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University Faculty Should Welcome “Foreign Influences,” Not Police Them

Indiana University instructs faculty to comply with all laws and regulations regarding foreign influences

January 14, 2019 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

I just received the letter at bottom in a mass e-mailing to Indiana University faculty. It instructs faculty about the importance of complying with all laws and regulations regarding the disclosure of “foreign influences.” The sender, a high official of the University, is also a smart colleague who I respect. And ...

University Faculty Should Welcome “Foreign Influences,” Not Police Them

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What We Know About Parsons School of Design’s Namesake

The story behind Frank Alvah Parsons, the man who made art and design accessible to New Yorkers

January 4, 2019 • by Molly Rottman

A hundred and fifty miles from Parsons’ campus in New York City is a small town in the foothills of the Pioneer Valley called Chester. With a population of 1,380, Chester’s only claim to fame was emery, a mineral used in the nineteenth century for grinding metal (and later finger ...

What We Know About Parsons School of Design’s Namesake

Education

A History of Innovation

The first history of The New School for Social Research recalls its originality

December 26, 2018 • by Peter Rutkoff

My friend replied, “The New School I know was the creation of American progressive reformers.” We quickly realized that we each knew only parts of two different versions of the New School’s history and that this subject was perfect for collaboration based on our very different perspectives. What kind of school is the New ...

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New York City Buildings Were My Education

How campus architecture shaped an academic life

December 14, 2018 • by A. W. Strouse

On my way to teach each morning at The New School, I always say a prayer to my two spirit animals: a gargoyle and a steam pipe. Fraternal twins, they adorn a building on the corner of 14th Street and University Place, guarding Union Square. The gargoyle -- like a ...

Education

UNC-Chapel Hill Proposes to Raise Millions to Preserve Silent Sam

This doesn’t solve the problem: and the money could go to pay grad students a living wage

December 14, 2018 • by Meli Kimathi

On the night of December 8, after proctoring the final exam for the undergraduate course I teach, I got the phone call that I simultaneously needed and dreaded. “What are your thoughts on participation?” my co-instructor asked. “I have so many overlapping concerns that I don’t know where to begin!” I exclaimed. ...

UNC-Chapel Hill Proposes to Raise Millions to Preserve Silent Sam

Education

Uncovering the Musical Divide

The tale of two cultures at the Mannes School of Music and The New School

December 14, 2018 • by Sally Bick

When Julia Foulkes, a historian at The New School, asked me to write about the historical cultures that defined the Mannes School of Music and those of the New School, I couldn’t help but think about my own musical pedigree: once a performer, now music scholar. This disciplinary divide is ...

Education

Making Family Child Care Work For 3K

New York City is wise to invest in early education

December 9, 2018 • by Kendra Hurley

Mayor Bill de Blasio campaigned for re-election in 2017 on a promise of instituting “3K-for-All” -- a logical extension of the popular citywide launch of universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) for 4-year-olds during his first term. At the time, neither he nor the voters may have envisioned parents dropping their 3-year-olds off ...

Education

Student Workers Ratify A Strong Contract

Worker organizing holds The New School to its foundational values

December 6, 2018 • by Angela Butel

After more than fourteen months and 64 bargaining sessions, Student Employees at The New School -- United Automobile Workers (SENS-UAW), the union for academic student workers, has voted to ratify a contract with the New School administration. This hard-won agreement will provide substantial economic increases and important workplace protections and ...

Student Workers Ratify A Strong Contract

Education

The Possibilities for New Ways of Living

What students help their professors learn about teaching the Anthropocene

December 3, 2018 • by Stephanie Wakefield

1. The Anthropocene designates Earth’s departure from the stable climates of the Holocene and its entrance into a more volatile and unknown operating space as glaciers melt, seas rise, and climates change. As I see it we are living in not only the Anthropocene but more specifically, as I’ve written from ...

The Possibilities for New Ways of Living

Education

The City Shares Its New Early Childhood Education Vision

The plan proposal remains open for comments and questions

December 2, 2018 • by Kendra Hurley

On Monday, the Department of Education (DOE) released its long-anticipated white paper on the future of early education in New York City. It describes how the City envisions its merger of the City-contracted subsidized child care system, now overseen by the Administration for Children’s Services, with Pre-K-for-All and 3K-for-All under the aegis ...

Education

Promising Outcomes, Limited Potential

Diversity In Admissions In New York City Public Schools

November 18, 2018 • by Nicole Mader, Abigail Kramer and Angela Butel

In 2016, New York City rolled out a small pilot project intended to address a problem that many in the city had long ignored or taken for granted: While New York’s public school population is one of the most diverse in the country, it is also one of the most ...

Democracy

Arrows into the Heart of Democracy

Attacks on Gender Studies and the conquest of democracy

November 12, 2018 • by Sabine Hark

The history of women’s suffrage taught us that democratic rights and institutions must be fought for and can never be taken for granted. They are fragile. Today, in the face of worldwide attacks on democratic rights and the neo-reactionary conquest of democracy, we desperately need to remember this. In countries such ...