The New School AAUP

We released a joint statement last week (psc-cuny.org/news-events/hi…) opposing the bill, endorsed by @aaup_nyu, @CfuUaw, @AAUPTNS, AAUP - St John's University, @AAUPCU, @svafac_uaw and @UAWRegion9A.

"When authority is centralized . . . the institution loses more than procedural fairness — it loses its capacity for independent thought, civic imagination, and democratic purpose. The alternative to austerity is not denial. It is ambition." newschoolfreepress.com/2026/03/26/amb…

As unions and advocates that represent thousands of faculty and staff at NYC’s higher education institutions, we oppose City Council Intro 175-B, legislation regarding security perimeters adjacent to education facilities. Read the full statement here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/hi…

.@TheNewSchool is restructuring despite an outpouring of disapproval from students, faculty, and staff. The school has refused to listen, but the fight for education continues. youtube.com/watch?v=JRPPcA… | @UAWRegion9A | @AAUP | @uawhighered | @AAUPTNS | @UAW

📢.@TheChiefLeader "None of these changes serve the needs of any part of our community, but instead harm students and place Management’s financial burden on vulnerable members of the university’s workforce." @SENSUAW |@UAWRegion9A | @AAUP | @aauptns

“The current austerity plan is reckless and cruel. You can’t save The New School by destroying it.” -Jeremy Varon, President @AAUPTNS A 10-foot-long anti-restructuring letter was delivered by @TheNewSchool faculty, staff, and students to University President Joel Towers.

@UAWRegion9A @UAW @AAUP Full list of @TheNewSchool community demands:

➡️ ADHERE to principles of shared governance ➡️ RESCIND all “voluntary separation package agreements” ➡️ REINSTATE Part-Time Faculty whose courses have been canceled due to restructuring ➡️ CAP salaries over $200,000

The New School Community will not sit by calmly as @TheNewSchool is dismantled and our colleagues quietly disappear. We call on the New School Board of Trustees to: ➡️ SUSPEND “realignment” measures including -department/program closures + mergers

➡️ DISCLOSE all financial documents to The New School community that relate to restructuring ➡️ HOLD a public meeting with the entire university community — @SENSUAW | @AAUPTNS | @UAW7902

Today, hundreds of community members at the New School — workers & students — united to hand deliver a petition to university president Joel Towers & demand: Stop the cuts! Stop the austerity! Pres. Towers stayed in his tower. @AAUP @sensuaw #WeAreTheNewSchool

Christopher Newfield — @cnewf — one of the most prominent and respected scholars working in university studies today, provides a clear-eyed analysis of the situation at the New School and proposes a series of pragmatic, elegant solutions. @AAUPTNS utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/12/liner-…

"Unfortunately, TNS management has torched goodwill with its holiday severance pressure and has decided it has no money. Throw in brand confusion and retroactive self-tarnishing and one can reasonably conclude that this merger is more likely to money than to save it."

@plbds @cnewf The one and only!

Found him, @cnewf !

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-…

One of the most sane & pragmatic voices in higher ed today, @cnewf has weighed in TNS “senior management… have turned instead to a formulaic restructuring that is disconnected from concrete educational practices & wholly controlled by fiscal crisis.”

The current round of devastating cuts and closures being pushed upon the New School means that the once proud institution of radical thought is in danger of being gutted, one of its part-time faculty members writes: jacobin.com/2025/12/new-sc…

"It is we, the faculty and students of @TheNewSchool, who most passionately believe in this guiding mission. And it is we who are best equipped to protect it, no matter the cost." @SENSUAW | @AAUPTNS | @UAWRegion9A

“Students are really committed to their professors, professors to their students. We’re able to fight for each other and actually protect each other.” — @SENSUAW member Danielle Twiss. Solidarity is the answer! 📸New School Free Press/ Dove Williams @UAWRegion9A @UAW @AAUPTNS

The cuts at the New School in the @nytimes. 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 nytimes.com/2025/12/19/nyr…