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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1965; 61 years ago (1965) |
Parent institution | New York University |
| Dean | Rubén Polendo |
Academic staff | 265 |
| Undergraduates | 3,163 |
| Postgraduates | 939 |
| Location | Manhattan, New York City ,New York ,United States 40°43′45.2″N73°59′37.6″W / 40.729222°N 73.993778°W /40.729222; -73.993778 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | tisch |
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TheNew York University Tisch School of the Arts (also known asNYU Tisch) is theperforming, cinematic, andmedia arts school ofNew York University, aprivateresearch university inNew York City, New York, United States. It was founded on August 17, 1965, as the School of the Arts at New York University a training ground for artists, scholars of the arts, and filmmakers. The school is divided into three institutes: Performing Arts, Emerging Media, and Film & Television.
The school also offers an inter-disciplinary "collaborative arts" program,[1] high school programs,continuing education in the arts for the general public, as well as the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music,[2] which teaches entrepreneurial strategies in the music recording industry. A dualMFA/MBA graduate program is also offered, allowing students to take coursework at both Tisch and NYU'sStern School of Business.[3] It is located at 721Broadway (the intersection of Broadway andWaverly Place), adjacent to the university'sDepartment of Philosophy building and theGallatin School of Individualized Study, in theGreenwich Village neighborhood ofLower Manhattan, New York City. In 2013, NYU opened a new technology hub on its Brooklyn campus called the Media and Games Network (MAGNET). Located at 2MetroTech Center and, beginning in 2019,370 Jay Street, MAGNET houses three Tisch programs: the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, the Interactive Telecommunications/Interactive Media Arts programs (ITP & IMA), and the Game Center; these programs work in collaboration with departments in media technology from NYU'sTandon School of Engineering andSteinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.[4]
As of 2019, 22Academy Award winners, 17Emmy Award winners, 12Tony Award winners, and 4Grammy Award winners have been affiliated withTisch alumni and faculty. As of 2017[update], the school had more than 25,000 alumni working in the arts and related professions,[5] and the school has more alumni inBroadway theatre than any other school for theater in the United States.[6]
The School of the Arts at New York University was founded on August 17, 1965, to provide conservatory training in theater and film in the context of a research university.[7] The school created additional departments such as dance, theatre design, and cinema studies within a few years.[8] Following the creation of the undergraduate Department of Drama in 1974, the school expanded to include theInteractive Telecommunications Program, Department of Dramatic Writing, Department ofPerformance Studies, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, Department of Photography and Imaging, and The Department of Art and Public Policy.[8]
In 1982, the school's second dean,David Oppenheim, solicited a donation[9] fromLaurence A. andPreston Robert Tisch that made possible the acquisition and renovation of the location at 721 Broadway where most of the school's programs are housed. In recognition of the generosity of the Tisch family, the school was renamed Tisch School of the Arts in 1982.[10]
Tisch School of the Arts has three institutes and 16 programs and offers theBachelor of Fine Arts (BFA),Bachelor of Arts (BA),Master of Fine Arts (MFA),Master of Arts (MA),Master of Professional Studies (MPS), andDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees. Tisch also offers a selection of classes to NYU students not enrolled in any of its programs through the Open Arts curriculum.[11]
The three institutes are:
The school offers an inter-disciplinary "collaborative arts" program,[1] as well as the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music (founded byArista Records CEOClive Davis), one of the few programs in the US to combinemusical arts andbusiness strategies in the recording industry.[2] There is the Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center, a result of the largest-ever gift to the Tisch School of the Arts, and which achieved LEED Platinum certification, the university's first such interior space designation.[12] A dualMFA/MBA graduate program is offered, allowing students to take coursework at both Tisch and NYU'sStern School of Business.[3] It offers high school programs (the "Tisch Summer High School Program" and "Spring Future Artists Programs") as an outgrowth of the undergraduate classes,[13] and professional courses for the general public as part of a commitment tocontinuing education in the arts.[14]
NYU's first branch campus abroad was the result of a partnership with Singapore Government agencies under Singapore'sGlobal Schoolhouse program. Tisch Asia was also Singapore's first graduate arts school and offered Master of Fine Arts degrees in animation and digital arts, dramatic writing, film, and international media producing. Summer programs included professional workshops and non-credit certificate courses.[15][16] The campus opened in fall 2007 on the formerMinistry of Education &Republic Polytechnic grounds at 3 Kay Siang Road, Singapore, with the intention to enroll approximately 250 students.[17]
The anticipated enrollment figures were not achieved, financial losses and embezzlement were alleged and Tisch Asia President Pari Sara Shirazi was dismissed from her post by NYU in November 2011.[18] She subsequently lost a lawsuit claiming defamation and breach of contract.[19] The Tisch Asia campus closed in 2014, with polarised recollections, ranging from positive endorsement, to allegations that it had been "an educational scam" in a failed lawsuit brought by three former students.[20][21][22]
During theCOVID-19 pandemic of 2020, which forced NYU to move academic instruction online, many Tisch students demanded a tuition refund, believing that virtual classes did not adequately meet their academic needs as a school for performing, cinematic, and media arts. In one of many pandemic-related emails, the school's dean sent students a video of herself dancing toR.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion", intended to raise community spirit.[23] After hearing from students, the dean further clarified that individual schools have no control over tuition and that it was "challenging" for the university to give students their money back at the time.
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