Talented Youth. Dom wrote, directed, and plays the lead in his film The End, which also won the Audience Favorite Award in the festival’s Centerpiece Shorts screening. James Walsh (CAS ’13) has been awarded a $5,000 scholarship from the Thornton Tomasetti Foundation which recognizes engineering and architecture students who display extraordinary achievement in engineering, design, and technology. James is an art history major in the College’s Urban Design and Architecture Studies program. The foundation also awarded a $5,000 to Zain Ahmad, a civil engineering major at NYU-Poly. Charles Agoos (Law ’13) and Laura Reznick (Law ’13) have received Peggy Browning Fellowships to fund public interest labor law work this summer. Charles and Laura were among 70 selected from more than 500 applicants representing 125 law schools nationwide. A team of undergraduate students from the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in TSOA has taken second place in the Fantastic Scholastic 8 Recording Competition. The students are: Jacob Blumberg (’12), Spencer Doren (’13), Phoebe Ryan (’13), Vaughn Sulit (’12), and Damian Wiesman (’13). Sponsored by the microphone and electronics manufacturer Shure Incorporated, the competition required each team to submit a recording of a live ensemble.


ALUMNI HONORS Seventeen TSOA alumni were winners at the 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards and the Creative Arts Emmy Awards:

• Paul Corrigan ’94 (Writer, Producer), Brad Walsh ’94 (Writer, Producer), and Bill Wrubel ‘94 (Writer, Producer) Outstanding Comedy Series for Modern Family

• Amy Sayres ’76 (Producer), Outstanding Miniseries or Movie, Producer for Game Change • Steve Bodow ’95 (Supervising Producer, Co-Executive Producer), Lauren Sarver ’04

(Associate Segment Producer, Segment Producer), and Brennan Shroff ’00 (Producer), Outstanding Variety Series for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

• Allen Kelman ’77 (Line Producer), Outstanding Special Class Programs for 65th Annual Tony Awards

• Jonathan Stern ’89 (Executive Producer) and David Wain ’91 (Executive Producer), Outstanding Special Class: Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Programs for Children’s Hospital

• Steve Bodow ‘95 and Elliott Kalan ‘03, Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

• Martin Scorcese ‘64/’68/Hon. ’91, Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming for George Harrison: Living in the Material World

• Jennifer Euston ’97, Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series for Girls • Jordon Goldman ’93, Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for A Drama Series for

Homeland – Pilot • David Javerbaum ’95 (Lyrics), Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for 65th Annual Tony

Awards – Song Title: It’s Not Just For Gays Anymore • Richard Friedlander ’82, Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Supporting Role for

Boardwalk Empire – Georgia Peaches • Barry Frischer ’72 (Camera), Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for

a Series for “Saturday Night Live – Host: Mick Jagger” and Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Miniseries, Movie, or A Special for Memphis (Great Performances)

Keiko Wright (TSOA ’11) received a Gold Medal at the 39th Student Academy Awards for her documentary Hiro: A Story of Japanese Internment. Keiko was one of ten students honored by the Academy this year with either a gold, silver, or bronze medal. Two 2007 School of Law alumni, Candice Jones and Jason Washington, are among the 15 White House Fellows selected for the elite fellowship program’s 2012-13 class. Typically, as many as 1,000 applicants vie each year for fellowships, which allow promising public service leaders “first-hand, high-level experience with the workings of federal government.” Candice, the executive director of the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission, will be a White House Fellow within the Department of Education. Jason, a senior policy advisor to the mayor of Baltimore, will work in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. GRANTS Joyce Anastasi, the Independence Foundation Endowed Professor at the College of Nursing, has been awarded a four-year, $2.5 million grant to study irritable bowel syndrome symptom management. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the study will investigate the efficacy of Acupuncture/Moxibustion, used in traditional Chinese medicine, in reducing abdominal pain and secondary symptoms.


Diana Sidtis, professor of communicative sciences and disorders at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and John Sidtis, research professor in the department of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, have been awarded a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. They will continue their research into the effect of deep brain stimulation on speech difficulties among Parkinson’s Disease patients. Robert Teranishi, co-director for the Institute for Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings and associate professor of higher education at Steinhardt, has received a three-year, nearly $2 million grant to support the Partnership for Equity in Education through Research project to help realize the full degree-earning potential of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) student population. Funded by the Kresge Foundation, USA Funds, and the Walmart Foundation, the award is believed to be one of the largest investments in history to increase AAPI student success.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a team from NYU-Poly an $800,000 grant, matched by $1.2 million from corporate backers and the Empire State Development Division of Science, Technology & Innovation. Led by Shivendra Panwar, director of NYU-Poly’s Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications and professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Ted Rappaport, director of NYU WIRELESS and the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor of Electrical Engineering, the team will work to develop 5G cellular networks that could potentially increase cell phone capacity by more than 1,000 times. The College of Dentistry has been selected as one of five institutions that are sharing a $20.7 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to find new ways to diagnose and fight periodontal disease. As the recipient of a $1.8 million subcontract, the College of Dentistry team, led by Patricia Corby, assistant professor of periodontology and implant dentistry, will screen research subjects and collect biological samples. Professor Helen Nissenbaum of Steinhardt’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, has received $1.6 million to serve as NYU’s lead researcher in the new Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing, devoted to studying the relationship between information technology and society. NYU is one of four partnering institutions of the center, which is based at the University of California at Irvine. Steinhardt professor Erica Robles-Anderson will collaborate with Professor Nissenbaum on the initiative. Steinhardt’s James Macinko, associate professor of public health and health policy, and Diana Silver, assistant professor of public health, have been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to investigate the effects of U.S. state policies on reducing traffic-related deaths and injuries in the U.S.


Freshman Admissions ProfileFall 2012

Percent of Goal MetDemographic Information

NYU Washington SquareFreshman ProfileClass of 2016Fall Only

Standardized Test Scores

Fall 2012 Admissions StatisticsFall 2012New Freshmen 4,935Fall 2012 Entering Freshman Class

Fall 2012 Fall 2012GoalNew Freshmen 4,7574,935 % of GoalMet104%Number PercentFemaleMaleGrand Total 100%40%

60%4,9351,9792,956

Gender

American Indian or Alaska NativeAsianBlack or African AmericanHispanic of any raceNative Hawaiian/Pacific IslanderRace and ethnicity unknownTwo or more racesWhiteGrand Total 100%41%4%11%0%11%4%29%0%

4,9352,03219955615261941,4189

Ethnicity

NYC - 5 BoroughsSeventeen Metro CountiesOther USAInternationalGrand Total 100%16%56%19%9%

4,9357772,778937443Geographic Origin

DomesticInternationalGrand Total 100%16%84%

4,9357774,158International

First Generation 18%867First Generation

42,504Applicants 14,707Admits 4,935RegistrantsAdmit Rate Yield RateFall 2012 33%35%

Applicants Admits Registrants25th Percentile50th Percentile75th Percentile 215020401930222021202000

208019401760SAT Quartile ScoresCombined Math, Critical Reading, and Writing

25th Percentile50th Percentile75th Percentile 143013501270148014101320

139012901170Combined Math and Critical Reading


760710660

720660590Math


740690650

690620560Critical Reading


750710660

700650580Writing


333129

312826ACT Quartile Scores

25th Percentile50th Percentile75th Percentile 3.83.63.4

3.93.83.6

3.83.73.4H.S. GPA

Freshman Admissions ProfileFall 2012

Demographic Information

NYU Abu DhabiFreshman ProfileClass of 2016Fall Only

Standardized Test Scores

Fall 2012 Admissions StatisticsNew Freshmen 150Fall 2012 Entering Freshman Class

Number PercentFemaleMaleGrand Total 100%44%56%

1506684

Gender

Number PercentNYC - 5 BoroughsSeventeen Metro CountiesOther USAInternationalGrand Total 100%83%14%1%3%

1501242114

Geographic Origin

Number PercentDomestic (U.S. Citizen)InternationalGrand Total 100%83%17%

15012426

International

Number PercentFirst Generation 29%43First Generation

15,520Applicants 208Admits 150RegistrantsAdmit Rate Yield RateFall 2012 73%1%

Registrants25th Percentile50th Percentile75th Percentile 228821602093SAT Quartile ScoresCombined Math, Critical Reading, and Writing

25th Percentile50th Percentile75th Percentile 152014601420Combined Math and Critical Reading

25th Percentile50th Percentile75th Percentile 790760720Math

25th Percentile50th Percentile75th Percentile 775715670Critical Reading

25th Percentile50th Percentile75th Percentile 760700670Writing

Number PercentAsianBlack or African AmericanHispanic of any raceRace and ethnicity unknownTwo or more racesWhiteGrand Total 100%44%4%11%8%11%22%

15066616121733

Ethnicity

1

M E M O R A N D U M To: Members of the University Senate From: NYU President John Sexton and Vice President for Student Affairs Marc Wais Date: October 5, 2012 Re: University Senate President’s Questions – Response to SSC Item #2

Dear All, The Student Senators Council posed the following question for President Sexton at the October 4, 2012 Meeting of the University Senate: With the visible/projected increase in the international student population, what are the plans for international student integration? Though there is much diversity at NYU, this diversity and global integration of the student body is not happening in practice at the levels they should be. Despite the various programs that exist throughout the University through CSALS and CMEP, there still exists a lack of interaction between domestic and international students. Are there robust expansion plans for the Office of International Students and Scholars and other departments at the University? Are there thoughts on more integrative programs and initiatives?

The following activities have already taken place, are currently in progress, and/or are already planned to take place this semester:

all 350+ Welcome Week activities were promoted and encouraged integration between international students and others, with 35 new additional programs designed explicitly to support international students' transition to NYU;

supporting a new emphasis by Faculty Fellows in Residence to provide programming that encourages cross-cultural engagement, including: bilingual theater experiences, group reading programs between NY and AD, the "Faith Matters" series (partnering with the Center for Spiritual Life), exploring children's television experiences globally - looking at Sesame Street's programs throughout the world, a "Tuneful Tuesdays" series in which students share world music, visits to truly multinational institutions and companies based in New York City (such as Google), and series of programs modeled after TED talks and focusing on global culture.

expanding and enhancing the Residential International Student Engagement (RISE) program in the residence halls, whose mission includes bringing international and U.S. students together for programming experiences;

created a zero credit pre-departure course for the spring (offered through Social Work) for students going on study away to increase their own cross cultural engagement experiences;


2

heavily promoting programs that focus on international experiences in New York City, such as Explore New York, Explore the World;

continuing to offer English Conversation Groups aimed at graduate students, encouraging international and native English-speaking students to gather and chat on a weekly basis;

offering multiple, on-going programs focused on career planning and preparation for students aiming to work in a country other than their country of origin;

assisting students with best positioning their experience with Study Away into their job search and interviewing process;

created a new position of Assistant Vice President for Outreach and Engagement (Allen McFarlane), who is meeting with every new undergraduate international student this semester. We are quickly gathering valuable student feedback and will use this information to guide us in our planning for new initiatives designed to foster integration. Allen is also serving as an invaluable resource to new international students.

Additionally, we continue to plan and refine new initiatives to be introduced in the near future, including:

moving to a freshmen housing model in September of 2013 based on geographic diversity -- freshmen will be intentionally assigned roommates from different geographic locations; training on cross-cultural competencies will be included in staff and RA training, with a new emphasis on cross-cultural conflict resolution;

facilitating micro version of Intergroup Dialogues (IGD) to take place in 1st year residence halls during Welcome Week to support freshmen engaging in cross-cultural interaction;

identifying even more opportunities for students to participate in alternative break programs, particularly those that can be linked with NYU Study Away sites;

creating stronger links between international students and student clubs and organizations associated with cultural heritage;

creating a photo/video campaign enabling students to "tell their story" of cross-cultural experience;

organizing a student leader retreat around issues of cross-cultural interaction and diversity;

providing student grant funding for student-initiated proposals to promote cross- and inter-cultural interaction.

increasing efforts to identify, train, and support student leaders from freshmen students of color, international, and 1st generation college student populations;


3

consider developing and implementing a mandatory freshmen seminar designed to prepare students for success in and out of the classroom within the context of the GNU.

Moreover, it is very important that the community understand the role of the Office for International Students and Scholars. While the office is expanding, due to the increasingly complex and critical immigration and visa laws and regulations, the majority (95%) of its time, staffing and resources is dedicated to providing immigration support and federal compliance. These aforementioned initiatives implemented by Student Affairs will complement any related activity generated by the faculty.


minutes of a stated meeting of the senate of new york university octo

Documents