How We Engage

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Our global community, across three degree-granting campuses and thirteen global locations includes students from nearly every state and 133 countries; this attracts and ensures a dynamic community. This representation is among our greatest assets—leading to new discoveries, cultivating fresh perspectives, uncovering and reclaiming common bonds, and working together. Our global community – reflecting a remarkable and distinctive diversity of people, places, and perspectives – won’t always agree, but this shouldn’t limit our learning. Explore the various tools and resources that NYU has to offer as you work toward expanding your capacity for meaningful dialogue, promoting understanding across differences, and integrating what you learn within the NYU community and beyond. 

As part of our How We Engage initiative, we are offering a suite of modules, experiences, programs, and resources designed to:

  • build our individual and collective capacity for meaningful dialogue
  • promote understanding across differences 
  • ensure shared foundational community standards and
  • advance Our NYU Commitment.

How We Engage Modules

The modules within the How We Engage initiative offer essential resources to build dialogue skills, understand community standards, and foster inclusivity, providing practical tools to help you engage thoughtfully and empathetically within the NYU community.

Module 1. Introduction to How We Engage 
This module introduces you to our shared commitments and goals of the How We Engage initiative. 

Module 2. Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy Training for Students
On your NYU Brightspace page, you'll find core trainings and video modules, with relevant deadlines for completing them. These offerings are asynchronous, which allows you to manage completing these elements at your own pace. 

Module 3. Constructive Dialogue Institute’s Perspectives Program
Perspectives is being offered in partnership with the Constructive Dialogue Institute, a national nonprofit that builds educational tools to foster inclusive learning environments that support dialogue across differences. First year undergraduate students are mandated to complete the program, which is being delivered through their Schools. All other students can access the Perspectives Program through the How We Engage Toolkit on BrightSpace. 

Module 4. Inclusive Dialogue and Leadership Video Series
The series was developed by Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow, who lead the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at NYU School of Law, and is based on their book Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice. Through stories informed by interviews with NYU community members, the series teaches skills that promote more meaningful, empathetic dialogue on issues of identity. 

Experiences

Immersive experiences, such as museum visits and community events that create space for reflection, education, conversation, are offered to support understanding and connection across differences. These shared experiences are designed to spark curiosity, deepen understanding, and strengthen your ability to engage thoughtfully with others. Join your peers in exploring and engaging with the world around us. Check back regularly, as experiences will be added as they occur.

Frida and Diego: The Last Dream celebrates Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera—two of Mexico’s most beloved icons of 20th-century art—in a first-of-its-kind collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera. Organized in conjunction with the Met’s new production of El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, the presentation at MoMA features artworks by Kahlo and Rivera in an elaborate setting designed by Jon Bausor, the set and co-costume designer of the opera. For both the opera and installation, Bausor evokes the artists’ lives and artworks in his theatrical designs. Frida and Diego: The Last Dream runs now through September 12, 2026. 

Students, faculty, and staff can receive free admission at the MoMa by presenting their NYU ID.

In works full of sharp wit and incisive commentary, Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, Orange County, California) engages sound and the complexities of communication in its various modes. Using musical notation, infographics, and language—both in her native American Sign Language (ASL) and written English—she has produced drawings, videos, sculptures, and installations that often explore non-auditory, political dimensions of sound. In many works, Kim draws directly on the spatial dynamism of ASL, translating it into graphic form. By emphasizing images, the body, and physical space, she upends the societal assumption that spoken languages are superior to those that are signed. Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night runs now through September 28, 2026.

Students can reserve a free ticket by using code NYU1 and presenting their NYU ID at the museum.

The eighty-second edition of the Whitney Biennial, like those before it, offers a space for contemplating the shifting currents of art in the United States, asking not only what is being made but also what it means to name something “American” at all. Attentive to the feelings that saturate contemporary life and bind people together, this Biennial is less a definitive answer than an invitation to tune in to the moods offered by an intergenerational and international group of fifty-six artists, duos, and collectives who sustain this ongoing conversation. Alongside artists from across the country, the exhibition features works by artists from places marked by the broad reach of US power, ranging from Afghanistan to Vietnam. The Whitney Biennial runs now through August 23, 2026. 

Students can reserve a free ticket by using code NYU1 and presenting their NYU ID at the museum.

Programs

Programs are offered to help develop the skills to navigate differences, so that every person at NYU can engage as part of our shared, complex community. We invite you, our students, to embrace the challenge and opportunity of growing, practicing, and developing these skills to engage with each other. Check back regularly, as programs will be added as they occur.

Resources and Trainings

Explore a variety of resources tailored to support your growth in understanding and navigating complexities within our shared community. These resources are designed to help you continue developing your skills at your own pace, ensuring you are well-equipped to engage thoughtfully and effectively with others at NYU.

  • MindfulNYU

    MindfulNYU hosts daily yoga classes, group meditation, large scale events and mindfulness workshops for students, faculty and staff.

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  • Listening Labs

    Listening Labs are judgment-free, advice-free, welcoming spaces where you can be heard and connect deeply with your peers.

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  • Wellness Workshops

    Develop skills that enhance personal, academic, and social well-being.

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  • Group Counseling

    A safe and confidential place to talk to other students who have had similar experiences. Gaining support, healing, and perspective.

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  • Restorative Practices

    Build capacity in how to engage, lead, and understand community engagement.

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  • Building Community: Leadership and Connection through Restorative Practices

    This workshop is built for students who want to strengthen their skills in how they engage with others, build trust, and take on leadership.

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Community Standards

Guidelines and policies that support the maintenance of an educational and inclusive environment.

We are committed to maintaining an educational environment where discrimination and harassment have no place, and where safety, inclusion, and respect are paramount. As part the commitment, we require all students to complete the Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment (NDAH) Policy Training for Students. This module guides you through our NDAH policies and student conduct expectations, ensuring that everyone understands the standards that uphold our community values.

Read: Explore key policies, including the NDAH Policy, University Student Conduct Policy, and additional guidance on expected conduct.

Watch: Engage with a comprehensive video detailing NYU’s NDAH Policy and complaint procedures.

Complete: A brief training confirmation on your understanding and commitment to NYU’s standards.

See Spring 2026 How We Engage Toolkit FAQs for any questions regarding your NDAH training.

The University Student Conduct Policy on forms of non-academic student misconduct, which also promotes our shared community and maintains our educational functions.

Because NYU is, first and foremost, a place of teaching, learning, and scholarship, we want to reaffirm — amidst a concerning rise in hate and intimidation nationally and internationally — our expectations for student conduct.

Additional Resources

Whether you’re seeking guidance, wellness support, or resources to navigate university life, these offerings are here to empower your success and well-being.

  • Office of the Dean of Students

    A great place to start if you have questions and are not sure where to go; provides advocacy and support when students face challenges.

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  • Wellness Exchange

    The Wellness Exchange is your greatest mental health resource at NYU. Make an appointment, or arrange a same-day Urgent Counseling session

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  • Report a Concern

    As a member of the NYU community, there are the various methods you can use to report an incident. 

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