Clubs and Organizations

OFFICES/SERVICES SPOTLIGHT

Family and Community Initiatives
As part of the Faculty Resources Office, the Family and Community Initiatives Office is dedicated to the family life of faculty, staff, administration, and graduate students of NYU. It provides information about child care and education resources, elder/adult dependent care, and work-family counseling.

Louis Pasteur

NYU's commitment to international student and faculty exchange began as early as 1892. Louis Pasteur wrote to Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken and encouraged student exchange: "With the thought of making access to our higher education easier for young foreigners who come to France to continue or finish their studies, several men, belonging for the most part to the world of science and letters, have formed in Paris a Committee for Encouragement of Foreign Students…Convinced, Mr. Chancellor, of the sympathy with which you will welcome a project which can only reinforce the bonds of reciprocal esteem and friendship which unite our two countries…please be our interpreter to the youth of your colleges and assure them of our entire sympathy. Tell them how welcome they will be if they wish to make use of the resources which our higher education places at the disposal of scienceÉ"