Voices from the picket line

New School part-time faculty and students protesting outside the University Center on Tuesday. Photo by Tara Lamorgese

Thoughts, opinions, hopes and fears from students and faculty during the first weeks of the part time faculty strike

CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS: TNS extends ‘final offer,’ effectively walks away from negotiations, according to union

Student picketing in solidarity with The New School’s part-time faculty union on Monday. Photo courtesy of Isabella Cooper.

On Sunday, The New School provided the currently on-strike part-time faculty union with a final offer on compensation, healthcare, job security, and other issues pertaining to their contract.…

Students and part-time faculty host a ‘funeral’ for The New School’s progressive values

Union rep, Tamar Samir and professor Rachel Urkowitz marching down with a coffin in front of University Center. Photo by Marc Lepson (@marclepsonart) on IG.

A sea of students and part-time faculty gathered together in mourning to hold a funeral outside of The New School’s University Center on Halloween Day. Dressed in all…