Clubs and Organizations
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Access Health |
Afghan Students Association |
African Heritage Month |
African Students Union |
Agape Week Planning Committee |
American Civil Liberties Union @ NYU |
Amnesty International |
Anatolian Culture Club (ACC) |
Arab Students United |
Armenian Hokee |
Asian American Christian Fellowship |
Asian American Women's Alliance |
Asian Business Society |
Asian Cultural Union |
Asian Heritage Month |
Asian Pacific American Student Alliance |
Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA)Web Address · Phone: 212.998.6575 |
Association of Black Faculty, Administrators, and Staff (ABFAS)Co-Chair: Grace Cambridge · Phone: 212.998.8701 |
Association of Hispanic and Black Business StudentsEmail · Web Address |
Atheists, Agnostics and Freethinkers |
OFFICES/SERVICES SPOTLIGHT
Office of Student Activities (OSA)
OSA offers advisement and leadership development programs for student organizations at NYU.
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.