THE NEW SCHOOL LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE ON H1N1
In an effort to keep The New School community up to date on the latest information concerning H1N1, the university has launched a new website at www.newschool.edu/h1n1. The link can be found on the university’s homepage. Please visit the site regularly.
This new site is where you will find the latest news updates, as well as information on the availability of H1N1 and seasonal vaccines, what to do if you are ill, prevention tips, good hygiene measures, especially important in this cold and flu season, and even a fun widget to "Test Your Flu IQ." In addition to New School-specific H1N1 information, this site also contains informative links from, among others, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, the New York State Department of Health, and the New York City Department of Health. This new site is part of The New School’s proactive approach to keeping our entire community healthy and updated on H1N1.
As many of you may have seen in the media, the H1N1 flu is once again making headlines across the city and the globe. The university is monitoring reports of any cases in our community and throughout the city, as well as staying abreast of the latest recommendations from city, state, and federal agencies.
Please check back on www.newschool.edu/h1n1 often, make it part of your daily routine, and don’t forget to measure your Flu IQ.
THE NEW SCHOOL AT 90: WHAT WOULD DEWEY DO?
On Monday, October 19, at 6:00 p.m., The New School will host Peter M. Rutkoff, professor of American studies at Kenyon College, who will deliver a lecture commemorating the university’s 90th anniversary. This free event will take place in Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street.
Professor Rutkoff co-authored New School: A History of The New School for Social Research, a ground-breaking study of the university and the only publication to deal in depth with its history.
In light of current debates on the challenges posed by urban schooling, pedagogy, and philosophy, Rutkoff reexamines the influence of The New School on progressive education. He considers whether John Dewey’s teachings are still a suitable guide to progressive education 150 years after his birth and discusses school and university alliances and the continuing importance of experiential pedagogy. In the words of Zorah Neale Hurston, he urges American schools to leave the classroom.
This lecture is the beginning of a week-long celebration of The New School’s 90th birthday titled, By Any Name: Institutional Memory at The New School. For a complete schedule of all events and exhibits, please visit www.veralistcenter.org.
THE NEW SCHOOL APPOINTS 53 NEW FULL-TIME FACULTY MEMBERS
The New School has announced the appointment of 53 new full-time faculty members for the 2009-10 academic year. The university has now successfully more than doubled the number of full-time faculty at the university over the past decade. These appointments are part of a larger effort at The New School to strengthen faculty culture and leadership, and encourage cross-disciplinary education.
According to the Almanac of Higher Education, which reports on higher education trends, the ratio of full-time to part-time faculty at universities nationwide has been on the decline for a number of years. At The New School, which has historically relied on part-time faculty, this trend is reversing. Over the past decade alone, there has been more than 140% growth in the full-time faculty body. With these new hires, the number of full-time faculty at the university now totals 375. Of the 53 full-time faculty hires this year, 24 are newly created positions. With over 10,200 undergraduate and graduate degree-seeking students, The New School is comprised of eight divisions offering more than 70 degree programs in the fields of liberal arts and social sciences, performing arts, management, and design.
“At a time when most universities are scaling back, we are hiring new full-time faculty at an unprecedented rate, expanding our academic offerings, and moving forward with ambitious new capital projects,” said New School President Bob Kerrey. “Our solid financial position and strong enrollment numbers allow us to continue transforming The New School into a model of progressive interdisciplinary learning, unfettered by the economic crisis that is paralyzing much of higher education.”
The New School is developing a new university center that will serve as a focal point of the campus and house important amenities including a new library and interdisciplinary learning spaces. The university is also creating new cross-divisional academic programs in urban and international studies, and recently launched a new program in environmental studies. Reflecting this academic vision, the newly appointed faculty members come from a broad range of disciplines, from the social sciences and liberal arts, to art and design and the performing arts, and management and urban policy.
“I work with many universities across the country, and what The New School is doing is quite remarkable,” said Jack Maguire, chairman of Maguire Associates, a leading higher education market research and consulting company. “Because so few universities are in a position to hire this year, The New School has the opportunity to draw new faculty from an unusually strong pool of applicants, simultaneously growing its faculty in both quality and quantity.”
“These new faculty embody the core values of The New School: unwavering inquiry and a commitment to academic excellence,” said New School Provost Tim Marshall. “They include a leading thinker on social entrepreneurship, Michelle Kahane, who joins The New School from the Clinton Global Initiative; renowned international artist Andrea Geyer; celebrated Indian writer Siddhartha Deb; and accomplished illustrator and Pulitzer-Prize nominee Lauren Redniss. Although they come from diverse academic and professional backgrounds, they share a common commitment to the university’s founding principles of civic engagement and academic freedom.”
The appointments are across a number of the university’s eight schools. For a full list of new full-time faculty, please visit The New School website.
CANDIDATES FOR THE NEW SCHOOL HONORARY DEGREES
The university expects to present six honorary degrees at its May 2010 commencement exercises. Award recipients are accomplished in their field and are generally chosen from a discipline that represents the various schools and programs of the university. Honorary degrees will be awarded from the categories listed below. Candidates do not have to be graduates of The New School.
Categories:
- The Arts: Classical Music, Jazz/Contemporary Music, Theater, Film, Television, Writing, Visual Arts
- Design, Journalism
- The Humanities and Social Sciences
- The Natural Sciences
- Public Life and Government
Nominations for honorary degree candidates and University in Exile Award candidates are welcome and should be submitted no later than Friday, October 23, 2009. For additional details to nominate candidates for either an honorary degree or the University in Exile Award, please go to the University Commencement Website.
NEWS FROM NEW SCHOOL LIBRARIES
CELEBRATE AMERICAN ARCHIVES MONTH WITH THE KELLEN ARCHIVES
The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Archives at Parsons The New School for Design welcomes New School students, faculty, staff, and alumni to visit the archives and explore how the collections fit into their research and design projects.
The Kellen Archives collects materials documenting the history of Parsons from the school’s founding in 1896 to last semester’s senior thesis shows. The collections include photographs, correspondence, art and design works, posters, oral history recordings, and moving images created by Parsons students, graduates, faculty, visiting lecturers and critics, and staff.
During the past year, the records of the Parsons Alumni Association (1952-1970) and the papers of Stanley Barrows (alumnus ’40 and faculty), Constance P. Brown (alumna ’17 and staff), Francis J. Geck (alumnus ’24 and faculty), and Raymond Waldron (alumnus ’41) have been fully arranged and cataloged. Recent donations and transfers to the Kellen Archives include the papers of Margaret McKay Tee, a Colorado artist and student teacher at Parsons in 1903; watercolors by Elizabeth Geary Hoopes (alumna ’30 and instructor); and student work from the most recent Foundation Program exhibit.
To schedule a visit or research appointment, donate materials, plan an instructional session for a class, or learn more about collections in the Kellen Archives, please visit the website or contact kac@newschool.edu. First-time archival researchers are always welcome.
NEWS FROM PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
This past summer, 65 Parsons students and faculty spent a month in Beijing, Shanghai and HangZhou in the Peoples Republic of China. The group, accompanied by Parsons Faculty Benjamin Bacon, David Carroll, Simone Douglas, Jim Ramer and Sven Travis along with other adjunct faculty collaborated with Chinese universities, local artists and international corporations to engage in global art and design projects. Parsons is now preparing for its 2010 program, and invites all interested students to contact china2010@parsons.edu to learn more about this opportunity.
Last year as a key part of the program, students from across the schools at Parsons, ranging from photography to fine arts, fashion marketing, communication design, design and technology, and design and management, collaborated with students in industrial, interior, and information design at Tsinghua University, a Beijing university.
Student teams traveled through the streets of Beijing and Shanghai with mobile phones provided by Nokia to collect images and artifacts of global warming, youth culture, and ethnographic experiences. From this discovery process, students produced audio recordings, performances, photography, videos, products, and art in digital or analog form.
Their findings and outcomes of their experiences were recently presented at a lecture at Parsons, and the school intends to host additional presentations to raise awareness of the 2010 trip. To learn more about Parsons experiences in China, please visit http://a.parsons.edu/psdtu.
CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR MICHAEL KALIL ENDOWMENT FOR SMART DESIGN FELLOWSHIP GRANT
Parsons has just announced a call for fellowship grant proposals for the Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design. The endowment was established at Parsons in 2001 in memory of designer Michael Kalil, who taught at the school for many years. The mission of the endowment is twofold: to foster an understanding of the design intersections between nature and technology and to support the sustainability of built environments.
Each year the endowment awards three $5,000 Memorial Fellowship Grants: one for a Parsons student, one for a New School faculty member or outside practitioner, and one for an interdisciplinary team of Parsons students working from within three or more of Parsons’ five schools.
The endowment also sponsors a visit or lecture at The New School by an annual Kalil Fellow. The Kalil Fellow is selected from an international community of scholars and practitioners working in the spirit of Michael Kalil. This year’s lecture is scheduled to take place in February 2010.
For more information, visit www.parsons.newschool.edu/sce/kalil.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
1989—2009: NEGOTIATING REVOLUTION & FURNISHING DEMOCRACY WITH ADAM MICHNIK
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Twenty years ago, the velvet revolutions of eastern and central Europe toppled the region’s communist governments. The revolutions startled the world with their lack of violence and demonstrated a new way to think about how fundamental political change occurs. Since The New School became intellectually engaged with members of the region’s democratic opposition well before 1989, it is fitting for the university to host a symposium on the political changes of the past two decades. Professors and students address the way these changes have affected civil society, social movements, democratic culture, migrations, and gender. This, in keeping with The New School for Social Research’s University-in-Exile tradition, reflects the university’s continued dedication to civic-minded intellectual engagement.
The symposium hosted by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS), will be held on Wednesday, October 14, from 6:00-8:00 p.m., celebrates a double legacy: that of the negotiated revolutions of 1989 and The New School’s remarkable relationship to them. Keynote speaker Adam Michnik, a major architect of the region’s transition and recipient of an honorary degree from The New School in 1984, will be joined by a panel of scholars and writers.
Participants include Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University; Jonathan Schell, author of The Unconquerable World and The Unfinished Twentieth Century; Christopher Hitchens, contributor to The Nation and Vanity Fair; Andrew Arato, Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory at The New School for Social Research; Jeffrey Goldfarb, Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research; Elzbieta Matynia director of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, associate professor of sociology and liberal studies at The New School for Social Research; and Ann Snitow, associate professor of literature and gender studies at Eugene Lang College and editor of The Feminist Memoir Project.
This free event will take place at Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street.
PAUL DOUGLAS LECTURE: THE HONORABLE ADLAI STEVENSON III
On Tuesday, October 27, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., The New School for Social Research will present the 2009 Paul H. Douglas Lecture on Ethics and Government, featuring the Honorable Adlai Stevenson III.
Former U.S. Senator Adlai E. Stevenson is a graduate of Harvard College (1952) and Harvard Law School (1957). He was also twice a candidate for governor of Illinois. His many accomplishments in the senate include serving as the first chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee and introducing legislation to establish the Department of Energy, fuel efficiency standards, emergency natural gas pricing, and projects to develop alternative energy sources. He also introduced the Comprehensive Anti-Terrorism Act of 1979—the first in-depth congressional study of terrorism. In his private-sector career, following his retirement from the senate in 1981, Stevenson has focused on international matters, especially international finance and East Asia. He has lectured widely, published numerous articles, and received many honors, including Japan’s Order of the Sacred Treasure with Gold and Silver Star. Currently he is the chairman of SC&M Investment Management Company and a director and founder of Hua Mei Capital Company, the first Sino-U.S. financial intermediary.
This event is free, but reservations are required by emailing mcnamard@newschool.edu. It will take place in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.
The Paul H. Douglas Lecture Series on Ethics and Government was established to honor Senator Douglas’ distinguished three-term career in the U.S. Senate, which was marked by legislative productivity combining the highest moral standards with practical wisdom. The series engages both the public and the New School community on this critically important subject.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES
BY ANY NAME: INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY AT THE NEW SCHOOL
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The New School celebrates its 90th anniversary with a collaboration between Parts & Labor Gallery and the Vera List Center resulting in a weeklong series of free events hosted in Parts & Labor’s mobile gallery, parked outside Tishman Auditorium, and in other locations around the university. Starting on Monday, October 19 and continuing through Saturday, October 24, between 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. daily, discussions, lectures, and workshops presented inside the truck and in The New School’s “signature building” at 66 West 12th Street will examine the institutional and pedagogical histories of the university.
The Parts & Labor’s stop at The New School is one in a series of encounters in a traveling countrywide exhibition, exploring site- and community-specific experiences of the transformation of the American landscape. In “By Any Name,” the project takes the concept of a university archive and reimagines it as a functional, representational installation with the power to evoke-and possibly, to jog—institutional memory. Composed of recycled texts and computer equipment, materials drawn from The New School library, and a new text penned by members of The New School community, this week-long on-campus environment involves a range of events, figures, ideas, opinions, and reminiscences which inform the legacy of the university.
For a complete schedule of events and more information, visit the www.veralistcenter.org.
Presented as part of the of the Vera List Center’s 2009-10 program cycle, “Speculating on Change.” For more information call 212.229.3436 or email vlc@newschool.edu.
MICHAEL A. COHEN:
SPECULATING ON CHANGE: FOUR PARADOXES OF OUR URBAN FUTURE
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Each fall, an inaugural lecture presents the Vera List Center’s annual theme in the broadest sense, rooting the concept within The New School’s intellectual tradition and serving as a guide to the center’s programs throughout the year. The theme this year is the notion of “change,” specifically the descriptions, procedures, and perceptions of change that inform collective action, whether political, scientific, or cultural. The inaugural lecture will be delivered on Friday, October 16, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. by Michael A. Cohen, director of the graduate program of International Affairs at The New School.
The global economic crisis demonstrates the impact of globalization and competition for human and natural resources on economic welfare and political stability. Cohen will discuss cities both as sites of the greatest impacts of global change and as sites that provide solutions to some of the challenges that result from such change including: The economic paradox that cities generate income and opportunity at the same time as poverty and inequality; the geographic paradox that cities are quintessentially “local” and geographically specific yet also increasingly subject to global processes; the political paradox that people living in cities make up the majority of most nations but do not receive the political attention they deserve and require; and the sustainability paradox that cities pollute but also create opportunities for policy reform and the sustainable design of the material world.
Michael A. Cohen is director of the graduate program of International Affairs. He also works as advisor to the dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires. From 1972 to 1999, he worked at the World Bank and was responsible for much of the bank’s urban policy development. From 1994 to 1998, he served as senior advisor to the bank’s vice-president for Environmentally Sustainable Development. He has worked in over fifty countries and was heavily involved in the bank’s work on infrastructure, environment, and sustainable development.
This program has been made possible, in part, by a generous grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, will take place in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue. Admission is $8 to the public; it is free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID.
NEWS FROM MILANO THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MANAGEMENT AND URBAN POLICY
A CHILD WELFARE WATCH FORUM: A NEED FOR CORRECTION
On October 20 from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., Milano’s Center for New York City Affairs will hold a panel discussion on how the city and state can improve mental health services and conditions for juvenile delinquents. The discussion is in response to the federal Department of Justice’s threat to take over New York’s juvenile justice system because of violence done by its staff and its inability to provide adequate psychiatric care for mentally ill children. The center will also release its latest Child Welfare Watch report, which examines alternatives to incarceration, such as supervising children in their homes and communities; outlines possible reforms in detention and incarceration; and explores whether federal action can open the door to more sweeping change.
Panelists include Larry Busching, chief of the Family Court Division of the New York City Law Department; Mark Davis, chair of the Civil Service Employees Association Labor Management Committee for OCFS (New York State Office of Children and Family Services;) Sylvia Rowlands, director of the Blue Sky Program at New York Foundling; New York State Assemblyman William Scarborough; and Tammy Steckler, attorney-in-charge of the Legal Aid Society Juvenile Rights Division. The panel will be moderated by Andrew White, director of the Center for New York City Affairs.
The event will be held in Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor. Admission is free, but reservations are required by calling 212.229.5418 or emailing centernyc@newschool.edu. The event is supported by the Child Welfare Fund, the Ira W. DeCamp Foundation, the Viola W. Bernard Foundation, the Sirus Fund, and the Milano Foundation.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR JAZZ AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
NEW SCHOOL JAZZ FACULTY AND ALUMNI TAKE PART IN ANNUAL MONK AT 92 MARATHON
On Friday, October 9, New School faculty members Junior Vance, Joan Stiles, and Armen Donelian and New School Jazz alumnus, Peter Bernstein, joined a line-up of illustrious pianists at the Monk at 92 Marathon held at the Winter Garden in the World Financial Center. This historic mini-marathon was part of an annual series that counts down to Thelonious Monk’s 100th birthday. Every October until the centennial of Monk’s birth, pianists will gather to honor his contributions to American music.
NEWS FROM EUGENE LANG COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS
LANG FACULTY MEMBER PUBLISHES TWO NEW BOOKS
Paul A. Kottman, assistant professor of comparative literature at Lang, has published two new books, Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare from the Johns Hopkins University Press and Philosophers on Shakespeare from Stanford University Press.
In Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare, Kottman offers a new and compelling account of tragedy as seen in four of Shakespeare’s mature plays As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. Firmly rooted in the tradition of reading Shakespeare philosophically, this bold work is the first sustained interpretation of Shakespearean tragedy since Stanley Cavell’s work on skepticism and A. C. Bradley’s century-old Shakespearean Tragedy.
Philosophers on Shakespeare is the first volume to bring together the engagements that influential thinkers—including Herder, Goethe, Hegel, Benjamin, Marx, Schmitt, Lukács, Derrida, Cavell, and Heller—have had with Shakespeare. The book comes at a time when academic Shakespeare studies is shifting from a historicist and cultural materialist focus toward a renewed interest in theoretical readings of the plays.
SCIENCE FACE TO FACE- PROFESSOR ERIC KANDEL
The Natural Sciences and Mathematics Department at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts hosts “Science Face to Face” with NPR Science Friday radio host Ira Flatow in conversation with Professor Eric Kandel of Columbia University on Wednesday, October 21, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Eric R. Kandel, M.D., is University Professor at Columbia, Fred Kavli Professor and Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and a Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. A graduate of Harvard College and New York University’s School of Medicine, Kandel trained in Neurobiology at the NIH and in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He joined the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1974 as the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior. At Columbia Univeristy, Kandel organized the neuroscience curriculum. He is an editor of Principles of Neural Science, the standard textbook in the field. He recently has written a book on the brain for the general public titled, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind.
Eric Kandel’s research has been concerned with the molecular mechanisms of memory storage in Aplysia (sea slugs) and mice. More recently, he has used animal models, including mice, to study memory disorders and mental illness. Kandel has received 18 honorary degrees, is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, as well as the National Science Academies of Germany and France. He has been recognized with the Albert Lasker Award, the Heineken Award of the Netherlands, the Gairdner Award of Canada, the Wolf Prize of Israel, the National Medal of Science USA, and the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 2000.
This event, which will take place in Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor is free but, reservations are required by emailing langscience@newschool.edu.
NEWS FROM MANNES COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MUSIC
MASTER CLASS: RICHARD GOODE, PIANO
Mannes College The New School for Music presents a free master class with pianist Richard Goode, acknowledged worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of the music of Beethoven. The class will take place on Tuesday, October 13, at 3:00 p.m. at Mannes College, 150 West 85th Street.
A native of New York, Goode studied with Nadia Reisenberg at Mannes College and with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute. His numerous prizes include first prize in the Clara Haskil Competition, the Avery Fisher Prize, and a Grammy Award (with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman).
THE MANNES ORCHESTRA 2009/2010
David Hayes, director of Orchestral and Conducting Studies at Mannes, will lead the Mannes Orchestra in its first concert of the year on Thursday, October 15, 8:00 p.m., at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. The program will include: Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Debussy: Nocturnes; and Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, op. 98.
Admission to the concert is free and tickets can be reserved by calling, the Alice Tully Box Office, 212.875.5050.
NEWS FROM THE INDIA CHINA INSTITUTE
STUDENT TRAVEL RESEARCH FUND APPLICATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED
Students can now apply for the India China Institute’s student travel and research funds for 2010. Five $2,500 awards are available to undergraduate or graduate students in order to support an independent study project or to defray the cost of attending a New School program in India or China. The funds can be used towards expenses such as airfare, local transportation, room and board, and hiring interpreters.
Visit the India China Institute’s website for program guidelines and application forms. The application deadline is November 6, 2009.
12TH STREET, THE LITERARY MAGAZINE, NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS
12th Street, the literary magazine published by the Riggio Honors Program: Writing and Democracy, is seeking quality poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. It is also accepting submissions of photographs, paintings, or other visual material that can be reproduced in magazine format.
Prose submissions should not exceed 9,000 words and poetry submissions should not include more than seven poems. Submissions will be read anonymously. Please submit a cover sheet including your name, the title or titles of your works, and your contact information. Your name should not appear on any of the other pages of your work.
12th Street is committed to publishing the literary work of The New School’s undergraduate community. Our mission is to present literature that discusses the artist as intellectual and explores the role of the writer in the world. We want to promote literature as an engine of democracy.
12th Street is widely distributed in bookstores around the country and on the New School campus. Please send your work to juliecarl13@yahoo.com no later than November 15.
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Earn $50! Psychological testing volunteers are needed for fall 2009—spring 2010. Doctoral students in the NSSR Clinical Psychology program need supervised experience giving a range of tests, some you may have heard of. Find out how psychologists work and learn something about your self! Volunteers meet with one clinical PhD student several times throughout the year. Volunteers must be available both fall 2009 and spring 2010. Total testing time is about six hours, plus an hour of feedback in the spring 2010 semester after testing is completed. The test is strictly confidential and is supervised by PhD clinical psychologists on The New School faculty. Clinical students may discuss anonymous test results in small groups, but only the PhD student conducting the tests and the instructor will know each volunteer’s identity.
If you would like to volunteer, please contact the teaching assistants, Rebecca Rosen and Laura Kirmayer, to arrange a telephone interview. Email Roser694@newschool.edu or Lkirm04@yahoo.com with any questions for the instructors, Dr. Andrew Twardon and Dr. Doris Chang, and queries will be forwarded.
USE YOUR FREE ADMISSION TO DROP IN AND SEE MOMA’S EXHIBITION OF MONET"S WATER LILIES Starting September 13
Starting September 13, the Museum of Modern Art presents an installation that will, for the first time since the Museum's reopening in 2004, feature the full group of Claude Monet's late paintings in the collection. We encourage New School students and employees to drop in and enjoy the exhibit and the entire Museum. In order to receive your free admission, go to the lobby information desk and show them your valid New School ID. Students, faculty, and staff receive one free admission for themselves. Faculty and staff may also obtain an additional two tickets for their guests.
There will be live entertainment as well as drinks and cocktails available for purchase. MoMA is located at 11 West 53rd Street, New York City. Enjoy!
TIME OUT NEW YORK DISCOUNT OFFER
Start your year off being in the know about things free or fancy. Time Out New York is offering all students, faculty, and staff at The New School a full year's subscription for just $20! That's 51 issues for the entire year and only 39c an issue. Steal this deal for yourself or a gift to another.
THE BEST DEAL FOR AFFORDABLE THEATER, Dance, and concert TICKETS:
THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND
An exciting spring theater, music and dance season is under way: Why pay $100 or more, when you can pay $20-$36 for Broadway shows and Off-Broadway shows, dance performances and concerts? An inexpensive way to enjoy the best of New York culture is to join Theatre Development Fund (TDF).
To be eligible, you must be a full-time student or teacher, senior citizen (62+), civil servant, union member, staff member of a not-for-profit organization, performing arts professional, or member of the clergy or armed forces. Annual membership fee is $27.50, and you can join online.
A small sampling of performances recently available to TDF Members for $20-36 per ticket include: 33 Variations, The 39 Steps, Altar Boyz, American Ballet Theatre, The American Plan, August: Osage County, Avenue Q, Ballet NY, Beast, Big Apple Circus, Blithe Spirit, Christopher Cross at B.B. King's, Distracted, Enter Laughing, Exit the King, The Fantasticks, Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab, Fueerzabruta, Gypsy, Hedda Gabler, Impressionism, Irena's Vow, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, London Philharmonic at Lincoln Center; The Marvelous Wonderettes, Mourning Becomes Electra, New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, Next to Normal, Pal Joey, Patti Austin at Brooklyn Center; Paul Taylor Dance Company, The Phantom of the Opera, Reasons to be Pretty, Rock of Ages, Ruined, Shrek: The Musical; Speed the Plow, Spring Awakening and Uncle Vanya.
So don't miss this great opportunity to see great theater at great prices.
The New York Times is offering a 60 percent discount ($.40/per day Monday-Saturday, $2.50 on Sunday) for home or office subscriptions to all faculty, staff, and students.
Here's how it works. Unlike traditional subscriptions, the education rate can be set up by semester or in a combination that best reflects your schedules for both delivery and billing. New School faculty, staff, and students can have a subscription Monday-Friday, Sunday only, weekends only, or any combination.
To take advantage of the special discount to the Times or to change a current subscription, students, faculty (full-time and part-time), and staff should contact the customer service center at 888.NYT.COLL, to order a single subscription or a classroom subscription of up to eight copies for required reading in the classroom.
To order a classroom subscription of eight or more copies for required reading in the classroom, contact the education program's customer service center at 800.631.1222.
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