University of New York

The university of New York (in English: New York University (or NYU ), in the past University off the City off New York ) is a private Université American located at New York. Its principal Campus is located in the district of Greenwich Village of Manhattan. Founded in 1831 by the American politician Albert Gallatin and a group of New Yorkean, the university of New York became the largest private university with nonlucrative goal of the country, with a full number of students higher than: 40000.}}

According to the founders, the traditional programs of studies offered in the American colonial universities were to be combined with more modern lesson and more practices. The teachers of Paris, Vienna and London just started to take into account a new form of higher education, where the students concentrated not only on the traditional studies and the Religion, but also on the living languages, the Philosophie, the Histoire, the political economy, the Mathématiques and the Physical sciences. In this manner, one could train students with the trades of traders, bankers, lawyers, doctors, architects or engineers. It would be then about a nondenominational establishment, unlike much of universities of the time. Such innovations would make university of New York on the matter a university pionnière.

The university of New York would thus make education accessible to all the young people according to their merit, at a reasonable cost, and with a system of private financings based on the sale of actions. By thus creating a Joint stock company, the university was guarded against any pressure on behalf of groups or of religious institutions on its management. Although the university was designed with an aim of being accessible to all the men independently of their personal experience, it is composed today mainly of students easy, white and Protestant, because of the contemporary economic models and social.

The development of the university

April 21st 1831, the new establishment accepted its Charte and was made up under the name of “university of the town of New York” ( University off the City off New York in English) by the State of New York, but it is only in 1896 that it was famous officially. In 1832, the university held its first courses in rooms of hiring on four stages of Clinton Hall, near the Mairie. In 1835, the School of right, the first vocational school of the university, opened its doors.

Clinton Hall, located in a noisy and agitated shopping area, remained the only building of the university during several years, time for the administrators to find structures permanent and more adapted. They in particular sought to be established in the district of Greenwich Village. They bought finally the ground located at the east of Washington Square and work began in 1833 by the Old University Building . It was about a great neogothic structure of Style which could lodge all the services of the school. The university took possession of the places later only two years, thus settling in a district with which it will maintain the tended relations sometimes.

The university continued its growth until the acquisition of a ground with University Heights in the Bronx. Indeed, the overpopulation of the old campus had become critical and the administrators wished to follow the urban development more to north. The university of New York settled in Bronx in 1894, under the impulse of the president of the university Henry MacCracken. The campus of University Heights was more roomy than the precedent and off accommodated the majority of the administrative services of the university as well as the College Arts and Science and the School off Engineering (school of engineer). After this important transfer, the campus of Washington Square declined. There remained nothing any more but the school of right, until the Washington Square College settled in 1914. This department will become later the antenna of Arts and Sciences in the center of the city. In 1900 was founded a school of first cycle of trade and finances, future the Leonard NR. Stern School off Business . This establishment ensured a professional training on the business world. An extension on Long Island was born also in 1935 before becoming finally the Université Hofstra.

An attempt to ensure the equality of entry the university failed in 1871, when the inscription became free for the best students. The former students, of the Protestants of the easy classes, saw this measurement of an evil eye, because that made university a charity work which was not consequently suitable enough any more for their children. This measurement was thus quickly abandoned. The university was opened to the women only in 1888 for the studies of 2nd and 3rd cycles, in 1890 for teaching and the right, and in 1914 for the 1 cycles with the Washington Square College . They are only into 1959 that the women were finally authorized to off fall under the courses of the College Arts and Science, on the campus of University Heights .

At the beginning of the Years 1920, the university of New York attracted the best Jewish students who were refused in other establishments: indeed, the universities of the Ivy League had instituted “quotas of Jews” which specifically stigmatized the Jewish immigrants with first generation living in New York. In spite of an attempt to found it also such quotas, most of the students of the university of New York were Jewish. At the end of the years 1960 and with the beginning of the year 1970, the financial crisis seized up the operation of the town of New York like several other institutions, of which the university. Feeling to increase the risks of bankruptcy, the future president of the NYU, James McNaughton Hester, negotiated the sale of the campus of University Heights with the Université of the Town of New York (CUNY) in 1973. This campus lost money what made the management of two campuses very difficult. According to the chancellor, Sidney Borowitz:

There was so much pressure on behalf of the former students to preserve the campus that only the threat of an important financial loss could justify the setting on sale campus. Without a second campus, the university of New York could never have thrived at this point.

After the resale of the campus of University Heights , the university amalgamated with the Washington Square College . The most significant loss of the NYU during this period was the departure of the School off Engineering which integrated the university Polytechnique of Brooklyn.

In the middle of the years 1980, it became increasingly popular near the students, and that even apart from New York. To face at the request of housing and classrooms, the university had to buy of old and hotel, office buildings even nightclubs . During this decade, under the direction of John Brademas, the NYU launched a basic campaign to collect 1 billion dollar to put at the standards the installations. In 2003, the president John Sexton launched another 2,5 billion dollar campaign to finance work and financial aids.

The university of New York east today one of the most important real owners of the town of New York. However, the return on investment remained weak these last years.

Organization of the university

The university of New York is an establishment which exempts lesson in several disciplines: Art S, Science S, Right, Medicine, Trade… With its 15 faculties, it requires an important administrative management to organize its activities of teaching and research.

Operation

The internal organization of the university was defined dice 1831, in the Charte granted by the State of New York. Thus, even if the latter were amended on several occasions, the operation of the administration was preserved since its creation.

The university is controlled by a Board of directors composed of 50 people, of which 80% are former students. It meets several times per annum to determine the policy of the university and to indicate those which will lead it. It is thus them which indicate the executive committee , among which one finds the president of the university (currently John Sexton). Between the meetings of the council, the executive committee has any authority to conclude the Council Decisions. The president is elected among the members of the board of directors. Its role is to supervise and direct all the activities of the university. It is also in load of the control of the educational policy.

Each Faculté is carried out by a Doyen in charge of his administrative management and application of the policies of the university. It is in particular him which supervises the work of the members of the faculty and which makes recommendation with the Chancelier for the promotions and nominations of the holders. He is in addition spring of each faculty to determine the methods of admission in their schools, the exempted courses, as well as the levels necessary for obtaining the Diplôme S.

The university of New York also has a deliberative body meeting every month: the council of university ( University Senate ). On recommendations of the various commissions, it deliberates on the policy, the structure and the procedures of the university. It also deals of the budget policies and human resources. The council of university is also force of proposals near the president. It has moreover the capacity to act on the educational businesses and to control what affects the whole of the university community. It is composed to the maximum of 80 members divided as follows: 35 staff representatives, 15 seniors, 22 representatives student and 8 frameworks of the executive committee. The representation of each faculty is function of its size there. The deliberation of the council of university is organized around a system of commissions, such as those on the academic businesses, the public affairs, the budget or on the governorship of the university.

Teaching

On: 40870 students whom the university of New York in 2006 counted, close to: 13942 were graduate during the year. With more: 2500 cours exempted, the university decrees thus nearly 25 different diplomas. The two principal decreed diplomas are the master and the Bachelor, which represent respectively: 5773 and: 5713 handing-over each year. The university grants, moreover, 967 professional diplomas (such as the doctorates in Médecine, Droit and dental surgery), 750 diploma of associate (equivalent with DEUG) and of 364 Doctorat S, as well as other minor diplomas or university certificates. Since its origins in 1831, many specialists taught at the university of New York, of which several holders of the Nobel Prize, the Prix Pulitzer or members of the American National Academy off Sciences.

The determination to recruit eminent professors was one of the primary reasons of the growing prestige of the university. The university of New York often launched out in higher bids to attract the best teachers and to improve the academic environment thus considerably. She insisted much on her level of teaching and her capacities of research. One can in particular notice that the university developed until going almost insolvent to become one of the best American universities in research topic. Instead of consolidating its capital, the university invested in the construction of new equipment, the recruitment of professors or assistances for the talented students.

Financings

Like statement previously, since its origins, the university of New York always sought to preserve its independence with respect to the various lobbies. That is completely significant with the security of its financial investments. One observes thus that a great proportion of its equipment is invested in the form of obligations (nearly 86%), thus leaving a tiny place to the action S (9%), riskier. This strategy of investment is unusual enough for a university whose equipment exceeds the billion dollar. This positioning mainly explains the low level of return on investment of the university (6,8%), where Stanford reaches 23%.

Remainder, the university of New York remains very discrete (even secret) on its financings and the way in which its funds are used. However, an independent group revealed the figures of the budget of 2005. It is learned there in particular that, on a budget of 2,3 billion dollars, nearly 40% of the incomes of the university come from the registration fee from the students. This makes it possible to include/understand why the average annual cost of the studies by anybody culminates with: 45300 $.

The other independent sources of incomes are those coming from its companies and the Redevance S related to the Brevet S deposited (17% of the budget), the incomes associated with the hospital care with the Health Center (17%) and finally various the Subvention S (12%). With regard to the expenditure, nearly 40% are used under the lesson and the academic programs. The share allocated with research ($ 210 million) is equivalent to the related spending with the medical sector or the other expenditure as of its auxiliary companies.

In addition, since 2001, the university of New York launched an ambitious lifting campaign of funds. This countryside indeed envisages to collect 2,5 billion dollars in 7 years (either 1 million per day approximately). This sum will allow, inter alia things, the development of the university with the acquisition of spaces dedicated to the lesson, the extension of the programs of financial aids to the students, as well as the increase in the budgets of faculties to support the investments.

Moreover, the university is sometimes happy the recipient of a generous donation by the means of foundations whose names often marked the university of their print. Among the most important patrons of the university of New York, one can quote Harold Acton which made gift of the campus of Pietra, of money and Shelby, works of art (for an entire amount estimated between 250 and 500 million dollars) White ($200 million), Julius Silver ($150 million), Jan Vilcek ($105 million), or of the regular givers like Laurence Tisch or Joel Smilow. However, of the also important gifts arrive only seldom (even if the gifts from 1 to 5 million are increasingly frequent) and the legacies and donations account for only 3% of the incomes of the university, the Kimmel foundation ( Kimmel Center for University Life , Kimmel Center for Stem Cell Biology ), or the foundation Skirball ( Skirball Center for the Performing Arts , Skirball Department off Hebrew and Judaic Studies). Opened in 1993, the Skirball Institute off Biomolecular Medicine is charged to work on the Cancer and the AIDS. It is a project of $75 million, cofinanced by various Mécène S, of which most important are Tisch and the Skirball foundation. The university of New York, in addition, recently inaugurated the Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center , a center with the point of technology in biomedical research. It is about a project of $160 million, financed collectively by Joel Smilow, Jan Vilcek, Vivendi Universal and ten of other patrons., One can however notice that certain people did not bring financing, partial or total, with the building which bears their name. These buildings, indeed, were named on a purely honorary basis in memory of personalities which marked the university by their devotion and their research, thus contributing to its radiation. It is the case in particular Running Institute off Mathematical Sciences and of the Rusk Institute off Rehabilitation Medicine.

Seek

As for practically all the American universities, the university research is a crucial factor of the policy and prestige of the University of New York. It indeed makes it possible to maintain an high level academic and to anticipate technological changes. The NYU belongs to the most important institutions of research of the country, within the Association off American Universities. Among his fields of predilection, one can especially quote biomedical research in the fields of the Génomique, of the study of the Biologie of the development, of the Immunologie, but also in the study of the answers to the Bioterrorisme and the Catastrophe S, the study of the Climat (evolution, technologies emergent, socio-economic impacts…) and finally of the Mathematical with the prestigious Running Institute off Mathematical Sciences.

Over the financial year 2004-2005, the university spent nearly 470 million dollars (if one cumulates the expenditure of the NYU and the medical school of the Mount the Sinai) for research. These investments enabled them to deposit 21 Brevet S of invention and 48 patents of application, to negotiate the grant of 34 licenses to thirds and to create 3 Startup S. With all these patents and licenses, the university could release more than $150 million, thus revealing a clear increase compared to the year 2003-2004 which had generated more than $110 million. It was thus classified second by the Association off University Technology Managers in term of incomes of research behind the Université Emory. In the facts, the university of New York east in fact third Juste behind the University Columbia ($160 million), the latter not having made public its figures before the publication of the investigation.

Importance of the budget dedicated to research in fact a motive fluid for the university and its famous. Part of this fame passes by the publication in scientific magazines to announce the results or discovered obtained within different the Laboratoire S. the university from New York is classified thus with the 82e world rank in terms of many publications (: 23057), and with the 55e world rank in terms of many quotations (: 385852). It especially publishes in clinical medicine (: 7438 publications and: 114872 quotations), and more generally in all the medical disciplines (Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Psychology, Molecular biology, Genetic, Biology and Biochemistry). In molecular biology and genetics, it is in particular classified with the 34ème row with a production of 1507 articles, and with the 36ème row with 60510 quotations. It is also very active in the field of the Social sciences, 1960 publications, which classifies it with the 23e world rank., Among most important subsidies of 2005, one takes into account in particular the NIH which granted nearly 400 subsidies for an entire amount of $174 million (the NYU is the 20th larger recipient of the NIH). With the row of the projects developed recently within the Medical School, one finds a research center on the original cells financed by the Kimmel Foundation with height of $10 million. Another important contributor is without question the Département of the Internal security which financed the Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response . It is about an interdisciplinary center for the preparation and the optimization of the help emergency in the event of natural disaster, medical or terrorist (in particular in urban environment).

Academic reputation

There exist many indicators to quantify the success of a university policy in term of teaching, research and quality of life. In fact, the various classifications of American universities take into account some of these annual indicators to establish their classification. Among the factors taken into account, one finds in particular: reputation of university seen by academics, percentage of retention of students (i.e percentage of students which follows a program until its term), the financial resources, the selectivity, the " qualité" lesson, etc…

According to Kaplan Inc., the university of New York belongs to the “ Nouvelles Ivy ”, being given its prestige, the quality of its teaching and its attractivity which are equivalent even higher than the establishments of the Ivy League. Indeed, the NYU accommodated 23 Nobel Prize, 9 member elects of the National Medal off Science , 12 Prix Pulitzer, 19 oscarized people , like several holders of Emmy Award, Grammy Award and Tony Award.

According to the three more important systems of evaluation of the universities, the university of New York is classified:

34e on 248 in the classification of the American national universities, realized by U.S. News and World Carryforward .
29e on 500 in the classification of the best world universities, according to the university Jiao Tong of Shanghai.
43e on 200 in the classification of the best world universities, according to the Times Higher Education Supplement - QS World University Rankings.

With regard to the programs and the disciplines, the university is placed at the 11th rank for the Social sciences in the classification of the 100 best universities of the Université of Shanghai. It is classified first in Italian, in Finance, Mathématiques and Théâtre in the United States by the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index , which is based on the number of publications, of purses granted, like on the university rewards of 104 programs, in ten different subjects. The course of first cycle of the Stern School off Business is among the five best programs of MBA in the United States and among 15 best in the world. The School off Law is the fourth American school of right according to U.S. News and World Report . The school is distinguished particularly in the field from the Fiscalité, the International law and the Jurisprudence (philosophy of the laws). It is known in particular to have accommodated future advisers near the judges of the Supreme court of the United States. Although no former student was never named like judges this court, several of them exerted the judging function with the the International Court of Justice.

The department of Philosophie of the university is classified first on 50 anglophone universities. The department of economy arrives 10th on 200 departments in the world. The Steinhardt School off Culture, Education and Human Development has one of the 15 best American programs. Several specialities of the Wagner Graduate School off Public Service also make to part of signal 10 American. The Running Institute off Mathematical Sciences is the first in mathematics applied of the country. It is also known for its research in pure mathematics, with in particular the partial derivative equations of Professors Peter Lax and Sathamangalam R. Srinivasa Varadhan (which gained the Prix Abel, respectively in 2005 and 2007 for their research in this field), like in mathematics applied to the Bio-data processing.

Courses

Admissions

The university of New York has an important manpower of students, of which the number exceeds them: 40000 and which comes of more than 130 different countries. Only 10 % of the first-year students are originating in the town of New York, 20 % arrive of one of the three Neighboring states (Connecticut, New Jersey and New York). Close to 65 % of the students of first cycle leave a public lycée.

The university recruits mainly in the colleges of the North-East of the United States, initially in those of New York: Stuyvesant High School, Bronx High School off Science, and Brooklyn Technical High School in particular. Among all the private universities of the United States, it is it which collects the greatest number of candidatures in first cycle. Since the beginning of the years 1990, this number has almost triplet, whereas in same time, the rate of acceptance of the files fell of more than half. For example, in 1991, the NYU received close to: 10000 candidatures of which 65 % were accepted. Whereas in 2007, manpower passes to more: 34000 for a rate of only 32 %. However, the rate of acceptance was much weaker before, as in 2003 when it was only of 26,2 %.

The university of New York is placed among the first 15 American universities for the number of students having a purse of merit in first year. For the fourth consecutive year, it is also classified first by the Princeton Review in the classification of the “establishments of dream” (arriving in first choice when it is disregarded price and selectivity of the university) among the high-school pupils of last year.

Faculties and research centres

The university of New York includes/understands nearly 15 colleges , schools or institutes:

College off Arts and Science 1831
School off Law 1835
School off Medicine 1841
College off Dentistry 1865
Graduate School off Arts and Science 1886
Steinhardt School off Education 1890
Stern School off Business 1900
Institute off Fine Arts 1922
School off Continuing and Professional Studies 1934
Running Institute off Mathematical Sciences 1934
Wagner Graduate School off Public Service 1938
Ehrenkranz School off Social Work 1960
Tisch School off the Arts 1965
Gallatin School off Individualized Study 1972
College off Nursing 2005

Certain establishments were closed or were integrated at other institutions:

Daniel Guggenheim School off Aeronautics 1927 - 1973
School off Engineering 1894 - 1973 (integrated into Polytechnic Institute off New York)
Washington Public garden College (integrated into the College off Arts and Science)
University College (integrated into the College off Arts and Science)
New York College off Veterinary Suckers 1857 - 1922
College Hofstra Memorial off New York University 1935 - 1963 (from now on University Hofstra)

Campuses and their installations

The majority of the buildings of the university of New York are located inside a zone bordered at the south by Houston Street, in the east by Broadway, north by the 14 {{E}} Rue and in the west by the Sixth Avenue.

The campus of Washington Public garden

Since the end of the year 1970, the center of gravity of the university of New York is around the campus of Washington Square. Each year, the ceremonies of handing-over of diplomas of the campus of Washington Square are held within the park. Other events of less importance take place also at this place. This district is one of most dynamic of the city. After having been an important place of the artistic and intellectual life of New York, Greenwich Village is recognized today like one of the most elegant sectors of Manhattan.

Among the university equipment most notable of Washington Public garden, one finds the library Elmer Holmes Bobst , conceived by Philip Johnson and Richard Foster, which drew also several other buildings such as the Tisch Hall , the Meyer Hall and the Hagop Kevorkian Center . One also finds historical buildings like the Silver Center (formerly known under the name of “principal building”), the Brown Building (formerly called “Ash Building”, place of a tragedy sets fire to), the Judson Hall which lodge off the King Juan Carlos I Spain Center , the Vanderbilt Hall (a line of houses in the north of Washington Square), the Kaufman Management Center and the Torch Club (a center gathering the restoration and of the associative activities for the students, the teaching body and the administration). With a block more in the south of Washington Public garden, one finds “the village of Washington Square”. It is about a zone where the residences of the students and the teachers are located, mainly in the Silver Tower where is exposed an enlarging of the Bust off Sylvette , sculpture of Picasso realized in 1934.

In the years 1990, the NYU became a “university with two public gardens” while being also established with Union Public garden, located at ten minutes to foot of Washington Square. It is a district where many restaurants, living rooms and bars are.

The arch of Washington Public garden

Although concerning the public domain, the arch of Washington Square is the nonofficial symbol of the university of New York. The arch was drawn by Stanford White in 1889 to celebrate the hundredth birthday of the inauguration of New York by George Washington. In the beginning, it was made of Bois and Papier chewed. Work to rebuild it out of concrete and marble was spread out of 1890 with 1895. Today, the students of the university ravel under the arch, at the time of the ceremony of handing-over of the diplomas. The arch was the object of a restoration between 2002 and 2004, for a budget of 2,7 million dollars.

The Bobst library

Recent developments

During last years, the university developed many new equipment on the campus of Washington Square: ; The Kimmel Center for University Life

This center, opened to the students, with the teaching body, to the former students and to the personnel, constitutes a gathering place around great events, of ceremonies and artistic representations of any kind. Named in the honor of its benefactors, Helen and Martin Kimmel, the center also accommodates the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts , the Rosenthal Pavilion , the Eisner & Lubin Auditorium and the Loeb Student Center . The Kimmel center is known in particular because it illuminates Washington Square of night.

; Furman Hall

This hall is named in the honor of old studied School off Law , Jay Furman. It is composed of classes, meeting rooms, clinical program of the school of right, offices of the teachers and administrative staff. It is about a building of almost: 15800 m ², conceived by the cabinet Kohn Pederson Fox Associates PC . The university worked in dialog with the community of Greenwich Village to integrate the new building into surrounding architecture, because the project required the destruction of two old buildings. Moreover, of the elements of these two buildings were integrated into the new frontage, as of the elements of the Poe House in which the poet Edgar Allan Poe lived.

; The complex for the life sciences, an incubator for the start-up of Biotechnology

In 2005, the university announced the development of a new project for a complex dedicated to the life sciences, on Waverly Place beside the hospital Bellevue. The equipment will accommodate academic laboratories and spaces. The new complex will be created starting from the restoration of three already existing buildings.

; Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center

Medical Center of NYU on the First Avenue increased to create the Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center . The construction of the building of 13 stages proceeded of 2004 to 2006, along the East River. This building gathers forty laboratories of world level in various fields of biomedical research. It is about the most important extension of the NYU Medical Center since Skirball Building in the years 1980. This center will be directly coupled with the complex for the life sciences.

; The residence hall of the 12th Street is

In November 2005, the university announced its project to build a building of 26 stages and of: 18000 m ² on the 12th Street. This residence hall will have to accommodate 700 students of first cycle and several other equipment. It will be then about the most building of the district of the East Village. This project caused the anger of the residents because it will be built with the site of the old church Holy-Anne.

Clubs and theaters

The academy of music and the Tisch School off the Arts occurs regularly in the theaters like in other equipment managed by the NYU. All the productions are generally opened with the public. More the big rooms are without question the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts just in the south of Washington Square and the Eisner-Lubin auditorium of the Kimmel Center. Recently, John Kerry and Al Gore made important speeches of foreign politics in Skirball Center. It was also used as framework with the recording of the last episode of season 3 of the series The Apprentice . The theater Frederick Loewe and the Provincetown Playhouse on MacDougal Street are also very known to have launched, inter alia, the career of Eugene O' Neill. Its during musical is the nightclub The Bottom Line (with the corner of the 4th Western Street and Mercer Street) where Bruce Springsteen began. In spite of the objections, this club was évincé of the university for non-payment of rent, after having undergone heavy financial losses during several months.

Other campuses

The principal campus of the Medical college of NYU is located on the First Avenue at the level of the 30e Rue, along the banks of the East River. It accommodates the Medical Center , the Tisch Hospital , the research centres biomedical ( Skirball Center , and the new whole Smilow Building ) and the Rusk Institute off Rehabilitation Medicine , or the Bellevue Hospital Center a few blocks more in the south. Other centers of the university are distributed through the city, like the Hospital for Joint Diseases on the Second Avenue on the level of the 12th Street.

The school of the welfare workers, the Ehrenkranz School off Social Work , manages the program of the campus of the Manhattanville College in the Comté of Westchester and of the St Thomas Aquinas College in the county of Rockland. The university also has an establishment of research in Sterling Forest, close to Tuxedo. This complex gathers several institutes of which the Nelson Institute off Environmental Medicine . The Midtown Center on the 42e Western Street and the Woolworth Building in the district of the businesses ensure the courses of continuing education.

Residence halls

With its: 12500 residents, the university of New York has the seventh larger service university of the most important lodging of the United States and if only private establishments are considered. Most of these residences comes from the transformation from apartments and old hotels. The majority of the residences for the first-year students are located around Washington Square, whereas the students of the higher years are placed around Union Public garden. Until autumn 2005, the rooms were allotted by a system of Loterie, where more the students benefitted a long time from the residences, less they had chances to be seen allotting another room. However, since 2006, the students of second year are privileged in the granting of the rooms, by having the choice of their residence of assignment. This decision was made in order to make it possible promotions of second year to remain together in the zone of Union Public garden. All the students of first cycle are ensured to obtain a housing at the time of their inscription at the university. This one also deals with its own transport system for the students, with Bus and Trolley S.

The service of lodging for the students of first cycle has twenty-two buildings. They all are directed by the Council Inter-Residences (CIR), an association coed. Each residence elects there representatives who meet in committees and vote at the time of councils. The goal of this group is to coordinate intended programs with the students and to establish the link with the administration of the university.

International Houses

The university has several international houses to promote the study of the cultures and the foreign languages. They have their own classrooms, libraries, offices and even sometimes, their own events. The international houses of the NYU are:

Deutsches Haus
the French House
Glucksman Ireland House,
Put Italiana,
King Juan Carlos I off Spain Center
Hagop Kevorkian Center
Africa House
China House

The university is also one of the founding members of the World University Ligue ( League off World Universities ).

Campuses abroad

The University of New York developed an important program of studies abroad, in which many students take part. Contrary to the majority of the universities, the NYU directly has university complexes in several countries. The campus of NYU Florence, with the Villa Pietra (Italy), is most important with its 23 hectares. It was bequeathed to the university by Sir Harold Acton in 1994. The university deals thus with the students of first cycle who leave for one year to Florence, London, Paris, Prague, Berlin, Accra, Madrid or Shanghai.

Cultural environment

Washington Square was a long time the center of the cultural life of New York. The artists of the Hudson To rivet School, the first university of American painting, settled there at the beginning of the 19th century. Samuel Morse and Daniel Huntington was tenants in the old building of the university. The university indeed rented residential studios and spaces within the university buildings. Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Hermann Melville and Walt Whitman contributed to the dynamism artistic by having significant interactions with the cultural life and academic of the university.

In the Years 1870, the sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French lived and worked near the public garden. Starting from the Years 1920, the zone surrounding Washington Square was known in all the country to be a hearth of artistic and moral nonconformism. Among the famous residents of this time, one finds in particular Eugene O' Neill, John Sloan or Maurice Prendergast. In the Years 1930, the abstract expressionnists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, as well as realistic the Edward Hopper and Thomas Benton had their studio in the Village. In the Years 1960, Washington Public garden and the Village became one of the cradles of the generation “ happy and folk ” when Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan lived there.

The Fraternité S were very popular at the end of the 19th century. The first fraternities had a social vocation. They sought thereafter to attract novel members by proposing sports activities, professional and intellectual. Today, the clubs have varied interests, cultural heritage with the trade, of the policy being studied victoriennes. In spite of that, the interest for these fraternities has been decreasing for several decades.

The Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts constitutes an important extension for the cultural life of the NYU and Washington Square. It is about a professional theater of 860 places which opened in October 2003. Y were in particular produced Playboy off the Western World of the Abbey Theater of Dublin, the first world one of Mabou Mines Red Beads , a series in concerts of the World Music Institute as well as companies of dance, of which Lar Lubovitch and Bill T. Jones.

The university sport

Life coed

The localization of the university in the center of Greenwich Village, a fish pond of artists, writers, intellectuals and musicians, gives to the studies a prospect without equal. The campus is a succession of buildings and structures disseminated in the Village, making of him a model of urban integration. The admissions are not based on the financial position of the students and more 50 % of them receive a purse. The whole of the student body presents a large variety with regard to the ethnic origin, cultural, political and religious. They live in majority in residence halls located in Greenwich Village, thus forming a kind of enclave inside the city.

In 2004, the university of New York inaugurated its new whole Center Kimmel for the life coed, in the south of Washington Square. It is composed of a center for the performing arts of: 1022 seats (the Skirball Center for Performing Arts ), of a space for community life and of living rooms for the students.

Organizations coeds

The university encourages itself the students to create their own activities. In particular, the possibility of creating a club starting from four members became a fashion which makes it possible each one to be found around same activities.

Fraternities

Fraternities, taking as a starting point the Greece, appeared on the campus as of 1837 with the arrival of Psi Upsilon . Since, they multiplied to reach the number of 25 Fraternité S and Sororité S.

Four different councils manage the life of fraternities within the university: the Council Inter-fraternities ( Interfraternity Council - IFC) which deals with fourteen of them, the Council Panhellénique ( Panhellenic Council - PhC) manages seven of them, and four others are under the authority of the Greek Multicultural Council ( Multicultural Greek Council - MGC). These three councils themselves are gathered within one only and even body: the Council Inter-Greeks ( Inter-Greek Council ).

Fraternities of the university have a history and an incomparable success on several urban campuses. Zeta Psi and Alpha Epsilon pi was founded both at the university of New York, respectively in 1847 and 1913. The chapter of the university relating to Delta Phi , founded in 1841, is the active fraternity which with greatest longevity in the world, without any interruption. The local branch of fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is most important within movement DKE, in 2006. As for the local branch of pi Kappa Alpha , it is about the most important fraternity of the campus by the number of members.

Network of former students

See also: List of personalities of the University of New York

The University of New York has the great advantage of having a solid network of former students. As a larger private university of the country, it profits from the most important network of the world with close to: 350000 former students at the end of 2004, of which at least: 17000 live abroad. However, within AAU, the university records more the low level of gifts by its former students. Indeed, only 11% of enter them make a donation each year, which very weak is compared with the 35% of Columbia or the 61% of Princeton. This rate is sometimes regarded as an indicator to evaluate the level of satisfaction of the former students. If this interpretation is sometimes disputed, it does not remain about it less than it has a considerable impact on the capacity of the university to raising funds. Indeed, more it is supported by its former students, more the large companies are likely to make gifts. The service charged with the former students supervises many activities thus, such as the meetings of promotion, of the local meetings, the organized voyages and a service for employment. The former students become aware that it is important to continue to support the university to increase the value of their formation. They are thus encouraged to make donations in order to maintain an elevated level of requirement, and thus of fame.

Some traditions coeds

the first week of the year: since 1900, the new students are accommodated by a series of ceremonies of initiation. On the campus of University Heights, in the Bronx, the students of last year took along some first-year students to a feeding trough of the beginning of the 19th century. Their head was plunged in what was known under the name of “fountain of the knowledge”. This practice remained until in the years 1970. Nowadays, they “are voluntarily refreshed” in Washington Square Park during the first week of the year, under the supervision of oldest.

the first week of course, a “ thankless struggle ” opposes the first-year students to those of second year of the business school (the Stern School off Business).

the “festival of apple” ( Apple Fest ) in October, with all the folklore Country, including the boots of Hay, the Pumpkin S, the Cider, the plays, the contests, the prices, the craft industry, the music and a good number of Pomme S. It recalls a rural festival which for a long time took place on the semi-rural campus of University Heights.

the “dinner of harvest” ( Harvest Dinner ) in November: this banquet is held each autumn for the students of last cycle, in which an eminent speaker takes part. It is about another rural festival.

the “festival of the winter” ( Winter Fest ) in February: it takes place in Washington Square and celebrates this fresh period of the year with lights, a stall of food, music, plays and activities.

the “ball of the violet” ( Purple Ball ) in March: a studying ball which takes place each year in spring in the atrium of Bobst.

the “festival of the strawberry” ( Strawberry Fest ) in April: tradition which goes back to several decades during which bring together the students, the teachers and the personnel of the university to celebrate health, the community and the strawberry S. This fair of street includes plays of longest Carnaval and sanded to the strawberries.

the festival of the sorbet ( Sherbet Fest ) during the day of revision, in spring: the day preceding the last examinations, fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon brings together students in order to eat Sorbet fresh and tasty, on Schwartz Plaza. It occurs just at the time of spring when heat starts to settle.

the “breakfast of midnight” ( Midnight Breakfast ): a ritual of period of examination where a meal is offered free to midnight (in Weinstein and Palladium). It consists of a breakfast which helps to face the long nights spent to study.

The university and the city

As a sixth larger employer of the town of New York, the university is a dominating actor within the urban community, whether it is at the political level or the level of town planning.

The university thus recently announced its support for the project PlaNYC 2030 , initiated by the mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg. This project aims at reducing by 30% the emissions of Gaz to greenhouse effect from here to 2030 in the city. For that the project envisages to act on five great fields: the grounds, the Water, the Air, the energy and the Transport S. the university of New York was thus committed continuing the same reduction objectives, in particular by a policy of energy restoration. In October 2006, the executive vice-president of the university presented his project, the Green Action Plan, to make energy saving and to reduce the environmental print of the university. This plan envisages the implication of the students, the teachers and the personnel in particular by funds and programs in favor of the Sustainable development. One of the most significant acts in this field goes back to October 2006. The university indeed announced the purchase of 118 million Kilowatt-heure of wind energy, which represents its annual energy consumption. According to the arranges American environmental protection, it acts of the most important transaction on the matter, carried out by the American university and 11th more important of the country, all confused institutions.

The university of New York does not hesitate either to invest in public spaces of Greenwich Village. Thus, in recognition of the importance of Washington Public garden Park, which has been used each year for 30 years like place of ceremonies, the university made a gift of: 300000 dollars in favor of the bottom for the Arch, as well as an additional million dollars in order to increase the effort of restoration of the entire park.

Lastly, the university is also implied very strongly near the local community. It has in particular the most important program of the country against the Illettrisme (assistance with the training of the reading and the numbers), with nearly 900 tutors in 96 schools of the city. There exists also a program of Philanthropie for the employees of the university, the NYU Community Fund (“Community bottom”), which allowed the granting of 72 Subvention S local organizations

the contractors of the Old University Building made use of prisoners of Sing Sing to cut out the marble. It was besides the catalyst of the revolt of the stone masons .
the Tisch School off the Arts produced with it only more oscarized actors than any other institution of the United States.
a big fire occurred in the Brown Building on March 15th, 1991. It lodged at the time a factory of the Triangle Shirtwaist . More than one hundred of workmen of textile industry, for the majority of the young women, died or jumped in the vacuum after all the exits were condemned. This fire led to the adoption of a more constraining legislation concerning the safety of the factories.
the old University Building is the theater of several stories of phantoms. It is told that the spirit surveys the halls and the staircases. In 1880, the San Francisco Chronicle announced that “the structure has a bad reputation near the servants of the vicinity… They think that corpses, skeletons and other dreadful things rest deeply under the foundations”.
Rick Rubin, the cofounder of the label Def Jam, is a former student who created the company in his room of residence hall. This room is in the wing has, on the 8th floor of the Weinstein residence.

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