16 minors at The New School, predominantly at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, will be cut next fall, according to a document obtained by The New School Free Press and confirmation from university communications. Four of the minors are language programs at Lang.

The minors were previously unreported and not included in a faculty-wide Nov. 25 email from the provost’s office announcing cuts and pauses for 23 academic programs next fall. 

Students who have already declared one of the impacted minors will be able to finish through a “teach out plan” by the university, according to a faculty member who was granted anonymity in order to discuss private meetings and amidst ongoing efforts by the university to reduce faculty.

“Minors selected for discontinuance will not be available for students to declare beginning in Fall 2026,” Merrie Snead, associate director of university communications, said in an email. 

“Separate from the formal program actions, minors are also being assessed as part of the university’s curriculum management process,” Snead said. “While this work is underway, students will be able to declare minors in areas that are impacted by the assessment through the Spring 2026 semester.”

The cuts come as the university undertakes a sweeping restructuring effort to stabilize its growing financial deficit, last estimated by administrators to be $48 million. The process has received media attention in recent months and escalating condemnation from faculty and students who call it rushed and opaque.

The full list of the minors, according to the document and university communications, that will not be available to undeclared students next fall is as follows:

– Creative Community Development, graduate minor at College of Performing Arts

– Critical Perspectives on Democratic Anti-Colonialism, graduate minor at The New School for Social Research

– Methods and Concepts of Political Economy, graduate minor at The New School for Social Research

– Language Studies, graduate minor at Schools of Public Engagement

– Managing for Social Justice, graduate minor at Parsons School of Design

– Mindfulness and Contemplative Studies, graduate minor at Parsons School of Design

– Music Composition, undergraduate minor at the College of Performing Arts

– Capitalism Studies, undergraduate minor at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

– Code as a Liberal Art, undergraduate minor at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

– Chinese Studies, undergraduate minor at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

– French Studies, undergraduate minor at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

– Hispanic Studies, undergraduate minor at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

– Japanese Studies, undergraduate minor at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

– Creative Coding, undergraduate minor at Parsons School of Design

– Social Practice, undergraduate minor at Parsons School of Design

– Society, Technology, and Management, undergraduate minor at Parsons School of Design

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