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Education

The Enigma of Rescue

On a recent history of The New School for Social Research

July 30, 2020 • by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

The New School for Social Research holds a story of rescue dear. This is the tale of how its co-founder and first president, the economist Alvin Johnson, climbed a mountain of correspondence and paperwork to save scores of German scholars after Nazism’s rise to power in the early 1930s. Johnson ...

Education

The Happy Talk of Diversity

How can American colleges affect real change?

July 23, 2020 • by James M. Thomas

Scholars who study diversity find that among ordinary actors, it has multiple and contested meanings. For many, diversity is enriching. The idea of people from different backgrounds coming together through shared values and working toward shared goals fits well with the ethos of America as a melting pot. Sociologists Douglas ...

Activism

On Our Revolutionary Moment

Putting today’s revolt against institutional racism into historical context

July 22, 2020 • by James Traub

Protestors, who had been staging increasingly violent strikes, had assailed City College, CUNY’s flagship school, located in the middle of Harlem, as a racist institution that used academic standards to deny admission to all but a handful of Black and Puerto Rican students. They demanded that CUNY abandon those standards ...

The New School

Albert Mayer’s Urban Village: Between The New School and India

A global conversation about using design to foster community

July 16, 2020 • by Julia Foulkes

The New School does not look like most other universities, even those in large cities. It has no college green around which buildings are situated; no common architectural style; no grand monument-like buildings with Latin phrases carved into granite. Instead, it is a disaggregated collection of buildings, most in the ...

Higher Ed

A Declaration of Independence by a Princeton Professor

Freedom to think for oneself is still a right, not a privilege

July 16, 2020 • by Joshua T. Katz

In Congress, on July 4, 1776, came the “unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.” Signed by 56 men, many of whom were considered national heroes just a few minutes ago, it opens with a long and elegant sentence whose first words every American child knows, or used ...

A Declaration of Independence by a Princeton Professor

Education

Responding to New ICE Guideline for Higher Education

A letter from the president and the provost of The New School

July 7, 2020 • by Dwight A. McBride and Tim Marshall

Students from around the globe are a vital part of this academic community and we are unwavering in our commitment to those from outside the U.S. who choose to learn, explore, and create at The New School. We are working closely with elected officials, the Commission on Independent Colleges & Universities in New York (CICU), and national associations to ensure that any final rule reflects these important concerns. University students are already working ...

Education

How Elite Institutions Can Prove That Black Lives Matter

Emotional labor & the limits of interpersonal diversity work

July 2, 2020 • by Gaga Gondwe

I have been a lone Black face in mostly white spaces for most of my life. I went to college at Harvard, and law school at Yale; I clerked for a federal judge, and worked at a top law firm. I will soon embark on a new adventure, becoming a ...

How Elite Institutions Can Prove That Black Lives Matter

Education

Save Higher Education (From Itself)!

A federal bailout for students, faculty, and staff at colleges and universities

July 1, 2020 • by Julia Ott

More than three months into a national emergency, neither the leaders of America’s colleges and universities nor our elected officials have offered any plan to uphold higher education or any vision for its future. The ad-hoc responses of individual institutions do not suffice. Without federal relief and concerted reform, our ...

History

The New School’s Leading Man

How Alvin Johnson reimagined higher education

June 16, 2020 • by Julia Foulkes and Mark Larrimore

Alvin Johnson is the leading man in the history of The New School. He saved it from financial failure again and again and again; he attracted intellectuals to its faculty, most auspiciously those fleeing fascist Europe in the 1930 and 40s and he persuaded artists such as Thomas Hart Benton ...

The New School

The New School in Cyberspace

Teaching online? The New School’s been doing it for 35 years

June 15, 2020 • by Tina Yagjian

Beginning in mid-March, as the novel coronavirus bore down on the country, The New School moved all of its courses online. A response to the social distancing required to contain the spread of COVID-19, The New School’s students and faculty scrambled to recreate learning environments that had seemed to be ...

Education

Exiled Online

June 3, 2020 • by Carolyn Vellenga Berman

I learned a few things about college this spring. None involved the expendability of teachers. When my students gathered online after the pandemic spring break, some had moved home with their families, as my daughter had. Others remained in off-campus apartments, struggling to pay rent after their employers (restaurants, bars, and ...

The New School

Hanging in Union Square

H. T. Tsiang and the New School

May 28, 2020 • by Mark Larrimore

Among the challenges facing the New School in the coming years will be navigating the increasingly charged relationship between the United States and China. Links with students and partners in China are a significant part of the life of the New School, but not our institutional storytelling. To counter likely ...