I don’t think this can be solved that simply. The best schools aren’t the best because they excel at just one program/field, they are the best because the university devotes resource and funding to all of its schools. Right now it seems NYU is neglecting its academic duties. I also am afraid of the devaluing of my NYU degree because NYU seems to want to accept more students who are just under-qualified. LSP is just one example and it’s a pretty obvious one at that. Another recent example would be Tandon. I can’t believe that they would propose a merger with Poly / Tandon even though many students there definitely do not have the credentials to be accepted at NYU. In doing this, they are attacking their own reputation especially their math, financial math, applied math and computer science department at Courant. It would’ve made much more sense to include building an engineering school in the 2031 plan or start an engineering program affliated with Courant from scratch. I believe they already knew this because it is much cheaper to just buy a school instead of making a new one even if it harms your own school’s reputation. NYU wanted to mitigate the damage by renaming the school to Tandon so it would be harder to associate it with the old school that accepts ~70% of their applicants. To them, it’s hitting three birds with one stone, more applicants + more space + more tuition = more money in their pockets. I didn’t realize that there would be such an easy backdoor to NYU until after I applied and it made me regret coming here. The 2031 plan is just an extension of this idea, more space, more applicants, more money.
Also there is lot of shady things that happen in the board of trustees, and it seems embezzling is one of them. Some of the buildings that are a part of NYU aren’t owned but leased and the land lord is none other than the people at one of the high administrative seats. The same could be said about our student loans because the people that run NYU are also corporate presidents or CEOs who buy and sell loans. I would consider these type of people parasites. They infected NYU and they are stealing money that should’ve been spent on academia/research and loading their own / their company’s pockets. They only way NYU can be saved is if the host dies aka NYU falls so low that the parasites have nothing more to gain. I really hope this doesn’t happen but this is the trend I’m seeing. Even though Alexander Hamilton is a chemistry professor, I feel like the corrupt board will only choose people that will benefit them, not NYU. In order to fix this, they shouldn’t fund expanding student housing and instead make NYU much more selective. They should use that resource to fund more research which benefits professors. post docs, and grad students. They should improve technology and equipment that are needed for research and lab. If they want space, they should create more labs and buildings devoted to certain research. Most importantly they should be supporting their undergraduate students because they are the students that are representing NYU. Instead of spending money on useless things like cohort cup and cohort meetings, they should be encouraging NYU students to attend nationwide competitions in their respective fields. They should create a way for NYU students to easily apply to research positions because NYU is a research university. They should make schools/majors more specific such as Cornell’s applied economics or Carnegie mellon’s school of computer science to attract the top students that are aiming towards a specific field. For example, undergraduate financial mathematics or Compurational finance would definitely by a desired major.