The New School Archives And Special Collections

Abstract The School of Jazz and Contemporary Music was established at The New School in 1986 and, as of 2020, is a department within the College of Performing Arts. These records, largely compiled by former dean Martin Mueller, cover the School of Jazz from its inception to Mueller's retirement in 2016. Includes program planning research, studies, and reports, publicity materials on the careers of and performances by alumni and faculty, budget and fundraising records, photographs, program publicity...

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The School of Media Studies began as the Center for Understanding Media. Accredited through Antioch College, the program offered courses through the New School for Social Research. The New School formally absorbed Media Studies in 1975, after a four-year partnership. The records consist of curricula vitae, files, reports, syllabi, posters and other printed publicity materials, and student work.

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This collection includes materials created by The New School staff affinity group Staff on Race for the event, "Staff on Race Presents: Race at The New School with Tim Wise and Thelma Armstrong," held on October 7, 2019 during the Festival of New, celebrating the university's centennial.

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This collection consists of physical ephemera related to student protests on or around The New School's Greenwich Village, New York campus, including banners, posters, and fliers delivered to The New School Archives by university staff. Occupy Wall Street is represented, as is an iteration of the New School in Exile.

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The New School University Development and Alumni Relations Office (UDARO) records consist of financial records, auditor's reports, IRS filings, grant applications, printed materials, and a three volume project manual for the University Center building. The records also include disks and audiovisual material, including recordings of commencement ceremonies and an interview with Eugene Lang.

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Files and a website generated between 2014–2021 documenting strategic planning efforts of the New School administration during the tenures of presidents David Van Zandt and Dwight A. McBride, including two projects that were part of the New School Service Initiative.

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This collection consists of archived websites published by The New School and members of the university community from 2016 to 2023. The archived websites include university events, exhibits, student and faculty websites, publications, and departmental websites.

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The New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium is a week-long annual event featuring artists and writers. These recordings are from the 2017 and 2018 symposia, which were held at Parsons School of Design.

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This collection consists of an index of publications that reference The New York School of Art (which became Parsons School of Design in 1941) or artists associated with it as students or faculty from the time of the school's founding in 1896 to 1912. The index was assembled by New School Archives staff between 1996 and 2006.

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William Merritt Chase established Parsons School of Design in 1896 as the Chase School of Art. The name of the school changed to the New York School of Art in 1902, and to the New York School of Fine and Applied Art in 1909. This charter documents the 1909 name change. In 1940, the school was renamed Parsons School of Design in honor of former President Frank Alvah Parsons and to differentiate it from other, similarly named institutions.