In response to the administration’s recent announcement of sweeping austerity measures, AAUP-TNS and the New School’s organizing committee for a Full-Time Faculty Union have issued a joint statement expressing deep concern over decisions made without meaningful shared governance, and outlining the harmful impacts on students, staff, part-time faculty, and full-time faculty alike. The statement highlights alternative approaches put forward by faculty, raises alarm over cuts to retirement benefits, reductions in course offerings, the pause on PhD admissions, and the outsourcing of Student Health Services. It calls on the New School community to stand together, attend the November 21 rally against cuts and layoffs, and join ongoing organizing efforts.
Read MoreWe are writing to you as members of the New School Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-TNS), a group affiliated with a national organization. Though we are not a union, we are an advocacy group that represents both full and part-time faculty, as well as other educators on campus. We are also a member of the New School Labor Coalition, which has been instrumental in shaping the moment of faculty-student-staff solidarity we are now in. Our mission is to ensure that The New School is attentive to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalized, and we support a people-centered approach to the immense challenges facing our community in moments of crisis.
Read MoreAAUP-TNS, as part of the New School Labor Coalition, stands in solidarity with our unionized colleagues as they negotiate new contracts with the university.
Read MoreThe New School has a long history of welcoming and helping endangered scholars and refugees. We call upon the University to live up to its history by waiving tuition for and making free, temporary housing available to any Ukrainian student enrolled at the New School who reports the need to bring their families to the United States. The need is far greater. There is an urgent need for the University to take an anti-imperialist and internationalist position in support of workers and endangered scholars worldwide and to renew publicly our commitment to being the “University in Exile.”
Read MoreThis statement offers an enumeration of the COVID-19 pandemic impacts on junior faculty. It describes a range of concrete, material and financial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Junior Faculty. Insofar as the pandemic is still ongoing, this enumeration is preliminary and partial.
Read MoreIn light of the likelihood of more frequent extreme weather events as a result of climate change in the future, The Leadership Council of AAUP-TNS and The New School Labor Coalition call on the University to perform a full, comprehensive review of its emergency policies and to share the review with the community.
Read MoreThe challenges of responding to the dynamic nature of the COVID-19 pandemic are immense, and we commend the University’s COVID Coordination Group and the UFS Summer Leadership Committee for its work in ensuring a safe return to campus. As educators, we feel strongly that teaching and learning work best when conducted in-person. At the same time, we recognize the anxiety and risk caused by the highly transmissible character of the Delta variant, as well as the deteriorating efficacy of vaccines over time and high transmission probabilities in classroom settings.
Read MoreWe commit to teach freedom, and join our brothers and sisters in the streets, in the classroom, and in every conceivable location to work for abolition of the carceral state, and for a just world where Black lives matter.
Read MoreAAUP-TNS stands in solidarity with New York University’s AAUP Chapter after Zoom unilaterally pulls the plug on academic event.
Read MoreTo remain true to its historical commitments, The New School needs to dispense with corporate models that cut to the bone, and begin listening to those who make the institution, against all odds, a place of humane, progressive education.
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