Jesse L. Martin, who will remain forever in our hearts as Detective Ed Green, chatted with Daily Intel about his alma mater's seemingly insatiable appetite, "Everything can't have a purple flag on it. I'm just a New York resident, so I see the things in a bigger picture. You know, I love NYU, I owe them my career, but the truth of the matter is, it doesn't mean that they get to have every building in the Village." On the other hand, NYU President John Sexton said, "NYU is not gobbling up; NYU is enhancing the Village... Every day I get stopped on the street and thanked by people who are neighbors of ours for what NYU does in the Village." more ›

It's trite to call NYU's 2031 expansion plans "ambitious" at this point, given that the school wants to add 3 million square feet in the Village alone. The school is feeling the full opposition of Village locals and the executive director of the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation says that the plan is “a little like BP saying they show respect for the environment.” We don't know if that's completely apt, but in a New York Magazine feature, there is a NYU President John Sexton/Robert Moses parallel to mull over. The center of this controversy lies at the proposed 400 foot tower on Bleecker Street, which would be lodged alongside the I.M Pei designed Silver Towers. more ›

College presidents in New York are making bank. Last year, three of the top 10 highest-paid private-college presidents nationwide received million dollar paychecks from New York’s most elite instititions, the Post reports. According to a report by the College Board, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute president Shirley Ann Jackson earned $1.6 million in 2007-08 while Columbia University's president, Lee Bollinger brought in $1.38 million and NYU's John Sexton $1.3 million. In all, 23 college presidents across the country topped the $1 million mark, nearly double the number from 2006-07. more ›

A reader sent us a scan of a flier she found at NYU's student center, "It’s a flier for a NYU financial aid plan that basically tells students that can’t afford NYU to go to CUNY," and points out it's crazy that "NYU can’t give its students decent financial aid even though John Sexton flies to Abu Dhabi every other week and we keep buying new buildings all over the city." The school's tuition is around $50,000. more ›

The Chronicle of Higher Education released its annual salary survey of the heads of educational institutions and the value of a college education is evidenced in the paychecks being cashed by institutions' presidents. More than a dozen heads of private universities took home more than $1 million during the 2005-06 school year. According to the New York Post, the dean of higher earning was Donald Ross, who took home $5.7 million--most in deferred compensation after... more ›

New York University is urging students who are feeling overwhelmed to contact the school's mental health facilities, a few days after one of its incoming freshman killed himself by jumping from the 15th-floor roof of his Union Square dorm on East 14th St. Eighteen-year-old "Trey" Allan Oakley Hunter III leapt to his death minutes after texting a goodbye message to his parents and brother. In an email sent out to students, university president John Sexton described how young people far from home and confronted with an alien environment that can seem overwhelming often make irreversible and tragic decisions. more ›

A freshman from New York University apparently committed suicide yesterday morning. The student, Allan Oakley Hunter III, jumped from the roof of University Hall, a 15-story dorm at 110 East 14th Street; his body was found in the courtyard. The Washington Square News reports that police were searching his room around 10AM yesterday morning and that his body was removed by 1PM. more ›

NYU College Republicans say they are happy with the reaction from their planned "Illegal Immigrant Hunt" at Washington Square Park. They wanted to start a controversy and discussion - and that they did, with hundreds of protesters and more members of the media than actual College Republicans playing the game (by one count, twelve showed up, one signed up). College Republicans president Sarah Chambers told the Washington Square News, "Sometimes, you have to be politically incorrect. Sometimes, you have to be provocative." However, NYU president John Sexton told the NY Times he was disappointed that the group put "sloganeering and trivialization of thought above true debate." more ›

Have you gotten a call from your school's alumni office and wondered how they've tracked you down, even if this is the third illegal sublet you've been living in? The NY Times sheds some light on NYU's efforts, which have grown much more sophisticated in the past few years, especially now as they try to raise $2.5 billion for their endowment. NYU's $2.5 billion goal, breaks down to about $1 million a day and is not as big as the $4 billion endowment drives that Cornell, Stanford and Columbia are on, but it's pretty aggressive. Here's how NYU President John Sexton sells the school:

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With friends like NYU President John Sexton protecting the East Village, which he calls a "fragile ecosystem," who needs enemies? The only nice thing we can think to say about the 26-story, 261 foot tall (or maybe 242), 700-bed building that NYU and its developer Hudson Companies are building over the site of St. Ann's Church on East 12th Street (rendering above) is that, well, it certainly is tall. In fact it will be the tallest building in the East Village. more ›

Mothers and fathers, don't just dream about your children being doctors (well, doctors might be passe, given malpractice coverage), lawyers or hedge fund managers: Have them set their sights on being the president of a major university. amNew York has a feature on salaries of NYC college/university presidents. The presidents are mostly charged with fund-raising, hence needing a real "performer" that gets a sweet compensation package, but the money they make can be pretty sick (note: private institutions pay more, natch). more ›

NYU graduate students - and their supporters - protesting the university's union policies were arrested yesterday during an afternoon rally in Washington Square Park. Fifty-seven people, including graduate assistants from Columbia, UPenn, and Yale, were arrested for civil disobedience - the Washington Square News says those arrested were the ones who "sat in the street and blocked traffic at Washington Square North for 10 minutes." According to insky, who took the photograph above, the students were demanding that NYU President John Sexton be fired. The arrested protesters were released after a few hours and NYU said, "We will not compromise our principles because of staged arrests.” more ›

New York Press makes it's annual attempt at relevancy this week with it's list of the 50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers. Sigh. more ›

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Chronicle of Higher Education, once a year we turn to you to find out what kind of crazy compensation the executives of our nations educational institutions are making (every year they make a bit more!). And this year you haven’t let us down. Of course since we don’t subscribe to the Chronicle we have to depend on those who do to let us know who is making what. Good thing then that there is a Daily News recap. more ›

It's New York magazine's 2005 Salary Survey, and the lesson is clearly: The city is full of rich people who are not you. In our highly unscientific early-morning survey of a few pages of the survey, it seems that well over half of the incomes are over $1 million. According to the U.S. Census, only 3% of New York City households have an income of over $250,000. Overlaying that with the number of households in the city, that's just over 90,000 households. Gothamist expects many people to be obsessing over this survey while at work today. more ›

- The supermarket at LaGuardia and Bleecker (the Morton Williams?) might be one target of NYU's future Manhattan expansionWhat do you think of NYU's ever-expanding presence downtown? While the conflicts between NYU and area residents are bad, they don't seem as bad as ones between Columbia and Harlem residents - especially after the Morningside Park incident in 1968.
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Yesterday, NYU President John Sexton sent a letter to students, informing them in the wake of the two suicides at Bobst Library, glass panel barriers would be put up in the Bobst Library's inner balconies. Additionally, as the Daily News reports, "70 Washington Square South will be restricted and extra guards will be posted to keep people away" as the panels are installed. Talks with contractors to install panels had been initiated after the first suicide in September, but after Friday's suicide, it seems the process has been expedited. Sexton's letter also noted, "." more ›