CAS Dean Santirocco steps down to lead curriculum development at NYU Shanghai
College of Arts and Science Dean Matthew Santirocco will leave his post at the end of this semester to become senior vice provost for undergraduate academic affairs.
According to a university-wide email, Santirocco will lead curriculum development for NYU Shanghai, the university's third portal campus, which is set to open in the fall of 2013. Santirocco will begin his new position this summer.
Current chair of the English department G. Gabrielle Starr will serve as acting dean of CAS. A search committee will be appointed this fall to chose a permanenet replacement.
Santirroco served as CAS dean for 17 years and had the second-longest tenure in the school's history. The news comes a week after the university announced that marketing professor Geeta Menon will be the new dean of the Stern School of Business.
With proposed expansion in Madrid, NYU considers location possible site for next degree granting campus
NYU announced today that it intends to expand the university's academic program in Madrid.
The exact details of the plan were not released, but the statement said that NYU President John Sexton signed an agreement with the president of the Madrid Regional government Esperanza Aguirre today to "begin a study of ways to expand NYU's academic program in Madrid."
Though the proposed expansion would be to NYU's current study abroad site, NYU spokesman John Beckman did not rule out the possibility that eventually the site could evolve into a degree granting campus.
"We have been frank in saying that were NYU to have a fourth portal campus, we'd look to have it in Europe," he said in an email. "Could this at some point in time become another portal campus? I don't think we can foreclose that possibility."
Beckman added: "The plans announced today express an aspiration for Madrid to be the home of our most robust and networked Study Away program, and that that might over time evolve into the granting of some degrees but not at the scale of our portal campuses."
When the university reached an agreement with China's Ministry of Education in March to build a portal campus in Shanghai, Sexton told WSN that a portal campus in Madrid "has logic to it."
NYU's site in Madrid is the university's oldest study abroad site, and Sexton said NYU has a "compelling symmetry" with the city.
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Brittany fire intentionally started by NYU student
UPDATE 10:13 A.M.
NYU spokesman John Beckman said residence hall staff at Britanny spoke to residents face-to-face about the fire. Beckman said there were about 75 to 100 students in attendance.
FDNY has confirmed that the fire that started in Brittany Residence Hall Saturday night was set purposefully by an NYU student who "appeared suicidal." The fire broke out on the 8th floor of the residence hall at about 9 p.m.
Authorities said the student started a small fire that was extinguished before members of the fire department arrived on the scene. Additionally, the student inflicted several lacerations to himself. The wounds were not life-threatening, however, and the student was taken to Bellevue Hospital for further examination. No other students were injured.
Students were evacuated from Brittany once the alarms were set off. Once allowed back into the building, however, students were not immediately allowed to go back to their rooms and were told to wait in the first floor Rhodes Room lounge. Students were only allowed onto the upper floors beginning at around 11 p.m.
According to NYU spokesman John Beckman, the fire appeared to have started on a pile of clothing. He said that the damage to the room was minimal, but for a variety of reasons, ...
Schools chancellor Black steps down
After just three months in office, Cathie Black has stepped down as the New York City schools chancellor.
In a move quite unlike the third-term mayor, Bloomberg admitted that his controversial appointment of a woman with no previous public education experience — Black's previous position had been at Hearst — had been a mistake. It is rumored that her resignation was strongly encouraged by Bloomberg. Black's successor is deputy mayor Dennis Walcott.
"Cathie Black became chancellor of our school system earlier this year and worked tirelessly to continue to build on our progress," Bloomberg said in a press release. "I have nothing but respect and admiration for her, but we both agree it is in the city's best interest if she steps down as chancellor."
Back in November, Bloomberg's initial argument for Black was her business acumen. She was a manager, he said. The outcry by parents, the United Federation of Teachers and the press in response to the selection of Black was enormous. Being able to manage was not enough to get a grip on the city's many failing schools in a system plagued by budget cuts, her critics said.
Black began work just two months after city school report cards had been released: Forty percent of the city's schools had been graded with a C or below, based primarily on state exams in math and English. Overall student performance had declined under her predecessor Joel Klein, who received a similar backlash ...
Mid-week Round-Up: April 7
Here's an upper after that epic downer, a virtual Xanax if you will: "When Harry Met Sally 2", brought to you by Billy Crystal, Mike Tyson, Helen Mirren and a bunch of other celebs. You'll LOL hard, guys. Although I do wish that Meg Ryan was in it — she kind of fell off the face of the earth.
Sorry to go heavy on the entertainment news, but this is breaking (and incredibly depressing): Alec Baldwin said that next season will be "30 Rock's" last. I will never forgive you for this, Baldwin, not even if you donate your net worth to Tisch (because that money won't go toward my education anyways). It's not even April 22, when Jack Donaghy honors Richard Nixon's death by getting drunk and making some unpopular decision. Somebody bring me some ...
