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The EU’s University in Exile

December 3, 2019 • by Laszlo Bruszt

On November 15, Central European University (CEU) officially inaugurated its new campus in Vienna, Austria, having been arbitrarily ousted from Hungary. On the same day, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government opened another large sports stadium in Budapest. Predictably, the government-controlled Hungarian media focused on the latter event and ignored the departure of ...

History

Public Thinker: an Interview with Kevin Kruse

Why recent history is still history

November 18, 2019 • by Lily Geismer

Thinking in public demands knowledge, eloquence, and courage. In this interview series, we hear from public scholars about how they found their path and how they communicate to a wide audience. “Historian. Author/editor of White Flight; The New Suburban History; Spaces of the Modern City; Fog of War; One Nation Under ...

Education

Unpaid School Lunch Fees

The Tip of the Homelessness Iceberg

November 14, 2019 • by Yvonne M. Vissing and Diane Nilan

Children with sufficient resources don’t apply for school meal programs. Hungry children for whom free school lunch is the only meal they will receive in a day may forgo it because the socio-emotional costs are too high. Some public schools, like those in Salem, Massachusetts, have a district-wide policy where all children get free meals. ...

The New School

Sex and the New School

The Case of Henry Cowell

November 11, 2019 • by Julia Foulkes

This incident, in particular the impact imprisonment had on his musical output and reputation, overshadows Cowell’s legacy. What had been a career steeped in daring experimentation became one more conventional and careful. Who supported Cowell and who did not -- notably the composer Charles Ives, who abandoned his friend -- ...

The New School

Alvin Johnson on the Importance of Lifelong Teaching and Learning

October 17, 2019 • by Judith Friedlander

Johnson predicted that other academic institutions would follow his lead. The demand was clearly there, he proclaimed. In the years following the Second World War, over 30,000 Americans had enrolled in continuing education programs. But these programs, for the most part, were “badly taught, unauthoritative, uninteresting and not very successful.” ...

Sex & Gender

The Reckoning of Junot Diaz

October 8, 2019 • by Lucy Marx

As a lifelong feminist, I knew the #MeToo movement was important and long overdue. Moreover, I was strongly inclined to believe the accusers. But I kept coming up against my own resistance to the possibility of Díaz being fired. I’d been pleased when, soon after he joined MIT’s writing program, Díaz ...

Education

Radical Teaching Then & Now

Complexities And Power, Justice and Equity Pre and Post 1968

October 4, 2019 • by Sarah Chinn

Of course, it’s all these things. Indeed, it’s hard to engage in radical teaching without engaging both the micro and the macro structures in both K-12 and higher education. After all, as Christopher Newfield argues in The Great Mistake, it’s hard to separate the disinvestment in public higher education from the ...

The New School

Listening to The New School

Why podcasts?

October 3, 2019 • by Julia Foulkes and Mark Larrimore

At the time we began this project, we also began work on a series of podcasts (available here). Our engagement with New School history already spans multiple genres -- a website, an exhibition, all manner of talks and the current seminar here -- in its effort to invite more and more ...

Multi Media

New Histories

A new three-part podcast on the histories of The New School

September 29, 2019 • by Julia Foulkes and Mark Larrimore

Episode 1: A Place to Go for Adult Values The centenary of The New School offers a chance to look at a university that began as an educational experiment and critique of higher education. Nothing has changed more than the school’s shift away from its original mission as a school devoted ...

Art & Design

The Writing on the Wall

Orozco, Benton, and Arnautoff

September 25, 2019 • by Jennifer Wilson

Student and activist groups have campaigned for the removal of the murals, arguing they were detrimental to the education and well-being of students of color, who had to confront these images as they walked the halls or ascended the staircase. On the other side of the debate, art historians and ...

Education

The New School’s Long Road to a Four-Year College

100 years in, the New School’s experimental ethos lives on

September 12, 2019 • by Mark Larrimore

Most American universities start as 4-year colleges, eventually adding masters and doctoral programs, professional schools and conservatories, and ultimately continuing-ed programs. The New School did things pretty much back to front. It took the better part of its first 100 years to establish a 4-year undergraduate college. This wasn’t an ...

The New School’s Long Road to a Four-Year College

Feature

Franco Columbu, Kamala Harris, and NYC’s Gifted and Talented Program

Past Present Episode 195

September 10, 2019 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Italian bodybuilding icon Franco Columbu has died. Niki referred to the film Pumping Iron, in which he appeared with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Natalia cited the importance of physician Kenneth Cooper’s 1968 book Aerobics in both mainstreaming the idea of working out and challenging the pre-eminence of weightlifting ...