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School apologizes after making child change "Black Girls Rock" shirt
December 11, 2015 at 12:04 AM CST - Updated July 25 at 2:47 AM
BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - Sharika Jolly says there was a time when her daughter was very unhappy with the way she looked.
"Before she wanted her hair straightened and colored blonde," said Jolly. "I'm like 'No, baby. That's not you. This is who you are. You don't have to be like anyone else but yourself.' And I feel like she should be comfortable in her own skin."
Jolly says she wanted Makiyah-Jae to love and accept herself just the way she is, so she bought her a t-shirt that says "Black Girls Rock." Black Girls Rock is a nonprofit organization that promotes empowerment and mentoring among black women.
Makiyah-Jae has worn the shirt to Popps Ferry Elementary many times, but recently came home from school in a different shirt than the one she left the house wearing. Concerned, Jolly called the principal.
"When I asked him what was the reason for him taking the shirt off of her, he said, 'You're right. It's not in the policy. Nowhere in the policy does it state that the shirt is out of dress code,'" said Jolly. "He said they made a judgment call, then I proceeded to ask well who are the judges judging my eight year old. And he said 'Well, I'm the principal so I made the call.'"
Jolly says after she complained an administrator for the school district, the school called on Thursday to apologize.
"It took two days but he did apologize,"said Jolly. "I accepted the apology, but my concern is how many other kids have been discriminated against at that school and their parents have not spoken up."
Biloxi Schools Superintendent Arthur McMillan says it was an overreaction that the principal later realized.
"The principal said they got to thinking about it. We were trying to avoid a conflict. In today's world we think about all the politically correct things that we don't want to offend anybody; probably overreached in this situation. In our school we don't do a dress uniform."
McMillan says since there is no school uniform, school officials sometimes have to decide on appropriateness.
"We probably overreached in this situation, but we make many decisions every day. Sometimes with decisions we make even as parents, we go back and look and think I wish I'd made that decision different. I think that's the situation here," said McMillan. "If he could make that decision again, he'd probably say 'Hey, you know that's not a big deal,' but you're always guarding against how do we not offend anybody."
Makiyah-Jae is now free to wear her "Black Girls Rock" shirt to school, and a family friend has promised to gift her a new one as well.
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March 19, 2010 -- Fifteen newly identified genes may offer a better understanding of the cause of ulcerative colitis and its ties to Crohn's disease.
Two new studies involving more than 23,000 people bring the total number of genes associated with the painful disorder to nearly 30 and show at least half of these genes are also linked to Crohn's disease.
"It is clear from these and other data that ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease share some mechanistic pathways and susceptibility genes, but that some pathways and genes are particular to each condition," researcher Dermot P.B. McGovern, MD, PhD, of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and colleagues write in Nature Genetics.
Researchers say the discovery of these additional genes may help explain why the symptoms and severity of ulcerative colitis vary so dramatically from person to person. Understanding these individual differences may eventually lead to more effective and personalized treatments.
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Nintendo 3DS version of Super Mario Maker will let you create your own Mario levels on the go, but not share them on the Internet.
Nintendo will bring its make-your-own-Mario-level software to the portable 3DS system this year, but you won't be able to share your creations online. Bummer.
Super Mario Maker For Nintendo 3DS, to be released December 2, seems to be more focused on playing. It will include 100 levels designed by Nintendo, each with various extra challenges, such as completing the level while killing all of the enemies, or collecting every coin. Meanwhile, you'll be able to load up an automatically-generated, always-changing list of different levels that were created by players on the Wii U version of the game that Nintendo released last year.
What you won't be able to do, that you can on the Wii U, is enter in a download code to play a specific level. And most importantly, once you create a level on the 3DS, you can't upload it and share it around. What you can do, Nintendo says, is share that level with other players via local wireless.
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Once upon a time poems told stories about people. Think of Robert Frost's "The Death of the Hired Man" about a wandering old farmhand "worn out" and "asleep beside the stove" while a farm wife and her reluctant husband debate letting him stay for the winter. Though the poor fellow never wakes to say a word for himself, we learn enough from them for him to become a memorable character, a masterful hay bailer too simple to survive among our machinations. And who can forget Edwin Arlington Robinson' s creation of Richard Cory? "A gentleman from sole to crown" who was "rich—yes, richer than a king" "one calm summer night," he "went home and put a bullet through his head." In sixteen lines Robinson seemed to write a novel.
George Drew still writes these kind of poems. In one he tries to explain "Richard Cory" to a disbelieving schoolgirl. No doubt raised in the pop psychology of our times, which offers medications and reassuring theories about suicidal depression, she doesn't buy the darker truth of this poem from more than a hundred years ago.
RC's Girl
She's sweet, sixteen, and knows I'm a teacher.
Will I help her with this poem? It's more
than just her gray, imploring eyes.
I have my pride. Of course, I say.
I start with facts:
he's rich, has everything he could ever want,
and makes people's pulses flutter like dollar bills.
She smiles,
her eyes the vacant lots I played in as a child.
Exactly, she agrees—then why would he go home
and blow his brains out? He must be nuts.
Her dimples flare. I'm thinking, She
could've been the girl he never had, or had and lost.
I say he is a lonely man. We lean across the page,
our shadows grappling.
How? How could he be so lonely?
Imagine, I say,
how an astronaut must feel when he first walks
across the moon, his legs so used to
being anchored to the earth.
What's wrong with that? It's fun.
Yes, I agree, at first. But then it's not.
What up to then he could count on is gone:
he is alone.
Lips part, and like eyes after an eclipse,
hers widen. Vacant lots drown in the light.
The calm summer night begins to squirm.
She gets an A. I'll never forgive myself.
This gem appears in George's new book, The View From Jackass Hill, winner of the 2010 X.J. Poetry Prize from Texas Review Press. (By serendipitous coincidence the 2009 winner was Joshua Coben, Michael Perkins's son-in-law.) What impresses me so much is the voice of honesty in these poems. In some George addresses us directly. In others fictional characters share their tales. But in every case the speakers know what they think. No cleverness, no evasiveness, no irony to avoid the confusion or the pain. "Irony is too easy," appears as an epigraph in one poem, a quote drawn from Baron Wormser, a poet from Maine and George's friend. Indeed, what matters most to George in this world that is both beautiful and broken are his friends, both those he knows well and those given to him through poems, such as John Keats. The examined life that has taught George so much is the life of someone he respects. The book concludes with a long elegy to Hayden Carruth of Vermont, surely an inspirational figure for George's own hardscrabble New England pieces, and it begins with a series of elegies to other poets, including a three parter to Jack Wiler, whom George knew at the annual Frost Place poetry conferences in the White Mountains. I, too, learned of Jack Wiler while at Frost Place, but grew enamored with his poems because he'd been a Hoboken exterminator, a position which in that city of my young adulthood would have been like being a church deacon.
Some poems are told by personas, including a nameless member of the crowd who narrates "Blessed" and " Cursed" about "Jimmie Crocket" and "Joseph Crocket," two characters out of Richard Cory's world. One is a wealthy miser who detests the Salvation Army sidewalk bell ringers at Christmas time. The other is a death row inmate who can't stop smiling. Both poems seem to play on a movie screen in 1930s black-and-white. Elsewhere, though, the book brings us into the present by challenging the brutal follies of Iraq. And for a lighthearted change of pace, one piece wishes that Andy Warhol had applied his talent for the Campbell's soup can to the bagel. "Whether glazed with margarine and honey,/ paved with peanut butter, or best of all,/ battered with gobs of thick cream cheese,/ they should turn the tongue hot and horny."
Yet death and darkness predominate in these poems. Now 70ish, George has seen many good people pass, including his first wife when she was 51. But he doesn't let sadness get the best of him. The title poem, "The View From Jackass Hill," could be read as his credo. Jackass Hill is a real place, by the way, that he discovered while out for a run in Colorado.
The View From Jackass Hill
Tell me, why must you remind me things
are going to Hell and us along with them?
The idea of Hell scares the hell out of me,
which is why I've come to Jackass Hill.
From the top I can look west and have
an unobstructed view of the mostly brown
and pine tree-speckled green foothills
and farther west the snowcapped Rockies
gleaming in the sun like the odd new world
Milton's archfiend lusted after. Sure,
I know the paradise the settlers imagined
somewhere on the other side is nothing more
than the punchline of a cosmic joke and that
the archfiend's wings will overspread such
rosy vistas, but the temporary view beats
the hell out of a worm-riven, funky apple,
out of an archangel thug throwing us out
of some over-evaluated piece of real estate
and into everything that is going to hell
in a hand basket woven of spiders and snakes.
Imagined or not, I'll take an Elysian Fields
anytime, and if like Milton you'd rather a
raging sulfurous Hell of dark angelic agony,
then you, my unfrocked friend, can go to hell.
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Here are the possible films nominated for the 2021 Oscars: from Netflix titles like The Chicago 7 Trial and Mank to films like Nomadland and The Father
by Claire Marie Ayroles (Italy)
In such a particular year, after the closure of cinemas and the cancellation of many productions, the 2021 Oscar season is also expected to be somewhat atypical. Due to the pandemic, the famous ceremony will be postponed for two months: the 93rd edition of the Academy Award is set for April 25, 2021 . But what are the films designated for the title candidacy?
From the significant growth of Netflix , which has now acquired a predominant position in streaming, to festival titles worthy of some attention, here are the forecasts on the 10 films that could be nominated for the 2021 Oscars .
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From the direction of Spike Lee , a Netflix production released on the platform last June: "Da 5 blood" tells the story of four African American veterans, engaged in a journey to Vientnam among the painful memories of the war and, at the same time, in an investigation in search of the hidden treasure forty years earlier together with their deceased comrade, Norman Holloway ( Chadwick Boseman sadly disappeared shortly after filming ended ).
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Netflix appears again, in the early fall, with The Chicago 7 trial , directed by Aaron Sorkin. Supported by an excellent cast including Eddie Redmayne , Mark Rylance , Sacha Baron Cohen , Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Frank Langella , the plot centers on the reconstruction of the court case which, in 1969, saw several voices of American pacifism brought to trial in following the demonstrations during the previous year's Democratic Party Convention .
Gary Oldman stars in "Mank", coming to Netflix on December 4th . Director David Fincher stages a script written by his father Jack: a bitter overview of the Hollywood industry through the eyes of Herman J. Mankiewicz. Amanda Seyfried also appears in the cast , as Herman 's young lover, starlet Marion Davies .
Also on December 4th, in the American theaters still open, Chloe Zhao's "Nomadland" will debut, a film inspired by the book by Jessica Bruder : Fern, a 60-year-old woman from the Midwest, after losing all her possessions, embarks on a new existence from seminomade. The film was the winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival 2020.
After Parasite's huge triumph, Lee Isaac Chung's "Minari" will be released in the United States on 11 December, Sundance Film Festival winner: the story of an American family of Korean origins who move to rural Arkansas, investing their savings on a farm.
On December 18, "The Father" will be released in American theaters, starring the unrivaled Anthony Hopkins who, at 82, starred in the most impressive and lauded performance of his career, as he appeared at the Sundance Film Festival. The Father, film by French playwright Florian Zeller tells the story of Henry, a man struggling with senile dementia. Hopkins has in fact booked himself a place in the race for the Oscar for best actor, joined by Olivia Colman in the part of her daughter Anne.
On the same day, December 18, " Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" will be available on Netflix , directed by George C. Wolfe, based on the Auguste Wilson drama. Viola Davis will play the twenties blues star Ma Rainey, while beloved Chadwick Boseman will play Levee , a musician who, during a session in a recording studio, will find himself going head to head with the strong-willed singer.
"News from the world" , Netlfix production, is the new Christmas 2021 film: directed by British director Paul Greengrass, it will hit US theaters on December 25th. The film stars the legendary Tom Hanks in the role of Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a former Civil War officer who embarks on a dangerous journey in the Rocky Mountains together with the very young Johanna Leonberger ( Helena Zengel ).
PIECE OF A WOMAN
"Pieces of a Woman" , is the first work of the Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó, based on one of his theatrical plays. The film tells the painful ordeal of Marta Weiss , a young woman forced to face mourning for the death of her newborn son, a character played by Vanessa Kirby. Alongside her in the film, available on Netflix from January 7, will also be Shia LaBeouf as her partner Sean and the timeless Ellen Burstyn as her mother Elizabeth .
Amazon Prime Video makes "One Night in Miami" , directed by Regina King , scheduled for streaming on January 15th. Written by Kemp Powers , the film tells a special night in February 1964, in the room of a hotel in Miami , the scene of the fictional encounter between four icons of the black imagination: the activist Malcolm X ( Kingsley Ben-Adir ), the boxer Muhammad Ali ( Eli Goree ), football champion Jim Brown ( Aldis Hodge ) and music star Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr ).
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Jesus Was Not White. Here Is Why Recognizing That Matters.
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I grew up in a Christian home, where a photo of Jesus hung on my bedroom wall. I still have it. It is schmaltzy and rather tacky in that 1970s kind of way, but as a little girl I loved it. In this picture, Jesus looks kind and gentle, he gazes down at me lovingly. He is also light-haired, blue-eyed, and very white.
The problem is, Jesus was not white. You'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise if you've ever entered a Western church or visited an art gallery. But while there is no physical description of him in the Bible, there is also no doubt that the historical Jesus, the man who was executed by the Roman State in the first century CE, was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew.
This is not controversial from a scholarly point of view, but somehow it is a forgotten detail for many of the millions of Christians who will gather to celebrate Easter this week.
On Good Friday, Christians attend churches to worship Jesus and, in particular, remember his death on a cross. In most of these churches, Jesus will be depicted as a white man, a guy that looks like Anglo-Australians, a guy easy for other Anglo-Australians to identify with.
Think for a moment of the rather dashing Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus in Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ. He is an Irish-American actor. Or call to mind some of the most famous artworks of Jesus' crucifixion—Ruben, Grunewald, Giotto—and again we see the European bias in depicting a white-skinned Jesus.
Does any of this matter? Yes, it really does. As a society, we are well aware of the power of representation and the importance of diverse role models.
After winning the 2013 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 12 Years a Slave, Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o shot to fame. In interviews since then, Nyong'o has repeatedly articulated her feelings of inferiority as a young woman because all the images of beauty she saw around her were of lighter-skinned women. It was only when she saw the fashion world embracing Sudanese model Alek Wek that she realised black could be beautiful too.
If we can recognise the importance of ethnically and physically diverse role models in our media, why can't we do the same for faith? Why do we continue to allow images of a whitened Jesus to dominate?
Many churches and cultures do depict Jesus as a brown or black man. Orthodox Christians usually have a very different iconography to that of European art – if you enter a church in Africa, you'll likely see an African Jesus on display.
But these are rarely the images we see in Australian Protestant and Catholic churches, and it is our loss. It allows the mainstream Christian community to separate their devotion to Jesus from compassionate regard for those who look different.
I would even go so far as to say it creates a cognitive disconnect, where one can feel deep affection for Jesus but little empathy for a Middle Eastern person. It likewise has implications for the theological claim that humans are made in God's image. If God is always imaged as white, then the default human becomes white and such thinking undergirds racism.
Historically, the whitewashing of Jesus contributed to Christians being some of the worst perpetrators of anti-Semitism and it continues to manifest in the "othering" of non-Anglo Saxon Australians.
This Easter, I can't help but wonder, what would our church and society look like if we just remembered that Jesus was brown? If we were confronted with the reality that the body hung on the cross was a brown body: one broken, tortured, and publicly executed by an oppressive regime.
How might it change our attitudes if we could see that the unjust imprisonment, abuse, and execution of the historical Jesus has more in common with the experience of Indigenous Australians or asylum seekers than it does with those who hold power in the church and usually represent Christ?
Perhaps most radical of all, I can't help but wonder what might change if we were more mindful that the person Christians celebrate as God in the flesh and saviour of the entire world was not a white man, but a Middle Eastern Jew
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The National School Walkout's student organizer Kaleab Jegol, 17, EXCLUSIVELY told HL about what the movement hopes to achieve!
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When Christian Suffers.
When Christian suffers, he or she says, God has touched me. The words are pre-eminently true, though their simplicity summarizes a very complex series of spiritual operations; and it is only when we have gone right through that whole series of operations that we have the right to speak those words.
For if, in the course of our encounters with evil, we try to distingush what the schoolmen term the instants of nature, we shall have on the contrary, to begin by saying, God wants to free me from this diminish-ment God wants me to help him to take this cup from me.
To struggle against evil, and to reduce to a minimum even the ordinary physical evil which threatens us,is unquestionably the first act of our Father who is in heaven; it would be impossible to conceive him in any other way, and still more impossible to love him.
It is a perfectly correct view of things and strictly consonant with the Gospel to regard providence across the ages as brooding over the world in ceaseless effort to spare that world its bitter wounds and bind up its hurts.
Most certainly it is God himself who,in the course of the centuries, awakens the great benefactors of humankind, and the great physicians, in ways that agree with the general rhythm of progress. He it is who inspires, even among those furthest from acknowledging his existence, the quest for every means of comfort and every means of healing.
Do not men acknowledge by instinct this divine presence when hatreds are quenched and their protesting un-certainty resolved as they kneel to thank each one of those who have helped their body or their mind to freedom? Can there be any doubt of it?
At the first approach of the diminish – ments we cannot hope to find God except by loathing what is coming upon us and doing our best to avoid it.
The more we repel suffering at that moment with our whole heart and our whole strength, the more closely we cleave to the heart and action of God.
Death Through Passivity.
Here we must be most careful to distinguish the two phases in the implementing, in the world around us, of the will of God: in other words, in the animation of secondary causes by the influx of the universal Christ.
In itself, and directly, our bondage to the world particularly those forms of it that irk us, that diminish us, that kill us is not divine, nor is it in any way willed by God.
It represents that portion of incompleteness and disorder which mars a creation that is still imperfectly unified.
In so far as they are such, these forms of bondage are displeasing to God: and in a first stage, God fights with us and in us against them.
One day he will triumph; but, because the duration of our individual lives is out of all proportion to the slow evolution of the total Christ, it is inevitable that we shall never during our time on earth, see the final victory.
Almost every moment brings another check to our effort to grow, undermines it and sooner or later we shall all experience decline and death.
Christ, never the less can never be overcome. If then we ask how the almighty power, which is his in virtue of his cosmic function, of saving and beatifying the elements of his Body in growth, will in some way re-establish itself, the answer is that it will do so by a remarkable transformation.
The Incarnate Word masters the limitations and diminishments that the general progress of the cosmos does not allow him to remove in the same way as a skilful sculptor masters the short comings of his marble, by integrating them though without changing them in a higher spiritualization of our beings.
That is why when we have fought to the bitter end to develop ourselves and win through, and find ourselves halted, beaten, by forces of the world, then if we believe, the power with which we clash so agonizingly suddenly ceases to be a blind or evil energy.
Hostile matter vanishes. And in its place, we find the divine Master of the world who under the species and appearance of each and every event, moulds us, empties us of our self-love, and penetrates into us.
Ex-wife of former White House aide says Hatch has apologized — National Post
WASHINGTON — An ex-wife of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter says she has received a letter of apology from Sen. Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican who defended his former aide from "a vile attack" after two ex-wives accused Porter of domestic abuse. Porter resigned Feb. 7 after the accusations from Colbie Holderness and…
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The Teilhard de Chardin Experience.
Recently I came across some very interesting books which were inspired by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Mystic,Philosophy,Theological and Geologist.
What I have learnt about Teilhard is that he was seeking the perfect solution to nonperishable which took him through many experiment but his experiment was lead him to the Spirit of the Higher Force.
Anyhow the deeper I get into his studies, I have come to conclude that my belief in another world do exist which is the Spiritual world.
He also conclude that there are three types of Religion which is the Christianity, Human and Universal of which he also call the Triad.
For Teilhard a complete religion would involve elements from all three and he believed this new religion was soon to appear.
It would develop out of the ongoing confluence of all three religious currents.
Thus the three religions are necessary in order that the final religion, that of the universal Christ, might be complete.
In the great river of mankind, the three currents ( Eastern, Human and Christian ) are still at cross-purposes. Never-theless, there are sure indications which make it clear that they are coming to run together.
A single dad walked 11 miles to work every day — until his co-workers found out.
Trenton Lewis' legs ached from the 11-mile walk he made every morning to get to his 4 a.m. shift. And yet the 21-year-old dutifully did it for seven long months.
He didn't tell anyone. He's never been one for excuses — especially when it comes to providing for his 14-month-old daughter, Karmen.
"My pride is strong," he told CNN. "Whatever she needs, I'm the person who is supposed to provide it for her."
But his co-workers at a UPS facility in Little Rock, Arkansas, found out. And last week, they decided to make things right.
They asked Lewis to come to a brief union meeting.
When he showed up, his stoic face gave way to disbelief and then a grateful smile as his coworkers handed him keys to a new car.
"I was emotionally moved. My heart just fell," the young worker recalled.
When Lewis began working at the UPS facility, he had no means of getting to and from work.
"I was banking on my feet," he said.
So every morning, he walked, and kept most of his colleagues in the dark about his pre-dawn journey.
But every large workforce has that one "queen bee" who knows all and sees all.
For Trenton Lewis, that was Patricia "Mama Pat" Bryant.
"She was like a second mom," Lewis said. "She actually got upset with me when she found out I was walking to work."
Bryant and her husband, Kenneth, have both put in almost 40 years at UPS.
"For a young person to decide in their mind 'if I don't have a ride, if I can't get a ride then I'll walk,'" Kenneth Bryant said. "If a guy can do that, we can pitch in to help."
The Bryants quietly shared Lewis' story with their fellow workers and took up a collection to buy their determined colleague a car.
Most of the employees didn't even know Lewis but were impressed with his grit.
Soon enough, the group raised almost $2,000.
"Everybody that I talked to said yes! The hardest part was reminding them to bring cash," Kenneth Bryant said. "I told the seller what I was doing and who it was for and he said he was willing to work with me on a price."
Bryant wanted everything to be perfect for the big reveal. He even went as far as fixing a small nick on the bumper.
The group lured Lewis to the parking lot for that brief "union meeting." Kenneth Bryant reached into his pocket, pulled out the keys to the 2006 Saturn Ion and stunned Lewis.
"God always has something for you," said Lewis. "I'm never going to forget this ever."
Lewis thanked his co-workers profusely.
His first ride in the car was to pick up his daughter for a bite to eat.
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How to Apply: Undergraduate Programs
Below you'll find a checklist of required application materials for our BFA and BBA programs, as well as specific instructions for students applying from international high schools or colleges, students whose native language is not English, transfer students, homeschooled students, and students seeking readmission to The New School.
First-Year Early Action: November 1
First-Year Regular Decision: January 15
Non-Degree and Visiting Students: March 15
Transfers: March 1
FAFSA (U.S. Citizens and Eligible Non-Citizens)
Fall Applicants: February 1
Spring term admission is not offered for Parsons undergraduate programs. All undergraduate programs begin in the fall. All deadlines listed above are our priority deadlines, with the exception of the Early Action deadline. Applications received after these deadlines will be reviewed if space is still available in our program. Please email us at thinkparsons@newschool.edu to ask if we are still reviewing applications.
Complete Application
Applicants are required to apply online using the Common Application. You must complete all required fields and upload materials prior to submission. Most materials can be submitted electronically via the Common Application. Parsons and Parsons Paris applicants must submit their portfolio and Parsons Challenge through The New School's Online Application Center. Any additional supporting documents that need to be sent electronically or by mail must include an Application Materials Cover Sheet. All supporting materials must be received before your application can be reviewed.
If you're planning to apply using a school email address, please confirm you can receive our email first. Some schools block email from outside their domains.
Submit Your Application Fee
The application fee for U.S. domestic applicants and international transfer applicants is $50. The application fee for first-year international applicants is $75.
Application fees are paid through the online application and are non-refundable.
If the application fee is a hardship to your or your family, you can request a fee waiver through the Common Application. Additionally, The New School waives application fees for those who meet the eligibility guidelines listed in the Application Fee Waivers section of our university-wide How to Apply page.
Complete the Required Essay
Essay 1: Why The New School?
The New School's innovative programs and engaged community are inspired by the future. Tell us about your future self. Where are you? What are you doing? What are you innovating? How are you affecting change? How does The New School fit into your journey towards this future? Be as specific as possible. (500-650 words)
Essay 2: Personal Essay
Transfer applicants are also required to submit the Common Application's personal essay. This is optional for Freshman applicants.
Submit Your Portfolio and/or Parsons Challenge
We require applicants to submit their Common Application before uploading their portfolio and/or Parsons Challenge.
In order to review your application, we will need to receive all required materials. The portfolio and Parsons Challenge should be submitted through The New School's Online Application Center after submission of the Common Application. You can submit the portfolio and/or Parsons Challenge up to seven days after you submit your Common Application. You must use the same email address that you used to complete your Common Application when you create your portfolio. For guidance on how to submit and upload these pieces, review our instruction video. Please read below for further instructions.
BFA Program Applicants
Freshman and transfer applicants to BFA programs must submit both a portfolio and the Parsons Challenge. Submission must take place after they submit their Common Application.
Portfolio: The portfolio is 8 to 12 uploads/slides and can include work in a variety of media such as drawing, painting, sculpture, fashion design, animation, performance, graphic design, and sketchbook pages. We encourage you to show experimentation and range. Your portfolio does not need to include work specific to your major choice, unless you are applying as a transfer student, in which case we do encourage major-specific work.
Parsons Challenge: Applicants must create a new visual work inspired by a piece submitted in the portfolio. This new piece should connect to the theme or concept of their original work. Support your process by writing one 500-word essay describing how your ideas developed. You may also submit up to two additional visual pieces that document your process. All forms of media are acceptable—drawing, video, photography, sculpture, 3D work, collage, digital images. The Parsons Challenge helps us understand how you develop ideas, visually communicate those ideas, and support your work in writing.
BBA Program Applicants (Strategic Design and Management)
Applicants to the BBA in Strategic Design and Management are encouraged to submit the Parsons Challenge; however, they are not permitted to submit a portfolio. Submission must take place after they submit their Common Application.
Parsons Challenge: Create a new visual work inspired by an advertisement, invention, or theme within a piece you've already created. Support your process by writing one 500-word essay describing how your ideas developed. You may also submit up to two additional pieces that document your process. All forms of media are acceptable—drawing, video, photography, sculpture, 3D work, collage, digital images. The Parsons Challenge helps us understand how you develop ideas, visually communicate those ideas, and support your work in writing.
Submit Letters of Recommendation
Recommendations may be submitted online through the Common Application. If preferred, the recommendation form may be downloaded and emailed to enroll@newschool.edu.
First Year Applicants
Applicants applying directly from high school must submit one counselor recommendation and one recommendation from a teacher. The Common Application School Report is also required.
Students transferring from other colleges or universities must submit one recommendation from a professor with whom they have studied.
Submit Official Transcripts
All applicants must provide official high school and/or college transcripts from all institutions attended. Undergraduate applicants who have attended multiple high schools can submit only the graduating school's official transcript as long as all prior coursework is listed on that transcript.
First-year applicants must provide official high school and/or college transcripts. If you are currently in school, submit transcripts for all coursework taken to date. Transcripts that are not in English must be accompanied by a certified translation.
Applicants who have attended multiple high schools may submit only the transcript from the school from which they are graduating as long as all prior coursework is listed on that transcript. All academic credentials for homeschool students must be submitted as indicated in the Additional Information for Specific Applicant Populations section below.
Transfer applicants must submit an official high school/secondary school transcript with graduation date or General Education Diploma (GED). Official transcripts are also required for each college or university you have previously attended.
All Applicants
All applicants who attended postsecondary institutions outside of the United States are required to have their transcript(s) evaluated by World Education Services (WES), by Education Credential Evaluators (ECE), or by another member of the National Association of Credit Evaluation Services (NACES). A course-by-course evaluation must be prepared for each transcript.
Follow all document requirements as outlined on the evaluation service providers' websites. Evaluations completed by WES or ECE will be sent directly to us electronically by the vendor.
All other NACES provider evaluations should be mailed directly by the vendor to the address for Supplemental Materials. A copy of the transcript that was evaluated should accompany the evaluation in the same sealed envelope, or the official transcript should be sent directly to The New School by the issuing college/university.
Applicants with High School Equivalency Tests
Students may submit one of the following in lieu of official high school transcripts: General Education Development (GED), Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC), High School Equivalency Test (HiSET), or California High School Proficiency Exam (CHSPE) exam results. Final results must be sent directly from the testing agency.
How to Submit Electronic Transcripts
Transcripts can be submitted through an approved electronic vendor (see below), submitted via email by a school official, from an official school email address, to enroll@newschool.edu, or through postal mail. Transcripts will be considered unofficial if forwarded in an email.
Approved electronic vendors: BridgeU, Common Application, Cialfo, Credentials eScrip-Safe, Kuder, MaiaLearning, MEFA Pathway, National Student Clearinghouse, Naviance, OverGrad, Parchment Exchange, UniFrog, SCOIR, SchooLinks, Xello).
If your school does not use any of these vendors and your school official is not able to email them from an official school email address, transcripts must be sent directly via postal mail by a school official in a sealed envelope.
Our Mailing Address
Whenever possible, please send all official communication electronically, including transcripts, letters of recommendation, and tuition deposits.
In rare circumstances where items must be mailed, please send to:
All admitted students are automatically considered for merit scholarship awards determined by the strength of their applications. International students are eligible only for merit scholarships. There is no additional application to be considered for a merit scholarship.
If you are a U.S. citizen or eligible non-citizen, you must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in order to be considered for need-based financial aid. The FAFSA is available each year on October 1. The New School's federal school code is 002780. You don't need to wait for an admission decision to apply for federal aid. Our Financial Aid staff are available to guide you through the process of applying for financial aid.
Students who wish to further supplement their financial resources should consider applying for an external scholarship.
Consider Submitting Standardized Test Scores
The New School does not require submission of SAT or ACT scores. Should you feel your SAT or ACT test scores are beneficial to your application, feel free to submit them for consideration. The SAT institution code is 2521. The ACT code is 2828.
Submit English Language Proficiency Test Results
All applicants whose first language is not English must submit valid English language proficiency test results taken within the past two years.
We permit applicants to submit one of the following tests: TOEFL, IELTS, PTE, Duolingo English Test, or Cambridge English C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency.
Minimum required scores are:
TOEFL iBT- 92
IELTS - 7
PTE - 63
Duolingo English Test - 115
Cambridge English - 185
Our TOEFL institution code is 2521. IELTS test takers should electronically submit their test results to The New School.
The New School does not require TOEFL, IELTS, PTE, Duolingo English Test or Cambridge English scores for applicants who have:
Studied in English, as the primary language of instruction, for all four consecutive years of high school/secondary school. However, students who have taken any English as a Second Language (ESL) courses while in high school, regardless of how long they have been in high school, must submit TOEFL, IELTS, PTE, or Duolingo English Test results.
Successfully completed two full semesters of college-level coursework while taking non-ESL college-level expository writing or equivalent courses (transfer students only).
Earned a four-year degree from a U.S. college/university or from a university where English is the primary language of instruction, with a minimum of three years attendance (transfer students only).
After reviewing your application, the Office of Admission may require you to submit an English language proficiency test score to evaluate your candidacy.
Are results permitted from the following types of English exams by The New School?
IELTS Indicator: NO
IELTS for UKVI (AC - Academic): NO
iTEP: NO
TOEFL Essentials: NO
TOEFL iBT Home Edition: YES
TOEFL ITP Plus for China: NO
TOEFL My Best Score: NO
University College London preparatory certificate program showing completion of the program including strong grades in Academic English: NO
Applications become complete and ready for review once all required items have been received by the Office of Admission. You can check your application status in the Admission Hub.
Allow at least 14 days from the date you submitted your application for items to be matched and shown as received. Applicants are responsible for following up with schools and recommenders to confirm that transcripts and recommendations have been sent.
The Office of Admission will periodically notify applicants by email if their file is missing any documents and again when their file is complete for review. These notifications are sent to the email address provided in the online application.
If you need to change your email address, mailing address, or other contact information, email the Office of Admission.
Receive Your Decision
Spring admission decisions are released on a rolling basis starting in November.
Fall early action first-year admission decisions will be released in mid-December.
Fall regular decision first-year admission decisions will be released in mid-March.
Fall transfer admission decisions will be released on a rolling basis starting in April.
Additional Information for Specific Applicant Populations
Some applicants are required to submit additional information. If you identify as an applicant from one of these populations please submit the required information below.
International Secondary School Requirements
The New School welcomes applicants from all over the world. To be competitive for admission, applicants must be on track to complete required coursework to earn a high school diploma within their home country that qualifies them for university entry. Below are some of the most common international secondary school curriculums that we see students applying from and helpful guidance for each one.
Advanced Levels (A-Levels): Students who are most competitive for admission will have completed or be in the process of completing A Levels from three subjects at the time of application.
Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) or Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE): Submission of both Standard X (SSC) and completed or predicted Standard XII (HSC) exam marks is required.
International Baccalaureate (IB): Students can pursue either the IB Diploma Program (DP) or IB Career-related Program (CP). Applicants who are taking individual IB courses as a supplement to a national curriculum are permitted to pursue individual IB courses rather than the DP or CP.
For more information about submission requirements see the Submitting Transcripts section above. Applicants with questions about their secondary school transcripts as it relates to admission can email admission@newschool.edu.
Some international secondary school coursework will qualify for pre-matriculation credit, awarded by the Registrar upon enrollment.
BA/BFA Applicants
You can apply to the BA/BFA dual-degree program with your initial application for admission to The New School. All applicants are required to apply online using the Common Application. In the field that asks "What school are you applying to?" you will be able to choose either "Lang and Jazz, BA/BFA" or "Lang and Parsons, BA/BFA".
Homeschool Applicants
Upon completion of the homeschool curriculum students must provide proof of high school graduation or an equivalent. We will accept an official transcript from a state homeschool association or sponsoring public high school; GED, TASC, or HiSET exam results; individual homeschool transcripts with date of completion; and certificates of completion recognized by local homeschool associations.
Homeschool applicants must provide the equivalent of a high school transcript with course or subject titles, duration of study for each title, content of study for each title, and an assessment of performance or "grade" at the time of application. Preferably, the courses completed at home are part of a curriculum developed and evaluated by a nationally recognized diploma-granting organization or agency.
Upon review, applicants may be required to submit additional application materials.
Transfer students are students who have graduated from high school or earned a high school equivalent and are in the process of completing, or have completed, college or university coursework after high school graduation. If you are unsure whether to apply as a first-year applicant or a transfer applicant, please contact us.
All applicants must list each college or university attended, both during and after high school, on the Common Application. Applicants must submit official transcripts from each college or university attended. Students who have attended an international university are required to submit original official transcripts as well as a course-by-course evaluation (and translation, if applicable) from World Education Services (or another official evaluation service).
Please review the Transcripts section for specific transcript requirements.
Internal Transfer Applicants
The Internal Transfer Application is required for all current New School students who wish to transfer from one New School college to another. If you would like to apply as an internal applicant, review the deadlines and requirements in the Undergraduate Internal Transfer Policy section of our University Admission How to Apply page. Students who wish to change departments or majors within the same college should speak with their academic advisor. Internal transfer applicants should connect with a Financial Aid Counselor. Financial aid packages, including scholarships, will change as a result of changing programs.
Visiting and Non-Degree Students
Students currently enrolled at another college who wish to take classes at The New School for one semester should apply as a visiting student.
Applicants for Readmission
The Application for Readmission should be completed by students who wish to return after an absence of four semesters (fall and spring). If you would like to apply for readmission, review the readmission deadlines and requirements in the Readmission section of our university How to Apply page. If you have enrolled at another institution since you were enrolled at The New School, you should apply for admission as a transfer student according to the instructions outlined above.
The New School welcomes undocumented students and students who hold DACA status to apply—such status does not affect the admissions process. When completing the Common Application related to Citizenship status, you may select "DACA, undocumented, Deferred Enforced Departure, or Temporary Protected Status."
For questions about financial aid, please contact the Office of Financial Aid at finaid@newschool.edu.
Additional information about how we support undocumented students can be found on our website.


With 2013 well underway, we continue to observe the clear signs of recovery. Like most transitions, this one is not without its challenges, but the upward trajectory seems clear to anyone observing facts rather than emotions. However, there is a lag from the time facts become available until public sentiment broadly accepts those facts. Remember that the next time you see an article explaining how the valley's market is worsening or that loan defaults are on the rise. It simply isn't true. Since 2004, an ongoing challenge has been to separate market fact from fiction. With that in mind, we return to the subject of market statistics. As always, our numbers come from the incomparable Michael Orr of the Cromford Report.
Supply of homes for sale The supply of new resale listings coming on the market remains constrained. The total current supply of homes for sale is 8.7% lower than last year. The primary cause for the reduction in inventory is due to the rapidly disappearing distress product. The traditional seller is simply not coming to the market in sufficient volume to replace this loss.  The yearly change in mix of the type of homes for sale is dramatic. Lender owned listings (REOs) are down 15.3%, but short sales show the most dramatic shift – down 46.4%. While the traditional seller is up from a year ago with an increase of 19.1%, you can quickly see it is not enough to fill the large loss of the distressed properties.
Certain areas and prices are showing a scarcity of supply more than others. In particular the areas that have lost inventory of homes for sale from last year and are showing the tightest supply –  are Tempe, Glendale, Chandler, Peoria, Avondale, and Gilbert. Conversely, supply is still adequate in luxury home areas such as Carefree, Rio Verde, Paradise Valley and Gold Canyon.
As to price ranges that are constricting, supply is very tight below $225,000. Between $225,000 and $500,000 supply is low but stable. Above $500,000, supply is recovering and in the top ranges over $2,000,000 supply is plentiful and now increasing.
Sales Sales remain weaker than last year, largely due to the small supply of bank owned and short sale homes available.  The number of short sales and lender owned properties were both down by 47% from last year. Investor purchases are at the lowest number since September 2011 and now comprise only 25.3% of the sales in Maricopa County (compare that to at one point hovering in the range of 50%).
Before one grabs the Kleenex box though, it would be wise to remember that while 2013 sales are down from 2012 and 2011, they are higher than any year from 2006-2010. So it is far from a dire situation as they remain "above normal". With pricing still below replacement cost and interest rates hovering at record low levels – this market has a lot to offer buyers.
Prices While price per square foot is typically our best indicator of short-term pricing trends, it is quite interesting to note long-term trends through median pricing (the point where half the sales fall above the price, half below). Currently our median pricing is up from a year ago by 31%. The median price is now $160,000 vs. $122,000 last year. We expect to see strong upward pressure on prices through the summer.
New Homes For buyers frustrated with finding a home, new homes offer only a small respite. While production has increased, they are not even at a third of the production levels they were at 15 years ago! Increasing labor costs and the time needed to put that labor team in place, combined with the fear of repeating the drubbing they took back in 2006, production remains too low to fill the demand for needed homes.
As we have mentioned so many times, supply and demand ultimately provide a tug of war on prices. While supply continues to remain lower than demand, we expect prices to rise accordingly. Rising prices bring out the sidelined sellers who have been waiting to sell. In short, this too shall pass. In the meantime, we will do our best to share with you the results of this battle. As always, we appreciate the loyalty of our clients. We are here to serve you.