Washington Square News: Merger called off with Paris university
NYU and AUP mutually go separate ways
Talks between NYU and American University of Paris that would have led to NYU’s absorption of the French university have broken down, officials said.
The two universities mutually agreed “not to pursue the option of assimilation,” AUP Board of Trustees chairman Thomas Hardy wrote in an e-mail to the AUP community late last month.
The site was one of NYU’s earliest efforts at creating a degree-granting branch campus abroad, which has since become a central tenant of the university’s aggressive 25-year expansion plan. As recently as last spring, officials had said the deal was close to completion. But by the fall, officials said the merger was not going as well as expected, and since then, both sides have decided to table the merger, NYU spokesman John Beckman said.
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