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BaconEggnCheese611 t1_j0kv675 wrote

Click bait title. This was in response to a staff protest and was part of a whole list of demands to compensate for missed class time.

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PaperbagWriter__ t1_j0l4bin wrote

Yeah in context it makes sense. If you’ve received no tuition for a semester you shouldn’t be penalized for that. Maybe an average of your previous grades is fairer but that won’t work for everyone. Maybe the university should have thought about this before pushing the staff to strike!

(if you’re against the students getting made up grades I get it but your objection here really has to be too for-profit universities. These people are customers of a high priced product as well as students, there are so many ways it doesn’t make sense)

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fried-twinkie t1_j0m8r3o wrote

FYI The New School is expensive but technically a non-profit institution.

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LostSoulNothing t1_j0l4svv wrote

This is an unsigned opinion piece originally sourced from The Daily Caller, a far-right fake news site. I'd assume it is, at best, highly misleading and, at worst, entirely fictional.

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xsunpotionx t1_j0l2tnu wrote

Fox News ran some crap click bait title too totally out of context to make the students look like the perpetrators and that the administration was doing everything they can for their students and faculty.

My sister is a senior BFA student at Parsons. It’s been a horrible experience to watch her go through.

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onyourrite t1_j0kut8y wrote

I was about to say “WTF” but when I saw it was The New School I was like “yeah good let the school burn”

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SachaCuy t1_j0l1wii wrote

I know it was almost 100 years ago but the new school provided 'university in exile' to get visa for professors who would have been killed by the Nazi's. Not many American universities did anything like that.

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MissRaffix3 t1_j0na5px wrote

This. I'm a Jewish alum of TNS and I'm very proud of its history as a forward-thinking and progressive institution

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MissRaffix3 t1_j0n9wq1 wrote

I'm an alum of The New School, and this headline is very misleading and designed to get you to roll your eyes about the "privileged" young people. Yet if you've been following this story, you'd know the students are working to support the adjunct/part-time faculty who were on strike due to issues surrounding their contracts (including low pay). They have reached a tentative agreement with the administration to change the terms of these contracts to include pay for work outside the classroom, better healthcare access, raises, and paid family leave. This is an issue of labor rights, not of young people wanting an "easy A."

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SolitaryMarmot t1_j0l68bk wrote

Good. Only scabs and losers cross picket lines. Any student that DIDN'T go to a class to support their striking professor should have accommodations made for them.

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