Civil rights activist and author Grace Lee Boggs spoke at Tishman Auditorium on the evening of April 22, in a highly anticipated discussion that focused on her recently published book, “The Next American Revolution.” The event saw the 96-year old, wheelchair-bound Boggs exploring the idea that America needs a dramatic change — a reevaluation of values such as individualism, as [...]
On February 14 — a date representing both the 10th anniversary of his imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay and his youngest son’s 10th birthday — Shaker Aamer asked to wear an orange jumpsuit. The uniform is typically reserved for the detention center’s more defiant detainees. But Aamer, 43, wanted to show guards and inmates alike that, as the prison’s last British [...]
In response to Tuesday’s revelation in the New York Times that The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art will charge tuition for the first time, hundreds of students took to the streets on Wednesday to protest Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha’s decision. The change will only affect students in the graduate program – undergrads will still able to attend [...]
As skirmishes over curriculum changes at Parsons continue between part-time faculty and administrators, two of The New School’s other divisions are experiencing changes of their own. On April 16, The New School’s adjunct faculty union met with Provost Tim Marshall and other members of the administration in a two-hour closed meeting to discuss university-wide curricular changes that will come into [...]
The national debate over insurance coverage for contraceptives may have quieted down since Rick Santorum withdrew from the presidential race, but the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, otherwise known as ObamaCare) is still going to affect The New School. The university’s office of student services recently released a list of changes to the student health insurance plan for [...]
After a long and contentious series of negotiations, The New School is set to host an “Undoing Racism” workshop next fall. Despite support from the offices of the president and the provost, the workshop has provoked heated debate among the students who proposed it and the University Student Senate, with many arguing that the university’s money could be better spent [...]
When I discovered that The New School was once known as the University in Exile, I longed to earn my undergraduate degree there. My longing then collided with my financial circumstances, as I realized that the cost would be an inevitable burden on my single-parent, sub-poverty household. With no money available to pay the tuition balance, I knew I’d have [...]
There is something very curious about an institution that constantly touts its commitment to democratic citizenship and public engagement, but refuses to share even basic information about how decisions are made within its walls. This is exactly the case at The New School, which, despite its progressive reputation, continues to make budgetary decisions behind closed doors. The administration does not [...]
Nutrition a new battleground in fight for social equality At a Goodwill in the South Bronx, Heidi Hynes and her 8-year-old daughter deliver two bags filled with carrots, onions, potatoes, lettuce, and other produce to a man in the neighborhood. The area has quite a few fast food places are in the area, but no full-scale grocery stores. The man [...]
The New School has always been a small institution. In its beginnings, in fact, it was barely an institution at all — the university’s original goal was to educate while functioning beyond the constraints of traditional academia, with its encumbering bureaucracies and endowments and politics. Fast forward almost a hundred years. Today The New School remains a relatively small institution, [...]
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