Tisch Center Undergraduate Programs

RESOURCES FOR TISCH CENTER PARENTS

Congratulations on your child’s most recent accomplishment—admission to a premier, dynamic, innovative, and entrepreneurial research and education center located in the heart of Manhattan. At the Tisch Center, the city is our laboratory, industry is our faculty, and our students are the future of the profession.

Your son or daughter’s decision to attend the Tisch Center at NYU sets them apart from students who attend college on a quad or from behind a gated community. At NYU, the Tisch Center is their community, and New York City becomes their living laboratory for the finest hospitality, tourism, and sports management education. Their city, faculty, peers, and opportunities are world class.

Students tell us that studying at the Tisch Center is an inviting and intimate experience within the much greater institution and bustling city. Thanks to personalized academic and career advisement specific to the Tisch Center undergraduate student body, the Center is a community of energy, advice, and support for those students who seek it. From advisors and faculty, to friends and clubs, as our divisional dean is known to advise freshmen and parents at annual new student orientation each fall, “the Tisch Center is not a program to select if you wish to remain anonymous.”

NYU appreciates and is committed to parents, and has established an online guide, e-mail address, and helpline at (212) 998-4219 exclusively for their use.

Now, as both you and NYU encourage your child to take responsibility for his or her own academic plan, we invite you, the parents, to become intimately familiar with the support, policies, and programming offered to them by the Tisch Center—beginning with our frequently asked questions. The FAQs elaborate on major concentrations, study abroad, and other initiatives at the academic program level.

A compliment of comprehensive student services and wellness initiatives extend across the university—including the Department of Housing, the Office of Financial Aid, the Moses Center for Students with Disabilities, the Office of International Students and Scholars, the Office of Public Safety, the Student Health Center, the Student Resource Center, the Wasserman Center for Career Development, and theWellness Exchange.

Finally, we remind parents that extensive federal student privacy protection laws, known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), protect the confidentiality of academic student records and other non-academic challenges. Because FERPA, and your child’s legal right to privacy, is well respected at NYU, Tisch Center faculty and advisors will communicate only with the student—not with parents—regarding grades, advisement, policies, and related matters. A summary of FERPA is available from the U.S. Department of Education. Thank you for helping to uphold and advocate privacy protection for your child at NYU.

We look forward to welcoming you at our Tisch Center new student orientation this fall, and later in the semester at the annual NYU Parent and Family Day.

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