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Administrative Management Council
The Administrative Management Council is the organization through which the administrators (management and professional personnel) of NYU participate in University governance. Representatives to the AMC are elected from within each school and division.
Director: Julie Avina

Institute Afro American Affairs

The murder of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 sparked the intensification of an NYU program to improve educational opportunities for minority groups. Central to the plan was the establishment of a scholarship program named for Dr. King. Also in 1968, John Hatchett was hired by Chancellor Cartter to direct the new Martin Luther King Jr. Afro-American Student Center. His appointment became controversial when it was discovered that Hatchett had authored an article accusing the New York City public school system of being dominated by "anti-black Jews and Black Anglo-Saxons." Religious organizations on campus labeled his comments "Black Nazism." During the controversy, Hatchett announced that certain seminars at the Center would be open only to Black students. At first, the administration vowed to keep Hatchett, an action which led to issues of racism, anti-Semitism, and freedom of speech being hotly debated on campus. However, after further review and increased pressure, Hatchett was fired. NYU President Hester responded that such policies "are not in keeping with the spirit in which the Center was created and certainly not in keeping with the spirit in which I endorsed it." The University decided that it did not wish to endorse a center that students saw as "a form of separatism," and the Martin Luther King Jr. Afro-American Student Center came under the control of an independent board of Black students and faculty who were willing to take full responsibility for the Center in order to secure its existence. The Afro-American Studies Institute was also created to provide lectures, workshops, conferences and programs about Black identity. This is now known as the Institute of African American Affairs.

CTE supports faculty and graduate student teaching at New York University. CTE organizes workshops, offers individual feedback and consultation services, and provides other practical resources to members of the NYU community to enhance their effectiveness in the classroom and laboratory.

The center's programs and services treat teaching as serious intellectual work that is integrally related to, and supportive of, the research conducted by faculty, and approach college courses as windows on, and expressions of, the way faculty define and practice their disciplines and inter-disciplines.

CTE also promotes an ongoing, university-wide discussion about teaching and learning matters, striving both to facilitate and contribute to that conversation. Diversity in teaching and learning and the employment of technology in teaching are among the special, recurrent priorities for that discussion.