Glass panels of New York City's New School University Center reflect images at odd angles of another older building

New School, Old Tricks

BY MADHAV TR AND LEXI ALLISON What is happening at the New School is happening to higher education across the United States. The story is a familiar one: an administration determining a university’s future without consulting the people who keep it running, including students, faculty, and staff. The only people they do consult are those…

A Changing Landscape for Unionization at Private Institutions?

In her article in the November-December Academe, “Improving the Legal Landscape for Unionization at Private Colleges and Universities,” AAUP general counsel Risa L. Lieberwitz considers the legacy of the US Supreme Court’s 1980 decision in NLRB v. Yeshiva University. Because it held that faculty members’ autonomy and involvement in decision-making puts them in the category…