The New School is a private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1919 as The New School for Social Research with an original mission dedicated to academic freedom and intellectual inquiry and a home for progressive thinkers. Since then, the school has grown to house five divisions within the university. These include the Parsons School of Design, the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, the College of Performing Arts, which includes the Mannes School of Music, The New School for Social Research, and the Schools of Public Engagement.
Fanton Hall, built in 1920
The New School University Center at 14th Street and Fifth Avenue, a LEED Gold building completed in 2013
Hage Geingob President of Namibia
Ruth Westheimer Sex therapist
Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhattan art academies in protest of limited creative autonomy, Parsons is one of the oldest schools of art and design in New York.
The University Center, completed in 2013
The Parsons table, designed in Parsons Paris in the early 1930s
Jasper Johns: painter, sculptor, and printmaker
Sara Little Turnbull: industrial designer
