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== Origins ==

When the New School was founded in 1919, it was hoped to have a permanent faculty to spearhead its innovative agenda. The did not prove financially feasible, though, so the New School, under theleadership of President [[Alvin Johnson]], had to employ temporary lectures who often held other jobs and whose time at the institution was often fleeting. This model, which has persisted to this day, has, for all its institutional drawbacks, yielded some notable intellectual results. To quote from the summer 2006 catalogue of the new School for General Studies "Some of the finest minds of the 20th century developed[ed unique courses at the New School. [[W. E. B. Du Bois]] taught the first course on trace and African-American culture offered at a university; [[Karen Horney]] and [[Sandor Ferenczi]] introduced the insights and conflicts of psychoanalysis.....in the early sixties, [[Gerda Lerner]] offered the first university course on women's studies". To this list could be added [[W. H. Auden]], who lectured on Shakespeare at the newNew School in the late 1940s; Hiram Haydn, whose writing courses produced scores of novelists and publishers; and [[Gorham Munson]], who pioneered the concept of the 'writing workshop' at the New School.

==Growth and Change==