Faculty Committee on NYU’s Global Network

Tuesday, February 21 8:30am-10:00am EST

ATTENDANCE:

● Eliot Borenstein (Interim Vicе Chancellor & Senior Vice Provost for Global Programs)
● Ayse Baltacioglu Brammer (Assistant Professor of History)
● Mosette Broderick (Clinical Professor of Art History)
● Sylvain Cappell (Silver Professor; Professor of Mathematics)
● Scott Collard (Associate Curator: Associate Dean for Research and Research Services, Office
of the Dean, Division of Libraries)
● Tal Correm (Clinical Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies)
● Chris Dickey (Director, Global Professional Studies and Entrepreneurship; Clinical Associate
Professor: Academic Affairs, School of Global Public Health)
● Erich Dietrich (Clinical Professor of Higher Education: Department of Administration,
Leadership, and Technology, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development)
● Yi Fang (Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Global Network Associate
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
● Alberto Gandolfi (Associate Program Head for Undergraduate Studies of Mathematics;
Professor of Practice in Mathematics)
● Zhan Guo (Associate Professor of Urban Planning & Transportation Policy)
● Brian Hall (Adjunct Instructor: Jonathan M Tisch Center of Hospitality, School of Professional Studies)
● Louise Harpman (Professor: Gallatin School of Individualized Study)
● Steve Iams (Coordinator, Academic Program Reviews; Co-Area Head of English for Academic
Purposes; Clinical Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes)
● Gavin Kilduff (Associate Professor of Management & Organizations)
● Robin Klar (Clinical Associate Professor: Rory Meyers College of Nursing)
● Qing Miao (Medicine, Research Professor: NYU Long Island School of Medicine)
● Danielle Ompad (Professor of Epidemiology; Vice Dean of Academic Affairs: Academic
Administration)
● Tansen Sen (Director of the Center for Global Asia; Professor of History, NYU Shanghai;
Associated Professor of History, NYU)
● Shafer Smith (Professor of Mathematics)
● Pete Voltz (Associate Dean of Academic Affairs: Tandon School of Engineering)
● Aurora Wallace (Clinical Professor: Department of Media, Culture, and Communication,
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; Clinical Associate Professor,
NYU Paris)

MEETING MINUTES:

Professor Eliot Borenstein began the meeting with the announcement of his new position as Interim Vicе
Chancellor & Senior Vice Provost for Global Programs. Professor Borenstein also announced that
Marianne Petit (Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Network Academic Planning) will forthcomingly
assume his role as the Chair of the Faculty Committee on NYU’s Global Network (FacGN).
Those in attendance included members of the FacGN, the Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senators
Council (T-FSC), and the Full-Time Continuing Contract Faculty Senators Council (C-FSC). Borenstein
explained that the purpose of convening the joint meeting was to make sure that all three committees
work in concert.

Attendees from NYU-Shanghai brought to the faculty committees’ attention some Shanghai faculty
concerns, particularly those related to its move to its new campus. It was felt by the consensus of the
three global faculty committees that some of these problems might be alleviated by providing faculty at
NYU-Shanghai with more information and by engaging them in greater and productive consultation, in
accordance with NYU faculty governance. A consensus of meeting attendees requested that a subgroup
consisting of Brian Hall, Steve Iams, and Sylvain Cappell prepare a letter to send to the NYU
Administration. The attendees expressed a desire for the letter to be sent out quickly. A draft of the letter
was circulated to the attendees on Thursday, February 23rd. One hundred percent of those who
responded to the draft expressed their support. The finalized letter was circulated to the NYU
Administration on Friday, February 24th.

The meeting concluded with a consensus that a regular joint meeting between the three committees
should happen once a year, and will be coordinated by the FacGN. There was also a consensus that
ad-hoc joint meetings should be held as needed for urgent matters, and can be initiated by any of the
three committees. The meeting was adjourned at 9:45am.