Stern continues its efforts to enhance equity, diversity, and inclusion in all aspects of the school. The faculty working group on EDI is focusing its efforts in three areas: increasing the diversity of the faculty, helping to ensure an inclusive classroom climate in all of our courses, and enhancing mentoring, retention and support of female and other under-represented faculty. In the fall, Vice Dean Elizabeth Morrison sent out a summary of Tips for an Inclusive Classroom. If you have used any of those tips, the working group would be interested in hearing about what worked well, and what didn’t. They also welcome any additional ideas you may have. The working group (Tom Cooley, Lisa Leslie, Petra Moser, Elizabeth Morrison, Susanna Stein, David Yermack, Paul Zarowin) can be contacted at facultydiversityinclusion@stern.nyu.edu.
In short, instructors are required to be present at each and every scheduled class or exam session. For more information, see the entire policy by clicking HERE.
Stern has a set of policies regarding course enrollment caps and the cancellation of low enrollment sections/courses. This initiative followed from the recommendations of the Faculty Resource Allocation Working Group. Tom Pugel, as Vice Dean for MBA Programs, and Rohit Deo, Vice Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, were instrumental in developing these policies. In doing so, they solicited feedback from the working group, the vice deans, the department chairs, and the deputy department chairs. That input enabled them to design a set of policies to improve efficiency, and consistency and fairness with respect to course enrollment caps and cancellations. The resulting policy document is availableHERE.
For standard Stern policies on electronic devices, attendance, lateness, assignments, grading, collaboration and more, please read Stern’s default teaching policies. They are located in the teaching section of Stern’s Faculty Website, reachable through the Faculty Resources section of Sternlife or by clicking HERE.
Tell your students! NYU provides freetutoring services for undergraduates in a number of subject areas. The University Learning Center offers free peer tutoring. The Writing Center Writing Center uses instructors. Stern'sBeta Alpha Psi organization offers free peer tutoring services during the academic year for a limited number of Stern courses.
Did you know that eligible adjunct faculty may apply for a professional development grant of up to $1,000 per academic year? Just complete the Professional Development Fund Application and submit to your department chair/program director for approval. If approved, you will be notified by the Office of Faculty Affairs.
In late January, many of our brand new adjunct faculty attended an orientation that provided an overview of Stern, the MBA programs and Undergraduate College, teaching resources and classroom operations, a discussion of the Stern Code of Conduct, and a chance to meet each other and the school’s vice deans. Stay tuned for notice of the fall orientation, and try to attend the kickoff reception to meet your new colleagues. Follow thislinkto go to the slides from the presentations. Photo, from left to right: Joseph Giraldi (Marketing), Peter Markham (Marketing), Vignesh Gowrishankar (Economics), Ephrat Livne-Ofer (Management), Lior Zalmanson (IOMS), David Lucca (Finance), James Brigaitis (Marketing), Susan Davis (BSP), George Pappachen (IOMS), Mira Dewji (BSP). Not pictured: Emily Hunter (Finance), Jeffrey Hollender (BSP), Mohammed Badi (Management), Timothy Glencross (BSP).
In short, don't leave exams with students' names on them out for pickup. And don't talk to anyone such as a parent or recruiter about a student's performance. For details, read on:
As faculty members at New York University, you have access to student information that is protected by the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and NYU’s Policy on Personal Identification Numbers. Even those faculty members who have been conscious of and careful about FERPA for years can forget some of its implications, so here are some reminders.
No one other than the student may disclose specific kinds of “personally identifiable” information or the contents of a student’s education record to another or display it where others can see it. This information includes, but is not limited to:
University ID number
NYU/Stern Net ID (including the URLs of student Web pages)
Stern and other e-mail address
Home and work phone numbers and addresses
Courses a student is taking or has taken
Grades on assignments, tests, etc. and in courses
The contents of a student’s assignment
In more specific terms, these policies mean that professors:
1) Are not entitled access to students’ academic records (transcripts, degree progress, etc.). This information may be accessed by students’ advisers, but not by instructors.
2) May discuss a student’s personal information ONLY with a) the student or b) Stern and NYU officials who have a legitimate educational need for that information.
3) May NOT discuss a student’s academic record with or provide contact information to parents, potential employers, or other outsiders, unless the student has given us written permission.
When speaking with recruiters:
Which courses a student is taking or has taken is protected information, so be careful not to reveal it. So, if a recruiter says he has heard that a specific student is or was in your class, you may not confirm the student’s enrollment in your class. If the recruiter asks for the names of students in your class whom you would recommend, you may not provide the list.
However, if a recruiter asks whether you know a specific student and whether he or she is a good student or you would recommend the student for a job, you may give your opinion, reveal what you know by observation, and say that you would or would not recommend the student. You may also give the recruiter a list of students who have impressed you. But you may not reveal what course a student is taking or took with you (or the student’s grades).
If you want to avoid all this, just get permission from the student (in writing) to have a more candid discussion with the recruiter.
4) Do not collect student contact information by passing around a single sheet of paper in class. Instead, collect the contact information on individual sheets or cards, or by email to you or your TF. Students should share their personal information with each other only voluntarily and on their own.
5) When returning assignments, tests, etc., do not leave them in a pile to be picked up or send the pile around the classroom for students to retrieve their own unless students’ information is protected in such ways as:
· Pass the stack of items around in class so students can retrieve their own, as long as each item has a cover sheet containing no grades, comments, or personal information other than the student’s name and information identifying the course. A cover sheet is necessary because the content of the assignment itself is part of the student’s education record.
· Leave items in a pile outside your office in individual sealed envelopes labeled with students’ names.
· Leave assignments with an administrative aide to return by request to individual students (who, if not known, should show an ID).
· Post grades and comments in NYU Classes and don't return assignments and tests at all.
6) An old one, but worth repeating: We may not post grades by name or University ID number.
7) When you are no longer a student’s instructor, destroy any personal information you have about that person that you do not have a legitimate educational reason to retain. Generally, keep graded assignments one semester beyond the semester in which the student completes a course, but no longer.
Anne Weisberg Adjunct Associate Professor, Management & Organizations
Anne Weisberg joined Stern as an adjunct associate professor in the fall of 2015, having been a repeat guest lecturer in Sheila Wellington’s Women in Business course for several years. Anne returned to Stern, along with Linda Basch, another new adjunct, to expand Wellington’s course beyond gender. Their course, an MBA elective called Inclusive Leadership, helps students strengthen their leadership skills through developing an inclusive leadership vision and mindset. Anne came to Stern with teaching experience from conducting trainings and workshops.
Anne’s full-time job is Women’s Initiative Director at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Her job is to identify gender gaps at every stage of the pipeline of lawyers, and design ways to close those gaps, whether in recruitment, assignments, development, benefits or other avenues. Trained as a lawyer, she is thrilled to be at Paul, Weiss with its proud history of both diversity and pro bono initiatives, because the “the rule of law is so important right now ” She is proud that Paul, Weiss had over 50 lawyers at JFK helping travelers deal with President Trump’s January 28 ban on travelers from seven countries.
Prior to Paul, Weiss, Anne worked on gender strategies at a number of non-profit and business organizations, including BlackRock, Deloitte, Families and Work Institute, and Catalyst. In her spare time, she likes to travel, and recently returned from a trip with her husband to Thailand and Cambodia. Her family of three children and two step-children, all out of college, is a big part of her life, but she still finds time to be part of two book groups. Most recently, she read Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild, the Undoing Project by Michael Lewis, and Sonia Sotomayor’s My Beloved World.
NYU Stern provides full access to the Financial Times website, FT.com, for all members of the Stern community. Your subscription will last for the remainder of the academic year.
Create your account
To create your username and password, please visit www.ft.comwhile on the NYU Stern campus. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions. You must use your @stern.nyu.edu email address and log in while on campus at Stern from a Stern PC or using Stern WiFi (on a Stern IP address) to create your account. Once you have created your account you can access FT.com from anywhere, including on your mobile device or tablet.
What if I already have a username and password?
If you already have a FT.com username and password you can move this into the NYU Stern subscription by selecting "Yes, I already have an FT.com account" when prompted, and enter your existing password. If you pay for your subscription you will be issued a prorated refund when you join the NYU Stern subscription.
Technical Issues?
FT.com has a 24/5 support team who will be able to help with any users technical issues: corporate.support@ft.com or +1 917 551 5005.
Faculty with inquiries about Financial Times access can contact Mariana Villanueva Huerta, mvillanu@stern.nyu.edu.
For easy access to Stern’s faculty-related policies and forms, look under Faculty Resources on Sternlife and click on “Faculty Website-Stern”. Or click here.
