With The New School as their launch pad, the Class of 2013 is taking off for all kinds of new careers, projects, and journeys. The News caught up with a few graduating students preparing for liftoff and asked the question: “What are you doing after graduation?” Michael Skinner, MA Media Studies I’m already doing it! [...]
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On Thursday, April 26, the New School community packed the Theresa Lang Student and Community Center to celebrate excellence in student programming, leadership, and community-building on campus. Sponsored by the Office of Student Development and Activities, the eleventh annual Student Leadership Awards banquet presented 14 awards to the best and brightest examples of leadership at [...]
The New School has always fostered a deep commitment to international learning, from the 1933 foundation of the University in Exile as a haven for academics endangered by the rise of European Fascism to the establishment ten years ago of our graduate program in International Affairs. In that tradition, The New School was recently ranked [...]
While the last twenty years have been marked by a general interest in the convergence of art and politics, the current moment is being characterized by the construction of new systems and networks for imagining, discussing, and ultimately creating new cultural and political realities. In the wake of upheaval and creativity, generated by the Arab [...]
Civic engagement flourishes at The New School. Students, faculty, and alumni are involved in community-focused endeavors like Empowerhouse, New Challenge, and PETLab, and now Corbin Hill Road Farm, an innovative farm share in which The New School is playing a central role. Corbin Hill is a network of farms and urban communities in New York [...]
Beloved since its 1957 debut, West Side Story is not just a retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet; it’s also a story of New York. In a city where nothing is more coveted than real estate, this is a story about turf, politics, and power. The choreographed “rumbles” depicted between the Polish Jets and the [...]
