NYU Poly Changes Name Following $100 Million Donation, Angering Students
Students of New York University’s NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering are displeased with a sudden school name change following a $100 million donation from NYU trustee Chandrika Tandon and her husband Ranjan Tandon. On Monday, NYU simultaneously announced the generous contribution and the name change — effective immediately — of the engineering school to the NYU Tandon School of…
Students of New York University’s NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering are displeased with a sudden school name change following a $100 million donation from NYU trustee Chandrika Tandon and her husband Ranjan Tandon.
On Monday, NYU simultaneously announced the generous contribution and the name change — effective immediately — of the engineering school to the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
Despite an initially positive response to the donation, students have since spoken up en masse rejecting the dropping of “Polytechnic” as a disconnect with the school’s roots, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Merged with NYU in 2014, the Downtown Brooklyn school was originally founded as the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute in 1854. Over the course of its 161-year history, the school has changed its name a total of six times.
“We used to be our own school, and NYU keeps reminding us we’re not anymore,” student Robert Kellett told the Journal.
[Source: WSJ | Photo: NYULocal]
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The School of Engineering has been around for 160 years and the names Bklyn Poly or NY Polytechnic have been used for generations. If you’re in construction, Engineering, Architecture, RE, etc in the metro area the name is well known. Saying you went to NYU means nothing unless you say nyu law or medical school or something lik ethat, you can get a liberal arts degree anywhere. NYU’s school of Enigneering was absorbed by Poly in the mid 70s when the city and the university were broke. The entire downtown bklyn renovation revolved around the poly campus development in the mid 90s.
The School of Engineering has been around for 160 years and the names Bklyn Poly or NY Polytechnic have been used for generations. If you’re in construction, Engineering, Architecture, RE, etc in the metro area the name is well known. Saying you went to NYU means nothing unless you say nyu law or medical school or something lik ethat, you can get a liberal arts degree anywhere. NYU’s school of Enigneering was absorbed by Poly in the mid 70s when the city and the university were broke. The entire downtown bklyn renovation revolved around the poly campus development in the mid 90s.