By our metrics, NYU is one of the more disability-friendly campuses although there is room for improvement. In particular, the NYU community can be more intentional about including disabled people and improving disability representation at all levels. For example, disability coverage in the Washington Square News, NYU's student newspaper, is consistently lacking. As well, ableism is pervasive in liberal and progressive circles and NYU is no exception. A student at NYU School of Law tells us, "NYU Law is very accommodating to requests for common neurodivergence diagnoses like ADHD, but is minimally and sometimes not at all accommodating to requests that stem from less common neurodivergence diagnoses. If they haven't heard of it, they don't believe it exists."
In 2021, the Washington Square News reported widespread grievances among disabled students at NYU over the administration's dismantling of remote learning options, including recorded lectures, which exposed deeper frustrations with the Moses Center for Student Accessibility. One student told Washington Square News, "The whole experience made me question if the disability accommodations are almost like about reducing liability rather than protecting the students. And just about a minimal compliance with ADA rather than actually seeing the registered students get the support they need."
As New York City is one of the most heavily policed areas in the country, racially marginalized students thinking of living here should be aware of potentially frequent interactions with police and how that might negatively impact their safety and well-being. NYU is also home to the controversial Policing Project program, which has been heavily criticized by community groups and NYU School of Law students for being funded by police agencies and for promoting technological solutions that "sanitize police violence and surveillance."
U.S. News ranks NYU 30th among national universities, an improvement from 35th place last year.
Kristin Carmody, the plaintiff, claimed she was fired “for her increased objections” to an uptick in gender discrimination at the university and “false accusations of criminal fraud” for mishandling a patient’s medical records, according to the October 2021 complaint. Carmody began her term as vice chair for academic affairs and education innovation in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Grossman in 2017. Her contract with the institution was terminated in 2020.
In March 2020, a primarily female and minority-led group of residents and faculty at NYU raised concerns about gender disparities — including allegations of unequal treatment of residents and patients — at the university. After their concerns were made public in the media, NYU allegedly forbade its employees from speaking to media outlets without permission, and said they would be “subject to disciplinary action, including termination,” if they did not comply.
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The following month, Robert Grossman, emergency department chair Robert Femia and other university administrators named in the suit allegedly demanded that residents remove their names from the letter because it “doesn’t look good” for NYU, according to the complaint. Carmody also claimed that Femia requested she provide the university with the names of the residents who signed the letter — a request she called “completely inappropriate.” She argued that her refusal to submit to their demands led to her termination.
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A former physician’s assistant at NYU Langone Health is suing the school for disability discrimination after the hospital allegedly fired her for requesting accommodations. Sophiana Cilus, who underwent hip reconstruction surgery in July 2021, was terminated after she requested an extension of an accommodation that was previously granted that shortened her maximum shift length from 12 to 10 hours.
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