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What we learned at a Faculty Senate meeting this morning was made known to the world later in the day. Nineteen beloved faculty colleagues ...

The New School aged a quarter century in a day! At the university's 90th commencement at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn today, our presi...

The academic year's over. Someone's taken down all the flyers for events and opportunities on campus and off; student research proje...

How are things at The New School, folks ask (and we ask ourselves)? We're all trying to understand what's happening, who's decid...

Spent a long day at two poorly-structured "visioning sessions" for the turbocharged devising of new degree programs we're told...

The New School's new semester begins in twelve days. But what new school will that be? Cancellations of courses with less than 75% enrol...

A little update from The New School, where things are not looking good at all. Yesterday all the full-time faculty in the programs slated fo...

I want to mark a tense, surreal moment.  This is the time in the academic year when past and future are all bunched up with the present. We ...

The liberal arts world is in a tizzy over a proposed reorganization of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State, wh...

I've been through the exhibition now with alums of various generations - one over zoom! - and all concur that it captures the spirit of ...

My series of alumnae/i-led classes in the "DIY Religion" first year seminar came full circle today!  Our speaker was an anthro-pol...

Tomorrow's the celebration of the 40th anniversary of my school, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts!  The process of putting together a...

Another chance to talk about New School history - what turned out to be the only faculty-led session at "family weekend." Schedule...

These last two weeks I've been watching with mounting excitement as cardboard and wood " stackable seats " are assembled near ...

The Lang 40th anniversary exhibition is coming together! These "stackable seats" made of thick corrugated cardboard, which will be...

DIY Religion's tour of New School-connected thinkers on religion continued today with two heavy-weights from sociological debates about ...

New School course catalogs never disappoint (until they moved online, that is). I've been enjoying dipping into some of the old catalogs...

In "DIY Religion" today we started thinking about pluralism, with the help of two figures important to New School history.  One wa...

Every few years, someone cleaning out an office or closet happens on a trove of New School history. The latest find includes course catalogs...

  Our newish president has revived a New School tradition, convocation!   Our landmarked auditorium appeared decked out in festive red ...  ...