The faculty of the Department of Teaching and Learning wishes to go on record as opposed to the NYU 2031 plan as currently formulated, even after taking into account the proposed 16% reduction in square footage and the recent mitigation plan for faculty. Among our concerns are the following:

• We are concerned that the plan was developed without meaningful and sufficient faculty input or adequate transparency regarding its long term impact on the university's academic mission, departments, programs, or finances.
• We are concerned that the plan is based on an unexamined assumption that grown, specifically groth in the university's physical space in Washington Square. is a good strategy or an effective and efficient direction, without time for sufficient faculty discussion of very different images of the future NYU.
• We are concerned that it will impede in the foreseeable future NYU's ability to recruit new faculty and create a prolonged assault on the living and work environments of current faculty and students.
• We are concerned that the declared rationale (NYU students need more space) locks the university into a specific financial model and does not present sufficient grounds for launching a costly building campaign in a time of chronic economic uncertainty when the university needs to be especially nimble.
• We are concerned that NYU students --- already among the most indebted in the nation --- will almost certainly bear the burden of footing the expansion bill in the form of increased tuition and other fees.
• We are concerned that the execution of the 2031 plan will result in an irreparable rift with our community neighbors, and that their right to shape the destiny of Greenwich Village as a residential community should be respected.