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The old building at 65 5th Avenue was awkward, badly lit, uninspiring, and ultimately, unsustainable. Of course the old building was never intended to serve as a functional academic facility. Until 1968, the building was used as a department store; ultimately, the University purchased and renovated the property to house the Graduate Faculty of the […]
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Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. I was recently trying to remember when and how I first learned to write a letter. I asked some colleagues and […]
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Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. ParsonsPaper was a monthly student-produced newspaper that ran from 1976 to 1990, and was sponsored by the Parsons Student Council. The […]
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Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. Today is my first post for The New School Archives blog, but also my last day of working at the New […]
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The Parsons fashion design program has been the starting point for many of today’s industry leaders. Not many people know that before Tim Gunn was the host of Project Runway, he was the Chair of Fashion at Parsons School of Fashion. We’re looking at all of the notable people who have come through Parsons as an important […]
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Social Justice at The New School – a talk by Julia Foulkes, Mark Larrimore, and Maya Wiley at the 4th Annual Staff Development Day. Mark Larrimore and Julia Foulkes’ presentation emerges from their ongoing research into the history of The New School. Maya Wiley’s presentation, Social Justice Defined, focuses on her research into the history and intersections […]
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The Human Relations Center began in 1951 at the behest of Clara Mayer, the infamous right-hand woman of Alvin Johnson, the long-time director of the school. By 1951, Mayer was Vice President and Dean of the School of Philosophy and Liberal Arts of what was known informally known as the Adult Division (to distinguish it […]
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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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" Late in the year 1898, it became necessary to take mother out of the rigorous Wisconsin winter to Colorado Springs, where I had two married sisters living. "
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" Of all the Method actors who evolved from the Actors Studio and its tentacles, Rod Steiger, who died on July 9th aged 77, was arguably the most intense. "