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. tr.ee/DOebr7qOXy

"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

“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.”

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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 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...

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...

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.

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

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

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

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👇

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.

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

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

We need to flood them with letters now. Write today!

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.

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.

"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...

We need to flood them with letters now. Write today!

In our most recent AAUP TV episode, Jeremy Varon, Prof of History and AAUP The New School Leadership Council member, discusses the university administration's proposal to terminate up to 40% of full-time faculty. The proposed layoffs will be catastrophic for faculty, students, and staff.

Something stinks at The New School. Between ’22 & ‘23, numerous high-level admin received large raises: President Joel Towers ( 11.6% to $417,000), exec dean Richard Kessler (11.7%, to $469,000), & provost Rene White (10.9%, to over $712,000). Now they’re broke? 🤔 @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

New School AAUP president Jeremy Varon called the cuts “an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice.” He said the humanities & social sciences would be “purged” under the plan. Great piece out today on the crisis at The New School in the @gothamist.com:

Happening now! Hear from @newschoolaaup.bsky.social faculty and @aaup.org national allies fighting back against austerity atracks on The New School www.youtube.com/live/RcTxJTd...

Thx friends @adamtooze.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, @stefeich.bsky.social, @danielloick.bsky.social & others who signed condemning malicious cuts at The New School @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org Join them! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

AAUP is livestreaming the rally and press conference against extreme austerity measures and the proposed termination of 40% of full-time faculty at The New School right now. Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/iT2HhjU...

"The New School is the only university in the country with a world-recognized art and design school and a Research 2 designation. By gutting the humanities, the administration is eliminating what makes the school unique." - Heather Davis, AAUP The New School @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

"Hundreds rallied outside the New School during a board meeting today to protest sweeping faculty and program cuts that many say will be devastating to the century-old institution’s progressive social research mission." @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/hundreds-ral...

Massive turnout of organized higher ed workers to protest the brutal austerity measures proposed by The New School management ✊ @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

Sign on to this petition demanding that management at The New School stop the devastating budget cuts, which propose a massive layoff of 40% of full-time faculty⬇️ @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

Tune in for another episode of AAUP TV tomorrow, Thursday, December 11 @ 7 PM ET. Chenjerai Kumanyika, AAUP National Council Member, and Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, will discuss the organized effort to fight extreme austerity attacks at The New School. Tune in on YouTube (link in thread).

TODAY! 4PM! CUT THE CUTS Rally at The New School! • SUSPEND “realignment” measures • RESCIND all “voluntary separation package agreements” • CAP on salaries over $200,000 • CALL on the Board of Trustees to hold a public meeting with the entire university community Livestream link below.

New School AAUP president Jeremy Varon called the cuts “an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice.” He said the humanities & social sciences would be “purged” under the plan. Great piece out today on the crisis at The New School in the @gothamist.com:

TODAY at The New School!