The New School Archives And Special Collections

Summary The New You Peer Health Advocates oral history project consists of five interviews with the founders and alumni of The New You, The New School's peer health advocacy program. The New You was founded in 2010 by Rachel Knopf Shey and Tamara Oyola-Santiago, co-directors of Wellness and Health Promotion at The New School. In 2019, Wellness and Health Promotion was eliminated and Knopf Shey and Oyola-Santiago transitioned into new roles at the university. This oral history project...

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This collection consists of an entire run of the weekly periodical, The Weekly Observer, 1997-2010, reporting on events, programs, people from the New School community, compiled and produced by the New School's office of Communications and External Affairs. The collection includes several formats of the publication, including printed downloads of email blasts, html files, Word files, PDF files, and WARC files from the university website.

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Poster for the play, "Exiles," by James Joyce, produced by Theatre Associates and performed on May 6, 1933 in the auditorium of The New School at 66 West 12th Street in New York City.

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Photographer and Parsons School of Design Overseer David Finn created this portfolio of inspirational texts paired with photographs.

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After graduating from the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons School of Design) in 1934, Tom Brigance (1913-1990) became a fashion designer specializing in women's swimwear and sportswear. The collection includes scrapbooks of clippings and photographs of Brigance's designs, sketches, publicity materials, and four original fashion illustrations of Brigance swimwear by Dorothy Hood, produced for Lord & Taylor.

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Records of Tracyann Williams, PhD, who served as director of Academic Affairs for the Bachelor's Program for Adult and Transfer Students (BPATS) in The New School's Schools of Public Engagement until she left the university in early 2020. Includes documentation on the Diversity Committee and the Diversity Task Force, the Gender Studies program, the Faculty Senate, and Students of the African Diaspora, for whom Williams was a faculty advisor.

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The New School Graduate Faculty established the East and Central Europe Program in 1990, expanding to become the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) in 1997, to foster dialogue on democratic theory and practice in East and Central Europe, Central America and southern Africa, among other regions. The collection documents the center’s events, seminars, workshops, and conferences. Also includes research and course files of TCDS founder, Elzbieta Matynia.

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Mounted posters from the exhibition, “Unity and Diversity: a selection of posters from the Communication Design Department at Parsons School of Design," created by junior-year Communication Design students at Parsons. Thirty posters were chosen for the exhibition out of 180 entries submitted to a poster competition held by the Communications Design Department on the theme of “diversity, the underlying theme of the American Republic” in 1994.

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In 2014, the New School celebrated the 80th anniversary of the University in Exile, which was the institution first established by Alvin Johnson to provide refuge for Jewish and anti-Nazi scholars fleeing Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. This born-digital collection contains files related to the planning and programming of the commemorative event on January 30, 2014, including tribute videos featuring notable New School trustees who fled Europe during World War II.

Abstract The collection consists of five photograph albums and three scrapbooks compiled by the designer, style arbiter, and Parsons School of Design administrator and president Van Day Truex (1904-1979). Truex's travels and social interactions are documented in the albums' captioned photographs, while scrapbooks chronicle his design and artistic successes. One scrapbook, annotated by Parsons faculty member Stanley Barrows, documents Truex's apartments and the home of his predecessor as president of...