The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy left much of New York, and The New School, incapacitated. All but two academic buildings and student housing facilities were plunged into the…
Category: Editorials
Financial Obfuscation at The New School
Over the last six weeks, the Free Press has been gathering reporting on the damage caused by the construction of The New School’s University Center to its neighboring…
A Petition for a 24-hour Building
In March of this year, the Free Press published an editorial adovocating for the establishment of a 24-hour academic building at The New School. At the start of…
Editorial
Alvin Johnson, The New School’s first director, was a visionary by almost all accounts. A renowned economist and former editor of the New Republic, Johnson was a founding…
Troubling Financial Trends
The New School has always been a small institution. In its beginnings, in fact, it was barely an institution at all — the university’s original goal was to…
The Need for Institutional Memory
The New School is an institution with a distinctive and significant legacy. Its history is critical to the history of New York City, the development of progressive education…