Take Back NYU! Pledge

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We, the undersigned, pledge to withhold any future donations to New York University until such time as NYU acts in the spirit of democracy, accountability, and transparency through the following means:

1. The inclusion of an elected representative from the student body in New York UniversityЇs (NYU) Board of Trustee meetings. This representative should have rights, including voting rights, equal to that of Trustees, as well as the authorization to make public statements on the operations of the Board of Trustees without prior approval from any administration official.

2. Public release of NYU's annual operating budget, including a full list of university expenditures, salaries for all employees compensated on a semester or annual basis, funds allocated for staff wages, contracts to non-university organizations for university construction and services, financial aid data for each college, and money allocated to each college, department, and administrative unit of the university. Furthermore, this should include a full disclosure of the amount and sources of the universityЇs funding.

3. Disclosure of NYU's endowment holdings, investment strategy, projected endowment growth, and persons, corporations and firms involved in the investment of the university's endowment funds. Additionally, we demand an endowment oversight body of students, faculty and staff who exercise shareholder proxy voting power for the universityЇs investments.

201 Signatures

  • Banu Quadir
    • NYU Affiliation
    • CAS, 2009
  • Caran Wakefield
  • Sara Schweizer
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Student - Steinhardt
  • Cara Sadel
    • NYU Affiliation
    • student
  • Maria Lewis
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Student
  • Joseph Galarraga
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Gallatin
  • Julie Kilger
    • NYU Affiliation
    • CAS, 2010
  • Ghazal Khan
  • Daniel Pogoda
    • NYU Affiliation
    • CAS
  • Inbar
  • Holley Davis
    • NYU Affiliation
    • CAS
  • Ilona Margiotta
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Student
  • Janell Tryon
    • NYU Affiliation
    • TBNYU!
  • Rachel Schneider
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Tisch Undergraduate Student
  • Jennifer Bernardes
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Current Student
  • Jason Blevins
  • John Croner, M.A.
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Current MSW Student
  • Anna Jesionowski
  • Alexandra Hart
    • NYU Affiliation
    • CAS Sophomore
  • Anne Marie Avlon
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Student
  • Shannon Lepore
  • Zoe Vanderschmidt
  • Erin Douglass
    • NYU Affiliation
    • student
  • Claire Lewis
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Gallatin 2010
  • chester asher
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Alumnus
  • Veronica Chan
    • NYU Affiliation
    • В
  • Michael Sandmel
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Gallatin '12
  • Mara Bernstein
    • NYU Affiliation
    • College of Arts and Science
  • Amilcar Javier
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Student
  • Luke McGeehan
  • Megha Kohli
  • Hamna Mela
  • Valerie Levshin
  • SOphia Smith
    • NYU Affiliation
    • student
  • Jess T
  • Emily Stainkamp
    • NYU Affiliation
    • CAS 2011
  • Rebecca Garcia
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Gallatin School of Individualized Study
  • Andrew Jensen
    • NYU Affiliation
    • CAS 2007
  • Rachael Stewart
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Student
  • Jesse-Justin Cuevas
  • Olivia Ius
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Student
  • Luke Ohlson
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Alumni
  • Mark Stulberg
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Alumni
  • Kelsey Kline
  • Jordan Budd
  • Dennis Abreu
  • Eleanor Kay
  • Mora Puertolas
  • Daniel Weinberg
    • NYU Affiliation
    • Gallatin '08 Alum
  • Sadat Iqbal
    • NYU Affiliation
    • student