In Print - The New School Free Press
WEBPick up your copy of the Spring 2024 Volume 1 starting on Monday, April 1. You can view our past print issues here. The New School Free Press has newsstands throughout campus. We’ve compiled a list of where to find our newest print issue in almost all New School buildings. The New School University Center… Continue reading In Print
A conversation with President Joel Towers - The New School Free …
WEB1 day ago · The New School Free Press sits down with the newly appointed President of TNS. After 20 years at The New School, Joel Towers stepped into a new role as the 10th president of TNS this semester. President Towers began his time at TNS in 2004 as a full-time faculty member and the first director of sustainable design and urban ecology at …
New School students join citywide march in support of Palestine …
WEB18 hours ago · Demonstrators march with Within Our Lifetime’s “Flood NYC For Gaza” march in Manhattan on Monday, Oct. 7. Photo by Dove Williams. On Monday, Oct. 7, about 40 demonstrators gathered outside The New School University Center after a 2 p.m. walkout, marking a year of Israel’s escalating violence ...
Professors and students protest The New School's part-time …
WEBNov 19, 2022 · Students hold signs of support at the strike Wednesday. Photo by Hannah Roberts. At 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, teachers, students and supporters gathered outside The New School University Center for the first picket shift of the day after the university and the part-time faculty union’s bargaining committee failed to come to an agreement on a new contract in the months prior.
The old “New” problem: How do we recover our progressive legacy?
WEBMay 8, 2024 · In TNS professor Julia Foulkes’s essay, “What It Means to Be a Progressive University,” she writes of the elusive idea of James Baldwin as a TNS student. From all that is evidenced, Baldwin took one acting class at TNS in 1914. TNS’s posthumous contortion of Baldwin’s legacy to create an iconoclastic progressive image demonstrates an ...
The New School’s Tishman Center adopted a new approach for …
WEB4 days ago · Last week, The New School participated in NYC Climate Week from Sept. 22-29. The New School’s climate week hub featured events, including the Urban Systems Lab’s “Exploring the potential of AI tools for climate risk and resilience” and Swissnex’s “Climate Ring: refashioning fashion.” This year also marked the 10th anniversary of the People’s Climate March. … Continue reading ...
New School part-time faculty to strike Wednesday
WEBNov 14, 2022 · Just over 1,300 of the approximately 1,600 part-time faculty members who are teaching this semester voted to authorize a strike if deemed necessary in negotiations with The New School. The voting period ran for two weeks and ended at midnight on November 13th when the current contract expired. Thirty-four voted no; all …
Q&A with Interim President Donna Shalala
WEBMay 11, 2024 · The New School Free Press sat down with Interim President Donna Shalala, on Thursday, May 9 — less than one week after she sent a letter to the New York Police Department and requested they clear out student demonstrators in the University Center and Kerrey Hall. The NYPD arrested 45 people for criminal trespassing, though the university does ...
“Teaching conditions affect learning conditions,” Part-Time …
WEBDec 10, 2021 · The New School’s reputation as a progressive institution for social justice and equality isn’t living up to some part-time faculty’s standards, as they said they’re paid an unlivable wage much smaller than administrators and full-time professors. Part-time faculty are an essential part of the university, making up 87% of the teaching staff, according to New… Continue reading ...
Who has the right to strike? Explained - The New School Free Press
WEBMar 6, 2024 · The union for academic student workers, SENS-UAW Local 7902, asked The New School community to strike in solidarity with them, and while non-academic workers in in the New Student Workers Union will be striking with them, for others, halting academic work is not an option.. Since the strike officially began at 8 a.m. today, some faculty members have canceled classes or resorted to off-campus ...