The Dean's Forum

Justin Sherwood, who is receiving his MFA degree in poetry this May and was a Riggio Honors Scholar, has won the second annual Paul Violi Prize in Poetry for a selection of original poems entitled “Abeyance.” Honorable mention goes to Lenea Grace (“National Canvas”) and Alissa Fleck (“Meditations on Salt”). A formal announcement will be [...]

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From AEI Program on American Citizenship April 26, 2011 Civic Provocations Earlier this year, the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) published a monograph as part of their “Bringing Theory to Practice Project” that encourages colleges and universities to reexamine their core purposes and to “advance education as a public good that sustains a [...]

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Water: How Model Politicians and Local Publicity Cause Controversy for Life/Science by J. Marie Lehr Curious and inspired, minus the Arizona heat, water topics emerge in every aspect of society and in all societies. Just which do peeps value more: people, water or money? Let’s imagine a hypothetical person touring, ‘all the way from New York’, to [...]

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Media Studies part-time faculty member Josephine Dorado is appearing in a mixed reality presentation at LaMaMa’s CultureHub in conjunction with Seoul Institute of the Arts on Wednesday, May 16, at 9pm ET. For those that aren’t familiar with the term “Mixed reality,” it refers to a hybrid space that integrates virtual with physical. CultureHub is an [...]

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The Tenured Radical Histories of Kennedy Love: A Book Review by Claire Potter Christina Haag, Come to the Edge: A Memoir (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2011). Mimi Alford, Once Upon a Secret: My Affair With President John F. Kennedy and its Aftermath (New York: Random House, 2012). Abstract: It will be no surprise to even [...]

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The Office of the Executive Dean is pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 NSPE Civic Engagement Grant Fund Awards.  These awards are generously funded by NSPE Board of Governors member Judith Zarin.  A panel chaired by Associate Dean Joseph Heathcott and Prof. Michele Kahane, and consisting of former award winners, made an extensive [...]

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A recent request to write a short piece on the influence of the Peace Corps on my life, both personal and professional, could not have come at a more serendipitous moment: next week I will step out of full-time work and step into the yet-to-be-written “next chapter.” I served in Côte d’Ivoire as a TESOL [...]

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The New School for Public Engagement presents three evenings of short films made by the 15 graduate students in its Certificate in Documentary Studies program.  On May 22, 23, and 24, The School of Media Studies will screen the sixth edition of the Truth Be Told Documentary Film Festival, featuring works that explore New York [...]

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On May 31, a team of New School students will travel to the city of Manizales in Colombia’s coffee region as part of DEED (Development through Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, and Design), a research project designed to support artisan-owned small businesses in the developing world. Led by Cynthia Lawson, assistant professor of Integrated Design at Parsons, and [...]

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