NYU Board of Trustees

As members of the NYU Board of Trustees, our job is to guide the NYU administration in ensuring that the University can fulfill its academic mission while remaining financially sound, now and in the future. In joining the Board, we take on a commitment to exercise oversight with diligence, prudence, and concern for all members of the NYU community.

All of us have a strong allegiance to NYU. Most of us (almost 80 percent) studied at NYU at one point. Serving on NYU’s not-for-profit Board is a voluntary and unpaid position. We willingly invest a significant portion of our time and energy on Board activities — attending Board meetings, serving on various committees, engaging with faculty, students, and administrators, and, in many cases, serving on individual school advisory boards.

To have come here as a student who needed a scholarship and to end up as the chair of the board is pretty exciting. But what I'm really excited about is the opportunity to make a difference for the students who come after.  All of us on the Board believe that our role is to leave the place better than we found it.

—Evan Chesler,
Board of Trustees Chair
 

• Setting the overarching strategic direction of the University
• Overseeing the financial health of the University
• Ensuring compliance with the University’s legal obligations in the many jurisdictions in which it operates — local, state, federal, and international

• Engaging in high-level risk management at the University
• Approving significant real estate transactions
• Appointing the president and ensuring accountability of the president's leadership team
  
• Providing fundraising support