Newsletter - Winter 2010
Center for Publishing and KITAB Launch Executive Program at NYU Abu Dhabi
Two centers of the bookselling world—New York City and Abu Dhabi, largest of the United Arab Emirates and an emerging hub for Middle Eastern publishing—joined forces in the fall, when the NYU-SCPS Center for Publishing hosted a five-day executive seminar on the NYU Abu Dhabi campus. The seminar, a public service partnership between NYU-SCPS and KITAB, a joint venture company between the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) and the Frankfurt Book Fair, took place in November. Twenty-eight participants from 14 nations took part in the seminar. Most were managing directors or senior executives in companies that ranged from small, family-owned businesses to large-scale publishing companies. Each day was devoted to lectures given by leading U.S. publishing executives followed by hands-on workshops.. NYU-SCPS Receives $1 Million Osher Foundation Grant for McGhee StudentsThe Bernard Osher Foundation has given NYU-SCPS $1 million to create the endowed Osher Reentry Scholarship Program Fund for academically promising students in the Paul McGhee Division who face economic challenges in completing their baccalaureate degrees. The McGhee Division has been participating in the program on an annual basis since fall 2006, with resources to provide 20 scholarships. The new endowment grant approved this summer means that NYU-SCPS will be able to maintain an equivalent level of financial assistance in perpetuity.
Renovations Progress for New NYU-SCPS HomeThe work of transforming the dark, mid-century modern building at 7 East 12th Street into an open, light-filled, and ecofriendly 21st-century home for the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies reached a critical phase this past summer with the demolition of the existing façade in July and the start of construction on the new, high-performance glass curtain-wall façade in August. The renovation project, begun last February by the New York–based firm of Mitchell/Giurgola Architects, LLP, is on track to be completed in summer 2011.
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