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-->, houses classrooms, offices, seminar rooms, Tischman Auditorium, and several José Clemente Orozco murals.The
New School is an institution of higher learning in
New York City, located mostly around Greenwich Village. Some 9,300 students are enrolled in graduate and undergraduate degree programs in a variety of disciplines, including the social sciences, humanities, public policy, design, and the arts.The school also houses a well-known international think tank, the World Policy Institute.
The school was known as the
New School for Social Research from its founding in 1919 until 1997, when it was renamed
New School University. It received its current name in 2005. The name "The New School for Social Research" is today used for the university's graduate division, which was originally called the
University in Exile and later the
Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science.
The current president of the New School is former
United States Senate Bob Kerrey (D-NE), who assumed his role in 2000. Kerrey drew mixed praise and criticism for his devisive streamlining of the university, as well as censure for his support of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, generally opposed by the university's traditionally left-wing faculty. In
2004, Kerrey appointed Arjun Appadurai as
Provost (education). Appadurai resigned as provost in early 2006, but retains a
tenured faculty position at the New School. The current provost is Benjamin Lee.
History
Founding
The university was founded in 1919 as a progressive institution of learning for adults through the financial backing of heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney. Its founders included the historian Charles Beard, economists Thorstein Veblen and
James Harvey Robinson, and philosopher John Dewey.Some of the founders were professors of Columbia University who had been censured because of their pacifism stance.
The 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 and the Rockefeller Foundation. It was later renamed the "Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science", and bore this name until changing to its present one in 2005. The University in Exile and its subsequent incarnations have been the intellectual heart of the New School. Notable scholars associated with the University in Exile include psychologists Max Wertheimer and Aron Gurwitsch, political philosophers
Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, and philosopher
Hans Jonas.
The New School played a similar role with its support of the
École Libre des Hautes Études. Receiving a charter from
Charles de Gaulle's
Free French government in exile, the École attracted refugee scholars who taught in French, including philosopher Jacques Maritain, anthropologist
Claude Lévi-Strauss, and linguist
Roman Jakobson. The École Libre gradually evolved into one of the leading institutions of research in Paris, the
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, with which the New School maintains close ties.
Following the collapse of totalitarian regimes in Europe, the University in Exile was renamed the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. In 2005 the Graduate Faculty was again renamed, this time taking the original name of the university, the New School for Social Research.
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." Thus, it stresses the teachings of
Aristotle,
John Locke,
Hume,
Kant,
Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx,
Friedrich Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Freud,
Benjamin, Wittgenstein, Foucault,
Derrida, Deleuze, et al. The thought of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School of
Max Horkheimer,
Walter Benjamin,
Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse,
Jürgen Habermas, et al. holds an especially strong influence on all divisions of the school.
The school publishes
Constellations as well as the journals
Social Research and
The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal.
A new identity
In June of 2005, the university was officially renamed "The New School" and, in order to better promote the New School affiliation of each of the divisions, the academic units were renamed to prominently feature the New School name: The New School for General Studies, The New School for Social Research, Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy,
Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts,
Mannes College of Music, The New School for Drama, and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Some faculty, students, and alumni have expressed concern over the re-branding of the university, and especially the dramatic redesign of the logo from a six-sided shield against a green background to a spray-painted graffiti mark reading simply, in capital letters, "THE NEW SCHOOL" with, in smaller letters beneath, "A UNIVERSITY." They claim that the university's new identity campaign, while maintaining a slick urban edge, does little to suggest academic rigor or collegiate legacy.
Business Week: " A Bad Move on a New Logo." Retrieved April 17, 2007.HitorMiss.org: "The 'New' New School." Retrieved April 17, 2007.
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 York Times: "To Woo Students, Colleges Choose Names That Sell." Retrieved April 17, 2007.
Organization
buildings, 5th Avenue.{||
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Founded|-|
The New School for General Studies||align="center"| 1937|-| [Parsons The New School for Design||align="center"| 1964|-| [Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts||align="center"| 1937|-| [The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music||align="center"| 2005|-||-| Former Divisions|-| [The Actor's Studio||align="center"| 1994 - 2005|}
Labor movement
In
2003, Professor faculty in several divisions of the New School began to form a
labor union chapter under the auspices of the United Auto Workers. Though the university at first tried to contest the unionization, after several rulings against it by regional and national panels of the
National Labor Relations Board the university recognized the local chapter, ACT-UAW, as the bargaining agent for the faculty. As a result of a near strike in November 2005 on the part of the adjunct faculty, the ACT-UAW union negotiated its first contract which included the acknowledgement of previously unrecognized part-time faculty at
Mannes College of Music.
The New School in the media
The
Bravo (television network) television program
Inside the Actors Studio, hosted by James Lipton, was filmed at The New School until a contract with the
Actors Studio concluded in 2005; it is now filmed at the
Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University.
Project Runway, another Bravo program, prominently features Parsons The New School for Design's elite fashion design department.
John McCain's speech at the graduation ceremony of 2006 also generated a large amount of media attention, due to vocal student opposition in print,
The New York Times: "Protesters Object to McCain as New School Commencement Speaker." Retrieved April 17, 2007. radio, WNYC: "On the Fence." Retrieved April 17, 2007. and television
Democracy Now!: "Controversy Brews at New School Over Pick of McCain as Graduation Speaker." Retrieved April 17, 2007. 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." Student Takes on McCain Over Iraq War Support at New School Graduation,
Democracy Now!, Friday, June 9th, 2006
Noted faculty
Past
Present
Noted alumni
- Stanley Aronowitz, B.A., 1968, sociologist
- James Baldwin (writer), writer
- Harry Bellafonte, singer
- Marlon Brando, actor
- Tony Curtis, actor
- Paul Dano, actor Little Miss Sunshine
- Uri Davis, M.A. anthropology, 1973
- Robert De Niro, actor
- Ani DiFranco, musician
- William Donohue, sociology, Catholic League president
- Peter Falk, B.A. political science, actor Colombo
- Ed Fancher, co-founder of The Village Voice
- Abraham Foxman, director Anti-Defamation League
- Ben Gazzara, actor
- Lorraine Hansberry, playwright A Raisin in the Sun
- Jack Kerouac, writer
- Jamaica Kincaid, writer
- Madeline L'Engle, writer A Wrinkle in Time
- George Maciunas, artist, founding member of Fluxus
- Matisyahu, B.A., Eugene Lang College, 2002, Hasidic M.C.
- Walter Matthau, actor
- George McCarthy M.A., Ph.D., sociologist
- Franco Modigliani Soc. Sci. D., economist
- Mario Puzo, writer The Godfather
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III Ph.D., economist
- Kevin Smith, director Clerks
- Rod Steiger, actor On The Waterfront
- Sufjan Stevens, musician
- Elaine Stritch, actor
- William Styron, writer
- Julio Rosado del Valle, painter
- Dr. Ruth Westheimer, M.A. sociology, 1959, sex therapist
- Tennessee Williams, playwright
- Shelley Winters, actor
- Marion Post Wolcott, photographer
- Daniel Wolf, co-founder of The Village Voice
- Will Wright (game designer), creator of Sim City and The Sims
- Steven Seidman, sociologist
Fictional alumni
- Myra Breckinridge, protagonist of Gore Vidal's novel of the same name, mentions she studied the classics at the New School.
- Elaine Benes takes a drawing class at the New School in The Doodle episode of Seinfeld.
See also
References
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
External links
- The New School website
- New School for Social Research Website
- History of New School University
- ACT-UAW Local 7902
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name = The New School|
motto = |
established = |
type = [Private university |
president = [Bob Kerrey |
city = [New York City |
state = [New York |
country = [United States |
undergrad = 5,100 |
postgrad = 3,900 |
postgrad_label = graduate |
faculty = |
campus = [Urban area |
nickname = |
website =
http://www.newschool.edu/ www.newschool.edu |
mascot = |
free_label = Endowment |
free = $199 million (2006) |
president = [Robert Kerrey |
-->, houses classrooms, offices, seminar rooms, Tischman Auditorium, and several
José Clemente Orozco murals.The
New School is an institution of higher learning in New York City, located mostly around Greenwich Village. Some 9,300 students are enrolled in graduate and undergraduate degree programs in a variety of disciplines, including the social sciences, humanities, public policy, design, and the arts.The school also houses a well-known international think tank, the World Policy Institute.
The school was known as the
New School for Social Research from its founding in 1919 until 1997, when it was renamed
New School University. It received its current name in 2005. The name "The New School for Social Research" is today used for the university's graduate division, which was originally called the
University in Exile and later the
Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science.
The current president of the New School is former United States Senate
Bob Kerrey (D-NE), who assumed his role in 2000. Kerrey drew mixed praise and criticism for his devisive streamlining of the university, as well as censure for his support of the
2003 invasion of Iraq, generally opposed by the university's traditionally
left-wing faculty. In
2004, Kerrey appointed Arjun Appadurai as
Provost (education). Appadurai resigned as provost in early 2006, but retains a tenured faculty position at the New School. The current provost is Benjamin Lee.
History
Founding
The university was founded in 1919 as a progressive institution of learning for adults through the financial backing of heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney. Its founders included the historian Charles Beard, economists Thorstein Veblen and
James Harvey Robinson, and philosopher
John Dewey.Some of the founders were professors of
Columbia University who had been censured because of their
pacifism stance.
The 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 and the Rockefeller Foundation. It was later renamed the "Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science", and bore this name until changing to its present one in 2005. The University in Exile and its subsequent incarnations have been the intellectual heart of the New School. Notable scholars associated with the University in Exile include psychologists Max Wertheimer and Aron Gurwitsch, political philosophers
Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, and philosopher
Hans Jonas.
The New School played a similar role with its support of the École Libre des Hautes Études. Receiving a charter from
Charles de Gaulle's Free French government in exile, the École attracted refugee scholars who taught in French, including philosopher
Jacques Maritain, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and linguist
Roman Jakobson. The École Libre gradually evolved into one of the leading institutions of research in
Paris, the
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, with which the New School maintains close ties.
Following the collapse of totalitarian regimes in Europe, the University in Exile was renamed the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. In 2005 the Graduate Faculty was again renamed, this time taking the original name of the university, the New School for Social Research.
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." Thus, it stresses the teachings of
Aristotle, John Locke,
Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Freud, Benjamin,
Wittgenstein, Foucault,
Derrida,
Deleuze, et al. The thought of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School of
Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin,
Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, et al. holds an especially strong influence on all divisions of the school.
The school publishes
Constellations as well as the journals
Social Research and
The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal.
A new identity
In June of 2005, the university was officially renamed "The New School" and, in order to better promote the New School affiliation of each of the divisions, the academic units were renamed to prominently feature the New School name: The New School for General Studies, The New School for Social Research, Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy,
Parsons School of Design,
Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts,
Mannes College of Music, The New School for Drama, and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Some faculty, students, and alumni have expressed concern over the re-branding of the university, and especially the dramatic redesign of the
logo from a six-sided shield against a green background to a spray-painted graffiti mark reading simply, in capital letters, "THE NEW SCHOOL" with, in smaller letters beneath, "A UNIVERSITY." They claim that the university's new identity campaign, while maintaining a slick urban edge, does little to suggest academic rigor or collegiate legacy.
Business Week: " A Bad Move on a New Logo." Retrieved April 17, 2007.HitorMiss.org: "The 'New' New School." Retrieved April 17, 2007.
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 York Times: "To Woo Students, Colleges Choose Names That Sell." Retrieved April 17, 2007.
Organization
buildings, 5th Avenue.{||
Major Divisions||align="center"|
Founded|-|
The New School for General Studies||align="center"| 1937|-| [Parsons The New School for Design||align="center"| 1964|-| [Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts||align="center"| 1937|-| [The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music||align="center"| 2005|-||-| Former Divisions|-| [The Actor's Studio||align="center"| 1994 - 2005|}
Labor movement
In 2003,
Professor faculty in several divisions of the New School began to form a
labor union chapter under the auspices of the United Auto Workers. Though the university at first tried to contest the unionization, after several rulings against it by regional and national panels of the National Labor Relations Board the university recognized the local chapter, ACT-UAW, as the bargaining agent for the faculty. As a result of a near strike in November 2005 on the part of the adjunct faculty, the ACT-UAW union negotiated its first contract which included the acknowledgement of previously unrecognized part-time faculty at Mannes College of Music.
The New School in the media
The
Bravo (television network) television program
Inside the Actors Studio, hosted by James Lipton, was filmed at The New School until a contract with the Actors Studio concluded in 2005; it is now filmed at the
Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University.
Project Runway, another Bravo program, prominently features Parsons The New School for Design's elite fashion design department.
John McCain's speech at the graduation ceremony of 2006 also generated a large amount of media attention, due to vocal student opposition in print,
The New York Times: "Protesters Object to McCain as New School Commencement Speaker." Retrieved April 17, 2007. radio, WNYC: "On the Fence." Retrieved April 17, 2007. and television
Democracy Now!: "Controversy Brews at New School Over Pick of McCain as Graduation Speaker." Retrieved April 17, 2007. 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." Student Takes on McCain Over Iraq War Support at New School Graduation,
Democracy Now!, Friday, June 9th, 2006
Noted faculty
Past
Present
Noted alumni
- Stanley Aronowitz, B.A., 1968, sociologist
- James Baldwin (writer), writer
- Harry Bellafonte, singer
- Marlon Brando, actor
- Tony Curtis, actor
- Paul Dano, actor Little Miss Sunshine
- Uri Davis, M.A. anthropology, 1973
- Robert De Niro, actor
- Ani DiFranco, musician
- William Donohue, sociology, Catholic League president
- Peter Falk, B.A. political science, actor Colombo
- Ed Fancher, co-founder of The Village Voice
- Abraham Foxman, director Anti-Defamation League
- Ben Gazzara, actor
- Lorraine Hansberry, playwright A Raisin in the Sun
- Jack Kerouac, writer
- Jamaica Kincaid, writer
- Madeline L'Engle, writer A Wrinkle in Time
- George Maciunas, artist, founding member of Fluxus
- Matisyahu, B.A., Eugene Lang College, 2002, Hasidic M.C.
- Walter Matthau, actor
- George McCarthy M.A., Ph.D., sociologist
- Franco Modigliani Soc. Sci. D., economist
- Mario Puzo, writer The Godfather
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III Ph.D., economist
- Kevin Smith, director Clerks
- Rod Steiger, actor On The Waterfront
- Sufjan Stevens, musician
- Elaine Stritch, actor
- William Styron, writer
- Julio Rosado del Valle, painter
- Dr. Ruth Westheimer, M.A. sociology, 1959, sex therapist
- Tennessee Williams, playwright
- Shelley Winters, actor
- Marion Post Wolcott, photographer
- Daniel Wolf, co-founder of The Village Voice
- Will Wright (game designer), creator of Sim City and The Sims
- Steven Seidman, sociologist
Fictional alumni
- Myra Breckinridge, protagonist of Gore Vidal's novel of the same name, mentions she studied the classics at the New School.
- Elaine Benes takes a drawing class at the New School in The Doodle episode of Seinfeld.
See also
- Education in New York City
- The New York Intellectuals
References
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
External links
- The New School website
- New School for Social Research Website
- History of New School University
- ACT-UAW Local 7902
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