The New School is a

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. It was founded in 1919 as The New School for Social Research with an original mission dedicated to academic freedom and intellectual inquiry and a home for progressive thinkers. Since then, the school has grown to house five divisions within the university. These include the

Parsons School of Design The Parsons School of Design is a private art and design college under The New School located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhattan art ...

, the

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, commonly referred to as Lang, is the seminar-style, undergraduate, liberal arts college of The New School. It is located on-campus in Greenwich Village in New York City on West 11th Street off Sixth Avenue ( ...

, the College of Performing Arts (which includes the Mannes School of Music),

The New School for Social Research The New School for Social Research (NSSR), previously known as The University in Exile and The New School University, is a graduate-level educational division of The New School in New York City, United States. NSSR enrolls more than 1,000 stud ...

, and the Schools of Public Engagement. In addition, the university maintains the

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campus and has also launched or housed a range of institutions, such as the international research institute World Policy Institute, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, the India China Institute, the Observatory on Latin America, and the Center for New York City Affairs. It is

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among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". Approximately 10,000 students are enrolled in

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and

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programs. Over 70 percent of all students enrolled in university are in the creative areas of design, performing, and fine arts.

History

Name

From its founding in 1919 to 1997, the university was known as The New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University. The university and each of its colleges were renamed in 2005. The New School established the University in Exile and the

École libre des hautes études The ( 'Free School for Advanced Studies') was a "university-in-exile" for French academics in New York City, New York during the Second World War. It was chartered by the French (the Free French) and Belgian governments-in-exile and located at the ...

in 1933. It was designed as a graduate division for largely Jewish scholars escaping from

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and other adversarial regimes in Europe. In 1934, the University in Exile was chartered by

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and its name was changed to the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. In 2005, it adopted what had initially been the name of the whole institution, the New School for Social Research, while the larger institution was renamed The New School.

Founding

The New School for Social Research was founded by a group of university professors and researchers in 1919 as a school where adult students could "seek an unbiased understanding of the existing order, its genesis, growth and present working". Founders included economist and literary scholar Alvin Johnson, historians Charles A. Beard and James Harvey Robinson, economist

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, and philosophers

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and

John Dewey John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and Education reform, educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century. The overridi ...

. Beard, Dewey, and Robinson were all faculty at

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and all supporters of the Great War. In October 1917, after Columbia University suppressed criticism of the United States by the faculty, related to World War I, it fired two professors who were critical of both Woodrow Wilson and Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University president. Charles A. Beard, Professor of Political Science, resigned his professorship at Columbia in protest, though he supported the war. His colleague James Harvey Robinson, who also supported the war, resigned in 1919 and both Beard and Robinson became founders of The New School. John Dewey chose to remain on the faculty of Columbia. The New School plan was to offer the rigorousness of college education without degree matriculation or degree prerequisites. It was theoretically open to anyone, as the adult division today called Schools of Public Engagement remains in part. The first classes at the New School took the form of lectures followed by discussions, for larger groups, or as smaller conferences, for "those equipped for specific research". In the first semester, 100 courses, mostly in economics and politics, were offered by an ad hoc faculty that included Thomas Sewall Adams, Charles A. Beard,

Harold Laski Harold Joseph Laski (30 June 1893 – 24 March 1950) was an English political theorist and economist. He was active in politics and served as the chairman of the British Labour Party from 1945 to 1946 and was a professor at the London School of ...

Wesley Clair Mitchell Wesley Clair Mitchell (August 5, 1874 – October 29, 1948) was an American economist known for his empirical work on business cycles and for guiding the National Bureau of Economic Research in its first decades. Mitchell was referred to as Thor ...

, James Harvey Robinson,

Graham Wallas Graham Wallas (31 May 1858 – 9 August 1932) was an English socialist, social psychologist, educationalist, a leader of the Fabian Society and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Biography Born in Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, Walla ...

, Charles B. Davenport,

Elsie Clews Parsons Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (November 27, 1875 – December 19, 1941) was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Native American tribes—such as the Tewa and Hopi—in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. ...

, and

Roscoe Pound Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 – June 28, 1964) was an American legal scholar and educator. He served as dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1903 to 1911 and was dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936. He was a ...

. Many years later, The New School begin to offer degrees in line with the traditional university model.

John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and Extended technique, non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one ...

, who came to study at The New School in 1933 with the experimental composer

Henry Cowell Henry Dixon Cowell (; March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher, teacher Marchioni, Tonimarie (2012)"Henry Cowell: A Life Stranger Than Fiction" ''The Juilliard Journal''. Retrieved 19 June 2022.C ...

, taught at The New School from 1950–1960, including courses such as Experimental Composition and Mycology. Cage's teaching at the school inspired the founding of

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, through his students, including

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. Cage was forced out by the Graduate Faculty who did not feel that he was appropriate to their ideal of an academic professor.

Motto

The New School uses "To the Living Spirit" as its motto. In 1937,

Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novell ...

remarked that a plaque bearing the inscription "be the Living Spirit" had been torn down by the Nazis from a building at the

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. He suggested that the University in Exile adopt that inscription as its motto, to indicate that the 'living spirit,' mortally threatened in Europe, would have a home in this country. Alvin Johnson adopted that idea, and the motto continues to guide the division in its present-day endeavors.

University in Exile

The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science was founded in 1933 as the University in Exile. It was largely for Jewish scholars purged from teaching positions due to antisemitic laws passed in 1933

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Germany. By 1938, the matter became an issue of life or death for these scholars. The University in Exile, one of a number of similar program being established nationally, was initially founded by the director of the New School, Alvin Johnson, through the financial contributions of Hiram Halle and the

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. The University in Exile and its subsequent incarnations have been the intellectual heart of the New School. Notable scholars associated with the University in Exile include psychologists

Erich Fromm Erich Seligmann Fromm (; ; March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and set ...

Max Wertheimer Max Wertheimer (; April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was a psychologist who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler. He is known for his book ''Productive Thinking'' and for conceiving the ...

and Aron Gurwitsch, political theorists

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and

Leo Strauss Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was an American scholar of political philosophy. He spent much of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students an ...

, philosopher Hans Jonas, and composer

Hanns Eisler Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was a German-Austrian composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films. The ...

. In 1934, the University in Exile was chartered by

and its name was changed to the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. In 2005, the Graduate Faculty was again renamed, this time taking the original name of the university, The New School for Social Research.

New University in Exile Consortium

In 2018, the New University in Exile Consortium was formed. The consortium is a group of multiple colleges and universities around the world which host at least one exiled scholar per year, aiding them in academic pursuits as well as providing personal support with respect to their exile. Following its establishment, the consortium has helped host scholars from Afghanistan and Ukraine following the fall of the democratic Afghan government in 2021 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

École libre des hautes études

The New School played a similar role with the founding of the École Libre des Hautes Études after the Nazi invasion of France. Receiving a charter from

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government in exile, the École attracted refugee scholars who taught in French, including philosopher

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, anthropologist

Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss ( ; ; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair o ...

, and linguist

Roman Jakobson Roman Osipovich Jakobson (, ; 18 July 1982) was a Russian linguist and literary theorist. A pioneer of structural linguistics, Jakobson was one of the most celebrated and influential linguists of the twentieth century. With Nikolai Trubetzk ...

. The ''École Libre'' gradually evolved into one of the leading institutions of research in Paris, the '' École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales'', with which the New School maintains close ties.

Dramatic Workshop/School of Drama

Between 1940 and 1949, The New School included the " Dramatic Workshop," a theater education program and predecessor of School of Drama founded by German emigrant theatre director

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. The department chairs hired by Piscator were

Stella Adler Stella Adler (February 10, 1901 – December 21, 1992) was an American actress and acting teacher. A member of Yiddish Theater's Adler dynasty, Adler began acting at a young age. She shifted to producing, directing, and teaching, founding the ...

(acting),

Lee Strasberg Lee Strasberg (born Israel Strassberg; November 17, 1901 – February 17, 1982) was an American acting coach and actor. He co-founded, with theatre directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed ...

(directing), and Herbert Berghoff (playwriting). Among the students of the Dramatic Workshop were

Beatrice Arthur Beatrice Arthur (born Bernice Frankel; May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009) was an American actress, comedienne and singer. She began her career on stage in 1947, attracting critical acclaim before achieving worldwide recognition for her work o ...

Harry Belafonte Harry Belafonte ( ; born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte ...

Marlon Brando Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor. Widely regarded as one of the greatest cinema actors of the 20th century,''Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia''

Tony Curtis Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz; June 3, 1925September 29, 2010) was an American actor with a career that spanned six decades, achieving the height of his popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in more than 100 films, in roles co ...

Ben Gazzara Biagio Anthony "Ben" Gazzara (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012) was an American actor and director of film, stage, and television. He received numerous accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Drama Desk Award, in addition to nomina ...

, Michael V. Gazzo,

Rod Steiger Rodney Stephen Steiger ( ; April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters. Ranked as "one of Hollywood's most charismatic and dynamic stars", he is closely associ ...

, Elaine Stritch,

Shelley Winters Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades. She won Academy Awards for ''The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film), The Diary of Anne Frank'' (1959) and ' ...

and

Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three ...

. Prior to the Dramatic Workshop, The Group Theater under the leadership of Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg taught dramatic arts. Subsequent to the Dramatic Workshop, both Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg ran studios at The New School.

Presidents

These twelve individuals have served as president of The New School: #

Alvin Saunders Johnson Alvin Saunders Johnson (December 18, 1874 – June 7, 1971) was an American economist and a co-founder and first director of The New School. Biography Alvin Johnson was born near Homer, Nebraska. He was educated at the University of Nebraska an ...

(1922–1945) # Bryn J. Hovde (1945–1950) # Hans Simons (1950–1960) Clara Mayer served as acting president (1951) # Abbott Kaplan (1960) # Henry David (1961–1963) followed by Robert Morrison MacIver (acting 1963–1964) # John R. Everett (1964–1982) # Jonathan Fanton (1982–1999) #

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(2001–2010) # David E. Van Zandt (2011–2020) # Dwight A. McBride (2020–2023) # Donna Shalala (2023–2024) - Interim President # Joel Towers (2024–)

Organization

The New School is divided into autonomous colleges called "divisions". Each one is led by a dean and has its own scholarships, standards of admission, and acceptance rates.

Major colleges

Former divisions

Academics

Similar to many liberal arts colleges, The New School's Lang College has a "student-directed curriculum," which does not require its undergraduates to take general education courses. Instead, students are encouraged to explore before focusing on a major, selecting topics that are of interest to them. An exception to this is in the performing arts, where students must declare majors at enrollment. Although all "New Schoolers" are required to complete core training—usually of a literary, conservatory, or artistic nature—students are expected to be the primary designers of their own curriculum. The university offers 81 degree/diploma programs and majors. The New School faculty teach most of their classes seminar style and the student/faculty ratio is 10:1.

Undergraduate admissions

In 2024, The New School accepted 62.5% of undergraduate applicants, with admission standards considered difficult, applicant competition considered low, and with those enrolled predicted to have an average 3.59 high school

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based on a large sample of college GPA data since the university has not published its high school GPA data for incoming freshman. The university does not consider standardized test scores, the university having a test blind policy. Those enrolled students that had taken standardized tests had an average 1250

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score (34% having scores) or an average 28 ACT score (16% having scores).

Dual degree programs

The university offers a range of dual degree programs. These include a

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and

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(colloquially called the "BA/FA pathway") program or a

and

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program. The former is a comprehensive five-year program that allows students to obtain their B.A. from

Eugene Lang College Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, commonly referred to as Lang, is the seminar-style, undergraduate, liberal arts college of The New School. It is located on-campus in Greenwich Village in New York City on West 11th Street off Sixth Avenue ( ...

and their B.F.A. from either Parsons or School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. The latter is also a five-year program that allows students at Eugene Lang to obtain their masters from the

New School for Social Research The New School for Social Research (NSSR), previously known as The University in Exile and The New School University, is a graduate-level educational division of The New School in New York City, United States. NSSR enrolls more than 1,000 stud ...

. The university also offers a Master of Arts Management and Entrepreneurship program, which can be obtained along with either a Bachelor of Music (Mannes) or a Bachelor of Fine Arts (drama or jazz) in five-years.

Institutes and research centers

Various institutes and research centers at The New School focus on specific fields of study: * International affairs and global perspectives * Philosophy and intellectual culture * Humanities Action Lab * Politics, policy, and society * Art, design, and theory * Environment * Urban and community development * Center for Attachment Research * Center for New York City Affairs * Center for Public Scholarship The New School's College of Performing Arts is home to the experimental music venue, The Stone, offering 240 concerts a year.

Enrollment demographics

Thirty-three percent of New School students come from outside of the United States, with 112 non-US countries represented at the university. U.S. students come from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Forty-three percent of them are people of color, and 5% of American students identify as more than one race. Of the entire student population, 63% receive financial aid, and 17% study abroad before graduating.

Campus

The New School's campus is centered on the area immediately south of Union Square in New York's

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. Exceptions are some dormitories and other administrative buildings that are located in Chelsea, Stuyvesant Park, and the College of Performing Arts in the

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University Center

The New School opened the 16-story University Center ("UC") at 65 5th Avenue in January 2014. While the 65 Fifth Avenue plans were initially controversial among students and Village residents (spurring in 2009 a major student occupation that was held at The New School's previous building on that site), plans for the University Center were adjusted in response to community concerns. In a review of the University Center's final design, ''

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'' architecture critic

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called the building "a celebration of the cosmopolitan city". The UC serves as a central hub for all university students, though the majority of classrooms and studios are in use by Parsons. The tower, which was designed by

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's Roger Duffy, is the largest capital project the university has undertaken. The building added classrooms, new residences, computer labs, event facilities, and a cafeteria to the downtown New York City campus in addition to a library, and lecture hall.

Historical significance

Several of the university buildings are

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s. Among these is the egg-shaped Tishman Auditorium, an interior landmark. It was designed by architect

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, along with the entirety of The New School's 66 West 12th Street building, the last major project Urban designed. Writer's forums, author visits, political debates, award ceremonies, academic lectures, performances, and public hearings are held for both the academic community and general public throughout the year in Tishman. Newer buildings have received awards. Among these is The Sheila Johnson Design Center, which attracted media attention for its design. In 2009, it won the Society for College and University Planning's Excellence in Architecture Renovation/Adaptive Reuse Award. In addition to being a Parsons core academic building, the center also serves as a public art gallery. The New School Welcome Center, located on 13th Street and Fifth Avenue, won the American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter's Interiors Merit Award in 2010. In October 2019, the university celebrated its

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with ''The Festival of New.''

Libraries

The New School currently maintains three library locations and its Archives & Special Collections in New York City and is a member of the Research Library Association of South Manhattan. In 2009, its libraries counted a total of 1,906,046 holdings. * Fogelman Social Sciences and Humanitie''s Library'' ''(migrated to the List Center)'' *Kellen Archives – design and Parsons' history (migrated to Archives & Special Collections) *Visual Resource Center (no longer active) *Adam and Sophie Gimbel Design Library (migrated to University Center Library in 2013) * Alexis Gregory Library for the Performing Arts * Archives & Special Collections * University Center Library – art, design, and technology * List Center Library – humanities and social sciences

Art collection

In 1931 the New School commissioned two mural cycles:

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's "A Call for Revolution" and "Universal Brotherhood" and Thomas Hart Benton's epic America Today. The New School Art Collection was established in 1960 with a grant from the Albert A. List Foundation. The collection, now grown to approximately 1,800 postwar and contemporary works of art, includes examples in almost all media. Parts of it are exhibited throughout the campus. Notable artists such as

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (;''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''"Warhol" born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol ...

Kara Walker Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, printmaker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores Race (classification of human beings), race, gender, human sexuality, sexual ...

Richard Serra Richard Serra (November 2, 1938 – March 26, 2024) was an American artist known for his large-scale Abstract art, abstract sculptures made for Site-specific art, site-specific landscape, urban, and Architecture, architectural settings, a ...

, and

Sol LeWitt Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he pref ...

all have pieces displayed in New School's academic buildings.

Publications

Academic journals

The New School publishes the following journals: * ''

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'' * ''

Social Research Social research is research conducted by social scientists following a systematic plan. Social research methodologies can be classified as quantitative and qualitative. * Quantitative designs approach social phenomena through quantifiable ...

'' * ''The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal'' * '' International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society'' * ''New School Economic Review'' * ''New School Psychology Bulletin'' * ''The Journal of Design Strategies'' * ''The Parsons Journal for Information Mapping (PJIM)'', a quarterly publication by the Parsons Institute for Information Mapping

Other university publications

* ''re:D'', the magazine for Parsons alumni and the wider Parsons community, published by the New School Alumni Association. * ''The New School Free Press'', abbreviated as ''NSFP'', is a student-run newspaper covering events around The New School. Periodic printed editions are distributed in newsstands across campus, while their website publishes continuously updated content. * ''LIT'', a nationally distributed literary journal – contains works selected by the MFA Creative Writing Program * ''12th Street'', a nationally distributed literary journal from The New School's Riggio Honor Program that contains work from undergraduate writers at the university * ''Eleven and a Half'', the literary journal of Eugene Lang College * ''NEW_S'', an e-newsroom showcasing The New School in major media, major student and alumni achievements, university programs, and other news * ''Canon Magazine'', a quarterly publication of student writings published by The New School for Social Research * ''Public Seminar'' is a journal dedicated to the intellectual and cultural understanding of democracy through the lens of design, the social sciences, performing arts, and humanities. Public Seminar is produced by New School faculty, students, and staff, and supported by colleagues and collaborators around the world. * ''Scapes'', the annual journal of the School of Constructed Environments * ''BIAS: Journal of Dress Practice'', a journal published by the MA Fashion Studies Dress Practice Collective started in the spring of 2013 that aims to join elements of "visual culture, fashion theory, design studies and personal practice through a variety of media".

Broadcasting

*''WNSR'', or ''New School Radio'', is a student-run online-only news and opinion outlet for all divisions of The New School. Programming is produced by graduate and undergraduate students and delivered in the form of episodic streaming and podcasts. It was established in 2010. *''NSCR'', or ''New School CoPa Radio'', is an online radio station run by the College of Performing Arts (CoPa) and spans a wide range of genres, and features more than 400 artists, 500 albums, and 3,840 individual tracks and songs, all by students, faculty, alumni, and staff from CoPa divisions, including the School of Drama, School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, the Mannes School of Music, as well as alumni from the wider New School community. The station was established in 2021. *''New Histories'' is a faculty-run podcast show at The New School that focuses on the university's history. *''Unbound'' is a student-run podcast show at The New School that focuses on philosophy.

Student life

Student organizations

The New School houses over 50 recognized student organizations, most of which are geared towards artistic endeavors or civic engagement. Notable among these are The Theatre Collective, which stages numerous dramatic productions throughout the year, Narwhals on Broadway, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the New School Debate Team (intercollegiate competition in Policy/Cross Examination style debate), ReNew School (sustainability and environmental advocacy group), Moxie (feminist alliance), the New Urban Grilling Society (NUGS), and The Radical Student Union (RSU).

Athletics and recreation

On October 25, 2012, a school-wide election was held to select a mascot, where The New School Narwhals were born. On January 25, 2013, the athletics logo was launched, designed by Parsons’ student Matthew Wolff (Graphic Design '14). The department began in December 2008 under its original name Recreation and Intramural sports. The McBurney YMCA is where intramurals continue to be held on Wednesday nights. The Narwhals feature several intercollegiate teams: basketball (2009), cross country (2010), cycling (2013), soccer (2013), tennis (2014), ultimate Frisbee (2014). The New School Narwhals are an independent school, unaffiliated with the NCAA, but regularly compete against NCAA Division III schools. Basketball – competes regularly against Cooper Union, Culinary Institute of America, Pratt Institute, and Vaughn College Cross Country – competes in CUNYAC and HVIAC conference invitationals as an unaffiliated school Cycling – a member of the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference Soccer – competes against Cooper Union, Culinary Institute of America, St. Joseph's College, and Vaughn College In addition to sports, the recreation department offers a myriad of free fitness classes to its community including boxing, dance, HIIT,

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, and Zumba. Personal training is also offered at a rate ranging from $16.50 to $40 per session. Outdoor Adventure trips are offered several times/week and what started to be wilderness in nature (camping, hiking, rafting) has expanded to include excursions such as archery, biking, horseback riding, skiing/snowboarding, surfing, rock climbing and trapeze. Yee has increased programming to include a second charitable race that takes place annually in April called the 5K Rabbit Run. She has also started the Urban Hunt (a scavenger hunt around campus and the Village) and Club New (a dance party for first-year students the weekend before first day of classes).

Activist culture and social change

The New School has been associated with left-leaning politics, campus activism, civic engagement, and social change. It is a "Periclean University" (a member of Project Pericles), meaning that it teaches "education for social responsibility and participatory citizenship as an essential part of their educational programs, in the classroom, on the campus, and in the community". The New School is one of nine American universities to be inducted into Ashoka's "Changemaker" consortium for social entrepreneurship. In 2010, NYC Service awarded New School special recognition in The College Challenge, a volunteer initiative, for the "widest array of ivicservice events both on and off campus". Miriam Weinstein also cites the Eugene Lang division in her book, ''Making a Difference Colleges: Distinctive Colleges to Make a Better World''. In 2024 during the

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, students participated in pro-Palestinian occupations which called for the divestment from defense companies, an academic boycott of Israeli institutions, amnesty for all students and staff sanctioned by the university for violations of codes of conduct, and an end to the university's collaboration with the

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. People were arrested, but Donna E. Shalala, the interim president of New School, stated that criminal charges would not be pursued against the student protesters who were arrested.

Kerrey presidency and opposition

Former

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became president of The New School in 2000. Kerrey drew praise and criticism for his streamlining of the university, as well as

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for his support of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, generally opposed by the university's faculty. In 2004, Kerrey appointed

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as provost. Appadurai resigned as provost in early 2006, but retained a

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faculty position. He was succeeded by Joseph W. Westphal. On December 8, 2008, Kerrey announced that Westphal was stepping down to accept a position in President

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transition team. Kerrey then appointed himself to the provost position while remaining president. This decision was strongly criticised by faculty and other members of the university community as a power-grab involving potential conflicts of interest. This was seen as a threat to scholarly integrity since the role of provost in overseeing the academic functions of a university has traditionally been insulated from fundraising and other responsibilities of a college president. After a series of rifts including protests involving student occupations of university buildings, Kerrey later appointed Tim Marshall, Dean of

, as Interim Provost through June 2011. Marshall has since been reappointed in this role. On December 10, 2008, 74 of the New School's senior full-time professors gave a vote of no confidence for the New School's former president,

. By December 15, 98% of the university's full-time faculty had voted no confidence. On December 17, over 100 students barricaded themselves in at a dining hall on the campus while hundreds more waited on the streets outside. They considered the current school administration opaque and harmful. Their chief demand, among others, was that Bob Kerrey resign. The students soon enlarged their occupied area, blocking security and police from entering the building. At 3 AM the next morning, the students left the building after Kerrey agreed to some of their demands. The agreed-to demands included increased study space and amnesty for any actions performed during the protest. He did not concede to resignation. In total, the occupation lasted 30 hours. The following year, on April 10, 2009, students, mostly from New School but also from other New York colleges, reoccupied the building at 65 Fifth Avenue, this time holding the entire building for about six hours. The students demanded the resignation of Bob Kerrey. The

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arrested the occupiers, and the New School students involved were suspended. The next month, Kerrey announced he would fulfill his presidency at the university through the end of his term and expressed his intent to leave office in June 2011. He resigned a semester early, on January 1, 2011. In August, the board of trustees appointed Dr. David E. Van Zandt the university's president.

Environmental sustainability

In 2010,

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gives the university a sustainability rating of 94 out of 99. In 2010, the organization also named The New School one of America's "286 Green Colleges". The New School has a student-led environment and sustainability group, called Renew School, as well as full-time employees devoted to the school's sustainability. The university signed the Presidents' Climate Commitment and PlaNYC. The institution's sustainability website outlines many goals and projects for the future intended to result in The New School receiving a good rating on the 2010 College Sustainability Report Card. The New School had the lowest reported

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of any college and university submitting inventories under the Green Report Card program, totaling about 1.0 metric tons CO2 per student. Subsequently, with the completion of the LEED certified but large University Center, The New School's carbon footprint increased to about 1.5 metric tons.

Labor movement

Academic student workers are represented by SENS-UAW. Clerical employees and librarians are represented by Teamsters Local 1205. Professional employees are represented by Teamsters Local 1205 Professional. Student health employees are represented by SHENS-UAW Local 7902. Maintenance workers and security are represented by SEIU 32BJ. Engineers are represented by IUOE Local 94. Part-time faculty are represented by ACT-UAW Local 7902. Part-time jazz faculty are represented by AFM Local 802. In 2003, adjunct faculty in several divisions of the New School began to form a

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chapter under the auspices of the

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. Though the university at first tried to contest the unionization, after several rulings against it by regional and national panels of the

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, the university recognized the local chapter, ACT-UAW, as the bargaining agent for the faculty. As a result of a near strike in November 2005 on the part of the adjunct faculty, the ACT-UAW union negotiated its first contract which included the acknowledgment of previously unrecognized part-time faculty at

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, the only division of The New School where a majority of the faculty did not vote to support unionization. In October 2018, graduate students received a tentative union contract from the administration after months of negotiations. In November 2022, the union that represents the university's part-time faculty, ACT-UAW Local 7902, voted to strike following six months of unsuccessful contract negotiations. The strike began November 16. On December 5, the university announced it would withhold pay and healthcare premiums for all strikers, including full-time faculty and staff who had stopped work. To that end, the university sent out forms requiring student-workers to attest to having "delivered

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work obligations." However, the New School paid all striking workers, resulting in anger by students who felt they did not receive what they paid for. In response, the union filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board. The next day, some staff, students, and faculty of

expressed a vote of no confidence in the McBride administration. Notably, neither Parsons nor Mannes voted no confidence, revealing a significant cultural divide between the creative arts community and those in social research. The strike ended on December 10, when, with the help of a federal mediator, the union and the university tentatively agreed to a contract that increased part-time faculty pay, compensated them for their work outside the classroom, and made more union members eligible for health insurance. The union approved the contract on December 31.

Notable people

According to the university, The New School has a living alumni pool of over 56,000 and graduates live in 112 countries.

Notable alumni

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References

External links

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