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The awards have been given annually by the President of the United States since the establishment of the Senior Executive Service in 1978 [1] except for a brief period of suspension from 2013 to 2014. The Presidential Rank Award honors high-performing senior career employees for "sustained extraordinary accomplishment."
New York University (NYU) is a private research university located in New York City, [2] which was founded by Albert Gallatin in 1831. [3] The "president and chancellor", often shortened to president, is the highest authority in the university after the board of trustees, [4] serving as its chief executive and chief academic officer. [5]
The Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship [1] is a full-tuition public service scholarship for students at New York University School of Law. [1] It is widely considered to be the most prestigious public interest scholarship for law students in the United States.
The BA-MUP with the NYU Tandon School of Engineering allows New York University Tandon undergraduates majoring in Sustainable Urban Environments, Construction Management, or Civil Engineering who have earned a GPA of 3.0 or higher to take graduate courses and receive the Master's in Urban Planning.
Following is a partial list of notable faculty (either past, present or visiting) of New York University. As of 2014, among NYU's past and present faculty, there are at least 159 Guggenheim Fellows, over 7 Lasker Award winners, and more than 200 are currently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [1]
Between 1946 and 1948, the Temporary Commission on the Need for a State University, chaired by Owen D. Young, chairman of General Electric Company, studied New York's existing higher education institutions. It was known New York's private institutions of higher education were highly discriminatory and failed to provide for many New Yorkers. [9]
The Leonard N. Stern School of Business (also NYU Stern, Stern School of Business, or simply Stern) is the business school of New York University, a private research university based in New York City. Founded as the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance in 1900, the school received its current name in 1988.
The history of New York University begins in the early 19th century. A group of prominent New York City residents from the city's landed class of merchants, bankers, and traders established NYU on April 18, 1831. These New Yorkers believed the city needed a university designed for young men who would be admitted based on merit, not birthright ...