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New School halts mandatory COVID-19 testing for fully vaccinated, increases visitor campus access starting Monday

The New School’s Provost Office announced new COVID-19 protocols in an email to the community yesterday. Beginning Monday, fully vaccinated and boosted individuals will no longer have to participate in mandatory testing unless symptomatic, and some visitors will be allowed on campus and in the dormitories. Illustration by Lilly Gorman

The New School will no longer require individuals who are vaccinated and boosted for COVID-19 to participate in regular testing and will expand visitor access to campus effective…

Students express frustration with Student Health Services amidst return to campus

Some students have taken issue with the university's approach to the return to campus. Photo by Lilly Gorman

Two weeks into the new semester, the looming Omicron variant has some students and faculty feeling left in the dark, and they want answers. In-person learning begins on…

Admin Acknowledges Two-Day Buffer Period Past 14-Day Testing Policy

SCANNING IN — Kayla Dantz, a second-year Fashion Design student at Parsons School of Design, scans her ID card to enter the University Center at The New School. The university’s COVID-19 testing procedures have left her nervous about unjustly being locked out of campus buildings. “There have been a lot of instances where students in my class have gotten tested in time or have gotten false positives and they haven’t been able to get onto campus and then they haven’t been able to even Zoom into class so they miss the entire class,” Dantz said. Photo by Alexandra Nava-Baltimore

Vaccinated individuals can access campus buildings up to 16 days past the date of their last COVID-19 test, a COVID-19 coordinator confirmed Friday. In an interview with The…

Students and Faculty Report Continued Building Access Despite Missing Two-Week Testing Mark

ACCESSING CAMPUS IN THE PANDEMIC — The New School’s 55 W. 13th St. location, Arnhold Hall, features turnstiles that students and faculty must tap with their ID cards to open. The electronic system should not let through individuals who have not uploaded up-to-date negative COVID-19 test results to their Student Health Services portal, but this is not always the case. “I was able to access campus for the one day that I had to even though my access was red [revoked due to insufficient testing],” said Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts first-year Theo Lim-Jisra. Photo by Stevie Rowley

As The New School enters its fourth week of classes, at least five known students and one faculty member have been able to enter campus buildings despite failing…

University Plans to Improve Website, Simplify Billing Process, and Increase Student Engagement after Student Outrage with Financial Aid

Illustration by Ally Santana

The New School has heard the complaints of students about the financial aid office and plans to introduce several changes, administrators told The New School Free Press in…

COVID-19 Expectations into 2021: Q&A With Virologist Vincent Racaniello

Illustration by Ana Rodriguez

Scientists and researchers responsible for the speedy creation of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are now seeing their work come out of the labs and injected into the…