The New School AAUP
@newschoolaaup.bsky.social
The New School Chapter of the American Association of University Professors:
Solidarity, respect, compassion, and collective power! https://linktr.ee/aauptns
Solidarity, respect, compassion, and collective power! https://linktr.ee/aauptns
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"Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the university—have been given less than two weeks to accept insulting “offers” and pack up as early as January 2, 2026."
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Stop the Cuts at the New School
The restructuring proposed by the New School’s upper administration will harm faculty, students and the larger New School community. Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the univ...
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We need to flood them with letters now. Write today!
Read and share AAUP-TNS's open letter to the Board. Its proposed plan of action is reasonable, generated by experts in higher education, independent fiscal analysis, and through the research of dedicated TNS faculty members. To mass lay-offs, we say NO. There is another way.
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Open Letter to TNS Board of Trustees: There is Another Way
January 19, 2026 Dear Board of Trustees, We write to you as many faculty and staff have made one of the most consequential decisions of our lives—whether to “voluntarily” separate from The New Scho...
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January 30, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Read and share AAUP-TNS's open letter to the Board. Its proposed plan of action is reasonable, generated by experts in higher education, independent fiscal analysis, and through the research of dedicated TNS faculty members. To mass lay-offs, we say NO. There is another way.
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"Censoring Plato is an academic absurdity and a textbook violation of academic freedom. A university that censors Plato—as well as other significant texts—abandons its obligation to truth, free inquiry, and the public trust."
— AAUP President Todd Wolfson
— AAUP President Todd Wolfson
AAUP President Todd Wolfson: An Institution That Censors Plato is Not a Serious Institution of Higher Learning
Censoring Plato is an academic absurdity and a textbook violation of academic freedom. Barring a foundational philosopher who is a cornerstone of Western thought because his work touches on race or ge...
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January 12, 2026 at 2:40 PM
"Censoring Plato is an academic absurdity and a textbook violation of academic freedom. A university that censors Plato—as well as other significant texts—abandons its obligation to truth, free inquiry, and the public trust."
— AAUP President Todd Wolfson
— AAUP President Todd Wolfson
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“This would make excellent material for a Monty Python sketch. One can imagine the official censorship list: these dialogues you are permitted to teach; those you must pretend do not exist — and if you ever cross the line, you will be fired.”
January 11, 2026 at 4:05 PM
“This would make excellent material for a Monty Python sketch. One can imagine the official censorship list: these dialogues you are permitted to teach; those you must pretend do not exist — and if you ever cross the line, you will be fired.”
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An urgent take by @cnewf.bsky.social
TNS ”senior management lack a renewed academic self-conception for TNS… so they have turned instead to a formulaic restructuring… disconnected from concrete educational practices & wholly controlled by fiscal crisis.”
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/12/line...
TNS ”senior management lack a renewed academic self-conception for TNS… so they have turned instead to a formulaic restructuring… disconnected from concrete educational practices & wholly controlled by fiscal crisis.”
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/12/line...
Liner Note 45. What Did They Do to the New School?
Train Entering Station NYC on Oct 30, 2022 I mean the question literally. The New School (TNS, by which I’ll mean all its colleges) has...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
An urgent take by @cnewf.bsky.social
TNS ”senior management lack a renewed academic self-conception for TNS… so they have turned instead to a formulaic restructuring… disconnected from concrete educational practices & wholly controlled by fiscal crisis.”
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/12/line...
TNS ”senior management lack a renewed academic self-conception for TNS… so they have turned instead to a formulaic restructuring… disconnected from concrete educational practices & wholly controlled by fiscal crisis.”
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/12/line...
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I’m an alum (MA, 2012) and The New School has been long mismanaged. Like a lot of higher ed, there’s been wasteful spending and bloated admin. The faculty were the best part of my experience. Not surprised by this, but sad faculty are taking the brunt of the poor management.
There are many sound and well-researched plans from faculty and staff that address the deficit; they are being totally ignored in a flouting of the principles of shared governance. We demand the administration rescind the cuts. www.chronicle.com/article/were...
‘We’re Being DOGE-ed’: Sweeping Buyout Plan Rattles the New School’s Faculty
Leaders say cuts are necessary to close a $48-million budget hole.
www.chronicle.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I’m an alum (MA, 2012) and The New School has been long mismanaged. Like a lot of higher ed, there’s been wasteful spending and bloated admin. The faculty were the best part of my experience. Not surprised by this, but sad faculty are taking the brunt of the poor management.
An urgent take by @cnewf.bsky.social
TNS ”senior management lack a renewed academic self-conception for TNS… so they have turned instead to a formulaic restructuring… disconnected from concrete educational practices & wholly controlled by fiscal crisis.”
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/12/line...
TNS ”senior management lack a renewed academic self-conception for TNS… so they have turned instead to a formulaic restructuring… disconnected from concrete educational practices & wholly controlled by fiscal crisis.”
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/12/line...
Liner Note 45. What Did They Do to the New School?
Train Entering Station NYC on Oct 30, 2022 I mean the question literally. The New School (TNS, by which I’ll mean all its colleges) has...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
An urgent take by @cnewf.bsky.social
TNS ”senior management lack a renewed academic self-conception for TNS… so they have turned instead to a formulaic restructuring… disconnected from concrete educational practices & wholly controlled by fiscal crisis.”
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/12/line...
TNS ”senior management lack a renewed academic self-conception for TNS… so they have turned instead to a formulaic restructuring… disconnected from concrete educational practices & wholly controlled by fiscal crisis.”
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/12/line...
There are many sound and well-researched plans from faculty and staff that address the deficit; they are being totally ignored in a flouting of the principles of shared governance. We demand the administration rescind the cuts. www.chronicle.com/article/were...
‘We’re Being DOGE-ed’: Sweeping Buyout Plan Rattles the New School’s Faculty
Leaders say cuts are necessary to close a $48-million budget hole.
www.chronicle.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
There are many sound and well-researched plans from faculty and staff that address the deficit; they are being totally ignored in a flouting of the principles of shared governance. We demand the administration rescind the cuts. www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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This year, the AAUP proved something powerful: When we fight, we win.
Your gift to the AAUP Foundation will power legal challenges, advocacy & education that defend the core values of higher ed. Please donate at the link below.
An injury to one is an injury to all. Together, we are stronger.
Your gift to the AAUP Foundation will power legal challenges, advocacy & education that defend the core values of higher ed. Please donate at the link below.
An injury to one is an injury to all. Together, we are stronger.
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Information about various ways to give to the AAUP Foundation.
www.aaupfoundation.org
December 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This year, the AAUP proved something powerful: When we fight, we win.
Your gift to the AAUP Foundation will power legal challenges, advocacy & education that defend the core values of higher ed. Please donate at the link below.
An injury to one is an injury to all. Together, we are stronger.
Your gift to the AAUP Foundation will power legal challenges, advocacy & education that defend the core values of higher ed. Please donate at the link below.
An injury to one is an injury to all. Together, we are stronger.
SFSU says the quiet part out loud, meanwhile The New School hides behind mission, vision, and “realignment.” A central purpose of VSP is to “lower tenure density.”
Our contract and part-time faculty, and staff will get hard and first.
goldengatexpress.org/114511/campu...
Our contract and part-time faculty, and staff will get hard and first.
goldengatexpress.org/114511/campu...
SFSU offers buyouts to all tenure-track and tenured faculty
The Voluntary Separation Incentive Program is a “balancing act,” where there is a stronger incentive for tenured and tenure-track faculty to retire and open up room to hire back lecturer faculty.
goldengatexpress.org
December 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
SFSU says the quiet part out loud, meanwhile The New School hides behind mission, vision, and “realignment.” A central purpose of VSP is to “lower tenure density.”
Our contract and part-time faculty, and staff will get hard and first.
goldengatexpress.org/114511/campu...
Our contract and part-time faculty, and staff will get hard and first.
goldengatexpress.org/114511/campu...
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The New School was founded as an institution dedicated to critical inquiry and the free exchange of ideas.
The current austerity measures at the university are dismantling the radical democratic aspirations it once represented.
The current austerity measures at the university are dismantling the radical democratic aspirations it once represented.
The Dismantling of the New School
The New School was founded as an institution dedicated to critical inquiry and the free exchange of ideas. The current austerity measures at the university are dismantling the radical democratic aspirations it once represented.
jacobin.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The New School was founded as an institution dedicated to critical inquiry and the free exchange of ideas.
The current austerity measures at the university are dismantling the radical democratic aspirations it once represented.
The current austerity measures at the university are dismantling the radical democratic aspirations it once represented.
The cuts at the New School in the @nytimes.com. It’s not too late to cut the cuts and stop the clock on this cruel timeline for staff and 40% of full-time faculty www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Falling Enrollment, Money Woes: The New School Seeks a Path to Survival
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The cuts at the New School in the @nytimes.com. It’s not too late to cut the cuts and stop the clock on this cruel timeline for staff and 40% of full-time faculty www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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Thank you @bradlander.bsky.social!
Please take two minutes and join our letter writing campaign, demanding the Board of Trustees take immediate action to STOP the MAGA-inspired violent austerity at The New School: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Please take two minutes and join our letter writing campaign, demanding the Board of Trustees take immediate action to STOP the MAGA-inspired violent austerity at The New School: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Stop the Cuts at the New School
The restructuring proposed by the New School’s upper administration
will harm faculty, students and the larger New School community. Faculty
and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the un...
actionnetwork.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thank you @bradlander.bsky.social!
Please take two minutes and join our letter writing campaign, demanding the Board of Trustees take immediate action to STOP the MAGA-inspired violent austerity at The New School: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Please take two minutes and join our letter writing campaign, demanding the Board of Trustees take immediate action to STOP the MAGA-inspired violent austerity at The New School: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
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The New School is a beacon of higher education thanks to the labor of its faculty & staff.
I strongly urge @thenewschool.bsky.social to extend the deadline for faculty to consider separation packages, engage in good faith & protect the programs that make New School a globally renowned institution.
I strongly urge @thenewschool.bsky.social to extend the deadline for faculty to consider separation packages, engage in good faith & protect the programs that make New School a globally renowned institution.
December 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The New School is a beacon of higher education thanks to the labor of its faculty & staff.
I strongly urge @thenewschool.bsky.social to extend the deadline for faculty to consider separation packages, engage in good faith & protect the programs that make New School a globally renowned institution.
I strongly urge @thenewschool.bsky.social to extend the deadline for faculty to consider separation packages, engage in good faith & protect the programs that make New School a globally renowned institution.
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Calling all students, parents, and friends of the New School! Send the Board a letter TODAY - the deadline for us to enroll in voluntary separation and early retirement approaches!
Tell them to stop the cuts and chop from the top!
To send a quick letter go to linktr.ee/aauptns
Tell them to stop the cuts and chop from the top!
To send a quick letter go to linktr.ee/aauptns
December 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Calling all students, parents, and friends of the New School! Send the Board a letter TODAY - the deadline for us to enroll in voluntary separation and early retirement approaches!
Tell them to stop the cuts and chop from the top!
To send a quick letter go to linktr.ee/aauptns
Tell them to stop the cuts and chop from the top!
To send a quick letter go to linktr.ee/aauptns
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I‘m a New School grad; it’s fair to say that my life would not be the same without their unique blend of social inquiry & humanities. I have a
career bc the staff and faculty showed me what was possible. Write in. We must stop these cuts. @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
career bc the staff and faculty showed me what was possible. Write in. We must stop these cuts. @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj
OFFICIAL Statement from AAUP-TNS on Cuts to Faculty and Staff 12-9-25
The New School - Austerity Cuts to the Bone A Statement from the Leadership Council of AAUP-TNS On December 3, 2025, New School President Joel Towers and Provost Richard Kessler issued voluntary sep...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I‘m a New School grad; it’s fair to say that my life would not be the same without their unique blend of social inquiry & humanities. I have a
career bc the staff and faculty showed me what was possible. Write in. We must stop these cuts. @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
career bc the staff and faculty showed me what was possible. Write in. We must stop these cuts. @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
AAUP-TNS explains how the New School is vanguard in its approach to cuts, but its a model that will be rolled out elsewhere. Our fight is your fight!
Solidarity is the only way forward, and no data or consultant can control or manipulate it.
Join our struggle today: linktr.ee/aauptns
Solidarity is the only way forward, and no data or consultant can control or manipulate it.
Join our struggle today: linktr.ee/aauptns
The fight against austerity at The New School is connected to other fights in higher ed challenging admins that hire Huron, a consulting firm that offers data to justify budget cuts & faculty layoffs.
Ujju Aggarwal of AAUP-TNS says that solidarity across AAUP chapters & unions is the way forward.
Ujju Aggarwal of AAUP-TNS says that solidarity across AAUP chapters & unions is the way forward.
December 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
AAUP-TNS explains how the New School is vanguard in its approach to cuts, but its a model that will be rolled out elsewhere. Our fight is your fight!
Solidarity is the only way forward, and no data or consultant can control or manipulate it.
Join our struggle today: linktr.ee/aauptns
Solidarity is the only way forward, and no data or consultant can control or manipulate it.
Join our struggle today: linktr.ee/aauptns
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Our most recent AAUP TV episode, "Fighting Extreme Austerity Attacks at The New School," features faculty from AAUP - TNS who discuss the ongoing crisis at The New School and how organized higher ed workers are fighting back.
Full episode here👇
Full episode here👇
Fighting Extreme Austerity Attacks at The New School
YouTube video by TheAAUP
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December 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Our most recent AAUP TV episode, "Fighting Extreme Austerity Attacks at The New School," features faculty from AAUP - TNS who discuss the ongoing crisis at The New School and how organized higher ed workers are fighting back.
Full episode here👇
Full episode here👇
Reposted by The New School AAUP
The New School was founded by Columbia University professors who wanted a university run by the faculty with minimal administration. For over 100 years it has been a unique institution with progressive values and incredible students and faculty from Ai Weiwei to Hannah Arendt. We are devastated.
Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj
OFFICIAL Statement from AAUP-TNS on Cuts to Faculty and Staff 12-9-25
The New School - Austerity Cuts to the Bone A Statement from the Leadership Council of AAUP-TNS On December 3, 2025, New School President Joel Towers and Provost Richard Kessler issued voluntary sep...
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December 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The New School was founded by Columbia University professors who wanted a university run by the faculty with minimal administration. For over 100 years it has been a unique institution with progressive values and incredible students and faculty from Ai Weiwei to Hannah Arendt. We are devastated.
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This is a destructive attack on one of the greatest institutions.
Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj
OFFICIAL Statement from AAUP-TNS on Cuts to Faculty and Staff 12-9-25
The New School - Austerity Cuts to the Bone A Statement from the Leadership Council of AAUP-TNS On December 3, 2025, New School President Joel Towers and Provost Richard Kessler issued voluntary sep...
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December 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
This is a destructive attack on one of the greatest institutions.
Calling all students, parents, and friends of the New School! Send the Board a letter TODAY - the deadline for us to enroll in voluntary separation and early retirement approaches!
Tell them to stop the cuts and chop from the top!
To send a quick letter go to linktr.ee/aauptns
Tell them to stop the cuts and chop from the top!
To send a quick letter go to linktr.ee/aauptns
December 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Calling all students, parents, and friends of the New School! Send the Board a letter TODAY - the deadline for us to enroll in voluntary separation and early retirement approaches!
Tell them to stop the cuts and chop from the top!
To send a quick letter go to linktr.ee/aauptns
Tell them to stop the cuts and chop from the top!
To send a quick letter go to linktr.ee/aauptns
Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj
OFFICIAL Statement from AAUP-TNS on Cuts to Faculty and Staff 12-9-25
The New School - Austerity Cuts to the Bone A Statement from the Leadership Council of AAUP-TNS On December 3, 2025, New School President Joel Towers and Provost Richard Kessler issued voluntary sep...
tr.ee
December 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj
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We need to flood them with letters now. Write today!
"Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the university—have been given less than two weeks to accept insulting “offers” and pack up as early as January 2, 2026."
Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Stop the Cuts at the New School
The restructuring proposed by the New School’s upper administration will harm faculty, students and the larger New School community. Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the univ...
actionnetwork.org
December 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We need to flood them with letters now. Write today!
Reposted by The New School AAUP
Higher ed workers at The New School are rejecting the admin's strategies of divide and conquer to mount a unified challenge to austerity.
In this AAUP TV episode, Laura Liu of AAUP-TNS talks about how faculty, students & staff come together despite weaponized employment contracts that divide them.
In this AAUP TV episode, Laura Liu of AAUP-TNS talks about how faculty, students & staff come together despite weaponized employment contracts that divide them.
December 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Higher ed workers at The New School are rejecting the admin's strategies of divide and conquer to mount a unified challenge to austerity.
In this AAUP TV episode, Laura Liu of AAUP-TNS talks about how faculty, students & staff come together despite weaponized employment contracts that divide them.
In this AAUP TV episode, Laura Liu of AAUP-TNS talks about how faculty, students & staff come together despite weaponized employment contracts that divide them.
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If the so-called leaders of the New School had actually learned from the university’s history (instead of just endlessly recounting it), they would be seeking ways to provide an institutional safe-haven for another group of political dissidents from Columbia U.
The extreme, ideologically-driven, fast, furious, economically reckless decisions being made by New School president & provost are NOT the simple consequence of economic need. they're a malicious disaster and must be stopped... an assault on critical thought.
December 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If the so-called leaders of the New School had actually learned from the university’s history (instead of just endlessly recounting it), they would be seeking ways to provide an institutional safe-haven for another group of political dissidents from Columbia U.
Reposted by The New School AAUP
"Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the university—have been given less than two weeks to accept insulting “offers” and pack up as early as January 2, 2026."
Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Stop the Cuts at the New School
The restructuring proposed by the New School’s upper administration will harm faculty, students and the larger New School community. Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the univ...
actionnetwork.org
December 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the university—have been given less than two weeks to accept insulting “offers” and pack up as early as January 2, 2026."
Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...