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Education

Commencement

A commencement that will be historic and unforgettable in ways we could never have imagined

May 14, 2020 • by Dwight A. McBride

I love commencement. With my near-religious connection to higher education and firsthand experience of its life-changing power, I hold commencement as a sacred and ecstatic ritual. It is traditionally one of the few occasions where we academics indulge in a bit of fanfare and grandeur, bringing out our elaborate scholarly ...

Higher Ed

Brave New Classroom

Lessons from the first six weeks

May 13, 2020 • by Hannah Leffingwell

What felt at the time like the worst-case scenario has now become our “new normal.” Emails warn of budget catastrophes, lost tuition, low enrollment. Amid fears that this crisis portends the end of higher education as we know it, I've started to wonder whether that is necessarily a bad thing. ...

Events

Dance+Talk: Paramodernities Live!

Streaming performances with commentary, May 4-9, 2020, at 3pm

May 4, 2020 • by Julia Foulkes

Questions frame the construction of Netta Yerushalmy’s monumental performance project, Paramodernities, which debuted in 2018. And from May 4-9, the questions and conversation will move online, with daily streaming of an installment followed by commentary and chat with noted theorists and artists. Yerushalmy pulled me into the project as the writer and a performer in ...

Capitalism

The Financial Literacy Delusion

We need honest narratives about the distribution of wealth

April 27, 2020 • by Agata Soroko

But it’s already happening. The old financial literacy refrains are already here. “The monetary fallout of COVID-19 — business closures, job losses, declines in tax revenue — still is being determined. To recover, we need financial literacy more than ever,” the Richmond Times-Dispatch editorialized earlier this month. Others are already ...

History

Fifty Years of Social Research

Arien Mack reflects on her half-century stewardship of The New School’s flagship quarterly journal

March 1, 2020 • by Arien Mack and James Miller

James Miller [JM]: Let’s start at the beginning. What year did you come to The New School for Social Research? Arien Mack [AM]: 1966. I had just gotten my Ph.D. JM: At that time, how much did you know about the legacy, the traditions of The New School? Did you know anything at all ...

The New School

The New School’s Forgotten President

The controversial tenure of John Everett

February 18, 2020 • by Anna Robinson-Sweet

It’s likely that the end of Everett’s tenure, which found The New School in a precarious academic and financial position, is also to blame for his historical neglect. Now, thanks to recently processed records from the presidency of John Everett at The New School Archives, we have access to a ...

The New School

When Two Become One

How The New School and Parsons merged

January 17, 2020 • by Molly Rottman

Parsons was founded twenty-three years before The New School for Social Research (NSSR), in 1896, which means Parsons had its own history for seventy-three years before merging with The New School in 1970. By the late 1960s the school was in dire straits, with Parsons running an annual deficit of ...

The New School

The New School’s Secular Faiths

At a progressive institution, religion hid in plain sight

December 20, 2019 • by Mark Larrimore

From its earliest days, a fraught engagement with religion characterizes The New School -- a school conceived just as Max Weber was delivering his lecture “Science as a Vocation.” If it was pioneeringly secular from its beginnings, as it has been glibly suggested, this is not because The New School has ...

The New School

The Ad Paradox

Writing advertising for a university that doesn’t believe in it

November 21, 2019 • by Ricky Tucker

This year marks The New School’s centennial celebration, a paradigm example of that disparity. For October, ads for our “Learn something New” awareness campaign and The Festival of New, a series of events reflecting on our past, made up the majority of advertising in and around Union Square subway station. ...

Education

Unpaid School Lunch Fees

The Tip of the Homelessness Iceberg

November 14, 2019 • by Yvonne M. Vissing and Diane Nilan

Children with sufficient resources don’t apply for school meal programs. Hungry children for whom free school lunch is the only meal they will receive in a day may forgo it because the socio-emotional costs are too high. Some public schools, like those in Salem, Massachusetts, have a district-wide policy where all children get free meals. ...

The New School

Sex and the New School

The Case of Henry Cowell

November 11, 2019 • by Julia Foulkes

This incident, in particular the impact imprisonment had on his musical output and reputation, overshadows Cowell’s legacy. What had been a career steeped in daring experimentation became one more conventional and careful. Who supported Cowell and who did not -- notably the composer Charles Ives, who abandoned his friend -- ...

The New School

Alvin Johnson on the Importance of Lifelong Teaching and Learning

October 17, 2019 • by Judith Friedlander

Johnson predicted that other academic institutions would follow his lead. The demand was clearly there, he proclaimed. In the years following the Second World War, over 30,000 Americans had enrolled in continuing education programs. But these programs, for the most part, were “badly taught, unauthoritative, uninteresting and not very successful.” ...