The New School’s Office of Equity, Inclusion & Social Justice put forth an initiative known as the Campus Climate Assessment Implementation Task Force, which is “charged with operationalizing the recommendations of the campus climate assessment.”
The Office of EISJ crafted the University Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Committee which “draws on and aligns the various efforts across colleges and departments to ensure that all members of the community are served and to promote fidelity in operation and implementation.”
In 2021, the New School founded the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy, which “advances research to understand structural inequalities and works to identify groundbreaking ways to promote equity.”
The New School hosted a 10 week online seminar program on “Comparative Racisms” from March through May 2022.
In 2020, The New School hosted a workshop known as “Racism Untaught,” which “is a toolkit developed to facilitate workshops in academia and industry to walk participants through the process of analyzing forms of Racialized Design – design that perpetuates elements of racism.”
The New School’s Management and Social Justice Project incorporates a speaker series as well as a 2023 Conference.
On April 18, 2023, The New School held a colloquium of Sociology on the topic, “Race, Class and Capitalism: The Changing Views of W.E.B. Du Bois.”
The New School’s Office of EISJ “offers a variety of programming to support and advance equity, inclusion, and social justice.”
On May 13, 2022, The New School released a statement proposing the Framework for Fearless Progress, which incorporates several initiatives that further the school’s goal to “remove barriers to access and to redress policies, praxis, and pedagogy that limit full inclusion.” One such initiative is to have students, faculty, and staff select “an identity marker.”
On June 12, 2020, The New School released a statement announcing several incoming initiatives, including “a new Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification, and Political Economy.”