The New School

The New School is a private research university in New York City, founded in 1919 as the New School for Social Research and now bringing together the Parsons School of Design, the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, the College of Performing Arts including the Mannes School of Music, and the New School for Social Research.新学院大学是纽约市的一所私立研究型大学，1919年以社会研究新学院之名创立，如今汇聚帕森斯设计学院、尤金·兰文理学院、含曼尼斯音乐学院的表演艺术学院以及社会研究新学院四个学部。

Around 8,500 students are enrolled in its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, more than 70 per cent of them in the creative fields of design, performing and fine arts, and the university also maintains the Parsons Paris campus abroad.全校本硕在读约8500人，逾七成就读于设计、表演与纯艺术等创意领域，并在海外设有帕森斯巴黎校区。

The institution is classified among R2 doctoral universities for high research activity, and in the QS World University Rankings 2027 it is placed in the 851-900 band.该校被归入高研究活动的R2级博士大学，在2027年QS世界大学排名中位列第851-900档。

History

• In October 1917 Columbia University suppressed faculty criticism of the United States entry into World War I and dismissed two professors who had criticised both Woodrow Wilson and university president Nicholas Murray Butler.1917年10月，哥伦比亚大学压制教员对美国参加一战的批评，解聘了抨击总统伍德罗·威尔逊与校长尼古拉斯·默里·巴特勒的两名教授。

• Historian Charles A. Beard resigned his Columbia chair of political science in protest while still supporting the war, James Harvey Robinson resigned in 1919, and both became founders of the new school.历史学家查尔斯·比尔德虽支持战争仍辞去哥伦比亚大学政治学教席以示抗议，詹姆斯·哈维·鲁宾逊则于1919年辞职，二人后来均成为新校的创办者。

• The New School for Social Research was founded in 1919 by economist Alvin Johnson, historians Charles Beard and James Harvey Robinson, economist Thorstein Veblen and philosopher John Dewey as a place where adult students could seek an unbiased understanding of the existing order.社会研究新学院于1919年由经济学家阿尔文·约翰逊、历史学家查尔斯·比尔德与詹姆斯·哈维·鲁宾逊、经济学家托尔斯坦·凡勃伦及哲学家约翰·杜威共同创办，旨在让成人学生「对现存秩序求取不偏不倚的理解」。

• In the first semester of 1919 the school offered 100 courses, mostly in economics and politics, taught by an ad hoc faculty that included Harold Laski, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Graham Wallas, Charles Davenport and Roscoe Pound.1919年首个学期即开设100门课程，多为经济学与政治学，临时教员团中包括哈罗德·拉斯基、韦斯利·克莱尔·米切尔、格雷厄姆·沃拉斯、查尔斯·道恩与罗斯科·庞德。

• Within a few years the faculty expanded into the performing arts, drawing Aaron Copland, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Seeger, Henry Cowell and the Group Theater onto the teaching staff.数年间教员队伍扩展至表演艺术领域，亚伦·科普兰、玛莎·葛兰姆、多丽丝·韩芙莉、查尔斯·西格、亨利·考埃尔与团体剧场先后入校执教。

• Alvin Saunders Johnson presided from 1922 to 1945, followed by Bryn Hovde from 1945 to 1950, Hans Simons from 1950 to 1960, John R. Everett from 1964 to 1982 and Jonathan Fanton from 1982 to 1999.阿尔文·桑德斯·约翰逊于1922至1945年主持校政，继任者为1945至1950年的布林·霍夫德、1950至1960年的汉斯·西蒙斯、1964至1982年的约翰·里德·埃弗雷特与1982至1999年的乔纳森·范顿。

• In 1933 the University in Exile was created as a graduate division for scholars, largely Jewish, purged from teaching posts in Nazi Germany, financed by Hiram Halle and the Rockefeller Foundation.1933年设立「流亡大学」研究生院部，收容在纳粹德国被逐出教席的学者（多为犹太人），经费来自海拉姆·哈尔与洛克菲勒基金会的捐助。

• Notable figures gathered through that programme included psychologists Erich Fromm and Max Wertheimer, political theorists Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, philosopher Hans Jonas, musicologist Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and composer Hanns Eisler.经该项目汇聚的名家有心理学家埃里希·弗洛姆与马克斯·韦特海默、政治理论家汉娜·阿伦特与列奥·施特劳斯、哲学家汉斯·约纳斯、音乐学家埃里希·莫里茨·冯·洪博斯特尔与作曲家汉斯·艾斯勒。

• In 1934 New York State chartered the University in Exile under the new name Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, and in 1941 the faculty received its permanent charter.1934年纽约州为「流亡大学」颁发特许状，将其更名为政治与社会科学研究生院，1941年该院又获永久特许状。

• Also in 1933 the school founded the Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes, chartered by de Gaulle's Free French government in exile and teaching in French through scholars such as Jacques Maritain, Claude Levi-Strauss and Roman Jakobson.同样在1933年，学校创办自由高等学院，由戴高乐的法兰西流亡政府颁照，雅克·马里旦、克洛德·列维-斯特劳斯与罗曼·雅各布森等学者以法语执教。

• The Ecole Libre gradually evolved into the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, a leading Paris research institution with which the New School still keeps close ties.自由高等学院其后渐变为巴黎高等社会科学研究院，跻身巴黎一流研究机构之列，新学院至今与其保持密切往来。

• In 1937 novelist Thomas Mann, recalling a Heidelberg plaque torn down by the Nazis and inscribed be the living spirit, urged the University in Exile to adopt the phrase, and Alvin Johnson made To the Living Spirit the motto.1937年，小说家托马斯·曼忆及海德堡大学被纳粹扯下的「做活的精灵」铭牌，提议流亡大学以此自勉，阿尔文·约翰逊遂定「To the Living Spirit」为校箴。

• John Cage arrived to study with Henry Cowell in 1933 and taught at the school from 1950 to 1960, his experimental composition courses inspiring student Yoko Ono and the founding of the Fluxus movement.约翰·凯奇1933年入学师从亨利·考埃尔，1950至1960年留校任教，其实验作曲课程启发学生小野洋子并催生激浪派运动。

• Between 1940 and 1949 German emigre director Erwin Piscator ran the Dramatic Workshop, predecessor of the School of Drama, hiring Stella Adler for acting, Lee Strasberg for directing and Herbert Berghof for playwriting.1940至1949年间，德国流亡导演埃尔温·皮斯卡托主持戏剧工坊，即戏剧学院的前身，聘请斯特拉·阿德勒教表演、李·斯特拉斯伯格教导演、赫伯特·伯格霍夫教编剧。

• The Dramatic Workshop counted among its students Marlon Brando, Harry Belafonte, Tony Curtis, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, Beatrice Arthur and Tennessee Williams.戏剧工坊的学员名单包括马龙·白兰度、哈里·贝拉方特、托尼·柯蒂斯、罗德·斯泰格尔、谢利·温特斯、碧翠丝·亚瑟与田纳西·威廉斯。

• From 1919 until 1997 the university carried the name New School for Social Research, then went by New School University between 1997 and 2005 before the university and each of its colleges were renamed in 2005.1919至1997年间校名始终为「社会研究新学院」，1997至2005年改称「新学院大学」，2005年大学与各学院再度一并更名。

• At that 2005 renaming the graduate faculty took back the institution's original title, so today the New School for Social Research names the graduate division inside the larger New School.2005年更名时，研究生院部收回建校初名，故今日「社会研究新学院」专指大学内部的研究生学部。

• In 2018 the New University in Exile Consortium was formed so member universities worldwide host at least one exiled scholar a year, and it has sheltered scholars from Afghanistan after 2021 and from Ukraine after the 2022 Russian invasion.2018年成立新流亡大学联盟，成员高校每年至少接待一位流亡学者，2021年阿富汗民选政府倒台与2022年俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后曾分别接待两国学者。

• Former United States senator Bob Kerrey became president in 2001 and served until 2010, drawing praise for streamlining the university and censure for backing the 2003 invasion of Iraq.前联邦参议员鲍勃·克里于2001年出任校长、任职至2010年，其精简校政获得赞誉，因支持2003年伊拉克战争而广受批评。

• On December 10, 2008, 74 senior full-time professors passed a vote of no confidence in Kerrey, and by December 15, 98 per cent of the full-time faculty had done the same.2008年12月10日，74名资深全职教授对克里通过不信任案，至12月15日全职教员的同样的不信任比例已达98%。

• Students barricaded themselves in a campus dining hall on December 17, 2008, an occupation lasting 30 hours, and on April 10, 2009 protesters held the building at 65 Fifth Avenue for about six hours before police arrests.2008年12月17日学生封锁校园食堂达30小时，2009年4月10日抗议者又占据第五大道65号大楼约六小时，最终遭警方逮捕。

• Kerrey left office early on January 1, 2011, the trustees named David E. Van Zandt president that August, he served until 2020, and after Dwight A. McBride and interim president Donna Shalala, Joel Towers took over in 2024.克里于2011年1月1日提前去职，董事会当年8月任命大卫·范桑特为校长并任职至2020年，其后德怀特·麦克布莱德与临时校长唐娜·沙拉拉相继主政，2024年起由乔尔·陶尔斯接任。

• In October 2019 the university marked its centennial with a programme called the Festival of New, exactly a hundred years after the 1919 founding.2019年10月，学校以「新之节」系列活动庆祝创校一百周年，距1919年的创立恰满一百年。

Academics

• Teaching is organised in four autonomous divisions, each led by a dean with its own scholarships, admission standards and acceptance rates, namely Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, the College of Performing Arts and the New School for Social Research.教学由四个自治学部构成，各设院长主持，拥有独立奖学金、录取标准与录取率，即帕森斯设计学院、尤金·兰文理学院、表演艺术学院与社会研究新学院。

• The Mannes School of Music operates inside the College of Performing Arts, which also contains the School of Drama and the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music.曼尼斯音乐学院隶属表演艺术学院，该学部还设有戏剧学院与爵士及当代音乐学院。

• Lang College keeps a student-directed curriculum that waives general-education requirements and encourages exploration before a major is chosen, except in the performing arts where students declare majors at enrolment.兰文学院实行学生自主课程，不设通识必修，鼓励先探索后选定主修，唯表演艺术学生须在入学时即确定主修方向。

• Every student completes a core sequence of literary, conservatory or studio training while remaining, in the school's own wording, the primary designer of the rest of the curriculum.所有学生都须完成文学、音乐学院或工作室性质的核心训练，其余课程则如校方所言由学生自主设计。

• The catalogue lists 81 degree and diploma programmes and majors, faculty teach most classes seminar-style, and the student-to-faculty ratio stands at about 10 to 1.课程目录列有81个学位与文凭项目及专业，多数课堂采用研讨制授课，师生比约为10比1。

• In 2024 the university accepted 62.5 per cent of undergraduate applicants under a test-blind policy, enrolled students who had tested averaging a 1250 SAT score or a 28 ACT score.2024年该校本科录取率为62.5%，实行不看标化成绩的政策，录取学生中参加过考试者的SAT平均为1250分、ACT平均为28分。

• Dual-degree pathways include a five-year programme pairing a bachelor of arts from Eugene Lang with a fine-arts degree from Parsons or the School of Jazz, and a five-year route joining a Lang bachelor's to a master's from the New School for Social Research.双学位通道包括五年制兰文学院文学学士搭配帕森斯或爵士学院的艺术学士，以及兰文学院本科衔接社会研究新学院硕士的五年项目。

• A further combined programme awards a master of arts management and entrepreneurship alongside a Mannes bachelor of music or a drama or jazz fine-arts degree completed in five years.另有联合项目在五年内以曼尼斯音乐学士或戏剧、爵士艺术学士为底，同时授予艺术管理与创业硕士学位。

• Institutes and centres housed at the university include the Healthy Materials Lab, the Institute for Race, Power and Political Economy, the World Policy Institute, the India China Institute, the Observatory on Latin America and the Center for New York City Affairs.校内机构包括健康材料实验室、种族权力与政治经济学研究所、世界政策研究所、印度中国研究所、拉丁美洲观察站与纽约城市事务中心。

• Other research centres cover attachment, public scholarship and applied humanities, spanning international affairs, philosophy, politics and policy, art and design theory, environment and urban development.其他研究中心聚焦依恋研究、公共学术与应用人文，领域涵盖国际事务、哲学、政治与政策、艺术与设计理论、环境及城市发展。

• Public Engagement studies keep the founding adult-education mission, a school theoretically open to anyone without degree prerequisites, formally inside the university.公共参与学院将建校时不设学位门槛、理论面向所有人开放的成人教育使命正式保留在校内。

• Enrollment is internationally weighted, with 33 per cent of students from outside the United States representing 112 countries, while American students arrive from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.学生来源高度国际化，33%来自美国以外、代表112个国家，美国学生则覆盖全部50个州与哥伦比亚特区。

• Forty-three per cent of the American students are people of colour, five per cent identify with more than one race, 63 per cent of the whole student body receives financial aid and 17 per cent study abroad before graduating.美国学生中43%为有色人种，5%认同多种族背景，全校63%获得经济资助，17%在毕业前有海外学习经历。

• Over 70 per cent of all students study in the creative areas of design, performing and fine arts, a disciplinary concentration unusual among doctoral universities.逾七成学生就读于设计、表演与纯艺术等创意领域，此种学科集中度在博士大学中颇为罕见。

• The Schools of Public Engagement remain part of the university, descended directly from the adult division imagined by the 1919 founders.公共参与学院始终是学校的一部分，直接源自1919年创办者设想的成人教育部。

• After running deficits of 30 million dollars in 2023 and 2024 and facing an expected 48 million dollar gap in 2025, the administration planned to close 30 programmes, pause doctoral admissions and offer buyouts to 17 per cent of full-time faculty.在2023与2024年连续亏损3000万美元、2025年预计缺口达4800万美元之后，校方拟关闭30个专业项目、暂停博士招生，并向17%的全职教员提出提前退休或买断方案。

Campus

• The campus is centred immediately south of Union Square in Greenwich Village, with some dormitories and offices in Chelsea and near Stuyvesant Park and the College of Performing Arts in the West Village.校园以格林威治村联合广场南侧为核心，部分宿舍与行政楼分布于切尔西和史岱文森公园一带，表演艺术学院则坐落在西村。

• The 16-story University Center at 65 Fifth Avenue opened in January 2014, adding classrooms, residences, computer labs, event facilities, a cafeteria, a library and a lecture hall to the downtown campus.位于第五大道65号的16层大学中心于2014年1月启用，为下城校区新增教室、宿舍、机房、活动空间、餐厅、图书馆与讲堂。

• Designed by Roger Duffy of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the tower is the largest capital project the university has undertaken, and a New York Times architecture critic called the final design a celebration of the cosmopolitan city.该塔楼由SOM建筑事务所的罗杰·达菲设计，是学校迄今最大的基建项目，《纽约时报》建筑评论家称其最终设计是「对世界性城市的礼赞」。

• Plans for 65 Fifth Avenue first provoked a major student occupation in 2009 at the previous building on the site, and the University Center design was adjusted in response to community concerns.第五大道65号开发计划曾于2009在原址旧楼引发大规模学生占领，大学中心的设计因应社区关切而作了调整。

• Several university buildings are New York City designated landmarks, among them the egg-shaped Tishman Auditorium, an interior landmark within the 66 West 12th Street building, the last major work of architect Joseph Urban.多栋校舍列入纽约市地标，其中包括蛋形的蒂什曼礼堂这一室内地标，其所在的西十二街66号大楼是建筑师约瑟夫·厄本生前最后一项重要设计。

• The Sheila Johnson Design Center won the Society for College and University Planning award for excellence in architecture renovation and adaptive reuse in 2009 and doubles as a public art gallery.希拉·约翰逊设计中心获2009年大学与校园规划学会的建筑改造与适应性再利用卓越奖，同时兼作面向公众的艺术画廊。

• The New School Welcome Center at 13th Street and Fifth Avenue received the Interiors Merit Award of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 2010.坐落在第十三街与第五大道交汇处的欢迎中心获2010年美国建筑师协会纽约分会的室内设计荣誉奖。

• As of 2022 the university maintains three library locations plus Archives and Special Collections, belongs to the Research Libraries Association of South Manhattan, and its libraries counted holdings of 1,906,046 items in 2009.截至2022年，学校设有三座图书馆与特藏档案部，为南曼哈顿研究图书馆联盟成员，其图书馆2009年馆藏统计达1906046件。

• The Adam and Sophie Gimbel Design Library migrated into the University Center Library in 2013 while the List Center holds humanities and social-science collections, and the university's official domain is newschool.edu.阿丹与索菲·金贝尔设计图书馆于2013年并入大学中心图书馆，人文与社科馆藏设在利斯特中心，学校官方域名为newschool.edu。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 The New School is placed in the 851-900 band, tied with the other institutions carrying the same interval.在2027年QS世界大学排名中，新学院大学位列第851-900档，与同档院校并列。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 list the university in the 1201-1400 band.在2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位列第1201-1400档。

• In the 2026-27 edition of the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking the New School appears within the table but is recorded as unranked, that is listed in the ranking without receiving a numerical position.在2026-27年度US News全球最佳大学排名中，新学院大学在榜内但未获名次，即收入榜单而没有给出具体排位。

• The university does not appear in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, the ARWU main table of 1,000 institutions.该校未进入2026年软科世界大学学术排名1000行主榜。

• As quantitative research signals the university's own records offer verifiable figures rather than ranking-database counts, including library holdings above 1.9 million items, 81 degree programmes and a student-faculty ratio near 10 to 1.在量化科研口径上，该校提供校方自有记录而非排名数据库数字，包括逾190万件馆藏、81个学位项目与接近10比1的师生比等可核验指标。

• The Stone, the experimental music venue run by the College of Performing Arts, stages 240 concerts a year, a measurable anchor of the downtown arts scene.表演艺术学院运营的实验音乐场地「The Stone」每年上演240场，是下城艺术场景中可计数的坐标。

• The Princeton Review gave the university a sustainability rating of 94 out of 99 in 2010 and listed it among 286 Green Colleges, while the 2018 Green Report Card inventory put its carbon footprint near 1.0 metric ton per student, lowest among participating institutions.普林斯顿评论2010年给该校可持续性评分94分（满分99分）并将其列为286所绿色院校之一，2018年绿色成绩卡统计其人均碳足迹约1.0吨，为参评院校中最低。

• On civic measures the New School is one of only nine American universities inducted into Ashoka's Changemaker consortium for social entrepreneurship and a Periclean member of Project Pericles.在社会参与维度，新学院大学是阿育社创业变革者联盟仅有的九所美国成员高校之一，亦是佩里克利安计划成员校。

Student life

• More than 50 recognised student organisations operate on campus, most of them geared towards artistic endeavours or civic engagement.校园内有50余个注册学生组织，多数围绕艺术创作或公民参与展开活动。

• Active groups include the Theatre Collective, the intercollegiate policy-format debate team, the ReNew School environmental advocacy group, the feminist alliance Moxie and the Radical Student Union.活跃团体包括戏剧剧社、跨校政策制辩论队、环保倡议组织「校园更新」、女性主义联盟「Moxie」与激进学生联盟。

• Intercollegiate teams compete under the Narwhals name, an independent club unaffiliated with the NCAA whose squads nonetheless face NCAA Division III opponents regularly.校际队伍以「独角鲸」之名出战，作为不隶属NCAA的独立俱乐部，仍常与三级联盟院校交手。

• Programmes were launched in sequence, basketball in 2009, cross country in 2010, cycling and soccer in 2013, tennis and ultimate Frisbee in 2014, while intramurals have run since December 2008 at the McBurney YMCA.各项目依次组建：2009年篮球、2010年越野、2013年自行车与足球、2014年网球和极限飞盘，校内联赛则自2008年12月起在麦克伯尼青年会场馆举行。

• The student newspaper New School Free Press distributes print editions across campus and runs a continuously updated website, alongside the WNSR online radio founded in 2010 and the performing-arts station NSCR established in 2021.学生报《新学院自由新闻》在校园发行纸本并运营实时更新网站，另有2010年创办的网络电台WNSR与2021年设立的表演艺术电台NSCR。

• Literary publishing is active, with the nationally distributed journal LIT from the creative-writing programme, Eleven and a Half from Lang College, 12th Street from the honours programme and Canon Magazine from the graduate faculty.校园文学期刊活跃，创意写作项目办有行销全国的「LIT」，兰文学院办有「Eleven and a Half」，荣誉项目办有「12th Street」，研究生院部办有季刊「Canon」。

• In 2024 students mounted pro-Palestinian encampments during the Gaza war demanding divestment from defence companies and an academic boycott of Israeli institutions, and interim president Donna E. Shalala stated that arrested protesters would not face criminal charges.2024年加沙战争期间，学生设立声援巴勒斯坦的营帐，要求撤出防务企业投资并抵制以色列学术机构，临时校长唐娜·沙拉拉表态不对被捕抗议学生追究刑责。

• Part-time faculty represented by ACT-UAW Local 7902 struck from November 16 to December 10, 2022, winning pay rises, compensation for out-of-classroom work and wider health-insurance eligibility under a contract approved on December 31.由卡车司机联合会第7902地方分会教师单元代表的兼职教员于2022年11月16日至12月10日罢工，最终赢得加薪、课堂外工作计酬与更广医保资格，新合同于12月31日获工会批准。

Notable people

• The 1919 founders John Dewey, Charles Beard, James Harvey Robinson, Thorstein Veblen and Alvin Johnson all moved from public intellectual life into institution building.1919年的创办者约翰·杜威、查尔斯·比尔德、詹姆斯·哈维·鲁宾逊、托尔斯坦·凡勃伦与阿尔文·约翰逊，均由公共知识生活步入大学创建实践。

• Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, political theorists who arrived through the University in Exile, became towering figures of twentieth-century political thought.经「流亡大学」来校的政治理论家汉娜·阿伦特与列奥·施特劳斯，成为二十世纪政治思想史上的两座高峰。

• Erich Fromm and Max Wertheimer brought European psychology to the graduate faculty, while Hanns Eisler composed and Erich Moritz von Hornbostel advanced musicology there.埃里希·弗洛姆与马克斯·韦特海默将欧洲心理学引入研究生院，汉斯·艾斯勒在此作曲，埃里希·莫里茨·冯·洪博斯特尔在此推进音乐学。

• Claude Levi-Strauss practised anthropology, Roman Jakobson taught linguistics and Jacques Maritain lectured in philosophy at the wartime Ecole Libre in New York.克洛德·列维-斯特劳斯在战时纽约的自由高等学院从事人类学研究，罗曼·雅各布森教授语言学，雅克·马里旦讲授哲学。

• Marlon Brando, Harry Belafonte, Rod Steiger, Tony Curtis, Shelley Winters, Beatrice Arthur and Tennessee Williams were formed in Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop between 1940 and 1949.马龙·白兰度、哈里·贝拉方特、罗德·斯泰格尔、托尼·柯蒂斯、谢利·温特斯、碧翠丝·亚瑟与田纳西·威廉斯，1940至1949年间受训于埃尔温·皮斯卡托的戏剧工坊。

• Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey taught modern dance while Aaron Copland and Henry Cowell taught music during the school's expansion into the performing arts.玛莎·葛兰姆与多丽丝·韩芙莉在此教授现代舞，亚伦·科普兰与亨利·考埃尔则在学校向表演艺术扩张时期执教音乐。

• Yoko Ono and the wider Fluxus circle trace part of their origin to the experimental composition classes John Cage taught at the school from 1950 to 1960.小野洋子与激浪派圈子的部分源头，可追溯到约翰·凯奇1950至1960年在校主讲的实验作曲课。

• Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg led the Group Theater teaching at the school before the workshop era, and Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg both ran studios there afterwards.戏剧工坊时代之前，哈罗德·克爾曼与李·斯特拉斯伯格曾以团体剧场名义在校教授戏剧，其后二人又各自在校内主持工作室。

• Anthropologist Arjun Appadurai served as provost from 2004 to 2006, and Joseph W. Westphal followed until leaving in December 2008 for a defence transition post under Barack Obama.人类学家阿尔君·阿帕杜莱于2004至2006年出任教务长，继任者约瑟夫·韦斯特法尔任职至2008年12月，随后进入奥巴马政府的国防交接团队。

• In the 2025 restructuring debate, former economics professor Sanjay Reddy blamed rising administrative costs and mismanaged real estate for the deficits, and he was laid off in June 2026 along with 18 other professors.在2025年重组争议中，前经济学教授桑杰伊·雷迪将亏损归因于行政成本攀升与地产管理失当，于2026年6月与其他18名教授一同被裁。

• The university art collection shows works by Andy Warhol, Richard Serra and Kara Walker among its roughly 1,800 postwar and contemporary pieces held across academic buildings.校内艺术收藏约1800件战后与当代作品，陈列于各教学楼中，包括安迪·沃霍尔、理查德·塞拉与卡拉·沃克之作。

• The earliest commissions behind that collection were the 1931 murals Jose Clemente Orozco painted as A Call for Revolution and Universal Brotherhood and Thomas Hart Benton's panorama America Today.该收藏最早的委托是1931年何塞·克莱门特·奥罗斯科绘制的《革命的召唤》与《博爱》两幅壁画，以及托马斯·哈特·本顿的全景壁画《今日美国》。