The New School

:The New School can also be a nickname for The New School of Northern Virginia.

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The New School, previously known as New School University, is an institution of higher learning in New York City. Some 7,000 students are enrolled in graduate and undergraduate degree programs in social science, humanities, and public policy.

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The university was founded in 1919 as the New School for Social Research through the financial backing of heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney. Its founders included the historian Charles Beard, economists Thorstein Veblen and James Harvey Robinson, and philosopher John Dewey.

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Dorothy Payne Whitney - Charles Beard - Thorstein Veblen - James Harvey Robinson - John Dewey

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The New School University is currently comprised of a number of academic units, located around Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan. These schools include the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Sciences; Robert. J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy; Eugene Lang College, the undergraduate, liberal arts division of the University; the Parsons School of Design, one of the most significant design schools in the United States; the New School for Drama; the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music; and the Mannes College of Music, a classical music conservatory located in the Upper West Side.

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Greenwich Village - Lower Manhattan - Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Sciences - Eugene Lang College - Liberal arts - Parsons School of Design - United States - New School for Drama - Mannes College of Music

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The Actors Studio drama school was part of the New School from 1995 to 2005, at which time they ended their affiliation with the university.

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The Graduate Faculty is the intellectual heart of the New School. During the period from 1933 until the end of World War II, the University in Exile was founded as a base for scholars who had been dismissed from teaching and government positions by totalitarian regimes in Europe. The University in Exile later became the New School's Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. Notable scholars associated with the Graduate Faculty include psychologists Max Wertheimer and Aron Gurwitsch and political philosophers Hannah Arendt, and Leo Strauss. The New School played a similar role with its support of the École Libre des Hautes Études. Receiving a charter from de Gaulle?s Free French government in exile, the École attracted refugee scholars who taught in French, including philosopher Jacques Maritain, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and linguist Roman Jakobson. The Graduate Faculty continues its tradition of synthesizing progressive American intellectual thought and critical European philosophy.

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University in Exile - Europe - Max Wertheimer - Aron Gurwitsch - Hannah Arendt - Leo Strauss - École Libre des Hautes Études - De Gaulle - Free French - Jacques Maritain - Claude Lévi-Strauss - Roman Jakobson

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The current president of the New School is former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE). Kerrey drew some praise for his decisive reorganization of the university, as well as censure for his support of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, generally opposed by the university's traditionally left-wing faculty. In 2004, Kerrey appointed Arjun Appadurai as Provost.

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Bob Kerrey - 2003 invasion of Iraq - 2004 - Arjun Appadurai

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In the summer of 2005, the university was officially renamed "The New School" and, in order to better promote the New School affiliation of each of the divisions, these were renamed to prominently feature the New School name: "The New School for General Studies", "The New School for Social Research", "Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy", "Parsons The New School for Design", " Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts", "Mannes College The New School for Music", "The New School for Drama", "The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music". Some faculty, students, and alumni have expressed concern over the re-branding of the university, and especially the dramatic redesign of the logo from a six-sided shield against a green background to a distressed type-based mark reading simply, in capital letters, "THE NEW SCHOOL." They claim that the university's new identity campaign, while maintaining a slick urban edge, does little to suggest academic rigor or collegiate legacy.

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In 2003, adjunct faculty in several divisions of the New School began to form a labor union chapter under the auspices of the United Auto Workers. Though the university at first tried to contest the unionization, after several rulings against it by regional and national panels of the National Labor Relations Board the university recognized the local chapter, ACT-UAW, as the bargaining agent for the faculty.

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2003 - Adjunct - Labor union - United Auto Workers - National Labor Relations Board

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The Bravo television program "Inside the Actors Studio", hosted by James Lipton, was filmed at The New School until a contract with The Actors Studio concluded in 2005. Project Runway, another Bravo program, prominently features Parsons School of Design's elite fashion design department.

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James Lipton - The Actors Studio - Project Runway - Parsons School of Design

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