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Live updates: Part-time faculty strike

Student holds sign of support at the part-time faculty strike on Wednesday. Photo by Isabella Cooper

Part-time faculty at The New School went on an indefinite strike on Wednesday morning after months of bargaining with the university over a new contract. The union ACT-UAW…

New School part-time faculty to strike Wednesday

Students march in solidarity with The New School’s part-time faculty union. Photo courtesy of Marc Lepson (@marclepsonart) on IG.

UPDATE: The part-time faculty union, ACT-UAW Local 7902, officially announced Tuesday night that its members will be striking beginning Wednesday. The part-time faculty union has called for a…

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…

I have been teaching at The New School for 40 years: this is my account of how the university disrespects part-time faculty

How should a faculty member who has taught at Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College, (both part of The New School), for the past 43 years…

Over 150 rally in support of NYU and New School adjunct union

Supporters of ACT-Local 7902, a union that includes New York University and New School adjunct professors, marched up University Place in the rain to show support of the union members on April 14. Many protesters said the NYU administration has not given adjunct professors fair compensation during the pandemic, and gathered to express their views while the union negotiates a new contract with the administration. Photo by Katie Pruden

Students, professors and more gathered at Union Square Park to show support for NYU and New School faculty, whose employees are negotiating a new contract. Around 150 people…

Opinion: Communist Student Group Advances Its Aims, But Its Tactics Are a Cause for Concern

Max Head is a graduating fourth-year student studying politics at Lang. Head has worked closely with SENS-UAW and has followed the various emerging labor struggles at the New School.…