It is additionally completely hypocritical to the DEI efforts that NYU have made in the past two years.”Īsked about backlash to the news that NYU is in talks with Dr. “To hire David Sabatini as a faculty member is to put his work above the safety of the women in NYU’s community. “We will not tolerate abusers in our midst under any circumstance,” says one letter, whose signers have committed to an effective academic boycott of Langone Health until NYU rejects his faculty candidacy. Many signed open letters challenging what they described as the university’s special treatment of a known harasser. Sabatini’s (and NYU’s) critics organized online, under the hashtag #SayNoToSabatini. In addition to the in-person protest, some of Dr. Sabatini, despite his recently being pushed out of three other jobs-including a professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-over sexual misconduct concerns.
Some held signs with slogans such as “Title IX over Sabatini.” This followed a bombshell report from Science this week indicating that NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine may hire Dr. David Sabatini gathered outside NYU’s Langone Health campus Wednesday. Hundreds of New York University students, alumni and professors who oppose a faculty appointment for biologist Dr.
