Poly is currently affiliated with NYU and is known as Polytechnic Institute of NYU. Immediately we have begun activities to transition Poly into a school within NYU. The transition activities include creating opportunities never before available for students and faculty as well as aligning various policies. It is anticipated that the transition period will be between 5 and 10 years.

Current NYU and Poly students will be able to take courses at each other’s schools (as described above), participate in joint student activities, and have access to expanded research and other resources, like libraries. Students will continue to be registered in their own institutions and will receive their degrees from their current institution.

By reaching this agreement, two strong institutions will be even stronger than either would be on its own. For NYU, it reconnects the University to an engineering research and education capacity that it has not had for over three decades, offering new opportunities for NYU faculty and students. For Poly, it connects a venerable school of engineering and technology to a national research university, thereby drawing in students and faculty from across the country and across the world. Moreover, it significantly broadens the range of academic activities and facilities to which Poly students and faculty will now have access. For the city and state, this important step forward in the relationship between NYU and Poly holds the prospect of sparking a major advancement in our city’s stature as a world capital for science, technology, and engineering.

Majors currently offered at NYU and Poly will continue – and new programs are being developed to provide options for new and dual major courses of study.

Yes, the ePoly courses will continue. Collaborations to enrich electronic offerings of both Poly and NYU are underway.

The Poly programs that exist at the Westchester, Manhattan, and Long Island sites will continue to be provided. No imminent changes are anticipated.

Yes, until Poly becomes a school of NYU, to be considered for admission by both you must apply to both.

Students will be accepted into the Stevens program at least through the fall of 2008 and students already in the program will be permitted to complete the program. The NYU program with Stevens is a quality program that has existed for many years. Now, the new NYU-Poly affiliation creates fresh opportunities to explore invention, innovation and entrepreneurship in science and technology and capitalize on abundant strengths of NYU and Poly. These opportunities are the basis for a new 3-2 program being developed.

Admissions standards are currently set by each institution and each has a separate application process. This will continue throughout the period during which the two institutions are affiliated. The Poly admissions standards are being revised with more demanding minimum requirements. Some of these changes are already being applied to the class being considered for the fall of 2009.

The Poly entering class of 2009 will have approximately 500 full-time students. The mix between international and domestic students has not been determined for next year’s class but historically has been about 13% international students in the undergraduate classes and 50% in the graduation classes. Financial aid for new students is based need. Merit based scholarships are also available. A Promise Fund is available based on merit and is available to transfer as well as new students but the criteria for transfer students calls for extraordinary academic and social experiences. Freshmen with high SAT/ACT scores are considered for an honors program that includes scholarship funds. Need-based aid requires students be U.S. Citizens or permanent residents.

Poly has approximately 1800 new and continuing graduate students.

There have been a number of on-going discussions between counterparts in various departments about similarities and differences between NYU and Poly. NYU will be representing Poly when recruiting in remote locations in the U.S. and internationally, and will distribute Poly’s recruiting materials. Poly representatives will accompany NYU at as many sites as is feasible and agreed upon between the two institutions.

Poly’s students will continue to develop their community while at Poly’s Brooklyn campus and NYU’s students will continue to develop theirs around the Manhattan campus. As Poly and NYU form a closer relationship, opportunities in student clubs and organizations will likely increase.

During the affiliation phase, Poly students will be governed by the Poly Code of Conduct. As the institutions transition toward Poly becoming a school of NYU, the Codes of Conduct will be compared and modified as needed for consistency.

Each of the NYU schools has jurisdiction over its students in matters affecting only the school. Thus, Poly will continue to have jurisdiction over its own students both during the current affiliation stage and when it is consolidated to become an NYU school. When it becomes a school, NYU Student Affairs will have jurisdiction over matters which have impact beyond the school.

In the near future, Poly’s procedures for managing these situations will remain unchanged. Discussions are underway about how to proceed in the future.

Not at the moment. This is a question to be addressed by Public Safety.

At this time, emergency response systems will continue to operate separately. Representatives of NYU and Poly Student Affairs Offices are meeting to discuss shared services and resources.

The academic calendars for 2008-9 have been set independently at each institution. While not identical, they are reasonably well aligned. The institutions are working to assure complete alignment in the 2009-10 academic calendars.

Student governments will remain separate entities throughout the affiliation period. However, students would be well-served by fostering an environment of communication and collaboration between the two student governments.

The Student Grievance Procedure should function as though Poly was a school, much like CAS, Stern, etc. Poly students should have the right to appeal to the University Judicial Board