The New School's 66 West 12th Street building in New York City, NY, housing the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons A group of senior administrators at The New School (TNS), empowered by an ongoing financial crisis and wide-scale restructuring in the last year, constitutes a major threat to academic freedom at the institution, which has been dedicated to academic freedom and critical inquiry since its founding in 1919. Recent actions taken by

A poster protesting TNS President Joel towers next to students, faculty and staff picketing on December 10, 2025. Photo Credit: Hyperallergic . A shock-therapy restructuring currently being carried out by senior administrators at The New School threatens the institution which, from its beginning, has been dedicated to academic freedom and critical inquiry. This current crisis shows how threats to academic freedom are intimately connected with the growing power of a managerial