Administrative Support
First Fridays Doctoral Colloquium
Steinhardt Doctoral First Fridays meetings are offered by the Steinhardt Office of Doctoral Studies. They are usually held in the 3rd Floor Pless Hall Lounge from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. (lunch will be provided). The focus of each meeting will be emailed to all doctoral students in advance of each meeting date. There is no formal registration for First Fridays, but they do ask that you RSVP in advance of the meeting. Please send an email to Nancy Hall to RSVP for the next First Fridays.
Practice Rooms and Rehearsal Spaces
There are practice rooms on the 3rd and 9th floors of the Education Building (35 W. 4th Street), the 6th floor of the Kimmel Center, and in the concourse (C level) of the Global Center. Piano Performance and Jazz Studies majors can also use the practice rooms in the concourse (C level) of Third North.
Students can get a practice room sticker for your ID card in the main MPAP office on the 10th floor of Steinhardt. Please note that these stickers are for music performance majors only. The stickers allow priority access to the 9th floor practice rooms between 12PM and 6PM.
Students who need a larger rehearsal space can request one in the Education Building by contacting MPAP Space. The reservation will be considered official only upon receipt of a confirmation.
To reserve practice rooms in Kimmel or the Global center, students must create an account on KimmelOneStop. After creating your account, it may take up to 48 for your account to be officially activated. With the account, students may reserve rooms in Kimmel or the Global Center for up to two hours a day. For more, visit Room 605 in the Kimmel Center, or contact Kimmel Operations at 212-998-4900
The practice rooms on the 9th floor of the Education Building are open as long as the building is open (generally 7:00 am-midnight every day). The practice rooms in Kimmel and the Global Center are open during the school year from 9:00 am-10:00 pm Mon-Sat and 1:00-7:00 pm on Sundays (Global Center practice rooms are closed on the weekend).
Storage Lockers
There will be a signup sheet on the bulletin board near the front staircase on the 10th floor of the Education Building at the beginning of each semester. Lockers are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. After you sign up, if there are lockers available, you will receive an email from Marisol Ascona with your locker assignment. If you are unable to secure a locker in the Education Building, the Kimmel Center and the Global Center have lockers available for a small rental fee.
Digital Studio and Tech Support
The Digital Studio on the second floor of Bobst Library has scanners, audio and visual software and other specialized services that are free for instructor and faculty use.
The Digital Studio staff can help with more elaborate multimedia projects, particularly for classroom use. It is recommended that you make an appointment, but walk-ins are available. More information is available on the ITS Studio Website.
For other computer access, software training (SPSS, GIS) and support issues, contact the NYU Information Technology Services though their Classrooms Website.
NYU Home has a number of free software downloads, including anti-virus software (click on Ask ITS at the top right-hand side of the page). ITS has also begun a Virtual Computing Lab pilot project allowing you to access software licensed to NYU remotely through NYU Home (scroll to the bottom of the Academics window in NYU Home). In addition, there is a web-based file-storage and sharing service, Files 2.0, accessible through NYUHome (click on the Files tab). For help with NYU Classes visit the ITS NYU Classes Website.
Study Carrels and Workspaces
Once you have an approved dissertation topic you can also rent a study carrel (small locked study room) located on floors 4 – 10 in Bobst Library. Each carrel has a locked file cabinet. There are a limited number of carrels available and there is usually a waiting list. To rent a carrel or to be added to the waiting list, you should visit the Library Privileges office on the first floor. See the Bobst: Locker Website for more details.
Additionally, the library has recently designated several collaborative workspaces for graduate student use, some of which can be reserved. For more information about work spaces and other services specifically geared toward graduate students, please see the Bobst Library Guide for Graduate Students.
Other Doctoral-Student Friendly Spaces
Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
Click for graduate student only spaces
College of Dentistry Student Lounge
345 East 24th Street
Contact the Office of Student Affairs
Stern – Henry Kaufman Management Center
44 West Fourth Street, 1st Floor
Open 24hrs
Silver Center
100 Washington Square East
Arts & Science Graduate Commons, Room 120
Wasserman Center for Career Development
133 E. 13th Street, 2nd floor
NYU Student Health Center
Whether enrolled in an NYU-sponsored Student Health Insurance Plan or maintaining alternative health insurance coverage, NYU's Student Health Center (SHC) is a campus resource and service center for all matriculated students. The SHC offers universal, hassle-free appointment-based and walk-in medical and counseling services at either no cost or very reduced cost to all NYU students, regardless of insurance coverage. Their goal is to add great value to the NYU experience for students and great comfort in knowing that a safety net for basic healthcare exists at NYU.
The SHC is accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, placing it among the top university health centers in the country. Additional information can be accessed at the NYU Student Health Center Website.
Student Health Insurance
NYU requires that all students registered in degree-granting programs maintain health insurance.
Most students are enrolled automatically in the NYU-sponsored Student Health Insurance Plan as part of the course registration process. Students must complete the online enrollment/waiver process each academic year beginning in the fall to ensure that they are enrolled in the plan of their choice; supplement their current insurance with an NYU-sponsored plan, or waive the NYU-sponsored plans.
For funded students with Steinhardt Fellowships, you should be automatically enrolled in health insurance coverage during Years 1 and 2. Beginning Year 3, fully funded students must sign up for this plan through the Student Health Insurance Website.
The Wellness Exchange
The Wellness Exchange is your key to accessing the University's extensive health and mental health resources designed to address your needs. You can call a private hotline (212-443-9999), available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, which will put you in touch with a professional who can help to address day-to-day challenges as well as other health-related concerns. These might include: medical issues, academic stress, depression, sexual assault, anxiety, alcohol and other drug dependence, sexually transmitted infections, eating disorders, etc.
The hotline is also available if you just need to talk or want to call about a friend. Additional information can be accessed at the Wellness Exchange Website.
Student Complaint Procedure
Student whose complaints relate to academic or non-academic matters and who seek a review of their complaints should follow the procedures outlined below within 15 days from the time the action occurred and/or the grade was posted. If a student exhausted the School’s procedures for student complaints and believes that the School’s procedure and/or process for receiving the complaint were implemented as set forth in the Steinhardt School Student Complaints Procedure, he/she may also seek consultation through the ombudsperson. The ombudsperson, a tenured professor who is elected by students, attempts to achieve equitable resolutions to student complaints by ensuring that processes and procedures are followed.
Student complaints begin with the person against whom the complaint is being made. If the issue involves the instructor of a course, the complaint is with the instructor. The student shall first contact the instructor and attempt to resolve the complaint. Pertinent documentation should accompany the complaint.
If the complaint is not resolved at the level of the instructor, the student should schedule an appointment with the program director, the next level for the review of complaints.
If the complaint is not resolved at the level of the program director, the next level of appeal is the department chair. The department chair, at his or her discretion, may call a meeting of the instructor, the program director, and the student. If resolution of the complaint is achieved at either stage two or three, the program director or department chairs, respectively, will send confirmatory memo to all who have been involved.
If there is no satisfactory resolution of the student complaint at the departmental level in the judgment of the student or if the nature of the complaint involves a personal or confidential matter, the student may proceed as follows:
The student may bring the complaint to the attention of the Associate Dean for Student Affairs. The Associate Dean is responsible for administering the student complaint procedure and may, when appropriate, make recommendations for the resolution of student complaints.
As a final level of appeal, the student may request a review of the complaint by the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, who may then refer it to the Dean of the Steinhardt School.
A student may also speak with the Ombudsperson, an associate/full tenured professor, elected by students to attempt to achieve equitable resolutions to student complaints by ensuring that processes and procedures are followed. Thus, when a student, who has completed the above procedure, believes that procedures and process as for reviewing complaints were not implemented as set forth, he/she may consult the Ombudsperson.