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 [...]
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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 [...]
“Globalization is not a crisis; it’s a fact. The politics of globalization is a crisis.” It was the culminating statement of Carlos Tomada’s presentation during the Observatory on Latin America’s (OLA) event on Monday, which focused on employment during the financial crisis and its aftermath. After a stint as minister of labor and social security [...]
In light of persisting economic uncertainty and a labor market in flux, The New School’s Observatory on Latin America (OLA) presents Creating Jobs in a Time of Global Crisis: Lessons from Latin America. Carlos Tomada, the minister of labor and social security for Argentina from 2003-2013 and Jose Antonio Ocampo, Columbia University professor of economics [...]
Pundits talk about a post-racial society, but what would it take for America to become such a place? “Black and Cuba,” a new documentary film by New School professor Robin Hayes, shows us a possible way to get there. As a Yale graduate student in 2002, Hayes and nine of her peers traveled to Cuba [...]
The grand prizewinners for this year’s New Challenge accepted their social innovation award with obvious glee—virtually. Cristina Handal, a graduate student at Parsons School of Design Strategies, and Marco Zelaya, from the Urban Policy program at The Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy were tuning in to the announcement ceremony via Skype. [...]
