New York University News

Its most interesting feature, however, is not architectural, but financial. The house, which is owned by John Sexton, the president of New York University, was bought with a $600,000 loan from an N.Y.U. foundation that eventually grew to be $1 million, according to Suffolk County land records.

New York University has loaned millions of dollars to select faculty and administrators for them to buy vacation homes, an unprecedented compensation deal critics say is excessive.

New York University loaned its school president John Sexton $1,000,000 to finance his lavish vacation home on Fire Island , according to a report from The New York Times.

Following crowd-funding campaigns from "Veronica Mars" and Zach Braff, James Franco is trying to raise $500,000 to bankroll a trilogy of movies.

Integrity in academia touches - among other things - on the respect for research participants, the proper use of public funds, the acknowledgement of peer collaborations as well as responsible communication of collected data and potential conflicts of interest.

Mixed-race people are more likely to be considered black by conservatives, who are subconsciously attempting to "justify racial divisions," said the authors of a new government-funded study.

Far from resisting the exploitation of their students, colleges have made academic credit a commodity.

The relationship between New York University and Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng - whose flight from his homeland last year caused a major diplomatic tangle - has soured as the university denies claims it is evicting Chen from his campus apartment.

Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez has named seven senior staff members with extensive experience in consumer protection and antitrust law.

Lawrence J. DeNardis, Ph.D, president emeritus and distinguished professor of political science at the University of New Haven will be the speaker at this year's Annual Meeting.

Three recent graduates of Lake Oswego schools will attend New York University's newest campus in Shanghai in the fall.

It was a Saturday night at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and the second-floor auditorium held an odd mix of gray-haired, cerebral Upper East Side types and young, scruffy downtown grad students in black denim.

Sashika Gunawardana, who graduated from NYU in 2012, has monthly payments from student loans that total $1,000, leaving her with little leftover to save for graduate school, or to even visit family in California.

He has been active in sports and other clubs, and is one of the top five students in the Class of 2013-and Bridgewater-Raritan High School senior Mayank Kapoor is now preparing to deliver the student speech at Thursday's graduation.

Malaysian student Bong Meen Szer takes part in calligraphy contest at Xiamen University.

Chen Guangcheng , the Chinese dissident who fled his home country to become a visiting scholar at New York University , accused the school on Sunday of asking him to leave because of "unrelenting pressure" from China .

When William Rainey Harper, president of the University of Chicago , proposed to add a law school to the new university in 1902, he entrusted the project to Ernst Freund, a political-science professor, former practicing lawyer and well-known expert on police power and the free-speech rights of dissidents.

A former instructor at New York University went on a bizarre rampage Friday morning in Brooklyn, grabbing a man's dog and demanding it reveal its name and then dousing another woman with fruit punch and saying it was his blood.

The Archdiocese of Hartford has named Sister Mariette J. Moan, ASCJ, as its new Director of the Office for Religious.

The News Journal caught up with several of the local 2008 valedictorians to see what they have been up to since high school.