New School University is an institute of higher learning in New York City. Some 7,000 students are enrolled in graduate and undergraduate degree programs in social science, humanities, and public policy.

The university was founded in 1919 as the New School for Social Research. Its founders included the historian Charles Beard, economists Thorstein Veblen and James Harvey Robinson, and philosopher John Dewey.

The New School University is comprised of a number of academic units, most notably the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Eugene Lang College, the undergraduate, liberal arts division of the University, the Parsons School of Design, one of the most significant design schools in the United States, the Actor's Studio and the Mannes School of Music.

The Graduate Faculty is the intellectual heart of the New School. During the period from 1933 until the end of World War II, the University in Exile was founded as a base for scholars who had been dismissed from teaching and government positions by totalitarian regimes in Europe. The University in Exile later became the New School's Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. Notable scholars associated with the Graduate Faculty include psychologists Max Wertheimer and Aron Gurwitsch and political philosophers Hannah Arendt, and Leo Strauss. The New School played a similar role with its support of the École Libre des Hautes Études. Receiving a charter from de Gaulle’s Free French government in exile, the École attracted refugee scholars who taught in French, including philosopher Jacques Maritain, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss,and linguist Roman Jakobson. The Graduate Faculty continues its tradition of synthesizing progressive American intellectual thought and critical European philosophy.

The current President of the New School University is former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE).

The Bravo television program "Inside the Actors Studio", hosted by James Lipton, is filmed at The New School.

Academic divisions

• Actors Studio Drama School (in affiliation with The Actor's Studio)
• Eugene Lang College
• Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science (known formerly as the University in Exile)
• Mannes College of Music
• Milano Graduate School
• The New School
• Parsons School of Design

External links

• New School University website (http://www.newschool.edu)
• History of New School University (http://www.newschool.edu/aboutnsu/content/fr_ata/history5c.html)