Month: May 2024
NYU Langone terminates nurse after speech about ‘current genocide in Gaza’
A labor nurse at NYU Langone Health was terminated earlier this month after she spoke about the suffering of women “during the current genocide in Gaza” in a speech when accepting an award for her work aiding mothers who had lost their children during pregnancy and childbirth. Hesen Jabr received this year’s Sebastian Brown Compassionate…
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High-Converting Course Landing Page: The Ultimate Guide And Examples
Eager to learn how to convert as many people as possible? Create an engaging landing page. This article casts light on what makes the course landing page successful. It contains compelling examples of how to use different triggers to encourage people to enroll. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.
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Faculty group threatens NYU with service strike if demands are not met by fall
Some faculty and staff at NYU are threatening to withhold administrative work for the fall semester if senior leadership does not remove police from campus and pardon those facing disciplinary action for their participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations by Aug. 1, NYU’s Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine group announced this morning. The strike would…
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NYU leadership proposes budget of $4.3 billion for next academic year
NYU announced it proposed a budget of $4.3 billion for the 2024-25 academic year to the board of trustees in a universitywide memo last week, marking a 5% increase from last year’s $4.1 million. Under the budget — signed by interim provost Georgina Dopico and Executive Vice President Martin Dorph — the undergraduate cost of…
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OSC to ‘improve the quality’ of assignments imposed on students arrested in Gould Plaza after faculty complaints
NYU said the Office of Student Conduct will begin looking at ways “to improve the quality” of reflection papers imposed on students arrested at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Gould Plaza later in the fall, after hundreds of faculty complained about the practice in a letter to university leadership. In the May 15 letter, over…
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Admins apologize to graduates for waiting hours outside Yankee Stadium
NYU expressed its “most sincere apology” to the hundreds of graduates who waited in line outside Yankee Stadium for what dozens said to be over two hours during this year’s all-university commencement exercises in a Wednesday email sent to graduates obtained by WSN. The email, signed by university administrators Regina Drew and Guido Ditto, said…
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Students protest war in Gaza at graduation ceremonies
Graduates across NYU’s schools wore keffiyeh scarves, carried signs and held Palestinian flags at their respective graduation ceremonies last week in protest of the war in Gaza and the university’s recent crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus, which have led to dozens of student and faculty arrests. NYU president Linda Mills — who has faced…
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