Dean’s Faculty Lunch and Faculty Meeting Tuesday, February 3, 12:00 - 2:00 pm (Faculty Meeting 12:30 - 2:00 pm), Cantor Boardroom
NYU Classes Workshops February 4, 6, 10, please click link for location and time: http://tinyurl.com/nyucsp15
Paduano Seminar- Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (Gabriella Coleman, McGill University) Friday, February 6, 3:00 - 4:20 pm, KMC 5-140
China Initiative Research Luncheon – Reputation Concerns of Independent Directors: Evidence from Individual Director Voting (Wei Jiang, Columbia)
Monday, February 9, 12:00 - 1:20 pm, KMC 2-90
Competing for Influencers in a Social Network (Zsolt Katona, Haas School of Business)
Tuesday, February 10, 12:30 - 2:00 pm, KMC 4-90
Dean's Faculty Lunch
Wednesday, February 11, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, Cantor Boardroom
Dean's Faculty Lunch
Tuesday, February 17, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, Cantor Boardroom
Sequential Search with Refinement: Model and Application with Click-stream Data (Yuxin Chen, NYU Shanghai) Tuesday, February 17, 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Location TBD
Dean's Faculty Lunch and Faculty Seminar - A Report from Cuba (Roy Smith & Ingo Walter) Tuesday, February 24, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, Cantor Boardroom
Paduano Seminar - Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Sven Beckert, Harvard University)
Friday, February 27, 3:00 - 4:20 pm, KMC 5-140
In case you’ve recently discovered any expenses incurred between September 1, 2013 and August 31, 2014, submit them NOW. They must be received before February 28 to be reimbursed. This is the last year of this long grace period. According to the revised STARS manual (as reported in last month’s newsletter) in the future you will have only until September 30 to submit any expense past the end of the fiscal year. Click here for the complete STARS manual.
Entering Course Grades
Faculty are encouraged to enter grades as soon as possible. For undergraduates, NYU policy is that grades should be entered 72 hours after the final exam/paper. For MBAs, the policy is one week.
Why is this so important?
Besides the obvious reason that students want to know how they performed, there are other issues at play. Academic advisers closely monitor grades to determine whether a student will be placed on academic probation and, in rare cases, whether a student will be academically dismissed. The sooner grades are entered, the sooner staff can notify students of their academic status and next steps. With undergraduates, mid-term grades are also critical in helping advisers identify students at risk and ensuring they are provided with resources in a timely manner.
On the positive side, students are also reviewed for academic excellence. For those who receive external scholarships, students are typically required to submit final grades. If their grades are missing, their scholarship money may not arrive in time to meet university payment deadlines and students may be un-enrolled from classes. Students going through the interview process are frequently asked to submit their transcripts and feel stress when grades are missing. Students want to be recognized with academic honors and distinction, which can also be delayed due to missing grades.
In short, grades provide students with the resources necessary to track their academic progress. Your cooperation in submitting grades in a timely manner is a key component in ensuring that students are able to take responsibility for their academic career.
Tom Meyvis grew up in Antwerp, Belgium, and originally moved to the US to live in Gainesville to get his doctorate in marketing at the University of Florida. When he first arrived in Florida, he had flown straight from Venice (where he was doing a research internship), for an exaggerated culture shock. After six months, he finally conceded that getting around Florida on bicycle was not really feasible, and bought a car, though he is pleased that living in NYC does not require one.
Aside from cycling, Tom enjoys running long distances and skiing. He started skiing in the Alps when he was five and now mostly skis in the Rockies. He also took up snowboarding closer to home, to enjoy the more modest northeastern mountains. His wife, from Colombia, prefers to ride horses, which makes Tom nervous. They hope that, unlike his parents, their 20-month old son Jos will not be afraid of either and take part in both.
Young Jos’ mother speaks to him in Spanish, his father speaks to him in Dutch, and his parents speak to each other in English. Much to his father Tom’s chagrin, Jos is realizing that Spanish is a much more useful language, since there’s only one guy around who speaks Dutch, but plenty of people speak Spanish.
Tom says that, contrary to popular belief, research in marketing is not really about tricking people into buying things they don’t need. His own research focuses on how to restructure consumer experiences to make them more pleasant or at least less irritating, such as by breaking up experiences (Will a massage be more enjoyable when it's interrupted?) or by changing the order of the components of the experience (Should you eat your vegetables first? End on a high note?).
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