The New Commons is dedicated to offering opportunities for dialogue, with the aim of fostering understanding within our community. Through its work it reaffirms The New School’s commitment to learning, critique, and mutual respect.
This site is a digital hub designed to showcase conversations, classes, and events across campus that explore complex issues, build empathy, and bridge gaps in understanding. Embracing this invitation to discourse makes us stronger as scholars, problem solvers, and citizens.
The New Commons builds on our university’s legacy and embodies the New School community’s aspiration to create a fairer, more equitable world.
The New School is unwavering in its commitment to providing an open, safe, inclusive academic environment to a diverse community of students, faculty, and staff. For information and resources, please visit the Supporting Our Community page.
We believe that diverse perspectives enrich our learning environment, and providing opportunities for respectful dialogue is essential to achieving our mission of preparing students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society. The discourse in which students participate in our classrooms will shape their efforts to create a better world. Listed below are a number of our courses that address significant issues of the moment.
The New School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.