Seck Si Tong, president of new york University and a legal expert, flies to Abu Dhabi every two weeks to give lectures to freshmen. Katherine Stimson, Professor of English at new york University, former President of Modern Language Association and former Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at new york University. In the spring semester, she spent seven weeks teaching graduate students of new york University in Manhattan, and another seven weeks teaching law and imagination to freshmen and sophomores in Abu Dhabi.
Leonard Leto Helmrich is an associate professor at the Film Academy of new york University and a Dutch director. He was one of the first professors attracted by Abu Dhabi.
Zhu never dreamed that the Dutch documentary master and the founder of One Mirror in the End would invite him to make a film together. "Maybe my style is more to his taste." Zhu Wei analyzed. In the summer of 20 12, teachers and students came to Helmrich's hometown in the Netherlands to trace the tradition of local people eating a wild fish raw, and recorded the disappearance of the last traditional handmade fishing boat in this area. At the same time, they also went to Norway and Denmark to take some pictures.
20 13 in may, this documentary named "Dutch new season" was exhibited at tribeca film festival in new York. Zhu and Dutch professors rushed to new york to attend the screening.
Zhu's contact with the master is not limited to this. In his sophomore year, he chose economics as his major, and Ivan Scelynyi, president of the Academy of Social Sciences under his major, was a famous professor of sociology and political science at Yale University. Szelenyi's experience as a "citizen of the world" was praised-he graduated from Karl Marx School of Economics in Budapest, was employed by the Hungarian Central Bureau of Statistics, and then went to the University of California at Berkeley for research and study. After the publication of the book Intellectuals Towards the Power Class, which changed his life, Szelenyi was expelled from Hungary and deprived of his citizenship and went to the United States.
Overseas study
In order to strengthen the connection between Abu Dhabi students and the world, each Abu Dhabi student has at least five opportunities to study abroad. Every year for one month, students can choose any one of the teaching points of new york University 16 to attend a three-week J-$ TERM special course. In addition, students at school can study abroad for at least one semester.
After the fall semester, Zhu will start a two-month study of economics at the headquarters of new york University, and plans to practice on Wall Street. This is not his first time to new york.
As early as his freshman year, J-$ TERM chose to attend the "Museum Course" in new york, which was specially designed for 65,438+02 applicants in Abu Dhabi. The speaker is Thomas Campbell, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Thomas is also one of the most famous visiting professors at new york University. 20 12 was his last year of teaching at new york university, and Zhu was lucky enough to become his closed disciple.
Zhu said that he had never enjoyed such a high-level VIP visit.
At the Metropolitan Museum, when Thomas entered the hall with 12 students, the bustling crowd suddenly gave way to the new york celebrity.
Thomas personally explained to the students in detail. Usually visitors can only hear his voice in rented headphones, and only 30 of the best exhibits are introduced in the huge museum.
"Do you know why this Egyptian sculpture is here?" Thomas asked.
I don't know. The students thought for a long time. He burst out laughing. "That's because I put it here eight years ago."
Later, Thomas took his students to new york Guggenheim Museum and new york Museum of Modern Art, and visited each museum, which was personally received and explained by the museum curator.
"Sometimes, it feels like we are just a group of spoiled children. In order to cultivate our international vision, the school can be said to have spent a lot of money. " Zhu sighed, "money is not the problem, the problem is that there is not enough time and energy."
He showed reporters his schedule: he will attend the Tribeca Film Festival in mid-April, play against the basketball team in Qatar at the end of April, participate in the debate in Ukraine in May, attend a short course in new york during the summer vacation, and then do an economic study in Ethiopia. In September, he was invited to attend the investment banking conference held in Hongkong, China.
"The school promises that students in Abu Dhabi will pay the bill as long as they are invited to participate in international conferences or large-scale international activities."
Societies and libraries
There are libraries and student associations in places where schools spend a lot of money.
As long as the students tell the library teacher what books they want to read three days in advance, the other party can contact air freight to ensure that the books will be delivered to the headquarters of new york University within three days, or from teaching points all over the world.
"No one knows how much money the school community has in the fund." American students Zhu and Kenyan students plan to set up a "Wall Street Society" and invited some professors from Stern Business School of new york University to give lectures irregularly. Not long ago, they just prepared the first inaugural presentation. Zhu wrote a proposal to the relevant teachers, and soon approved 1 1,000 dirhams (about RMB 1 1,734 yuan). "As long as you have ideas and enough creativity to do meaningful projects, money is not a problem. I heard that there is an entrepreneurial association in the school, which once approved 65,438+Wandirhams. "