New School commencement recordings

Collection

Identifier: NS-07-02-09

Descriptive Status

No publicly accessible container list or inventory is available at this time. Please contact The New School Archives if you are interested in consulting this collection.

Abstract

Audiovisual recordings of New School commencement ceremonies for various colleges, such as Parsons School of Design, as well as the full university commencement.

Dates

1959-2008
Majority of material found within 1986-2007

Creator

New School University (Degree grantor, Organization)
New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) (Degree grantor, Organization)

Extent

93 Analog Recordings

42 1/4 inch Audio Cassette

27 VHS Cassettes

13 betacam

7 hi8

4 1/4 inch Audio Tape

22 digital_recordings

20 minidv

2 DAT

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research use, but there are no access copies available for most of the recordings in this collection. Researchers desiring access and willing to pay a digitization fee may do so upon consultation with The New School Archives. Please contact archivist@newschool.edu for further information.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The staff of The New School Archives and Special Collections initially assembled this collection from a larger set of legacy audio recordings transferred from The New School's Raymond Fogelman Library following the establishment of The New School Archives, circa 2012. These constitute the earliest recordings in the collection, up to approximately 2002. Recordings from approximately 2003 through 2008 were transferred to the Archives from the university's Communications and External Affairs (as of 2025, Marketing and Communications) offices in 2012. Pam Tillis, Director of Public Programs, The New School for Public Engagement, also transferred two commencement recordings in 2012.

Related Materials

Textual documentation on New School commencement ceremonies will be found in multiple collections in The New School Archives. The New School commencement, convocation and inauguration print materials collection (NS.05.05.01) contains printed commencement programs. The New School press release collection (NS.03.01.07) consists of press releases written by the university's marketing and publicity departments, often featuring information about specific students. The The New School publicity scrapbook collection (NS.03.01.01) may be a source of information about specific graduating students for the years 1936 through 1953.

Photographic documentation of commencement ceremonies will primarily be found in two collections, The New School photograph collection (NS.04.01.01), which covers 1950 through 2003, while the New School Communications and External Affairs photographs (NS.03.01.09) covers 1971-2001. Researchers should check both collections.

Subjects

Academic decorations of honor (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Audiocassettes (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Betacam (TM) (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Commencement ceremonies (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Digital moving image formats (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Mini-DV (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Sound recordings (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Universities and colleges -- New York (State) -- New York (Subject) (Places) Subject Source: Local sources
Videocassettes (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Record Groups

- NS. New School Institutional Collections

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Guide to the New School commencement recordings
Status: In Process
Author: New School Archives and Special Collections Staff
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: English
Script of description: Latin

The New School Archives And Special Collections

Finding Aids