Students and faculty gather in opposition to David Sabatini’s possible appointment at NYU (Max Gelman/Endpoints News)

Fac­ing back­lash for po­ten­tial Saba­ti­ni ap­point­ment, NYU ad­min­is­tra­tors de­fend hir­ing process — re­port

NYU Gross­man School of Med­i­cine is re­port­ed­ly re­main­ing stead­fast in its in­tent to hire for­mer MIT pro­fes­sor David Saba­ti­ni de­spite in­tense back­lash.

Ad­min­is­tra­tors de­fend­ed their hir­ing process and dis­missed the con­tro­ver­sy as an in­com­plete in­ves­ti­ga­tion col­ored by so­cial me­dia-dri­ven rhetoric, per a record­ing of a Zoom town hall ob­tained by VICE News and oth­er out­lets. The town hall had been con­duct­ed af­ter a cou­ple hun­dred stu­dents and fac­ul­ty walked out Wednes­day af­ter­noon in an hour-long protest against the po­ten­tial hire.

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