NYU Madrid Director Robert Lubar provides an update on the site and looks ahead to 2016.
As Director of NYU Madrid it gives me great pleasure to share with you some of our exciting new initiatives for Spring 2016. With the guidance of our new Manager of Student Life and Housing, Rodrigo Urbina, we are establishing a Student Government Council at NYU Madrid in which our two NYU Ambassadors will work with other interested students to organise activities and town hall meetings on and off campus. We are also starting a soccer club and will arrange regular “partidos.” During Ally Week we will be organising a series of extra-curricular activities, including a screening of Vice Chancellor Linda Mills’s film “Of Many,” along with visits to Madrid’s Islamic Cultural Center and the Centro Sefarad. Rodrigo, in close collaboration with our Intern Sandra Fernández, has injected new life into our Intercambio Program (social exchanges between American and Spanish students), which has been enormously successful this year. Students, at their own expense, are also invited to participate in the Morocco Exchange Program, an educational, guided visit to Morocco from April 28 – May 2. Finally, beginning Fall 2016 students will also have the option to live in a new Residence Hall, in addition to participating in homestays.