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Alexiah Olsen
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Staff Writer, The New School Free Press
New York, Philadelphia
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The New School’s accreditation is in jeopardy after another failed educational effectiveness assessment
By Alexiah Olsen| The New School Free Press Verified The New School’s accreditation status is currently at a non-compliance warning after the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) deemed the university failed to comply with two of the seven commission standards, according to a mandated statement sent by President Joel Towers and Renee T. White, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, on Dec. 2. TNS did not meet the criteria for Standards V and VI.
By Alexiah Olsen, Bianca Rodriguez-Mora| The New School Free Press Verified After 20 years at The New School, Joel Towers stepped into a new role as the 10th president of TNS this semester. President Towers began his time at TNS in 2004 as a full-time faculty member and the first director of sustainable design and urban ecology at Parsons School of Design. Five years later, a nomination from other faculty saw him appointed dean of Parsons. After another nomination from his colleagues officially brought him the title of university president on Aug.
The New School’s accreditation is in jeopardy after another failed educational effectiveness assessment
By Alexiah Olsen| The New School Free Press Verified The New School’s accreditation status is currently at a non-compliance warning after the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) deemed the university failed to comply with two of the seven commission standards, according to a mandated statement sent by President Joel Towers and Renee T. White, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, on Dec. 2. TNS did not meet the criteria for Standards V and VI.
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The New School Free Press
The only place to find The New School all in one place. The New School Free Press is The New School's university-wide, student-run publication. It is published with the support of The New School and the Literary Studies department of Eugene Lang College, and currently functions as a monthly publication with a daily presence on the web. The Free Press operates as a credit-based class — though we do accept contributions — and covers each of The New School's seven divisions, Greenwich Village, New York City, and the world. The Free Press was founded in 2007, having evolved the now-defunct Lang College publication Inprint. In 2012, the Free Press won two awards — the Newspaper Pacemaker and the Online Pacemaker -— from the Associated College Press, the largest and oldest national membership organization for college student media in the United States.
New York, New York, United States
Founded: 2007