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The New School
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Former names
New School University, The New School For Social Research
MottoTo the Living Spirit (unofficial)[1]
TypePrivate, Non-Profit; Doctoral, Research-Intensive[2]
Established1919
Endowment$176 million[3]
PresidentHon. J. Robert "Bob" Kerrey
ProvostTim Marshall (Interim)
Academic staff
2,088[4]
Students9,825[5]
Undergraduates6,375
Postgraduates3,450
607[4]
Other students
5,900[6] (continuing education)
Location
United States New York
,
NY

40°44′08.08″N 73°59′49.08″W / 40.7355778°N 73.9969667°W / 40.7355778; -73.9969667
CampusUrban
ColorsNew School Yellow, Orange, and Red                  
AffiliationsAACU
Websitehttp://www.newschool.edu/

The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by US Fabian Socialists, and for most of its history, 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 re-branded to their current names in 2005.

The school is renowned for its avant-garde teaching, housing the well-known, international think tank The World Policy Institute, and hosting the prestigious National Book Awards. Parsons The New School for Design is the university's highly competitive art school.

Some 9,300 students are enrolled in graduate and undergraduate degree programs, organized into eight different schools, which teach a variety of disciplines, including the social sciences, liberal arts, humanities, architecture, fine arts, design, music, drama, finance, psychology and public policy.[7]

The graduate school of The New School began in 1933 as the University in Exile, an emergency rescue program for threatened scholars in Europe. In 1934 it was chartered by the New York state board of regents and its name was changed to the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, a name it would keep until 2005 when it was renamed New School for Social Research.

History

Founding

The New School for Social Research was founded by a group of university professors and intellectuals in 1919 as a modern, progressive free school where adult students could "seek an unbiased understanding of the existing order, its genesis, growth and present working."[8] Founders included historian Charles Beard, economists Thorstein Veblen and James Harvey Robinson, and philosopher John Dewey, several of whom were former professors at Columbia University.

The school was conceived and founded during a period of fevered nationalism, deep suspicion of foreigners, and increased censorship and suppression during and after the involvement of the United States in World War I.

In October 1917, after Columbia University passed a resolution that imposed a loyalty oath to the United States government upon the entire faculty and student body,[9] the board of trustees fired Professor of Psychology and Head of the Department James McKeen Cattell for having sent a petition to three US congressmen, asking them not to support legislation for military conscription.[10] Other firings included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (grandson of the poet) and Leon Fraser. Charles Beard, Professor of Political Science, resigned his professorship at Columbia in protest. James Harvey Robinson, an associate of Beard's at Columbia and Professor of History, commented on the resignation: "It is not that any of us are pro-German or disloyal. It is simply that we fear that a condition of repression may arise in this country similar to that which we laughed at in Germany."[11] Robinson would resign in 1919 to join the faculty at the New School.

Founder Charles Beard had, in 1899, collaborated with Walter Vrooman at Oxford to start Ruskin Hall, a progressive institution of higher learning for workingmen. The New School would offer the rigorousness of postgraduate education without degree matriculation or degree prerequisites. It was theoretically open to anyone, as the adult division today called The New School for General Studies remains.[12] 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 Beard, Horace M. Kallen, Harold Laski, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Thorstein Veblen, James Harvey Robinson, Graham Wallas, Charles B. Davenport, Elsie Clews Parsons, and Roscoe Pound.[13] John Cage would pioneer the subject of Experimental Composition at the school.

University in Exile

The University in Exile was founded in 1933 as a graduate division of the New School for Social Research to be a haven for Neo-Marxist scholars from the Frankfurt School who had been dismissed from teaching positions by the Italian fascists or had to flee Nazi Germany.[14] The University in Exile was initially funded by Hiram Halle and the Rockefeller Foundation. It was later renamed the "Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science", and bore this name until changing to its present one in 2005. 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, Max Wertheimer and Aron Gurwitsch, political philosophers Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, and philosopher Hans Jonas.

The New School played a similar role with its support of the École Libre des Hautes Études. Receiving a charter from de Gaulle's Free French government in exile, the École attracted refugee scholars who taught in French, including philosopher Jacques Maritain, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and linguist Roman Jakobson. 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.

Between 1940 and 1949 the New School was host to the "Dramatic Workshop", a theatre workshop and predecessor of The New School for Drama that was founded by German emigrant theatre director Erwin Piscator. Among the famous students of the Dramatic Workshop were Beatrice Arthur, Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis, Ben Gazzara, Michael V. Gazzo, Rod Steiger, Elaine Stritch, Shelley Winters and Tennessee Williams.[15]

Following the collapse of totalitarian regimes in Europe, the University in Exile was renamed 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.

I attended The New School for Social Research for only a year, but what a year it was. The school and New York itself had become a sanctuary for hundreds of extraordinary European Jews who had fled Germany and other countries before and during World War II, and they were enriching the city's intellectual life with an intensity that has probably never been equaled anywhere during a comparable period of time.

— Marlon Brando, actor (former New School student[16])

Jack Kerouac also attended the New School in the fall of 1949 under the G.I. benefits scheme for returned service men and women, which included a stipend and book allowance. Kerouac took Meyer Shapiro's course on the French Impressionists, Alfred Kazin's course on Melville's Moby Dick, and Harry Slochower's course on myth. Shapiro's and Kazin's teaching was described as "brilliant" and "inspiring"; Slochower however "was a bore with a Marxist viewpoint who treated myth like merchandise." [17]

Philosophical tradition

The New School continues the Graduate Faculty's tradition of synthesizing leftist American intellectual thought and critical European philosophy. True to its origin and its firm roots within the University in Exile, The New School, particularly its Department of Philosophy, is one of very few in the United States to offer students thorough training in the modern continental European philosophical tradition known as "Continental philosophy." Thus, it stresses the teachings of Parmenides, Aristotle, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Freud, Benjamin, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, et al.[18] The thought of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School: Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, et al. holds an especially strong influence on all divisions of the school. After the death of Hannah Arendt in 1975, the philosophy department revolved around Reiner Schurmann and Agnes Heller.

2000s

Former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey became president of The New School in 2000. Kerrey drew mixed praise and criticism for his divisive streamlining of the university,[citation needed] as well as censure for his support of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, generally opposed by the university's faculty.[citation needed] In 2004, Kerrey appointed Arjun Appadurai as provost. Appadurai resigned as provost in early 2006, but retained a tenured faculty position. He was succeeded by Joseph Westphal, yet on December 8, 2008 Kerrey announced that Westphal was stepping down to accept a position in President Barack Obama's Department of Defense transition team. Kerrey said that he would temporarily take on the duties of provost, but later appointed Tim Marshall, Dean of Parsons The New School for Design, as Interim Provost through June 2010. On May 7, 2009, Kerrey announced[citation needed] he would fulfill his presidency at the University through the end of his term and has expressed his intent to leave office in June 2011.

Academics

Curriculum

Unlike most US universities, The New School 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. Although all "New Schoolers" are required to complete rigorous core training - usually of a literary, conservatory, or artistic nature - students are expected to be the primary designer of their own individualized and eclectic education.

The New School's curriculum is highly experimental and avant-garde, offering classes such as: "Global Perspectives on Reproductive Health", "Games 101", "Punk & Noise", "Queer Culture", "Theories of Mind", and "Psychology of Urban Youth".[19]

The university offers 81 degree/diploma programs and majors, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1.[20] This small class size allows The New School to teach most of its classes in the seminar style — especially at Eugene Lang College, which consistently ranks at the top of The Princeton Review's "class discussions encouraged" national listing.[21]

The New School Institutes and Research Centers

There are several important Institutes and Research Centers at The New School which are focused on various study fields. Their work is concentrated in the following areas:

  • International Affairs and Global Perspectives
  • Philosophy and Intellectual Culture
  • Politics, Policy, and Society
  • Art, Design, and Theory
  • Environment
  • Urban and Community Development
  • Education
  • The Center for New York City Affairs

Academic journals

The New School publishes the following journals:

Other university publications

  • The New School Free Press, student newspaper of the Literary Studies Department
  • 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.
  • Voices, the literary journal of New School's The Institute For Retired Professionals
  • Release, the literary journal of Eugene Lang College
  • The Artichoke, a student-run, monthly editorial
  • The Weekly Observer, an online newsletter showcasing major student and alumni achievements, special program announcements, and other university-wide news. Distributed via MyNewSchool web portal.

Enrollment demographics

23% of New School students are international, with 111 foreign countries being represented at the university. US students come from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. 41% of them are minorities or multi-ethnic.[20] Of the entire student population, 74% receive financial aid.

Rankings and lists

The Huffington Post ranks The New School among "The Top Thirteen Non-Traditional Colleges" in the United States.[22] The Princeton Review ranks the university among "America's 371 Best Colleges" and the "Best Northeastern Colleges."[23]. Independent Magazine ranks it nationally in the "Top Ten Academic Programs for Aspiring Screenwriters", citing its MA in Media Studies and Certificate of Screenwriting.[24] New School's divisions have also appeared on The Princeton Review's following national lists:[25]

  • "Dodgeball Targets" (#1)
  • "Great College Towns" (#1)
  • "Intercollegiate Sports Unpopular Or Nonexistent" (#1)
  • "Long Lines and Red Tape" (#1)
  • "Students Most Nostalgic For Bill Clinton Politics" (#2)
  • "Least Religious Students" (#2)
  • "Nobody Plays Intramural Sports" (#2)
  • "Class Discussions Encouraged" (#3)
  • "Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians" (#3)
  • "Most Politically Active" (#7)
  • "Town-Gown Relations Are Great" (#11)
  • "Gay Community Accepted" (#13)
  • "Most Liberal Students" (#16)
  • "Students Dissatisfied with Financial Aid" (#18)
  • "Lots of Race/Class Interaction" (#19)

Campus

The New School's campus is composed of numerous buildings, most of which are minutes from Union Square.

Union Square, the location often referred to as New School's geographic "nucleus".

An affiliated campus, Parsons Paris, is operated in Paris, France. Students have the option of studying abroad here in the summer or transferring to the location.[26]

Currently, the university is undergoing a "major expansion and renovation", as indicated on the back of 2009-2010 student handbooks.[27] 65 Fifth Avenue, once one of New School's flagship buildings, has been shut down recently and is awaiting demolition and reconstruction.[28] The 65 Fifth Avenue plans have been extremely controversial among students and Village residents. In 2009, the university gained national media attention when a major student occupation was held at the building, resulting in the arrest of 22 protesters.[29] Tension continues to rise between the school's administration and the underground student group responsible for the protests, The New School in Exile.[30]

Historical significance

Several of the university buildings are certified by New York City as historical landmarks. Prominent among these is the egg-shaped Tishman Auditorium, considered by many to be the first building to employ modern architecture. It was designed by the world-famous architect Joseph Urban, along with the entirety of The New School's historic 66 West 12th Street building.[20] Thousands of 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 garnered a multitude of awards. Among these is The Sheila Johnson Design Center, which attracted media attention for its revolutionary design. In 2009, it won the SCUP's Excellence in Architecture Renovation/Adaptive Reuse Award.[31] In addition to being a Parsons core academic building, the Center also serves as a public art gallery.[32] 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.[33]

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In 2009, New School's Sheila Johnson Design Center (seen above) won the SCUP Excellence in Architecture Renovation/Adaptive Reuse Award.[31]

The New School for General Studies was also the first college in America to offer education to adults.[34]

Residence halls

The university contains six dormitories:

13th Street Residence Hall
A facility primarily serving first-year freshman, 13th Street Residence is popular for its in-house Cafeteria, close proximity to academic buildings, and location just seconds away from the university's flagship library, Fogelman.[35]
Stuyvesant Park Residence
New School's newest dormitory, located near Greenwich Village and Murray Hill. It overlooks Stuyvesant Park and the Manhattan skyline. Dormitories are suite-style and house freshmen only.[36]
20th Street Residence Hall
Located in Chelsea, 20th Street Residence offers some of the university's largest suites.[37]
Loeb Hall
Loeb Hall is a co-ed dormitory that houses New School's Student Health Services in its lobby and second floor.[38]
William Street Residence
Located in Lower Manhattan near South Street Seaport. William Street is one of New School's biggest dormitories.[39]

Libraries

The New School owns several libraries throughout New York City, and is a member of the Research Library Association of South Manhattan.

  • Raymond Fogelman Social Science and Humanities Library
  • Kellen Archives
  • Visual Resource Center
  • Gimbel Art and Design Library
  • Scherman Music Library

Art collection

The university's legacy of supporting the freedom of artistic expression began in 1931 with the commissioning of two historically significant mural cycles: Jose Clemente Orozco’s "A Call for Revolution" and "Universal Brotherhood" and Thomas Hart Benton’s epic America Today. The New School Art Collection[40] 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 by some of the most innovative and creative artists of our time. Installed throughout the university campus and transforming the public spaces into lively forums for examining contemporary art, the collection offers students and faculty a rare opportunity to engage with art on a daily basis, making it a distinctive component of their educational experience. The collection has continued its tradition of incorporating site-specific works into its public spaces. Works by artists such as Sol LeWitt, Dave Muller, Martin Puryear, Brian Tolle, and Kara Walker have been added in recent years.

Organization

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

Major Divisions Founded
The New School for General Studies 1919
The New School for Social Research 1937
Parsons The New School for Design 1896
Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy 1964
Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts 1978
Mannes College The New School for Music 1916
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music 1986
The New School for Drama 2005
Former Divisions
The Actor's Studio Drama School 1994–2005


New identity

In June 2005, the university was officially renamed "The New School" and, in order to better promote the common affiliation of the divisions, the academic units were renamed to prominently feature the New School name.

Some faculty, students, and alumni have expressed concern over the rebranding of the university, and especially the dramatic redesign of the logo from a six-sided shield against a green background to a spray-painted graffiti mark reading simply, in capital letters, "THE NEW SCHOOL" with, in smaller letters beneath, "A UNIVERSITY." They claim that the university's new identity campaign, while maintaining a slick urban edge, does little to suggest academic rigor or collegiate legacy.[41][42]

The name change came about in part to consolidate the divisions under one banner, and in part as an official recognition of the shorthand name for the school used by students, faculty and New Yorkers in general.[43]

My view is that you never argue with the customer about your name.

— New School President Bob Kerrey

Student life

Student government

There are several student government and leadership councils at The New School. Among them are:

Student organizations

The New School houses over 25 recognized student organizations, most of which are geared towards artistic endeavors or civic engagement.[44] Notable among these are The Theatre Collective, which stages dramatic productions throughout the year, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Debate Team, ReNew School (environmental organization), Moxie (feminist alliance), and The Radical Student Union (RSU).

Student-run media

A noted student newspaper, The New School Free Press, is widely distributed throughout the campus. Hard print copies are available in most academic buildings, while an online edition is available as well. WNSR, a student-run, faculty-advised online-only radio station, also operates at the university. Programming is currently delivered in the form of streamable mp3s and, in the near future, subscribable podcasts. It is a station for all divisions of The New School.[45]

Recreational athletics

Although The New School does not have traditional "sports teams", it does give students access to numerous outdoor, exercise, and recreational sports groups.[46] Among these are an Indoor Soccer League, Basketball League, and Volleyball League. In fall 2009, Move At The New School, a running and walking group, formed. Extra-curricular classes in salsa dance, yoga, meditation, karate, and Tai Chi are also available to all students.

Eugene Lang College also features a "Beyond the Classroom" program, in which students are awarded two liberal arts credits for completion of courses such as Lang Urban Park Rangers, Lang Urban Forestry, The Oyster Gardens of NYC, and Lang on the Hudson, in which students build a boat to be raced down the Hudson River.[47] Many of these wellness classes can lead to paid summer fellowships or NYC Park System certification, as in the case of Urban Forestry.

Traditions

  • Each August, community residents, the university, and local businesses stop traffic on the 13th block for one afternoon. A massive block party is then thrown, celebrating the return of New School students to Greenwich Village.
  • The Fusion Fashion Show is one of The New School's, New York City's biggest industry events. Each year, first and second-year undergraduates from New School Parsons compete directly with the university's fiercest rival - Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) - in the show, vying for awards and the title of best overall school.
  • The New School annually hosts the Parsons Fashion Benefit, which is consistently attended by celebrities and industry moguls. It showcases the work of the current graduating class and raises money to fund scholarships for the fashion design program.[48]
  • Every April, the university celebrates V-Day for two weeks.[49] Originally started by the student feminist organization Moxie, "V-Day at The New School" has since been adopted by the community and become a major part of campus life. In conjunction with V-Day, the university also recognizes each April as Sexual Assault and Prevention Awareness Month. During this time, t-shirts painted with feminist art are hung on a clothesline in the windows of every major academic building. This is done as part of the Clothesline Project, and seeks to engage the public with New School's activist community.[50]
  • New School's annual Take Back the Night March is also held during April. In this event, students lead the university community through the streets of Greenwich Village in a public demonstration against sexual violence.[50]

Activist culture and social change

Historically, The New School has been associated with leftist politics, campus activism, civic engagement, and social change.[51] It is "Periclean University", or member 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."[52]

Ashoka Changemaker Campus Initiative

This reputation was further solidified in September 2008, the Ashoka Changemaker Campus Initiative is a unique partnership between Ashoka: Innovators for the Public and university students, faculty, staff and administrators. The aim is to cocreate a vision and plan of action to improve teaching, research and engagement opportunities in social entrepreneurship - both on campus and in local and global communities.

The New School's selection as a Changemaker campus "was based on your demonstrated commitment to improve campus opportunities in social entrepreneurship, combined with your entrepreneurial ability to rally administrators, fellow faculty members, and students around your vision for campus change," according to Ashoka. The program began in 2008-2009 with selection of George Mason University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland and Cornell. 2009-2010 schools include The New School, Tulane, College of the Atlantic, Babson College and CU-Boulder.

Environmental sustainability

  • Currently, The Princeton Review gives the university a sustainability rating of 94 out of 99.[23] In 2010, the organization also named The New School one of America's "286 Green Colleges." [53]
  • New School has been committed to sustainability since 2006, when the Sustainable Design Review was established on campus. The Review has a contest each year in which students have a chance to share their environmentally friendly designs and ideas for the university.
  • The university furthered its efforts by signing the Presidents Climate Commitment and PlaNYC. The institution's sustainability website outlines many goals and projects for the future which will hopefully help The New School receive a good rating in the 2010 College Sustainability Report Card.[54][55]
  • ReNewSchool, a student environmental organization, actively works to "green" the university by engaging students in composting efforts, recycling education programs, and campus sustainability projects. Additionally, all of the university's Computer Labs are equipped with numerous color and black-and-white printers, the latter of which automatically print with 100% recycled paper.

Labor movement

In 2003, adjunct faculty in several divisions of the New School began to form a labor union chapter under the auspices of the United Auto Workers. Though the university at first tried to contest the unionization, after several rulings against it by regional and national panels of the National Labor Relations Board 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 Mannes College The New School for Music.

The McCain protests

John McCain's speech at the graduation ceremony of 2006 generated a large amount of media attention, due to vocal student opposition in print,[56] radio,[57] and television[58] media, and the speech of Jean Rohe, a graduating senior who spoke before McCain and directly confronted the controversy, saying that the senator "does not reflect the values upon which the university was founded."[59][unreliable source?]

US Politics and New School

  • In 2007, New School trustee and long-time Clinton fundraiser Norman Hsu was arrested after being found to have skipped out on a felony theft conviction.[60] In 2008, he was convicted and sentenced to three years prison for defrauding millions of dollars of investors' money in an intricate Ponzi scheme. In response, the Hillary Clinton campaign returned $850,000 of his campaign contributions.[61]

2008 Presidential elections

  • In the early 1960s, the New School offered the father of the US President, Barack Obama Sr, a generous scholarship package that would have paid for his immediate family (including wife Ann Dunham and son the future President, then residents of Hawaii) to join him in New York City, where he would complete his PhD. He declined and instead abandoned his family and departed for Harvard University, where he had a less-generous scholarship with no family allowance.
  • Leo Hindery, a New School trustee, had donated nearly $270,000 to the John Edwards campaign by late 2007. Other politically involved New School trustees include Howard Gittis, who is a "bundler" for the John McCain campaign, and George Haywood, part of Senator Barack Obama's inner fund-raising circle.[62] Fred P. Hochberg, Dean of Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, is a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and liaison to the gay community.[63]

Controversy concerning administration

On December 10, 2008, 74 of the New School's senior professors gave a vote of no confidence for the New School's president, Bob Kerrey. By December 15, 98% of the university's full-time faculty had voted no confidence.[64]

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.[65] 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 most important elements on their first list of demands were not agreed to), including increased study space and amnesty from any actions performed during the protest. He did not, however, concede to resignation.[66] In total, the occupation lasted 30 hours.

In January 2009, a student organization called The New School In Exile issued a public threat to shut down the university on April 1, unless the President and Chief Operating Officer were removed. They subsequently stole an entire edition of the student newspaper, after the paper published an article revealing their plans and names, and defaced the university's presidential residence.

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. Once again, the students demanded the resignation of Bob Kerrey. The New York Police Department arrested the occupiers; the New School students involved were then suspended.[67] [68] Controversy arose because some students who were not directly involved in the occupation were beaten by police and arrested as well. Kerrey has said he intends to stay at the university "unless the quality of my life deteriorates."[69]

Media

  • In 1986, P.M. Rutkoff and W.B. Scott wrote New School: A History of The New School For Social Research, a book about the university's history.[70]
  • Claus-Dieter Krohn's Intellectuals In Exile: Refugee Scholars at The New School for Social Research was translated into English and released by the University of Massachusetts Press in 1993. The book is an in-depth examination of The New School, the University in Exile, and the work of scholars who worked within these institutions.[71]
  • After Eugene Lang College ranked #1 nationally in the Princeton Review's "Intramural Sports Unpopular or Nonexistent" category, ESPN featured "In Search of the Worst Sports College In America", an article about The New School.[72]
  • In the reality TV series Driving Force, John Force's daughter takes a tour of The New School.
  • The New School is referenced in the book Students For A Democratic Society: A Graphic History.
  • New School Political Science and Liberal Studies Professor James Miller's book Democracy is in the Streets: From Port Huron to The Siege of Chicago (1987), which chronicles the rise and fall of the 1960s organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), was featured as recommended reading in the insert for the alternative band Rage Against The Machine's 1996 album Evil Empire.

Noted alumni, faculty, and current students

Eleanor Roosevelt: political activist, First Lady, New School alumnae from the 1920s[73]
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James Baldwin: eminent author and New School alumnus
  • For a complete list of notable alumni and faculty, see:
    Main article: List of The New School people
Tennessee Williams: two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and New School alumnus
  • According to the university's "Quick Facts" page, New School has a living alumni pool of over 56,000 and graduates live in 112 different countries.[20]
Shimon Peres: President of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize recipient[74], New School alumnus[75]

Fictional alumni, students, and faculty

  • In an episode of Will & Grace, Grace mentions that she'll be teaching an interior design class at the New School. She then teaches the class, and all the students dislike her and her teaching.
  • Myra Breckinridge, protagonist of Gore Vidal's novel of the same name, mentions she studied the classics at the New School.
  • Elaine Benes takes a drawing class at the New School in "The Doodle" episode of Seinfeld.
  • On the television series Friends, multiple episodes feature references to, or scenes at, the New School. Monica and Joey take a culinary course in one episode, while Rachel and Phoebe take a literature course together in another.
  • In Michael Mann's film Heat (1995), the Robert De Niro character Neil MacCauley's girlfriend Eady (Amy Brenneman) claims to have gone to school at Parsons for graphic design.
  • Paul Weston, the psychotherapist who is the protagonist of the HBO drama In Treatment, received his Ph.D. from The New School.
  • In the popular Adult Swim cartoon series The Venture Brothers, Dr. Orpheus mentions that he teaches "conjuring" at The New School. [76]
  • In Music and Lyrics, Drew Barrymore's character signs up for a writing class at The New School.

See also

References and notes

  1. ^ [I]n 1937, Thomas Mann remarked that a plaque bearing the inscription "To the Living Spirit" had been torn down by the Nazis from a building at the University of Heidelberg. 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. link, New School for Social Research. Retrieved May 7, 2009.
  2. ^ According to Middle States. Retrieved January 24, 2008.
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ a b New School Factbook, 2006. Retrieved January 25, 2008.
  5. ^ Middle States data. Retrieved January 24, 2008.
  6. ^ Constellations Magazine, New School publication. Retrieved January 24, 2008.
  7. ^ Programs A-Z retrieved 29 April 2008.
  8. ^ "Research School to Open". The New York Times (30 September 1919).
  9. ^ For more information on Columbia University's role in the repression of dissent in this period, please see Lee Bollinger's speech on academic freedom. Retrieved January 23, 2008.
  10. ^ Cattell would later sue the university and win an annuity. Biographical information.
  11. ^ "Quits Columbia; Assails Trustees; Professor Charles A. Beard Says Narrow Clique Is Controlling the University. Free Speech the Issue; Resignation Grows Out of Expulsion of Professors Cattell and Dana." The New York Times (9 October 1917).
  12. ^ "Research School to Open". The New York Times (30 September 1919). pg. 20.
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