The New School is an institution of higher learning in New York City, located around Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan. Some 9,300 students are enrolled in graduate and undergraduate degree programs in the social sciences, humanities, public policy, design, and music. The school also houses a well-known international think tank, the World Policy Institute. The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... A private university is a university that is run without the control of any government entity. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... Senator Bob Kerrey Joseph Robert Kerrey (born August 27, 1943) was a U.S. Senator from Nebraska (1989–2001) and a Democrat. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... Degree ceremony at Cambridge. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City... NY redirects here. ... The city of San Francisco, an example of an urban area. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City... The Washington Square Arch Greenwich Village (pronounced Grennich Village; also called 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 Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. ... The World Policy Institute at The New School in New York City is a research and education policy center that has been a source of informed policy leadership for over 50 years. ...

The school was known as The New School for Social Research from its founding in 1919 until 1997, then renamed to New School University, and received its current name in 2005. The name "The New School for Social Research" is today used for the university's graduate division, which originally was called The University in Exile and later Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science.

The current president of the New School is former U.S. Senator 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. Appadurai resigned as provost in early 2006, but retains a tenured faculty position at the New School. Seal of the U.S. Senate Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries Politics Portal      Senate composition following 2006 elections The United States Senate is... Joseph Robert Bob Kerrey (born August 27, 1943) was the Democratic Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987, and a U.S. Senator from Nebraska (1989–2001). ... Combatants Coalition Forces: United States United Kingdom South Korea Australia Poland Romania others. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Born in Bombay,India in 1949 and educated in the United States, Arjun Appadurai is a contemporary social-cultural anthropologist whose work centers on the ethnographic landscapes of modernity and globalization. ... Provost is the title of a senior academic administrator at many institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada, the equivalent of Vice-Chancellor at certain UK universites such as UCL, and the head of certain Oxbridge colleges (e. ... Tenure commonly refers to academic tenure systems, in which professors (at the university level)—and in some jurisdictions schoolteachers (at primary or secondary school levels)—are granted the right not to be fired without cause after an initial probationary period. ...

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 pacifist stance. 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). ... Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Tosten Bunde Veblen July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a founder, along with John R. Commons, of the Institutional economics movement, most famous for his Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). ... 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 thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. ... Columbia University is a private research university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ... Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes. ...

The Graduate Faculty and The New School for Social Research

The University in Exile was founded in 1933 as a graduate division of the school, to be a haven for scholars who had been dismissed from teaching and government 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 concept of Totalitarianism is a typology or ideal-type used by some political scientists to encapsulate the characteristics of a number of twentieth century regimes that mobilized entire populations in support of the state or an ideology. ... World map showing the location of Europe. ... The Rockefeller Foundation is a charitable organization based in New York City. ...

The Graduate Faculty was the intellectual heart of the New School. During the period from 1933 until the end of World War II, the University in Exile was 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, and philosophyer Hans Jonas. 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 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. Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000,000 Total dead: 50,000,000 Military dead: 8,000,000 Civilian dead: 4,000,000 Total dead 12,000,000 World War II (abbreviated WWII), or the Second World War, was a worldwide conflict... World map showing the location of 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 (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was a Jewish-German (later American) political theorist. ... Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973), was a German-born American political philosopher who specialized in the study of classical philosophy. ... German-born philosopher Hans Jonas (May 10, 1903 - February 5, 1993) studied under Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann in the 1920s. ... Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle ( ) (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970), in France commonly referred to as 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... Jacques Maritain Jacques Maritain (November 18, 1882 – April 28, 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher. ... Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss (IPA pronunciation ); born November 28, 1908) is a Jewish-French anthropologist who developed 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. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... The École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) is a French institution of higher learning, a Grand Établissement within the system of Grandes Écoles. ...

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, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Freud, Benjamin, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, et al. [1] The thought of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School of Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, et al. is an especially strong influence on all divisions of the school. 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The school publishes Constellations as well as the journals Social Research and The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal. Orion is a remarkable constellation, visible from most places on the globe (but not always the whole year long). ... Social research refers to research conducted by social scientists (primarily within sociology, but also within other disciplines such as social policy, human geography, social anthropology and education). ...

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 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, 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.[2][3] 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. ... Eugene Lang College is the undergraduate liberal arts division of the The New School, formerly known as the New School for Social Research and New School University. ... The Mannes College of Music is a music school located in New York City, in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

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[4].

Academic divisions

• The New School for Drama (previously known as The Actors Studio Drama School in affiliation with The Actors Studio; The Actors Studio Drama School was part of New School University from 1995 until 2005, at which time their affiliation with the university came to an end.)
• Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts
• The New School for Social Research (formerly known as the University in Exile and the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science)
• Mannes College The New School for Music
• Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy
• Parsons The New School for Design
• The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
• The New School for General Studies
• World Policy Institute

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Labor movement

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. 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 The New School for Music. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A professor giving a lecture The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... 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. ... The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an independent agency of the United States Government charged with conducting elections for union representation and with investigating and remedying unfair labor practices. ... The Mannes College of Music is a music school located in New York City, in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. ...

The New School in the media

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; 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. James Lipton (born September 19, 1926 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American writer, poet, and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School 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. ... The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts is the principal theatre of Pace University and is located at the Universitys New York City campus in Lower Manhattan. ... Pace University See also: Pace University High School Pace University is a private, co-educational and comprehensive multi-campus university with campuses in New York City and Westchester County in the U.S. State of New York. ... Project Runway is an American reality television series on the Bravo network that focuses on fashion design. ...

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[5], radio[6], and television[7] 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." ^[1] John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is an American politician. ...

Faculty

• Nina Khrushcheva - Professor of media and culture in the graduate program of international affairs.

Dr. Nina L. Khrushcheva is a Russian American professor of media and culture in the graduate program of international affairs at The New School, a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute, and adjunct associate professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. ...

See also

• Education in New York City
• The New York Intellectuals

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References

1. ^ Student Takes on McCain Over Iraq War Support at New School Graduation, Democracy Now, Friday, June 9th, 2006

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
• Economics at the New School for Social Research
• Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal Website
• ACT-UAW Local 7902
• Article from the New York Times discussing the change of name
• The Official Web Site of The Actors Studio