The New School has more full-time management employees than faculty. The New School has more full-time management employees than faculty. The New School has more full-time management employees than faculty. The New School has more full-time management employees than faculty.

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“Short on money, high on power, we don’t trust Joel Towers!” hyperallergic.com/hundreds-rally…

The New School’s leadership is attacking globally recognized progressive & radical NSSR scholarship. It is promoting instead initiatives like a “Center for the American Experience” committed to patriotism and American ideals, offering courses like “Making America”. MAGA much?

The New School has been a beacon of critical inquiry and social justice for over a century, thanks to the labor, talents, and dedication of its renown faculty, workers, and students.    I strongly urge The New School to immediately extend the deadline for faculty to consider

The New School prez, who is not a social scientist, does not have a PhD & has never been involved in PhD education, wants to remake a storied center of graduate social research into a Silicon Valley Ideology trade school staffed with adjuncts and devoid of research or researchers

“We will not clean up the administration’s mess… We will fight back, or we will take our talents elsewhere… It is we, the faculty & students of TNS who most passionately believe in [its] guiding mission. And it is we who are best equipped to protect it” jacobin.com/2025/12/new-sc…

If you think a graduate faculty whose research helps sustain the university’s reputation & whose teaching delivers 1000s of student credit hours is a “deficit unit,” wait until you hear about the unit with 17 people with “provost” in their title and God knows how many VPs…

If you are going to read one thing about the difficulties, opportunities, and long-term leadership missteps at The New School, make sure it is this piece (whose author I do not know): utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/12/liner-…

“narcissistic leaders wreak havoc. Instead of adjusting decisions based on objective success or failure, they get high on social praise, As they bask in the glow of yes men and flattery, they’re more likely to double down on ideas that aren’t working.” nytimes.com/2025/12/29/opi…

Where does one even start…

“The Age of Interdisciplinary Slop” Turns out the “visionary” Joel Towers was just a lower-brow, “design-thinking” version of the average consultancy-class hack trying to destroy expertise, scientific rigor, and knowledge creation in the age of Trump. chronicle.com/article/the-ag…

The American government is murdering, maiming, kidnapping, and beating people at home. Brazenly violating international law abroad. And Kessler’s Center wants to prattle on about “polarization,”…While invoking the legacy of the University in Exile and our 1919 founding, no less.

Kessler has stated The New School needs to become “apolitical”. Clearly it’s not that he doesn’t understand our traditions of transformational, radical social research and public scholarship. It’s that he wants to destroy them. In the age of Trump, Orban, and Netanyahu, no less.

Never ask: A woman her age, A man his salary, Or “cash strapped” TNS President Joel Towers how many millions of the School’s money he has spent renovating his office, architectural vanity projects in his building, and on a new condo for himself.