The New School Archives And Special Collections

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This record group contains theses in print and electronic formats submitted to the MFA Writing Program as part of graduation requirements. The program's four concentrations -- fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and writing for children -- are represented. Many of the theses consist of two parts, a work in the student's concentration and a project for which the student conducted scholarly research. Electronic theses begin with the class of 2015.

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The New School's Culinary Arts program existed from 1978 until 2008. This collection predominantly consists of audio recordings of restaurant and dining programming from the 1990s.

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The New School Design and Construction office is a unit of the university's Buildings department. These records include construction documents for Loeb Hall, the first residence hall owned and operated by The New School which opened in August 1989, and a campus master plan from 2004.

Abstract The collection consists of records originating from the office of Mary Urban, who coordinated fundraising and public relations efforts at the New School in the 1940s and early 1950s, and that of her successor, Margarete Westmann, director of Development from 1958-1962. Materials include memoranda and correspondence, financial statements, budgets, advertising contracts, donor and prospect records, and New School Associates membership records. Also includes event planning...

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The New School began inputting course information into the database, Banner [banner.newschool.edu] around 2007. As of 2021, all New School course data is input into Banner through an interface called Tableau. This collection contains course data that has either been downloaded from Banner or from other New School websites. All divisions and undergraduate schools are represented, but courses for each college are not comprehensive.

Overview

The collection consists of enrollment statistics for The New School, circa 1926-2005. Student headcounts for specific schools and degree programs within the university are often broken down by categories such as gender, place of residence, academic background, part or full time status, and occupation.

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This collection contains printed materials related to exhibitions and public programs, such as lectures, readings and seminars, held at, sponsored by, or produced in cooperation with The New School and its divisions and departments. Materials include publicity materials, exhibition catalogs, and invitations. For Parsons School of Design sponsored exhibitions, see the Parsons School of Design academic departments, programs and schools collection (PC.02.01.01).

Summary

Consists of published journal articles, typescripts, unpublished essays, lectures, and seminar notes, as well as handwritten notes and resumes by or pertaining to New School faculty members from 1908 to the 2000s. Assembled by librarians at the Raymond Fogelman Social Sciences and Humanities Library (now the List Center Library, part of The New School Libraries and Archives), the collection is arranged alphabetically by faculty member last name.

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This collection contains archived websites that highlight the work of former and current New School Faculty.

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The collection consists of eight zines created by members of the New School community (mostly students) at a zine workshop hosted by the New School Archives and Special Collections. The workshop was part of several events hosted in October 2019 for the "Festival of New," a week-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of The New School’s founding.