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Priorities Statement
Priorities Statement for 2005-06
Graduate School of Arts and Science
February 1, 2006
Introduction
Each academic year the Graduate School of Arts and Science puts out a "Priorities Statement" that outlines its hopes and ambitions for the coming academic year. Some of them, such as making some progress on the urgent need for appropriate and affordable graduate student housing, persist from year to year. Others reflect a new initiative. This statement has four themes:
Governance
The globalization of graduate education
The Common Course Initiative and other program enhancements
The furtherance of community
This statement also announces another step towards better graduate student housing: in 2006-7, any entering GSAS doctoral student funded through the MacCracken program will have access to our subsidized housing program.
Underlying our hopes and ambitions is a consistent mission: to continue to build a graduate school of arts and science that has great faculty, great students, and great ideas. The purpose of a graduate school, central to the modern research university, is to make discoveries and generate theories and ideas; to exchange ideas among its constituencies and members and the public; to educate the next generation of scholars, researchers, intellectuals, artists, and teachers; and to sustain an ethical and diverse community of advanced inquiry that embodies the principles of academic freedom, integrity, and mutual respect among its members. It is a characteristic of the university that big events, new ideas, and stubborn controversies happen here. Recently NYU has been the site of a conflict over the issue of the unionization of graduate assistants, and it is important to GSAS that our academic mission and values frame our discussions and disagreements.
Click here for the complete 2005-06 priorities statement.
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