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6 unusual facts about The New School


Documentary practice

In fall of 2007, graduate students of The New School produced an experimental five-minute metadocumentary shot with three cell phones.

Elisa Donovan

She attended The New School, in New York City, where she studied writing, literature and acting.

Posen Foundation

An academic advisory board reviews grant applications, which have included universities such as Harvard University, Brown University, Brandeis University, and The New School.

Richard J. Bernstein

Richard J. Bernstein (born May 14, 1932) is an American philosopher, the Vera List Professor of Philosophy and former dean of the graduate faculty at The New School.

Robert Goffin

In 1942, he collaborated with Leonard Feather to teach what is considered the first course ever on jazz history and analysis, held at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

Vytautas Kavolis

During this time he also served as a visiting professor at the The New School in New York City and at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas.


Fay Kleinman

She later married Emanuel Levenson, a pianist and music director of an opera company who taught music at The New School in New York City.

Hussein Ibish

Ibish has accepted a number of invitations for talks, lectures and debates at colleges and universities, including Yale Law School, Harvard Business School, Princeton, MIT, Tufts University, Georgetown University, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), The New School (formerly the New School for Social Research), North Carolina State University, University of California, Irvine and the University of Costa Rica.

Isaac Zieman

In Germany after World War II he was trained in psychoanalysis and in 1967 earned a masters degree from New School University.

Joseph Urban

Most of Urban's architectural work in the United States has been demolished, with the exceptions of Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida and The New School and the base of The Hearst Tower in New York City.

Kristin Prevallet

In her academic life, she has taught at Bard College, The New School for Social Research, and currently at St. John's University in Queens.

Lee Upton

Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award at the group’s 95th annual awards ceremony April 28, 2005 at The New School in New York City.

Leonard Lopate

He has also appeared in a similar capacity at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Queens College, Brooklyn College, the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Alliance Française, and The New School; and he has created a series of discussions on literature for the writers’ organization, PEN International.

Owuor Arunga

He was born in Kisumu in Kenya and moved to New York in the early 2000s, where he studied in The New School's Jazz & Contemporary Music Program.

Stelian Tănase

grant, The New School for Social Research (1997); Visiting Short Term Scholar at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. (1998).

He has held conferences in Rome, Paris, Oslo, Vienna, Budapest, Washington, D.C., and also at prestigious American universities: the University of California, Los Angeles, Berkeley University, Stanford University, New York University, Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and The New School for Social Research.

Transhuman

One of the first professors of futurology, FM-2030, who taught "new concepts of the Human" at The New School of New York City in the 1960s, used "transhuman" as shorthand for "transitional human".


see also

Alderley House

The new school co-located with Westonbirt School in the grounds of Westonbirt House in nearby Tetbury, rendering the property at Alderley surplus to requirements.

Arran High School

First Minister of Scotland Jack McConnell officially opened the new school on 9 June 2008, although pupils were being educated in the new building since January 2008.

Ashot Melkonian

Its most characteristic features are the precise simplicity of drawing, the richness of substance and bold statement of values adopted by the new school of Armenian painting that emerged in the 1960s.

Balmoral Hall School

The new school was christened Balmoral Hall School, after Balmoral Castle in Scotland and classes began in September 1950 under the direction of Miss Gwedolyn Murrell-Wright.

Campion College, Jamaica

On 1960-01-05, with one hundred and one first form students and a faculty of four Jesuit Fathers, the new school opened its doors and the first lessons were given that day in a pavilion and in classrooms borrowed from Campion Hall Preparatory School.

Catechetical School of Alexandria

The new school currently has campuses in Alexandria, Cairo, New Jersey, and Los Angeles, where Coptic priests-to-be and other qualified men and women are taught on subjects including Christian theology, history, Coptic language and art – including chanting, music, iconography, and tapestry.

Dai Min

At the request of the Director General of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Milligan-Whyte and Dai Min wrote and delivered A White Paper for the Presidents of America and China summarizing their America-China Partnership Book Series and the “New School of US-China Relations”, which their books created.

In this book, Milligan-Whyte and Dai Min explain the convergence of US and China's security needs, the "New School of US-China Relations" perspectives and the advantages for both the US and China in aligning their national security if the US reciprocates China's peaceful coexistence policies.

Dimitar Lukanov

In 2003 Dimitar was selected among the Top 100 alumni of all times of the 90-year-old Parsons The New School University of Design among the likes of Jasper Johns, Edward Hopper, Norman Rockwell, Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs and others.

Douglas Durst

Located on 14th St and 5th Ave in Manhattan and scheduled for completion in 2014, the New School University center was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and developed by the Durst Organization.

Federico Mayor Zaragoza

HEC-Montreal was the HMG headquarters and the New School (NY) was the main research unit under the co-directorship of Edward J. Nell and Karim Errouaki.

Frederique Trunk

In 1992, Frederique went to New York City to study jazz piano and harmony at the New School's Jazz and Contemporary Music Program with Kenny Werner, Fred Hersch and Maria Schneider.

Harold Loukes

He obtained a first-class degree in 1934 and then spent 10 years teaching at the University of Delhi and at the New School in Darjeeling, where he was headmaster.

Harry Dahms

While at the New School, he benefited from the teaching and guidance of Arthur J. Vidich, Andrew Arato, José Casanova, Ágnes Heller, Robert Heilbroner, Guy Oakes, Claus Offe, Eric Hobsbawm, and others.

J. Sterling Morton High School West

One early logistics problem with the new school was the requirement for some students to cross the Illinois Central Railroad tracks near the school.

James Bowdoin III

When Bowdoin College was founded in Maine, he gave the new school 6,000 acres (24 km²) and $5,500.

James S. Rollins

Issue of $166,000 in bonds to build the new School of Mines at Rolla (called Missouri University of Science and Technology as of 2008), liquidate University debt, complete the Science Building (called Switzler Hall as of 2008), and add to the University's permanent endowment (1872).

Jean-Marie Seroney

He busied himself in the new school and would cycle back to Kapsabet where the translation of the Bible to Nandi had begun.

Jerry McDaniel

In 1963, he enrolled in the Experimental Workshop at the New School for Social Research (NSSR) taught by Italian artist Angelo Savelli and later American artist Henry C. Pearson.

Johann Sebastian von Drey

When King William I (1817) incorporated the University of Ellwangen with the old national University of Tübingen as its Catholic faculty of theology, Drey with his colleagues, Peter Aloys Gratz and Johann Georg Herbst, joined the staff of the new school and founded (1819), together with them and his new colleague, Johann Baptist von Hirscher, the "Theologische Quartalschrift" of Tübingen; he took a prominent part in its publication and wrote for it a number of essays and reviews.

John Christopher Kunze

In 1816, the New York State Legislature would incorporated the new school—the first Lutheran seminary in America—as a classical academy and theological seminary, in the Town of Hartwick, New York.

Lexington Theological Seminary

In 1865, under the economic pressure of the American Civil War, the school relocated to Lexington and merged with Transylvania University with the new school adopting the Kentucky University name (until changed to Transylvania University in 1908).

Matthew Urbanski

Design Merit Award, ASLA for the Vera List Courtyard at the New School for Social Research, New York, NY, 1998

Meadowhead School

The site where the "North Building" once stood – alongside Bochum Parkway – became a Gilders Volkswagen and Audi showroom and the area where the "South Building" was – further along Dyche Lane – became the new school's playing fields.

New School High School of Monmouth County

Founded by former public school teacher Dale Thompson and the daughter of one of the founders of the original New School elementary school, Rebekah Chilvers, the New School High School marked a radical departure from traditional educational philosophy.

New School of Music, Philadelphia

Musicians came from all over the world to study with the Curtis String Quartet & Philadelphia Orchestra musicians at The New School of Music.

Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne

On 29 September 1956 Lady Brooks, the wife of General Sir Dallas Brooks, Governor of Victoria, laid the foundation stone for the new school buildings at Burwood, and the Senior School moved in 1958.

SJKC Damansara

However on 26 January 2001, the school was moved from old block at Section 17 to the new school at PJU 3, near Tropicana Golf and Country Club following instructions from federal government that it no longer provided a “conducive learning environment” because of traffic congestion and noise pollution from the neighbouring Sprint Expressway.

Sri Visalakshi Kalasala Higher Secondary School

The New School Building was opened on 15 April 1959 by the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

St Augustine of Canterbury RC High School

The new school is on a site in Chadderton and the buildings composing St. Augustine's have been demolished (2013).

Stephen Glicker

During that time, he also taught courses in interactive design, game design, 3D animation, and related tools at New York University, The New School, and Carnegie Mellon University.

The Phoenix Nest

The volume contains poems by certain anonymous writers who clearly belong to the old, rather than to the new, school of poets.

Victoria Bush

Victoria Bush (born 1978 in King's Lynn, Norfolk) is a British actress and comedienne, Most Commonly known for her Role as "Sonya Donegan" In BBC 1's best Ever Drama "Waterloo Road" she was the new School Seceteray taking over from Janeece Bryant when the school Relocated to "Scotland" "Greenock".

William Chrisman High School

Margaret Chrisman Swope offered to sell the district land for the new school at the southeast corner of Union and Maple for $1 in exchange for naming the school after her father, William Chrisman.