In our work of Sensory Awareness, we experiment with all the simple activities of daily life, all the things which we have been doing since we were born, or which we have learned in our earliest infancy, such as walking, standing, sitting, lying, moving, resting, seeing, speaking, lis

Charlotte Selver (1901-2003) was a music educator and body awareness instructor born in Germany. In the 1920s, Selver studied piano and was also enrolled in the Dr.

The diverse and experienced members of the IRP have backgrounds in the sciences, arts, business, academia, law and more. They support objectives of the New School through a variety of volunteer endeavors.

The old building at 65 5th Avenue was awkward, badly lit, uninspiring, and ultimately, unsustainable. Of course the old building was never intended to serve as a functional academic facility.

If someone told you that students from the New School are very open-minded, that would not be surprising.

I started working in The New School Archives as an assistant on the audio collections of the school.

Some principles on which the school was founded upon were academic freedom and the need to reinvigorate democracy. These core principles remain the same.

Clara Woolie Mayer (1895-1988) is possibly the most important forgotten figure in New School administrative history.

Julia Foulkes gave a talk for the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation on July 8, 2015, on the history of the New School. Video here.

The Human Relations Center began in 1951 at the behest of Clara Mayer, the infamous right-hand woman of Alvin Johnson, the long-time director of the school.

I never had the pleasure of knowing Allen Austill directly. I heard him spoken of by others, usually in high praise.