The New School for Public Engagement
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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1919 |
| President | David E. Van Zandt |
| Provost | Tim Marshall |
| Location |
New York City, New York, USA 40°44′08″N 73°59′50″W / 40.7355°N 73.9971°WCoordinates: 40°44′08″N 73°59′50″W / 40.7355°N 73.9971°W |
| Executive Dean | Mary R. Watson |
| Website | newschool |
The Schools of Public Engagement at The New School is one of five academic divisions that compose The New School, a private university located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. It includes, the Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students, Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy founded in 1964, School of Media Studies, Creative Writing Program and School of Languages
The Schools of Public Engagement at The New School is the direct successor of the original institution making it the oldest division of The New School having been founded in 1919. The school’s founding members wanted to create a “center for discussion and instruction for mature men and women” and by 1934 it was chartered as a university by the state of New York and began conferring degrees. The division was restructured in September 2011 after it would include both Milano School of Management and Urban Policy and what was then called The New School for General Studies.
Dean Allen Austill led the division from the 1960s to the 1980s. Austill's dedication to the liberal arts (he had previously spent many years at the University of Chicago) and his humanistic vision sustained the New School through the turbulent waters of this fractious era, as the curriculum expanded from "Old Left" areas such as politics and economics to include more aspects of relevance to the "New Left" such as mystical experience and homosexuality. Austill was assisted by Albert Landa, who directed publicity for the New School while also informally acting in many other capacities, and Wallis Osterholz, who was responsible for much of the day-to-day administration. Austill also added such comparatively non-intellectual areas as guitar study and culinary science to the curriculum, indicating that, even though these areas were not central to the New School's mission, including them was an important means of serving the adult learner community of New York City. In 1962, Austill initiated the Institute for Retired Professionals, a community of peer learners from 50 to 90 who develop and participate in challenging discussion groups; the institute, now headed by Michael Markowitz, still exists today. Austill's subordinate as Chair of Humanities for many of these years was Reuben Abel, a philosopher (he wrote a book on the pragmatic thinking of F. C. S. Schiller). Abel was succeeded by Lewis Falb, a specialist in interwar Paris who broadened the humanities curriculum further. Prominent teachers in this era included the philosopher Paul Edwards; the literary scholars Hasye Cooperman, Justus Rosenberg, and Margaret Boe Birns; the political scientist Ralph Buultjens; and the visual arts instructors Anthony Toney, Minoru Kawabata, and Henry C. Pearson.
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