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[[Image:Albert Gallatin 3.JPG|thumb|left|Albert Gallatin]]
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A group of prominent [[New York City]] residents – the city's landed class of merchants, bankers, and traders – established NYU on April 18, 1831. These New Yorkers believed the city needed a university designed for young men who would be admitted based on merit, not birthright or social class. [[Albert Gallatin]], Secretary of Treasury under [[Thomas Jefferson]], is cited as the founder. NYU was created [[non-denominational]], unlike many American colonial colleges at the time.
A group of prominent [[New York City]] residents – the city's landed class of merchants, bankers, and traders – established NYU on April 18, 1831. These New Yorkers believed the city needed a university designed for young men who would be admitted based on merit, not birthright or social class. [[Albert Gallatin]], Secretary of Treasury under [[Thomas Jefferson]], is cited as the founder. NYU was created [[non-denominational]], unlike many American colonial colleges at the time.<ref>{{cite web | title = 175 Facts About NYU | work = | publisher = New York University Archives | url = http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/arch/thenandnow/ | accessdate = 2007-07-17}}</ref>


[[Image:Nyuheights.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The University Heights campus, now home to the [[Bronx Community College]].]]
[[Image:Nyuheights.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The University Heights campus, now home to the [[Bronx Community College]].]]

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New York University
File:Nyuseal.gif
MottoPerstare et praestare (Latin for "To persevere and to excel")
TypePrivate
Established1831
Endowment$2.5 billion[1]
PresidentJohn Sexton
Academic staff
6,755
Students40,870[2]
Undergraduates20,965
Postgraduates16,477
Location
New York
,
NY
,
USA
CampusUrban
ColorsViolet and White    
NicknameViolets
MascotFile:Bobcathead.gif Bobcat
Websitewww.nyu.edu

New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan. Founded in 1831, NYU is the largest private, non-profit institution of higher education in the United States, with an enrollment of more than 40,000.[3] NYU comprises 15 schools, colleges, and divisions, occupying six centers throughout Manhattan. NYU operates study abroad facilities in London, Paris, Florence, Prague, Madrid, Berlin, Accra, Shanghai and will have facilities in Singapore by fall 2007. Proposed sites are also being finalized in Latin America and the Persian Gulf Region and wider Middle East.

History

Main article: History of New York University
Albert Gallatin

A group of prominent New York City residents – the city's landed class of merchants, bankers, and traders – established NYU on April 18, 1831. These New Yorkers believed the city needed a university designed for young men who would be admitted based on merit, not birthright or social class. Albert Gallatin, Secretary of Treasury under Thomas Jefferson, is cited as the founder. NYU was created non-denominational, unlike many American colonial colleges at the time.[4]

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The University Heights campus, now home to the Bronx Community College.

On April 21, 1831, the new institution received its charter and was incorporated as the University of the City of New York by the New York State Legislature; older documents often refer to it by that name. The university has been popularly known as New York University since its beginning and was officially renamed New York University in 1896. In 1832, NYU held its first classes in rented rooms in four-story Clinton Hall, situated near City Hall. In 1835, the School of Law, NYU's first professional school, was established.

Whereas NYU had its Washington Square campus since its beginning, the university purchased a campus at University Heights in the Bronx because of overcrowding on the old campus and the desire to follow New York City’s development further uptown. NYU's move to the Bronx occurred in 1894, spearheaded by the efforts of Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken. The University Heights campus was far more spacious than its predecessor was, and housed most of the university’s operations and the undergraduate College of Arts and Science and School of Engineering. With most of NYU’s operations transferred to the new campus, the Washington Square campus declined, with only the law school remaining until the establishment of Washington Square College in 1914. This college would become the downtown Arts and Sciences division of NYU.

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In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, financial crisis gripped the New York City government and many of the city’s institutions, including NYU.[5] Feeling the pressures of imminent bankruptcy, the then president of NYU, James McNaughton Hester, negotiated the sale of the University Heights campus to the City University of New York, which occurred in 1973. After the sale of the University Heights campus, University College merged with Washington Square College. In the 1980s, under the leadership of President John Brademas,[6] NYU launched a billion-dollar campaign that was spent almost entirely on updating facilities.[7] In 2003, under the leadership of current President John Sexton, the university launched a 2.5-billion dollar campaign for funds to be spent especially on faculty and financial aid resources.[8]

The university logo, the upheld torch, is derived from the Statue of Liberty, signifying NYU's service to the city of New York. The torch is depicted on both the NYU seal and the more abstract NYU logo, designed in 1965 by renowned graphic artist Ivan Chermayeff. There are two versions of the origin of the university color, violet. Some believe that it may have been chosen because violets are said to have grown abundantly in Washington Square and around the buttresses of the Old University Building. Others argue that the color may have been adopted because the violet was the flower associated with Athens, the center of learning in ancient Greece.

Cultural setting

Washington Square has been a hub of cultural life in New York City since the early nineteenth century. Artists of the Hudson River School, the United States’ first prominent school of painters, settled around Washington Square then. Samuel F.B. Morse and Daniel Huntington were tenants of the Old University Building. (The university rented out studio space and residential apartments within the "academic" building.) Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman contributed to the artistic scene, having notable interaction with the cultural and academic life of the university.

In the 1870s, sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French lived and worked near the Square. By the 1920s, the Washington Square Park area was nationally recognized as a focal point for artistic and moral rebellion. Famed residents of this time include Eugene O'Neill, John Sloan, and Maurice Prendergast. In the 1930s, the abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, and the realists Edward Hopper and Thomas Hart Benton had studios around Washington Square or the Village. Since the 1960s, Washington Square and the Village became one of the centers of the beat and folk generation, when Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan settled there.

In the early 1980s at the Weinstein Dormitory, Def Jam Recordings founders Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons met. In the late 1990s, some members of the band Interpol also met at NYU.

Campus

Main article: Campus of New York University

Most of NYU's buildings are scattered across a roughly square area bounded by Houston Street to the south, Broadway to the east, 14th Street to the north, and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) to the west. Most of NYU's buildings surround Washington Square Park.

Washington Square campus

La Maison Française

Since the late 1970s, the central part of NYU has been its Washington Square campus in the heart of Greenwich Village. Despite being public property, and expanding the 5th avenue axis into Washington Square Park, the Washington Square Arch is the unofficial symbol of NYU. Every year, the Washington Square campus holds its commencement ceremonies in Washington Square Park.

In the 1990s, NYU became a "Two Square" university by building a second community around Union Square, about a 10-minute walk from Washington Square. NYU's Union Square community consists of the sophmore cluster residence halls of Carlyle Court, Palladium Residence Hall, Alumni Hall, Coral Towers, Thirteenth Street Hall, and freshmen residence halls Third North Residence Hall and University Hall.

NYU operates several theaters and performance facilities that are often used by the university's music conservatory and Tisch School of the Arts but also external productions. The largest performance accommodations at NYU are the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (850 seats) at 566 LaGuardia Place, just south of Washington Square South; and the Eisner-Lubin Auditorium (560 seats) in the Kimmel Center. Recently, the Skirball Center hosted important speeches on foreign policy by John Kerry[9] and Al Gore[10] as well as the recording of the season finale of The Apprentice 3. The Skirball Center is the largest performing arts facility south of 42nd Street.[11][12]

Bobst Library

The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, built between 1967 and 1972, is the largest library at NYU and one of the largest academic libraries in the U.S. Designed by Philip Johnson and Richard Foster, the 12-story, 39,000 m² (425,000 square feet) structure sits on the southern edge of Washington Square Park and is the flagship of an eight-library, 4.5 million volume system. The library is visited by more than 6,500 users each day, and circulates almost one million books annually.[13] In addition to its regular collection it houses a number of special collections and archives, including the Archives of Irish America and the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives.

In late 2003, Bobst Library was the site of two suicidal incidents. Two students jumped from the open-air crosswalks inside the library onto the marble floor below. The students later died of their injuries.[14] After the second suicide, NYU installed plexi-glass windows on each level to prevent further attempts. In 2003, Bobst Library was also in the news for being the home of a homeless student who resided at the library because he could not afford student housing.[15][16]

New facilities

Over the last few years, NYU has developed a number of new facilities on and around its Washington Square Campus. The Kimmel Center for University Life was built in 2003 to house the majority of the University's student services offices. The center also houses the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, the Rosenthal Pavilion, the Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, and the Loeb Student Center. The School of Law built Furman Hall was built in 2004, incorporating elements of two historic buildings into the new facade, one of which was occupied by poet Edgar Allan Poe.[17]

In 2005, NYU announced the development of a new life science facility on Waverly Place. The facility is the first NYU science building developed since the opening of Meyer Hall in 1971.[18] In November 2005, NYU announced plans to build a 26-floor, 190,000 square foot residence hall on 12th Street. The residence hall is expected to accommodate about 700 undergraduates and contain a host of other student facilities. It is to be the tallest building in the East Village.[19] The plans have caused anger among East Village and other New York City residents, as the new building would be built over the old St. Ann's Church.[20]

Other campuses and facilities

The main NYU Medical Campus is situated at the East River waterfront at First Ave. between East 30th and East 34th Streets. The campus hosts the Medical School, Tisch Hospital, and the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. Other NYU Centers across the city include NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases and the Bellevue Hospital Center. NYU’s Ehrenkranz School of Social Work manages branch campus programs in Westchester County at Manhattanville College and in Rockland County at St. Thomas Aquinas College. In Sterling Forest, near Tuxedo, New York, NYU has a research facility that contains several institutes, in particular the Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine. The Midtown Center at 11 West 42nd Street and the Woolworth Building in the financial district are home to NYU's continuing education programs.

NYU has a host of foreign facilities used for study abroad programs. Most noteworthy is the 57-acre campus of NYU Florence Villa LaPietra in Italy, bequeathed by the late Sir Harold Acton to NYU in 1994.[21] NYU manages undergraduate academic year study abroad programs in Florence, London, Paris, Prague, Berlin, Accra, and Madrid; and recently started a program in Shanghai. On June 1, 2007, NYU announced plans to develop a campus in Israel with Tel Aviv University. The program is scheduled to begin accepting students for the 2008-2009 academic year.[22]

NYU also has several international houses on campus, including the Deutsches Haus, La Maison Française, the Glucksman Ireland House, Casa Italiana, the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, the Hagop Kevorkian Center, an Africa House and a China House. NYU was also the founding member of the League of World Universities.

Residence halls

Main article: NYU residence halls

With 12,500 residents, NYU has the seventh largest university housing system in the U.S. and the largest among private schools.[23] Uniquely, many of NYU's residence halls are converted apartment complexes or old hotels. Most freshman residence halls are in the Washington Square area. While nearly all the upperclassmen halls are in the Union Square area, a few of them are as far as the Financial District, Manhattan. The university operates its own transit system to transport its students, by bus, to campus. Undergraduate students are guaranteed housing during their enrollment at NYU. Twenty-one buildings are in NYU's undergraduate housing system. In general, NYU residence halls receive favorable ratings, and some are opulent.[citation needed] Many rooms are spacious and contain amenities considered rare for individual college residence hall rooms, such as kitchens and living rooms/common areas.[citation needed] All the residence halls are governed by the Inter-Residence Hall Council (IRHC), an umbrella student council organization. In 2007, the National Association of College and University Residence Halls named NYU the National School of the Year for IRHC and NRHH's strong efforts over the past year. In addition, NYU was awarded National Program of the Year for UltraViolet Live, the annual inter-hall competition that raises funds for Relay For Life.

Academics

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NYU Doctoral Robe

NYU counts 27 Nobel Prize winners; 9 National Medal of Science recipients; 12 Pulitzer Prize winners; 19 Academy Award winners (more than any other American university); several Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winners; and many MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowship holders among its past and present graduates and faculty. In 2006, NYU was named by Kaplan as one of the "New Ivies." [24]

According to the three most reputable university ranking systems, NYU is ranked:

Regarding academic disciplines and programs, NYU is ranked #11 in the social sciences among Shanghai Jiao Tong University's world's top 100 universities.[28] NYU is ranked #1 in Italian, finance, mathematics, and theater in the U.S. by the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, which uses data, such as faculty publications, grants, and honors and awards to rank 104 doctoral programs in 10 academic disciplines based on the research productivity of faculty members.[29]

NYU's Stern School of Business undergraduate program is ranked among the top five in the U.S. Stern's MBA program is ranked among the top 15 in the U.S. and worldwide: #10 in U.S. News,[30] #8 in Financial Times 2007,[31] #14 in BusinessWeek,[32] #8 in The Economist,[33] and #2 by research contribution.[34] The School of Law is ranked #4 among law schools in the U.S. by U.S. News and World Report.[35] The law school is particularly noted as the nation's top law school in tax law, international law, and jurisprudence (philosophy of law). NYU's law school is noted, among other achievements, for the success of its alumni in obtaining prestigious clerkships on the Supreme Court of the United States. Although none of NYU's alumni have been appointed justices of this court, NYU's alumni have served as judges of the International Court of Justice.[36][37]

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Vanderbilt Hall, NYU Law School

NYU's law school has a jointly offered Osgoode-NYU LLB/JD degree with the prestigious Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto, Canada allowing students to obtain both a top tier American JD and a top tier Canadian LLB in only four years.

NYU's philosophy department is ranked #1 among 50 philosophy departments in the English-speaking world.[38] NYU's economics department is ranked #10 among 200 economics departments worldwide.[39] NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development has one of the top 15 education programs in the U.S.[40] Several of NYU's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service's public affairs specialties are ranked in the top 10 in the U.S. by U.S. News and World Report.[41] The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences is ranked #5 in citation impact worldwide, #12 in citation worldwide,[42] and #1 in applied mathematics in the U.S.[43] The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences is also known for its research in pure mathematical areas, such as partial differential equations (Professors Peter Lax and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan won the 2005 and 2007 Abel Prize respectively for their research in this area) as well as applied mathematical areas, such as computational biology and bioinformatics.

NYU's Tisch School of the Arts has produced more Academy Award winners than any other institution in the U.S.[citation needed]

With the inauguration of NYU's Hellenic Parliament Global Distinguished Professorship, which the university created with the Greek Parliament to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Greek constitution, NYU became the first university in the world to have a chair established by a European parliament.

Admissions and enrollment

NYU has a large, diverse student population exceeding 40,000 representing more than 130 countries.[44] More than 70% of NYU's incoming freshmen are from outside the Tri-State Area. Ten percent of the students are from one of New York City's five boroughs and 20% are from 17 nearby counties. About 65% of NYU's undergraduates attended public high schools.

Admissions do not consider the financial situation of the students, and more than 50% of students receive some financial aid. NYU's main feeder schools reflect a heavy Northeastern U.S. presence, and particularly a strong New York City influence. Stuyvesant High School, Bronx High School of Science, and Brooklyn Technical High School are among NYU's top feeder schools. NYU has the largest undergraduate applicant pool of all private universities in the U.S. Since the early 1990’s, the number of applicants seeking admission to NYU has more than tripled; acceptance rates have more than halved. For instance, in 1991, NYU received approximately 10,000 applications with 65% accepted.[45] In 2007, NYU received 34,000 applications, of which 29.2% were accepted.[46] However, in the past, NYU’s acceptance rates were lower; in fact, in 2003, the acceptance rate was 26.2%. Because of the increase in the number of applications over the years, NYU has implemented a highly selective admissions policy.[47][48]

The Class of 2011 (entering Fall 2007) is made up of 4,395 students, 25.4% of which were early decision candidates.[49] The middle 50% of SAT scores for the Class of 2011 fell between a 1300 and a 1430 while the middle 50% of ACT scores were between 29 and 31. The average High School GPA was a 3.63 and 70% of incoming students were in the top 10% of their class.[50]

NYU is among the top 15 universities in the U.S. in the number of National Merit Scholars in the first-year undergraduate student body.[51] For four consecutive years, NYU was ranked by the Princeton Review as America's #1 "dream school" (first choice when factors such as the price and the school's selectivity are not considered) among high school seniors.[52]

Schools and colleges

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Judson Memorial Church

New York University is comprised of 15 colleges, schools, and divisions:

  1. College of Arts and Science 1831
  2. School of Law 1835
  3. School of Medicine 1841
  4. Graduate School of Arts and Science 1886
  5. College of Dentistry 1865
  6. Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development 1890
  7. Stern School of Business 1900
  8. Institute of Fine Arts 1922
  9. School of Continuing and Professional Studies 1934
  10. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences 1934
  11. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service 1938
  12. Ehrenkranz School of Social Work 1960
  13. Tisch School of the Arts 1965
  14. Gallatin School of Individualized Study 1972
  15. College of Nursing 2005

The following divisions were closed or merged with other institutions:

  • Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics 1927 - 1973
  • School of Engineering 1894 - 1973 (merged with Polytechnic Institute of New York)
  • Washington Square College (merged with College of Arts and Science)
  • University College (merged with College of Arts and Science)
  • New York College of Veterinary Surgeons 1857 - 1922
  • College Hofstra Memorial of New York University 1935 - 1963 (now Hofstra University)[53]

Student life

Student organizations

NYU's policy of needing only four members to constitute a club makes this trend a popular one among today's students. Apart from the sports teams, fraternities, sororities, and clubs that focus on fields of study, other organizations on campus focus on entertainment, arts, and culture. These organizations include various print media clubs: for instance, the daily newspaper the Washington Square News, comedy magazine The Plague, and the literary journals Washington Square Review and The Minetta Review, as well as student-run event producers such as the NYU Program Board and the Inter-Residence Hall Council.

During the University Heights era, an apparent rift evolved with some organizations distancing themselves from students from the downtown schools. The exclusive "Philomathean Society" operated from 1832-1888 (formally giving way in 1907 and reconstituted into the Andiron Club). Included among the Andiron’s regulations was “Rule No.11: Have no relations save the most casual and informal kind with the downtown schools”. The Eucleian Society, rival to the Philomathean Society at New York University, was founded in 1832 and appears to have dissolved several times only to be reformed and is extant. The Knights of the Lamp was a social organization founded in 1914 at the School of Commerce. This organization met every full moon and had the glowworm as its mascot.[54] In addition, NYU’s first yearbook was formed by fraternities and "secret societies" at the university.[55]

Despite having an open campus, NYU has a number of university traditions. Since 1900, a series of initiation ceremonies have welcomed entering NYU students. At the Bronx University Heights Campus, seniors grabbed unsuspecting freshmen and led them to an early 19th century horse-watering trough. The seniors dunked the freshmen headfirst into what became known as “the fountain of knowledge.” This practice lasted until the 1970s. Today freshman take part in a number of university sponsored activities during what is called "Welcome Week". In addition, throughout the year the University traditionally holds Apple Fest (an apple-themed country fest started at the University Heights campus), Violet Ball (a dance in the atrium of the library), Strawberry Fest (featuring New York City's longest Strawberry Shortcake), and the semi-annual Midnight Breakfast where Student Affairs administrators serve students free breakfast before finals.

Greek life

Greek life first formed on the NYU campus in 1837 when Psi Upsilon chartered its Delta Chapter. The first fraternities at NYU were social ones. With their athletic, professional, intellectual, and service activities, later groups sought to attract students who also formed other groups. Since then, Greek letter organizations have proliferated to include 25 social fraternities and sororities.

Four governing boards oversee Greek life at the university. The Interfraternity Council (IFC) has jurisdiction over all 14 recognized fraternities on campus. Seven sororities are under the jurisdiction of the Panhellenic Council (PhC); four multicultural sororities maintain membership in the Multicultural Greek Council (MGC). All three of the aforementioned boards are managed under the auspices of the Inter-Greek Council.

Whereas a small Greek system by most standards, NYU’s Greek organizations have proliferated in the urban environment. Both the Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America and Alpha Epsilon Pi were founded at NYU, with the former being chartered in 1847 and the latter chartered in 1913. The NYU chapter of Delta Phi, founded in 1841, is the longest continuously active fraternity chapter in the world.[citation needed] The local chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon is the highest ranked chapter within DKE for 2006.[citation needed] The local Pi Kappa Alpha chapter is the largest fraternity on campus and is ranked as one of the best chapters within that fraternity yearly.[citation needed]

PhC features three national sororities and four local sororities. Notably, the first chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon was founded at NYU in 1917.

Athletics

Main article: New York University Violets

NYU's sports teams are called the Violets, the colors being the trademarked hue "NYU Violet" and white; the school mascot is the bobcat. Almost all sporting teams participate in the NCAA's Division III and the University Athletic Association.

While NYU has had many All-American football players NYU has not had a varsity football team since the 1960s. Notable players include Hall of Famer Ken Strong (1956) and Ed Smith (1934), the model for the Heisman Trophy. In the 1940 season, before a football game between NYU and Missouri, students protested against the "gentlemen’s agreement" to exclude black athletes (at Missouri's request). The protest against this practice is the first time such protests were recorded to have occurred.[56]

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NYU Fencing 1929

The National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association (NIWFA) was founded by NYU freshmen Julia Jones and Dorothy Hafner.

NYU’s rival, dictated by history and geography has been Columbia University, though it appears from older fight songs that Rutgers University was also NYU’s rival at some point.

NYU, in its short history in NCAA Division III, has won a single national team championship (and many league championships). The basketball program has enjoyed a good deal of success since its return to intercollegiate competition. In 1997, the women’s basketball team, led by head coach Janice Quinn, won a championship title over the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and in 2007 returned to the Final Four. NYU men's basketball and head coach Joe Nesci appeared in the Division III National Championship game in 1994. In 2007, the Violets captured the ECAC Tournament Championship.

NYU men's and women's swimming teams captured consecutive (2004-2005) Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Swimming and Diving Championships. Christian Majdick of the men’s track and field team captured the NCAA Division III championship for the triple jump in 2003. Lauren Henkel, one of the most successful athletes in NYU track and field history, and the current assistant coach of the women's track and field team, acquired All-American status three times for High Jump. The men’s soccer team won its league ECAC championship in the 2005-2006 season.

Many NYU students also compete in several "club" (which may or may not compete on an unofficial intercollegiate basis) and intramural sports, including lacrosse, crew, squash, rugby, badminton, ice hockey, baseball, softball, equestrian, martial arts, ultimate frisbee, and triathlon. The Coles Sports and Recreation Center serves as the home base of several of NYU's intercollegiate athletic teams. Many of NYU’s varsity teams sometimes play their games at various facilities and fields throughout Manhattan because of the scarcity of space for playing fields in that borough. In 2002, NYU opened the Palladium Athletic Facility as the second on-campus recreational facility.

Notable NYU faculty and alumni

Main article: List of New York University people

Numerous noted scholars have taught at NYU since its inception in 1831, among them many Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship winners, and many Guggenheim Fellows and members of the National Academy of Science. NYU has often been involved in bidding wars to entice top faculty to improve consistently the academic environment. From 1999 through 2007 media and copyright scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan taught in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, when NYU lost a bidding war to retain him. Vaidhyanathan is now at the University of Virginia. NYU has been insistent that its renowned faculty be active in instruction on the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as active in research.[57]

As befitting the largest private non-profit university in the country, NYU has one of the largest alumni bodies in the world. At the end of 2004, NYU had about 350,000 alumni. Of these, at least 17,000 live abroad. The New York University Office for Alumni Affairs oversees the various activities, such as class reunions, local NYU Club gatherings, NYU alumni travel, and Career Services. The Alumni club on campus is the Torch Club. Notable graduating classes include 1941, which graduated three later Nobel Prize laureates (Julius Axelrod, Gertrude B. Elion and Clifford Shull), Olympic Gold Medalist John Woodruff, sportscaster Howard Cosell and sociologist Morris Janowitz; and 1977 included: former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan; IRS Commissioner Mark Everson; INSEAD Dean Gabriel Hawawini; Pulitzer, Oscar and Tony Award winner John Patrick Shanley; NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman; NASDAQ CEO Robert Greifeld; and Cathy Minehan, Federal Reserve Chairman Boston

Since 1885, the most spirited undergraduate class has been awarded “The Bun”. The award consisted of a bun enclosed in a silver casket. The phrase “You take the bun,” parallels the more modern saying, “You take the cake,” thus the name. Taken three times in 1921, 1971, and 1981, the Bun was last returned in 2002 and now resides in the Silver Center.

NYU in film and literature

Main article: NYU in popular culture

NYU has been portrayed in or been the scene of several films and novels:

  • Will Truman (from "Will & Grace") attended NYU Law. Grace Adler's office is portrayed in the show as being in the Puck Building, home to NYU's Wagner School.
  • Kramer hires Darren, an intern from NYU, to help him run "Kramerica Industries" in a season 9 episode of Seinfeld (episode 158 - "The Voice").
  • Jerry is interviewed by a reporter from the NYU student newspaper (and mistakenly believed to be gay) in a season 4 episode of Seinfeld (episode 57 - "The Outing").
  • Finch in the American Pie films is noted to attend NYU when he graduates high school.
  • The movie Loser was set at NYU.
  • Henry James' novel Washington Square is set around the NYU area. Several movie and TV adaptations have been made of the novel (1949, 1975, 1996).
  • Rose of Washington Square, 1939 and 13 Washington Square, 1928, directed by Melville W. Brown, are centered around the NYU Campus.
  • Nicolas Cage attended NYU in college in the movie The Family Man and ends up as a prominent investment banker.
  • Theo Huxtable (played by Malcolm-Jamal Warner) in The Cosby Show graduated from NYU in the series finale.
  • Ross Geller in Friends becomes an NYU Professor in Season 6.
  • In Jonathan Larson's musical Rent, one of the characters (Tom Collins) is a teacher at NYU and another (Mark Cohen) studied film there as an undergrad.
  • The WB show Felicity was set at the "University of New York", clearly modeled after NYU.
  • NYU's old University Heights Campus in the Bronx provided the scenery for A Beautiful Mind (2001), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), Sophie’s Choice (1982), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), and Maid in Manhattan (2002).

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to NYU.

Further reading

  • Dim, Joan, The Miracle on Washington Square. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2000.
  • Frusciano, Tom and Pettit, Marilyn New York University and the City, an Illustrated History. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
  • Gitlow, Abrahm L., NYU's Stern School of Business: A Centennial Retrospective, New York, NY: NYU Press, 1995
  • Harris, Luther S., Around Washington Square : An Illustrated History of Greenwich Village,Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003
  • Jones, Theodore F.New York University, 1832 - 1932, London, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1933
  • Lewis, Naphtali, Greek papyri in the collection of New York University, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1968
  • Tonne, Herbert A. (ed.), Early Leaders in Business Education at New York University, National Business Education Association, Reston, Va., 1981
  • Potash, David M., The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University: A History. New York: NYU Arts and Sciences Publications, 1991.

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