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Written by Julia Foulkes and Mark Larrimore In 1918, the New Republic-based creators of what would become The New School for Social Research called for a rethinking of what higher education could be. Universities were hamstrung by backward-looking legacies and structures, both institutional and intellectual. Education needed to be put in the service of solving contemporary […]
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The information on this page was either provided to the present New School Archives staff or was found in legacy files. Corrections and additions welcome. Does not include summer programs Asterisk (*) indicates certificate or degrees awarded Bullets indicate programs within a department Graduate information starts in 1978-1990 (graduate information is found in undergraduate catalogues […]
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The information on this page was either provided to the present New School Archives staff or was found in legacy files. Corrections and additions welcome. (P) indicates program. 2D Animation, Drawing and Multimedia Summer 1999(P) 3D Animation, Drawing and Multimedia Summer 1999(P) Advanced Studio Summer 1993(P), Summer 1994(P) Advertising and Graphics 1995-1996 (P), 1996-1997(P), 1997-1998(P), […]
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The information on this page was either provided to the present New School Archives staff or was found in legacy files. Corrections and additions welcome. Pre-1913: Courses in: Fine Arts (Drawing, Painting), Illustration, Communication Design (Commercial Advertising), Interior Design (Interior Decoration), Architecture (Constructive Architecture), Fashion Design (Costume Design), Textile Design (Textile, Rug, Carpet, and Wallpaper) […]
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New Histories: Exploring the histories of The New School on the occasion of its centenary to contextualize and confront pressing issues facing higher education, hosted by Julia Foulkes and Mark Larrimore. Listen via Apple podcasts/Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play, or Soundcloud. Read the 1918 proposal for “An Independent School of Social Science for Men and […]
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" In our work of Sensory Awareness, we experiment with all the simple activities of daily life, all the things which we have been doing since we were born, or which we have learned in our earliest infancy, such as walking, standing, sitting, lying, moving, resting, seeing, speaking, listening, etc. As Elsa Gindler said, “Life is the Playground for our work.” "
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Charlotte Selver (1901-2003) was a music educator and body awareness instructor born in Germany. In the 1920s, Selver studied piano and was also enrolled in the Dr. Rudolph Bode School for Expressive Movement, but later stopped her musical studies as a pianist after graduating due to her increasing hearing loss. Although this shift in her […]
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Howard Kirschenbaum, A Relevant Education: The New School in the 1960s (2/12/2021) Julia Foulkes, Reckoning with the New School’s Legacies: A comprehensive view reveals entrenched inequities (2/8/2021) Julia Foulkes, Albert Mayer’s Urban Village: Between the New School and India (7/16/20) Julia Foulkes, Mark Larrimore, The New School’s Leading Man: How Alvin Johnson reimagined higher education […]
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" Several months ago it was necessary for me to import a large table into my English classroom. After the original use for the table had passed, I searched for the janitor to ask him to remove it. Suddenly some eighth sense whispered, "Why not keep it for exhibition purposes?" That night after school I arranged an exhibit of the booklets distributed by the World's Work dealing with the lives and books of many famous modern authors. "
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" The Bureau for Intercultural Education was the brainchild of a young school teacher, Rachel Davis DuBois. Over its twenty-year history from 1934-1954, the Bureau attempted to understand the "problem of the second generation"- i.e., children of immigrants-and offered a vision of an intercultural nation tolerant of diverse peoples. "