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The New School
Established 1919
Type: Private
President: Robert Kerrey
Undergraduates: 5,100
Postgraduates: 3,900
Location New York, NY, USA
Campus: Urban
Endowment: $199 million (2006)
Website: www.newschool.edu
The 12th Street building, built in 1930 by architect Joseph Urban, houses classrooms, offices, seminar rooms, Tischman Auditorium, and several José Clemente Orozco murals.
The 12th Street building, built in 1930 by architect Joseph Urban, houses classrooms, offices, seminar rooms, Tischman Auditorium, and several José Clemente Orozco murals.

The New School is a well-known institution of higher learning in New York City, located mostly around Greenwich Village. Some 9,300 students are enrolled in graduate and undergraduate degree programs in a variety of disciplines, including the social sciences, humanities, public policy, design, and the arts. The school also houses a well-known international think tank, the World Policy Institute.

The school was known as the New School for Social Research from its founding in 1919 until 1997, when it was renamed New School University. It received its current name in 2005. The name "The New School for Social Research" is today used for the university's graduate division, which was originally called the University in Exile and later the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science.

The current president of the New School is former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey (D-NE), who assumed his role in 2000. Kerrey drew mixed praise and criticism for his divisive streamlining of the university, as well as censure for his support of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, generally opposed by the university's traditionally left-wing faculty. In 2004, Kerrey appointed Arjun Appadurai as Provost. Appadurai resigned as provost in early 2006, but retains a tenured faculty position at the New School. The current provost is Benjamin Lee.

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The university was founded in 1919 as a progressive institution of learning for adults through the financial backing of heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney. Its founders included the historian Charles Beard, economists Thorstein Veblen and James Harvey Robinson, and philosopher John Dewey. Some of the founders were professors of Columbia University who had been censured because of their pacifist stance.

John L. Tischman Auditorium, 1930 by Joseph Urban, restored 1995 by Ohlhausen Dubois.
John L. Tischman Auditorium, 1930 by Joseph Urban, restored 1995 by Ohlhausen Dubois.

The University in Exile was founded in 1933 as a graduate division of the New School for Social Research, to be a haven for scholars who had been dismissed from teaching positions by totalitarian regimes in Europe. 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.

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, student[1]
New School graduation 2007
New School graduation 2007

The New School for Social Research continues the Graduate Faculty's tradition of synthesizing progressive American intellectual thought and critical European philosophy. True to its origin and its firm roots within the University in Exile, The New School for Social Research, 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 Aristotle, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Freud, Benjamin, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, et al. [2] The thought of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School of Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, et al. holds an especially strong influence on all divisions of the school.

The New School for Social Research publishes the following journals:

In June of 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: The New School for General Studies, The New School for Social Research, Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, Parsons The New School for Design, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, Mannes College The New School for Music, The New School for Drama and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.

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.[1][2]

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.[3]

“ My view is that you never argue with the customer about your name. ”
 
— New School President Bob Kerrey

Parsons School of Design buildings, 5th Avenue.
Parsons School of Design buildings, 5th Avenue.
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 1937
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


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


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 Bravo television program Inside the Actors Studio, hosted by James Lipton, was filmed at The New School until a contract with the Actors Studio concluded in 2005; it is now filmed at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University.

Project Runway, another Bravo program, prominently features Parsons The New School for Design's elite fashion design department.

John McCain's speech at the graduation ceremony of 2006 also generated a large amount of media attention, due to vocal student opposition in print,[4] radio, [5] and television[6] 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."[7]

Past

Present

  1. ^ Business Week: " A Bad Move on a New Logo." Retrieved April 17, 2007.
  2. ^ HitorMiss.org: "The 'New' New School." Retrieved April 17, 2007.
  3. ^ The New York Times: "To Woo Students, Colleges Choose Names That Sell." Retrieved April 17, 2007.
  4. ^ The New York Times: "Protesters Object to McCain as New School Commencement Speaker." Retrieved April 17, 2007.
  5. ^ WNYC: "On the Fence." Retrieved April 17, 2007.
  6. ^ Democracy Now!: "Controversy Brews at New School Over Pick of McCain as Graduation Speaker." Retrieved April 17, 2007.
  7. ^ Student Takes on McCain Over Iraq War Support at New School Graduation, Democracy Now!, Friday, June 9th, 2006

  • Peter M. Rutkoff; William B. Scott. New School: a history of the New School for Social Research. New York: Free Press, 1986. ISBN 0029272009

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