Our goal is to prepare ourselves for lives of active citizenship, meaningful vocation, and commitment to the public good.
The New School for Public Engagement is composed of five schools: Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban PolicySchool of Language Learning and TeachingSchool of Media StudiesSchool of Undergraduate StudiesSchool of Writing
The right course of study sets its own timeline.
While working as a program officer at the Ford Foundation, Alan Jenkins was troubled by the widespread failure to acknowledge the hurdles to opportunity that many people in the United States face. He wanted to explore the role the media play ...
Plant a student, grow a community.
In 2009, Annie Moss began working with a group of women to transform a neglected, overgrown plot of land in the South Bronx into a community garden. Moss saw the three-acre plot as an opportunity to apply ideas she had been exploring ...
Building the future.
The US Department of Energy's biannual Solar Decathlon was the impetus for the The New School's Empowerhouse Collaborative and its urban environment model home design project, but placing in the event was never the Collaborative's real goal. The interdisciplinary team ...
At the vanguard of expression.
The scenario itself is Warholesque: An uncovered time capsule contains some unexpected 8mm film footage. The film is spotty and fragile, as if a single touch would cause it to disintegrate. It documents a previously unknown love affair ...
Teaching the past, challenging the present.
W.E.B DuBois taught the first course on race and African-American culture offered at a university. Charles Abrams was the first to explore the complex issues of urban housing. And Gerda Lerner offered the first course in women's studies. All at The New School ...
