In response to New York University’s developing plans to build a study-away campus in D.C., The Hatchet’s editorial board urges both GW and the D.C. City Council to make changes.

It has been nearly a year since New York University announced it planned to create a study-away campus in the District known as NYU-D.C. The proposal, part of NYU’s 2031 plan for expansion, has been discussed increasingly in recent weeks as community members in New York meet to review the plan. NYU’s plan to build a D.C. campus for its study abroad students poses direct competition for GW and an opportunity for the D.C. Council to address its budgetary issues by taxing schools that are not principally D.C.-based.