Posted on 09/03/2023 12:02:17 PM PDT by DFG
The ultra-progressive New School university is facing a projected $85.5 million budget deficit — and things are so bad that even asked students and faculty have been asked to submit budget-cutting suggestions.
In no surprise for a school that’s produced Marxists and progressives such as Jacques Derrida and Erich Fromm, the ideas include chopping executive salaries and even selling off the school-owned Greenwich Village townhouse currently occupied by former Clinton cabinet member Donna Shalala, now serving as New School’s interim president.
The New School woke up to a harsh reality during the pandemic: operating a private university in lower Manhattan is quite expensive.
After enrollment tumbled by 15%, the college dipped into its endowment to offset a $130 million revenue shortfall.
Chief Financial Officer Josh Burgher warned in a March budgeting meeting that the projected 5-year deficit could “easily” swell to $240 million.
But austerity attempts have been met with vociferous opposition from the ultra-progressive community.
In 2020 the school chopped top leadership salaries by 12 to 15%, cut down on library subscriptions, extended voluntary separation packages to employees and laid of 122 predominantly lower-level staffers.
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Guess I didn’t realize the old bag was still vertical.
I guess “The U” must have run Shalala out.
The New School is 100% neo-marxist.
There’s not a single administrator and certainly professor there who is not a fully brain-washed race-mongering, gender-spewing marxist ideologue.
The faster this cancer disappears, the better
They might as well rename it to Patrice Lumbumba University.
Excuse me, I’m making a popcorn run...... anytime Marxists and progressives get hit in the face with reality is a very entertaining time. I love it when the Proletariat face the stark reality of their leaders lifestyle......... and that their leader refuse to sacrifice for the good of the cause!
If only they could steal other people’s money and put them up against the wall if they object...you know they want to. Wonder what percentage that idea got.
Relocate to Canada.
Stupid is, is stupid does.
or, sell Danna
We can only hope it fails miserably!
Don’t they already have “professional” financial advisors? Maybe the first order of business would be to fire those already hired to work on budgets and fundraising.
Apparently, they are not doing a good job.
They should set up circular firing squads for the staff and sell tickets!
(more revenue + lower expenses)
Wasn,t John Kerry ( not mistah ketchup) the president of the New School years back?
WIKI
The New School for Social Research was founded by a group of university professors and intellectuals in 1919 as a modern, progressive, free school where adult students could “seek an unbiased understanding of the existing order, its genesis, growth and present working”. Founders included economist and literary scholar Alvin Johnson, historians Charles A. Beard and James Harvey Robinson, economist Thorstein Veblen, and philosophers Horace M. Kallen and John Dewey. Several founders were former professors at Columbia University.
In October 1917, after Columbia University imposed a loyalty oath to the United States upon the entire faculty and student body, it fired several professors. Charles A. Beard, Professor of Political Science, resigned his professorship at Columbia in protest. His colleague James Harvey Robinson resigned in 1919 to join the faculty at The New School.
The New School plan was to offer the rigorousness of postgraduate education without degree matriculation or degree prerequisites. It was theoretically open to anyone, as the adult division today called Schools of Public Engagement remains. The first classes at the New School took the form of lectures followed by discussions, for larger groups, or as smaller conferences, for “those equipped for specific research”.
Approximately 10,000 students are enrolled in undergraduate and postgraduate programs and disciplines including design, social sciences, music, liberal arts, humanities, architecture, fine arts, design, drama, finance, psychology, and public policy.
The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science was founded in 1933 as the University in Exile for scholars who had been dismissed from teaching positions by the Italian fascists under Mussolini or had to flee Hitler’s Nazi Germany. The University in Exile was initially founded by the director of the New School, Alvin Johnson, through the financial contributions of Hiram Halle and the Rockefeller Foundation. The University in Exile and its subsequent incarnations have been the intellectual heart of the New School.
Between 1940 and 1949, The New School included the “Dramatic Workshop,” a groundbreaking theater education program and predecessor of School of Drama that was founded by German emigrant theatre director Erwin Piscator. Important acting teachers during this period were Stella Adler and Elia Kazan. Among the famous students of the Dramatic Workshop were Beatrice Arthur, Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis, Ben Gazzara, Michael V. Gazzo, Rod Steiger, Elaine Stritch, Shelley Winters and Tennessee Williams.
I attended The New School for Social Research for only a year, but what a year it was. The school and New York itself had become a sanctuary for hundreds of extraordinary European Jews who had fled Germany and other countries before and during World War II, and they were enriching the city’s intellectual life with an intensity that has probably never been equaled anywhere during a comparable period of time.
— Marlon Brando, actor
Thirty-three percent of New School students are international, with 112 foreign countries being represented at the university. U.S. students come from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Forty-three percent of them are people of color, and 5% of American students identify as more than one race. Of the entire student population, 63% receive financial aid, and 17% study abroad before graduating.
Several of the university buildings are New York City designated landmarks. Among these is the egg-shaped Tishman Auditorium, an interior landmark. It was designed by architect Joseph Urban [Mar-a-Lago], along with the entirety of The New School’s 66 West 12th Street building, the last major project Urban designed.
In 1931 the New School commissioned two mural cycles: José Clemente Orozco’s “A Call for Revolution” and “Universal Brotherhood” and Thomas Hart Benton’s epic America Today.[citation needed] The New School Art Collection was established in 1960 with a grant from the Albert A. List Foundation. The collection, now grown to approximately 1,800 postwar and contemporary works of art, includes examples in almost all media. Parts of it are exhibited throughout the campus. Notable artists such as Andy Warhol, Kara Walker, Richard Serra, and Sol LeWitt all have pieces displayed in New School’s academic buildings.
Historically, The New School has been associated with leftist politics, campus activism, civic engagement, and social change. It is a “Periclean University”, or member Project Pericles, meaning that it teaches “education for social responsibility and participatory citizenship as an essential part of their educational programs, in the classroom, on the campus, and in the community”. The New School is one of nine American universities to be inducted into Ashoka’s “Changemaker” consortium for social entrepreneurship.
[I only know of about half of these people]
Notable alumni
Hage Geingob
President of Namibia
Ruth Westheimer
Sex therapist
Franklin Delano Roosevelt III
Economist
Will Wright
Creator of The Sims
Tennessee Williams
two-time Pulitzer and three-time Tony Award-winning playwright
James Baldwin
Writer and activist
William Styron
Author
Jamaica Kincaid
Writer
Rod Steiger
Actor
Robert Glasper
Musician
Jack Kerouac
Novelist and poet
author of On The Road
Harry Belafonte
Musician and activist
Sufjan Stevens
Musician
Ani DiFranco
Musician
Walter Matthau
Actor
Rob Zombie
Musician and filmmaker
Murray Perahia
Pianist and conductor
Kevin Smith
Filmmaker and actor
Joel Schumacher
Filmmaker
Burt Bacharach
Composer
Bradley Cooper
Actor
Jesse Eisenberg
Actor
Bea Arthur
Actress
Elaine Stritch
Actress
Shelley Winters
Actress
Tony Curtis
Actor
Bill Evans
Musician
Paul Dano
Actor
Jonah Hill
Actor
Brad Mehldau
Musician
Semyon Bychkov
Conductor
Nadine Sierra
Opera singer
Alexander Wang
Fashion designer
Marc Jacobs
Fashion designer
Marlon Brando
Actor
Tom Ford
Fashion designer and filmmaker
Donna Karan
Fashion designer and founder of DKNY
Ai Weiwei
Chinese contemporary artist, activist, and architect
Julie Umerle
Abstract painter
Edward Hopper
Realist painter
Jasper Johns
Abstract expressionist painter
Norman Rockwell
Artist
Notable faculty
Martha Graham
Modern dancer and choreographer
Aaron Copland
Composer and conductor
Hannah Arendt
Philosopher and political theorist
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of the United States
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
John Maynard Keynes
Economist
George Szell
Conductor
David Mannes
Musician and educator
Betty Friedan
Feminist theorist
Stella Adler
Acting teacher
W.E.B. Du Bois
Sociologist, writer, and civil rights activist
John Dewey
Philosopher
Woody Allen
Filmmaker
Steve Reich
Composer
W.H. Auden
Poet
Lee Strasberg
Acting teacher
Franco Modigliani
Nobel Prize-winning economist
Christopher Hitchens
Polemicist
John Cage
Composer
Judith Butler
Philosopher and feminist
Jacques Derrida
Philosopher
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Conservative author and commentator
Robert Frost
Poet
Wilhelm Reich
Psychologist
Ruth Benedict
Anthropologist
Margaret Mead
Anthropologist
Piet Mondrian
Painter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_School
The answer for all budget shortfalls for progressives is to simply spend more. Problem solved/s
“Jacques Derrida”
Did not know this! Thought he was entirely France’s fault.
That is an impressive list by any measure—good, bad and ugly....
;-)
WIKI
Former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey became president of The New School in 2000. Kerrey drew praise and criticism for his streamlining of the university, as well as censure for his support of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, generally opposed by the university’s faculty.
On December 10, 2008, 74 of the New School’s senior professors gave a vote of no confidence for the New School’s former president, Bob Kerrey. By December 15, 98% of the university’s full-time faculty had voted no confidence. On December 17, over 100 students barricaded themselves in at a dining hall on the campus while hundreds more waited on the streets outside. They considered the current school administration opaque and harmful. Their chief demand, among others, was that Bob Kerrey resign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_School
Joseph Robert Kerrey (born August 27, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 35th governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 1989 to 2001. Before entering politics, he served in the Vietnam War as a United States Navy SEAL officer and was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in combat. During the action for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor, he was severely wounded, precluding further naval service.
Kerrey was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992. He retired from the Senate in 2000 and was replaced by former governor and fellow Democrat Ben Nelson. From 2001 to 2010, he served as president of The New School, a university in New York City. In May 2010, he was selected to become the head of the Motion Picture Association of America. The MPAA, however, could not reach an agreement with him and chose former Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd instead.
In 2012, Kerrey sought election to his old Senate seat to succeed his successor, the retiring Democratic incumbent Ben Nelson. He lost to Republican nominee Deb Fischer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kerrey
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