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Student Health Services to Resume In-Person Appointments for Select Services This Semester

The New School’s Welcome Center located at 72 Fifth Ave. remains relatively empty as classes run online for the first two weeks of the spring 2022 semester. With the return of in-person classes next week, Student Health Services also plans to reintroduce some in-person services for the first time in almost two years. “A start date will be communicated to the university community in the coming weeks,” the department said in an email to The New School Free Press. Photo by Ella Neve

For the first time in almost two years, Student Health Services are set to offer some in-person medical services to New School students. “A start date will be…

Remembering Calvin Simon, Co-Founder of Parliament-Funkadelic, Dead at 79

Calvin Simon, best known as a founding member of legendary funk outfit Parliament-Funkadelic, passed on Thursday, at the age of 79. Simon was born in Beckley, West Virginia,…

New School Mourns Death of Former Scholar-in-Residence bell hooks

bell hooks during her second residency at The New School in May 2014. Photo by Shea Carmen Swan

The New School community mourns the loss of author and activist bell hooks, a New School scholar-in-residence from 2013-2016. Born Gloria Jean Watkins, bell hooks died on Dec.…

I Once Wrote: “I Redact & Expand:…”

Illustration by Ha-Lan Van

If this is your first time meeting Miss Ophelia Eden…see PREFACE below…otherwise, scurry along…she awaits, eager to whisper her whims… PREFACE … This series is an open-ended exploration of…

Parsons Faculty, Staff Ratify Letter Explaining Vote of ‘No Confidence’ in Executive Dean: Letter Claims Dean of Academic Planning was Forced to Resign

The majority of assembled Parsons School of Design staff and faculty expressed their discontent in the leadership of Executive Dean Rachel Schreiber by way of a vote of no confidence Oct. 20, and have since ratified a letter to the provost explaining the vote. “Following the abrupt, forced resignation of Dean Bourgeois on Monday, October 18th, Executive Dean Schreiber’s communication to full-time faculty and staff on October 19th offered no context or way forward,” the letter, sent on Nov. 9, states. Photo by Emma Donelly-Higgins

On Nov. 9, the Parsons School of Design Faculty and Staff councils ratified by an overwhelming majority a letter to the university Provost, describing the resignation of Dean…

Parsons Staff, Faculty Vote ‘No Confidence’ in Executive Dean Following Sudden Departure of Long-Term Administrator; University Backs Executive Dean

Photo by Katherine Huggins

An overwhelming majority of assembled Parsons School of Design faculty and staff voted to pass a resolution of no confidence in the leadership of Parsons’ Executive Dean Rachel…