New Academic Initiatives

New York

Since 2002:

• Launched the Partners Initiative, the largest expansion of tenured and tenure-track positions in the arts and sciences in NYU’s history.
  
• Restored engineering as an academic discipline at NYU after an absence of 40 years.
  
• Built first dedicated science facility for NYU in 30 years, expanding the space for life sciences at Washington Square by approximately 30 percent.
  
• Responded to the Mayor Bloomberg’s Applied Sciences NYC challenge, leading to the creation of the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) in Brooklyn
  
• Created the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW)
  
• Launched the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment Initiative
  
• Created NYU MAGNET (Media and Games Network), creating in Brooklyn the first collaborative space for several NYU schools to advance the fields of game design, digital media design, digital education, computer science, and engineering.
  
• Created a Faculty of Health, and the NYU School of Global Public Health
  
• Launched The Marron Institute on Cities
  
• Instituted a program to make undocumented applicants living in New York State eligible for the same institutional scholarship aid opportunities as other US applicants.
  
• Began a pilot program to create a “Box-blind” student application process that involves a preliminary admissions decision without awareness of whether a student “checked the box” about a previous criminal conviction and a second review by specially-trained admissions officers to assess whether the applicant’s record raises safety concerns for the NYU community.