The Integration Of Engineering And Business Education In A Global-Network University

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-152
Author(s):  
Harold P. Sjursen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
New York University ◽  
Liberal Arts Education ◽  
Baccalaureate Degrees

AbstractNew York University characterizes itself as a global-network university. It currently offers (or soon will) engineering and business/management curricula leading to baccalaureate degrees on campuses in New York, Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. The programs are designed to be interoperable, i.e., students (and faculty) can move from campus to campus while staying on track in their particular course of study. This objective of interoperability raises interesting issues regarding the internationalization of engineering and technical education. Additionally, at Abu Dhabi and Shanghai, the engineering and business management programs are tightly integrated with classical, western liberal arts education. This paper will explore the variety of educational and philosophical issues of this approach. The paper will offer a favourable assessment of the approach while acknowledging the profound challenges it entails.

Theatre Building, Building Theatre: Fostering Disruption and Community through Arts and Education

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Schmidt Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Liberal Arts Education ◽  
School Planning ◽  
Lower Manhattan

The occasion of building an NYU Abu Dhabi Arts Center on Saadiyat Island, as part of NYU's campus there, and the Tisch School planning a new Institute of Performing Arts Center (IPAC) in lower Manhattan create an opportunity for conceiving a dynamic, collaborative Middle East-meets-West partnership. This partnership has the potential to disrupt conventional expectations of both a liberal arts education and professional theatre training as well as to build bridges to new audiences.

Ghosts in the Machine: A Virtual Choral Performance as Hauntological Praxis During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-55
Author(s):  
Clare Lesser
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
New York University ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Karlheinz Stockhausen ◽  
Choral Director ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Audio Mixing

An interwoven reading of the issues surrounding a performance – rehearsed and recorded remotely and hosted virtually – of Sxip Shirey and Coco Karol’s The Gauntlet: Far Away, Together, for 15 voices and electronics (given at New York University Abu Dhabi in March 2021, in which I was choral director), and Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx (1993/2006). I examine the impact that COVID-19 had on realising this performance – which had originally been intended for a ‘live’ and fully immersive and interactive presentation – and consider how earlier models of hauntological praxis in works by Karlheinz Stockhausen have parallels with performing during the pandemic. I explore the ways in which working in isolation, with little sense of time or location, foster a sense of ‘aporia’ or perplexity, overturning the binary opposition of time and space, and how the use of the SPAT immersive audio mixing tool to electronically process single voices into multiple, spatially realised echoes (ghosts) of themselves, truly gives us ‘ghosts’ in the machine.

Friends with Benefits

2015 ◽  
pp. 56-72
Author(s):  
Beth Daniel Lindsay ◽  
Ilka Datig
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Group Testing ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
New York University ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Friends With Benefits ◽  
Advisory Groups

Students are a primary part of any academic library's community of users. However, students' voices are often left out of the conversation when libraries develop policies, services, and resources. One option for libraries which would like to consider students' opinions and needs more closely is the formation of a Student Advisory Group (SAG), a group of students who meet with library staff on a regular basis to discuss and provide advice on library policies, resources and strategies. Academic libraries can use SAGs for assistance with communication, collection development, focus group testing, and more. This article explores the logistics of creating, maintaining and assessing a SAG, along with concrete examples from the SAG at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). Student Advisory Groups have the potential to enrich any academic library's outreach and community-building efforts, and should be considered as an option by any library looking to become more student-centered.

Book Reviews

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 697-701
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
New York ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
New York University

Yaw Nyarko of New York University and the Division of Social Sciences, New York University Abu Dhabi, reviews “The Economy of Ghana Sixty Years after Independence,” edited by Ernest Aryeetey and Ravi Kanbur. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Twenty-three papers analyze and assess the challenges facing Ghana's economy, covering major macroeconomic and sectoral issues, as well as social issues.”

EpiPolicy

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
Anh Le Xuan Mai ◽  
Miro Mannino ◽  
Zain Tariq ◽  
Azza Abouzied ◽  
Dennis Shasha
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
New York University ◽  
Increasing Demand

COVID-19 brought along an increasing demand for research toward combating epidemics. A group at New York University Abu Dhabi developed a tool, EpiPolicy, to explore and visualize the effects and costs of intervention plans.

In the Presence of Power

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn Vitz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
New York University ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
New Directions ◽  
And Performance

Rulers’ courts of the pre-modern Middle East have long been a staple of Western fantasies about the East. Yet in spite of the importance of the court as a symbol of the absolutist power of the “Orient,” relatively few scholars have explored the cultural production of the courts of the pre-modern Middle East. In the Presence of Power: Court and Performance in the Pre-Modern Middle East, edited by Maurice A. Pomerantz (New York University Abu Dhabi) and Evelyn Birge Vitz (New York University), offers twelve chapters that present a complex and nuanced image of rulers’ courts as vital spaces of performance. Building on previous studies that have examined the court as an important sociopolitical space but moving in new directions, this volume explores literary works produced about and for performance in courts from the eighth to the sixteenth century. Contributions address topics such as delight, persuasion, and entertainment in Byzantine and Abbasid rulers’ courts.

scholarly journals Laying the Foundations for Law Library Co-operation around the world

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 201-203
Author(s):  
David Gee
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
School Library ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Law School ◽  
Global Network ◽  
New York University ◽  
Virtual Reference ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Law Library

In October 2002 I was lucky enough to spend three stimulating days at the New York University Law School Library participating in the annual Legal Information Transfer Network workshop. The Legal Information Transfer Network (ITN) is funded by a generous grant from The Starr Foundation (established in 1955 by insurance entrepreneur Cornelius Van der Starr) and is headed by the dynamic Director of the NYU Law School Library, Professor Kathie Price. ITN aims to establish a global network of prestigious law libraries which ultimately can offer a 24/7 virtual reference service, both to its own partner libraries in the developed world and to academic legal communities in less developed countries. Previous annual workshops in such cities as Lausanne in Switzerland have given senior librarians from ITN partner libraries the opportunity to meet and make progress on issues such as providing a global virtual reference desk, sharing database access across the libraries, developing interactive legal research guides, and creating imaginative training programmes for local law librarians in China and Southern Africa (http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/itn). Between workshops the exchange of ideas is continued by email discussion. Currently the list of law library partners includes New York University, Washington University in Seattle, Toronto University in Canada, IALS Library in the UK, the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, Tilburg University in the Netherlands, Konstanz University in Germany, Cape Town University in South Africa, Melbourne University in Australia, Yerevan State University in Armenia, and Tsinghua University in China.

scholarly journals Is There a Benefit to Importing a Branch Campus? Research Capacity in Abu Dhabi

2017 ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Jason E. Lane ◽  
Hans Pohl
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Branch Campus ◽  
New York University ◽  
Branch Campuses ◽  
Local Capacity

Driven to become more economically competitive, some national and state governments seek todevelop their local capacity with branch campuses, and the example of Abu Dhabi -- particularly New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) -- is instructive in how de facto research capacity at such institutions may be measured. 

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