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According to Sarah Kolinovsky at the NYU Newspaper:

The hiring process is underway for professor positions at NYU Abu Dhabi, but there is one catch: Candidates for these highly sought-after jobs don’t just have to impress faculty and administrators — some of them will have to impress students, too.

This practice, apparently, is so foreign to the community at NYU that it warrants a newspaper article.  Seriously. You can read about the 'justification' for this radical practice of actually requiring candidates to be able to speak to undergraduates - and even more shockingly - soliciting feedback from undergraduates on their performance!  Unbelievable. How dare they think that legally responsible adults who have spent years listening to various professors of philosophy, and have an invested interest in the outcome of the hire might actually have some insight into the qualities of a good professor. What's next? Professors that actually care about teaching? The horror! We all know that interest in pedagogy is a sign of a weak mind! What ever will happen to our discipline when those entrusted to cultivate the next generation of philosphers actually start giving a damn! The whole thing will get flushed down the crapper I say!

OK, so I got a little carried away. You can read the whole story here:

Washington Square News - Prospective Abu Dhabi-bound philosophy profs get feedback