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Encyclopedia > New School University

The New School is an institution of higher learning in New York City. Some 7,000 students are enrolled in graduate and undergraduate degree programs in social science, humanities, and public policy. Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ...


The university was founded in 1919 as the New School for Social Research 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. Dorothy Payne Whitney (January 23, 1887 - 1968) was an American-born social activist and philanthropist and a member of the prominent Whitney family. ... Charles Austin Beard (November 27, 1874 _ September 1, 1948) was an American historian, author with James Harvey Robinson of The Development of Modern Europe (1907). ... American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen Thorstein Bunde Veblen (July 30, 1857 - August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American economist and sociologist. ... James Harvey Robinson (1863–1936) was an American historian. ... John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thought has been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. ...


The New School University is currently comprised of a number of academic units, located around Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan. These schools include the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Sciences; Robert. J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy; Eugene Lang College, the undergraduate, liberal arts division of the University; the Parsons School of Design, one of the most significant design schools in the United States; the New School for Drama; the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music; and the Mannes College of Music, a classical music conservatory located in the Upper West Side. Greenwich Village (also known as the West Village or simply the Village) is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City. ... Woolworth Building, looking south along Broadway The Lower Manhattan skyline as viewed from Hoboken, New Jersey. ... Eugene Lang College is the undergraduate liberal arts division of the New School University, formerly known as the New School for Social Research. ... A liberal arts college is an institution of higher education found in the United States, offering programs in the liberal arts at the post-secondary level. ... The Parsons School of Design, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, is a design school affiliated (since 1970) with the New School University. ... The Mannes College of Music is a music school located in New York City, in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. ...


The Actors Studio drama school was part of the New School from 1995 to 2005, at which time they ended their affiliation with the university. The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors located in the Old Labor Stage at 432 West 44th Street in New York City. ...


The Graduate Faculty is the intellectual heart of the New School. During the period from 1933 until the end of World War II, the University in Exile was founded as a base for scholars who had been dismissed from teaching and government positions by totalitarian regimes in Europe. The University in Exile later became the New School's Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. Notable scholars associated with the Graduate Faculty include psychologists Max Wertheimer and Aron Gurwitsch and political philosophers Hannah Arendt, and Leo Strauss. The New School played a similar role with its support of the École Libre des Hautes Études. Receiving a charter from 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 Graduate Faculty continues its tradition of synthesizing progressive American intellectual thought and critical European philosophy. The University in Exile, founded in 1933 in New York City, was a haven for scholars who had been dismissed from teaching and government positions by totalitarian regimes in Europe. ... World map showing location of Europe When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... The University in Exile, founded in 1933 in New York City, was a haven for scholars who had been dismissed from teaching and government positions by totalitarian regimes in Europe. ... Max Wertheimer (Prague, April 15, 1880 - New York, October 12, 1943) was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology. ... Aron Gurwitsch (January 17, 1901 - June 25, 1973) was a Lithuania-born American philosopher. ... Hannah Arendt in her early adulthood Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was a German political theorist. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (  listen?) (November 22, 1890 – November 9, 1970), in France commonly referred to as le général de Gaulle, was a French military leader and statesman. ... The Free French Forces (Forces Françaises Libres in French) were French fighters who decided to go on fighting against Germany after the Fall of France and German occupation and to fight against Vichy France in World War II. General Charles de Gaulle was a member of the French Cabinet in... Jacques Maritain (November 18, 1882 – April 28, 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher who had one of the great minds of the 20th century. ... Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss (born November 28, 1908) is a French anthropologist who became one of the twentieth centurys greatest intellectuals by developing structuralism as a method of understanding human society and culture. ... Roman Osipovich Jakobson (October 11, 1896 - July 18, 1982) was a Russian thinker who became one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century by pioneering the development of structural analysis of language, poetry, and art. ...


The current president of the New School is former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE). Kerrey drew some praise for his decisive reorganization 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. Senator Bob Kerrey Joseph Robert Kerrey (born August 27, 1943) was a U.S. Senator from Nebraska (1989–2001) and a Democrat. ... The 2003 Invasion of Iraq was the first military act of the Iraq War, and was launched by the United States and the United Kingdom on March 20, 2003, with support from some other governments, making up what was described as the coalition of the willing. After about three weeks... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Born in India and educated in the United States, Arjun Appadurai is a contemporary social theorist whose work centers around the ethnographic landscapes of modernity and globalization. ...


In the summer 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, these 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 The New School for Design", " Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts", "Mannes College The New School for Music", "The New School for Drama", "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 distressed type-based mark reading simply, in capital letters, "THE NEW SCHOOL." They claim that the university's new identity campaign, while maintaining a slick urban edge, does little to suggest academic rigor or collegiate legacy.


In 2003, adjunct 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. 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A professor is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers... The United Auto Workers (UAW), officially the United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America International Union, is one of the largest labor unions in North America, with more than 700,000 members in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico organized into approximately 950 union locals. ... In the United States the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is a five-person appointed federal agency charged with conducting elections for labor union representation and with investigating and remedying unfair labor pratices. ...


The Bravo 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. Project Runway, another Bravo program, prominently features Parsons School of Design's elite fashion design department. James Lipton (born September 19, 1926, Detroit, Michigan) is dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at New School University in New York City. ... The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors located in the Old Labor Stage at 432 West 44th Street in New York City. ... Project Runway is a reality television show on Bravo. ... The Parsons School of Design, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, is a design school affiliated (since 1970) with the New School University. ...


Academic divisions

The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors located in the Old Labor Stage at 432 West 44th Street in New York City. ... Eugene Lang College is the undergraduate liberal arts division of the New School University, formerly known as the New School for Social Research. ... The University in Exile, founded in 1933 in New York City, was a haven for scholars who had been dismissed from teaching and government positions by totalitarian regimes in Europe. ... The Mannes College of Music is a music school located in New York City, in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. ... The Parsons School of Design, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, is a design school affiliated (since 1970) with the New School University. ...

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FastWeb: Eugene Lang College, New School University (1895 words)
The university operates residence halls within walking distance of classes; incoming freshmen and transfer students are given housing priority within these facilities, and housing is guaranteed for the first year for new students.
The New School for Social Research was founded in 1919 by such notable scholars and intellectuals as John Dewey, Alvin Johnson, and Thorstein Veblen.
High school students for whom the College is their first choice are strongly encouraged to apply as early decision candidates and are notified early of an admission decision.
New School University Libraries - Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Archives Center (420 words)
The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Archives Center for Parsons The New School for Design is a repository for archival materials relating to the history of art and design, with a special focus on the history of the school and the careers of its faculty, students, alumni, and other associates.
Originally named the Chase School, Parsons The New School for Design was founded in 1896 by American Impressionist painter William Merritt Chase.
To recognize the growth of the design curriculum, the school was renamed the New York School of Fine and Applied Art in 1909.
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