Below are some message points to help you align your Centennial-related communications with those being shared broadly by the university.
• Frame discussion of the Centennial as a foundation that we're continually building on to reach for the future of new disciplines and fields, creative problem solving strategies, and perspectives that foster a better world (In other words, Centennial events are meant to highlight our forward-looking approaches to education rather than exclusively discuss our past achievements or the hundred-year mark).
• Describe our history as a coming together of people, ideas, and schools that collectively have elevated our mission to cultivate bold change-making leaders that guide culture, commerce, and civic life in sustainable and socially just ways. Part of this process involves our integration into a comprehensive university.
• The Centennial offers us a moment to pause and celebrate together the many ways we've reimagined creative and critical thought, inviting the community to take part in in the exciting and evolving educational experiment that is The New School. Our community's groundbreaking work, begun in the center of Greenwich Village, has spread throughout the world the message that our focus on academic excellence, social justice, social and environmental resilience, and creativity catalyzes change of all kinds.
Also shown below is the New School boilerplate that describes the university and includes mention of our hundred-year anniversary. Include it in Centennial-related materials to introduce The New School to audiences who may be unfamiliar with our university and its legacy of groundbreaking scholarship, bold creativity, and world-changing ideas.
Founded in 1919, The New School was established to advance academic freedom, tolerance, and experimentation. A century later, The New School remains at the forefront of innovation in higher education, inspiring more than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students to challenge the status quo in art and design, the social sciences, the liberal arts, management, the performing arts, and media. The university welcomes thousands of adult learners annually for continuing education and executive courses and public programs. The New School maintains a global presence through our online learning portals, research institutes, and international partnerships.