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…
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ACIR Desperately Seeking Students
When over 100 New School students occupied the old 65 Fifth Ave. building in December 2008, they asked for input into university investment practices. Students feared that with…
In Brief
Parsons Students Find Their Own Way Around Space Constraints; Strand Labor Contract Negotiations Carry On; Lang Namesake Donates Big to College
Preserving a Legacy Left Behind
After Years of Neglect, The New School Attempts to Recover its Institutional Memory In 2011, while putting together a presentation on the politics of desegregation in New York…
Bring Back Student Representation to the Board of Trustees
When The New School for Social Research was established in 1919, Charles Beard, John Dewey, and the rest of the school’s founders proclaimed that it would be an…
The Unconscionable Cost of Education Daisy Dec 15
A look into why tuition has escalated to unprecedented levels The audience’s discontent was palpable inside Tishman Auditorium on the evening of December 8 as New School President…