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Another tenured professor has filed a lawsuit against The New School for violations of the Faculty Handbook

A tenured economics professor who was laid off in June is suing The New School. This is the second lawsuit this week that ...
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Academic student workers union re-enters negotiations for a new contract with the university

Student Employees at The New School (SENS-UAW) are re-entering bargaining negotiations with The New School to discuss the terms of their contract, set to end on Oct. 31. SENS represents academic ...
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A tenured professor at The New School has sued the university after being laid off in June, claiming TNS violated the protections laid out… Nearly 90 faculty and staff members at The New School have ...
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Tenured professor sues The New School, alleging layoff violated Faculty Handbook

A tenured professor at The New School has sued the university after being laid off in June, claiming TNS violated the protections laid out in its Faculty Handbook for tenured professors. The lawsuit ...
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The DIY class that makes real filmmakers: Inside the third annual New Screen Fest

The semester was over — for most people. While the rest of The New School submitted finals and dispersed, one class was still fully in it. The kind of in it where someone says, in complete seriousness ...
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Community in action: How one queer bookstore saved another

Jules Wernersbach and Greg Newton together in the Bureau. Photo by Dove Williams This spring, New York City will lose two icons of the queer community. Greg Newton and Donnie Jochum, the couple at the ...
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Nearly 90 faculty and staff laid off, as efforts to slash employees continue

Nearly 90 faculty and staff members at The New School have been laid off over the past week. It’s the latest effort by university administrators to slash employees and cut costs amid a years-long ...
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Life at Loeb: Your guide to The New School’s Loeb Hall residence

The New School Free Press is profiling each dorm the school has to offer. We started with Stuyvesant Park and followed with Kerrey Hall. Now we’re covering Loeb. From complaints of noisy construction ...
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‘Micro joys during macro grief’: artist Kenya McCarthy on loss and creation

“My friend told me this quote: ‘They say you die twice. Once when you take your last breath, and once when someone says your name for the last time.’ As long as I’m still breathing … I can keep my mom ...
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Administrators have made it hard to openly criticize the restructuring plan, students and faculty say

Efforts by administrators amid restructuring are restricting the ability of faculty, staff, and students to criticize The New School’s restructuring plan, community members told the New School Free ...
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USS says Hillel funding pause will remain in effect as dispute across the community grows

This story was updated on May 5 at 9:58 p.m. The University Student Senate (USS) will continue to withhold funding from The New School’s Hillel chapter until it ends “direct material collaboration ...
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New School administration rejects USS decision to pause Hillel funding over ties to international law violations

New School administrators said yesterday’s University Student Senate vote to pause funding for Hillel at TNS over its ties to international law violations was “misguided” and an attempt to “target ...