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This is about the university in New York
New York

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; for other uses, see New School (disambiguation)
New School (disambiguation)

The New School is the New York City university aka "The New School for Social Research".New School may also mean:Educational institutions:...
.


The New School is a university in New York City
New York City

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, located mostly around Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village

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. From its founding in 1919 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.

Some 9,300 students are enrolled in graduate and undergraduate degree programs in a variety of disciplines, including the social sciences, liberal arts, humanities, architecture, fine arts, design, music, drama, finance, psychology and public policy.






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This is about the university in New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
; for other uses, see New School (disambiguation)
New School (disambiguation)

The New School is the New York City university aka "The New School for Social Research".New School may also mean:Educational institutions:...
.


The New School is a university in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, located mostly around Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village , often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the lower west side of southern Manhattan in New York City....
. From its founding in 1919 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.

Some 9,300 students are enrolled in graduate and undergraduate degree programs in a variety of disciplines, including the social sciences, liberal arts, humanities, architecture, fine arts, design, music, drama, finance, psychology and public policy. The school is renowned for its avant-garde
Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
 teaching and houses the well-known international think tank, the World Policy Institute
World Policy Institute

The World Policy Institute is a nonpartisan public policy research center based in New York City. According to its mission statement, the WPI "focuses on complex challenges that demand cooperative policy solutions to achieve: an inclusive and sustainable global market economy, engaged global civic participation and effective governance, and...
. Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School for Design

Parsons The New School for Design , is a design school founded in 1896 . Parsons has been affiliated since 1970 with The New School, formerly known as New School University....
 is the university's highly-competitive art school
Art school

Art school is a colloquial term for any educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially graphic design, illustration, painting, photography, and sculpture....
.

The graduate school
Graduate school

A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees, such as Doctorate with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous Undergraduate education degree....
 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.

The current president of the New School is former U.S. Senator
United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism United States Congress, the lower house being the United States House of Representatives....
 Bob Kerrey
Bob Kerrey

Joseph Robert "Bob" Kerrey is a former Democratic Party Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and a United States Senate from Nebraska . He was also an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1992....
 (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
Censure

Censure is a process by which a formal reprimand is issued to an individual by an authoritative body. In a deliberative assembly, a motion to censure is used....
 for his support of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
2003 invasion of Iraq

The 2003 invasion of Iraq, from March 20 to May 1, 2003, was spearheaded by the United States, backed by United Kingdom forces and smaller contingents from Australia, Spain, Poland and Denmark....
, generally opposed by the university's traditionally left-wing faculty. In 2004, Kerrey appointed Arjun Appadurai
Arjun Appadurai

Arjun Appadurai is a contemporary social-cultural anthropologist focusing on modernity and globalization.Appadurai was born in Bombay, India in 1949 and educated in India before coming to the United States....
 as provost
Provost (education)

Provost is the title of a senior academic administrator at many institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada. It is the equivalent of Deputy Vice Chancellor or Pro-Vice-Chancellor at certain institutions in United Kingdom and Ireland such as Trinity College Dublin, and the head of certain ancient colleges ....
. Appadurai resigned as provost in early 2006, but retains a tenured faculty position at the New School. The current provost is Joseph Westphal. On December 8, President Kerrey announced that Joseph Westphal was stepping down to accept a position in Obama's Department of Defense transition team, in the area of Defense. Kerrey announced he would take on the duties of chief academic officer until a replacement could be found.

History


Founding

The New School for Social Research was founded by a group of university professors and intellectuals in 1919 as a modern
American modernism

American modernism like modernism in general is a trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve, and reshape their environment, with the aid of scientific knowledge, technology and practical experimentation, and is thus in its essence both Social progress and Optimism....
, progressive
Progressivism

The term progressive has varying meanings in different countries.In some countries, the word refers to left-wing politics. For instance, in the United States, the term progressive emerged in the late 19th century into the 20th century in reference to a more general response to the vast changes brought by industrialization: an alternativ...
 free school
Free school

A free school, sometimes intentionally spelled free skool, is a decentralized network in which skills, information, and knowledge are shared without hierarchy or the institutional environment of formal schooling....
 where adult students could "seek an unbiased understanding of the existing order, its genesis, growth and present working." Founders included historian Charles Beard, economists Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Bunde Veblen was a Norwegian-American sociology and economist and a founder, along with John R. Commons, of the Institutional economics movement....
 and James Harvey Robinson
James Harvey Robinson

James Harvey Robinson was an American historian.Robinson was born Bloomington, Illinois. He taught history at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University , becoming a full professor in 1895....
, and philosopher John Dewey
John Dewey

John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and school reform whose thoughts and ideas have been highly influential in the United States and around the world....
, several of whom were former professors at Columbia University
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
.

The school was conceived and founded during a period of fevered nationalism
Nationalism

Nationalism refers to an ideology, a feeling, a form of culture, or a social movement that focuses on the nation. While there is significant debate over the historical origins of nations, nearly all Expert accept that nationalism, at least as an ideology and social movement, is a Modernity phenomenon originating in Europe....
, deep suspicion of foreigners, and increased censorship and suppression
Sedition Act of 1918

The Sedition Act of 1918 was an law to the Espionage Act of 1917 passed at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, who was concerned that dissent, in time of war, was a significant threat to morale....
 during and after the involvement of the United States in World War I.

In October 1917, after Columbia University
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
 passed a resolution that imposed a loyalty oath
Loyalty oath

A loyalty oath is an oath of loyalty to an organization, institution, or state of which an individual is a member.In this context, a loyalty oath is not a pledge or oath of allegiance....
 to the United States Government upon the entire faculty and student body, the board of trustees fired Professor of Psychology and Head of the Department James McKeen Cattell
James McKeen Cattell

James McKeen Cattell , United States psychology, was the first professor of psychology in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania and long-time editor and publisher of scientific journals and publications, most notably the journal Science....
 for having sent a petition to three US congressmen, asking them not to support legislation for military conscription
Conscription

Conscription is a general term for involuntary labor demanded by an established authority. It is most often used in the specific sense of government policies that require citizens to serve in the military....
. Other firings included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (grandson of the poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an United States educator and poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride ", The Song of Hiawatha, and "Evangeline"....
) and Leon Fraser. Charles Beard, Professor of Political Science, resigned his professorship at Columbia in protest. James Harvey Robinson
James Harvey Robinson

James Harvey Robinson was an American historian.Robinson was born Bloomington, Illinois. He taught history at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University , becoming a full professor in 1895....
, 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." Robinson would resign in 1919 to join the faculty at the New School.

Founder Charles Beard,a quaker, had in 1899 collaborated with Walter Vrooman at Oxford
Oxford

Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
 to start Ruskin Hall, a progressive institution of higher learning for workingmen. The New School would offer the rigorousness of postgraduate education
Postgraduate education

Postgraduate education involves studying for Academic degree or other qualifications for which a first or Bachelor's degree is required, and is normally considered to be part of tertiary or higher 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
The New School for General Studies

The New School for General Studies is the adult education division of The New School, a university located in downtown New York City....
 remains. 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
Thomas Sewall Adams

Thomas Sewall Adams was an United States economist and educator, born in Baltimore, Maryland....
, Charles Beard, Horace M. Kallen, Harold Laski
Harold Laski

Harold Joseph Laski was an English political theorist, economist, author, and lecturer, and served as the 1945-1946 chairman of the Labour Party ....
, Wesley Clair Mitchell
Wesley Clair Mitchell

Wesley Clair Mitchell was an United States economist known for his empirical work on business cycle and for guiding the National Bureau of Economic Research in its first decades....
, Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Bunde Veblen was a Norwegian-American sociology and economist and a founder, along with John R. Commons, of the Institutional economics movement....
, James Harvey Robinson
James Harvey Robinson

James Harvey Robinson was an American historian.Robinson was born Bloomington, Illinois. He taught history at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University , becoming a full professor in 1895....
, Graham Wallas
Graham Wallas

Graham Wallas was an England Socialism, social psychologist, educationalist, and a leader of the Fabian Society.Born in Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, Wallas was educated at Shrewsbury School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford....
, Charles B. Davenport, Elsie Clews Parsons
Elsie Clews Parsons

Elsie Clews Parsons was an United States anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Indigenous peoples of the Americas tribes?such as the Pueblo people and Hopi?in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico....
, and Roscoe Pound
Roscoe Pound

Nathan Roscoe Pound was a distinguished American legal scholar and educator....
. John Cage
John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer. A pioneer of Aleatoric music, electronic music and Extended technique, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde and, in the opinion of many, the most influential American composer of the 20th century....
 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 scholars who had been dismissed from teaching positions by totalitarian regimes in Europe. The University in Exile was initially funded by Hiram Halle
Hiram Halle

Hiram J. Halle was an United States businessman, inventor, and philanthropist. He was also part owner of Gulf Oil company. Halle was dedicated to Jewish causes during World War 2....
 and the Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a prominent philanthropic organization and private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The preeminent institution established by the six-generation Rockefeller family, it was founded by John D....
. 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
Erich Fromm

Erich Seligmann Fromm was an internationally renowned social psychology, psychoanalyst, and humanism philosophy. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory....
, Max Wertheimer
Max Wertheimer

Max Wertheimer was a Czechs-born Jewish teacher who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang K?hler....
 and Aron Gurwitsch
Aron Gurwitsch

Aron Gurwitsch was a Lithuanian-born Jewish United States philosopher working in the field of Phenomenology . He wrote on the relations between phenomenology and Gestalt psychology....
, political philosophers Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt was an influential Germany-Jewish political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she always refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theory because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on...
 and Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss

Leo Strauss was a Germany-born Jewish-American Political philosophy who specialized in classical political philosophy. He spent most of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published 15 books....
, and philosopher Hans Jonas
Hans Jonas

Hans Jonas was a Germany-born philosopher who was, from 1955 to 1976, Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City....
.

The New School played a similar role with its support of the École Libre des Hautes Études
École libre des hautes études

The ?cole Libre des Hautes ?tudes was a sort of university-in-exile for French academics in New York during the World War II. It was chartered by the French and Belgian governments-in-exile and located at the The New School....
. Receiving a charter from de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle

Charles Andr? Joseph Marie de Gaulle , , was a French people general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President of France from 1959 to 1969....
's Free French government in exile, the École attracted refugee scholars who taught in French, including philosopher Jacques Maritain
Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain was a France Catholic philosopher. Raised as a protestant, he converted to Catholicism in 1906. An author of more than 60 books, he is responsible for reviving St....
, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude L?vi-Strauss is a French anthropologist....
, and linguist Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson

Roman Osipovich Jakobson, , was a Russian linguist and literary critic, associated with the Russian Formalism school. He became one of the most influential linguistics of the 20th century by pioneering the development of structuralism of language, poetry, and art....
. The École Libre gradually evolved into one of the leading institutions of research in Paris, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

The ?cole des hautes ?tudes en sciences sociales is a France institution for research and higher education, a Grands ?tablissements. Its mission is research and research training in the social sciences, including the relationship these latter maintain with the Natural science and life sciences....
, 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.

Philosophical tradition

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
Continental philosophy

Continental philosophy, in contemporary usage, refers to a set of traditions of 19th and 20th century philosophy from mainland Europe. This sense of the term originated among English-speaking philosophers in the second half of the 20th century, who found it useful for referring to a range of thinkers and traditions outside the analytic philo...
." Thus, it stresses the teachings of Aristotle
Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greeks philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, Poetics , theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology....
, Locke
John Locke

John Locke was an English philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British Empiricism, but is equally important to social contract theory....
, Hume
David Hume

David Hume was a Scotland philosopher, economist, historian and a key figure in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment....
, Kant
Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German Philosophy from the Kingdom of Prussia city of K?nigsberg . He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and of the late Age of Enlightenment....
, Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German people philosopher, and with Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, one of the creators of German idealism....
, Kierkegaard
Sřren Kierkegaard

S?ren Aabye Kierkegaard was a prolific 19th century Denmark philosopher and theologian. Kierkegaard strongly criticised both the Hegelianism of his time, and what he saw as the empty ceremony of the Church of Denmark....
, Marx
Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx was a Germanphilosophy, political economy, historian, sociologist, humanism, political theorist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism....
, Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th century philosophy Germans philosophy and classical philology. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for metaphor and aphorism....
, Husserl
Edmund Husserl

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a philosophy who is deemed the founder of phenomenology . He broke with the positivist orientation of the science and philosophy of his day, believing that experience is the source of all knowledge, while at the same time he elaborated critiques of psychologism and historicism....
, Heidegger
Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger was an influential Germany Philosophy. His best known book, Being and Time, is generally considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century....
, Arendt
Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt was an influential Germany-Jewish political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she always refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theory because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on...
, Freud
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalysis of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of Psychological repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue...
, Benjamin
Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Sch?nflies Benjamin was a Germany-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also influenced by the writings of his younger contemporaries Bertolt Brecht, who developed Marxist aesthetics of dialectical materialism, and G...
, Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-United Kingdom philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language....
, Foucault
Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault was a French philosophy, historian, intellectual, Critical theory and sociologist. He held a chair at the Coll?ge de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought," and also taught at the University of California, Berkeley....
, Derrida
Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was a France philosophy born in Algeria, who is known as the founder of deconstruction, which was originally a translation of a Heideggerian term from Being and Time, also translated as 'De-structuring'....
, Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze , was a French philosophy of the late 20th century. From the early 1960s until his death, Deleuze wrote many influential works on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art....
, et al. The thought of the Critical Theory
Critical theory

In the humanities and social sciences, critical theory is the examination and critique of society and literature, drawing from knowledge across social sciences and humanities disciplines....
 of the Frankfurt School
Frankfurt School

The Frankfurt School is a school of neo-Marxism critical theory, social research, and philosophy. The grouping emerged at the Institute for Social Research of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in Germany when Max Horkheimer became the Institute's director in 1930....
: Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer

Max Horkheimer was a Germany philosopher and sociologist, and a founding member of the Frankfurt School)....
, Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Sch?nflies Benjamin was a Germany-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also influenced by the writings of his younger contemporaries Bertolt Brecht, who developed Marxist aesthetics of dialectical materialism, and G...
, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse was a German people philosophy and sociology, and a member of the Frankfurt School. His best known works are Eros and Civilization, One-Dimensional Man and The Aesthetic Dimension....
, Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas

J?rgen Habermas is a Germany philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his work on the concept of the public sphere, the topic of his first book....
, et al. holds an especially strong influence on all divisions of the school.

The New School for Social Research publishes the following journals:
  • Social Research
    Social research

    Social research refers to research conducted by social scientists , but also within other disciplines such as social policy, human geography, political science, social anthropology and education....


Organization

Major Divisions  Founded
The New School for General Studies
The New School for General Studies

The New School for General Studies is the adult education division of The New School, a university located in downtown New York City....
  1919
The New School for Social Research  1937
Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School for Design

Parsons The New School for Design , is a design school founded in 1896 . Parsons has been affiliated since 1970 with The New School, formerly known as New School University....
  1896
Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy
Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy

Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy is a public policy school located in New York City, and is one of the academic divisions at The New School....
  1964
Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts
Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts

Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts is the seminar-style, undergraduate, liberal arts college of the The New School.The school is located in New York City's Greenwich Village on West 11th Street off 6th Avenue....
  1978
Mannes College The New School for Music  1916
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music

HistoryThe New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music was founded by David Levy, a former dean of Parsons The New School for Design, and saxophonist Arnie Lawrence in 1986 as the Jazz & Contemporary Music Program....
  1986
The New School for Drama
The New School for Drama

The New School for Drama is a Graduate school for the theatre established in 2005, and is a division of The New School. It grants Master of Fine Arts degrees in Acting, Theatre director and Playwright...
  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: The New School for General Studies
The New School for General Studies

The New School for General Studies is the adult education division of The New School, a university located in downtown New York City....
, The New School for Social Research, Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy
Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy

Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy is a public policy school located in New York City, and is one of the academic divisions at The New School....
, Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School for Design

Parsons The New School for Design , is a design school founded in 1896 . Parsons has been affiliated since 1970 with The New School, formerly known as New School University....
, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts
Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts

Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts is the seminar-style, undergraduate, liberal arts college of the The New School.The school is located in New York City's Greenwich Village on West 11th Street off 6th Avenue....
, Mannes College The New School for Music, The New School for Drama
The New School for Drama

The New School for Drama is a Graduate school for the theatre established in 2005, and is a division of The New School. It grants Master of Fine Arts degrees in Acting, Theatre director and Playwright...
 and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music

HistoryThe New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music was founded by David Levy, a former dean of Parsons The New School for Design, and saxophonist Arnie Lawrence in 1986 as the Jazz & Contemporary Music Program....
.

Some faculty, students, and alumni have expressed concern over the rebranding of the university, and especially the dramatic redesign of the logo
Logo

A logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo's design is for immediate recognition....
 from a six-sided shield
Shield

A shield is a protective device, meant to intercept attacks. The term often refers to a device that is held in the hand, as opposed to armour or a bullet proof vest....
 against a green background to a spray-painted graffiti
Graffiti

Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is sometimes regarded as a form of art and other times regarded as unsightly damage or unwanted....
 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.

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.

The New School Institutes and Research Centers

There are several important and 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


Labor movement

In 2003, adjunct
Professor

The meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the Academic department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual....
 faculty in several divisions of the New School began to form a labor union chapter under the auspices of the United Auto Workers
United Auto Workers

The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Auto Workers , is a trade union which represents workers in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico....
. 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
National Labor Relations Board

The National Labor Relations Board is an Independent agencies of the United States government charged with conducting elections for trade union representation and with investigating and remedying unfair labor practices....
 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
Mannes College of Music

Mannes College of Music, a division of the New School since 1989, is a music conservatory located in New York City, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan....
.

US politics

John McCain
John McCain

John Sidney McCain III is the senior senator United States United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican Party presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election....
's speech at the graduation ceremony of 2006 generated a large amount of media attention, due to vocal student opposition in print, radio, and television 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."

In 2007, New School trustee
Trustee

Trustee is a legal term that refers to a holder of property on behalf of a beneficiary . A Trust law can be set up either to benefit particular persons, or for any Charitable trust : typical examples are a testamentary trust for the testator's children and family, a pension trust , and a charitable trust....
 and long-time Clinton fundraiser Norman Hsu
Norman Hsu

Norman Yung Yuen Hsu , born October 1951, is a convicted pyramid scheme promoter who associated himself with the apparel industry. His business activities were intertwined with his role as a major fundraiser for the Democratic Party , and he gained notoriety after suspicious patterns of Bundling campaign contributions were reported in 2007....
 was arrested after being found to have skipped out on a felony theft conviction. In 2008, he was convicted and sentenced to three years prison for defrauding millions of dollars of investors' money in an intricate Ponzi scheme
Ponzi scheme

A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors rather than from profit....
. In response, the Hillary Clinton campaign returned $850,000 of his campaign contributions.

2008 Presidential elections

In the early 1960s, the New School offered the father of the US President
President of the United States

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
, Barack Obama
Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the List of Presidents of the United States and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office....
, 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
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
, where he had a less-generous scholarship with no family allowance. The couple would divorce shortly afterward, leaving Obama with conflicted feelings about his father (detailed in his autobiographical Dreams from My Father
Dreams from My Father

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is a memoir by President of the United States Barack Obama. It was first published in 1995 after Obama was elected the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, but before his political career began....
). A school-age Barack Obama
Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the List of Presidents of the United States and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office....
 and mother Ann Dunham would move to Jakarta
Jakarta

Jakarta is the Capital and largest city of Indonesia. It also has a List of urban areas by population than any other city in Southeast Asia. It was formerly known as Sunda Kelapa , Jayakarta , Batavia, Dutch East Indies , and Djakarta ....
, Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
 after her marriage to Lolo Soetoro. There, he attended various public schools, including Basuki school
State Elementary School Menteng 01

State Elementary School Menteng 01 , also known as SDN Besuki or the Besuki school, is an Indonesian public school in Menteng, Jakarta....
. In 2008, New School President (and Hillary Clinton supporter) Bob Kerrey
Bob Kerrey

Joseph Robert "Bob" Kerrey is a former Democratic Party Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and a United States Senate from Nebraska . He was also an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1992....
 would comment that he wasn't troubled that Obama had "spent a little bit of time in a secular madrassa"–a statement he would later apologize for, given its factual inaccuracy and innuendo. Kerrey also made negative comments about John Edwards
John Edwards

Johnny Reid "John" Edwards is an American politician who served one term as United States Senate from North Carolina. He was the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States in United States presidential election, 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in Democratic Party presidential prima...
 while speaking of his Hillary Clinton endorsement in January 2008: "Even before John Edwards was chasing ambulances in North Carolina and Barack was voting ‘present’ in the Illinois state senate, Senator Clinton was involved in major policy initiatives" There had been some speculation in the media whether Kerrey would have been under consideration by Clinton for Vice President had she won the Democratic nomination for President.

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. Fred P. Hochberg
Fred P. Hochberg

Fred P. Hochberg is an American academic and political administrator, former administrator of the Small Business Administration , and was a member of the transition team of US President Barack Obama....
, Dean of Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy
Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy

Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy is a public policy school located in New York City, and is one of the academic divisions at The New School....
, is a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and liaison to the gay community.

Controversy

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
Bob Kerrey

Joseph Robert "Bob" Kerrey is a former Democratic Party Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and a United States Senate from Nebraska . He was also an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1992....
. By December 15, 98% of the university's full-time faculty had voted no confidence.

On December 17, over 100 students barricaded themselves
Sit-in

A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more persons nonviolently occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change....
 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. 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. In total, the occupation lasted 30 hours.

Media

The Bravo
Bravo (television network)

Bravo is a cable television network owned by NBC Universal. It is currently seen in more than 80 million homes and was the first service dedicated to film, drama, and the performing arts when it launched by Cablevision as an advertisement-free network in December 1980....
 television program Inside the Actors Studio
Inside the Actors Studio

Inside the Actors Studio is the Emmy-nominated, longest-running original series on the Bravo cable television channel, hosted by James Lipton....
, hosted by James Lipton
James Lipton

James Lipton is an United Statesn writer, poet and Dean emeritus of the Actors Studio#The Actors Studio Drama School in New York City. He is the executive producer, writer and host of the Bravo cable television series, Inside the Actors Studio, which debuted in 1994....
, was filmed at The New School until a contract with the Actors Studio
Actors Studio

The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre direction and playwrights at 432 West 44th Street in the Hells Kitchen, Manhattan neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City....
 concluded in 2005; it is now filmed at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts
Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts

The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts is the principal theatre of Pace University and is located at the University's New York City campus in Lower Manhattan....
 at Pace University
Pace University

Pace University is a private university, co-educational, and comprehensive multi-campus university in the New York metropolitan area with campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York, New York....
.

Project Runway
Project Runway

Project Runway is a Peabody Award-winning American reality television series on the Bravo which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum....
, another Bravo program, prominently features Parsons The New School for Design's elite fashion design department.

Stacey Farber
Stacey Farber

Stacey Anne Farber is a Canadian Actor who is best known for playing Ellie Nash in Degrassi: The Next Generation through Degrassi: The Next Generation of the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation....
, who currently plays the role of Ellie in Degrassi: The Next Generation
Degrassi: The Next Generation

Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television programme, set in the Degrassi fictional universe created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1980....
 is also enrolled in this school.

Noted faculty


Past

  • Bertrand Russell
    Bertrand Russell

    Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, Order of Merit , Fellow of the Royal Society , was a British people philosopher, mathematical logic, mathematician, historian, advocate for social reform, and pacifism....
  • Hannah Arendt
    Hannah Arendt

    Hannah Arendt was an influential Germany-Jewish political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she always refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theory because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on...
  • Erich Fromm
    Erich Fromm

    Erich Seligmann Fromm was an internationally renowned social psychology, psychoanalyst, and humanism philosophy. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory....
  • Jurgen Habermas
  • Jacques Derrida
    Jacques Derrida

    Jacques Derrida was a France philosophy born in Algeria, who is known as the founder of deconstruction, which was originally a translation of a Heideggerian term from Being and Time, also translated as 'De-structuring'....
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
    Frank Lloyd Wright

    Frank Lloyd Wright was an United States architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 projects, which resulted in more than 500 completed works....
  • Slavoj Zizek
  • Piet Mondrian
    Piet Mondrian

    Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, after 1912 Mondrian, , was a Dutch people Painting.He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg....
  • Wilhelm Reich
    Wilhelm Reich

    Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis.Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure, rather than on individual Neurosis symptoms....
  • Woody Allen
    Woody Allen

    Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
  • John Dewey
    John Dewey

    John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and school reform whose thoughts and ideas have been highly influential in the United States and around the world....
  • André Breton
    André Breton

    Andr? Breton was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the main founder of surrealism. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as pure psychic automatism....
  • John Cage
    John Cage

    John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer. A pioneer of Aleatoric music, electronic music and Extended technique, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde and, in the opinion of many, the most influential American composer of the 20th century....
  • Roman Jakobson
    Roman Jakobson

    Roman Osipovich Jakobson, , was a Russian linguist and literary critic, associated with the Russian Formalism school. He became one of the most influential linguistics of the 20th century by pioneering the development of structuralism of language, poetry, and art....
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss
    Claude Lévi-Strauss

    Claude L?vi-Strauss is a French anthropologist....
  • Franz Boas
    Franz Boas

    Franz Boas was a Germans-United States anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology"....
  • Karen Horney
    Karen Horney

    Karen Horney , born Danielsen was a Germany psychodynamic psychologist of Norway and Netherlands descent. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views, particularly his theory of sexuality, as well as the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis and its genetic psychology....
  • Eric Hobsbawm
    Eric Hobsbawm

    Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm Companion of Honour, FBA, is a United Kingdom historical materialism and author....
  • Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva

    Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarians-France philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalysis, French feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s....
  • Ernesto Laclau
    Ernesto Laclau

    Ernesto Laclau is an Argentina political theory often described as Post-marxism. He is a professor at the University of Essex where he holds a chair in political science and was for many years director of the doctoral Programme in Ideology and Critical discourse analysis....
  • Margaret Mead
    Margaret Mead

    Margaret Mead was an United States cultural anthropology, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s....
  • Paul Sweezy
    Paul Sweezy

    Paul Marlor Sweezy was a Marxist economist and a founding editor of the magazine Monthly Review....
  • Ira Katznelson
    Ira Katznelson

    Ira Katznelson is a leading United States political scientist and historian, noted for his influential research on the liberal state, inequality, social knowledge, and institutions, primarily focused on the United States....
  • Leo Strauss
    Leo Strauss

    Leo Strauss was a Germany-born Jewish-American Political philosophy who specialized in classical political philosophy. He spent most of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published 15 books....
  • Thorstein Veblen
    Thorstein Veblen

    Thorstein Bunde Veblen was a Norwegian-American sociology and economist and a founder, along with John R. Commons, of the Institutional economics movement....
  • Max Wertheimer
    Max Wertheimer

    Max Wertheimer was a Czechs-born Jewish teacher who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang K?hler....
  • Millicent Fenwick
    Millicent Fenwick

    Millicent Hammond Fenwick was an United States fashion editor, politician and diplomat. A four-term Republican Party member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey, she entered politics late in life and was renowned for her energy and colorful enthusiasm....
  • William F. Buckley, Jr.
    William F. Buckley, Jr.

    William Frank Buckley Jr. was an United States Conservatism in the United States author and political commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally Print syndication newspaper columnist....
  • Edmund Snow Carpenter
  • Alexander Goldenweiser
    Alexander Goldenweiser

    Alexander Goldenweiser may refer to:* Alexander Alexandrovich Goldenweiser , American anthropologist* Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser , Russian composer, pianist and teacher...
  • Emil Lederer
    Emil Lederer

    Emil Lederer was a Bohemian-born Germany economist and sociologist....
  • Jason Bateman
    Jason Bateman

    Jason Kent Bateman is a Golden Globe-winning and Emmy Award-nominated United States actor. After starring in several 1980s sitcoms, Bateman became known for his role as Michael Bluth on the television sitcom Arrested Development ....
  • Ernest Mandel
    Ernest Mandel

    Ernest Ezra Mandel, also known by various pseudonyms such as Ernest Germain, Pierre Gousset, Henri Vallin, Walter etc. was a democratic Marxist theorist....
  • Reinhold Niebuhr
    Reinhold Niebuhr

    Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr was an United States theology. A Protestant, he is best known for his study of the task of relating the Christian faith to the realities of modern politics and diplomacy....
  • W. H. Auden
    W. H. Auden

    Wystan Hugh Auden who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century....
  • Stanley Diamond
    Stanley Diamond (anthropologist)

    Stanley Diamond was a New York-born poet and anthropologist. As a young man, he identified as a poet and attended first the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then New York University, graduating from the latter with a B.A....
  • W. E. B. DuBois
  • John Eatwell
  • Sándor Ferenczi
    Sándor Ferenczi

    S?ndor Ferenczi was a Hungarian Psychoanalysis....
  • Betty Friedan
    Betty Friedan

    Betty Naomi Friedan was an United States feminism social activism and writer, best known for starting the "Feminist Movement in the United States " through the writing of her book The Feminine Mystique in 1963, which attacked the 1950s notion, spread through society by advertising and strict enforcement of traditional gender roles, that...
  • Robert Frost
    Robert Frost

    Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech....
  • Martha Graham
    Martha Graham

    Martha Graham was an American dancer and choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance, whose influence on dance can be compared to the influence Igor Stravinsky had on music, Pablo Picasso had on the visual arts, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture....
  • Aron Gurwitsch
    Aron Gurwitsch

    Aron Gurwitsch was a Lithuanian-born Jewish United States philosopher working in the field of Phenomenology . He wrote on the relations between phenomenology and Gestalt psychology....
  • Adolph L. Reed, Jr.
    Adolph L. Reed, Jr.

    Adolph L. Reed, Jr. is a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in race and American politics. A sometimes controversial academic, he taught at Yale, Northwestern University and the New School for Social Research....
  • Claus Offe
    Claus Offe

    Professor Claus Offe is one of the world's leading political sociology of marxist orientation. Once a student of J?rgen Habermas, the left-leaning German academic is counted among the second generation Frankfurt School....
  • Michael Harner
    Michael Harner

    Michael Harner is the founder of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, the formulator of "core shamanism," and one of the primary proponents of neoshamanism....
  • Robert Heilbroner
    Robert Heilbroner

    Robert Heilbroner was an United States economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some twenty books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers , a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes....
  • Donna Gaines
    Donna Gaines

    Donna Gaines is a sociology, journalism, and social worker in the United States. She is best known for her work on youth suicide, and popular culture....
  • Herman Rose
    Herman Rose

    Herman Rose was the professional pseudonym of Herman Rappaport , an United States Painting and artist. He was best known for his depictions of cityscapes, including his painting ?74th Street Rooftops From Studio." ...
  • Hans Jonas
    Hans Jonas

    Hans Jonas was a Germany-born philosopher who was, from 1955 to 1976, Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City....
  • Horace Kallen
    Horace Kallen

    Horace Meyer Kallen was a Jewish-American philosopher....
  • John Maynard Keynes
  • Janet Abu-Lughod
    Janet Abu-Lughod

    Janet L. Abu-Lughod, n?e Lippman is an American sociologist with major contributions to World-systems theory and Urban sociology.She was married in 1951 to Ibrahim Abu-Lughod; the marriage ended in a 1991 divorce....
  • Kenneth Koch
    Kenneth Koch

    Kenneth Koch was an United States poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77. He was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry, a loose group of poets including Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery that eschewed contemporary introspective poetry in favor of an exuberant, cosmopolitan style that drew ma...
  • Lewis Mumford
    Lewis Mumford

    Lewis Mumford was an United States historian of technology and science. Particularly noted for his study of city and urban architecture, he had a tremendously broad career as a writer that also included a period as an influential literary critic....
  • Frank O'Hara
    Frank O'Hara

    Francis Russell O'Hara was an Poetry of the United States who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Barbara Guest and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of what was known as the New York School of poetry....
  • Elsie Clews Parsons
    Elsie Clews Parsons

    Elsie Clews Parsons was an United States anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Indigenous peoples of the Americas tribes?such as the Pueblo people and Hopi?in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico....
  • Alfred Schutz
  • Sekou Sundiata
    Sekou Sundiata

    Sekou Sundiata was an African-American poet and performer, as well as a teacher at New York City's The New School. Famous students include musicians Ani DiFranco and Mike Doughty....
  • Charles Tilly
    Charles Tilly

    Charles Tilly was an United States sociology, political science, and historian who has written books on the relationship between politics and society....
  • Harry Cleaver
    Harry Cleaver

    Harry Cleaver is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches Marxism and Marxist economics....
  • Seth Benardete
    Seth Benardete

    Seth Benardete was an American classicist and philosopher, long a member of the faculties of New York University and The New School.Benardete was born in Brooklyn to an academic family ...


Present

  • Ágnes Heller
    Ágnes Heller

    ?gnes Heller is a Hungarian philosopher. A prominent Marxist thinker at first, she moved onto a liberal, social-democratic position later in her career....
  • Simon Critchley
    Simon Critchley

    Simon Critchley is an English philosopher now teaching in the U.S., who works in continental philosophy, history of philosophy, literature, ethics and politics....
  • Faisal Devji
    Faisal Devji

    Faisal Devji is a historian who specializes in studies of Islam, globalization, violence and ethics. His multidisciplinary work grounds empirical historical issues in philosophical questions....
  • Nancy Fraser
    Nancy Fraser

    File:NancyFraser.JPGNancy Fraser is a critical theorist, currently the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy at the New School in New York City....
  • Paul Goldberger
    Paul Goldberger

    Paul Goldberger is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic. He is well known for his "Sky Line" column in The New Yorker.Shortly after starting as a writer at The New York Times in 1972, he was assigned to write the obituary of architect Louis Kahn, who died suddenly of a heart attack in a bathroom in New York's Penn...
  • Christopher Hitchens
    Christopher Hitchens

    Christopher Eric Hitchens is a United Kingdom-born, United Kingdom and United States author, journalist and literary critic. Currently living in Washington, D.C., he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair magazine, The Atlantic, World Affairs , The Nation , Slate , Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets....
  • Nina Khrushcheva
    Nina Khrushcheva

    Dr. Nina L. Khrushcheva is a Russian American professor of media and culture in the at The New School, a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute, and from 2002 to 2004 was adjunct assistant professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University....
  • John Reed
    John Reed (novelist)

    John Reed is an United States novelist. A graduate of Columbia University's Masters of Fine Art in Creative Writing program, his most recent work is All the World's a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare ....
  • Christopher Shinn
    Christopher Shinn

    Christopher Shinn is an American playwright. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1975. He currently lives in New York. His plays have been produced around the world....
  • Scott Thornbury
    Scott Thornbury

    Scott Thornbury is currently Associate Professor of English Language Studies at the New School in New York, where we teaches on an on-line MATESOL program....
  • McKenzie Wark
    McKenzie Wark

    McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born writer and scholar. He works mainly on media influence, critical theory and new media. His best known works are A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory....
  • Robin Blackburn
    Robin Blackburn

    Robin Blackburn is a British socialist historian, a former editor of New Left Review , an author of a number of works on Marxism, and an author of many works on the history of slavery in the New World....
  • Reggie Workman
    Reggie Workman

    Reginald "Reggie" Workman is an United States avant-garde jazz and hard bop double bassist, recognized for his important work with both John Coltrane and Art Blakey....
  • Anwar Shaikh
    Anwar Shaikh

    Mohammad Anwar Shaikh was an Punjab region-born Pakistani author residing in Cardiff. He was born into an Islamic Sunni family of Kashmiri ancestry in Gujrat, Punjab ....
  • Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
    Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

    Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is a development economist who has gained recognition for her work with the United Nations Development Programme and for her writing in publications including the Journal of Human Development, which she founded....
  • Jonathan Bach
    Jonathan Bach

    Jonathan Bach is a notable professor of international relations.He is the Associate Director of the at The New School. Bach has worked on issues such as sovereignty, Nationalism and institutional memory....
  • Michael Cohen
    Michael Cohen (academic)

    Michael Cohen is Director of the at The New School. He also works as Advisor to the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires....
  • Marcel Kinsbourne
    Marcel Kinsbourne

    Marcel Kinsbourne is an Austrian-born pediatric neurologist and neuroscientist who was an early pioneer in the study of brain lateralization . He is presently a Professor of Psychology at both the New School for Social Research of The New School in New York City and the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University ....


Noted alumni

  • Tennessee Williams
    Tennessee Williams

    Tennessee Williams was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee", the state of his father's birth....
    , playwright
  • Dr. Ruth Westheimer, M.A. sociology, 1959, the first famous sex therapist
  • Donna Karan
    Donna Karan

    Donna Karan is the fashion designer and the creator of the DKNY clothing label. She was born Donna Ivy Faske on October 2, 1948 in Forest Hills, New York....
    , fashion designer
  • Isaac Mizrahi
    Isaac Mizrahi

    Isaac Mizrahi is an United States fashion designer and the creative director of Liz Claiborne....
    , fashion designer
  • Tom Ford
    Tom Ford

    Thomas Ford is an United States fashion designer. He gained international fame for his turnaround of the Gucci fashion house and the creation of the Tom Ford label....
    , fashion designer
  • Narciso Rodriguez
    Narciso Rodriguez

    Narciso Rodriguez III is an American fashion designer.Rodriguez is the eldest child and only son of Cuban immigrants Narciso Rodr?guez II, a longshoreman, and Rawedia Mar?a Rodr?guez....
    ,fashion designer
  • Marc Jacobs
    Marc Jacobs

    Marc Jacobs is an United States fashion designer. He is the head designer for Marc Jacobs, as well as the diffusion line Marc by Marc Jacobs....
    , fashion designer
  • Mario Puzo
    Mario Puzo

    Mario Gianluigi Puzo was a two time Academy Award-winning Italian American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, especially The Godfather , which he later co-adapted into The Godfather with Francis Ford Coppola....
    , writer The Godfather
  • Stanley Aronowitz
    Stanley Aronowitz

    Stanley Aronowitz is professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a veteran political activist and cultural critic and an advocate for organized labor....
    , B.A., 1968, sociologist
  • Harry Bellafonte, singer
  • Tony Curtis
    Tony Curtis

    Tony Curtis is an United States film acting. He is best known for light comic roles, especially as a musician on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe....
    , actor
  • Ani DiFranco
    Ani DiFranco

    Ani DiFranco is a Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She is a prolific artist, having released over twenty albums and is widely celebrated as a feminist icon....
    , musician
  • Paul Dano
    Paul Dano

    Paul Franklin Dano is an United States actor and producer. He has appeared in films such as L.I.E , The Girl Next Door , Little Miss Sunshine , and There Will Be Blood ....
    , actor Little Miss Sunshine
  • Jonah Hill
    Jonah Hill

    Jonah Hill is a Jewish actor and screenwriting. Hill has had a successful career as an actor in comedic films, appearing in roles in the films Accepted , Grandma's Boy, Knocked Up, Superbad , Walk Hard, Strange Wilderness, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall....
    , actor "Superbad"
  • Douglas Cliggott
    Douglas Cliggott

    Douglas "Doug" Cliggott is the CIO of Dover Management LLC. He joined the Greenwich, CT based firm in December 2006. Cliggott was a managing director and chief investment strategist at J.P....
    , chief investment strategist JPMorgan Chase
  • James Baldwin
    James Baldwin (writer)

    James Arthur Baldwin was an United States novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist.Most of Baldwin's work deals with racism and human sexuality issues in the mid-20th century in the United States....
    , writer Go Tell It on the Mountain
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel)

    Go Tell It on the Mountain is a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin . The novel examines the role of the Christian Church in the lives of African-Americans, both as a source of repression and moral hypocrisy and as a source of inspiration and community....
  • Ruth Benedict
    Ruth Benedict

    Ruth Benedict was an United States anthropologist.She was born in New York City, and attended Vassar College, graduating in 1909. She entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1919, studying under Franz Boas, receiving her Doctor of Philosophy and joining the faculty in 1923....
    , psychological anthropologist, author of "Patterns of Culture", etc.
  • Uri Davis
    Uri Davis

    Uriel "Uri" Davis is an Israelis academic and activist focusing on civil rights in Israel and the Middle East. Davis has served as Vice-Chairman of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights and as lecturer in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford....
    , M.A. anthropology, 1973
  • William Donohue, sociology, Catholic League
    Catholic League (U.S.)

    The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, often shortened to The Catholic League, is an American defamation and advocacy organization with the stated mission of defending "the right of Catholics...to participate in American public life without defamation or discrimination." The Catholic League is known for press release state...
     president
  • Mike Doughty
    Mike Doughty

    Mike Doughty is an American singer and songwriter. He led the band Soul Coughing in the 1990s; in the 2000s he became a solo artist. His most famous songs include "Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well" and "I Hear the Bells," both of which gained prominence from being featured on popular television shows....
    , poetry, singer-songwriter
  • Peter Falk
    Peter Falk

    Peter Falk is an United States actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running television series Columbo . He appeared in numerous films and television guest roles, and has been nominated for an Academy Award twice, and won the Emmy Award on five occasions and the Golden Globe award once....
    , B.A. political science, actor Colombo
  • Jean L. Cohen, Ph.D. political theorist
  • Ed Fancher, co-founder of The Village Voice
    The Village Voice

    The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper in New York City, United States featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City....
  • Millicent Fenwick
    Millicent Fenwick

    Millicent Hammond Fenwick was an United States fashion editor, politician and diplomat. A four-term Republican Party member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey, she entered politics late in life and was renowned for her energy and colorful enthusiasm....
    , editor, politician, diplomat
  • Abraham Foxman
    Abraham Foxman

    Abraham Foxman is the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League....
    , director Anti-Defamation League
    Anti-Defamation League

    The Anti-Defamation League is a United States of America based, international non-governmental organization. Describing itself as "the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency", the ADL states that it "fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all."...
  • Ben Gazzara
    Ben Gazzara

    Biagio Anthony ?Ben? Gazzara is an American actor in television and motion pictures....
    , actor
  • Stephen Addiss, composer, musician, poet, painter and Japanese art historian
  • Hage Geingob
    Hage Geingob

    Hage Geingob is a Namibian politician. He was the first Prime Minister of Namibia following its independence, serving from 1990 to 2002. He has been the Vice-President of the ruling South West Africa People's Organization since 2007 and is currently the Minister of Trade and Industry....
    , prime minister of Namibia
    Namibia

    Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean coast. It shares borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east, and South Africa to the south....
  • Alan Glazen, BA, 2006, documentary television producer
  • Richard Grathoff
    Richard Grathoff

    Richard Helmut Grathoff is a Phenomenology and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. Born on August 30, 1934 in Unna, Westphalia, Germany, he received his Ph.D....
    , Ph.D., 1969, sociologist
  • Larry Harlow, musician, salsa
    Salsa music

    Salsa music is a diverse and predominantly Latin American Caribbean music genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad that was brought to international fame by Puerto Rican people....
     pioneer, M.A. in Philosophy
  • Lorraine Hansberry
    Lorraine Hansberry

    Lorraine Hansberry was an African-American playwright and author of political speeches, letters, and essays. Her most famous work, A Raisin in the Sun, was inspired by her family's legal battle against racially segregated housing laws in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago, Illinois during her childhood....
    , playwright A Raisin in the Sun
    A Raisin in the Sun

    A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway theatre in 1959. The story is based upon a family's own experiences growing up in the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago, Illinois's Woodlawn, Chicago neighborhood....
  • Lazaro Hernandez, fashion designer
  • Robert Jackall, Ph.D. sociology
  • Michelle L. Hartman, Ph.D,2006, political science
  • Mady Hornig
    Mady Hornig

    Mady Hornig, MD is a psychiatrist and an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, where she is Director of Translational Research in the Center for Infection and Immunity ....
    , psychiatrist
  • Janine Jackson
    Janine Jackson

    Janine Jackson is the program director of FAIR , and the co-host and co-producer of FAIR's syndicated radio show CounterSpin --a weekly program of media criticism airing on more than 150 stations around the country....
    , MA sociology, program director Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
    Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

    Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting is a Progressivism in the United States media criticism organization based in New York City, founded in 1986....
  • Ellen Johnson
    Ellen Johnson

    Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists from 1995?2008, is an activist for atheist rights and the separation of church and state in the United States....
    , MA political science, president American Atheists
    American Atheists

    American Atheists is an organization in the United States dedicated to defending the civil liberties of atheism and advocating for the complete separation of church and state....
  • Jamaica Kincaid
    Jamaica Kincaid

    Jamaica Kincaid is an United States novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. She lives with her family in North Bennington, VT, Vermont....
    , writer
  • Stewart Krentzman
    Stewart Krentzman

    Stewart Krentzman is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Oki Data Americas, Inc., headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey and has responsibilities for North and South America....
    , business
  • Shigeko Kubota
    Shigeko Kubota

    Kubota, Shigeko is a visual and performance artist born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, in 1937. She studied sculpture at the Tokyo University of Education, and completed her studies at New York University and at the New School for Social Research in the early 1960s....
    , vice-chairman of Fluxus
    Fluxus

    Fluxus?a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"?is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s....
  • Madeline L'Engle, writer A Wrinkle in Time
    A Wrinkle in Time

    A Wrinkle in Time is a science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962. The book won a Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award, and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award....
  • Dolly Lenz
    Dolly Lenz

    Dolly Lenz is a real estate agent in New York City who since 1997 has sold more business than any other agent in the United States. It is estimated that through 2007 she sold $7 billion in real estate including $$748 million in 2006 -- four times higher than anyone else in the nation....
    , New York real estate agent
  • George Maciunas
    George Maciunas

    George Maciunas was a Lithuanian-born United States artist born in Kaunas, November 8, 1931. He was a founding member of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers....
    , artist, founding member of Fluxus
    Fluxus

    Fluxus?a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"?is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s....
  • Matisyahu
    Matisyahu

    Matthew Paul Miller , better known by his stage name Matisyahu is an United States reggae musician.Known for blending Orthodox Judaism themes with Reggae, Rock music and Hip hop music sounds, Matisyahu is most recognizable for his single "King Without a Crown", which was a surprise Top 40 hit, and for being an Orthodox Jew....
    , B.A., Eugene Lang College, 2002, Hasidic M.C.
  • Walter Matthau
    Walter Matthau

    Walter John Matthau was an United States award-winning actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with fellow Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon....
    , actor
  • George McCarthy
  • Sidney Mintz
    Sidney Mintz

    Sidney Wilfred Mintz is an Anthropology best known for his studies of Latin America and the Caribbean. Mintz studied at Brooklyn College gaining his B.A in 1943....
    , anthropologist
  • Franco Modigliani
    Franco Modigliani

    Franco Modigliani was an Italian-American economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985....
     Soc. Sci. D., economist
  • Richard Noll
    Richard Noll

    Richard Noll is a well-known author and clinical psychologist. Currently he is Associate Professor of Psychology at DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania....
    , clinical psychologist and writer
  • Shimon Peres
    Shimon Peres

    Order of St Michael and St George is the ninth and current President of Israel. Peres served twice as Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 Cabinet of Israel in a political career spanning over 66 years....
    , current President of Israel
    Israel

    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
  • Ira Progoff
    Ira Progoff

    Ira Progoff was an United States psychotherapy, best known for his development of the Intensive Journal Method while at Drew University. His main interest was in depth psychology and particularly the humanistic psychology adaptation of Carl Jung ideas to the lives of ordinary people....
    , Ph.D. psychology, psychotherapist
  • Eleanor Roosevelt
    Eleanor Roosevelt

    Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D....
    , first-lady
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III

    Franklin Delano "Frank" Roosevelt III is an United States economist and the grandson of U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt....
     Ph.D., economist
  • Julio Rosado del Valle
    Julio Rosado del Valle

    Julio Rosado del Valle , was an internationally known Abstract expressionism....
    , painter
  • Brother Sean Sammon, Superior General of the Marist Brothers
    Marist Brothers

    The Marist Brothers, or Little Brothers of Mary, a Roman Catholic Marian Society, are a Roman Catholic religious order of brothers and affiliated lay people....
  • Yossi Sarid
    Yossi Sarid

    Yossi Sarid is a left-wing Israeli news commentator and former politician. Sarid was member of the Meretz-Yachad party in the Knesset until he withdrew from politics shortly before Israeli legislative election, 2006....
    , M.A. political science, journalist
  • Tinga Seisay
    Tinga Seisay

    Samuel Tinga Khendekha Seisay is a Sierra Leonean pro-democracy activist and diplomat....
    , diplomat, pro-democracy activist
  • Alex Skolnick
    Alex Skolnick

    Alex Skolnick is an American jazz and metal guitarist. He is a member of the thrash metal band Testament from its formation in San Francisco in 1983 until his departure in 1992....
    , musician Trans-Siberian Orchestra
    Trans-Siberian Orchestra

    Trans-Siberian Orchestra is a Rock music orchestra founded by Paul O'Neill , Robert Kinkel, and Jon Oliva in 1996. The band's musical style incorporates progressive rock, symphonic metal, and heavy metal music, with influences from classical music....
    ,Testament
    Testament

    A testament is a document that the author has sworn to be true.Testament can refer to:* Full Testament,* Old Testament, also known as the Tanakh, the holy scriptures of Judaism and Christianity....
     and the Alex Skolnick Trio
    Alex Skolnick Trio

    The Alex Skolnick Trio is an United States jazz music trio comprising the guitarist Alex Skolnick, Matt Zebroski on drums, and Nathan Peck on bass....
  • Kevin Smith
    Kevin Smith

    Kevin Patrick Smith is an American screenwriter and film director, as well as a script writer, author, and actor. He is also the co-founder, with Scott Mosier, of View Askew Productions and owner of Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash comic and novelty store in Red Bank, New Jersey, New Jersey....
    , director Clerks (did not graduate)
  • Rod Steiger
    Rod Steiger

    Rod Steiger was an United States Academy Award-winning actor known for his intense performances in such films as In the Heat of the Night , Waterloo , On the Waterfront, and Doctor Zhivago ....
    , actor On The Waterfront
  • Sufjan Stevens
    Sufjan Stevens

    Sufjan Stevens is an United States singer-songwriter and musician from Petoskey, Michigan. Stevens first began releasing his music on the Asthmatic Kitty label, a label he formed with his stepfather, beginning with the 2000 release A Sun Came....
    , MFA, creative writing, 2000, musician
  • Elaine Stritch
    Elaine Stritch

    Elaine Stritch is an American actress and vocalist, best known for her trademark performance of "The Ladies Who Lunch" in Company , her 2001 one-woman show #Return to stage, and most recently for her role as Jack Donaghy's mother List of recurring characters on 30 Rock on NBC's 30 Rock....
    , actor
  • William Styron
    William Styron

    William Clark Styron, Jr. was an United States novelist and essayist.Before the publication of his memoir Darkness Visible in 1990, Styron was best known for his novels, which included...
    , writer
  • Anna Sui
    Anna Sui

    Anna Sui rly lifeSui took an interest in fashion at a very young age and began clipping fashion-magazine pages to fill her famous Genius Files....
    , fashion designer
  • Louisa Verhaart, professor, writer, graphic artist
  • Michael Wenger
    Michael Wenger

    Dairyu Michael Wenger is a Soto Zen priest and current Dean of Buddhist Studies at the San Francisco Zen Center in San Francisco, California?where he has been a member since 1972....
    , M.A., Zen
    Zen

    Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism, referred to in Chinese as Ch?n. Ch?n is itself derived from the Sanskrit Dhyana, which means "meditation" ....
     priest, Dean of Buddhist Studies, San Francisco Zen Center
    San Francisco Zen Center

    San Francisco Zen Center , aka "Zen Center" or Beginner's Mind Temple, is a network of affiliated Soto Zen practice and retreat centers in the San Francisco Bay area, comprising the city center, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and Green Gulch Farm....
  • Shelley Winters
    Shelley Winters

    Shelley Winters was an Academy Award-winning American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television....
    , actor
  • Marion Post Wolcott
    Marion Post Wolcott

    Marion Post was a noted photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression documenting poverty and deprivation....
    , photographer
  • Daniel Wolf, co-founder of The Village Voice
    The Village Voice

    The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper in New York City, United States featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City....
  • Will Wright, creator of Sim City and The Sims
    The Sims

    The Sims is a strategy game life simulation game personal computer game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It was created by game designer Will Wright , also known for developing SimCity....
  • Steven Seidman
    Steven Seidman

    Steven Seidman is an United States sociology, currently Professor#United States at University at Albany, SUNY. "He is a world renowned social theorist working the areas of social theory, culture, sexuality, comparative sociology, theory of democracy, nationalism and globalization." He received his A.B....
    , sociologist
  • Olivia Palermo
    Olivia Palermo

    Olivia Palermo is currently a cast member on the MTV reality television series The City . The daughter of a Connecticut real estate developer named Douglas Palermo, Palermo came to New York to attend the New School.She has been noted as a former socialite and has graced the cover of New York Magazine as the It-Girl in 2007....
    , NY socialite, MTV's "The City" co-star
  • Medea Benjamin
    Medea Benjamin

    Medea Benjamin is an United States political activism.The Los Angeles Times has described her as "one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement," and in 1999, San Francisco Magazine included her on their "power list" of the "60 Players Who Rule the San Francisco Bay Area." In 2005, she was nominated as one of 1,000 exceptio...
    , political activist
    Activism

    Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social change or politics change. This action is in support of, or opposition to, one side of an often controversy argument....
    ,


Fictional alumni


  • Myra Breckinridge
    Myra Breckinridge

    Myra Breckinridge is a satire novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary. It was Myra Breckinridge in 1970. Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s," the book's major themes are feminis...
    , protagonist of Gore Vidal
    Gore Vidal

    Gore Vidal is an United States novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer and politician. Early in his career he wrote the ground-breaking The City and the Pillar , which outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality....
    's novel of the same name, mentions she studied the classics
    Classics

    Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity ....
     at the New School.
  • Elaine Benes
    Elaine Benes

    Elaine Marie Benes is a fictional character on the American television Situation comedy Seinfeld , played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Elaine's best friend is her ex-boyfriend Jerry Seinfeld ; she is also good friends with George Costanza and Cosmo Kramer, although she does not have much respect for either of them ....
     takes a drawing class at the New School in "The Doodle"
    The Doodle

    "The Doodle" is the one-hundred and sixth episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 20th episode for the 6th season. It aired on April 6, 1995....
     episode of Seinfeld
    Seinfeld

    Seinfeld is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning Television in the United States Situation comedy that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in Broadcast syndication....
    .
  • On the television series Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
    , multiple episodes feature references to or scenes at the New School. Monica and Joey take a culinary course in one episode, while Rachel and Pheobe take a literature course together in another.
  • In Michael Mann's film "Heat" (1995) the main character Neil MacCauley's (Robert De Niro) girlfriend Eady (Amy Brenneman) claims to have gone to school at Parsons for graphic design.


The New School Faculty in Popular Culture

  • 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.


See also

  • Education in New York City
    Education in New York City

    Education in New York City is provided by a vast number of public and private institutions. The city's public school system, the New York City Department of Education, is the largest in the United States, and New York is home to some of the most important libraries, universities, and research centers in the world....
  • The New York Intellectuals
    The New York Intellectuals

    The New York Intellectuals were a group of American writers and literary critics based in New York City in the mid-20th century. They advocated left-wing politics but were also firmly anti-Stalinist left....


Bibliography

  • 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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