Newsletter - Fall 2009

NYU-SCPS Celebrates 75 Years This year, NYU-SCPS celebrates 75 years of providing educational, professional, and creative expertise to the New York City community and the world beyond. Join us in celebrating 75 years at the forefront of continuing and professional education. Read a history of NYU-SCPS and a timeline of highlights from each decade. article continues...

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Prominent Developer, Public Official Named New Head of Schack Institute

In September, James P. Stuckey joined the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate as its new divisional dean and the Klara and Larry Silverstein Chair of Real Estate Development. He succeeds Ken Patton who stepped down at summer’s end after 11 years at the helm of the Institute.

Stuckey comes to NYU after a 30-year career in real estate development and government service. In 1986, he was appointed president of New York City’s Public Development Corporation (today, the Economic Development Corporation) at just age 32. He oversaw $15 billion of development, including such projects as the Times Square Redevelopment, South Street Seaport, MetroTech, and the Brooklyn Army Terminal, among many others.

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UN Ambassador Rice Makes Pivotal Policy Speech at Visit to the Center for Global Affairs
 

Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, delivered a major policy speech at NYU-SCPS in August, articulating the Obama administration’s most comprehensive and detailed statement on its UN policy.

In her address, cosponsored by the School’s Center for Global Affairs and NYU’s Center on International Cooperation, Rice spoke about the array of global challenges and transnational security threats the world faces and listed three core premises the administration abides by: that global challenges cannot be met without U.S. leadership; U.S. leadership, while needed, is insufficient without the cooperation of a broad range of allies; and that others will share more of the “global burden” if the United States “leads by example, acknowledges mistakes, corrects course when necessary, forges strategies in partnership, and treats others with respect.”

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