New School: News & Politics

The impact of the gang database on black & brown life.

Produced by Alisha Mess

The NYC Department of Sanitation is finally replacing the iconic green wire bins with stackable, molded plastic cans in response to Mayor Adams’ “war on rats.” WNSR reported on this monumental change and how community members perceived it. 

Produced By: M Shimek, Lillian Heckler, Emily Wampold, Gabriella Bottomley, and Jordan Jainlett.

At the start of the fall semester of 2023, The New School informed students about its updated university policy, which prohibits students from using artificial intelligence. Although this policy was implemented to ensure that students aren't solely relying on AI to complete assignments, it has dismissed the many ways that AI is helping students submit their best work.

Produced By: Michael McDonald, Caroline Capuano, Mackenzie Peluso, Alisha Mess, Paola Trinh 

On November 16th, 2022, the New School’s part-time faculty, represented by ACT-UAW 7902, voted to strike after contract negotiations with the administration broke down. The month-long labor action was exhausting and revealing, and left an indelible mark on the institution and its many shareholders. In the spring of 2023, students from the On Air: Radio/Podcasting course undertook to tell the story of the strike. This six-part program, Roar & Recovery, launches, fittingly, on Labor Day, with Part 1: Labor and the Legacy of Change.

Producers: Blake Broder, Solstice Burdick, Jamie Reardon, Sammy Schwartzman, Mikai Tilton

On Wednesday November 16th, 2022 the New School’s part-time faculty, represented by ACT-UAW Local 7902, ACT U A W LOCAL 7 9 ZERO TWO, voted to strike after negotiations with the University Administration failed to produce an acceptable new contract. A week later, spirits and commitment were still high, with a dense picket line circling in front of the school’s flagship University Center at 63 Fifth Avenue.  In addition to chanting, picketers made a joyful noise with a range of home-made instruments from washboards to drums. Protestors were drawn from many parts of the New School: part-time and full-time faculty across programs and divisions; undergraduate, grad students, and their parents. As of the first of the year, the union approved a tentative new contract.

Recorded and reported by Sarah Montague

The collective bargaining agreement sets an expectation between part-time faculty and The New

School administration. Discussions for a new collective bargaining agreement are beginning to

ramp up, and the result will have a lasting impact on The New School community for the next

four years. Find out how this agreement happens with interviews from union representatives and

New School administrators.

Production by: Maria Jose Canon, Ryan Minter, Ellie Paloma-Bursby, Grant Parsons, and

Victoria Reyes

As The New School College students and faculty return to the New York City streets, they also return to the new guidelines set in place in order to keep the community safe. Students talk about their experiences with testing protocols and trouble with campus access and administrators make certain decisions in reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Produced by Marley Collins, Katie Pruden, Maci Zakarin, Kathryn Munro and Rachel Opert

During the pandemic lockdown, gyms struggled with closures, while people struggled to maintain fitness regimes in their homes. We spoke with students, instructors, and staff about being physical in sequestered world.

Co-Vid has affected different generations in different ways. This interview-based feature looks at some of the challenges and coping mechanisms from the past year. Narrated by Elissa Robinson and produced by Elissa Robinson, Amanda Hemminger, Vanya Suchan, Christian Nesfield, and Daniel Ramirez.

New School president Dwight McBride joined The New School in April of 2020, stepping into a leadership role in the middle of the pandemic crisis. Aja Simpson, a graduate of the New School's Journalism & Design program, speaks with McBride about his role, and his vision for the school.