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The adult undergraduate division—now known as the New School for Public Engagement–has always been the New School’s “first responder” to cultural trends, and in this era it both reflected the activism and enthusiasm of the 1960s and channeled radical, even potentially nihilistic impulses through a filter of pluralistic and democratic humanism. Necessarily more identified, by […]
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A Proposal for an Independent School of Social Science” (1919), a key document in the founding of The New School, argued that the circumstances over the past two and a half decades call for a “new type of leadership in every field of American life.” Source: New School Archives and Special Collections Digital Archive. Web. […]
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(left) Curriculum The New School for Social Research 1941 -1942. circa 1941. New School course catalogs; Public Engagement; General. New School Archives and Special Collections Digital Archive.Web. 07 Sep 2014. (right) New School Bulletin 1944 Spring. 10 Jan 1944. New School course catalogs; Public Engagement; General. New School Archives and Special Collections Digital Archive. Web. […]
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On May 19, 1944, the Board of Regents granted the New School the ability to give bachelor’s degrees and the school aimed to attract adult students starting or finishing their degrees. The school was poised to take advantage of the recently passed G.I.Bill that gave government subsidy for education for soldiers returning from World War […]
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Frank Alvah Parsons was born April 1, 1866 in Chesterfield, Massachusetts. In 1901, after a period of European travel, Parsons moved to New York City where he pursued a degree in Art Education from Columbia University, graduating in 1905. Parsons began teaching at the New York School of Art (later Parsons The New School for […]
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The New School Bulletin 1945-1946 Art courses ranged from general, international art history, to specific styles and corresponding time periods and countries. There were also technique courses for amateurs and students with serious interests, which included oil painting, frescoes, mural paintings, drawings and composition, sculpting and photography. Music courses included basic introduction, theory, music history […]
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When the Dramatic Workshop separated from the New School, one of its main gripes was the lack of space. The records from 1943 show 20 full time students. This grew to 50 students by 1944 and 310 in 1946. Then there were the evening students – 440 in 1944, which grew steadily to 1,070 by […]
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In January 1940, Erwin Piscator, a German theater director, launched the Dramatic Workshop at the New School for Social Research. In its first semester the program had approximately twenty students for acting and twenty-five for directing. The program sought to prepare students to work in many fields within theater rather than just focus on one. […]
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A Timeline of Important Events for Parsons Fashion Throughout the history of the Parsons fashion department from 1950-present there have been many important events that have helped shape the fashion department into the prestigious program that it is today. We have compiled a timeline of what we see as the most important events in the […]
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I never had the pleasure of knowing Allen Austill directly. I heard him spoken of by others, usually in high praise. When I attended a memorial service of a long-time member of the New School community at which he was also present, and saw him chatting in the hall with colleagues, someone else, looking at […]