The New School just called to tell me they want me too. I like to phrase this as "being wanted" vs. "being accepted" as I'm pretty sure this is one of those few times in life I'll have multiple parties bidding for my attention; plus, it feels nicer. So anyways, the New School as a whole is decidedly killer and I'm not going to lie, I applied to it 99% because of who founded it and why: um, hello Charles Beard! It's crazy progressive place.
From their site:
"This is the hour for the experiment; and New York is the place, because it is the greatest social science laboratory in the world and of its own force attracts scholars and leaders in educational work." — proposal for The New School, 1918
In the aftermath of the First World War, much of America was playing it safe. Social criticism and modern arts were restricted or banished from many of the nation's cultural institutions, including universities. In response, a small band of unconventional thinkers—including historian Charles Beard, philosopher John Dewey, and economists Thorstein Veblen and James Harvey Robinson—imagined an educational venue where they could freely present and discuss their ideas without censure, and where dialogue could take place between intellectuals and the general public. In 1919, they published a brochure listing their lectures and opened The New School to all "intelligent men and women." In addition to studying the "grave social, political, economic, and educational problems of the day," students could prepare for careers in teaching, journalism, public policy administration, and labor organization."
I mean, whether or not it's a serious contender vs. Columbia, well I don't know, but it's an amazing place and at the moment I'm just kind of liking that they like me.
PS - The New School is home to the Parsons School of Design. Yeah, you know what that means.
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